History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 115

Author: H. J. Eckley, William T. Perry
Publication date: 1921
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 678

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attended his earnest and vigorous activities as an agriculturist and stock-raiser. He made numerous improvements on his farm and be- came one of the substantial and honored repre- sentatives of farm enterprise in Carroll County. In politics be maintains an independent atti- tude and votes for men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment, irrespective of strict partisan lines. He and his wife are ear- nest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Dellroy.

Mr. Jones was twenty-three years of age at the time of his marriage to Miss Mary Emanuel, who was born January 11, 1855, daughter of Jarmidan and Sarah Emanuel, of North Wales. Of the ten children of this union all are living except one, who died in early infancy: John Francis, who resides at Dellroy, married Miss Bertha Kelley, of Leesville, this county, and they have six children-Mary Elizabeth, John Kenneth, Floyd, Pauline, Florence and Irene. Edward Emanuel, the second son, is now a resident of the city of Chicago, Illinois. The maiden name of his wife was Grace Schusler, and their two surviving children are Ruth and Donald, a third child, Dwight, having died in 1906, aged one year. Evan, Jr .. the third son, resides at Magnolia, Carroll County. He married Miss Ada Shearer and they have two children-Richard and Mary Evaline. David Thomas, the fourth son, is a resident of Can- ton. Ohio. He married Miss Eva Chester, and they have three children-Earl, Mary and Hellen. William married Miss Pearl Unkerfer and they reside in Canton, their two children being William and Howard David. Mary, the eldest daughter, is the wife of Oren West, of Dellroy, and they have one child, Clayton Oren. Sarah Ann is the wife of Walter Little, for- merly of Dellroy. They have one son, Ivin Daniel. Margaret is the wife of Clare Close, of that village, Emma is the wife of Leslie Holmes, of Harrison Township.

VICTOR S. COUTS is one of the representative farmers of the Sherodsville district of Monroe Township, Carroll County, where he owns an excellent farm of 188 acres on rural mail route No. 1 from the village mentioned.

Victor Shaw Couts was born in Washington Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, on the 5th of February, 1875, and is a son of Gershom Kilgore and Mary Elizabeth (Little) Couts. of whose nine children he was the first born. The father still resides in Tuscarawas County, where he has been long and successfully engaged in farm enterprise, and the mother died when her son Victor S., of this review. was nineteen years of age.

As a boy and youth Victor S. Couts gave ef- fective assistance in the work of the home farm, and during the winter terms he attended the Peoli district school until he was seventeen years of age. Thereafter he continued his as- sociation with the activities of his father's farm until 1893, and he then passed one winter in the state of Idaho, on the farm of Hon. Frank Moos, near Payette. There he had charge of the large stock farm of Mr. Moos, who was then a member of the State Senate of Idaho, and after

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giving effective service in this capacity for a period of seven months he returned to his fa- ther's farm, but the following winter found him identifiled with farm enterprise in Wayne County, Nebraska. He then returned to the paternal home, where he continued his alliance with the work and management of the farm until 1899, when he purchased a farm of 163 acres in Perry Township, Tuscarawas County. This property he sold three and one-half years later, and after selling the property he staged his activities on a farm of forty acres in Washington Township, of the same county for the ensuing ten years. He then sold this prop- erty, and for the following decade worked at the carpenter's trade in the city of Akron, his natural mechanical ability and previous ex- perience having made him a skillful workman. In 1920 he purchased his present farm and re- sumed the independent life which most appeals to him. His experience in the west, as well as in Ohio, has fortified him well for successful achievement as an agriculturist and stock- grower, and he is a distinct acquisition to the circle of progressive farmers in Carroll County. He is a vigorous advocate and supporter of the good-roads movement and always ready to give co-operation in the furtherance of measures ad- vanced for the general good of the community. He is a democrat in politics, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias at Akron, and he and his wife are members of the Reformed Church. Mr. Couts is a representative of a family that was early founded in the state of New Jersey, whence came the first representatives of the name in Ohio many years ago.

In 1897 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Couts to Miss Linnie Taylor, daughter of John Taylor, a well known farmer of Washington Township, Tuscarawas County, and the three children of this union are: Adella May, Earl Taylor and Victor Shaw, Jr. The only daugh- ter now resides in the city of Akron, where she holds a responsible position as a sten- ographer.

JOHN D. SNIVELY. No one but a farmer ap- preciates the amount of work required to cul- tivate 125 acres of land even if it is located in so desirable a section as Carroll County. If the land is properly operated it will yield hand- PRES somely, but constant effort and intelligent care are necessary requisites. One of the men who is proving this, and that he is able to meet all the requirements of a good farmer, is John Dunlap Snively of Harrison Township.

Mr. Snively was born in Harrison Township August 29. 1877. a son of Daniel and Anna A. (Elder) Snively, of German ancestry, although long established in this country, where mem- bers of the family have always been agricultur- ists. The grandfather came to Carroll County from Washington County, Pennsylvania. and settling with his seven children in Augusta Township, there died, his wife passing away before him. Daniel Snively was the third child in the family. Moving to Harrison Township, he spent the remainder of his life here and died in 1889, his widow surviving him many years, and passing away in February, 1914. Of

their five children John D. Snively was the fourth.

John D. Snively was reared as any farmer's son of his day and neighborhood. During the active months on the farm he was kept busy, but during the winter term he had opportunity to learn the fundamentals of an education, and was a pupil of the Whitehall School until he was eighteen years old, after which until he was twenty-five years old he devoted all of his time to the homestead. At that time he married, rented 100 acres of land in Harrison Township for two years, and then bought his present farm, and ever since has been engaged in general farming, with gratifying results, and he also has other interests. A man of decided opinions, he prefers to vote independently for the man he deems best fitted for the office in question rather than to tie himself down to any one party.

Mr. Snively was married to Mary Seaburg, a daughter of Joseph and Kate (Woods) Sea- burg, of Harrison Township, and they have four children, namely : Vera, Joseph, Carl and Ruth, very intelligent young people of whom their parents may well be exceedingly proud.

HERBERT S. HULL, who is now living retired in the attractive old family homestead at Oneida. Brown Township, Carroll County, achieved substantial success through his long and varied association with business enterprise, and proved himself a man of energy, initiative and executive ability during his connection with business enterprises of broad scope and impor- tance. He finds in his native county the gra- cious associations and manifold attractions that make life worth the living, and here his circle of friends is limited only by that of his ac- quaintances. He was born in the village of Oneida, Carroll County, January 27. 1864, and is a son of George and Abbie Jane (Shepard) Hull, both natives of New Hartford, New York, where the former was born November 17. 1813, and the latter in December, 1823. George Hull was reared and educated in the old Empire State and as a young man came to Carroll County. Ohio, and joined his brother Patrick. who had established his home in Oneida and who here lived retired during the closing years of his life. Patrick Hull and Gilbert Shepard, a brother of the mother of the subject of this review, were pioneers in the grain business at Masillon, Stark County, and there Gilbert Shep- ard erected and placed in operation the first steam flour mill in the state. The firm of Hull & Shepard had been one of the foremost in the business activities of Massillon in the early days.

George Hull formed a partnership with Amos Buss, under the firm name of Hull & Buss, and they established a general merchandise store at Oneida, where their partnership alliance con- tinued for thirty-three years until the death of Mr. Buss. Thereafter Mr. Hull continued the substantial business until he too passed away, his death having occurred in 1887, and his widow having been venerable in years at the time of her death, in 1907. They became the parents of seven children : Emily M., deceased. was the wife of Ebenezer Hudson MeCall, of

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Carroll County : Harriet A. is the wife of John W. Trendley, of Youngstown, Mahoning County ; Fannie D. died in infancy ; George T. is now a resident of the city of Denver, Colorado; Lester H. died when forty-three years of age; Sarah F., is the wife of William H. Pettitt, of Oneida, Carroll County ; and Herbert S., of this review is the youngest of the number.

The early education of Herbert S. Hull was acquired in the public schools at Onelda and in the private school of Jonas Cook at Malvern. As a youth he learned telegraphy, and there- after was for some time a telegraph operator in the general offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Columbus, Ohio. For four years he was a traveling salesman for the celebrated Quaker Oats Company. Severing his connection with this company, he, with his family, traveled in Europe for several months. Upon his return to Ohio he engaged in the flour and feed busi- ness in the city of Akron, and later he con- tinued in the same line of enterprise at Ra- venna, where he was thus engaged for one year. He then became associated with the Associated Press, and represented them in the office of the Akron Evening Times, and incidentally he did much to bring this paper up to a high metro- politan standard. He thus continued his asso- ciation with the Associated Press until 1919. when he retired. and he now occupies the old family homestead in his native county, as pre- viously stated. Mr. Hull is still the owner of valuable city property at Akron, and his finan- cial success has been in consonance with his energy and ability during his long and vigorous association with business activities.

In politics Mr. Hull pays unfaltering alle- giance to the republican party, though he has never had any ambition for public office, and he has been for many years affiliated with the Knights of Pythias.

In the year 1888 was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Hull to Miss Sarah Alice Cleve- land, who was born at Akron, Ohio, December 27. 1869, a daughter of Thomas F. and Flora Louise Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Hull are earn- est communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church. They have four children: Charles T. was graduated in the Bexley Hall Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Gambier, Ohio, an institution connected with historic old Kenyon College, one of the earliest Episcopal schools established in the west, and after serving as rector of Grace Church at Wil- loughby. Ohio, he accepted a call to the welfare department maintained in connection with the great industrial establishment of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company at Akron. Ohio, where be is doing splendid service and finds satisfac- tion and inspiration in his work. He married Miss Lois M. Clark, and they have two chil- dren, Lucia and Margaret. Louise, who remains with her parents, and is a popular factor in the social activities of the home community, is a graduate of the Akron High School. Herbert G., who was formerly connected with the Good- year Tire & Rubber Company. is a chiropractic physician and is now engaged in the practice of his profession at Davenport, Iowa. The maiden name of his wife was Pauline Frances

McCoy, and their one child is a daughter, Mar- jorie Olive. Alice remains at the parental home and is a student in the high school at the time of this writing, in 1920.

EDSON LATIMER CROSS is a son of John and Nancy J. ( Latimer) Cross and a representative of one of the old and well known families of Carroll County, as may be seen by reference to the personal sketch of his father on other pages of this work. He is the owner of a well im- proved farm of seventy-five acres in Monroe Township, about two miles distant from Sher- odsville, on rural mail route No. 1 from that village.

Edson Latimer Cross was born on his father's farm in Monroe Township on the 3d of June. 1886, and his youthful education was obtained principally in the public schools of Milltown, Tuscarawas County, not far distant from the home farm, he having been four years old at the time of the family removal to Tuscarawas County. He continued to attend school during the winter months until he had attained to the age of eighteen years, and in the meanwhile he gave effective co-operation in the work of his father's farm. In his independent career he has continued his active association with farm enterprise, besides which he has been identified with the operation of a saw mill and has done more or less teaming. While still a boy he suc- cessfully managed his father's farm of seventy- six acres in Monroe Township, Carroll County, for a period of three years and after his mar- riage, in 1910, he purchased of his father-in- law a farm in Rose Township. There he con- tinued his successful activities seven months, and after selling this property purchased his present farm, which he makes the stage of vigor- ous agricultural and live-stock industry, besides which he continues to derive good returns from his teaming business. He is a democrat in politics, is affiliated with the Grange and he and his wife hold membership in the Presby- terian Church at New Cumberland, Tuscarawas County. although he was formerly a Methodist. Mr. Cross is a young man of marked energy and progressiveness, and cumulative success has attended his well directed activities since he instituted his independent career.

In the year 1910 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cross to Miss Zoanelle Schell, daughter of George and Lydia (Adams) Schell, of Rose Township, Carroll County, and the three chil- dren of this union are all sons-George F., William N. and John L.

GEORGE W. GREEN early gained practical ex- perience in connection with both the work of the blacksmith trade and that of the farm, and each of these vocations has received his atten- tion in an independent way. He now owns and gives his supervision to his farm of 116 acres in German Township, Harrison County, and formerly operated a blacksmith shop near Laceyville. Stock Township, he having been a resident of Harrison County since his boyhood and claiming the Buckeye State as the place of his nativity.

Mr. Green was born in Rush Township, Tus- carawas County, Ohio, on the Sth of June, 1856,

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and is a son of William and Elizabeth Ann (Yarnall) Green, the former a native of Frank- lin Township, Tuscarawas County, and the latter of Harrison County, where her parents, Aaron and Harriet Ann Yarnall, settled in the pioneer days. Aaron Yarnall was born in the year 1811, and was one of the venerable pio- neer citizens of Harrison County at the time of his death, both he and his wife having been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their children were seven in number: Ziba. John. Eli, Asbury, Elizabeth Ann, Sarah Jane and Rachel. John Green, paternal grandfather of George W. Green. was born in Maryland. was a foundry workman and became one of the early representatives of his trade in Tus- carawas County, Ohio. He and his wife, whose maiden name was Susanna Shimers, were ear- nest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the faith of which they reared their children-Hima, Zacharia, William, Barbara, Mary. Catherine and Susan.

William Green was reared and educated in Tuscarawas County, where also he learned in his youth the trade of blacksmith. He re- mained in his native county until 1872, when he came with his family to Harrison County and engaged in the work of his trade at Lacey- ville in Stock Township. During the remainder of his active career he continued as the sturdy and popular village blacksmith in this rural hamlet, where he and his wife maintained their home until their deaths. They became the par- ents of the following children : George W., Har- riet Ann, Catherine, James P., John W., Rachel, Charles R., William A. and Wallace.

George W. Green gained his rudimentary edu- cation in the schools of his native county and was about thirteen years of age at the time of the family removal to Harrison County, where he continued his studies in the village schools at Laceyville and where as a boy he began learning the blacksmith trade under the effec- tive direction of his father. He became a skilled workman at his trade, but he was not denied early experience in connection with prac- tical farm enterprise, as he devoted fully twenty years to farm work, in which he was employed by the month on various farms in Harrison County. In 1907 he opened a blacksmith shop in Stock Township, near Laceyville, and here he continued successfully to follow his trade until 1912, when he purchased and assumed active charge of his present farm in German Township. His political support is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold mem- bership in the Christian Church.

The year 1891 recorded the marriage of Mr. Green to Miss Rachel Maxwell, daughter of Walker and Sarah Jane Maxwell, of Harrison County. The only child of this union is Ophie Melissa, who is the wife of James S. Rogers, a farmer of German Township, and the mother of two children-George D. and Rachel Annabel.

THOMAS PATTON, who is now in the employ of the Malvern Fire Clay Company, one of the representative industrial concerns of Carroll County, is a native of this county and a scion of one of its sterling pioneer families. He was

born on his father's farm in Center Township December 6, 1869, and is a son of Thomas L. and Elizabeth (Heggy) Patton, both likewise natives of Carroll County, where the father has the distinction of being the first white boy born at Carrollton, the present judicial center of the county. His father, Thomas Patton, was one of the very early settlers of the county, where he continued to reside until his death. Thomas L. Patton was reared under the condi- tions that marked the early pioneer epoch in Carroll County, and he was one of the gallant patriots who represented the county in the Civil war, in which he saw service in three different Ohio regiments of volunteer infantry-Company G, Twenty-fith Regiment; Company A, One Hun- dred and Eighty-sixth Regiment; and Company F, Sixteenth Regiment. While in service he was made second lieutenant, and he remained with his command until the close of the war. Thereafter he was for many years engaged in the sewing-machine business in his native county, and he passed the closing years of his life in the Soldiers' Home at Washington, Dis- trict of Columbia, where he died in 1906, an honored member of the Grand Army of the Re- public. His wife preceded him to eternal rest, and they became the parents of the following children : John B. (deceased), Thomas, and Henry, Charles, Ralph and Fred, all of whom are deceased, Charles having served as a sol- dier in the Spanish-American war.

Thomas Patton, the immediate subject of this review, was reared to manhood in Carroll County and received his early education in the public schools of Carrollton and Center Town- ship. As a youth he entered the employ of Deckerman & Duty, manufacturers of brick. and with this firm he continued his association for the long term of twenty-three years, since which time he has been associated with the Malvern Fire Clay Company at Malvern as an expert workman. He owns his attractive resi- dence property at Malvern, and for three years conducted a restaurant in this village, a busi- ness which he sold in April, 1920. He is a Republican in politics, and he and his family hold membership in the Christian Church.

In January, 1895, was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Patton to Miss Hattie Totten, who likewise was born and reared in Carroll County, a daughter of Henry B. Totten, of whom in- dividual mention is made in the following sketch. To Mr. and Mrs. Patton have been born six children: Edna is the wife of Cecil Case; Hazel is the wife of Milton Baxter. and they have one child; Oliver, Lawrence and Perry remain at the parental home; and Donald Ray died at the age of two years.

HENRY B. TOTTEN owns and conducts a well appointed general merchandise store in the Vil- lage of Oneida, Carroll County, and is a repre- sentative of one of the well known pioneer families of this county. He was born in Brown Township, Carroll County, May 3, 1854, and is a son of Thomas Hawkins and Rachel ( Neid- ick) Totten, the former of whom was born in Maryland in 1825, and the latter was born in Stark County, Ohio, in 1827. Samuel Totten,

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father of Thomas H., came to Carroll County with his family in the year 1829, and he settled on a pioneer farm of eighty acres in Brown Township. He reclaimed this farm and there remained until about 1852, when he purchased and removed to a farm which he bought of Patrick Hull. About 1866 he purchased from Mr. Hull the grist mill and other property at Oneida. Shortly afterward the mill was de- stroyed by fire. in 1867, but he forthwith erected a new mill, to the operation of which he there- after gave his attention until his retirement. a few years prior to his death. He died about 1877, at the venerable age of eighty-seven years, his widow having passed away about 1885, when venerable in age. They became the parents of twelve children-William, Mary, Martin. Jona- than. Israel (a soldier in the Civil war), David, James (likewise a soldier in the Civil war). Thomas H., Henry T. (soldier in the Civil war). Samuel ( killed in battle in Civil war), Catherine and Rebecca.

Thomas H. Totten was reared and educated in Brown Township, and as a young man he assumed charge of his father's mill, to the operation of which he continued to give his attention about eighteen years. His father was a shoemaker by trade. and all of the sons learned this trade. Thomas H. served about 100 days during the Civil war as a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry. his brothers who entered ser- vice having for the most part continued therein during the major part of the war. He was a republican in politics, and both he and his wife held membership in the Christian Church. About forty years ago they removed to Wiscon- sin, where Mrs. Totten died. after which he re- turned to Ohio, his death having occurred in the City of Cleveland and his remains being laid to rest in Liberty Cemetery in Stark County. His children. all natives of Brown Township, were nine in number-Mary Cather- ine, Henry B .. Homer. Edwin. George, Sylvester. Ross, Rebecca and Laura. The father of Mrs. Totten was Samuel Neidick. who became an early settler in Paris Township. Stark County. Ohio, where he and his wife passed the re- mainder of their lives.

Henry B. Totten passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the old home farm and secured his education in the public schools of the locality. As a young man he learned the carpenter's trade. as a skilled work- man at which he continued his activities about thirty years, becoming one of the successful contractors and builders in his native county. In 1917 he erected a commodious store building at Oneida, and here he has since conducted a successful general merchandise business. He is a republican in politics, and after serving six- teen years as constable he refused to retain the office longer. His fraternal affiliations have been with the Knights of the Maccabees and the Junior Order of United American Me- chanics.

In 1874 Mr. Totten wedded Miss Eliza Maria Harsh, who was born in Harrison Township. Carroll County, in 1853, a daughter of the late Samuel Harsh. Mrs. Totten passed to the life

eternal in June. 1918, and is survived by six children-Hattie Belle, Willis Corwin, Charity, Lawrence, Logan and Henry Harrison. Hattie is the wife of Thomas Patton. of Malvern. of whom mention is made in the preceding sketch.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 115

Author: H. J. Eckley, William T. Perry Publication date: 1921 Publisher: Number of Pages: 678

Author: H. J. Eckley, William T. Perry
Publication date: 1921
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 678