History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 12

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

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On September 12, 1884, was solemnized the marriage of John H. Seebirt to Mary M. Tay- lor, and on August 25, 1885, Mrs. Seebirt was summoned to the life eternal.

On the 13th of October, 1892, John H. Seebirt was married to Miss Ruth Lemmon, daughter of Griffith and Rebecca Elizabeth (Pogue) Lem- mon, concerning whom adequate mention is made on other pages, in the memoir dedicated to the honored father. Mr. and Mrs. Seebirt have one child, Craig L., who had the distinc- tion of representing his native state as one of the nation's soldiers in France in the late World war. Craig L. Seebirt entered service at Camp Sherman on the 23d of July, 1918, and was as- signed to Company D, Three Hundred and Thirty-Third Infantry, Eighty-Fourth Division. In September, 1918, he sailed with his command for France, where he was assigned to Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-Eighth Infantry.

that of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His American Expeditionary Forces, with which command he was in active service on the Verdun front for thirty-two days, during which he ex- perienced the full tension of the great conflict. He was in service at the time of the signing of the armistice and arrived in his native land April 29, 1919, his honorable discharge having been received on the 16th of the following month, after which he was overjoyed to resume once more the peaceful and gracious associations of the parental home. Mr. and Mrs. Seebirt have just reason to take pride in the splendid record made by their son as one of the gallant young Americans who played well their part in con- nection with the greatest war in the annals of civilization. On November 24, 1920, was solemn- ized the marriage of Craig L. Seebirt to Leona Maneta Gillogly, daughter of James and Dora (Smith) Gillogly, of Harrison County.

WILLIAM M. SHEPHERD was born and reared in Carroll County, is a representative of one of the old and honored pioneer families of this sec- tion of the Buckeye State and has for many years been actively identified with mercantile and banking enterprises in the city of Carroll- ton, where he now owns and conducts one of the leading general stores of the city. He was born in Center Township, this county, March 21, 1861, and is a son of James and Sarah (Mills) Shepherd, both likewise natives of Carroll County, where the former was born in 1818 and the latter in 1826. William Shepherd, grand- father of him whose name introduces this para- graph, was born in Ireland, of Scotch lineage, and in his native land he married Miss Eliza- beth Fee. In 1810 they became numbered among the pioneer settlers in Carroll County, Ohio, where they established their home in the midst of the forest wilds of Center Township. There Mr. Shepherd reclaimed a productive pioneer farm and there he continued to reside until his death. in 1860. his widow passing away in 1875, and having been a devout member of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church. They were members of sterling Scotch-Irish famMles of County Cavan, Ireland, and a number of their kinsfolk likewise became pioneers of northeastern Ohio. William and Sarah (Clear) Mills were the material grandparents of the subject of this review, Mr. Mills having been born in Bucks County, Penn- sylvania, and his wife in Jefferson County, Ohio. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and upon coming to Ohio he finally settled in Jefferson County, where his marriage was solemnized. About the year 1824 he established his resi- dence in Center Township, Carroll County, and in 1850 removed to Rose Township, where he died in 1863, his first wife having died a num- ber of years previously and his second wife likewise having died in Carroll County.

James Shepherd was reared on the old home- stead farm and acquired his early education lu the pioneer schools of Carroll County. He here continued his active and successful association with farm industry during the major part of his long and useful life, and his land holdings included his father's old homestead of 160 acres . in Center Township. He was a republican in political adherency and his religious faith was

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first wife died in 1863, and was survived by five children, Mary Ellen, Elizabeth Nancy, Char- lotte, Salina C. and William M. For his sec- ond wife James Shepherd married Mrs. Eliza Jane Hill, and they became the parents of three children, Emma Alice, Margaret Gertrude and Lavina Jane.

William M. Shepherd was reared to the in- vigorating discipline of the home farm, and after completing the curriculum of the district schools he took a course in the high school at Carrollton. At the age of seventeen years he engaged in teaching in the district schools of his native county, and his pedagogic service continued for five terms. He then became a clerk in the mercantile establishment of Will- iam H. Tripp at Carrollton, and later became similarly engaged in the general store of Judge Junius C. Ferrall, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this volume. When Judge Ferrall was elected judge of the Probate Court of Carroll County Mr. Shepherd became manager of the store, in which he purchased a half interest. For several years thereafter the business was conducted under the firm name of Ferrall & Shepherd, and the junior partner then purchased the interest of Judge Ferrall and as- sumed full control of the well-established and prosperous business, which he has since contin- ued with unqualified success as one of the lead- ing mercantile enterprises of Carroll County. In 1901 he purchased the building in which his store is located, this substantial structure hav- ing been erected in 1841 and being one of the landmarks of Carrollton. He has remodeled the building and his store is now modern in equipment, appointments and facilities. with a comprehensive and select stock of goods in the various departments. The store has a frontage of forty-seven and one-half feet and a depth of ninety-three feet. Fair and honorable dealings, and efficient service, as combined with the per- sonal popularity of the owner, have gained to this mercantile establishment a large and appre- ciative supporting patronage. In 1920 Mr. Shep- herd was one of the organizers and the first president of the First National Bank of Car- rollton.

Essentially a business man, he has had no desire to enter the arena of practical politics, but gives loyal support to the cause of the re- publican party and takes deep interest in all things touching the welfare and advancement of his home city and county. Both he and his wife are earnest members of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, with which he united when he was sixteen years of age.

June 20. 1889, recorded the marriage of Mr. Shepherd to Miss Mary E. Whitecroft, who like- wise was born and reared in Carroll County, she being a daughter of Henry Whitecroft, a sketch of whose career appears elsewhere in this publication. Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd have two children, Leland Henry and Lois Gertrude. Leland H. Shepherd was born June 19, 1890. and after his graduation in the Carrollton High School he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University in the city of Delaware, in which institution he was graduated. At the time of the nation's becoming involved in the great World war he enlisted in the aviation service of the Naval

Reserve Corps, and he was receiving technical training at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology at the time when the war came to a close. He is now a salesman for the Goodrich Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, with headquar- ters in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. The maiden name of his wife was Ione Deggs. Miss Lois G. Shepherd, who was born in 1894, is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University and is, in 1920, a teacher of Latin in the public schools of Ashland, Ohio.

OLIVER BROUGH. Noteworthy for his good citizenship and many excellent traits of charac- ter, Oliver Brough has helped to establish Har- rison county's reputation as a fine agricultural region. his farm in Stock Township being under a good state of cultivation and well improved. He was born October 18, 1851, in Ligonier Val- ley, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, on the same farm that his father, John Brough, first drew the breath of life. His paternal grand- father, Jacob Brough, a native of Germany, immigrated to the United States in early man- hood, locating in Pennsylvania. Soon after his marriage he bought a tract of land in Ligonier Valley, Westmoreland County, and on the farm which he improved all of his children were born, their names having been John, George, Esther, Sally, Sarah, Elizabeth and Susan.

Brought up on the parental homestead in Ligo- nier Valley, John Brough selected farming as his life work. Wishing to better his financial con- ditions, he went westward in the early '50s, and for five years lived in Lucas County, Iowa. Not meeting with the anticipated success in that lo- cality, he returned as far east. as Ohio in 1857, and having bought land in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, there continued his farming operations during the remainder of his life.

John Brough married Sarah Dennison, who was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsyl- vania. a daughter of Thomas and Sarah Denni- son, who were the parents of two other chil- dren, James and Margaret. Thomas Dennison was born and bred in Ireland. Coming to Amer- ica, he settled in Ligonier Valley. Pennsylvania, where he followed the weaver's trade until his death. Children were born into the home of John and Sarah (Dennison) Brough as follows : Amos: Elizabeth, who married Samuel Mc- Combs; Maria ; Jacob, a veteran of the Civil war, died while in service at Hilton Head, South Carolina : Thomas, of Scio, Ohio; Oliver, the subject of this sketch : and John. Both parents were worthy members of the Presbyterian Church.

Acquiring his early knowledge of books in the district schools in Cadiz Township, Oliver Brough became familiar with the rudiments of agricul- ture while assisting his father on the home farm. The work proving congenial to his tastes, he continued his agricultural labors, and soon after his marriage assumed possession of the farm which he has since occupied. It is advan- tageously located in Stock Township, and was formerly owned by his wife's father and grand- father. It contains 175 acres of good land, and in addition to carrying on general farming with satisfactory results Mr. Brough is greatly inter- ested in the breeding of high graded stock, mak-

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ing a specialty of raising pure bred Short horn cattle and Delane sheep, a branch of industry which he has found quite remunerative.

Mr. Brough married September 25, 1879, Ra- chel Mckinney, who was born in Scio, Ohio, a daughter of George Mckinney, Jr., and grand- daughter of George and Mary (Campbell) Mc- Kinney, who came from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Ohio in pioneer days, settling in Stock Township, Harrison County, on the farm now owned and occupied by Mr. Brough. Born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1806, George Mckinney was a lad of eight years when in 1814 he came with his parents to Stock Township, where he grew to man's estate. Sub- sequently learning the blacksmith's trade, he followed it in Scio, Ohio, a few years, and then returned to Stock Township, where he spent the remainder of his life as a farmer, owning and managing the farm which he had assisted his father in clearing from its pristine wildness. He married Elizabeth Conaway, a native of Stock Township, and they became the parents of five children, Martha; Mary; Eliza Jane: Ra- chel. wife of Mr. Brough: and Nannie. Both George Mckinney, Jr., and his wife were active members of the Presbyterian Church.

Mr. and Mrs. Brough have two children, Mary. wife of Homer F. Moyer, a well-to-do farmer of Stock Township; and Clarence L., who has the management of the home farm. A man of in- fluence, Mr. Brough served for four years as a trustee of Stock Township. Religiously both he and his wife are faithful members of the Presbyterian Church.

MARION W. SPIKER. The Spiker family has long identified with the history of Harrison county. Marion W. Spiker, a Cadiz Township farmer, was born July 24, 1848, in Stock Town- ship. He is a son of William Spiker, whose time of life was from 1821 to 1853. His wife was Elizabeth Finical, born in 1817 in Wash- ington County, Pennsylvania. M. W. Spiker is in the third generation of Spikers in Harrison County. his grandfather, Isaac Spiker, having been a pioneer farmer in Stock Township. He lived and died there. The children in the pio- neer Spiker household were: William, Isaac, John. Mary, Catharine, Sarah and Christina.

M. W. Spiker, of Cadiz, is a son of Willian. the oldest son in the second generation of the house of Spiker in Harrison County. As a young man William Spiker attended the public school, and he became a Stock Township farmer. dying in 1853 in that township. His children are: Sarah Ann, wife of Jeptha Barger; Emma, wife of William A. Berney ; Marion W .; Virginia, wife of J. L. Humphreys ; John Wesley, deceased. The mother died in 1887. As in the pioneer Spiker family, they were all Methodists.

Morion W. Spiker as a boy went to the district school in Stock Township, and he began farm- ing there, but in 1887 removed to the farm in Cadiz township, one-fourth mile north of Cadiz. on the Cadiz and Steubenville road, where he owns sixty acres. Mr. Spiker made the improve- Irents there himself.

On September 21, 1870, Mr. Spiker married Martha Humphreys, born March 9, 1851, a daughter of William and Jane (Law) Humph-

reys. Their children are: William Clair, a graduate of Cadiz High School, Scio Business College and Cornell University in the class of 1900, in the department of civil engineering. He is employed as a civil engineer at Atlanta, Georgia. During the ship building rush in the World war he left his work and entered the Government service as an engineer in connec- tion with ship construction. He was chief de- signer in the concrete department, and was in the ship yards in Philadelphia. He married Blanche Potter, of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Their children are: Pierpont P .. W. Sterling and Deryk P. Spiker.

Minnie Jane Spiker was born in 1875 and died in 1903. She was a graduate of Cadiz High School and of Scio College. She also graduated from the Buckingham School of Canton. She was in the Cleveland School of Art at the time of her death. She had been there two years and expected to graduate, being an artist of much natural ability. She died August 17, 1903, in Cleveland. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Cadiz.

MRS. GRACE C. (CAMERON) EBERSOLE. In nearly every city and large town of Ohio, as well as of other states, it is safe to say that at the present time women are to be found actively and earnestly employed in professional work, business circles or in the various lines of industry, and are making good in whatever position they are filling. Prominent among the number thus engaged is Mrs. Grace C. (Cam- eron) Ebersole, a woman of conspicuous ability, indomitable energy and persistency, who is meeting with unquestioned success as a mer- chant, having a large and rapidly increasing trade in her home city. Carrollton. A daughter of the late Samuel J. Cameron, she was born in Carrollton, Ohio, March 19, 1876, of honored Scotch-Irish ancestry.

James Cameron. the immigrant ancestor, a native of the north of Ireland, immigrated to America prior to the Revolutionary war, settling in Virginia. Entering land, he cleared and im- proved a homestead, on which he and his wife spent the remainder of their days. He married in Ireland Jane Sharp, and they became the parents of nine children, William, John, James, Joseph, Alexander, Samuel, David, Thomas and Margaret.

Thomas Cameron, the next in line of descent. was the ancestor of the Ohio family of Cam- erons, the lineage having been continued through his son James. Thomas, who attained the age of ninety-two years, married Jane W. Maxwell, a daughter of William Maxwell, and continued his residence in Virginia. To him and his wife, who died in 1857, at the age of three score and ten years. ten children were born, James, Sarah, William, John, Joseph, Jane, Thomas, Elizabeth, Mary and Samuel. Their son James was born May 30, 1799, was the first member of the Cameron family to locate in Carroll County, Ohio. Coming here with his wife, he bought land in Washington Township, and was there engaged in tilling the soll until 1840, when, having been elected on the democratic ticket treasurer of Carroll County, he moved to Carrollton, where he was

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. subsequently engaged in business as a merchant until his death.

Thomas Cameron, the seventh child of Thomas and Jane (Maxwell) Cameron, was born on the Virginia plantation February 19, 1812. Com- ing to Carroll County as a young man, he remained through one summer, and then re- turned to his native state. Soon after his marriage, in March, 1837, to Mary Jane Moore- head, he came again to Ohio and took up land in Washington Township, and on the farm which he improved lived and labored until 1863. Removing then to Carrollton, he lived retired from active pursuits until his death. Alexander Moorehead, the father of Mary Jane Moore- head was a life-long resident of Virginia, and was of Irish extraction. He married Nancy Gib- son, a daughter of James Gibson, who was cap- tain during the Revolutionary war of a company of English troops. His sympathies were entirely with the colonists, and after the battle of Bunker Hill he refused to call out his company, saying "I will never rejoice over the shedding of human blood." He was tried, found guilty, and ordered to be executed. Escaping, he found protection in the hold of a vessel, where he laid for ten days before securing passage for America, where he was subsequently joined by his wife and children.

The union of Thomas and Mary Jane ( Moore- head) Cameron was blessed by the birth of nine children as follows: Alexander M., who during the Civil war enlisted in Company A, Thirty-Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was killed at Harpers Ferry September 15, 1862; Eliza L .; Samuel J., father of Mrs. Ebersole; Nancy M .; James T .; Cyrus B .; Ezra B .; and Robert M. The father, a republican in politics, served for fourteen years as clerk of Washing- ton Township, and both he and his wife were worthy members of the Presbyterian Church.

Samuel J. Cameron was born in Washington Township, Carroll County, Ohio, July 2, 1847, and in 1863 came with his parents to Carroll- ton. Leaving school the following year, he entered the office of the "Free Press" as print- er's devil on April 4, 1864, serving under McCoy & Teter. Subsequently going to Columbus, he worked on a morning paper in that city for a year, and then returned to Carrollton to become foreman of the "Free Press". Buying McCoy's interest in the paper on July 1, 1869, he was junior member of the firm of Teter & Cameron for three and one-half years, when he bought Mr. Teter's interest, which on the very next day he sold to John H. Tripp, with whom he remained in partnership for eight years.

Going east in 1881. Mr. Cameron purchased the outfit for the "Carroll Republican," and on April 21 of that year issued the first number of that paper. sending out 2,400 sample copies, and in six weeks' time he had 1,000 names on his subscription list. He succeeded well as a jour- nalist, and continued his residence in Carroll- ton until his death. January 24, 1894.

Samuel J. Cameron married January 21. 1873. Sarah E. Crumrine, who was born in Carroll- ton, where she is now residing, in 1852, being a daughter of Isaac Crumrine. Three children were born into the home thus established, namely : Charles C., born March 3, 1875; Grace

C., the subject of this sketch ; and Isaac Thomas, born May 5, 1885. A stanch republican in his political affiliations, Mr. Cameron served for two terms in the City Council.

Isaac Crumrine was born in Carroll County, Maryland, in 1823, and as a boy came with his parents to Carroll County, Ohio, in early pio- neer days. His father spent his last years in western Ohio, but his mother died on the home farm in Carroll County, Ohio, her death occur- ring before his. They reared the following named children. Henry, George, Peter, William, Martin, John, Eliza, David, Isaac and Sarah. Leaving the parental homestead at the age of eighteen years, Isaac Crumrine went to Canton, Ohio, where he served an apprenticeship at the blacksmith's trade, which he followed a num- ber of seasons. Returning to Carrollton, be opened in a brick building standing just west of the Stemple House the first hardware es- tablishment in the place. Selling out at the close of the Civil war. he opened another store where the late George J. Butler was for many years engaged in mercantile business, and later established the store which was subsequently managed by his son George. Mr. Crumrine had also other interests, having been proprietor of an elevator and warehouse from 1878 until 1887. His death, which occurred September 11. 1887, was a loss to the community, and was deeply regretted by a host of friends and associates.

Isaac Crumrine married Susanna Aller, and they became the parents of seven children, as follows: Two who died in infancy: Mary. who married George H. Swift; Sarah E., who mar- ried Samuel J. Cameron; Anna, who became the wife of H. A. Kennedy; George D .: and Charles. Mr. Crumrine was a democrat in poli- tics, and a member of the Lutheran Church.

Grace C. Cameron was bred and educated in Carrollton, and after her graduation from the Carrollton High School in 1893. she taught school for five years in Canton, Ohio. On April 25, 1900, she was united in marriage with John Alvernon Ebersole, who was born in Carroll County, Ohio, May 10, 1869, and died April 19, 1904. He was a grandson of Judge John Eber- sole, a pioneer of Carroll County, and one of its most highly respected citizens. A man of su- perior ability and talent, John A. Ebersole ac- quired an enviable reputation as a consulting engineer, and spent two years in Denver. Colo- rado, as superintendent of electrical construction of the five sugar plants being built by J. F. Kilby of Cleveland, the plants being located in Colorado at Loveland, Fort Collins. Greeley, Eaton and Windsor, and he held the position through the years of 1902 and 1903. and until his death in 1904. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. to which Mrs. Ehersole also belongs. Two children were born of their union, Margaret Grace, who died in 1903, aged two years: and Dorothy, at home. Mrs. Eber- sole is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star.

A woman of energy and enterprise, possessing excellent executive ability, Mrs. Ebersole em- barked in business on her own account in 1906. opening a dry goods store on the Public Square. Succeeding from the start. she has built up a highly remunerative trade. and on October 4.

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1920, assumed possession of her own building, adjoining the building occupied by the Cum- mings Trust Company, which is advantageously located on the Public Square.

During the World war Mrs. Ebersole, in 1917 organized the Red Cross of Carroll County, and in its interests she called on all parts of the county personally and in the membership drive in 1918 was county chairman of the Red Cross organization. In 1919 and 1920 she se- cured the rest room in the Court House which was furnished by the Red Cross organization.

WILLIAM P. HANNA. While he is in the third generation from an Irish immigrant, William P. Hanna, of Cadiz, and his father before him are natives of Harrison County. He was born in Green Township, October 31, 1849, and his fa- ther, John M. Hanna, was born in the same locality June 16, 1814, and died there the day he was sixty-four years old. He was a son of William and Mary (McDonald) Hanna, who came from Ireland and were pioneers in Green Township. He was a carpenter and cabinet maker, like so many other pioneers who had acquired some useful trade before venturing into the wilderness of Harrison County. Nearly all the settlers who crossed the water knew something of handicraft before coming to America.

John M. Hanna married Louisa Parry, a daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Smith) Parry. While she was born in Harrison County, her father came from Winchester, Virginia. When he reached Cadiz on New Year's night, 1803, there was a band of Indians camped where the Harrison County Court House stands today. He was a hatter by trade, and after a few years in Cadiz he removed to Salem, Jefferson County. He was in business there a few years when he returned to Cadiz, spending the remainder of his life in Harrison County. He was a Har- rison County soldier in the War of 1812, there being few families who came to the community earlier than Stephen Parry. He had a son, Stephen, and a daughter, Louisa, who became Mrs. John M. Hanna.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 12

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