History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 124

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

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In 1909 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Jenkins to Miss Mabel L. Mallernee, daughter of J. G. and Alice (Hefling) Mallernee, and the four children of this union are: Merle. Edith, Hazel and James.

E. Ross MATTERN, one of the hardworking, steady and reliable men and successful farm- ers of Harrison County, is the owner of sixty- four acres of well developed farm land in Archer Township. He was born in Archer Township on April 27, 1872, a son of John Mattern and his wife Margaret (Leas) Mattern, grandson of Abraham and Mary (Brown) Mattern. and great-grandson of John and Nancy (Tipton) Mattern, the latter being pioneers of Archer Township, Harrison County. Ohio, to which lo- cality they came from Maryland.

John Mattern, the father of E. Ross Mattern, was born in Green Township. Harrison County. on July 12, 1837, and his wife, also a native of Green Township, was born on May 12, 1859, a daughter of George and Mary ( Bream) Leas. In 1866 John Mattern moved to Archer Town- ship, where he and his wife have continued to reside ever since, their farm being one of the excellent ones in this neighborhood, and com- prises 120 acres. John Mattern has always been interested in general farming and stock- raising. His children. living and dead, are as follows: J. Finley. a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume; Oscar Orlando. who died at the age of fourteen months; E. W., who

was third in order of birth; Mary Etta, who married William Beaty; E. Ross, whose name heads this review ; and John H. Mr. and Mrs. Mattern are devout members of Bethel Meth- odist Church of Green Township, and have been connected with it for about fifty-eight years, and are still active in its good work.

E. Ross Mattern attended the district schools of Archer Township, and was brought up to habits of usefulness and thrift. He remained at home with his parents until his marriage which occurred on November 1, 1899, when he was united with Flora C. Robb, a daughter of Samuel and Mollie C. Robb, since which time he has been residing on his present farm. Mr. Mattern has erected all of the present buildings and made the other improvements and is nat- urally proud, as he ought to be, of the manner in which he has increased, through his own hard work and effective planning, the value of his property. Here he carries on general farm- ing and stockraising.

Mr. and Mrs. Mattern have one daughter, Mary Margaret. Mrs. Mattern belongs to the Presbyterian Church of Cadiz. but Mr. Mattern does not belong to any religious organization, although he was reared a Methodist.

THOMAS F. REPPART concentrates his activi- ties as a productive exemplar of farm industry on one of the fine farm properties of his native township and is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of Harrison County. He was born in Short Creek Township, this county, on the 13th of November, 1858, and is a son of William S. and Nancy (Smith) Reppart. the former of whom was born in Short Creek Town- ship, in 1830, and the latter in Tuscarawas County, this state, a daughter of John Smith. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Reppart was solemnized November 15, 1855, and they became the parents of three children-John S., Thomas F. and Junius L. William S. Reppart passed his entire life in Harrison County and in the house which was the place of his birth, his death occurred in November, 1898. his widow having passed to the life eternal on the 25th of February, 1903, and having been a devout mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

William S. Reppart was a son of Daniel Rep- part, who was born in Wales in the year 1778. and who was a young man when he came to America and established his residence in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where his first marriage occurred. He and his wife. with their four or more children, were living at Redding, that state, when there came a visita- tion of yellow fever, of which the wife and all except one of the children were victims. the one surviving child. Frederick Jesse, having re- mained in Pennsylvania when the father came to Ohio. and trace of him having been lost in later years by the Ohio representatives of the family. In 1825 Daniel Reppart married Miss Hannah Stephens, who was born July 26. 1786. and within a short time after their marriage they came to Ohio and numbered themselves among the pioneer settlers of Harrison County, where they passed the remainder of their lives, Mr. Reppart having died December 10, 1858, and

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his wife on the 23d of the preceding May. They became the parents of two sons-David, who was born in 1826 and whose death occurred May 28, 1887, and William S., who was the fa- ther of Thomas F. of this sketch.

William S. Reppart was reared under the con- ditions marking the pioneer era in the history of Harrison County, and profited duly by the advantages offered in the common schools of the period. As a young man he learned the trade of stone mason, and as a skilled work- man at the same he assisted in the building of the various bridges of the old-time plank road from Cadiz to Adena. He found much demand for his services as a mason, but his major occu- pation was that of farming and he was the owner of the fine old homestead farm on which he was born and on which his death occurred, as previously noted. He was reared in the faith of the United Presbyterian Church.

Thomas F. Reppart looked with a character- istic boyish favor, or disfavor, upon the en- forced work which he did in the district schools of Short Creek Township, but he made good use of the advantages of the same and laid the foundation for the broad and valuable knowledge which he has later gained in con- nection with the practical duties and respon- sibilities of a busy and successful career. When he was a lad of thirteen years he began work- ing by the month on a neighboring farm, and he continued to be thus employed until he was about twenty-two years of age. when he initi- ated his independent career as a farmer. His experience and his alert mentality have enabled him to direct his farm operations with marked success and he is today the owner of a well improved farm of 145 acres. in Short Creek Township. On this attractive homestead he erected the present modern house, which is sup- plied with hot and cold water. the water being piped from a sparkling hillside spring on the farm. He is one of the progressive agricultur- ists and stock-growers of his native county and is one of the substantial and public-spirited citizens of Short Creek Township. He and his family hold membership in the United Presby- terian Church at Cadiz.

On the 9th of August, 1883. was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Reppart to Miss Anna M. Morgan, a daughter of Dr. John and Martha E. (Yost) Morgan, of Short Creek Township, where Doctor Morgan was for a number of years en- gaged in practice as one of the able physicians and surgeons of the county and where, in later years, he gave his attention principally to the management of his farm. Doctor Morgan died in the year 1904 and his widow remains on the old home farm. Mr. and Mrs. Reppert became the parents of nine children-Lena E., Kate L., Carrie Ellen, John W .. Leslie S., Frank T., Ralph G .. Roy A. and Ferne E. Lena E. is the wife of John K. Cummins: Kate L. is the wife of George A. Hilligas: Carrie Ellen, who became the wife of Oliver Haverfield, died in 1914; John W. married Miss Helen McCoy ; and Leslie S. married Miss Ruth Johnson. The four younger children remain at the parental home. John W., the eldest son, was one of the loval sons of Harrison County who represented Ohio

in the nation's military service in the late World war. He initiated his training October 6, 1917, at Camp Sherman, where he remained until the following May, when he left the camp with his command and crossed the Atlantic Ocean to join the American Expeditionary Forces in France. He landed in England on the 1st of June, 1918, . and thence proceeded to France, where he was in service with the Three Hundred and Eighth Motor Train until he returned to his native land, his arrival on American soil having occurred in July, 1919, and his honorable discharge was granted within a short time thereafter, at Camp Sherman.

SAMUEL P. DUNLAP, one of the progressive farmers of the younger generation in Athens Township, Harrison County, is a son of William Finley Dunlap, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this work. so that a repetition of the family record is not here required. He whose name initiates this para- graph was born on his father's present home- stead farm, in Athens Township, December 15, 1887, and his youthful education was obtained chiefly in the excellent school of District No. 16 in his native township. He continued there- after to be associated in the operations of his father's farm until his marriage, in 1915. since which time he has successfully conducted inde- pendent operations as an agriculturist and stock-grower on rented land in Athens Town- ship. He is a democrat in his political alle- glance and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at New Athens.

March 9, 1915, recorded the marriage of Mr. Dunlap to Miss Pearl J. McFadden, daughter of Joseph McFadden, a representative farmer in Cadiz Township and of this union have been born three children-Francis Clark, Neil McFad- den and Edwin Dean.

WILLIAM J. BAXTER, deputy clerk of the pro- bate court of Carroll County, is a popular scion of a family that was founded in this county in the year 1810. He was born in Center Town- ship, this county, January 11, 1857, a son of William and Catherine (Albaugh) Baxter. His paternal grandparents, Richard and Elizabeth (Comley) Baxter, came from Kentucky to what is now Carroll County, Ohio, in 1810, their one child at the time having been a daughter, Hannah. Settling in the midst of the forest that then marked Center Township, Mr. Baxter secured a tract of Government land. near the present fair grounds of the Carroll County Agri- cultural Society. His first log house was de- stroyed by fire, as was also the second, and he then erected one of the first brick houses in the county, the same being still in excellent preservation and being now occupied by Frank True. In this home Richard Baxter passed the remainder of his life, and his widow was a resident of Carrollton at the time of her death, In the home of one of her daughters. Of the children. as previously noted, Hannah was born in Kentucky, and the others were born on the old homestead in Carroll County-Joshua, Wil- liam. Mary. Edith. Edmund and Ellen (twins), and Jobn C. Joshua died in early childhood,

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and records indicate that he was the first child to be interred in the cemetery at Carrollton. The maternal grandparents of the subject of this sketch were early settlers of Carrollton, to which place they came from Baltimore, Mary- land. They made the long overland trip with team and wagon and continued to reside at Carrollton until their deaths.

William Baxter passed his entire life in Carroll County. He was born in Center Town- ship, in 1812, and his wife was born in Fred- erick County. Maryland, in 1813. He became one of the prosperous farmers of his native township, was a republican in politics from the time of the organization of the party. his wife having been a birthright member of the Society of Friends. William Baxter was one of the venerable and honored citizens of his native county at the time of his death, in 1891, and his widow passed to eternal rest in 1894. They became the parents of eleven children- Harriet, Mary. Hannah. Edmund, Richard, Sarah, Elizabeth, Edith, Margaret, Emeline and William J. Of the children only Mary, Eliza- beth, Edith and William J. are living.

William J. Baxter remained on the home farm until he was sixteen years of age. He was afforded the advantages of the public schools of Carrollton, and as a youth learned the trade of telegrapher. as a representative of which he became the first operator for the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad at Carrollton, where he continued his services in this capacity for six years, in the meanwhile having been elected township clerk, of which position he continued the incumbent ten years. Thereafter he served a number of years as treasurer of the Village of Carrollton, and for three successive terms he held the office of county recorder. For four years thereafter he was assistant cashier of the private bank of L. D. Stockon and since 1902 he has served continuously as the efficient and popular deputy clerk of the probate court of the county. He is a staunch advocate and sup- porter of the principles of the republican party, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and holds membership in the Reformed Church. Mr. Baxter is still found arrayed in the ranks of eligible bachelors in his native county.

JAMES R. HILL, an efficient member of the staff of rural mail carriers from the Carrollton postoffice, is well known and held in high esteem in his native county, and he is entitled to spe- cial recognition in this publication. He was born in Lee Township. Carroll County, October 20. 1857, and is a son of Cheesman D. and Eliza J. (Bothwell) Hill, the latter a daughter of George Bothwell, an honored pioneer. The paternal grandparents were John and Rebecca (Drake) Hill. John Hill was a son of James Hill, who was a soldier in the War of 1812, and he became a pioneer settler of Carroll County, . where he and his wife. Nancy, remained until their deaths. John Hill became the owner of the old homestead farm of his father and on this place he and his wife passed the closing years of their lives. Cheesman D. Hill, father of James R. of this sketch, died on the old

homestead. in 1800, when but twenty-eight years of age. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, in the faith of which he was reared. His wife likewise held membership in this church, and she was eighty-one years of age at the time of her death, in 1915. Of the two children James R. is the younger, his sister, Mary, being the widow of James Ballentine and maintaining her home at Sebring, Mahoning County.

James R. Hill was not yet two years old at the time of his father's death and remained on the old homestead of his paternal grand- parents until he had attained to the age of thirteen years. His widowed mother then be- came the wife of James Shepherd. After her second marriage the mother of Mr. Hill took him into her new home, where he was reared to adult age. Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd became the parents of three children : Emma became the wife of Hiram Scott and is now deecased ; Margaret is the wife of James H. Roudebush, of Carroll County ; and Miss Jane Shepherd re- sides at Carrollton.

The public schools of his native county af- forded James R. Hill his early education, and as a young man he was engaged in farm enter- prise, in Center and Lee townships. Thereafter he spent seven and one-half years as a farmer in the State of Nebraska, and upon selling his property in that commonwealth he returned to Carroll County, where, in 1907. he became a carrier on one of the rural mail routes from Carrollton, a service in which he has since con- tinued. He owns and occupies a good residence on Main Street in the City of Carrollton, is a republican in politics and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

To Mr. Hill and wife eight children were born. John A., who is now retained in the position of wool specialist in connection with the agricultural department of the University of Wyoming, married Miss Evelyn Corthell, and they have four sons-Robert, John, Ross and Nellis. John A. Hill enlisted in 1917 for ser- vice in the World war, was sent to an officer's training camp in the State of Washington, and was made captain, he having continued in ser- vice eighteen months. Alva L., who is clerk in one of the leading mercantile establishments of Carrollton, married Myrtle McCausland, and they have one son, Donald. Mabel is deceased. Robert, a bachelor, is engaged in farming in Carroll County. Harry H., who is employed as a Government chemist in the State of Okla- homa, married Miss Natalie Berry. Elizabeth was graduated in the domestic science depart- ment of the University of Ohio, and is now taking a course in the training school for nurses maintained in connection with a leading hos- pital in the City of Jackson. Michigan. Inez remains at the paternal home and holds a posi- tion as operator in the telephone office at Car- rollton. Scott M., who holds a position with one of the leading manufacturing concerns in the City of Canton, Ohio, enlisted in the Marine Corps of the national service in 1917, and con- tinued in service somewhat more than two years, within which he accompanied his com-

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mand to France, he having been in Paris at the time of the signing of the armistice which brought the great war to a close.

CHARLES C. JACKSON was born at Carrollton in April, 1845, son of Isaac and Julia (Adams) Jackson. The Jacksons were among the early settlers of Carrollton. Isaac Jackson was a carpenter and contractor and did much of the early building in this section. He and his wife were devout Methodists. Their children, all now deceased, were Marion, Martin. Mason, Charles, Theresa and May Jane. Of these Mason was in the Civil war with the rank of captain and major, and his body now rests in the National Cemetery at Arlington, D. O.

Charles C. Jackson was reared and educated in Carrollton, learned the trade of carpenter, and at the beginning of the Civil war he and his father were engaged in a contract for the making of coffins at Washington, District of Columbia. He soon went into the army as a carpenter and subsequently went out as a sub- stitute in Company K of the Seventy-first Ohio Infantry. When the war was over he returned to Carrollton and was an honored and useful resident of the city until his death on June 10, 1911. He was also active in the Methodist Church.

In 1871 he married Miss Mary Hardesty, who was born in Carroll County January 21, 1849, daughter of William and Priscilla (Kirkpat- rick) Hardesty, the former a native of Mary- land and the latter of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The Hardestys when they came to Carroll County remained only a short time and removed to Wooster, Ohio, but subsequently returned and William Hardesty bought and operated for many years the flouring mills at Carrollton. He died at the age of sixty-eight and his wife at sixty-seven.

Charles C. Jackson is survived by his widow, and by two daughters, Jessie and Louise. Jessie, who graduated from the Carrollton High School, attended Scio College, and for nine years was a teacher in Carrollton and since then has been one of the prominent educators of Cleveland, being now principal of the Roose- velt Schools at Warren. Louise, who is also a graduate of the Carrollton High School, taught in her native city, took a business course at Cleveland and taught a year in business college, and is now the wife of Fred H. Nash, of Cleve- land. To their marriage were born two chil- dren. Louise, who died at the age of four months, and Marjorie. Marjorie Nash, now ten years of age, received an unusual degree of fame by her astonishing accomplishment of be- ing able to read at the age of three years. Newspapers all over the country carried a re- port of her achievement and her pictures.

HARRY C. JENKINS has been a resident of Washington Township, Harrison County, from the time of his birth, which occurred on the 13th of March, 1889, and as a citizen and vigor- ous exponent of farm industry he is well up- holding the honors of a family name that has been identified with the history of Harrison County for more than a century. William

Jenkins, founder of the family in this county, was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, and in 1814 he and his wife, whose maiden name was Nora Morris, settled in Washington Township, Harri- son County, where he instituted the reclamation of a farm in the midst of the forest wilds. On this homestead the devoted wife, who had be- come the mother of seven children, died in the year 1842, and Mr. Jenkins set forth for Call- fornia in 1849, at the time of the discovery of gold in that state, but he succumbed to an attack of cholera within a short time after initiating his journey to the New Eldorado. His son James B., who was born in Washington Township December 5, 1819, started with the father for California, and after the latter's death he continued the long and weary journey across the plains. He was successful in his gold-seeking operations, but lost his accumula- tions after returning to Ohio, through unfor- tunate business enterprise. He went again to California, remained four years and again met with substantial financial success. Upon his re- turn to Harrison County he purchased a large tract of land in Washington Township, where he improved one of the fine farm estates of the county. Here his death occurred November 6, 1885, and his widow, whose maiden name was Nancy Wright, survived him by several years, both having been earnest members of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church. Of their eight children John A. B. was the seventh in order of birth. He was born in Washington Township on the 7th of November, 1863, and from his youth to the present time he has maintained active alli- ance with farm industry in his native township, where he is the owner of a valuable farm prop- erty of 240 acres. He is a stalwart advocate of the cause of the republican party and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

On the 22d of December, 1887, was solemn- ized the marriage of John A. B. Jenkins to Miss Margaret Watson, who was born in Tus- carawas County, Ohio, a daughter of Richard and Mary (Randall) Watson, both likewise na- tives of that county. Mr. Watson was one of the representative farmers of Perry Township, Tuscarawas County, at the time of his death, on the 17th of April, 1902. and his widow still resides in that county, she being a member of the Presbyterian Church, as was also her hus- band. Of their children Mrs. Jenkins is the eldest; Della resides with her widowed mother; and Arthur is a resident of the City of Denver, Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. John A. B. Jenkins have six children-Harry C., Hallie M., Roy, Ralph E., Azalia O. and Clyde. Hallie M. is the wife of John Craigo, a farmer in Tuscara- was County, and they have one child, Lewis. Roy married Miss Laura Hunt and they reside at Newport, Tuscarawas County, their one child being a son, Ray. John A. B. Jenkins has been a citizen of prominence and influence in his native county, and is now serving as township trustee, a position of which he became the in- cumbent in January, 1920, and in which he had previously served four years-1908-12. His son Ralph E. was one of the young men who repre- sented Harrison County in the nation's service

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in the late World war. He entered the service in September, 1917, and at Camp Sherman was assigned to the Three Hundred and Eighth Army Corps. He sailed for the stage of war- fare in June. 1918, and in France his corps was in active service as a part of the Thirty- seventh Division. After the signing of the his- toric armistice he passed nine months in Ger- many. as a member of the army of occupation, and after his return home be received his hon- orable discharge, in October, 1919.

Harry C. Jenkins is indebted to the public schools of his native township for his youthful education and has not faltered in his apprecia- tive allegiance to the great basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, of which he is now a successful and progressive representative in Washington Township, as the owner of a well improved farm of 127 acres. He takes a loyal interest in community affairs of public order, is a republican in political adherency and both he and his wife hold membership in the Metho- dist Episcopal Church at Tippecanoe.

In 1910 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Jenkins to Miss Elizabeth Van Fossen, daugh- ter of John and Belle (Persons) Van Fossen, of Washington Township, and the five children of this union are: Carl, John, Lucile, Harry C., Jr., and Earl.

CASPER MOTTER, a prosperous farmer of Rose Township, has spent a large share of his life on the farm of eighty acres he now owns, hav- ing been engaged in agricultural pursuits since he was old enough to take any active part in helping to carry on his father's work, and at the same time he has been engaged in carpenter- ing. He was born in Rose Township, on a farm of 30 acres, March 2, 1860. a son of Michael and Catherine (Brankle) Motter. Michael Mot- ter was born in Wiersheim, Alsace, France, and was twenty-two years old when he came to the United States. By trade a cabinetmaker, he learned this trade in his native land. He was the youngest of eleven children, and when his father died in Alsace, he returned to his old home for his mother, whom he brought back to a farm in Harrison Township, Carroll County. When he was twenty-eight years old he was married to Catherine Brankle. of Rose Town- ship, and then moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked at his trade for a year. For the next year he continued working at his trade at Cape Girardeaux, Missouri, and then moved to Waynesburg, Stark County, Ohio, but after a short period returned to Carroll County, and settled on a thirty-acre farm in. Rose Town- ship. This continued the family home for eleven years, when removal was made to an- other thirty-acre farm in another part of the same township. At the expiration of ten years and ten months he bought eighty acres in Rose Township, now occupied by his son, and here he died in May, 1897, aged seventy-seven years, his wife having passed away in November, 1896. They had eleven children. namely : Casper, who was the seventh : Clara Catherine. the youngest, who was born January 8. 1868, has never married and keeps house for her brother, Casper, who has also never married;

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 124

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