History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 125

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

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and William Henry, who was born May 24, 1864, is a farmer and school-teacher of Rose Township.

Casper Motter attended the local schools of Rose Township during the winter terms until he was nineteen years old, and then learned the carpenter trade, at which he worked until 1894, at which time he located permanently upon the homestead and began to put to prac. tical use the lessons in farming his father had taught him during his boyhood and youth. His farm is one of the well improved ones of the township, and he takes a pride in keeping his buildings in good condition and modern in every respect. He has been very successful in his operations and is a man of ample means.

Miss Clara Catherine Motter attended the school in District No. 3. Rose Township. until she was twenty-one years of age. She learned to weave carpet and manufactures all of the carpets for the house, all of them being marvels in workmanship. She is a very industrious per- son, and is noted for her housekeeping. Mr. Motter is a democrat. He belongs to the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Morges, and his sister is a member of the Altar Society of that church. They are held in the highest esteem in their neighborhood, where they have a number of warm, personal friends.

JOHN HENRY NAPE. With land at present-day prices in Carroll County, the man who owns a farm is fortunate indeed, for he has a property which is bound to increase in value while at the same time it is yielding him an income. John Henry Nape is one of these enterprising men, and his farm of 102 acres is located in Centre Township. He was born in this town- ship, near Carrollton, January 24, 1851, a son of Frederick and Julia (Morgan) Nape, and grandson of Christian Nape, who was born in Germany in a colony which included the Lutz. Coons, Strayer families, all of whom came to the United States and settled in Carroll County. Ohio. Frederick Napes was also born in Centre Township, where he spent his life, and he died near Carrollton, in 1900, having always been a farmer. His wife survived him and died in 1914. Of the four children born to them, John Henry Nape was the eldest.

John Henry Nape had but few educational advantages for the only school he attended was one held in a "mud" schoolhouse four months of the year, and he left this school, poor as it was, at the early age of sixteen years, in order to assist his father in conducting the homestead of eighty acres. From then on to the present day he has been a hard worker. and the suc- cess which has come to him has been won entirely through his own efforts.

In 1880 Mr. Nape married and moved on his present farm, where he has since been engaged in raising a general line of crops. He has made excellent investments and is a stockholder of the Farmers Exchange at Carrollton. Ohio. In politics he is a democrat. but confines bis participation in public life to casting his vote for the candidates who meet with his approval. For many years he has been one of the sincere

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members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Carrollton.

In January, 1880, Mr. Nape was married to Belle Long, a daughter of Jacob and Nancy (Hibbs) Long, of Union Township, Carroll County, who came of English and Pennsylvania- German stock. Mrs. Nape was the sixth of their seven children. Until she was sixteen years old, she attended the Smith School. Mr. and Mrs. Nape became the parents of four chil- dren, namely : Dr. Frank LeRoy, of Canton, Ohio; Stella Grace, who died in 1884 when seven weeks old; and Sarah Gretchen, who married John Frank Miller, of Harrison Town- ship, died in 1918, at the age of thirty years. leaving one son, John Henry; and Harry Mil- ford, who is at home.

Dr. Frank LeRoy Nape was married first to Maude Morgan, of Carrollton, Ohio, and they had two children, namely : Naomi Isabelle, and Beulah May. The first Mrs. Nape died in 1918, and Doctor Nape was married second, in 1919, to Ada Zerbe, of Canton, Ohio. Mrs. Zerbe had one daughter, who is the same age as Naomi. Doctor Nape was graduated from the Western Reserve Medical College of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1904, and for three years thereafter was en- gaged in practice at Mineral City, Ohio, but then moved to Canton, Ohio. He is an airplane enthusiast, and learned to fly in 1919 with a Curtis plane but now has a De Havelind, and often flies from Canton to his father's farm in twenty minutes, making his landing on the farm adjoining. Doctor Nape finds it convenient to make a number of his professional calls with his plane, and although he has been in the air many hours, has never had an accident. It is interesting to contrast this mode of travel with the power employed by his great-grandfather when he first came to this region, for he used cows to draw bis plow and rude wagon. Doc- tor Nape feels confident that the day is not far distant when his example will be followed in a large measure, and that then airplanes will be as numerous as automobiles are today. Without doubt this is a changing age.

ANDREW PHILLIPS. When it is stated that Mr. Phillips was born on a farm in section 3, Loudon Township, Carroll County, on the 24th of June. 1840, it becomes evident that this is a heritage of pioneer distinction in this favored section of the Buckeye State, and it is specially pleasing to record that he owns and still re- sides upon the fine old homestead farm which was the place of his birth. To the family name and its association with Carroll County he added new honors by his gallant service as one of the valiant soldiers of the Union in the Civil war, and the same spirit of loyalty has characterized him in all of the relations of his long, industrious and useful life.

Mr. Phillips is a son of William and Mary (Simmons) Phillips, both likewise natives of Loudon Township, where the respective families were founded when this section of the state was little else than a forest wilderness. John and Priscilla Phillips, grandparents of the subject of this review, came from Maryland to this sec- tion of Ohio in the year 1807. The grandfather

took up Government land in what is now Carroll County, here reclaimed a productive farm, and here he and his wife passed the residue of their lives. The maternal grandparents, Adam and Mary (Springer) Simmons, natives of New Jersey, likewise came to this section of Ohio about 1807, and Mr. Simmons obtained Govern- ment land and instituted the development of the farm on which he passed the remainder of his life, in Loudon Township. Upon his death he bequeathed ninety acres of land to his daughter Mary and her husband, William Phillips, and on this homestead Mr. Phillips continued his vigorous and successful enterprise as a farmer until about fifteen years prior to his death, the closing period of his life having been passed in the Village of Kilgore, this county, where he died about the year 1893, his wife having been comparatively a young woman at the time of her death, about the year 1854. Of their children the first three-Sarah Ann. Mary and Maria-are deceased; Andrew, of this review, was the next in order of birth and is the only son; Catherine is deceased; and the three surviving daughters are Elizabeth, Belle and Martha.

The district school at Simmons Ridge pro- vided to Andrew Phillips his early educational advantages, and he continued his active alli- ance with farm industry in his native county until the outbreak of the Civil war roused his youthful patriotism to responsive protest and resulted in his enlistment, on the 5th of De- cember, 1861, as a member of Company D. Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the Army of the Tennessee and the valiant record of which. marked by participa- tion in many of the important campaigns and battles of the great conflict, virtually consti- tutes the history of his military career, as he continued in active service with his regiment until the close of the war. He participated in the Grand Review of the victorious troops in the City of Washington. and received his honor- able discharge on the 13th of August, 1865. In later years he has vitalized his interest in his old comrades and perpetuated the more gra- cious memories of his military career by main- taining affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic, at Harlem Springs, of which he has served as commander.

After the close of the war Mr. Phillips re- sumed his association with farm enterprise in his native county, and after his father moved to the Village of Kilgore the son assumed the active control and management of the old home farm, which has continued to be his place of residence to the present time, though he has lived virtually retired since 1910, when he turned the farm over to his youngest daughter and her husband. Lewis Slates, the latter hav- ing since been the active manager of the place.

December 5, 1867, recorded the marriage of Mr. Phillips to Miss Mary Seaton, who likewise was born and reared in Loudon Township, and who was a daughter of Samuel and Nancy (Jackman) Seaton. The supreme loss and be- reavement in the life of Mr. Phillips came when his loved and devoted wife was summoned to eternal rest, on the 27th of January, 1893, she

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having been a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Phillips has long held membership and in which he is now serving as a trustee. He has been unwavering in his allegiance to the republican party and in past years was active and influential in community affairs, as shown by his having served one term as trustee of his native town- ship. In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. Phillips: Mar- garet is the wife of George Smith, of Kilgore, this county: Helen remains at the paternal home; Nancy Jane is the wife of George Parks, of Rocky River, Cuyahoga County; Howard married Miss Carrie B. Smith and they reside at Youngstown, Mahoning County; Mary is the widow of Charles Smith and maintains her home in the City of Cleveland; Minnie is the wife of Clyde Scott, of Harlem Springs, Carroll County ; and Carrie is the wife of Lewis Slates, who has the management of the old homestead farm of her father. as previously noted in this context.

FLORENTS STEINBACH is a man who has never permitted himself to become discouraged, but has kept right along and as a result is now recognized as one of the best business men and farmers of Carroll County, and his valuable farm of eighty acres in Rose Township is one of the well-developed rural properties of his neigh- borhood. Mr. Steinbach was born on his pres- ent farm, September 8, 1871, a son of Frank and Mary ( Weimer) Steinbach. Frank Steinbach came from Germany to the United States in young manhood, and met his future wife, who was born in Baden, Germany, at Steubenville, Ohio, where he worked in a paper mill for seven years. After they married the parents came to the farm now owned by their son, the original purchase comprising but forty acres. to which twenty acres were later added, and still later, twenty acres more. Here the father carried on general farming, and was active until his death, which occurred in 1896. His widow survived him until 1902. Of their five children, Florents Steinbach was the youngest, and of this family four are still living.

Growing up in his native township, Florents Steinbach acquired a knowledge of the funda- mentals of an education at district school Num- ber 5, Rose Township during the winter months until he was eighteen years old, and during the rest of the year was taught practical farm- ing under his father's watchful supervision. He was then employed for five years on construc- tion gangs hewing wood ties for the Pennsyl- vania Railroad, following which for two years he cut timber for George Clutz. For the next two years he was engaged in cutting and sell- ing timber on his own account. His next occu- pation was that of a coal miner at the Linden- tree Mine in Carroll County, but on July 2, 1918. he was very badly burned on the arms and breast by a premature "shot" which caused an explosion a half-mile back from the mine entrance at the James Mine, Lindentree, and as a result he was incapacitated for six weeks. In 1895 Mr. Steinbach located permanently on his present farm, where he carries on general farm-

ing, and has been very successful. A hard worker, he has spent much time during the winter months in the mines, and has never spared himself, but has done everything he could to increase his income.

In 1895 Mr. Steinbach was married to Carrie Zangler, a daughter of James and Mary (RI- card) Zangler of Morges, Rose Township. Mr. Zangler was a stone mason by trade, and died in 1894, his widow surviving him until 1899. They had seven children, of whom Mrs. Stein- bach was the youngest. She attended district school Number 6, Rose Township, until she was seventeen years old. Mr. and Mrs. Steinbach have no children, but adopted John O'Brien, when he was twelve years old and he made his home with them until he was married to Ida Rinehart in 1910. They have one son, William Richard. In politics Mr. Steinbach is a demo- crat. St. Mary's Catholic Church of Morges, Rose Township. holds his membership. Since his injury Mr. Steinbach employs a man to as- sist him in running the farm during the busy season.

WILLIAM R. THOMPSON. The one thing really significant and important in the scheme of hu- man existence is worthy achievement, for this represents the concrete evidence of resolute thought and action. The life of the farmer of- fers much to the man who is willing to apply himself and has the good judgment to avail himself of proper methods and business princi- ples. Such a representative of farm industry in Carroll County is William R. Thompson, of Lee Township, who has been a resident of the county from his boyhood and who has proved himself resourceful and persistent in the carry- ing forward of his activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower, with the result that he has achieved prosperity and made for himself a place as one of the substantial and highly re- spected citizens of the community.

Mr. Thompson was born at Richmond. Jeffer- son County, Ohio, on the 25th of June. 1840, and is a son of John and Eliza ( Wilson) Thompson, both likewise natives of that county. where the respective families were founded in the early pioneer days. In 1852 John Thomp- son came with his family to Carroll County and engaged in farm enterprise in Lee Township. He and his wife passed the remainder of their lives in this county and were residents of Au- gusta at the time of their deaths.

William R. Thompson was about twelve years old at the time of the family removal to Car- roll County, and here he gained full fellowship with the work of the farm and profited by such advantages as were afforded him in the local schools. He remained at the parental home un- til he had attained to the age of twenty-four years, and for eighteen years thereafter he was employed by the year at farm work, on various farms in this section of the Buckeye State. At the expiration of this period he was so fortified as to be justified in the purchasing of a farm in Lee Township. On this place he continued his productive labors twenty-three years, and he then sold the property and, in the autumn of 1914, purchased his present farm, of seventy

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acres, in section 4 of the same township. Bring- ing to bear the energy and good judgment that are characteristic of the man, and profiting by former experience, Mr. Thompson has brought this farm up to an excellent state of productive- ness, the place having been distinctly in a run- down condition when he purchased the same. In his work of revitalizing and improving the farm Mr. Thompson has had the effective aid and co- operation of his son, who is still associated with him in the work and management of the farm.

Mr. Thompson takes loyal interest in com- munity affairs, is a republican in his political adherency, and he has served with marked ef- ficiency as road supervisor. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

The year 1877 recorded the marriage of Mr. Thompson to Miss Margaret Fawcett, who was born in Union Township, Carroll County, a daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth (Brooks) Fawcett, who were born in the vicinity of En- niskillen. County Fermanagh, Ireland, the for- mer in 1803 and the latter in 1807. Mrs. Faw- cett was a small child at the time when her parents embarked on a sailing vessel and set forth to establish a new home in America. The father died on the voyage and was buried at sea. The widowed mother continued her sad journey and eventually became a resident of Ohio, where she passed the remainder of her life. The parents of Alexander Fawcett immi- grated to America about the same time as did the Brooks family, and they became pioneer settlers in Union Township, Carroll County. Alexander Fawcett became one of the prosper- ous farmers of his day and he and his wife re- mained in Carroll County until the close of their lives, their daughter Margaret having been the youngest in a family of thirteen children. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have two children: Mari- etta, who was born August 2, 1878, is the wife of Henry Davis, of Perry Township, this county, and they have one child, Hazel, born in June, 1902. John M. was born October 2, 1880, and is associated with his father in progressive farm enterprise. He married Eliza Johnson, and their only child is a daughter, Ila Martha, who was born February 22, 1918.

DAVID MARION GAMBLE. "Back to the farm" was the call heard by David Marion Gamble after he had been an industrial worker for some years, and on the land and in the environ- ment of his early youth he finds profit and satisfaction in the ownership and the products of his 100 acre farm in Rose Township of Car- roll County in the Sherrodsville community.

Mr. Gamble was born in Rose Township Feb- ruary 23, 1873, son of Albert and Rebecca (Thorley) Gamble. His grandparents were Solomon and Anna (Young) Gamble, who came at an early day from Washington County, Pennsylvania, and settled in Harrison County, and when their son Albert was eight years of age moved to Rose Township, where they spent the rest of their years. Albert Gamble was fourth among eight children, gave his life to agricultural pursuits and died in 1897, his widow surviving him and residing at Dellroy.

David Marion Gamble is one of six children, and as a boy he lived on the farm and attended No. 4 District School in Rose Township. His education was continued through winter terms until he was twenty, but the balance of the year helped perform the various duties of the farm. Like most young men not being satisfied with the meager prospects of a farmer's career, he left home and for eleven years was employed in the steel mills at New Philadelphia, Ohio. Then taking a new view of a farmer's life, he returned to the country and in 1911 bought the old homestead farm of 100 acres and since then has devoted his best efforts to general agricul- ture and livestock growing.

Mr. Gamble's first wife was Anna Fisher, daughter of Joshua and Susan Fisher, of Jef- ferson County, Ohio. She died in 1904, the mother of eight children: Iva May; Neva; Mary, who died at the age of three years; Law- rence, who died when one year old, and four who died in infancy.

In 1907 Mr. Gamble married Myrta Drusilla Barrick, daughter of W. C. and Mary Margaret (German) Barrick, one of the old and notable families of Carroll County, living members and relatives of which hold an annual reunion that is one of the social events of the year. Mr. and Mrs. Gamble have three children : David Ray, born in 1908; Margaret Rebecca, born in 1910; and Marion Vinton, born in 1918.

Mr. Gamble is an independent democrat and several times has given his active support to the prohibition ticket. He was elected one term of two years as township clerk. He is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church at Union Valley.

THOMAS J. LONG is one of the progressive farmers of the younger generation in Carroll County, where he is the owner of a well-im- proved farm of seventy-three and one-half acres, in Union Township and four miles distant from Carrollton, the county seat, with service on rural mail route No. 4 from that city.

Thomas Jefferson Long was born in Union Township, this county, on the 17th of March, 1884, and is a son of George W. and Isabella (Scott) Long. Alexander Long, grandfather of Thomas J., was born and reared in County Donegal, Ireland, and upon coming to the United States he first settled in Pennsylvania, whence he later came to Ohio and engaged in farm enterprise in Union Township, Carroll County. He became one of the prosperous farm- ers and honored citizens of Union Township and there he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, he having been venerable in years at the time of his death, in 1894. Of the twelve children one son and two daughters are now living.

George W. Long was born on the old home- stead farm in Union Township and there he was reared to manhood. He eventually became one of the successful farmers of that township. where he and Thomas J. Long, his twin brother. were the owners of a well-improved farm of 160 acres at the time of his death. in 1915, his widow still remaining on the old homestead and being an active member of the Methodist Episco-

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pal Church, as was also her husband. Of the children three sons and three daughters sur- vive the honored father.

Thomas J. Long early gained practical expe- rience in connection with the activities of the home farm and his youthful education was ob- tained in the district schools of his native town- ship, where he remained until he was twenty years of age. For one year thereafter he was a clerk in William M. Shepherd's store at Car- rollton, and during the ensuing years he was employed by the Standard Oil Company as driver of a tank wagon. Thereafter he passed one year at The Timken Manufacturing Com- pany in the city of Canton, and upon his re- turn to Carroll County he was for some time engaged on the farm of Chalmers H. Long, in Harrison Township. For ten years thereafter he conducted a general store at Tabor, this county, and he served ten years as postmaster of that village, under the administration of Presidents Taft and Wilson. In 1917 he es- tablished his residence upon his present farm, and in connection with its operations he has developed a prosperous business in the buying and shipping of live stock, the most of which he consigns to the Pittsburgh market. Mr. Long is a staunch democrat and is liberal and progressive in his civic attitude. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episco- pal Church.

In 1906 Mr. Long was united in marriage to Miss Mary K. Long, daughter of Chalmers and Jane (Marshall) Long, of Harrison Township, Carroll County, and the four children of this union are Joseph Kermit, Chester Alexander, June Maxine, and Helen Louise.

JOHN W. REED passed his entire life in Carroll County, became one of its representative farm- ers and highly honored citizens and a part of his old home farm is now comprised in the village of Malvern, in Brown Township. He was a scion of a prominent pioneer family of the county and through his worthy life and service added honor to the name which he bore. Mr. Reed was born in Brown Township, this county, on the 26th of February, 1834, and here his death occurred on the 8th of November, 1873. The widow of Mr. Reed now maintains her home at Malvern and is one of the venerable and re- vered women of Brown Township. She and her children still retain ownership of the old home farm, of ten acres, and she has resided at Malvern for twenty-two years. The year 1920 records the eighty-eighth anniversary of the birth of Mrs. Reed.

John W. Reed was a son of Robert and Mary ( Banghman) Reed, both of whom were born and reared in Brown Township, where they passed their entire lives, Robert Reed having been a son of John and Nancy (Woodward) Reed, who were numbered among the early set- tlers of Carroll County, the father having been a native of Ireland. John and Nancy Reed be- came the parents of five children-James. Will- iam, Robert, David, and one daughter, who be- came the wife of Matthew Ayers. Robert Reed continued his association with farm industry in Brown Township until his death and was one

of the influential men of his community, both he and his wife having attained to advanced age. They became the parents of a fine family of thirteen children-Nancy, Jesse, Elizabeth, John W., Mary, David, Robert, Jr., Rachel, James, Sarah, William, Ellen, wife of Walter Clark Lewis, and Lewis, a resident of Bayard. Columbiana County. Ellen and Lewis are the only surviving members of this family. All of the sons except John W. and Lewis were sol- diers of the Union in the Civil war.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 125

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