History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 131

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

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Mr. Bargar married, June 25. 1912, Lydia Phillips, a daughter of William Phillips, a pros- perous farmer of Gilmore Township, Greene County. Pennsylvania. William Phillips has been twice married. By his first wife, whose maiden name was Mary Keefe, he had eleven children. Elroy. Martha, Wesley, William, Ja- cob. Lillie. Philip. Logan, George, Homer and Lydia. Of this union with his second wife. Mrs. Penina Darling, one child was born. Edwin Phillips. To Mr. and Mrs. Bargar five children were born, namely : Mary Anna, born August 9. 1913: Ruth Phillips, born September 10. 1914: Dora Esther, born November 23, 1915: and James William and Martha Elizabeth. twins. born May 20. 1919.

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Greatly interested in public affairs, Mr. Bar- gar rendered excellent service as a trustee of Stock Township from 1918 until his death. IIe was a conscientious member of the Pleasant Valley Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was a trustee, and his wife is also a member of that church. Clarence A. Bargar died Febru- ary 24. 1920.

EDWIN MARION LONG. In a log cabin situated in Monroe Township. Harrison County, Ohio. there was born on May 17. 1851. a child who was destined to become the founder and executive head of one of the most prosperous industrial enterprises of the county : and that child, reared and educated in this county, grew to be the vigorous business man whose name introduces this review and whose administrative ability is attested in the broad scope and importance of the business controlled by the present firm of E. M. Long & Sons at Cadiz. The story of Mr. Long's career offers both lesson and incentive, and in connection with his successful activities there has been a reflex in the furtherance of the general business and industrial progress of his native county. The firm of E. M. Long & Sons has built up an important wholesale and retail business in the handling as well as the manu- facturing of lumber and builders' supplies, with a general plant that is of the most modern type. with mills and warehouse of large capacity, and with two garages that are models in structural plans and equipment in all departments for the handling of all kinds of automobile supplies and accessories.

Edwin M. Long was born in Monroe Township. Harrison County, as noted above, and is a son of William E. and Mary Ann (Slonaker) Long. the former of whom was born in Columbiana County, this state. December 7. 1822, and the latter in Monroe Township. Harrison County, where her parents. James and Nancy Slonaker. were pioneer settlers. Their children were seven in number. Matilda, Sarah. Rebecca. Su- san. Eliza. Elizabeth Jane and Mary Ann. Will- iam E. Long was a son of James and Elizabeth ( Eversole) Long, and the former's father, James Long. Sr .. was born in Ireland, the original spelling of the name having been Lang. James Long (Lang), Sr., was a leading pioneer clergy- man of the Presbyterian Church in Pennsyl- vania, where he was pastor of a church at Fallen Springs for more than a quarter of a century. While pastor at this place he preached a memorial sermon on the occasion of the death of General George Washington, and this sermon is still preserved in the archives of the church.

James Long. grandfather of Edwin M. of this review, was a pioneer in Columbiana County, Ohio, where he passed the greater part of his life. though he was a resident of Harrison County for several years prior to his death, his vocation having been that of a carpenter. He and his wife became the parents of a family of twelve children-William E., John. James. Henry. Hezekiah. George. Louisa, Mary, Sarah. Rachel Ann, Elizabeth and a daughter who died young.

William E. Long learned the carpenter's trade under the direction of his father and for many

years followed this trade in Harrison County, where he maintained his home in Monroe Town- ship. He was known as a skilled and conscien- tious artisan and developed a representative business in the erection of buildings and bridges in this county. He was venerable in years at the time of his death in 1909, his wife having passed away in 1894.

They were members of the United Brethren Church. They became the parents of eight chil- dren. of whom Edwin M., of this sketch, was the second in order of birth, the names of the other children being as follows: Nancy Jane, Cora. Bingham, Virgil. Ida. Joseph and Linville.

To the rural schools of Monroe Township Ed- win M. Long is indebted for his early education, and when he was a lad of fourteen years he began a practical apprenticeship to the carpen- ter's trade under the direction of his father. When but eighteen years of age his skill at his trade was such that he was made foreman of the carpenters engaged in completing the dwell- ing house of John McCauley on Plum Run, this county. and he continued to give his wages to his father until he attained to his legal majority, this having been in accordance with the custom of that day. At the age of twenty-one Mr. Long married and began his independent career at his trade. In the initial stages of his career as a contractor and builder he took great pride in making every detail of workmanship of the highest grade, and thus his reputation grew apace and resulted in his being awarded many important contracts, in each of which he mani- fosted the same fidelity to plans and specifica- tions. In Harrison County today are many ini- portant buildings that stand as monuments to his ability as a contractor, and in this field of enterprise he became a leader in the county. In 1889 he secured the contract for the erection of the Harrison County Children's Home: In 1893 he assumed the contract for the erection of the County Court House: and among other notable buildings erected by him are the county jail and sheriff's residence. the Harrison County In- firmary. the building of Franklin College, the Cadiz High School, the Fourth National Bank building in Cadiz, the Wood & Wright building, as well as many other business and residential buildings of the best type. About the time of assuming the contract for the erection of the county Court House Mr. Long purchased the Crew & Hanna lumber yard at Cadiz. besides which he admitted to partnership his elder son, Emerson W., and about 1900 the younger son became a member of the firm, whose title was then changed to the present form. Emerson W. Long has charge of the local yards and retail business of the firm. and the younger son, Al- fred C., has the management of the extensive wholesale department of the enterprise. in con- nection with which shipments have been made as far south as Florida, north into Canada. east to the Atlantic coast and west into Kansas and Iowa. Two traveling representatives are re- tained by the firm, which makes a specialty of shipping in mixed carload. lots, and a substan- tial wholesale business is controlled by the firm in furnishing supplies to several of the largest railway systems in the United States and Can-

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ada, the while the various specialties manufac- tured or handled by the firm are sold also through jobbers in leading cities, including Chi- cago. Cleveland, Toledo, Pittsburgh, Philadel- phia, Cincinnati and Columbus. Since discon- tinuing the contracting department of the busi- ness the head of the firm has acted principally in an advisory capacity only, and devotes his at- tention principally to the very extensive farm industry conducted in the firm's name near Ca- diz. In the handling of its extensive wholesale trade the firm justly claims many advantages that are not to be had in the metropolitan trade center, and the wonderful expansion of the en- terprise testified to trade appreciation of this fact. The garages of the firm are modern build- ings of fire-proof construction with a capacity for storing about one hundred and twenty-five cars on the main floor, and the repair depart- ment is modern in every detail of equipment. Here are handled all lines of automobile sup- plies and accessories, and gasoline and oils. the latter purchased by the firm in tank car lots.

The splendid farm property to which Mr. Long gives his personal supervision comprises 771 acres and is situated in Stock Township. The farm is a model in equipment and manage- ment, is devoted to diversified agriculture and stock-raising, and in this connection the follow- ing estimate is worthy of reproduction in this review : "Because of the fine grade of stock kept, its excellent care, and the systematic and economic attention to all details of crop rais- ing. the management of this farm has set a new pace in this locality, and has stimulated a pride in that most useful and necessary of all callings -a pride not hitherto seen in this excellent community. The demand of the times is for better farming and more of it. This will solve the problems of rural schools and the rural church, and of keeping the boys and girls on the farm, and keeping the nation secure in morals, culture and patriotism."

In 1869 Mr. Long became a member of the United Brethren Church at Bowerston, but he and his wife now hold membership in the Meth- odist Episcopal Church at Cadiz. He is a repub- lican and prohibitionist in politics, and his civic liberality and loyalty have been on a parity with the distinctive success which he has achieved in business.

In the year 1872 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Long to Miss Amadilla Wyandt, who was born and reared in Monroe Township, this county, a daughter of Abraham and Roxana (Dunlap) Wyandt, both of whom were likewise born in Monroe Township. Abraham Wyandt was a son of John and Amelia (Snyder) Wyandt. John Wyandt was born in Maryland, later established his home in Washington County. Pennsylvania, and thence he finally came to Harrison County, Ohio, where he ob- tained an entire section of land in Monroe Town- ship and developed one of the best pioneer farms of that part of the county. He was a member of the United Brethren Church in this county and built the first church of this denomination at Tunnel Hill in Monroe Township. His chil- dren were John. Jacob. Mary. Daniel and Abraham.

Abraham Wyandt passed his entire life on the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth, and for a long term of years followed the shoemaker's trade in connection with his farm enterprise. He and his first wife were zealous members of the United Brethren Church. Their children were three in number, Amadilla, Martha Ann and Miriam Jane. After the death of his first wife Mr. Wyandt married Margaret Ann Gamble, and they became the parents of three children-Webster, Amelia Alice and Orpha Olive.

Mr. and Mrs. Long have three children. Em- erson Ward Long married Miss Alberta Birney, and they have three children-Esther, Hugh Melauren and EAlwin Birney. Alfred Curtis Long married Anna Haverfield, who is deceased and who is survived by one child, Emmett Ed- win. Alfred C. Long volunteered and entered the nation's military service in connection with the World war. He entered Fort Benjamin Har- rison. Indiana, on the 13th of July, 1918, and was assigned to the Tenth Infantry Band. In the latter part of the same month he accom- panied his command to Camp Custer at Battle Creek. Michigan, where the regiment became a part of the Fourteenth Division, and he was as- sistant director of the Regimental Band at the time of receiving his honorable discharge Janu- ary 13, 1919, at Camp Custer. Iva Jane. the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Long, is the wife of Harry D. Smith, a well-known den- tist of Cadiz, Ohio, and they have one child, Marian Jane.

FRANK SMITH. A farmer of well-known abil- ity, whose extended practical experience has made him an authority on this branch of indus- try. Frank Smith owns and occupies a well-cul- tivated and well-managed farm in Stock Town- ship, which has been his home for thirty or more years. A son of the late William H. Smith, he was born April 2, 1851, in Nottingham Town- ship. Harrison County, Ohio, of Irish ancestry.

William H. Smith was born in Ireland. Com- ing to the United States in early life, he subse- quently met and married Julia E. Hedges, who was a native of Virginia.

William H. Smith was five years old when his parents came over from Ireland, and six years old when the family settled in Nottingham Township of Harrison County, where both he and his wife died.

Acquiring his early education in the rural schools of his native township, Frank Smith later attended the public schools of the village of Deersville, near by. Throughout his early manhood he assisted his father on the home farm, remaining an inmate of the parental household until his marriage. He subsequently continued his agricultural labors in Nottingham Township for a period of fifteen years, after which he lived for a short time in Deersville. Coming from there to Stock Township, Mr. Smith lived on one farm for a quarter of a century, but for the past five years has occu- pied his present farm. He has 165 acres of rich and fertile land, on which his labors have proved remunerative, and is carrying on general

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farming and stock raising with gratifying

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Mr. Smith married, March 6, 1876, Sarah E. Johnson, who was born in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of John Wes- ley and Elizabeth (Ruby) Johnson. Three chil- dren have been born of their union, namely : Myrtie O. B., wife of Dempsey S. Hines: Nannie E., wife of Lester Pugh, who is engaged in farm- ing with Mr. Smith; and Fannie E., twin sister of Mrs. Pugh. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are valued members of the Deersville Methodist Episcopal Church.

JAMES BIRNEY ROGERS. The Rogers family history as represented by James Birney Rogers, of Cadiz, Harrison County, is contemporary with statehood in Ohio. John Rogers came from Hartford County, Maryland, in 1802 and mar- ried Nancy Lemasters, of Harrison County. He settled in Cadiz Township, and was one of the pioneer farmers of Harrison County. A son, William Rogers, was born to him December 14. 1817. The Rogers ancestry came from England in an early day to Maryland. William Rogers, who owned farm land in both Maryland and Pennsylvania, was later a manufacturer of combs. On July 30, 1752, he married Susanna Barrett, and eleven children were born to them, one of them being John Rogers. On July 4, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence came into existence. William Rogers was cradling rye in Maryland.

John Rogers was eight years old when his parents came to Ohio, and the Lemasters fam- ily. whom they found in Ohio, had been one of the first to cross the Ohio River, building their log cabin in what seemed to them the far west, and the maternal grandfather was killed by the Indians. When John Rogers married Nancy Lemasters they made their home in Cadiz Town- . ship on land entered by his father. William Rogers, where their son William was born and grew to manhood, receiving his education in the stone school house. He loved books, and the end of his school days was not the end of his study.

On June 21, 1838. William Rogers, son of John Rogers, married Mariah Adams, a daugh- ter of Thomas and Charlotte ( Blair) Adams. Mr. Adams was a farmer and miller. and was among the early settlers of Harrison County. The daughter Mariah was the oldest child. Her brothers and sisters were: Percival, Matthew B .. Isabelle, James N .. Albert G .. William B., John W. and Sarah Ellen. William Rogers died August 15, 1808, being more than four score years old and having always lived in one com- munity. The children born to him are: James Birney, born July 21. 1839, and named in honor of a political leader in the Liberty party of the day. John T .. Isabelle J., William P .. Albert L., Nancy E. and Bailey S. Rogers.

All through its history members of the Rogers family have been political leaders, being affi- liated with whigs, freesollers and republicans, and in the family there was always a strong anti-slavery sentiment. In 1885 William Rogers identified himself with the prohibition party, being among the first to espouse the cause that has gained universal favor today. Although

urged to allow his name to appear on election tickets, he always declined to assume the re- sponsibility of political office-the office at that time seeking the man, while in modern politics the man seeks the office. In its church relations the Rogers family has been Wesleyans and Meth- odists, always abreast of moral movements.

James B. Rogers grew up on the farm in Cadiz Township, and combined the carpenter's trade with farming, but on December 24, 1863, he enlisted as a mechanic in Company K. One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Ohio Volunteer In- fantry, and on July 31. 1865, he received his dis- charge from the Union army. After his return to Harrison County Mr. Rogers combined school teaching with farming for a number of years, later operating a saw mill in the community. In 1883 he started a general merchandising business in Cadiz, continuing it until 1907, and since then he has been a carpenter. He is a director in the Cadiz Electric Light and Power Company. superintending the construction of the new building in 1916 now occupied by the plant. Since December 1, 1918, he has been the day engineer, furnishing the electric current to con- sumers in Cadiz. Few men of his age are more active than Mr. Rogers.

On October 16, 1861, James B. Rogers married Mattie M. Merryman, a daughter of John and Mary Merryman, who were also pioneer resi- dents of Harrison County. Their children are: Herman A., who died January 9, 1917; Jasper C., Clarence S. and Angella Estelle. the wife of S. W. Means, of Pittsburgh, a lumber dealer. While the early Rogers family were Methodists Mr. Rogers is a member of the Christian Church. and Mrs. Rogers is a Methodist. For twenty- eight years Mr. Rogers has served as quarter- master in the J. S. McCready G. A. R. Post of Cadiz. From its organization he has affiliated with the prohibition party in Harrison County, and he has lived to see the temperance question a live political issue- economic rather than mo- ral -- and yet as a wheelhorse of the party he re- joices in the victory.

JOHN G. ROOF. of Loudon Township, Carroll County. has so directed his energies as to gain maximum returns from his vigorous activities as an agriculturist and stock-raiser and aside from his personal standing and achievement spe- cial interest attaches to his career by reason of the fact that he is a representative of one of the honored and well-known pioneer families of this county. He was born in Loudon Township, on the old home farm in section 2, and the date of his nativity was April 8, 1859. He is a son of John Perry Roof and Elizabeth ( Albaugh) Roof, the former of whom was born in Loudoun County. Virginia. and the latter in Loudon Township. Carroll County. The paternal grand- parents. John and Elizabeth (Long) Roof, were born and reared in Loudoun County. Virginia, which was their home during life.

The maternal grandparents, William and Catherine (Simmons) Albaugh, were born in Maryland. From Frederick County, that state, William Albaugh came to Ohio in the year 1805. in company with his father, John Peter Albaugh, whose brother Morris was the first settler in

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what is now Loudon Township. Carroll County, which was still a part of Jefferson County when he here established his home in the forest wilds, in 1802. In that same year Jacob Gotschall likewise settled in the township, and these two pioneers became the founders of the township. William Albaugh and his wife passed the re- mainder of their lives in Carroll County. and the family name has been one of special promi- nence in the civic and industrial development and upbuilding of this now opulent section of the Buckeye State.

After their marriage John P. Roof and his wife settled on the farm in Loudon Township which continued to be their home during the remainder of their long and useful lives. There they took up their abode on the 10th of Novem- ber. 1853. and Mr. Roof developed the place into one of the valuable and well-improved farms of the county. He was an honored and influential figure in community affairs and served as town- ship trustee and for many years was steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kilgore. His death occurred January 14, 1907. his devoted wife having passed away on the 12th of Sep- tember. 1807. Their eldest child. Alice. is not married and she still maintains her home in Loudon Township; Alma is the wife of John Shultz. of Canton. Stark County : Jane remains with her sister Alice: Mary is the wife of Al- bert Gibson, of Kilgore. this county : Margaret. the third of the maiden sisters, resides with Alice and Jane on the fine old homestead farm that was obtained by their maternal grandfa- ther in 1815: Elmer is a farmer in Loudon Township: and John G., of this review, was the fourth in order of birth.

John G. Roof is indebted to the district schools and Harlem Seminary for his youthful education, which was supplemented by his at- tending the Northern Ohio University at Ada for two terms. On the 4th of April. 1881. he began his career as a teacher in the district schools, and he has continued his effective ser- vice in the pedagogic profession during the long intervening years with the sole exception of the winter of 1912-13. After the death of his father he purchased the old home farm of eighty acres. and in the operation of the same his son Foster is now his able assistant. His service as a teacher has been principally given during the winter terms, so that he has found ample oppor- tunity to supervise the work of his farm, as well as that of his maiden sisters, which com- prises sixty-two acres. In his career as one of the successful and popular teachers of his native county Mr. Roof taught a number of years in the public schools at Harlem Springs and at Kilgore, and for three years in the schools at New Rumley. He is a staunch republican, well fortified in his political views and his opinions concerning economic and governmental policies. and while he has had no ambition for public office his civic loyalty was effectively shown in his two terms of service as township clerk of London Township. He and his wife are mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kil- gore, and he holds in the same the office of steward.

On the 8th of May, 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Roof to Miss Rada Cooper, who was born and reared in Perry Township, this county, and who is a daughter of William and Jane ( Hill ) Cooper, the former a native of Har- rison County and the latter of Guernsey County. Mr. Cooper was born August 27, 1834. and now resides at Ligonier, Pennsylvania. his wife be- ing deceased. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Roof the eldest. Wilma, is a popular teacher in the public schools of the city of Canton, Stark County, as is also her next younger sister, Ma- bel : Fannie is the wife of Lloyd George, of Car- rollton, and she likewise had been a successful teacher; Olin died at the age of ten years; Everett, who was the musician of the family, died at the age of eighteen; Foster is asso- ciated with his father in the management of the two farms mentioned in a preceding para- graph : Hallie. a stenographer and bookkeeper, resides in the city of Canton; and Ruth and John are. in 1921, students in the high school at Carrollton. Mr. and Mrs. Roof have two fine grandchildren, Ray Erskine George, son of Loyd and Fannie ( Roof ) George, and Carl Dean Roof, son of Foster and Mae ( Maple) Roof.

JOHN WITTEN. Owning a finely improved farm of 122 acres of land, John Witten. of Ger- man Township, has fairly earned the high po- sition he occupies in the esteem of his fellow citizens through his own industry, thrift and good management, and is rightly numbered among the sound and sensible men of Harrison County.

John Witten was born in Wetsel County. West Virginia, September 4. 1863, a son of Philip Witten, grandson of John Witten, and great-grandson of Philip Witten. the latter being a native of Maryland. Leaving his native state, Philip Witten accompanied his father-in- law, Noah Dickerson. down the Ohio River as far as Louisville, Kentucky, but then, not finding conditions to his liking there, retraced his way up the Ohio River and finally located in Mon- roe County, at what later came to be known as Witten's Landing. A post office was also named in his honor, and he became one of the lead- ing men and representative farmers of his day.

Jobn Witten was born October 29. 1753. and died of typhoid fever October 11, 1827. By his first marriage he had two children, twins. Jo- seph and Nancy, who were born June 2, 1810. After the death of his first wife, on November 25. 1813. John Witten was married to Susannah Roby, who was born September 16, 1792. Their children were as follows: Philip, who is men- tioned below ; Owen R .. who was born July 2. 1816: K. D .. who was born April 11. 1817: Ruth D., who was born February 22, 1819: Mary Ann. who was born January 16, 1821 : William. who was born May 26, 1822: John. who was born April 29, 1825: and Leander, who was born September 22. 1826. Mrs. Susannah Wit- ton died March 27, 1862. having survived her husband for many years.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 131

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