History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 135

Author: H. J. Eckley, William T. Perry
Publication date: 1921
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On the 7th of September. 1892. Mr. Ebersole married Miss Ruth Etta Miller, who was born in Washington Township. this county. April 13. 1870. a daughter of Henry W. and Sarah ( Strayer ) Miller. both likewise natives of Car- roll County, where the former was born. in Harrison Township. July 4, 1842, and the latter on the 14th of May, 1845. Levi Miller, grand- father of Mrs. Ebersole, was a young man when he came to Carroll County, where he became a pioneer farmer, and who later conducted a gro- cory business at Carrollton. His first wife. whose maiden name was Julia A. Riley. died when about thirty years of age. and both he and his second wife, whose maiden name was Mary Houck. and the name of whose first hus-

band was Buck, were residents of Carrollton at the time of their death, both having been communicants of the Lutheran Church. Levi Miller was born in what is now Monroe Town- ship. Carroll County, November 11, 1808, and was a son of Henry and Elizabeth ( Reader) Miller. the former a native of Germany, and the latter of Washington County, Pennsylvania, where their marriage was solemnized, and whence they came to Ohio and settled in what is now Carroll County in or somewhat prior to the year 1807. They lived up to the full tension of frontier life and Mr. Miller served as a soldier in the War of 1812. He and his wife here passed the remainder of their lives, and of their six children Levi was the eldest.

Levi and Julia A. (Riley) Miller became the parents of five children, and of the number Henry W. was the only one who attained to venerable years, he having come into possession of his father's old homestead farm, in Wash- ington Township. and having developed the same into one of the valuable properties of the county. He married Miss Sarah Strayer, a daughter of John and Ruth ( Johnson) Strayer, who were pioneers of Carroll County and here remained until their death.

Mrs. Ebersole was afforded the advantages of the Liberty Hall School, in Washington Town- ship, and has a wide circle of friends in her native county. so that her pleasant home has Lecome known as a center of gracious hos- pitality. Mr. and Mrs. Ebersole became the parents of two children: John William, who was born May 18, 1894, died at the age of nine weeks. Harry Miller Ebersole was born Novem- ber 7. 1896, and his early educational advan- tages included those of the Carrollton High School and a course in a business college in the city of Canton. He now holds a responsible clerical position in the office of the Otis Com- pany. an important investment banking concern in the city of Cleveland. In May. 1918, he entered the nation's military service in connec- tion with the world war. and his service of about seven months was at Camp Joseph F. Johnston. Jacksonville, Florida. The maiden name of his wife was Minnie Shaffer. daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Shaffer. of Cleve- land. Ohio.

FRANK KYLE EBERSOLE. Frank Kyle Eber- sole. one of the Advisory Board of the publica- tion of the History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, has been closely identified with the business and civic progress of Carrollton for over twenty years.

He was born in Carrollton March 6. 1867. son of John E. and Nancy J. Ebersole. He was reared and educated in Carrollton and in 1888. at the age of twenty-one. engaged in the live- stock and machinery business. In 1893 he moved to Iowa. and for two years was in the brick making business at Boone. while from 1895 to 1898 he was associated with his brother. J. A. Ebersole. in the hardware business at DesMoines.

After returning to Carrollton in 1899. Mr. Ebersole conducted a farm and a dairy until

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1908. His capital and enterprise were then turned in a direction that resulted in much industrial benefit to Carrollton. In 1909 he installed the first ice plant in that city and in 1911 organized the Carrollton Creamery, op- rating in connection with the ice plant. The creamery was sold to the Canton Cold Storage Company in 1915 and the ice plant to Joe Miller in 1920. Thus relieved of his responsi- bility in local industrial affairs. Mr. Ebersole assisted in 1920 to organize the First National Bank of Carrollton and is one of its charter members and on the Board of Directors. At present he is owner of a large stock and dairy farm adjoining the city limits of Carrollton.

In politics he is a progressive republican. November 4. 1902. at Carrollton he married Fredalma Sterling. daughter of M. C. and Jane Elizabeth ( Atkinson) Sterling. Her father is a well-known druggist in Carrollton.

WILLIAM THOMAS PERRY, who is the present probate judge of Harrison County, was born in Short Creek Township. Harrison County. Ohio. on September 28, 1858, and has lived in the county all his life. In every community there are always some citizens who per force of their natural endowments, coupled with a determina- tion to achieve something worth while in the battle of life, have become successful in their undertakings and been held in high esteem by their co-workers and fellow citizens generally. It is of such a one that this biography will treat. Of his immediate ancestry it may be said that he is the fifth son of William W. and Elizabeth ( Kelly) Perry. The grandfather was William H. Perry, who was the son of a Revo- lutionary soldier.

William W. Perry was the father of six chil- dren : John H. Perry. a Civil war veteran, who died in 1911: James A. Perry, who died in 1908: Albert K. Perry, who died in 1912: Sam- nel K. Perry, who died in infancy: William T. Perry, of this notice: and Joseph D. Perry.

The father, William W. Perry, was a soldier of the Civil war in Company F of the One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio Regiment. and died in 1865 from the effects of the Maryland Heights' battle. flis widow. Elizabeth Perry. died in March, 1906, at the advanced age of ninety-two years.

Judge William T. Perry was educated in the common schools of his native county, and studied at home completing a college course. reciting on Saturdays to the professors in Hope- dale College and New Athens College, though never matriculating as a student in either of these institutions. In 1875 he began teaching school in Harrison County. continuing until 18$3, when he moved from near Cadiz to Jewett and organized the Jewett High Schools. taking charge of the same for a period of seven years. In 1883 he received on examination the first state certificate over issued to a resident of Harrison County. He served as teacher's ex- aminer in Harrison County for eight years -- the last eight years of his teaching.

But Mr. Perry had an ambition to become a lawyer and had studied with that end in view

until March 7. 1887. when he was admitted to the bar in the Supreme Court of Ohio on ac- tual examination, receiving the second honor of his class. He studied law at home and under the tutorage of John C. Givin and John N. Garvin, two eminent attorneys of the county seat town. Cadiz.

On October 1. 1890, he opened his law office in Cadiz, Ohio. and has practiced law ever since. In the autumn of 1893 he was elected prosecuting attorney of the county. and held the office from January 1. 1894. to January 1. 1900. In 1912 he was elected probate judge of llarrison County. and has held the office ever since. being re-elected to a third term. which will expire February 9. 1925. Considering the importance of this office in a county like Har- rison this three term incumbency bespeaks much for the ability, promptness and accuracy with which Mr. Perry has dispatched business in the Probate Court of the county, where the estates of scores and hundreds of the citizens of the . minty ; re at stake.

Politically Judge Perry is and always has been since old enough to cast his vote a repub- lican, has been active in campaign work, in de- mand as a speaker in political party work. in church. Sunday school and social gatherings. as well as in the temperance movements of the state and county. He is what may be termed "an active dry on the temperance question." Fraternally let it be stated that Judge Perry is an honored member of the Masonic bodies of the county, the Knights Templar, the Shrine. the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and Sons of Veterans. In religious faith he is a Methodist Episcopal ad- herent.

Judge Perry was united in marriage Sep- tember 2, 1878, to Miss Mary J. Blackburn. eldest daughter of John H. and Addie (Gran- ville) Blackburn, of Tappan, Ohio, and unto this marriage were born four children : William Clyde Perry, a public accountant of Akron. Ohio: John Linton Perry, of Oklahoma : Mary E. Perry. wife of E. R. Hoagland. of Uhrichs- ville. Ohio: and Charles B. Perry, an attorney- at-law of Newton Falls, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Perry have four grandchildren-Charles McC. Hoagland. Irma L. Hoagland, Linton Hoagland. all of Uhrichsville. Ohio, and William T. Perry. Jr., of Akron, Ohio. William C. Perry was married to Virginia McDermitt, of Canton. Ohio: Mary E. Perry was married to Earl R. Hoagland. of near Cadiz, Ohio: and Charles Bingham Perry married Mary Clark, of Cadiz. Ohio.

It may justly be added that Judge Perry counts his friends by the one word-Legion.

ELISHA MCGUIRE was the kind of character. exemplified the type of manhood, and lived the daily life that must always prove an inspiration to all who regard substance as more than show. and integrity as more important than material wealth.

He was one of the last of the real pioneers of Carroll County to pass away. His family was contemporary with the Beattys, the MeCooks. the Shobers, the Cogsils, the Atkinsons and

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others. His father. John McGuire, was of the rugged Scotch-Irish ancestry which peopled and gave character still largely maintained to the mountain and hill districts of the old Virginias and Carolinas. John McGuire as a young man moved out of Virginia to the Northwest terri- tory, and settled in what afterwards became Jefferson County. Ohio. September 29, 1803. he married Miss Sarah Milligan, and located on a farm near Steubenville. John McGuire and wife had a family of six sons and three daughters. In 1816 the family moved to what is now Union Township in Carroll County, on the farm afterwards known as the old Jake Everhart farm and still later as the George Kail farm. This farm adjoins Angonquin. Their home was virtually in the wilderness there until 1828. when the family located at Centerville. now Carrollton.

Elisha McGuire was fifth among the children of John McGuire and wife. He was born De- cember 4, 1812, and was therefore four years of age when brought to Carroll County. His was the environment of a real pioneer. With growing strength and years he took his share in the clearing of the timber and the working of the fields. In after life he admitted that the aggregate of years spent in school under a mas- ter was less than six months. The schools he attended were conducted on the subscription plan, and the schoolhouses were log cabins, with puncheon floors, split log benches and greased paper windows, and a fireplace.

He was sixteen when the family moved to Centerville. and at that time was bound out to a trade, being indentured to John Morrison. the general blacksmith and wagon maker of East Springfield. After three years' apprenticeship he worked as a journeyman two years in Spring- field and Steubenville. In 1833, the year Carroll County was organized and Centerville under the new name of Carrollton became a Court House town, he opened a wagon and plow shop there, and was more or less actively connected with this work all his remaining years. He was an active, athletic, vigorous young man. full of life and energy and fully endowed with an inherited spirit of progress and "gift of gab" from his strain of Irish ancestors. A promi- nent factor and figure on muster days and known throughout four counties for his shrewd common sense, his good fellowship. his progres- sive business and working qualities, and as "a man who could stock twelve plows a day"-no title Mr. McGuire earned during his long and useful life gave him more satisfaction than the achieving of the one mentioned. it being con- sidered a fair day's work to stock three plows.

In 1846 Mr. McGuire was chosen by the demo- crats as their candidate for sheriff, and al- though Carroll County was strongly a whig county the popularity of the Scotch-Irish wheel- wright elected him a second term. That was a vigorous canvass and the candidate traversed the county north. south, east and west on horse- back, there being no decent wagon roads in those days. After the expiration of his second term he returned to his manufacturing interests and also established a foundry-the only one between Steubenville and Canton-for the cast-

ing of plow-points, farm bells, stoves ( which were then coming into general use). hollow- ware and anything needed for which it was pos- sible to make a pattern.

In 1852 Elisha McGuire established "Mc- Guire's United States Mail and Stage Line" from Steubenville to Massillon with a daily line of four-horse stages over the State Road-now Main Street. Disposing of this route to the Ohio Stage Company he devoted his time to the mail and stage routes connecting Carrollton with Wheeling, New Lisbon. Cadiz. New Phila- delphia. Wellsville. Summittsville and other points. This service continued until the grow- ing system of railroads.

Always an active progressive business man and enjoying an enviable patronage, his very nature precluded his ever amassing any consid- erable wealth. He was too progressive to hoard: money meant nothing except for invest- ment in the aid of enterprise and this spirit was maintained until his death. Charles A. Dana's motto of "Move on, Move on." could well have been Elisha McGuire's: nothing was al- lowed to stand still which he had the means. influence or physical power to aid forward. He lost money heavily in the re-incarnation of the old "elderberry branch" Carrollton & Oneida Railroad, and under the new name of the Ohlo & Toledo Railroad he was its president and general manager. This line formned the nucleus and made possible the later Cleveland. Canton & Southern Line. now part of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway. He and his associates began their task with only "two streaks of rust and a right of way" ten miles long. Mr. McGuire and General Eckley devoted years of hard work and thousands of dollars only to see the result of their labors and untiring efforts enrich others. It was characteristic of both men that no sign of regret ever escaped them over the lack of reward or wage hardly earned and justly due. They had secured the town a "sure enough" railroad-no matter for personal losses and mis- understood plans and work of theirs.

During the Civil War Mr. McGuire was es- pecially active in aid of recruiting and the work of forwardne supplies from home to volunteers. During 1862-63-64 he made frequent trips to the western army. in which the Ninety-eighth Regi- ment Ohio Volunteers served. and of which regi- ment his son and son-in-law were members as well as a number of Carroll County men. On each of these trips he carried a large quantity of supplies for the soldiers which had been gathered by patriotic citizens of the community. He had the acquaintance and the personal friend- ship and esteem of Ohio's famous and greatly be- loved war governor, David Tod.

In 1875 he was the democratic nominee for representative. and made a vigorous fight against an overwhelming republican majority. Several times he was chosen a member of the Board of Education in spite of politics and the repub- lican precinct in which he lived. Thus democrats and republicans respected and admired the rugged. strong. outspoken character of "Uncle Lisha" and no personality could have been missed more deeply from the town where he lived so many years. For' six years he was pro-

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prietor of the old Beatty House, later the Hoopes, and enjoyed a just popularity as a land- lord.

Despite the fact that his politics differed from the strong majority of the citizens of his town- ship, his neighbors took delight in honoring him with offices of trust. He was the most open and outspoken friend of the new school project when the building of the new I'nion schools was a local issue. As a member of the Board of Education he was the moving spirit in the first Teachers' Institute held there and through his energy and hard work these institutes were for a number of years more successful and pro- ductive of more good in Carroll County than in any other county in eastern Ohio.

Mr. McGuire's social and family relations were of the pleasantest nature-his family con- nection being perhaps the largest in this town- ship. A trace of his Scotch ancestry developed itself perhaps in Uncle Lisha's making it more or less a clan-not an unfriendly and depreda- tory clan, but a hospitable clan-a clan for the promotion of good fellowship, family and neigh- borly feeling, and of which "The McGuire" was early the chief and leading spirit about which all delighted to center. An outspoken, kindly man. sincere in his likes and dislikes tempered by the characteristic of forming no unreasonable dis- likes. earnest, sincere and aggressive for the right as he saw the right ; he lived a long, active and useful life which made a lasting impress upon the community. It was in the eighty-sev- enth year of his age and almost at the end of the century when he passed away May 11, 1899.

Himself a strong man, he was the founder of a strong race. When he died, besides his own children, he was survived by sixteen of the twenty-six grandchildren born, by twenty-five out of twenty-eight great-grandchildren. so that forty-five direct descendants mourned his pass- ing. His own children are now all gone. the last surviving Elisha McGuire nearly twenty years.

In 1838, then a young wheelwright and plow maker, he married Miss Hannah Baxter, daugh- ter of a prominent old Center Township family. She preceded her husband to the grave by five years, passing away June 5, 1894, some six years after they had celebrated their golden wedding. She was the mother of nine children, two of whom died in childhood. The seven who grew up were: Elizabeth, who married Robert Stew- art. and reared her family In Iowa : Mary, who became the wife of Major Robert F. Williams, and died May 16, 1904; Emma, who was the wife of Willi. m Bright, of Wellsville: Edith, who became the wife of James P. Whitcraft and died December 14, 1914; Lieut. Richard MeGulre, who was wounded at Chattanooga, Tennessee. and was brought home by his father and died at the family home October 16, 1863; Annie, who became the wife of John W. Gould, and died in 1906: and Frank W. McGuire, who passed away September 27, 1918.

ROBERT FORBES MCCAULEY. Numbered among the successful agriculturists of Harrison County. the late Robert Forbes McCauley of Monroe Township accumulated during his life- time a competency and left a valuable farm and good name to his family. He was born in Monroe Township. Harrison County, Ohio, September 27. 1852, a son of Robert MeCauley.

and grandson of Robert McCauley and his wife Mary ( Booth) McCauley, who had three chil- dren, Namely : Margaret, Samuel and Robert. Of these children of the grandfather, Margaret and Robert came from Ireland to the United States in 1832, at which time Robert MeCauley was seventeen years of age as he was born in Ireiand, March 17, 1815. They settled at once in Monroe Township, Harrison County, and bought eighty acres of land. The following year their parents and Samuel joined them, and all spent the remainder of their lives in this township.

Robert Mccauley was the only one who left descendants. Samuel MeCauley never married, and while Margaret was married to Alexander McCauley, she had no children. They were all consistent members of the Presbyterion Church, and they were of Scotch-Irish descent from County Tyrone. Ireland. The wife of the sec- ofkt kobert MeCauley bore the maiden name of Sarah Forbes, and she, too, was born in Ire- land, a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (John- son ) Forbes. The children born to Robert and Sarah McCauley were as follows: Booth, who married Elizabeth Smiley; Sarah Jane, who never married ; Robert F., whose name heads this review. This generation also belonged to the Presbyterian Church.

Robert F. McCauley attended the district schools of Monroe Township, and lived at home until he was married on May 6, 1880, to Sadie A. Brown, a daughter of James and Rebecca (Evans) Brown. James Brown was born in Monroe Township, Harrison County, Ohio, Feb- ruary 12, 1834, and his wife was born August 1, 1836. For many years they were engaged in farming in Monroe Township. Their chil- dren were as follows: John. Sadie, Annie E .. Laura E., Robert D., Mary Ida, Emma, Eliza- beth. James Edmond and Bell Jane. The Browns were Methodists. The paternal grand- parents of Mrs. McCauley were John and Sarah (Davis) Brown, natives of Ireland. John Brown came to the United States as a young man, and was one of the pioneers of Monroe Township, Harrison County, Ohio. John Brown and his wife had the following children : Mar- garet. George, Joseph, William, Samuel, David, James. Jeremiah and Hester Ann. They, too. were Methodists.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. MeCauley came to the farm now owned by Mrs. McCauley. . which is near Bowerston, in Monroe Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and contains 160 acres. On it Mr. MeCauley carried on general farming and stock-raising until his death, which oc- curred November 26, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. McCauley had two children : Olive M. and Ida J. The latter was marred to L. C. Price and lives at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since the death of Mr. MeCauley, Mrs. McCauley and her daughter, Olive M., have continued to live on the farm. Mr. McCauley was a supporter of the Presbyterian Church, but his widow and daughters belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a Blue Lodge Mason. belong- ing to the lodge at Leesville, Ohio. A man of the highest principles he lived up to them and was recognized as a person of fine character and pleasant manner, and left behind his many friends in addition to his family, to mourn his loss.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 135

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