History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 15

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

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Josiah Glover, father of G. W. Glover, was a farmer in Smithfield Township, and for many years he kept what was known as the Country Inn. It was a popular place with travelers and especially with drovers who were taking live- stock to market. He always lived there. He was trustee of Smithfield Township for many years. His children are: Sarah A., Nancy, Su- san, George W., Josephine, J. C., Elizabeth, Es- ther. Malona and William. The family be- longed to the Holmes Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the oldest churches in Ohio.

George W. Glover attended the village school of York, and later he was a student in Hope- dale McNeally Normal, and as a young man he combined teaching with farming for a number of years. When he began teaching he received twenty-five dollars a month, but after four years he was paid forty dollars a month. He was a teacher twelve years, teaching three years in a graded school in Illinois. He finally taught in the public schools of Cadiz in 1869, but was forced to abandon the profession because of ill health. For the next seven years Mr. Glover engaged in the boot, shoe and leather trade in Cadiz. In that time he was elected town treas- urer and was also treasurer of the school board. For several years after quitting the store Mr. Glover bought and shipped livestock, and he also handled wool, buying and selling.

In 1866 Mr. Glover married Jennie A. Jami- son, a daughter of Walter Jamison, who was a pioneer settler in Harrison County, having come into the community in 1801-territorial days in Ohio. Mrs. Glover died in 1913. In 1864 Mr. Glover enlisted in Company H, One Hundred Fifty-Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil war, receiving his discharge after the close of the war, the following year. He is a member of the Cadiz Post, G. A. R., and he has been active in republican politics of Harrison County. In 1888 he was elected joint senator from Har- rison and Belmont counties, Ohio, and for a time he served as bookkeeper in the office of the treasurer of state.

Under the administration of Governor Bush- nell Mr. Glover was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Deaf and Dumb Institutions of Ohio. He held this position for five years and became familiar in that time with the institu- tional life of Ohio. For many years he was a member of the Board of Examiners of Harrison County. Mr. Glover is a member of the Presby- terian Church in Cadiz.

For many years he was engaged in the breed- ing of blooded race horses, some of which gained not only a local but national reputation. He perhaps exhibited more live stock in the east- ern counties of Ohio and the state fairs of

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Ohio and West Virginia and won more prizes than any other exhibitor in eastern Ohio. The most noted of these horses was "Florence Night- ingale," known as the "Home Missionary Mare," which name was given her by the fact that her owner agreed to give one-tenth of her prize win- ning money to the Home Missionary Society. She was one of the best known and greatly ad- mired horses ever exhibited on a track in this section, admired not only for her beauty but for her speed.

SAMUEL Q. MORROW, treasurer of the Tuscan Rubber & Tire Company of Carrollton, has had many associations with the life and affairs of several communities of Carroll County. For many years he was a successful educator, has filled various offices of trust and responsibility, and there are few citizens whose public spirit and work are better appreciated in the com- munity.

The Morrows have been residents of Carroll County for over fourscore years. The ancestry goes back to Ireland. One of the Irish family went to England and entered the employ of an English lord. He fell in love with the only daughter of the titled Englishman, his affec- tions were reciprocated, and she eloped with her father's employe and they went to Ireland. She was disinherited, but according to all accounts lived very happy in her humble Irish home. It was from this couple that the first American ancestor of Samuel Q. Morrow descended. His name was William Morrow. He had a brother Thomas who preceded him to America, though his experiences after that were unknown. The mother of Samuel Q. Morrow also bore the fam- ily name Morrow, and it is supposed that she was a descendant of this Thomas Morrow.

William Morrow was born in Ireland, where he married, and about 1800 he immigrated to the United States, his only child dying on the voyage. After coming to this country fifteen children were born, two of whom died young. The sons who reached mature years were Will- iam, Samuel, James, Moses and Aaron, while the daughters were Mary, Lydia, Annie, Rachael, Miram, Keziah, Hannah and Phoebe. William Morrow in 1816 left Pennsylvania with his fam- ily and moved to Stark County, Ohio, settling near Minerva. As a pioneer he entered a hun- dred sixty acres from the Government, and made many improvements and lived there until his death, about 1857. His wife also died on the old homestead.

Their son, James Morrow, was born in Penn- sylvania in 1808 and was about eight years old when brought to Ohio. He grew up on a farm. was married in Carroll County, and then moved to Jefferson County, Ohio. In 1838 he acquired land in Carroll County, and on March 10, 1839, brought his family to Fox Township and lived on his farm there until his death in 1872. James Morrow married Priscilla Queen, who was born in 1811 and died in 1899. Her father was Sam- uel Queen, and she was a half sister of Jonah Queen, a name mentioned elsewhere in this publication. James Morrow was a republican in politics and a member of the Christian Church. He and his wife had eight children : Mary, who died in infancy; William F .; Jane.

who became the wife of Jacob Zerbe and now lives in Kansas; Lydia, who died young; Aaron, who died about 1917; Jonah, who lives in Car- rollton ; Obediah, who died young; and Hannah, wife of Amos Moore, of Jefferson County, Ohio.

The third generation of the family in America is represented by the venerable William F. Mor- row, who was born in Jefferson County June 1, 1838, but has been a resident of Carroll County since he was nine months old. He grew up on the farm in Fox Township, acquired a public school education and also attended the Hope- dale College. During 1859-60 he taught in Wash- ington County, Illinois, but for over half a cen- tury applied his efforts to the trade of carpenter and farming. He owned a hundred thirty-three acres, including the original eighty acres ac. quired by his father in Fox Township in 1838. The Morrow farm was sold in 1919, in which year William F. Morrow removed to Carrollton, where he is still living at the age of eighty-two. He married Elizabeth C. Morrow, who was born in Pennsylvania November 27, 1841. She died March 27, 1910, at the old homestead in Fox Township. To their marriage were born nine children. The oldest, Louisa Jane, is the wife of John Griffith, and they have four children : Lera Bell, wife of Charles Palmer, Elma and Elva, twins, and Frank. John, the second of the family, married Etta Ferguson, and to their union were born five children : Edna, who died in infancy ; Dorothy, Joseph, John and Genora. Aaron, better known among his associates as "Tad," married Mary Kelley and has two chil- dren, Tipton and Edwin. The fourth of the family is Samuel Queen Morrow, who is a great- grandson of the original settler, William Mor- row. Fred Morrow, the fifth child, married Lulu Twiss, and they had ten children: Paul, who died February 8, 1920, at the age of twenty- three; Lloyd, Lillian, Merle, who was killed in 1917, Claire, Jay, Helen, Ethel, Nettle and Mar- tha. Sarah P. Morrow is the wife of Alexander McLain and has no children. Amos Leroy, known as Bob, married Mary Jane Ford, of La- trobe, Pennsylvania. Anna is the wife of Judge William Moffett, a well-known character men- tioned elsewhere in this history. Frank, who lives at Denver, Colorado, married Mary Har- lowe, and has four children, Helen, Emmett, Edith and Margaret.

These are the children of William F. Morrow, by his second marriage. His first wife was Elizabeth Griffith, whom he married in 1862 and who died in 1866. The older of her two chil- dren is James William Morrow of Fox Town- ship, Carroll County, who married Isabel Den- nis and had six children, Guy, Floyd, Elizabeth, Ella, Freeman and Sheldon. The second is Mary, widow of John Elliott and the mother of Bessie, William, Harry, Elizabeth, Anna, Orville and Hazel.

This is a remarkable family record. Past fourscore and with few of the infirmities of that age William F. Morrow is the father of eleven children, all of whom are living, and it would take a large auditorium to seat comfortably all his children, grandchildren and other descend- ants and relatives. William F. Morrow has been a republican from almost the birth of the party,

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and is an active member of the Christian Church.

Samuel Queen Morrow was born on the old farm in Fox Township August 18. 1873. In that rural environment he grew to manhood, attended the Greenbrier School in Fox Township, took an academic course at Mechanicstown, and in the intervals of teaching attended Mount Union Col- lege and the Ohio Northern University at Ada. He was graduated both in the commercial and pharmacy courses and in a general scientific course. The work of teaching engaged him continuously until 1900, in which year he took charge of the L. D. Stockon drug store at Carrollton. After leaving this business in 1904 he resumed teaching and was also in the insur- ance business until 1910. For the following three years he had charge of the business de- partment of the Newcastle High School in Pennsylvania, and returning to Carrollton in June. 1913, became cashier and bookkeeper for the Tuscan Rubber & Tire Company, the busi- ness to which he has since devoted his time and efforts.

Mr. Morrow served one term as coroner of Carroll County and has also been clerk and mayor of Carrollton. His long experience as an educator makes him a valuable member of the Carrollton School Board. and in January. 1920. he was chosen president of the board. Politi- cally he is a staunch republican, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Rebekahs, and is a member of the Lutheran Church. March 31, 1904, Mr. Morrow married Miss Clara Merrigan, of Carroll County. They have two children, Margaret and William Fred.

GEORGE E. PRETTY in a comparatively brief career has made himself an important factor in the business affairs of Carrollton. One of the most important business institutions of the county is the Tuscan Tire & Rubber Company, with which he has been identified continuously for fifteen years, beginning practically when a boy. He is now head of the traffic and service department of the corporation.

Mr. Pretty was born on a farm in Center Township, Carroll County, August 8, 1888, son of William and Elizabeth Pretty. His parents were born in England, where they were married, and located in Carroll County in 1880. William Pretty was a farmer in Center Township until his death in 1902. All of their ten children are still living.

George E. Pretty grew up on the old farm, and was only fourteen years of age when his father died. Besides the district schools he attended the Carrollton High School and in 1905, at the age of seventeen, entered the Mitzel Rubber Plant, now the Tuscan Tire & Rubber Company. He was a factory workman, being employed for a time in the dipping department, later had charge of the inner tube department, and, show- Ing ability and readiness to assume responsi- bilities, has had an active part in the business management practically ever since he reached his majority. Since 1917 he has had charge of the traffic and service department.

Mr. Pretty has also taken a considerable in- terest in politics and for the year 1920 has the responsibilities of executive secretary and mem-

ber of the executive committee of the Carroll County democratic party. He has also served as clerk of the Election Board. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Pretty in 1909 married Letha Davis, of Co- lumbus, Ohio, a daughter of George Wesley Davis.

Two of Mr. Pretty's brothers earned records as soldiers during the World war. Albert en- listed June 18, 1918, and was sent to Cincinnati and given an intensive course of instruction in cabinet making at the Hughes High School for about three months. Later he was at Camp Mead, Maryland, until the latter part of Feb- ruary, 1919, when he was sent to Fort Howard in the same state and received his honorable discharge in April. The other brother, Howard, left his work in the Tuscan Tire & Rubber Com- pany's plant and enlisted June 18, 1918, in the naval aviation section. He was at the Philadel- phia Navy Yard and July 5th sailed for France. He was on duty at Bordeaux until November, 1918. when he was sent to East Leigh, England, and in December returned to Pelham Bay, Long Island, and was granted his discharge in Feb- ruary. 1919.

WILLIAM LEE SHARP, a druggist of Cadiz, was born in that city on July 14. 1862, the son of Dr. William T. and Elizabeth (Carnahan) Sharp. The Sharps are of English stock and the family was founded in America by William Sharp, great-grandfather of the present genera- tion. who came over near the Revolutionary period. His son, John Sharp, was among the Harrison County pioneers. He married Catha- rine, a daughter of David Thompson, who was early in the community. However, in 1834 John Sharp and his wife removed to Holmes County. They were the parents of Dr. William T. Sharp, David. John. James, George, Samuel, Martha, Mere ret and Joseph.

William T. Sharp was born on the outskirts of Cadiz and spent his boyhood on the farm. He attended Franklin College and was gradu- ated from a college in Guernsey County, Ohio. He read medicine under Dr. John McBean, of Cadiz, and was graduated from Jefferson Medi- cal College in 1859 with the degree of M. D. He began the practice of medicine in partnership with Dr. McBean, but In 1864 he opened a drug store, which he conducted in conjunction with his medical practice. On October 12, 1859, he married Elizabeth Carnahan. the daughter of John and Martha ( Henderson) Carnahan, and their children are John Clarence, William Lee, Preston McCready, Caroline Martha, Mary Belle and George Cunningham Sharp. In the Car- nahan lineage. Elizabeth was the fourth daugh- ter in the family of John and Martha ( Hender- son) Carnahan, the others being: Henderson, Belle. Thomas L. and Martha.

As a young man W. I .. Sharp spent ten years as a Cadiz Township former. and in 1891 en- tered the drug store as the partner of his father. Since the death of his father he has conducted the business alone. On November 29. 1899, Mr. Scott married Lyda F .. a daughter of J. M. Ste- renson. Their children are: John C., born Sep- tember 27, 1900: William Lee, who died when eighteen months old; and Lee, born April 18,

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1909. Through all the generations the Sharps have been United Presbyterians.

The Stevenson family lineage shows John M. Stevenson was born in Lee Township, Carroll County, March 4, 1846, and that his father, Da- vid Stevenson, came from Londonderry, Ire- land. The wife, Agnes Miller, was also born in Ireland and they were married there. Back of that the ancestry was Scotch, but it is known that David Stevenson was a young married man with four children born in Ireland. When he came to this country he located for a time in Steubenville, Jefferson County, coming finally to Carroll County. The children born in Ireland are: Matthew, Josiah, Fannie and John, the latter dying aboard ship while crossing the At- lantic and was buried in New York City. The children born in America are: Eliza Jane, El- len, Mary Ann, David, William R. and John M. Stevenson. The Stevensons were also United Presbyterians. .

As a young man Mr. Stevenson was an auc- tioneer combined with his farm activities. In 1885 he moved from Carroll to Harrison County, locating in North Township, near Scio, where he spent sixteen years as a farmer. In 1901 he removed to Cadiz, engaging for six years as a granite dealer. From Cadiz he removed to Cam- bridge, where he operated a livery and boarding stable six years. Mr. Stevenson finally returned to Cadiz, where he formed a business relation with Frank Longley, the firm being Longley and Stevenson, and they deal in granite. Since 1917 Mr. Stevenson has been sheriff of Harri- son County.

In 1869 J. M. Stevenson married Jennie M., daughter of Andrew George. Their children are: William R .: David; George, deceased ; twins, Agnes and Anna; Lydia, Mrs. W. L. Sharp; and Pearl, deceased. Mr. Stevenson holds membership in the Masonic and I. O. O. F. Lodges in Cadiz.

CHRISTOPHER E. ARNOLD, the proprietor of a valuable farm of eighty-seven and one-half acres in Freeport Township, Harrison County, and a farmer and citizen of substantial standing, still in the prime of a useful life, is a native of Guernsey County, Ohio, and was born July 29, 1864, a son of David and Delilah (Decker) Arnold. .

William Arnold, the paternal grandfather of Christopher E., was an agriculturist of Guern- sey County, and there married Caroline Haden, by whom he had eight children : Henry, David, Azriah, Samuel, Lewis, Leander, Sarah Jane and Isabel. David Arnold was born in Guern- sey County, where he followed the pursuits of the soil until about 1881, in that year removing to Freeport Township. Harrison County. He remained there only two years, however, subse- quently moving to Nottingham Township, where he passed nineteen years in farming and raising stock, and finally located at Smyrna. Guernsey County, where his death occurred. He married Delilah Decker, who was also a native of Guern- sey County, daughter of Joseph and Catherine Decker, farming people of that county, and the youngest in a family of six children, the others being: John. Lewis, Henry, Sarah and Mary. Mr. and Mrs. David Arnold were members of

the Methodist Church and the parents of eight children : Retta, Anna, Ross W., C. E., Mar- garet, David H., Mary and Ida, of whom Mar- garet died when small.

Christopher E. Arnold attended the public schools of Guernsey and Harrison counties and was reared as an agriculturist, residing on the home farm until his marriage, January 30, 1890, to Miss Susan Sears, daughter of David and Margaret (Morton) Sears. Following his mar- riage Mr. Arnold commenced farming in Not- tingham Township, but after one year removed to Guernsey County, which was his home and the scene of his agricultural activities for twelve years. In April, 1903, he moved to his present farm in Freeport Township, where he has eighty- seven and one-half acres of land, all under a high state of cultivation and devoted to general farming and dairying. Mr. Arnold has a most modernly equipped estate in every particular, and his buildings are equipped with electric lights and other conveniences. He is an intel- ligent, systematic and progressive farmer, and has made an excellent record as a worthy rep- resentative of the best agricultural element of Harrison County.

Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Arnold : Veda, who married Marshall Huston and resides on the Arnold farm, and they have a daughter, Helen Louise; Ethel, who married Kenneth Smith and resides at Canton ; Ralph, who married Dora Morris, and lives at Canton, with one son, Wayne; Wade W., who entered the United States service September 19, 1918, was stationed at Cincinnati in the General Me- chanics' School, received his honorable discharge December 20, 1919, and now resides at Canton, married Hallie Clark and has one son, Robert Leon ; Kelly, who lives at Canton; and one son who died in infancy unnamed. Mrs. Arnold is a member of the Methodist Church at Smyrna. Mr. Arnold takes a good citizen's interest in public affairs, and creditably fulfills his obli- gations as a member of the community. He is a republican.

DAVID SEARS. Harrison County counts among its roll of departed citizens few who left be- hind more substantial evidences of association with its agricultural affairs than the late David Sears. As a farmer and public-spirited citizen he came and went among the people of Freeport Township from the time of his boyhood until his death, October 16, 1905, and there remains in his wake an impression of practical useful- ness, of genuine, dependable character, due in part to his sterling ancestry, but more directly traceable to his untiring zeal and ready recog- nition of opportunity.

Mr. Sears was born June 22, 1815, in Notting- ham Township, Harrison County, a son of Jona- than and Susan ( Sing) Sears, the former a na- tive of Pennsylvania and the latter of Chester County, that state. His father came to Har- rison County prior to the War of 1812, in which struggle he participated for a short time, and lived in Nottingham Township until 1818, when he went to Freeport and became a tanner, a business which he followed during the remain- der of his life. He and his wife were faithful members of the Methodist Church and the par-

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ents of six children : Jonathan, Lemuel, George, David, Hannah and Susan.

David Sears was but three years of age when brought by his parents from Nottingham Town- ship to Freeport Township, and in the latter lo- cality his education was acquired in the early public schools. He early adopted the vocation of farming as his life work, and this he followed without cessation during a long and honorable career, and not only accumulated a valuable property but won the esteem of his fellow-citi- zens in unqualified degree. To have known him was to have one's confidence in human nature strengthened and one's faith in the homely, straight-forward virtues which tend to public confidence fortified. Mr. Sears married Miss Margaret Morton, who was born in Harrison County, November 12, 1826, and died May 2, 1906. She was a daughter of Samuel and Jane (McKee) Morton, the former a native of Jef- ferson County, Ohio, and the latter of the state of Pennsylvania. Mr. Morton was one of the pioneers of Harrison County, and he and his worthy wife were the parents of ten children : Margaret, John, Esther, Thomas, Belle, Mary, Hannah, Archibald, Sarah and Elizabeth.

Fourteen children were born to Mr. and Mrs. David Sears: Elizabeth Anna and Mary Jane, who died in childhood; Albert and Amanda, who are still residents of the old home farm and highly-respected citizens of Freeport Town- ship, where they have numerous friends; John T .; James, deceased; Hannah B., who died when small : Wesley D. deceased ; Delno; Susan, the wife of Christopher E. Arnold, an agricul- turist of Freeport Township; Charles; Jona- than, who died in infancy; Emma and Hattie. The old home property is still kept in the fam- ily name by Albert and Amanda Sears, who operate the property and carry on general farm- ing and stock-raising in the same worthy and progressive manner that made their father successful.

GEORGE C. RANKIN. No mediocre success has been that achieved by Mr. Rankin in his self- reliant activities, and he now has secure place as one of the representative business men of Carrollton, judicial center of Carroll County, where his well equipped jewelry and optical es- tablishment has a large and appreciative sup- porting patronage.

George Cummings Rankin was born in Jeffer- son County, Ohio, on the 8th of January. 1882, and is a son of William A. and Emma (Cum- ·mings) Rankin, both likewise natives of Jeffer- son County. The paternal grandparents of the subject of this, sketch were Thomas and Ann Jane (Tennant) Rankin, the latter of whom was a daughter of a sturdy Scotsman who became one of the earliest settlers in what is now Lee Township, Carroll County, where he reclaimed a pioneer farm and where he continued to re- side until his death, at the patriarchal age of 101 years and three months. William A. Ran- kin learned in his youth the trade of blacksmith. and this trade he followed actively at Amster- dam, Jefferson County, and at other places in this section of his native state.

When George C. Rankin was a lad of eight years he was taken into the home of the Law-

rence family of Lee Township, Carroll County, and with this family he remained until he was twenty years of age. He was afforded the ad- vantages of the public schools of Carroll County, as well as those of the academy at Harlem Springs, this county, and thereafter he further fortified himself by taking a course in a business college at East Liverpool. It was also at East Liverpool that he initiated a practical appren- ticeship to the jeweler's trade, in which he be- came a skilled workman. There he remained eight years, after which he worked at his trade six months in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, and an equal period in Detroit, Michigan, in which cities he perfected himself in the art of engraving as applied in connection with the jewelry business. For three years he was em- ployed at his trade at Flint, Michigan, and dur- ing the ensuing three years he was similarly engaged at Youngstown, Ohio, from which city he then came to Carrollton and established his present business, in which he is meeting with unqualified success. Mr. Rankin is affiliated with Hebron Lodge No. 55, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Youngstown; and he and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Epis- copal Church of Carrollton, in which he is serv- ing as a member of the Official Board.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 15

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