History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 17

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

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January 14, 1905, he purchased the Harrison County Democrat from W. H. Host and in December, 1911, bought the Cadiz Sentinel from the estate of the late W. H. Arnold, then con- solidated the two publications under the name of the Cadiz Democrat-Sentinel. This has been continued under his ownership and editorial and business management, and has become one of the leading weekly newspapers in eastern Ohio. During his ownership an old fashioned country newspaper office has been transformed into a modern news and job plant, equipped with power presses, type setting machine and other up to date features.

Mr. Dickerson is active in political, civic and church work, has served as a delegate to many conventions, including senatorial and congres- sional districts and state conventions. In 1916 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis. He is a member of the County Board of Elections and secretary of the Harrison County Agricultural Society. He is one of the active members of the Presby- terian Church at Cadiz.

GEORGE W. WILLOUGHBY, who was born in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, Febru- ary 22, 1875, is now one of the enterprising and progressive representatives of farm industry in Washington Township and is finding in his native county ample opportunities for success- ful achievement in connection with the great basic industries under the influence of which he was reared, his early educational advantages having been those of the public schools. He is a son of Samuel and Rebecca (McAdams) Wil- loughby, his father having for many years been engaged in farm enterprise in Harrison County, first in Moorefield Township and later in Free- port Township. He passed the closing years of his life at Deersville, this county. where bis death occurred in 1915, his wife, who was horn and reared in this county, having survived him by several years. They became the parents of eight children-Lizzie (as a child of four years met with an accident in which she was so severely burned as to cause her death), Lina,

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John D., Anna, Mary (deceased), James, George W. and Emma.

George W. Willoughby was still a boy when he began working on neighboring farms, and it has been through his own energy and well directed efforts that he has made his way for- ward to a position of independent activity in connection with agricultural and live-stock in- dustry. Since his marriage in 1902 he has been successfully engaged in farming in Washington Township, where his stage of activity is a well improved farm of 100 acres. His political al- legiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Chris- tian Church at Tippecanoe.

September 4, 1902, recorded the marriage of Mr. Willoughby to Miss Amanda Bell Carrothers, daughter of James and Mahala (Ervin) Car- rothers. James Carrothers was born in Wash. ington Township, Harrison County, about the year 1846. and is a son of John and Susan ( Burgess) Carrothers, both of whom were born in the State of Maryland, whence they came to Ohio and became pioneer settlers in Washington Township, Harrison County, where the father entered more than 300 acres of Government land, for which he paid one dollar and twenty- five cents an acre, and which he developed Into one of the excellent pioneer farm properties of the county. Here he and his wife continued to reside until their deaths. Their children were seven in number-Lemuel, Elizabeth, Samuel, John. James, Thomas and Mary. With the ex- ception of seven years of residence in Tuscara- was County James Carrothers has resided from the time of his birth to the present in Washing- ton Township, where he is the owner of a fine landed estate of 555 acres. Though in his youth he received practically no educational advan- tages, his native ability has enabled him to achieve large and worthy success, and he is one of the substantial and highly respected citizens of his native township and county. His rise to a place of financial independence has been won entirely through his well directed enterprise in diversified agriculture and the raising of sheep. His wife died in February, 1918, and of their three children Mrs. Willoughby, wife of the subject of this review, is the only survivor. Anna died at the age of fifty-two years and Sarah Jane died at the age of twenty years. Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby have two children- Hattie Lena, born November 19, 1903, and James Roy. born November 9, 1905.

HARWOOD C. Ross is secretary and treasurer of the Malvern Fire Clay Company, one of the substantial industrial concerns of Carroll County. This corporation has contributed much to the industrial and commercial prestige of the village of Malvern, and in the manufactur- ing of fireproofing clay products and building tile it has developed a large and prosperous business.

Harwood Carroll Ross was born at Malvern April 19, 1874, and is a son of Dr. Enoch C. and Cordelia (Paessler) Ross, the former of whom likewise was born at Malvern, the date of his nativity having been October 3, 1846, and the latter likewise was born in Carroll County, a daughter of Christian and Christina Paessler.

Doctor Ross was a son of Samuel I. and Angeline (Cross) Ross, and was the youngest of their six children. Samuel I. Ross was a son of Enoch Ross, who came with his family from Pennsylvania to Ohio and settled near Waynesboro, Stark County, in 1812. He and his wife there passed the remainder of their lives. Their son Samuel I. was born in Green County, Pennsylvania, and was two years of age at the time of the family removal to Ohio. He was reared to manhood in Stark County, and the name of his first wife was Stansburg, all of their five children being deceased and the last to survive having been Rev. Jasper S. Ross, a clergyman of the Disciples' or Christian Church. In Carroll County Samuel I. Ross wedded Miss Angeline Cross, who was here born and reared, her parents, John and Margaret Cross, natives of Ireland, having been early settlers in this county. About the year 1842 Samuel I. Ross removed to the village of Mal- vern. where he opened and conducted one of the first hotels of the place. At Malvern, as a popular and highly honored citizen, he con- tinued to reside until his death, which occurred January 17, 1890, he having there served forty years in the office of justice of the peace.

After having availed himself of the advan- tage of the village schools of Malvern Dr. Enoch C. Ross in 1861 became a student in Hiram College, in which historic old Ohio institution he continued his studies until he felt constrained by patriotic impulses to tender his service in defense of the Union. In May, 1863, he en- listed for a term of 100 days in Company K, One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Ohio National Guard, and upon the expiration of his term he re-enlisted, as a private in Company A, One Hundred and Ninety-seventh Ohio Volunteer In- fantry, which was assigned to the Fourth Army Corps of the Army of the Cumberland and with which he continued in active service until the close of the war, with a record of having par- ticipated in the various battles and minor en- gagements in which his regiment was involved. After receiving his honorable discharge Doctor Ross continued his studies in Hiram College until 1866, when he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. J. H. Tressel of Alliance, Stark County. Later he continued his technical discipline in what is now the Cleve- land Medical College, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1870. He forthwith engaged in the practice of his profession at Malvern. and here continued in service as one of the honored and representative physicians and surgeons of his native county until his death on the 28th of April. 1905. He also estab- lished a drug store at Malvern, and in the con- ducting of this business he was associated with his son, Harwood C., of this review, under the title of Ross & Son. Doctor Ross was a liberal and public-spirited citizen and took deep inter- est in all things pertaining to the welfare of his home village, county and state. He was one of the organizers and the first president of the Malvern Fire Clay Company, and gave his sup- port also to other enterprises that furthered the advancement of his native village. A stal- wart republican, he was influential in political affairs in Carroll County, and in 1885 was

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elected to represent the county in the State Legislature. At the expiration of his four years of service he was nominated for state senator, but he withdrew from the contest. Since the death of Doctor Ross his widow has continued to maintain her home at Malvern. In a fraternal way the Doctor was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, and he held membership in the Carroll County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Of the three children the youngest, a daughter, died in in- fancy. The older son, Iverson H., passed the closing period of his life in his native village of Malvern, where he died on the 1st of March, 1914. His first wife, whose maiden name was Lyda Fast, died in 1896, and is survived by one child, Eleanor C., who was graduated in the Southern University of California in 1918, and who after effective post-graduate work is now a successful and popular teacher at Santa Monica, California, with residence at Pasadena. For his second wife Mr. Ross married Miss Adelaide Newhon, who survives him, as does also their one child, Gretchen, who has shown exceptional musical ability and been given the advantages of the musical department of Heidel- berg University at Tiffin, Ohio. She has ap- peared as a vocalist at public entertainments since she was a child of three years and is only thirteen years of age at the time of this writing, in 1920.

Harwood Carroll Ross continued his studies in the Malvern schools until he had completed a course in the high school, and he then entered the Ohio Northern University at Ada, In which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1893, after completing a course in pharmacy. Thereafter he became junior member of the firm of Ross & Son in the drug business at Malvern, and in 1912 assumed the active management of the business of the Malvern Fire Clay Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer, a dual office of which he has been the incumbent from the time of the organization of the company in 1911. The company now gives employment to an average force of 150 persons and adds much to the civic and industrial prosperity and pres- tige of the Village of Malvern. On Porter Street is situated the modern brick residence of Mr. Ross, and his wife, its gracious and popu- lar chatelaine, has made it a center for much of the representative social life of the com- munity. In politics Mr. Ross is a stalwart re- publican. and he served several years as postmaster of Malvern, besides which he has given loyal and effective service also as a mem- ber of the village council and the local board of education.

The year 1899 recorded the marriage of Mr. Ross to Miss Ella Demaris Elson, who was born at Magnolia, Stark County, a daughter of Richard and Katherine (Baxter) Elson, the former of whom was born in that county in May. 1847, and the latter was born in West Virginia. Richard Elson, Sr., grandfather of Mrs. Ross, was one of the early settlers and influential pioneer citizens of Stark County. Mr. and Mrs. Ross have no children.

JAMES S. BORDEN has been successfully en- gaged in the retail grocery business at Carroll- ton since 1915, and his well appointed establish- ment occupies quarters 20 by 120 feet in di- mensions, the store being distinctly modern in its equipment and service and receiving a sub- stantial and appreciative patronage.

Mr. Borden was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, July 21, 1884, and is a son of John W. and Nancy (Crumbley) Borden, both likewise natives of Columbiana County, where the for- mer was born in 1854 and the latter in 1853. John W. Borden was a son of Robert and Mary Ann Borden, who early became residents of Columbiana County, the father having found employment in coal mines when but ten years old and having continued his active connection with this line of industrial enterprise for seventy-two years-until his death, at the vener- able age of eighty-two years. Both he and his wife were honored pioneer citizens of Columbi- ana County at the time of their deaths. Jobn W. Borden passed his entire life in his native county, where for many years he was associated with coal-mining industry, and he and his wife were residents of Salineville, that county, at the time of their deaths, he having passed away in 1912 and she having survived until 1915.

James S. Borden received his early education in the public schools of Salineville and began to work in the coal mines in Columbiana County when still a boy. He continued his work in the mines until he there met with an injury which virtually incapacitated him for further service in this strenuous occupation, and he finally en- gaged in the grocery and meat-market business at Salineville, where he remained until 1907, when he came to Carroll County and established himself in the grocery business at Onelda. In 1915 he found a broader field for his activities by removing to Carrollton, the county seat. where he has developed a substantial and pros- perous grocery business and is one of the vital business men of the younger generation. He gives his allegiance to the republican party. and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife hold membership also in the Rebecca Lodge and in the Christian Church. as did also his parents.

In 1910 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Borden to Miss Nettie G. Brackin, daughter of James Brackin, of Carroll County, and the three children of this union are Kenneth, Leveer, Vir- ginia May and Carl Joseph.

JOHN H. ESTEP, the New Athens druggist. is in the third generation of the Estep family in Harrison County. He was born September 13. 1855, in Short Creek Township, and his father. Andrew Estep, was also born there, the grand- father. John Estep, having come from Pennsyl- vania. Before coming to Ohio John Estep had married Sarah Smith. a daughter of Edward Smith, in Pennsylvania. They settled in the woods of Short Creek Township and rounded out their days, both attaining to more than four score years there. Their children were Harri- son. William, Robert, Harriet and Andrew.

William Estep was a medical doctor, but it was Andrew who perpetuates the name in his-

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tory through his son, J. H. Estep, the druggist in New Athens. In 1850 Andrew Estep married Sarah, a daughter of Andrew and Martha (Nichol) Henderson, Belmont County. Through the Nichol strain there is Scotch blood in the Estep family, the Nichol ancestry passing from Scotland through County Derry, Ireland, at the time of the persecution and from there they immigrated to Cumberland County, Penn- sylvania. It was in 1789 the Nichol family landed in America, living for a while in Cumber- land and later in Westmoreland counties. Penn- sylvania, and about 1800 they came to Colerain Township, Belmont Count, Ohio.

Andrew Henderson, the maternal grandfather, was born in 1798, while his wife was born in 1801-both far off dates when surveyed from the time of life of John H. Estep, who cherishes his knowlege of them. The old Nichol family Bible, which is preserved as an heirloom, was purchased in 1805 at an expenditure of $15.25, which was a good deal of money for a settler to Invest in a book, even of its character. How- ever, through the possession of this Bible pos- terity today knows more of the Nichol family than of any other branch of the Estep ancestry. There was always a place in the old Bibles for the family births, marriages and deaths- records most valuable today when men and women are inclined to investigate their own origin and development. The census of 1920 has caused some families to bring out those old Bibles for data.

When Andrew Estep married he lived for a time at the Estep homestead in Short Creek Township, then moved to Steubenville for two years. In 1874 they migrated to Missouri, Kan- sas and later to Kansas City, Missouri, and here occurred the death of the father, the family remaining in Kansas City. Their children were: Thomas B., Emma, John H., James B., Harriet F., William C., Ella, Andrew S., Sarah C. and Charles. There have been Methodists, Presby- terians and Christians in the family relation- ship, and the father was a "Freemason," a term used at the time of his life, although the initials are used today to designate the order-F. and A. M.

While not much data is available about the Henderson ancestry, the generation of which Mrs. Estep is a representative is as follows: Martha, John N., Annie, Agnes, Margaret, Mary J., Andrew J., Sarah (who became Mrs. Andrew Estep), Isabelle, Andrew, Elizabeth, Harriet, William T., Thomas J. and M. N. Henderson Nichol. When the Commemorative Record was published some one with mathematical bent fig- ured out that there were 94 grandchildren. 366 great-grandchildren, 428 great-great-grandchil- dren, with 32 in the next generation-great- great-great-grandchildren, and the question arises-where will the record be duplicated today?

When John H. Estep was thirteen years old he was thrown upon his own resources, and he has had a varied experience, supplementing his common school advantages with study in Frank- lin College in the way of preparation. He was a drug clerk in Cadiz, Steubenville and New Athens, and his first store of his own was in the "Old Erie House," which burned and he

lost his stock. However, he started in business again. At one time and another he tried real estate and insurance, and at one time he was postmaster in New Athens. Mr. Estep is a democrat and has served as mayor of New Athens.

In November, 1881, Mr. Estep married Mary L. Cannon, a daughter of J. E. and Agnes (Cooke) Cannon, and their children are: Arthur E., who is a druggist at Steubenville; Paul C., who was a soldier in the World war stationed eight months at Camp Sherman in the depart- ment of the Adjutant General, he married Eleanor, a daughter of Taylor Holmes, of Co- lumbus: and Frank Bill, who died in child- hood. The Estep family has many years of history behind it in Harrison County. Combined with his drug and insurance business, J. H. Estep is the local representative of a Canton Stock and Bond House. He is vice president of the Flushing Telephone Company. He has been a member of the official board of the Methodist Church in New Athens for many years.

WILLIAM MERRITT BEALL is the owner of a well improved farm in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, which township has repre- sented his home from the time of his birth, and he is not only one of the substantial agricul- turists and stock-growers of his native county but also a scion of an honored pioneer family. Concerning the family history adequate record is given on other pages, in the sketch of the career of his brother, Frank M., present aditor of Harrison County, with further data in the sketch of another brother, George W.

William M. Beall was born in Nottingham Township on the 2nd of October, 1882, was here reared on the old homestead farm of his parents and here gained his early education in the dis- trict schools. In his independent career he has manifested no desire to abate his allegiance to the basic industries of agriculture and stock- growing, and he is known as one of the pro- gressive and successful exponents of farm in- dustry in his native county. In politics he is a republican and he and his wife hold member- ship in the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church. The farm on which he stages his activities is the old homestead of the Cope family, and his wife's parents remain with them on the place.

In 1907 Mr. Beall married Miss Bertha Olive Cope, daughter of Wendell G. Cope, D. V. S., of whom individual record is given in following paragraphs. Mr. and Mrs. Beall have no chil- dren.

Dr. Wendell G. Cope was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, on the 8th of March, 1860, and is a son of John P. and Martha M. (Brown) Cope, the former of whom was born in this township in the year 1825, and the latter of whom was born at Sandusky, Ohio, a daughter of Rev. Clark Brown, a clergy- man of the Methodist Episcopal Church. John P. Cope, whose death occurred April 20, 1890. was a son of Jacob and Mary (Pugh) Cope. the latter a daughter of John and Rachel Pugh. Jacob Cope was born in Chester County, Penn- sylvania, in 1782, and was a young man when he came in 1807 from the old Keystone State to Harrison County. Ohlo, in company with his

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parents, David and Margaret (Brown) Cope, and settled on the farm which is now the home of Dr. Wendell G. Cope. Jacob Cope here ob- tained 160 acres of Government land and pro- ceeded to reclaim and farm it in the midst of the forest wilds. Here he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, honored as pioneers and as worthy citizens of superior qualities of mind and heart. They became the parents of ten children, whose names and respective years of birth are here recorded : Sophia, 1806; Rachel, 1807: Margaret, 1809; Ellis, 1811: Hannah, 1813 ; Nathan P., 1815; Elizabeth, 1817: Martha, 1821; Mary, 1823; and John P., 1825.

The recorded genealogy of the Cope family runs back to Saint Arnold, who died in the year 640. Oliver Cope, the first representative of the family in America, came to this country in 1682, and from him, in successive generations, the descent is through his son John, the latter's son John, and through David, son of the last mentioned John and great-grandfather of Dr. Wendell G. Cope.

John P. Cope passed his entire life on the ancestral farmstead in Nottingham Township, was one of the honored and influential men of his community, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. As previously stated, his death oc- curred April 20, 1890, and his widow passed away March 11, 1897. They became the par- ents of six children : Miss Alice D. resides at Cadiz, judicial center of her native county ; Dr. Wendell G. was the next in order of birth : Elvira J. is the wife of Joseph V. Hayes, of Cadiz; G. Beecher died in infancy; Miss Ada C. died at Webster City, Iowa, as did also Mary M., who was the wife of Howard Knight.

Dr. Wendell G. Cope was reared on the old family farm which is still his place of residence. and his youthful education was obtained in the district schools of Nottingham Township. While a youth he devoted six years to reading medi- cine under the preceptorship of Dr. J. W. Wherry, of Moorefield, and since 1894 he has held a state certificate as a veterinary surgeon. As a skilled veterinarian he has long controlled a large and representative practice-in Harri- son, Belmont, Guernsey and Jefferson counties. He has resided continuously on the old home farm in Harrison County save for a period of seven years-1886-1893-passed at Moorefield, this county. Doctor Cope and his wife and daughter are members of the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church in Moorefield Township. He is a republican in political allegiance, and is at the time of this writing serving his second elec- tive term as trustee of Nottingham Township. an office which he had previously held one year by appointment to fill a vacancy.

In 1881 was solemnized the marriage of Doc- tor Cope to Miss Caroline Simpson, daughter of Thomas and Martha Simpson, of Athens Town- ship, Harrison County, and the one child of this union is Bertha Olive, wife of William M. Beall, whose name introduces this review.

ALEXANDER JAMES HAMMOND. Strong has been the influence which the Hammond family has exerted in connection with civic and material affairs in Harrison County for more than a

century, and the successive generations of this sterling pioneer family have continued to add honor and distinction to the family name. The record has not been one marked with preten- tiousness, but there have been men who have wrought nobly and well and women who have lived gentle. kindly and gracious lives. True service has been given in connection with the practical responsibilities and social relations of communal life, and the record is one upon which members of the present generation may well look with pride. The subject of this memoir represented Harrison County as a val- fant young soldier in the Civil war, and for many years he was one of the leading merchants of the City of Cadiz. where he continued to maintain his home until his death, in the year 1904.

Alexander J. Hammond was born on a farm near Harrisville, Harrison County, Ohio, August 14, 1846, and was a son of John H. and Nancy (Carrick) Hammond, both likewise natives of Harrison County. where the former was born January 21, 1822, and the latter a few years later, she having been a daughter of David and Elizabeth Carrick, early settlers in Cadiz Town- ship, where both died when venerable in years, Mr. Carrick having served as a soldier in the War of 1812. John H. Hammond was a son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Hanna ) Hammond. Alexander Hammond was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, a son of Robert and Jane (Cassell) Hammond, both natives of Ireland, where the former was born in 1765, in County Tyrone, and where the latter was born in 1764, in County Down. ancestors of both having been soldiers in the forces of Oliver Cromwell. Rob- ert Hammond and his wife came to America and settled in Pennsylvania in an early day, and later they became pioneers of Belmont County. Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives, he having passed away in 1845 and his widow having died in 1852. Both were zealous · members of the Seceder Church. They became the parents of six sons and four daughters. Alexander Hammond. the second son. came to Harrison County in 1809. and here he learned the trade of cloth fuller. In 1812 he wedded Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Duncan) Hanna, the former of whom was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1763. and the latter of whom was born in Scotland in 1766. Samuel Hanna settled in Short Creek Township, Harrison County. in 1801. After his marriage Alexander Hammond settled on a pioneer farm of fifty acres in Harrison County, and in Short Creek Township he erected a fulling mill, which he operated twenty years. Thereafter he devoted his attention to farm enterprise until his removal to Harrisville, where he died in 1874 one of the most vener- able and honored pioneer citizens of the county. His widow was ninety-three years of age at the time of her death in 1886. In the early days Alexander Hammond was a strong supporter of the cause of the liberty party, and he was once its candidate for representative in the State Legislature. He was an ardent abolitionist prior to the Civil war, and made his home a station on the historic "underground railroad," by means of which he assisted many a fugitive

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 17

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