History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 28

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

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JACOB O. BOWER has made an admirable record in connection with farm industry in Harrison County, is a native of this county and is a rep- resentative of one of its honored pioneer fam- ilies, his birth having occurred in Monroe Township on the 26th of January, 1862. Besides having proved a progressive exponent of farm enterprise Mr. Bower also devoted several years to effective service as a teacher in the schools of his native county.

Mr. Bower, who now owns and resides upon one of the fine farms of North Township, is a son of John and Jane ( Heaston) Bower, both likewise natives of Monroe Township, this county, where the former was born October 13, 1832, and the latter on the 13th of August, 1834. she having been a daughter of John and Mary ( Hines) Heaston, likewise representatives of well known pioneer families of this favored section of the Buckeye State. The paternal grandparents of the subject of this review were Jacob and Anna (Frye) Bower, the former of whom was born at Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1800, and the latter of whom was a native of Ireland. Jacob Bower became one of the promi- nent pioneer farmers of Harrison County, and here he remained until his death, in 1871. He was a son of Barnhart Bower, and of the family history ample record is made on other pages of this work, in the personal sketch of Charles A. Bower. Jacob Bower, Sr., not only became one of the substantial farmers in Monroe Township, but in earlier years he here operated a grist mill. Both he and his wife were consistent communicants of the Lutheran Church, in the

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faith of which they reared their four children- Margaret. John, Andrew and Mary Jane (Mrs. Wesley Heaston).

John Bower was reared to the sturdy disci- pline of the pioneer farm, and the major part of his active career was marked by close and suc- cessful association with the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, though for a few years after his marriage he was engaged in the general merchandise business at Bowerston, which village was named in honor of the family of which he was a member. He passed the closing years of his life on his farm in Monroe Township, where his death occurred February 21, 1907. His widow survives him and is now in the eighty-seventh year of her age, both be- ing earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of seven chil- dren : Mary A. died in early childhood; Martha E. is the widow of Norris Cartrell; Sarah E. is the wife of Stewart W. Price; Jacob O., of this sketch. was the next in order of birth; Clara A. is the wife of Albert W. Swinehart; Ernest W. is a resident of Bowerston; and Ida J. is the wife of Thomas Fierbaugh.

After having profited bv the advantages afforded by the district schools of Monroe Town- ship Jacob O. Bower pursued a higher course of study in New Hagerstown Academy, in Car- roll County, under Professor J. Howard Brown. He put his scholastic acquirements to practical test and utilization by entering the pedagogic profession, in which he achieved marked popu- larity and prestige and to which he gave his attention for a period of fourteen years as a teacher in the schools of Harrison and Carroll counties. He continued to teach six years after his marriage, which occurred in 1887, and there- after he was engaged in farm enterprise in Monroe Township until the 7th of February, 1908. when he removed to his present fine farm of 174 acres in North Township, where he has been distinctly prosperous in his vigorous and progressive activities in connection with diversi- fied agriculture and the conducting of a sub- stantial dairy enterprise. He erected the modern house which now adorns the farm, besides re- building the barn and making other excellent improvements. The house is equipped with an electric-lighting system and also provided with hot and cold running water.

In character and mentality Mr. Bower has heen well qualified for leadership in community sentiment and action, and he has at all times stood exponent of loyal and progressive citizen- ship. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since he was a youth of sixteen years. In the church of this denomination at Conotton he has held virtually every official position to which a lay member is eligible.

September 1, 1887, recorded the marriage of Mr. Bower to Miss Elsie T. Roby, daughter of George and Mary Roby, of Carroll County, and of this union were born five children: Arthur Ross, the first born, was graduated from Mount , I'nion College, in which institution he thereafter held the chair of mathematics and physics for some time, and during the year prior to his

untimely death. April 11. 1916, he was superin- tendent of the high school at Bowerston. He married Miss Christine Fierbaugh, who survives him. George Walter, the second son, died at the age of six months. Harold Eugene married Miss Nina D. McGuire. and they have two children, Elsie Mae and Robert Eugene. Herbert L. and Emery Pearl remain at the paternal home. The loved wife and mother passed to eternal rest on the 16th of January, 1914, a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On the 25th of December, 1916, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Bower to Miss Eliza May Barr, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Barr, of Harrison County, and she died on the 27th of December, 1919, leaving no children. Mrs. Bower likewise was an earnest member of the Methodist Epis- copal Church.

WILLIAM H. GILLESPIE. of Athens Township, has not always been a resident of Harrison County. He was born November 25, 1853, in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, Ohio, although all the other Gillespie children of his generation were born in Guernsey County. His father, John Gillespie, was born in 1810, in Pennsylvania. He died in Lucas County, Iowa,

in 1884. The mother. Margaret Taylor, a daughter of John Taylor, was born in Knox County, and died in Belmont County.

While John Gillespie was born in Pennsyl- vania, his father. James Gillespie, was born in Ireland. When he was eighteen years old he came to the United States. While living in Pennsylvania he was a farmer and later he was a farmer in Guernsey County. As a young man John Gillespie was a Guernsey County farmer and later he removed to Iowa. The five older children of John were born in Guernsey County.

W. H. Gillespie was born after the family removed from Guernsey to Belmont, and he lived there until March, 1883, when he listened to the advice of Horace Greeley about the young man growing up with the western country, and he went to Iowa. When his father died in Lucas County, Iowa, he returned to Belmont County, Ohio, and in November, 1904, he came to Harri- son County. He removed to the Village of New Athens in 1915, where he is now living. The children of his father's family are: James, Mary, who died in young womanhood, Nancy, Taylor, Thomas and William H. Gillespie. The early Gillespies were members of the United Presbyterian Church, and they were a Sabbath observing, God-fearing people.

W. H. Gillespie had a common school educa- tion at Fairport in Belmont County. As a young man he began farming in Wheeling Town- ship, remaining there until 1904, when he moved to the farm in Athens Township, Harrison County. He owned 137 acres in Belmont County, but in 1917 he sold it. He is now a permanent citizen of Harrison County.

In 1875 Mr. Gillespie married Margaret Ema- line Campbell, a daughter of William F. Camp- bell, of Belmont County. Their children are: John C., who married Lilly Clark, and their children are Mary Frances and William Herbert, and William C., married Minnie Dunlap, who

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died in July, 1916. The Gillespie family are members of the United Presbyterian Church in New Athens. The sons are farmers.

WILLIAM F. BUTLER. The Butler family has been one of prominence in Carroll County since the early pioneer days, and in its various gen- erations representatives of the name have been active and influential in connection with civic affairs and business enterprise in this favored section of the Buckeye State. He whose name initiates this paragraph was born and reared in Carrollton, and has here been closely identi- filed with progressive mercantile enterprise, be- sides which he has been prominent in political affairs in his native county and has been called upon to serve in various offices of public trust. Mr. Butler was born at Carrollton February 23, 1845, and is a son of Washington and Susanna (Van Buskirk) Butler. both likewise natives of Carroll County. the latter a daughter of Enos Van Buskirk, who was a sterling pio- neer of this county. Washington Butler was born at Carrollton April 6, 1819, a son of George Whitefield Butler. He was the eldest of a family of eleven children. nine of whom are now deceased, the names of the children being here recorded : Franklin. Jonathan, Jefferson. Adams, Lafayette, George, Morgan, Lizzie, Franklin died at Des Moines, Iowa ; Jonathan, Amanda, Cyn- thia and Hattie, died in California. Jefferson died in infancy. Adams became a resident of Jasper County, Iowa ; Lafayette established his home at Marshall, Texas; George became a farmer in Rush County. Kansas; Morgan was a resident of Goshen, Indiana, for many years prior to his death; Lizzie (Mrs. Young) died in North Carolina ; Amanda became the wife of Hon. M. P. O'Connor and they reside at San Jose. California ; Cynthia died in infancy : and Hattie is the widow of Dr. B. B. Moore, of Marshalltown, Iowa.

George Whitefield Butler. the founder of the family in Carroll County, was born in Mary- land and was a son of Rev. John George Butler. who was a native of Germany and who came to America in the colonial days, he having been a patriot soldier of the Continental Line in the War of the Revolution and having thereafter entered the ministry of the Lutheran Church, as a clergyman of which he served in Maryland, Pennsylvania. Virginia and other southern states. His death occurred in the early '20s -presumably at Cumberland, Maryland. The family name of his wife was Miller, and their five sons were George William, Paul, Gideon. George Whitefield and Jonathan. There was also one daughter, the name of whom is not a matter of available record.

George Whitefield Butler was a lieutenant in a Pennsylvania regiment in the War of 1812. and in his youth he learned the tanner's trade. He was twenty-five years of age when he came to Ohio and established the first tannery in Carroll County. He was one of the pioneers of Carrollton, a successful business man and a worthy citizen who held impregnable place in popular confidence and esteem. He continued his residence at Carrollton until his death, in 1873.

Washington Butler was reared under the con- ditions and influences that marked the pioneer epoch in the history of Carroll County, and here he learned the tanner's trade in his father's establishment. He eventually assumed control of the tannery, which he continued to operate until he was called to public office. He was a staunch abolitionist in the period preced- ing the Civil war and became a member of the republican party at the time of its organization, as did also his father, who was postmaster of Carrollton during the war. He served two terms as county auditor, besides which he served as deputy auditor, as deputy county treasurer ( sixteen years) and as deputy county clerk. He was a delegate to the republican na- tional convention of 1872, when General Grant was nominated for the presidency. In 1864 he engaged in the retail mercantile business at Carrollton in partnership with L. D. Rowley. and the firm of Rowley & Butler sold clothing, boots and shoes, besides maintaining a depart- ment devoted to merchant tailoring. In 1865 Mr. Butler purchased his partner's interest and admitted his son William F., of this review. to partnership, under the title of W. Butler & Son, which firm name was retained until his death, in 1883. at the age of sixty-four years. His widow passed away when seventy-nine years of age. Of their children William F., whose name introduces this record, is the eldest; George J. is individually mentioned on other pages of this work ; Ann E. is the widow of James W. Cellars, of Carrollton; Mary F .. now deceased. became the wife of Rev. A. T. Aller. a Presby- terian clergyman, and they established their home in Kansas; Jane M., widow of George H. Aller, who was long a resident of Malvern. Carroll County, is mentioned on other pages of this work : Joseph C. and Harry S, deceased.

William F. Butler acquired his youthful edu- cation in the common schools of Carrollton, and at the age of fifteen years became a clerk in the general store of Isaac Crumrine. In 1862 he took a similar position in the store of James Huston, and in 1864 became associated with the firm of Rowley & Butler, of which his father was the junior member. as indicated in a pre- ceding paragraph. In 1865 he was admitted to partnership with his father, under the title of W. Butler & Son, and since the death of his father in 1883 he has individually continued the enterprise, his establishment being one of the pioneer mercantile concerns of the county. with a continuous and 'most creditable history of nearly sixty years.

Never wavering in his allegiance to the re- publican party, in the local councils of which he has been an influential figure. Mr. Butler initiated his service as a public official in 1868 when he was made city marshal of Carrollton, a position which he retained two years. In the early years he served also as constable and deputy sheriff, and he held the office of sheriff a short time. upon the death of the regular incumbent. He has been a delegate to various conventions of his party, including the state convention in which former Governor Charles Foster was nominated. In 1891 he was elected sheriff of the county, of which office he con-

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tinued the incumbent four years, and in 1896 was made chairman of the Republican County Committee. A man of fine physique and with the genial and companionable disposition con- sonant with such robust personality, Mr. Butler has always held the high esteem of the people of his native county, and in earlier years his fine basso-profundo voice caused him to be much in demand in connection with social affairs and representative musical activities in this part of the state. He is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the Shrine and Al Koran Temple of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Butler still maintains ac- tive association with the substantial and pros- perous business with which he has been con- nected for half a century, but the active management of the enterprise is now vested largely in his only son.

April 26, 1866, recorded the marriage of Mr. Butler to Miss Matilda Stidger, daughter of Gen. H. A. Stidger, of Carrollton. General Stidger was born and reared in Virginia, was an officer in the War of 1812 and in 1830 he opened a mercantile establishment at Carrollton, where he continued in business until his death in 1885, his wife having survived him by several years. Mrs. Butler was born in the building now occupied by the mercantile estab- lishment of William M. Shepherd on Main Street, Carrollton, in the year 1841, and she passed her entire life in her native place. A gracious and noble woman who was loved by all who knew her, she was summoned to the life eternal on the 22d of November, 1919, after an ideal wedded life of more than half a cen- tury. Mr. and Mrs. Butler have but one child, Charles Harvey, who was born November 18, 1867, and who has long been associated with his father's mercantile business, of which he is now the active manager and in connection with which he is fully upholding the high prestige of the family name. He is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, including the local Commandery of Knights

Templar and also the Mystic Shrine. besides which he is a popular member of Carrollton Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1895 was solemnized his marriage to Miss Amanda Huston, who was born and reared at Carrollton and who is a daughter of V. E. and Ida ( McCoy) Huston, the former of whom is deceased and the latter still resides at Carroll- ton. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Butler have six children : Charles H., Jr., who was born in 1897, was one of the gallant young patriots who rep- resented Carroll County in the nation's military service at the time of the late World war. He enlisted in 1917 in the artillery branch of the service, and was stationed in turn at Columbus, Ohio: Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Henderson, Texas: Fort Sill and Camp Merritt. He finally embarked with his command on a transport and sailed for France. When the vessel was two days out it received news of the signing of the historic armistice, and forthwith returned to the home port. Charles is now holding a posi- tion in an express office at Kent, Ohio. Cather- ine, who was graduated in the Carrollton High School, holds a position as bookkeeper in the office of the Cleveland Trust Company in the

City of Cleveland. Helen, likewise a graduate of the high school, is deputy clerk of the court at Carrollton. Emma died in 1906, aged four years. William F. II, named in honor of his grandfather, is twelve years old at the time of this writing, in 1920, and Martha is three years of age.

ELI T. HAINES has been dependent upon his own resources from his boyhood, as he began work to provide for his own support when he was but twelve years of age. He has proved a valiant and determined soul, and thus bis success is the more gratifying to contemplate, for the true American ever pays tribute to the man who has achieved prosperity through his own efforts. Mr. Haines is today numbered among among the most progressive agricultur- ists and stock-raisers of Athens Township, Har- rison County, where he stages his activities on a tract of about 550 acres. The place upon which he resides is rented by him, but he utilizes also his own farm of 146 acres, not far distant.

Eli Thomas Haines was born in Belmont County, Ohio, March 27, 1876, and is a son of George W. and Rebecca (Patrick) Haines, both likewise natives of that county, the former a son of Samuel Haines, an early settler of Bel- mont County, and the latter a daughter of Eli and Hannah (Jenkins) Patrick, likewise pioneers of that county. Samuel Haines was a millwright by trade and was one of its early representatives in Belmont County. With the exception of about three years passed in Harri- son County, George W. Haines continued his residence in his native county until his death, his principal vocation having been farming. George W. and Rebecca Haines became the par- ents of ten children-Hannah, Rachel Louisa, John W., William (died in early childhood), Eli T., Mahala, George W., Margaret J., Robert F. and Everett.

For a very limited period Ell T. Haines was enabled to attend the district schools of his native county, but his broader education has been that acquired in the school of practical service and experience. He began working by the month on a farm when a lad of but twelve years, and from that time to the present has been dependent upon his own ability and efforts in making his way in the workaday world. Hard work and determined purpose, with worthy ambition, have proved efficacious, and he has made his way gallantly to the goal of independence and prosperity. In 1898 Mr. Haines engaged in farming in Nottingham Town- ship, Harrison County, where he remained until 1901, when he removed to the farm which is his present place of residence, in Athens Town- ship. Vigorous and progressive as an agricul- turist and stock-grower, he gives special atten- tion to the raising of pure-blood Poland-China swine, as well as good types of cattle and sheep, and no man has done a fuller share of hard work in the worthy effort to gain success along normal and legitimate lines of industrial enter- prise. He has had neither time nor inclination for political activity, but gives loyal support to the cause of the republican party. He. and his

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wife, whose maiden name was Lona P. Brock, and who is a daughter of William Brock, of Belmont County, have two children-Henry W. and George W.

GEORGE GALBRAITH. A man of undoubted business ability and judgment, endowed with the keen foresight that never allows anything to escape his attention that may ultimately ad- vance his material interests, George Galbraith has met with well merited success as one of the leading liverymen of Carrollton, where he has built up an extensive and remunerative business. A son of the late David Galbraith, he was born June 14, 1868, in Harrison County, Ohio, of thrifty Scotch lineage.

Charles Galbraith, his paternal grandfather, was born, bred and educated in Scotland. Im- migrating to the United States in early life, he located first in Washington County, Pennsyl- vania, where he lived a number of years, follow- irg his trade of a weaver a part of the time. In 1850, accompanied by his wife and children, he drove westward for two hundred miles to Harrison County, Ohio, where he bought land and subsequently embarked in sheep raising, a profitable Industry at that time, and was thus employed until his death. He married Jose- phine Kirby, a native of Carroll County.

A native of Washington County, Pennsylvania. David Galbraith's birth there occurred in 1836. A lad of fourteen years when he trekked across the country with his parents to Harrison County, Ohio, he continued his studies for a time in the pioneer schools of that vicinity, and while assist- ing his father obtained a practical knowledge not only of sheep raising, but of general farm- ing. Subsequently buying 180 acres of land in Harrison County, he was there successfully en- gaged in tilling the soil until his death, in 1900.

David Galbraith was twice married. He mar- ried first Sarah Cole, who was born in 1834 in Harrison County, Ohio, where her father. Thomas Cole, was a pioneer settler. She died on the home farm at a comparatively early age. leaving four children, as follows: Lafayette. Charles, George and David, now deceased. David Galbraith married for his second wife Isabel Robinson, and to them five children were born, namely : Junius, Clara, Wilma, deceased : Neola and Edna, deceased.

Obtaining his early education in the public schools, George Galbraith succeeded to the occu- pation in which he was reared, and was engaged in agricultural labor until 1900. Coming to C'arroll County in that year, he established a livery business in Carrollton, where he has won an extensive and profitable patronage and gained a noteworthy position among the re- spected and substantial citizens of his com- munity. An influential member of the repub- lican party, he served for four years as sheriff of Carroll County, having been elected to the office in 1912 and re-elected in 1914. Religiously he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. Galbraith married. February 15, 1900, Josephine Kirby, a daughter of Joseph and Susan Kirby, of Carroll County. Her father passed to the life beyond in 1910, but her mother

is still living. Mr. and Mrs. Galbraith have one child, Joseph D., born January 10, 1908.

ALBERT J. LAUGHLIN is consistently to be des- ignated as one of the progressive and repre- sentative farmers of the younger generation in Archer Township, Harrison County, which county has been his place of residence from the time of his birth. He was born in Cadiz Town- ship on the 25th of August, 1894, and is a son of Albert W. Laughlin, of whom individual record is made on other pages, so that further data concerning the family history are not here required.

Reared to the invigorating discipline of the farm, Albert J. Laughlin did not fail to profit fully by the advantages afforded in the district schools of his native township, and thereafter he continued to be associated with the activities of his father's farm until the time of his mar- riage. in 1917, in which year he rented the ex- cellent farm of 196 acres in Archer Township where he is carrying forward his energetic and successful enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower. He is aligned in the ranks of the democratic party, and his wife holds mem- bership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Jewett.

On the 12th day of May, 1917, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Laughlin to Miss Clara Margaret Baker, daughter of Albert O. and Martha (Maxwell) Baker, of Archer Township. and they have two sons, Albert W. and John R.

HOMER F. MOYER. Active, enterprising and progressive, Homer F. Moyer, of Stock Town- ship, holds a worthy position in the ranks of the world's workers, being numbered among the more thrifty and prosperous farmers and stock growers of Harrison County. A son of the late Daniel E. Moyer, he was born November S. 1874, in North Township, Harrison County, Ohio, coming from Irish, German and Scotch ancestry.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 28

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