History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 29

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

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Daniel E. Moyer was born in 1837 in West- moreland County, Pennsylvania, and as a child was left an orphan. During the Civil war he enlisted in the Union Army as a member of a company raised in his native county, and served bravely for three years and seven months, taking part in several engagements. At the close of the conflict he came to Harrison County, Ohio, lo- cating in Hanover, North Township, where with the exception of ten years that he was engaged in farming in Stock Township he worked at his trade of a blacksmith until his death in 1910. He married Margaret Whittaker, who was born in 1838 in North Township and died at the home of her son, Homer F., on September 2, 1920. Her father, William Whittaker, came to Harri- son County, Ohio, as a pioneer, and having en- tered Government land in North Township, was there engaged in clearing and improving the land for many seasons, continuing his agricul- tural labors until his death. Born in Ireland. he came to America as a young man, and after settling in Harrison County married Hannah Conaway, a native of Stock Township, and they became the parents of eleven children.

Of the marriage of Daniel E. and Margaret ( Whittaker) Moyer two children were born,

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Harry W. and Homer F. Harry W. Moyer, the first born child, married Sadie Hammill, and is now a resident of Cleveland, Ohio.

Completing his studies in the district schools, Homer F. Moyer attended the Newton Falls High School a year, and subsequently continued his studies for a year at Scio College in Scio, Ohio. Having gained a practical knowledge of the various branches of agriculture when young, he chose farming for his life occupation. Settling in Stock Township, he has met with eminent success as a general farmer and stock raiser. He owns a fine farm of 233 acres. and in addition to harvesting each year abundant crops of the cereals common to this section of the country he makes a specialty of raising sheep, O. I. C. hogs and pure bred Shorthorn cattle, a branch of industry which he has found extremely profitable.

Mr. Moyer married in October, 1897, Mary J. Brough, a daughter of Oliver and Rachel Brough, of Harrison County, and their only child, Raymond E. Moyer, born June 12, 1899, is now a student in the Ohio State University. Religiously Mr. and Mrs. Moyer are worthy members of the Pleasant Valley Methodist Church, in which they are earnest workers.

LYONS A. WELSH. The records of the Welsh family show that many of this name are located in Harrison County, and that the majority of them have devoted themselves to agricultural pursuits. One of the representative farmers of Archer Township who bears this honored name is Lyons A. Welsh, owner of 240 acres of val- uable land in Archer Township.

The birth of Lyons A. Welsh occurred in Archer Township February 6, 1850, and he is a son of John and Margaret (Gilmore) Welsh. He is a grandson of Samuel Welsh, who was among the early settlers of Archer Township, coming to Harrison County from Pennsylvania, which was his native state. Here he lived out his remaining years and became one of the well known men of his period. His children were as follows: John, James, William, Eleanor and Catherine.

Having been brought to Archer Township when young, John Welsh turned his attention to the cultivation of its land, and was one of the large landowners of his day, devoting his land to general farming and the raising of stock. He spent his last years at Cadiz, Ohio, moving there after he retired from his farm. The Presbyterian Church gave him a medium for the expression of his religious faith, and be was long a member of it. His wife, born in Harrison County, was a daughter of Francis Gilmore, also one of the early settlers of Archer Township, who became a stockdealer later on in life. John Welsh and his wife had the fol- lowing children : Samuel, Francis G., Jason R., Sarah J., Amanda and Lyons A.

Like the other sons of farmers in his neigh- borhood, Lyons A. Welsh attended the district schools and learned to make himself useful on the farm, and by the time he was a grown man he found that his inclinations were in favor of an agricultural life and so he adopted it. With the exception of two years when he lived at

Scio, Ohio, he has passed his life in Archer Township. His fine farm shows the effect of his care and experience, and on it he is doing general farming and stock-raising.

On June 29, 1871, Mr. Welsh was married to Amanda Osburn, a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Welsh) Osburn, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Welsh have had the following children born to them : John B., who married Bertha Haverfield and lives on a farm in Cadiz Township, Harri- son County; Frank M., who married Dora Birney : Bertha, who married Earl Pocock ; Byron S., who married Olive Henderson; and Percy R., who married Mary Porter and lives at Toronto, Ohio. Very active church people, Mr. and Mrs. Welsh have long belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Hanover, Ohio, and he has held nearly all of its offices. In 1874 Mr. Welsh organized the first Grange in this part of Ohio, and has never lost his interest in Grange work, believing that the organization is of great benefit to the farmer and a means whereby a better understanding of agricultural and neighborhood needs may be acquired. He is easily one of the foremost men of his town- ship, and few stand any higher anywhere in the county in the confidence of their associates.

EMMETT NATHAN HAVERFIELD. For more than a century the Haverfield family have been in- fluential citizens of Harrison County, identified primarily with developing the land and uphold- ing the social and community esteem of their time. Representing the fourth generation of the family in America is Emmett Nathan Haver- field, president of the First National Bank of Cadiz.

His great-grandparents were James and Nancy Haverfield. The former came from Ire- land, first settled in Maryland, and subsequently moved through Pennsylvania to the Ohio Valley. Their seven children were William, John, Joseph, James. Nathan, Elizabeth and Ellen.

Of these Nathan was born in 1797 at Wheeling on the Ohio River, and became one of the widely known and popular citizens of Harrison County. Two of his brothers were in the War of 1812. For many years after that war the laws of Ohio required able bodied young men to be en- rolled in the State Militia, and Nathan Haver- field at one time was in command of a regiment appearing periodically in company and regi- mental drills. He was a member of the Seceder, now called the United Presbyterian, Church at Cadiz, was a musician, both vocal and instru- mental, the violin being his favorite instrument, and as a young man he taught singing. As clerk of the Seceder Church his place was near the pulpit, it being his duty to announce and line the Psalms. For a pioneer busied with the strenuous tasks of the wilderness he had an unusual range of knowledge, and was a student of Shakespeare as well as of the Bible. He married in Pennsylvania Harriet Barnett, and their children were John N., James N., William B., Thomas H., Sarah Jane, Jemima H., Joseph, Nathan B., Samuel P., George A. and Nancy E. The oldest of these was Jobn Nathan Haver- field, who was born May 17, 1820, and always

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lived in the vicinity of Cadiz. October 27, 1842, he married Emeline Lavely, who was born in Maryland April 30, 1822, daughter of John and Annie (Gorsuch) Lavely. The chlidren of John N .. Haverfield and wife were Henry L. and Harriet A., both now deceased, William K., a resident of Denver, Colorado, and Emmett Nathan. The family in this generation were Methodists. and staunch whigs and republicans in politics.

Emmett Nathan Haverfield was born in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, but in 1861 his par- ents moved to Stock Township, where his father farmed until his death in 1894. The mother died in 1913. After getting his district school education in Stock Township Emmett Nathan Haverfield took up the responsibilities of farming there, but in 1887 left the farm for Cadiz, where from that year until 1908 he was in the publishing business. His career as a banker began with the Farmers and Mechanics Bank at Cadiz, subsequently consolidated with the First National Bank of Cadiz, of which in- stitution he is president. Mr. Haverfield also owns the old homestead of 223 acres, and his interests in farming have never lapsed. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Cadiz.

Mr. Haverfield married Mary A. Finnical, daughter of Robert and Sarah Margaret (Hines) Finnical. His two children are daugh- ters, Eva Deane and Anna Fay. The former is the wife of Howard J. Smith, an employe of the Hocking Valley Railroad Company at Co- lumbus, Ohio. Anna Fay died in January, 1919, was the wife of Alfred C. Long and is survived by a son, Emmett Edwin Long.

SAMUEL ROBB. The late Samuel Robb was one of the best known and successful citizens of Harrison County, and when he died he left a name honored and respected by the community. For, while he was successful in business far beyond the ordinary degree, the methods he used in business affairs were always above re- proach.

He was a native of Ireland, but of English descent. his ancestors having left England and settled in Ireland at the time of the religious revolution in England during the reign of Charles V. The parents of Samuel Robb, Joseph and Mary ( Porter) Robb, were born in Ireland. The Porter family was of Irish descent.

Joseph Robb came to America in 1851, leaving his family in Ireland to follow later. In that same year he settled in Harrison County. The following year his wife and children, with the exception of his three sons, Robert, Samuel and James, the latter at that time about three years of age, came over and joined the father. In 1859 the above three sons joined the family in Harrison County. Five days after they arrived their father was accidentally killed. A horse, one of a team he was handling, became en- tangled in the harness, fell on Mr. Robb, crush- ing out his life. His widow survived him until 1891. Twelve children were born to them.

Samuel Robb, third son of his parents, was born at Mathamacregon, County Tyrone, Ire- land, on October 29, 1842. He was seventeen

years of age when he came to America. In Ireland he attended the common schools, and for two years after coming to Harrison County he attended the Craig School near Cadiz.

The first two years of his business life were spent in the employ of others. He then engaged in buying and shipping sheep in partnership with John Gory. After the death of his partner Mr. Robb handled sheep, cattle and hogs for a number of years. Later he began dealing in blooded horses. He was the first man to bring thoroughbred Kentucky horses into Harrison County. One of his famous Kentucky horses was "Gold King," a magnificent stallion which became noted among the horses in this section and won many prizes at county fairs. Mr. Robb's home farm in Green Township, compris- ing 160 acres, was well improved, and is still owned by his family. Several years ago both gas and oil were found on his farm. He leased the land to operators who sunk a number of wells, nine of which were producers. The royal- ties received on gas and oil by Mr. Robb reached a large sum. On the farm also is found a nine-foot vein of coal and large quantities of fine timber. At one time he owned a farm in Marshall County, Iowa, which he sold, and his estate still owns land in Missouri, Oklahoma and Florida. in which he invested. He was a director in the First National Bank of Hope- dale. Ohio, and of the Fourth National Bank of Cadiz, and a stockholder in the Harrison National Bank of Cadiz, the Scio Gas Company, the Christian & Todd County Telephone Com- pany of Kentucky and in other enterprises.

He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and was affiliated with the democratic party, but never sought public office. He was pro- gressive. broad-minded, a good citizen and a most excellent man and neighbor and a kind husband and father. He died on his home farm on April 6, 1918.

On July 20, 1880, Mr. Robb was united in marriage with Miss Mollie C. Bishop. She was born in Licking County, Ohio, on December 25. 1854. the daughter of Walter J. and Cath- erine (Emswiler) Bishop.

The Bishop family is of English descent and has been in Virginia for several generations. Samuel Bishop, grandfather of Mrs. Robb, was a soldier in the War of 1812. He was born in Hampshire County, Virginia, and became a pioneer of Licking County, Ohio, he having settled on the old National road. fifteen miles east from Columbus at an early date. He mar- ried Nancy Summers, of Scotch descent. who was also a native of Virginia. Their children were: John, Walter J., Mary, Samuel, Harriet, Rebecca and Ell.

Walter J. Bishop was born in Hampshire County. Virginia. He was a boy of seven years when his parents removed to Ohio. He became a successful farmer and well known citizen of Licking County. His wife, Catherine, was born in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, the daugh- ter of George and Fannie (Corbin) Enswiler. The Emswiler family is of English descent. Their American ancestors came over from Eng- land in 1622 and settled near Ford's Mill in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. At least

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one Emswiler served in the American Revolu- tion. The Emswilers were slave holders; the Bishops were abolitionists. George Emswiler settled in Licking County, Ohio, at about the same period as did the Bishops.

The children of Walter J. and Catherine (Emswiler) Bishop were: Eliza J., born in 1843, married Philip Longstreth and died in August, 1905, leaving one son, Walter; Malissa Frances, born November 13, 1845, died at the age of fif- teen years; John H., born in 1848, now resides in Oklahoma ; Mollie C., Mrs. Robb; and Sarah Emily, born in 1856, died in 1871.

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Robb are as follows: (1) Flora Catharin, born July 28, 1881, married Ross E. Mattern, of Harrison County, and they have one daughter, Mary M .; (2) Mary Bishop, born August 11, 1886, married Percy Keene, of Roanoke, Vir- ginia, now of Columbus, and they have two sons, Samuel E. and Percey M .; (3) Irene Leumas, born on March 19, 1891, married Oscar Peters, of Roanoke, Virginia, now of Columbus, Ohio, and they have one daughter, Catharin.

HARRY E. PHILLIPS was for a long term of years identified with railway service, and his experience has included also association with mercantile business, but in farm industry in North Township, Harrison County, he has achieved his maximum success. He is a rep- resentative of a well known pioneer family of Coshocton County, Ohio, where he was born August 17, 1862, and it is interesting to record also that one of his ancestors on the paternal side was John Hart, who was one of the signers of that important document, the Declaration of Independence. Mr. Phillips is a son of Elijah H. and Melvina A. (McMath) Phillips, the for- mer of whom was born in Coshocton County, this state, and the latter in Harrison County, she having been a daughter of James and Almira McMath and her father having been one of the early merchants at Deersville, Harrison County. Mr. and Mrs. James McMath became the par- ents of seven children-William, Jesse, H. Adolphus (the first mayor of Cadiz, Ohio), Gideon, Almira, Lorinda and Melvina. Elijah H. Phillips became a representative merchant at Linton Mills, Coshocton County, and there he died in 1864, when his son Harry E., of this sketch, was a child of about two years. Just prior to his death Mr. Phillips had been actively engaged in raising and organizing a company for service in the Civil war. Of the two chil- dren Harry E. was the firstborn, and the second child, Rosa. Lee, died in infancy. After the death of her husband Mrs. Phillips and her little son became inmates of the home of her father, who was at that time a resident of West Lafay- ette, Coshocton County. In 1889 she returned to Dennison, and later she married Henry Hillier, of Tappan. She died in Dennison, Ohio, in 1911.

Harry E. Phillips gained his early education in the public schools of West Lafayette, Co- shocton County, and as a young man of eighteen years he found employment in the roundhouse of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Dennison, Ohio. About eighteen months later he was advanced

to the position of locomotive fireman, and in this department of service he continued five years. By reason of his impaired health he was then transferred to the position of brake- man on passenger trains, and later he was made baggage master in the train service. He con- tinued in this department until 1904, when he established his residence upon his present farm, but eighteen months later he engaged in the general merchandise business at Conotton, Har- rison County. This enterprise engaged his at- tention about three years, after which he was similarly engaged in the Village of Scio, this county, about one and one-half years. His wife's death occurred at this time, and he then sold his business and went to the City of Cleve- land, where he re-entered railroad service and remained two years in the employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. He then returned to his present farm, which has since continued the stage of his successful activities as a progressive agriculturist and stock-grower and which comprises 170 acres. He is a repub- lican in political allegiance, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his wife holds membership in the Presbyterian Church, in the faith of which she was reared.

The year 1894 recorded the marriage of Mr. Phillips to Miss Martha E. Borland, daugh- ter of David Borland, and her death occurred June 22, 1912, no children having been born to this union. On the 22d of December, 1914, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Phillips to Miss Leone Smith, daughter of Stephen and Margaret (Sharp) Smith, residents of Bloomfield, Jeffer- son County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have no children.

ANDREW J. MORRIS is associated with his sons in the ownership and operation of a fine farm estate of 202 acres in Cadiz Township, Harri- son County, where he established his residence in the year 1901, upon coming to Ohio from his native state of West Virginia, which was still a part of Virginia at the time of his birth, and which he represented as a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war. Now venerable in years, he gives the active management of the farm over to his sons, but still takes a lively interest in all of its activities and maintains a general supervision of affairs, with a circum- spection and judgment begotten of long and suc- cessful experience. Mr. Morris has won a se- cure place in popular esteem within the period of his residence in Harrison County and it is pleasing to accord him merited recognition in this history.

Andrew J. Morris was born in Monongahela County, Virginia (now West Virginia), on the 5th of February, 1845, and is a son of Ezekiel and Sarah (Hayhurst) Morris, both likewise natives of that county, where the former was born in 1809, as was also the latter, she having been a daughter of David and Rachel (Warren) Hayhurst. Zedic Morris, grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in Delaware and served as a patriot soldier during the War of the Revolution, his entire period of service having comprised seven years, six months and nine days. After the close of the war he estab-

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lished his home in Monongahela County, West Virginia, where he and his wife, whose family name was Dawson, passed the remainder of their lives. Ezekiel Morris passed his entire life in Monongahela County, where his active career was marked by close association with farm enterprise. Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and both were venerable in years at the time of their deaths. They became the parents of thirteen children-Alpheus, Lavina, Elizabeth, David W., Sarah (died in childhood), Michael, Marian, Maria, Andrew J., James T., Ezekial A., Edgar (died in childhood), and Martha Ann.

In his youth Andrew J. Morris was afforded the advantages of the pioneer subscription schools maintained in his native county, and he was sixteen years old at the time of the incep- tion of the Civil war, so that he was not eligible for service in the early stages of the conflict. On the 4th of September. 1864, however, he enlisted in Company G, First West Virginia Cavalry, with which he continued in active ser- vice until the close of the war, his honorable discharge having been received July 8, 1865. His company was principally engaged in scout- ing service along the line between West Virginia and Ohio, and while he did not take part in any major battles he participated in a number of skirmishes and other minor engagements with the enemy forces.

After the close of the war Mr. Morris con- tinued his activities as a farmer in his native state until his removal to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1901. He was thus engaged in Monon- gabela County until 1887, when he removed to Marion County, West Virginia, where he became the owner of the farm which was the stage of his farm enterprise until he sold the property and came to Ohio, he having also developed a prosperous business in the buying and shipping of live stock in West Virginia. The well im- proved farm which is his present place of abode is devoted to well directed agriculture and the raising of good grades of live stock, with special attention given to sheep. His political al- legiance is given to the republican party, and he is affiliated with J. F. McCready Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Cadiz, where he holds membership also in the Lodge of Free and Ac- cepted Masons and the Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

On the 6th of May, 1869, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Morris to Miss Mary I. Berry, who likewise was born and reared in West Virginia and who is a daughter of the late Samuel Berry, of Monongahela County, that state. Mr. and Mrs. Morris became the parents of six children : Cora Alice married Lee Murray and is now deceased, she being survived by three children, Ray, Bessie and Opal B., the last men- tioned having been reared in the home of her maternal grandparents after the death of her mother; Oliver Ernest, Norman and Oliver are associated with their father in the management of the home farm, and Norman is married, the maiden name of his wife having been Eliza- beth Dickerson and she being a representative of one of the old and honored families of Har- rison County ; Laura Belle is the wife of Howard

I. Heavlin, M. D., of Cadiz; and Eva May re- mains at the parental home.

JAMES T. FLEMING. Not all of the successful and representative farmers of Harrison County claim the county as the place of their nativity, and an exception is found in the case of Mr. Fleming, who is the owner of a fine farm prop- erty of 257 acres in Cadiz Township, where he established his residence in October. 1903, the property having been purchased by him in the preceding year. Mr. Fleming was born at Man- nington, Marion County, West Virginia, on the 31st of August, 1866, and is the only child of William C. and Lavina (Taylor) Fleming, the former of whom was born at Fairmount, West Virginia, and the latter was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania. William C. Fleming, a son of James Fleming, was reared and educated in West Virginia, where his entire active career was marked by close and successful association with agricultural industry and where his death occurred in 1892.

James T. Fleming acquired his youthful edu- cation in the public schools of his native state, and there he continued to be associated with the work and management of the home farm until his father's death, when he assumed the entire control of its operation. He finally dis- posed of his property interests in West Virginia and, as previously noted, has been a successful representative of farm industry in Harrison County, Ohio, since the autumn of 1903. He raised the various crops best suited to the soil and climate of this section of the Buckeye State, and in the live-stock department of his farm enterprise he gives special attention to the rais ing of sheep of excellent grade. He is a demo- crat in politics, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, and attends and supports the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his wife is a mem- ber. In 1888 Mr. Fleming wedded Miss May M. Tetrick, and they have three children: Ina is the wife of Fred Hatton, of Cadiz; William A. is associated in the activities of the home farm; and Gypsie married Frank E. Mattern, of Cadiz.

SAMUEL RALPH MCCAUSLAND. The farm of Samuel Ralph McCausland in Center Township of Carroll County is one of the well improved rural properties of this section of Ohio, and the premises show the care of an efficient farmer and good business man. He is one of the prominent dairymen of Carroll County and his success and prosperity are largely due to the thorough business judgment and energy he has put into all his undertakings.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 29

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