History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 30

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

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Mr. McCausland was born near Harlem in Lee Township, Carroll County, November 21, 1875, son of Erasmus J. and Mary ( Harsh) McCaus- land. His grandfather, Thomas McCausland, was an early settler in Lee Township, a native of Ireland. His old homestead in Lee Township comprised eighty acres. He and his wife had children named John, Erasmus J., Thomas, Mary, Jane, Mattie, Emma and Florence. Erasmus J. McCausland was a farmer in Lee Township for a number of years and when his

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son Samuel was six years old moved to Center Township, where he acquired 318 acres and continued active farming until he retired. He had acquired his early education in the Harlem Public School and High School.

Samuel R. McCausland, the fourth in a family of seven children, attended Washington Hall School until he was twenty years old, chiefly during the winter terms. In the meantime he was performing an increasing share of the work on his father's large farm. In 1900 he married Sarah R. Harsh, daughter of Jackson and Anna (Craven) Harsh, of Harrison Township. Mr. and Mrs. McCausland have two children : Loren Harsh, born in 1904; and Samuel Ralph, Jr., born in 1906.

Mr. McCausland's first independent farm en- terprise was the renting of 207 acres in Lee Township. He continued there for seven years, and for five years rented the Ebersole farm. This he conducted as a successful dairy propo- sition, and he has always been able to make money at dairying and is also an all around stock farmer. Mr. McCausland gave up farm- ing to purchase a flour and feed mill in Rich- land County, Ohio. He was making profits out of that industry, but after a few months the mill was in the path of the destructive flood of 1913 and that disaster was a heavy loss. He then determined to resume farming in his home county, and in 1913 he bought 102 acres in Center Township. That is his present home, and recently he added 120 acres more, giving him a large farm suitable for his business as a general farmer and dairyman. He produces large quantities of milk and delivers in Carroll- ton. He is also interested in the raising of Delaine sheep. He is a stockholder and a di- rector and is now president of the Farmers Exchange of Carrollton. He is a charter mem- ber of the National Grange at Washington Hall and in politics is a republican. Mr. and Mrs. McCausland are members of the Presbyterian Church in Carrollton.

WILLIAM ALLEN RAY, of Center Township, Carroll County, has been solving the problems of farm life for thirty or forty years, is still one of the busiest men in his community, and has accumulated extensive interests represented in the ownership of a large amount of land and by outside connections with financial and other enterprises.

Mr. Ray was born in Fox Township of Carroll County September 3, 1854, son of Abraham and Hannah (Haines) Ray. He is of Pennsylvania German ancestry. His grandfather, Thomas Ray, moved from Washington County, Pennsyl- vania, to Fox Township at an early day, was reared in that community and married Lydia Roudebush. Their family consisted of three sons and five daughters. Abraham Ray lived for several years in Fox Township, afterward in Washington Township, and devoted his life to farming. He died in 1878 and his wife in 1883.

Oldest of five children, William A. Ray ac- quired an education by attending the winter sessions of the Glendale School in Washington Township until he was seventeen years old. He

learned farming by working with his father, who owned 240 acres, and he planted and tilled a number of crops before he married and started life for himself.

In 1881 Mr. Ray married Sarah M. Roudebush, daughter of Matthias M. and Mary (Marshall) Roudebush, of Washington Township. Six chil- dren were born to their marriage: Sherman A., born in 1882, a bachelor who still lives at home; Lawson M., born in 1885, married Alice Guess and has a son, Kenneth E., now seven years old; Minnie Belle, Mrs. Irvin Pool; Chester Manson; Daisy Viola, who died in 1895: and Clayton, who died in 1897, at the age of five years.

After his marriage Mr. Ray farmed a place of eighty acres included in his father's estate. This he bought and owned many years. For five years he lived on a 240 acre farm at Specht in Washington Township, and since February 29, 1912, has lived at his home place in Center Township. He has always farmed progressively and has used a large acreage in his enterprise. His home place in Center Township comprises 178 acres. He also owns a farm of 120 acres partly in Union and partly in Center Township, and forty acres in Washington Township, alto- gether 338 acres.

Mr. Ray is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Carrollton and the Farmers Exchange of Carrollton, and has other interests in a business way. He has served as township supervisor of Washington Township and as school director, is a republican in politics and a member of the Disciples Church of Carrollton.

ALBERT R. HAINES. A strong, resolute, well poised and noble character was that of the late Hon. Albert R. Haines, whose ability and achievement enabled him to leave a marked and worthy impress upon the history of his native county, and he was one of the most influential and honored citizens of Carroll County at the time of his death, which occurred May 2, 1907, at his beautiful old homestead, Church Hill Farm, in Brown Township. He was born in this township September 15, 1826, and Carroll County continued to be his home until the close of his long and useful life. Records of indubitable authority show that the founder of the Haines family in America was Jacob Haines, who was a devout member of the Society of Friends and who came to America with William Penn in the early part of the seventeenth century. He be- came a member of the historic Quaker or Friends colony in Pennsylvania, where his mar- riage was solemnized. He became the father of four sons, and the family continued to be one of prominence in Chester County, Pennsylvania, for a number of generations. Survey of family records indicates that Jacob Haines, great- grandfather of the subject of this memoir, mi- grated from Chester County, Pennsylvania, to Frederick County, Maryland, where his death occurred in 1820, his wife, Esther, having died in 1804. Three of their five sons, John, Abra- ham and Isaac, migrated to Ohio about the year 1816 and settled in Stark and Carroll counties. Of these sons, John, grandfather of Albert R., married Margaret Castleberry in Frederick

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County, Maryland, about the year 1797, and they became pioneer settlers in what is now Carroll County, Ohio. They became the parents of three sons and six daughters, of whom Joseph, father of Albert R., was born in Fred- erick County, Maryland, in 1799, and who was about seventeen years of age when he accom- panied his parents to Carroll County in 1816, the family home being established in the midst of the forest wilds, near the present village of Pekin, where the father and his sturdy sons began the reclamation of a pioneer farm. Joseph Haines married Hannah, a daughter of John and Catherine Shriver, who came from Maryland and became pioneer settlers in Stark County, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Joseph Haines and his young wife settled on a small farm about a mile northwest of Pekin, and there were born their four sons and six daughters.

Albert R. Haines was reared on the old home farm mentioned above and gained his early education in the pioneer schools. At the age of twenty-two years he went to Wayne County. Illinois, and engaged in teaching school in a primitive pioneer community. The death of his father caused him to return home, and for sev- eral years he had charge of the old farm. be- sides devoting his attention to teaching during the winter terms of school. Later he became the leading merchant in the village of Malvern, where he continued his association with this line of enterprise for a term of years. He then pur- chased and removed to the fine place to which he gave the name of Church Hill Farm, and this he developed into one of the best improved places in the county.

Mr. Haines became one of the most influential men in the Carroll County ranks of the demo- cratic party, and was active in the party coun- cils and campaign service. He was a frequent delegate to county and state conventions, and represented the Eighteenth Congressional Dis- trict as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1888. He represented his district in the State Senate, and his ability and char- acter well equipped him for leadership in com- munity sentiment and action. He was a man of broad views and well fortified convictions, was tolerant in his judgment and was kindly and generous in his association with his fellow men, so that he naturally gained and held secure place in popular confidence and good will. He broadened his intellectual ken by extended travel throughout the various sections of his native land, besides which he visited the principal European countries in an extended tour which he initiated by crossing the Atlantic in the autumn of 1889. So remarkably significant at the present time are the following statements concerning Mr. Haines, and taken from a pre- viously published review of his career, that it is considered but consistent to reproduce the same in this sketch: "Mr. Haines has taken but little part or interest in military affairs. In this he believes, as did his illustrious Quaker ancestors, that the general diffusion of civiliza- tion, education, moral ethics and religion ought so to elevate and enlighten all nations to the result that they 'should learn war no more,'

but live in perpetual peace and prosperity. He believes that countries and governments, morally and religiously, have no more right to settle their differences of opinion and their disputes by the shedding of blood than communities and individuals have; but that all matters of dis- pute and misunderstanding should and can be better settled and adjusted by the justice and wisdom of the people through their leaders and representatives by civil law and arbitration. He is Quaker enough to proclaim every day, 'Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than war.' and philosopher enough to believe, with Franklin, that 'There never was a good war, or a bad peace'." It will be remembered that these estimates were published prior to the death of Mr. Haines and nearly a quarter of a century prior to the inception of the great World war.

In the autumn of 1857 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Haines to Miss Almira Harsh who was born in Harrison Township, Carroll County, a daughter of Leonard Harsh, another of the honored pioneers of the county. Mrs. Haines survived her honored husband by more than a decade and passed to the life eternal on the 29th of July, 1919, both having been mem- bers of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of four children : Lula Hannah is the wife of Joseph T. Wallace, of Los Angeles, California, and they have one son, Albert. Joetta is the wife of Walter Myers, of Minne- apolis, Minnesota ; Minnie Albert is the wife of Isaac N. Pennock, of Cleveland, Ohio, and they have two sons, Robert and Paul; and Carrie Elizabeth is the wife of William S. Moses, of whom individual record is made following, their place of residence being the old home farm of her father.

WILLIAM S. MOSES has so directed his energies and policies as to gain secure place as one of the substantial and representative exponents of farm industry in his native county, and the estate which is the stage of his progressive activities is what is known as the old home- stead of his father-in-law, the late Hon. Albert R. Haines, who was one of the honored and influential citizens of Carroll County and whose fine old homestead, now under the active con- trol of Mr. Moses, of this review, is situated in Brown Township, not far distant from the Village of Malvern.

William S. Moses was born in Harrison Town- ship, Carroll County, in the year 1865, and is a son of Jacob and Margaret (Woods) Moses, the mother having been a daughter of the late George Woods, of whom more specific mention is made on other pages of this volume. Jacob Moses was a son of John and Rebecca (Stattler) Moses, who were early settlers in Rose Town- ship. Carroll County, where they secured and settled on a tract of Government land, the same having remained in the possession of their descendants until 1919, when the property was sold. Jacob Moses was born in Westmoreland County. Pennsylvania, and was a boy at the time of the family removal to Carroll County, Ohio, where for many years he was successfully en- gaged in farm enterprise and where in earlier

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life he worked at his trade, that of millwright. He died in 1917, at the venerable age of eighty- nine years, and his widow passed away in 1911, one of the aged and revered pioneer women of the county. Both were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, though the father was reared in the faith of and originally held membership in the Lutheran Church. His po- litical allegiance was given to the republican party. The children of Jacob and Margaret (Woods) Moses were five in number-Mollie, Isaac, William S., George and Catherine.

William S. Moses was reared on the old home farm in Harrison Township, and his early edu- cational advantages were those of the public schools. He made good use of his opportunities and so fortified himself that he became eligible for the pedagogic profession and was for several years a successful teacher in the rural schools of his native county. His active career, how- ever, has been mainly one of close and success- ful association with the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, and since . the time of his marriage he has remained on the old home farm of his wife's father, the same comprising 240 acres of excellent land and the place being one of the well improved and model farms of Brown Township. Mr. Moses gives special attention to the breeding and raising of Holstein cattle with an average herd of about twenty-five head, and he is essentially vital and progressive in all departments of his farm enter- prise. In politics he gives his loyal support to the cause of the republican party, but he has had no desire for the honors or emoluments of public office of any kind.

December 27, 1893, recorded the marriage of Mr. Moses to Miss Carrie Elizabeth Haines, who was born and reared in Carroll County, the place of her birth having been the old home- stead on which she and her husband now re- side. To her father, Hon. Albert R. Haines, a memorial tribute is paid on other pages of this work, so that further record concerning the family is not here demanded. Mrs. Moses at- tended the public schools of Malvern, including the high school, and thereafter completed a course of study in Steubenville Seminary at the county seat of Jefferson County. Mr. and Mrs. Moses have three children: Almira attended the Malvern High School and at the time of this writing, in 1920, is a student in the Dodge School of Telegraphy at Valparaiso, Indiana ; Merton S. was graduated in the Minerva High School and in 1920 was graduated in the depart- ment of electrical engineering in the Ohio Northern University at Ada ; and Thomas H. is a member of the class of 1921 in the Minerva High School.

CHARLES I. KIRKPATRICK, who is now success- fully engaged in the retail grocery business at Malvern, with a well equipped establishment that receives a representative patronage, has been a resident of Carroll County from the time of his birth and in both the paternal and ma- ternal lines is a scion of honored pioneer fami- lies of this county.

Charles Isaac Kirkpatrick was born in Brown Township, this county, on the 8th of December,

1867, and is a son of Isaac and' Nancy ( Reed) Kirkpatrick, the former of whom was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1824, and the latter of whom was born in Brown Township, Carroll County, Ohio, in 1825, she having been a daughter of John Reed, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1796, and whose father, John Reed, Sr., came to Carroll County in the early pioneer days and here passed the remain- der of his life. John Reed, Jr., became one of the prosperous farmers of Carroll County, and here his death occurred August 22, 1872. He came to this county about the year 1820, and his original farm was in Brown Township, whence he later moved to what is now known as the J. W. Gorell farm, where his death oc- curred. His wife, whose maiden name was Jane Thompson, was likewise a native of the old Keystone State, and her death occurred in 1867. They became the parents of seven chil- dren : William, Nancy, Elizabeth, John, Mary, Robert and Eliza.

Isaac Kirkpatrick was a son of William and Betsey (Swisshelm) Kirkpatrick, both natives of Pennsylvania. William Kirkpatrick was born and reared in Westmoreland County, that state, and there continued his activities as a farmer until 1832, when he came with his family to Carroll County, Ohio, and purchased 120 acres of land in Brown Township. There he passed the remainder of his life, his death having oc- curred in 1841 and his wife having passed away in the preceding year. They became the parents of six children : Betsey, Nancy, Priscilla, Cath- erine (Mrs. Mckinney), Joseph S. and Isaac.

Isaac Kirkpatrick was eight years of age at the time when the family home was established in Carroll County, where he was reared to man- hood and where eventually he came into pos- session of his father's old homestead farm. He continued as one of the representative expo- nents of farm enterprise in Brown Township until his death, on the 12th of December, 1891, and his devoted wife passed away on the 2d of the following March. They became the par- ents of eight children: Almira, Elva, John, Jane. William, James, Oliver and Charles Isaac.

Charles Isaac Kirkpatrick passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the old home farm which was the place of his birth, and in the meanwhile received the advantages of the public schools of Brown Township. He contin- ued his active alliance with farm industry in Brown Township until 1892, when he estab- lished his residence in the village of Malvern. For the ensuing period of about twenty years he was employed in various manufacturing es- tablishments in this village, and in 1913 he here engaged in the grocery trade, to which he has since given his attention. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village.

The year 1891 recorded the marriage of Mr. Kirkpatrick to Miss Sadie DeWalt, who was born in Stark County, Ohio, October 26, 1866, a daughter of Henry and Caroline (Fogle) De- Walt, who passed their entire lives in that

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county. Mr. DeWalt, a carpenter by trade and vocation, died in 1908, aged fifty-five years, and his widow passed away in 1911, aged fifty-eight years. They became the parents of ten chil- dren, of whom five are living at the time of this writing, in 1920. Henry DeWalt was a son of Adam and Sarah (Hershbarger) DeWalt, the former having been a native of Germany and having been a pioneer settler in Stark County, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his life. Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick have no children.

JONATHAN KIMMEL passed his entire life in Harrison County, was a successful representa- tive of farm industry throughout his entire ac- tive career and was known alike for his sterling character and his business acumen. He was an influential and honored representative of a fam- ily whose name has been one of prominence in Harrison County for more than a cetury and the various generations of which have contrib- uted materially to the development and advance- ment of this now favored section of the Buckeye state. Such are the families whose achievement justifies the compilation of histories of this na- ture, and in Harrison County none is more worthy of consideration than that of which the subject of this memoir was a member.

Jonathan Kimmel was born in a pioneer log cabin in Rumley Township, Harrison County, on the 15th of July, 1815, and in his fine farm residence, near the site of this log cabin, his death occurred on the 13th of July, 1894, his entire life having been passed in his native township save for a period of nine years during which he was engaged in farm enterprise in North Township. His father, Henry Kimmel, was born in Pennsylvania in 1789, and in June, 1814, he married Miss Christena Gidenger, who was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and who was fourteen years of age when she accompanied her parents to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1808. Mrs. Kimmel was a daughter of Martin and Elizabeth B. Gidinger, both of whom were born in Germany. Mrs. Kimmel was born on March 7, 1794, and died in October, 1894, one of the most venerable and revered pio- neer women of Harrison County at the time of her death, at the remarkable age of 100 years, six months and 26 days, and her memory com- passed virtually the entire period marking the development of the county from the forest wilds into one of the beautiful and progressive sec- tions of Ohio. Her husband was well advanced in years at the time of his death, and had been one of the substantial farmers of Rumley Town- ship. He was a son of Leonard Kimmel, who was born in Germany in 1741, and who was a youth when he severed the ties that bound him to his native land and came to America in 1758. He settled in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and there he married Miss Susan Zimmerman, whose parents were very early settlers in that county. Leonard and Susan Kimmel became the parents of eight children: John, Adam, Henry, Leonard, Frederick, Nancy, Mary and Susannah. About the opening of the nineteenth century the family removed to West Virginia, where a home was established on Cheat River. There the three elder sons engaged in the manu-

facture of millstones, which were shipped on rafts to different points on the Ohio River, in- cluding those used in a pioneer mill at Scio, Harrison County, Ohio. From the proceeds de- rived from this manufacturing enterprise the three brothers made investment in wild lands in Harrison County, Ohio, where they acquired about 800 acres. In 1807 Leonard Kimmel, the next younger brother, established his home on an embryonic farm in Rumley Township. He reclaimed a goodly part of his land to cultiva- tion and here remained until his death in 1825, his widow having passed away in 1828.

Henry Kimmel continued as one of the repre- sentative farmers and citizens of Rumley Town- ship until the close of his long and useful life, and both he and his wife were earnest com- municants of the Lutheran Church. Their chil- dren were eight in number: Susan ( Mrs. W. Crumrine), Jonathan. Henry, Abraham. Eliza- beth (Mrs. William Schilling), Isaac, Christena ( Mrs. M. Sawvel) and John. Isaac enlisted for service in the Union army at the inception of the Civil war, was captured by the enemy and died in a southern war prison.

Jonathan Kimmel exemplified in character and achievement the sterling attributes which has significantly marked the family of which he was a member, and at the time of his death he was the owner of a large and valuable farm estate in Rumley Township, the property being still in the possession of the family and the sons having prestige as leading exponents of farm industry in their native county.

In January, 1836. was solemnized the mar- riage of Jonathan Kimmel to Miss Maria Cath- arine Nupp, daughter of John P. and Catharine (Wolf) Nupp, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Kimmel was influential in locad affairs and served twenty years as trustee of Rumley Town- ship. Both he and his wife were active com- municants of the Lutheran Church. They be- came the parents of eleven children: Sarah Jane is the widow of Jacob Condo, of Germano, Harrison County ; Elizabeth, who was the widow of Jacob Stahl, of this county, died in 1916; Nimrod was killed while serving as a member of an Ohio regiment in the Civil war; Christena still resides in Harrison County : Titus is de- ceased : Simon P. is a farmer in Rumley Town- ship: Jonathan. Jr., is more specifically men- tioned in following paragraphs; George is de- ceased : Isaac is the subject of more individual consideration in a later paragraph; and Mary Magdalena and Martin are deceased.

Jonathan Kimmel. Jr., and his brother Isaac have always lived on the old home farm, which represents land taken from the Government by their grandfather more than a century ago, the property having remained continuously in pos- session of the family during the long interven. ing years and the two brothers being associated in the ownership of this valuable property, which comprises 201 acres. The brothers have secure place as successful representatives of agricultural and live-stock enterprise in their native county, and in all of the relations of life they are well upholding the honors of the name which they bear- a name that has been one of prominence and significance in connection with

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 30

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