History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 31

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

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the civic and material development and upbuild- ing of Harrison County. Jonathan Kimmel, Jr., is a bachelor. and Isaac, on the 25th of January, 1898. married Miss Jennie Abel, whose death occurred on the 26th of June, 1914 ..

ROBERT T. ARROWSMITH. Contributing defi- nitely to the industrial prestige of the village of Scio, Harrison County, as a substantial man- ufacturer of wooden oil tanks, Mr. Arrowsmith is following a line of enterprise with which he became associated in his youth and in which his father became a successful representative in the state of Pennsylvania. Mr. Arrowsmith was born at Basking Ridge, New Jersey, on the 14th of October, 1873, and is a son of Robert T. and Sarah (Rankin) Arrowsmith, the former of whom died in 1918, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in which city his widow still resides. The fa- ther removed to the northwestern part of Penn- sylvania in 1865, and long maintained his resi- dence at 'Pittsburgh .. He developed a prosper- ous business in the manufacturing of oil tanks, and was otherwise associated with the oil in- dustry in the Keystone State.

He whose name initiates this review acquired his early education principally in the public schools of Warren, Pennsylvania, and as a young man became associated in his father's business. under the firm name of Robert T. Arrowsmith & Son. He continued his residence in Pennsyl- vania until 1898, when he came to Harrison County. Ohio, where he has since been success- fully engaged in the manufacturing of wooden oil tanks, and where also he has been president of the Bell Drilling Company from the time of its organization in 1910. . This company has developed a substantial business in the drilling of oil wells in this section of Ohio. In politics Mr. Arrowsmith is independent, and he and his : wife are zealous and valued members of the Presbyterian Church at: Scio, in which he is serving as an elder.

In 1909 was solemhized the marriage of Mr. Arrowsmith to Miss Fattfe Master, daughter of William A. and Henrietta (McGavern) Master, of Harrison County, and the five children of this union are: William, Elizabeth, Robert T. (III), Henrietta and Martha Jane.

WILLIAM GLENN WADDLE, D. D. It was a case of walking in the footsteps of his father when Rev. William Glenn Waddle, of New Athens, entered the ministry. He is a son of Dr. Ben- jamin' Waddle, who devoted more than fifty years of his life to the ministry. William Glenn Waddle was born February 12, 1835, at Rush- ville, Fairfield County, Ohio. On the first Sab- bath in November, 1919, he rounded out fifty years of continuous service in the same church -Cassville United Presbyterian, having filled his pulpit regularly for a half century. Father and son gave more than a century to the gospel ministry.

Dr. Benjamin Waddle was born June 2, 1802, at Wheeling, West Virginia, and he earned the funds necessary to defray his expenses as a student in the Wheeling Academy while fitting himself for the ministry. He later studied the- ology at the Associated Reformed Seminary at

Allegheny, and on April 28, 1828, he was licensed as a gospel minister. He held pastorates at Jonathan's Creek, New Concord and Kenton, and he was always active in promoting educational enterprises. He was the founder of Muskingum College, and it was through his efforts that that institution was located at . New. Concord: - His son. Dr. W. G. Waddle, and his daughter, Eliza- beth Waddle, . were graduated from the. same college, and at the death of. Dr. Waddle on Oc- tober 13,- 1920, be was the oldest living. gradu- ate of the institution.

. In 1829 Dr. Benjamin Waddle:married Martha A. Glenn. of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, a young woman of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and Dr. William Glenn Waddle was one of the five chil- dren born to them. He had a rudimentary edu- cation in the common schools, and when he was twelve years old he entered Muskingum' college. He graduated from. there in the 1855 class, and immediately entered Allegheny Seminary, where he studied theology. On October 13, 1857, Doc- ton Waddle was licensed by the Second Ohio Presbytery, and on November 16, 1859, he was ordained to the ministry by the Wheeling United Presbyterian Presbytery. In many ways father and son had similar experiences in the ministry. The son embarked in a limited way in polites, and with the consent of his congregation in 1873-4 he was a member of the Ohio Constitu- tional Convention.

On June 5, 1860, Doctor . Waddle married Janette S. : Easton. She came of ministerial stock, being a daughter of Dr. John S. Easton, who came from Scotland as early as 1813, and he was a licensed minister in the Philadelphia Associate Presbytery. On June 24, 1834, Doctor Easton entered upon his first pastorate at Kish- ocoquillas, Pennsylvania, and after eighteen Senrs in one pulpit he went to Scroggsfield, Car- roll County, Ohio, remaining there eleven years. In 1866 he went to. Allegheny, Pennsylvania, where he became an associate editor of The United Presbyterian, and at the same time served a church In Braddock, where he remained seven years. 'He died : July 25, 1879, in Alle- gheny. Mrs. Waddle was a graduate of Wash- ington .(Pa.) Female Seminary, class of 1858, and at the time of her death, on September 27, 1920. she was the oldest Hving graduate of that seminary.

While engaged in ministerial labors .Doctor . and Mrs. Waddle lived many years on a farm in . Short Creek. Township, The Commemorative Record saying: . "Their beautiful home, sur- rounded by the pleasures and evidence .of a handsome competence, is located in a little val- . ley, while on every hand the hills whose peaks are the first to catch and the last to hold the coming. splendor of the dawn and the fading glory of the day. are mute but eloquent wit- nesses of the power, majesty and wisdom of the grent Creator. The surrounding fields give evi- dence of a careful husbandry, and plainly show that it is there the Doctor seeks recreation from the fatigue of his labors and close con- finement of his study."

In 1911 Doctor and Mrs. Waddle gave up their farm home and came to live in New Athens, although for several years he continued in the

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ministry. He was an honorary director of the Pittsburg Theological Seminary, and for many years was a member of the Board of Trustees of Franklin College.

HARVEY C. RAMSEY, a retired farmer of Not- tingham Township, now residing in the city of Cadiz, was born on the farm which he still owns in the above township April 19, 1859. He is a son of John C. and Sarah J. ( Hines) Ram- sey, the former of whom was born in Washing- ton County, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1823, and the latter of whom was born and reared in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where her parents, Isaac and Sarah (Patter- son) Hines, were representative pioneer citi- zens. John C. Ramsey was a son of William and Mary (Anderson) Ramsey, and was sixteen years of age when he accompanied his parents from the old Keystone State to Harrison County, where he was reared to manhood and where he learned the trade of cooper, to which he de- voted his attention for a number of years. March 16, 1847, he married Miss Sarah J. Hines, and her death occurred in 1865. They became the parents of eight children: Isaac L., Mary E., William B., John F., James P., Harvey C., Robert F., and Martha A. The second marriage of John C. Ramsey was with Miss Emily Ford, who was born in Harrison County in 1825, and whose death here occurred in 1880. In 1882 Mr. Ramsey married Miss Angeline Hines, who was born October 31, 1831, a daughter of Abra- ham and Hannah (Carson) Hines, of Harrison County. Mr. Ramsey resided on his farm in section 6, Nottingham Township, from the time of his first marriage until that of his death, and he was one of the honored and influential citizens of that township. He became one of the most zealous advocates and supporters of the cause of the Prohibition party and was a resourceful worker in its ranks in Harrison County. His religious faith was that of the Disciples or Christian Church. His death oc- curred on the 7th of February, 1898, and his widow died when about seventy-five years of age.

Harvey C. Ramsey gained his early education in the schools of Nottingham and Cadiz town- ships, and as a young man, in 1882, he went to Williamson County, Tennessee. There he was engaged in farm enterprise for the ensuing four years, at the expiration of which he returned to his native township, where he continued farm- ing, his place being a part of the old homestead on which he was born and reared, he having returned to this place in the autumn of 1913. For the past twenty-five years he has given much of his time to work at the carpenter's trade, which for the past decade has received the major part of his time. He has erected numerous buildings in Nottingham and adjacent township, and is known as a skilled artisan. He is a republican in politics, and both he and his wife are active members of the Christian Church.

June 14, 1893, recorded the marriage of Mr. Ramsey to Miss Ida A. Haverfield, who was born in Cadiz Township, this county, a daughter of Gillespie and Sarah J. ( Hines) Haverfield,

both likewise natives of Cadiz Township. Mr. Haverfield was born November 14, 1818, and his death occurred March 17, 1882. His entire life was passed in Cadiz Township, where he became a representative farmer. The family name of his first wife was Clifford, and they became the parents of two sons, Clifford and Joseph, both deceased. The second wife likewise is deceased, and of this second union were born seven chil- dren : William H. (a clergyman of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church), Mary Isabel (de- ceased), Catherine, Sherman, Ida A., Jeanette and Martha. Mr. Haverfield held membership in the United Brethren Church and his wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey have no children.

R. NASH OVERHOLT. Occupying a place of note in the business life of Carroll County, R. Nash Overholt, of Carrollton, has achieved success as a merchant, being proprietor of a finely stocked and extensively patronized shoe store located at 79 Main street. A son of the late Anthony Overholt, he was born in Medina County, Ohio, April 4, 1868. He comes of substantial pioneer stock, his paternal grandparents, Joseph and Elizabeth (Tinsman) Overholt, having been among the earlier settlers of Medina County, where they cleared and improved a homestead from its virgin wildness.

A life-long resident of Medina County, Ohio, Anthony Overholt was born in 1835, and died in 1917. As a boy and youth he assisted in the pioneer task of reclaiming a homestead from its original condition, under his father's tutelage becoming familiar with agriculture. Becoming a farmer from choice, he met with good success as a tiller of the soil and stock raiser. His wife, whose maiden name was Hannah Nash, was born in 1840 in Medina County, Ohio, where her parents were pioneer settlers, and died on the home farm in 1913. Five children were born of their union, as follows: Almira, who died in infancy ; Ida Schaub; Minerva; R. Nash, the special subject of this brief sketch; and Alverna Harter. The father was a loyal ad- herent of the republican party for many years, but later in life became identified with the pro- hibitionists. Both he and his wife were faithful members of the Mennonite Church.

Brought up on the parental homestead, R. Nash Overholt acquired his elementary educa- tion in the rural schools of Medina County, and later graduated from the Wadsworth Normal School. The life of a farmer not appealing to him, he began his active career as teacher in the district schools of Wadsworth Township and later embarked in business on his own ac- count, continuing there as a shoe dealer until 1908. Coming in that year to Carrollton. Mr. Overholt purchased the stock and good will of Jacob Helfrech, and for ten years carried on a business in the Helfrech Block. His large and increasing trade demanding more commodious quarters, he removed to his present location on Main street, and is continuing with the same good success that has characterized his pre- vious efforts.

Mr. Overholt married in 1911 Miss Jennie McGregor, whose parents, Joseph and Rebecca

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McGregor, were pioneer settlers of Carroll County. Her father was a prominent and suc- cessful farmer. and stock raiser who about thirty-five years ago retired from active pur- suits and removed to Carrollton, where his death occurred in 1915, and where his widow still re- sides. Mrs. Overholt is the youngest child in a family of four children, and has one sister liv- ing, Nannie, widow of W. Elliot, of Carrollton. Mr. Overholt is a republican in politics, and takes an active part in all local affairs for the best interests of his town and county.

ALBERT R. HOOBLER is a native son of Carroll County and for many years has been actively identified with agricultural and live stock in- terests here. Mr. Hoobler, whose home is in Center Township, was born in Rose Township February 26, 1856, and he still owns his farm of a hundred twenty acres in that township.

His grandfather, Adam Hoobler, was a native of Maryland, where he married Elizabeth Law- yer. They moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, and spent the rest of their days on a farm there. They had five daughters and five sons, named Andrew, Adam, Jacob, William and Peter, and Margaret, Nancy, Mahala, Elizabeth and Rachel.

William Hoobler, father of Albert R., was born in Jefferson County, but immediately after his marriage moved to Carroll County and settled in the woods of Rose Township, where he lived out his life as a practical farmer and died Feb- ruary 13, 1884, at the age of seventy-two. He married Margaret Shocknesse, and their children were Adam, Elizabeth, James Madison, Lucinda, Perry, Mary Catherine, Cena Eleanor, Albert R. and Alvin B. Alvin now lives in Waynesburg, Ohio, Lucinda is Mrs. George Futchley, of Rose Township, Mary Catherine is Mrs. L. D. Sparks, of Stark County, Ohio, and Cena is Mrs. Joseph Briggle, of Canton, Ohio.

Albert R. Hoobler was a pupil in school dis- trict No. 1 of Rose Township until the age of seventeen. He also attended Summer Normal at Carrollton two terms, and for several years was actively identified with the educational work in his home county. He taught two terms in his home district. No. 1. one term in dis- trict No. 8 of Harrison Township, two terms in district No. 2 of Rose Township, and two terms in district No. 8. He then took an active part in the work of the home farm, and also began buying and selling livestock, a business he has continued more or less actively ever since.

At the age of thirty Mr. Hoobler married Miss Nancy J. Swinehart, daughter of Silas and Louisa ( Bowers) Swinehart. of Perry Town- ship in Carroll County. Her father was born in Orange Township of Harrison County and died in Perry Township of Carroll County in 1916. Her mother was born in Harrison County and died in Perry Township also in 1916. Mr. and Mrs. Hoobler have two children. Roscoe Del- wood, the older, lives at Canton, Ohio, and by his marriage to Lenora Zingler has a son, Les- ter. Earnest Swinehart Hoobler lives at home with his parents. After his marriage Mr. Hoob- ler lived on his home farm in Rose Township until April, 1918, when he moved to Carrollton.

He is a democrat, a member of the Lutheran Church in Rose Township, and while in the country he was elected and served two terms, eight years, as justice of the peace, and in No- vember, 1919, was again chosen to that office in Center Township.

ROBERT H. WEBSTER. One of the most pleasing revelations incidental to the preparation of per- sonal sketches for this history is that showing that within the borders of both Carroll and Harrison counties are to be found many native sons in the third and even fourth generations who are carrying forward successfully the same important industrial enterprise that engaged the attention of their fathers and grandfathers- that pertaining to the activities of the farm. Such a worthy citizen is Robert H. Webster, who was born in Rumley Township, Harrison County, November 14, 1861, and who is still the owner of the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth. Though he now resides in the village of Jewett, he continues to give his personal supervision to his valuable farm of ninety-five acres, which he makes a center of intensive agriculture and stock-growing.

John Webster. father of him whose name in- troduces this sketch, was born in Maryland in 1809. and was a boy when his parents came to Harrison County and settled in Rumley Town- ship. His father, John Webster, Sr., here pur- chased wild land, which was eventually devel- oped into one of the productive pioneer farms of the county, though he himself died within a comparatively short time after coming to Ohio. His widow assumed the entire care of her fam- ily of small children. and remained on the farm until her death, in 1856. After the death of his father John Webster, Jr., assumed active management of the farm and in every way aided and cared for his widowed mother. In 1832 he married Margaret Buchanan, who died in 1841 and was survived by three children, Maria, David and Sarah. In 1847 Mr. Webster married Miss Ann Patton, daughter of the late Joseph Patton, of Rumley Township, and they became the parents of ten children : John. Jo- seph, Mary M., Catherine Jane, Matthew. Flo- rence. Robert H., Mansfield, Cora and Ira B. Mr. Webster was a Democrat of well fortified convictions, and he and his wife were zealous members of the Ridge Presbyterian Church. His death occurred in 1876, and his wife survived him by a number of years. Mr. Webster was one of the honored citizens and successful farm- ers of Harrison County and merited the high regard in which he was uniformly held.

In connection with the work of the home farm Robert H. Webster early gained appreciation of the dignity and value of honest toil and en- denvor, and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages offered in the district schools. He has continuously made the old homestead farm the stage of his productive activities, and there he continued his residence until 1909, when he removed to Jewett, where he has an attractive home about half a mile distant from his farm. of which he still has the active management.

December 29, 1886, was marked by the mar- riage of Mr. Webster to Miss Jeanetta Helland,

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daughter of Samuel and Emily ( Maholm) Hol- land, well known citizens of Harrison County. His father was born May 3, 1830, and died May 21, 1907, and the mother, born May 6, 1844, died January 29. 1921. To Mr. and Mrs. Webster have been born six children: Harry Forrest, who was born in 1888, married Miss Helen Bowman, and they reside at Warren, Trumbull County, their one child being a daughter, Bet- tie Jane; Marguerite was born in 1891, and her death occurred in 1896; Byron was born in 1894 and died in 1905: Louise, who was born in 1897, died in the year 1900; Daniel, who was born September 30, 1899, is now a resident of Detroit, Michigan; and Lee W., born in 1903, remains at the parental home.

Harry Forrest Webster, eldest son of the sub- ject of this review, served as a member of a battery of field artillery on the Mexican border during the period of the Government's military operations there. the battery having been for the most part made up of men from the city of Akron, Ohio. When the nation became Involved in the World war he entered the first officers' training camp at Camp Grant. Illinois, and in August, 1917, received commission as captain in the Field Artillery. Thereafter he attended the Artillery School of Fire at Sparta. Wisconsin. and later was sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he completed the work given in the School of Fire. He was assigned to Battery C, Three Hun- dred and Thirty-First Field Artillery, and in August, 1918, went to France as a member of the advance detail from his brigade. He con- tinued on duty in France until the signing of the historic armistice, and returned to the United States in March, 1919. Soon afterward he received his honorable discharge. after which he returned to the employ of the Firestone Rub- ber Company at Akron, and is now superintend- ent of the D. & M. Cord Tire Company, of Cleve- land and Warren, Ohio.

DILLWORTH A. MAXWELL. In the handling of staple and fancy groceries and other table sup- plies Mr. Maxwell maintains at Scio, Harrison County, an establishment whose equipment and service have gained and retained to it a large and representative patronage, the while he has gained secure place as one of the progressive and influential business men of this thriving village.

Mr. Maxwell was born on a farm near Grays- ville. Monroe County, Ohio, and the date of his nativity was October 1, 1866. He is a son of William and Letitia (Bigley) Maxwell, the for- mer of whom was born on a site now included in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the latter was born in Monroe County, Ohio, a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Core) Big- ley. Joseph Bigley was a prosperous farmer of Monroe County, and there served as township assessor during the closing years of his life. Both he and his wife were communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the faith of which they reared their children-Letitia, James, Elizabeth, Fannie and Mary.

Evan Maxwell, grandfather of the subject of this review, came from the old Keystone state to Ohio and became a resident of Monroe County

in 1837. There he devoted the remainder of his active career to farm industry. though he later lived in Belmont and Athens counties, in the latter of which his death occurred. His children were eight in number: William, Evan, Jr., John, James, Thomas, Mary, Catherine and Jane.

William Maxwell became an independent farmer in Monroe County, but in 1877 removed with his family to Tyler County, West Virginia, where he purchased land and became a vigor- ous exponent of progressive farm enterprise. There he remained until his death, which oc- curred in 1902, and his widow passed away in 1907. both having been active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

The district schools of Monroe County, Ohio, gave to Dillworth A. Maxwell his rudimentry education, and he was a boy ten years of age at the time of the family removal to West Vir- ginia, in which state he continued his studies until he had so advanced himself as to become eligible for pedagogic service and honors. As a young man he was for fifteen years a success- ful and popular teacher in the public schools in West Virginia and Ohio, and not until 1903 did he finally withdraw from service in this field of endeavor. Thereafter he resided at New Mar- tinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia, until 1907. when he engaged in the general merchan- dise business at Rayland. Jefferson County. Ohio. Two years later, in 1909, he came to Har- rison County and opened a well appointed retail grocery store at Scio, where he has since con- tinued in successful business. He is a democrat in politics, and he and his sons are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Scio, as was also his devoted wife, who was summoned to the life eternal on the 2d of December. 1918. Mrs. Maxwell was born and reared in Tyler County. West Virginia. Her maiden name was Ruey M. Hensel, and she was a daughter of Philip H. K. Hensel, her marriage to Mr. Max- well having been solemnized in 1890. Of this union were born four children : W. Earl, Dora (died at the age of five months), P. Clyde and Clarence J. W. Earl married Miss Catherine Rees: Clarence J. is, in 1921, a student in the University of Ohio at Columbus; P. Clyde Max- well was one of the gallant young men who en- tered the nation's military service in the great World war. On the 21st of May. 1918. he be- came a member of the Fifty-Seventh Engineers, at Laurel, Maryland, and with his command he went to France in the following July. There he continued in active service with the American Expeditionary Forces until the signing of the armistice brought the war to a close. and after having been in France thirteen months he re- turned to his native land in August, 1919, re- ceiving his honorable discharge within a short time thereafter.

LEROY H. BORLAND not only has prestige as being one of the representative exponents of ag- ricultural and live-stock industry in North Township, Harrison County, but also the dis- tinction of being a native of this township and a scion of one of its pioneer families of promi- nence and influence. On the 27th of January,

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1819, Samuel Borland, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, came from West- moreland County, Pennsylvania, and took up a tract of Government land in North Township, Harrison County, the deed to the property being still retained by the family and bearing the signature of James Monroe, then president of the United States. Mr. Borland left his land in charge of Juda Hess, another sterling pio- neer, and returned to Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1821, when he came with his family to the frontier farm in Harrison County and vigorously set himself at work in reclaim- ing the land from the forest and developing a productive farm. On this old homestead he re- mained until his death in 1862, at the age of seventy-seven years. His first marriage was with Mary Little, who died ten years later, three children having been born of this union- William, who became a resident of Tuscarawas County ; Washington, who established his home in Carroll County; and Lydia, who became the wife of James Waddington, with whom she re- moved to Nebraska in the pioneer period of the history of that state. For his second wife Mr. Borland wedded Miss Elizabeth Hevlin, daugh- ter of Samuel and Elizabeth Hevlin, and of the two children of this union the elder was Mary, who became the wife of James Mackey and who died many years ago. David, the younger child, was the father of the subject of this review.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 31

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