History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 32

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

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Samuel Borland, founder of the family in Harrison County, was a son of Samuel and Lydia (Cary) Borland, whose marriage was sol- emnized in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he had established his residence upon immigration to America from his native Ireland. The parents passed the remainder of their lives in the old Keystone State, where the father was a farmer by vocation. Of Mrs. Borland the fol- lowing statements have been written : "She par- ticipated in the defense of one of the old. forts when it was attacked by the Indians, was a re- markable woman, accustomed to the hardships of pioneer times, and was an excellent shot with the rifle." Samuel and Lydia (Cary) Borland became the parents of ten children: Samuel, John, Rachel, William, Matthew, Margaret, Da- vid, Mary, Andrew and James.

David Borland was born on the old homestead farm in North Township, Harrison County, Jan- uary 27, 1831, and on this place he passed his entire life, his death having occurred Novem- ber 8, 1907. Well and earnestly had he lived and wrought during the intervening years, and he stood as one of the sterling citizens and rep- resentative farmers of his native county, with character and achievement that gave him in- violable place in popular confidence and esteem. His fine farm comprised 170 acres, about three miles distant from the village of Scio. He was a democrat in his political proclivities, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

December 24, 1857, recorded the marriage of David Borland to Miss Catherine Ann Havnar, who was born and reared in Harrison County and whose parents, Dominick and Elizabeth Havnar, were residents of Monroe Township,

this county, at the time of their deaths. Mrs. Borland, a woman of gentle and gracious per- sonality, passed to the life eternal on the 26th of October, 1890, at the age of fifty-seven years, and her remains rest beside those of her hus- band in the cemetery at Conotton. Of the three children LeRoy H., subject of this review, is the eldest; Martha Elizabeth died at the age of forty-nine years; and Albert is now a resident of the city of Detroit, Michigan. Martha Eliza- beth Borland, who was born November 28, 1862, became the wife of Harry E. Phillips and was a resident of Harrison County at the time of her death. Albert Borland was born Febru- ary 20, 1870, and in his youth was afforded the advantages of Scio College. His first wife, who died in the year 1900, bore the maiden name of Jennie Law, and she is survived by two chil- dren, Frank and Wilbur. For his second wife Mr. Borland wedded Miss Myrtle Harding, and they have four children, Irma, Aline, Albert, Jr., and an infant son.

LeRoy H. Borland was born on the old home- stead farm of the Borland family in North Township, and the date of his nativity was July 30, 1860. In addition to receiving the advan- tages of the district schools he was for two years a student at New Hagerstown Academy in Carroll County, and thereafter he remained at the paternal home and assisted in the work of the farm until his marriage, in 1882, when he established his home on his present farm, which is not far distant from the old place on which he was born and reared. He is now the owner of a well improved and valuable landed estate of 160 acres in Harrison County and an adjacent tract of 109 acres lying across the line in Car- roll County. The excellent buildings on his farm have been erected by Mr. Borland, and the many other improvements which he has made likewise give evidence of his progressive- ness, as well as of the abundant success that has attended his well directed activities as an agri- culturist and stock-grower. In the livestock de- partment of his farm enterprise he gives special attention to the breeding and raising of blooded Black Polled Aberdeen cattle and Delaine sheep.

In political affairs Mr. Borland is found loy- ally arrayed as a supporter of the principles of the democratic party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Conotton. At Scio he is affiliated with the lodge of Free & Accepted Masons, and his further York Rite affiliations are with the Chap- ter, Council and Commandery at Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County, besides which he has re- ceived Scottish Rite degrees and is a member of the Scioto Consistory in the city of Columbus.

On the 23d of February, 1882, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Borland to Miss Sarah Trushell, who likewise was born and reared in North Township and who is a daughter of Valen- tine and Sarah (Smith) Trushell, the former of whom was born in Somerset County, Pennsyl- vania, February 23, 1805, and the latter in Har- rison County, Ohio, January 21, 1825, she hav- ing been a daughter of Daniel Smith, one of the honored pioneers of the county. Valentine Tru- shell came with his parents to Harrison County in 1815, when he was about ten years old, and

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here he was reared on the pioneer farm. He became one of the substantial farmers of North Township, and there he continued to reside until his death, October 16, 1880. The maiden name of his first wife was Susannah Huff, and her death occurred November 8, 1845. The names and respective birth-dates of the children of this union are here recorded : Michael, No- vember 6, 1832 ; Mary, December 19, 1834 ; Eliza- beth, May 5, 1837; Rebecca and Anna, twins. December 19, 1839; and John, September 28, 1843. For his second wife Mr. Trushell wedded Miss Sarah Smith, and she preceded him to eternal rest, her death having occurred March 8, 1876, and both having been earnest communi- cants of the Lutheran Church. They became the parents of nine children, whose names and re- spective dates of birth are here noted: Lydia, April 6, 1847; Jacob, October 3, 1848; Cather- ine, April 4, 1851; Daniel, March 10. 1853; Henry, October 20, 1855: Margaret, December 9, 1856: Melinda, March 24. 1860; Sarah (Mrs. Borland), September 22, 1863; and Caroline, June 5, 1866.

Mr. and Mrs. Borland have two children : Mamie Folsom is the wife of Frank C. Fier- baugh, of Cleveland, Ohio; and Harry Oliver, who is a successful farmer in North Township, married Miss Mabel Lyda Pettay, their one child, a son, is Harold Edwin.

ARBAHAM B. MARKLEY. In North Township, Harrison County, is to be found the attractive farm home of Mr. Markley, whose popularity in the community is attested by his holding the office of township trustee, and whose progres- siveness as an agriculturist and stock-grower needs no further voucher than the general air of thrift and prosperity that pervades his fine farm of 171 acres.

Mr. Markley was born in Perry Township, Car- roll County, Ohio, on the 30th of March, 1876, and is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of this section of the Buckeye state, his grandfather, Jonathan Markley, having been a native of Pennsylvania and having become an early settler and pioneer farmer in Harrison County. Henry H. Markley, father of the sub- ject of this review, was born in North Town- ship, Harrison County, and his wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth A. Baker, was born in Perry Township, Carroll County, a daughter of Abraham and Edna (Brock) Baker. Henry H. Markley became one of the substantial farm- ers of North Township, Harrison County, and continued as one of the representative citizens of his native township until his death, in June, 1918, his wife having passed away the follow- ing December, so that in death they were not long divided. They became the parents of four children : Charles O., Abraham B., Laura Bell, wife of B. B. Johnson, and Georgia, who died at the age of three years.

While early lending his aid in the work of the home farm and thus learning the value of honest toil and endeavor Abraham B. Markley did not fail to profit by the advantages offered in the district schools of his home township. He re- mained at the parental home until the time of Mis marriage, in 1901, and since that time has

been continuously engaged in independent farm enterprise in North Township, his present farm having been the stage of his activities since 1906. He is liberal and progressive as a citizen, is a democrat in politics, and, as previously stated, is serving as a member of the Board of Trustees of North Township. His wife is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

November 23. 1901, recorded the marriage of Mr. Markley to Miss Alice Calcott, a daughter of Benjamin and Jeanette (McLandsborough) Calcott, of North Township. Benjamin Calcott continued as one of the prosperous farmers of Harrison County until his death, and his widow and one of their sons remained on the old home- stead farm until March, 1921. Mr. Calcott was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and was one of the eight children of Robert and Catherine ( Rogers) Calcott. Robert Calcott was born and reared in England, where he learned the trade of baker and where also he worked at the trade of wool-comber as a young man. He was twenty years of age when he accompanied his parents to the United States, and the parents, Robert and Ann (Heritage) Calcott, became early set- tlers of what is now Carroll County, Ohio, where the father reclaimed a farm and where he re- mained until his death, in 1860, his widow hav- ing passed away in 1865. Robert, Jr., was the eldest of their five children. Robert Calcott, Jr .. made Carroll County the stage of his initial farm enterprise, and later he became a prosper- ous farmer in Tuscarawas County, where he died at the age of seventy years, in July, 1885, his wife having died of typhoid fever in 1864, when thirty-five years of age. Five of the eight children contracted typhoid fever about the time when their mother succumbed to the disease. and of the three who survived Benjamin, father of Mrs. Markley, was the eldest. After his mar- riage, in 1869, Benjamin Calcott continued his association with farm enterprise in Tuscarawas County until the spring of 1882, when he came to Harrison County and purchased the farm on which he passed the remainder of his life and on which his venerable widow still resides. He was a staunch republican, served as trustee of North Township, was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and was a communicant of the Lutheran Church, as is also his widow. He was one of the influential and honored citizens of Harrison County at the time of his death. Mr. and Mrs. Calcott became the parents of seven children : William F., Catherine Ann. John Robert, Alice. Edward, Mary, and one who died in infancy. Edward and Mary likewise are de- ceased. Mr. and Mrs. Markley have five chil- dren : Grace, Helen, Thomas, Florence and Henry Earl.

THOMAS E. CHAMBERS gives to the vital little city of Scio, Harrison County, requisite modern facilities in the line of automobile enterprise, and his garage, with best of equipment, offers ample accommodations. In connection with the garage he maintains a sales agency for the pop- ular automobiles manufactured by Dodge Broth- ers, and his well directed enterprise is conducted under the title of T. E. Chambers. The garage

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has a well ordered repair department, and an adequate stock of automobile accessories and supplies adds to the facilities of the estab- lishment.

Thomas E. Chambers was born at Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 5th of August, 1893, and is a son of Robert H. and Retta (Hill) Chambers, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania and the latter in Hancock County, West Virginia, a daughter of George Hill. From Jefferson County, Ohio, Robert H. Chambers removed to Perrysville, Carroll County, where he has since conducted a well equipped general store and has precedence as one of the repre- sentative citizens and business men of the vil- lage. He is affiliated with the Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. Thomas E., of this review, is their only child.

After having profited by the advantages of the public schools at Perrysville Thomas E. Chambers continued his studies in the high school at Scio and thereafter took a one-year commercial course at Oberlin College. He then became associated with his father's mercantile business at Perrysville, Carroll County, and this alliance continued until 1915, when he came to Scio and established his present business, which has been signally prospered under his progres- sive and effective management. Mr. Chambers is affiliated with the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and the Masons, and his wife holds membership in the Presbyterian Church at Scio.

The year 1915 recorded the marriage of Mr. Chambers to Miss Pearl Slates, daughter of Nel- son E. Slates, who is serving in 1921 as a mem- ber of the Board of County Commissioners of Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Chambers have a winsome little daughter, Lois Alberta.

JOSEPH M. MCCULLOUGH. On the excellent farm of 112 acres which is his present place of residence in Archer Township, Harrison County, Joseph M. Mccullough was born May 12, 1852, and the fine old homestead has been the stage of his productive activities from his youth to the present time. He is a son of John and Jane (Welsh) Mccullough, both likewise natives of Archer Township, where the former was born on the 5th of October, 1822, and the latter on the 6th of May, 1827-dates that show that the respective families were founded in this county in the early pioneer days. The mother of Joseph M. Mccullough was a daughter of John and Jane ( McClellan) Welsh, both natives of Ire- land. John Welsh, a son of Samuel Welsh, was ten years of age when his parents came to Amer- ica, and within a short time after their arrival in this country they established their home on a pioneer farm in Harrison County, where the father reclaimed his land from the forest wilds and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, as sterling pioneer citizens of Archer Township. John Welsh was reared un- der the conditions that marked the early stages of development in this county and became a prosperous farmer in Archer Township, where he and his wife remained until their deaths, both having been members of the Presbyterian

Church. Their children were ten in number: Samuel, John, Matthew, James, David, William, Mary, Elizabeth, Anna and Jane.

John Mccullough was a son of Joseph McCul- lough, who came to Harrison County when this section of Ohio was little more than a forest wilderness, and he settled on the land which constitutes the present well improved farm of his grandson, Joseph M., of this review, the farm having remained continuously in the pos- session of the family since the early pioneer era. The name of the first wife of Joseph McCul- lough was Hanna, and they became the parents of seven children: John, James B. (became a physician), Elizabeth, Sarah Jane, Mary, Esther and Isabel. The religious faith of the family was that of the Presbyterian Church, and the lineage traces back to staunch Scotch-Irish origin.

On the ancestral farm which was the place of his birth John McCullough passed his entire life, and in his character and worthy achievement he well upheld the high honors of the family name. Both he and his wife were well ad- vanced in years at the time of their deaths and hoth were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of four chil- dren, Elizabeth (Mrs. Thomas B. Copeland), Joseph M. (immediate subject of this sketch), Amanda J. (Mrs. Andrew J. Palmer), and John W. (died in childhood).

Joseph M. Mccullough. the only surviving male representative of his generation of the family, gained his early education in the dis- trict schools of Archer Township and eventually became the owner of the old homestead farm, with the activities of which he has been asso- ciated from his youth. He is known as a farmer of resourcefulness and enterprise, and has been successful as a representative of agricultural and live-stock industry in his native county. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the neighborhood Methodist Episcopal Church known as Bethel chapel.

The 30th of November, 1876, recorded the mar- riage of Mr. Mccullough to Miss Elizabeth Bir- ney, who was born and reared in Green Town- ship and who is a daughter of the late Asbury and Eleanor ( Mccullough ) Birney. Mr. and Mrs. McCullough became the parents of five children : Eleanor is the wife of Charles McKee. a prosperous farmer in Archer Township, and they have four children. Joseph Ross, William Birney. Mary Elizabeth and Anna Martha. Mary is the wife of T. S. Birney. of Washington Town- ship. John, a farmer in Archer Township, mar- ried Miss Clara Ora Heavilin, and they have three children, Chester H., Joseph Dwaine and Vula Elizabeth. Alice died at the age of four years, and Lela O. remains at the parental home.

JUDGE WALTER GASTON SHOTWELL was born on the 27th day of December, 1856, in a substantial brick home in Cadiz. The house still stands on South street at the end of Main and is the same to which his father and mother moved when they were married and in which they passed the remainder of their lives. Both par-

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ents were of pioneer families that came to Ohio early and carved out farms in the wilderness. Both were born in log cabins, and after long lives of upright living and usefulness in the community they died, the father in 1890 and the mother in 1905. They were buried at Cadiz.

Stuart Beebe Shotwell, the father, was born in Washington Township, Harrison County. Ohio, in 1819. His family were English Quakers. They removed to America and settled near Eliz- abeth, New Jersey, as early as 1664. Here they remained and here Hugh Shotwell was born in 1764. He was the sixth of a family of eleven children. His father dying when he was young, he received his share of the estate in Conti- nental money and that soon becoming depreci- ated he removed to the west, where land was cheap, to improve his fortunes. He settled first in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, near Browns- ville, where he bought a farm. This he after- wards gave to his oldest son, John. With the rest of his family Hugh removed to Harrison County, Ohio, in 1813, settling first on the farm now occupied by John Rea in Cadiz Township. This farm later he gave to his second son. Jo- seph, while Hugh removed to other land he had acquired in Washington Township. some of which he had entered himself. This land he later divided between his two other sons Will- lam and Arrison, and here Hugh died in his nineteenth year. He was a man of intelligence. owned and read his copy of Blackstone, and was the first county surveyor of Harrison County and laid out many of its roads and platted much of its land.

William Shotwell, third son of Hugh, received from his father the farm on Big Stillwater, now owned by Martha B. Shotwell, and on it William built the Shotwell mill. Later he re- moved to Cadiz and started a store in the building now occupied by Judge Shotwell's of- fice. Neither the store nor the mill prospered. and becoming financially embarrassed William retired. He married Rhoda Beebe, of Hamp- den County. Massachusetts. the daughter of Capt. Stuart Beebe and the sister of Walter B. Beebe, who was the first attorney at the Har- rison County bar. It was while on a visit to her brother in Cadiz that they met and it was at his home that they were married. It was on their Stillwater farm that their first child, Stuart Beebe Shotwell. was born. The mother was a strong character. well educated in the Massachusetts schools, two of her brothers were graduates of Williams College and were law- yers, and she early determined that her son should also be a college graduate and a lawyer. And so at the age of sixteen Stuart was sent to Franklin College. where he spent three years. and then he quit college and entered upon the study of law at Cadiz with Dewey & Stanton. He was admitted to the bar in 1840 and there- after practiced law in Cadiz for fifty years and until his death. He never held office, but was a man of sturdy sense, of good business qualifica- tions and scholarly tastes. And by strict in- tegrity, close application to business and good habits he was able at his death to leave a con- siderable estate to his family.

Nancy Gaston, whom he married, was a daugh- ter of James and Elizabeth (Kilgore) Gaston. The Gaston family were French Huguenots that left France at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. John Gaston was born in France in 1600. He left France in 1640, going to Scotland, where he was married. He had three sons born in Scotland. They went from Scotland to northern Ireland and thence came to America in 1720. James, the father of Nancy, was born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. His father, Hugh, had married a remote cousin. Grace, the daughter of Robert Gaston, a colonel in the Revolutionary war. Hugh with his fam- ily removed from Pennsylvania to Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1800. Here he had acquired four hundred acres of wild land. The removal was made in a wagon. His son James was only seven years old at that time. They lived in the wagon until a cabin could be built and in the cabin until some years later a brick house was built. They cleared fourteen acres that spring for corn and sowed it in wheat in the fall. That winter they cleared fourteen acres more for corn the next spring. And so the clearing went on thereafter from year to year.

James Gaston married Elizabeth Kilgore, whose home was on the adjoining farm. He had already bought a tract of wild land next to his father's and having erected a cabin on it he and his wife commenced to keep house there and proceeded to clear the land. It was in this cabin that Nancy was born. When she was only a year old and still the baby of the family a new frame house was finished, and it was agreed that they would take dinner in it on a particular day. And on that day one of the carpenters, taking the baby, Nancy, on one arm and the pot of corn from the crane over the wood fire on the other, remarked that he had his share of the moving and started for the new house. And having thus been brought to her new home Nancy there grew to womanhood. She gradu- ated at the Steubenville Female Seminary and then came to Cadiz to teach in a select school which her uncle. Daniel Kilgore. had estab- lished. It was thus that she met her future husband, Stuart B. Shotwell. She was a woman of strong common sense and of fervid piety. and through her long life was greatly respected and beloved by her neighbors. They had five chil- dren : Mary, deceased ; Martha B .: Walter G .; Stuart B., deceased ; and William J., deceased. Martha graduated from the public schools and from Franklin College in the class of 1875.

Walter G. Shotwell's winters when young were spent in school and his summers on his grand- father's or uncle's farm in Columbiana County. On the farm he did the work of a farm lad, dropped corn. hoed it, raked sheaves and gath- ered them, tramped the hay and carried water to the men in the fields. And he fished in the creek. And one day while engaged in this sport he slipped and fell into the pool below his un- cle's mill dam and narrowly escaped drowning. But a neighbor, William Conkle, seeing him un- able to swim and floundering in water twenty feet deep threw off his coat and at the risk of his own life swam out and, getting him on his

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back, swam with him to the shore, and thus saved his life.

Walter's first teacher was W. B. Hearn, later the editor of the Cadiz Republican. He was a sincerely good man and an excellent teacher. The relation continued for seven years, Mr. Hearn advancing in the grade of the school as his pupil advanced in his studies. It was a very pleasant relation and left an enduring impres- sion upon the pupil's life. They were always friends, and to this day the pupil retains an affectionate regard for the memory of this early benefactor. At the age of fifteen young Shot- well entered the preparatory department of Franklin College. And he continued in this in- stitution for five years. During most of this time Andrew F. Ross, LL. D., was the president of the college and excelled as a teacher, espe- cially of Latin and Greek, in which he had pre- viously held professorships in Bethany and Os- caloosa College. Perhaps owing to a friendship that already existed between the father of young Shotwell and Dr. Ross a regard was awakened early for the new student. And it ripened into , a sincere affection. Walter became a member of Doctor Ross's family and enjoyed a familiar association daily during term time with this ex- cellent man. And so he had always afterward a reason to be thankful for another of these early associations. After graduating at Frank- lin young Shotwell went to Yale College at New Haven, Connecticut, where he passed an examination in the studies already pursued by the class and was entered as a senior. He grad- uated the next year in the class of 1878. Then he entered upon the study of law with his fa- ther, and two years later was admitted to the bar. He opened an office in Cadiz and devoted himself to the bar. He opened an office in Cadiz and devoted himself to the work of his profes- sion. On the 4th day of July, 1887, he was nominated by the republican convention for prosecuting attorney of Harrison County. He was subsequently elected and at the end of three years was renominated and re-elected for a second term. The work of the office during these years was exacting, owing to the strong feeling against the saloons and the building of the Wheeling and Lake Erie and the double track- ing of the Panhandle Railroad. These large public works caused an influx of foreign labor as well as liquor into the county, and together they made work for the prosecutor. But young Shotwell's private practice had increased to such an extent that the office with its small salary had become unprofitable and he resigned it at the close of the fifth year. And thereafter he devoted himself exclusively to private practice for the next eight years. He worked hard and the labor brought success.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 32

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