History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 41

Author: H. J. Eckley, William T. Perry
Publication date: 1921
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man when he came to America and established his residence in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, where was solemnized his marriage to Miss Charlotte Hatcher. As above indicated, they came to Harrison County, Ohio, in the early years of the nineteenth century, where he con- tinued to reside until his death, at the age of eighty-three years. His widow passed the clos- ing years of her life in the home of one of their sons in Morgan County, Ohio. Their chil- dren were Adam, William, John, James, Hannah, (married Wilson Shannon, governor of Ohio), Eve, Polly and Susannah. The last named, the widow of Miles Tipton, was the last to survive, her death having occurred August 31, 1889, at which time she was ninety-two years of age.

Adam Ross was born in Pennsylvania, as was also his wife, whose maiden name was Susan- nah Row. As a young man Adam Ross learned the blacksmith's trade, which he continued to follow in the old Keystone State until 1804, when he came to Ohio and settled in Harrison County. He applied himself vigorously at his forge until he went to the front as a soldier in the War of 1812. While in service he was stricken with fever and died in the regimental camp at Fort Stephenson, Sandusky, Ohio. His widow remained with her children on the pio- neer farm in Harrison County until her death in 1848, at the age of seventy years. Their chil- dren were six in number: John, Adam and George (twins), Caleb, and Joseph and Aaron (twins).

Aaron Ross, father of him whose name intro- duces this review, was born in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, July 3, 1811, and there passed his entire life. He was one of the leading ex- ponents of farm industry in this township and was the owner of a valuable landed estate of about 300 acres at the time of his death, when venerable in years, he having been one of the last survivors of the native sons of bis genera- tion in Harrison County. He contributed much to the civic and material development and prog- ress of his township and was a man of fine men- tality and high ideals. Both he and his wife passed their declining years on their old home- stead, about four miles distant from Cadiz. On the 16th of June, 1853, Mr. Ross was united in marriage with Miss Nancy Harper, who was born and reared in Archer Township, this county, a daughter of Samuel and Casandra (Cox) Harper, who were natives of Scotland and who were venerable residents of Harrison County at the time of their deaths. Mr. Harper reclaimed one of the excellent farms of the county, where he died in 1897, his wife hav- ing died in Cadiz. They were members of the Seceder Church. They became the parents of nine children, all now deceased : James, Chris- topher, Samuel, Jared, Thompson, Nancy, Eme- line and Angeline (twins), and Mary Ann. Aaron and Nancy Ross became the parents of three children: Milton B., the immediate sub- ject of this sketch; Dr. Franklin Harper Ross, who became a successful physician and surgeon in the city of Brooklyn, New York; and Susan Elmaretta, who became the wife of William P. Hedges, of Cadiz Township, and she is now deceased.

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Reverting to John Ross, great-grandfather of Milton B., it may be noted that as a youth he went from Scotland and entered upon an ap- prenticeship to the trade of linen weaver in the city of Dublin, Ireland. He found the vo- cation not to his liking, and came to America and established his residence in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, whence he went forth to serve with the patriot forces in the War of the Revolution, he having been ensign, lieutenant and quartermaster at Valley Forge. His son Adam was born in York County, Pennsylvania, and there was married to Miss Susannah Row, a native of that county. They established their home in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1806, and he died only thirty days after having entered service as a soldier in the War of 1812. His brother was with him when he died and split out puncheons with which to construct the rude coffin in which the patriot soldier was laid to rest at Fort Stephenson.

Aaron Ross was a stalwart advocate of the principles of the democratic party and cast his first presidential vote in support of General Andrew Jackson. He was twice the democratic nominee for the office of director of the county infirmary, but was unable to overcome the large republican majorities normal to the county. His wife was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Milton B. Ross was born in Cadiz Township, July 3, 1854, and here received his early edu- cation in the district schools. He remained on the old farm until he bought his present farm of 143 acres, the place being well improved and yielding good returns, as he has been essentially energetic and progressive in his activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower and is one of the representative exponents of farm industry in his native township. He is unflagging in his allegiance to the democratic party and both he and his wife hold membership in Asbury Chapel, Methodist Episcopal.

On the 2d of May, 1877, Mr. Ross was united in marriage to Miss Anna J. Lavely, who like- wise was born in Harrison County, and was reared in Franklin County, Ohio. Her parents, Nathan J. and Mary (Patterson) Laveley, later became pioneer settlers in Kansas. Nathan died In Harrison County, while his wife died in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Ross became the parents of four children, of who the youngest, Edith C., died at the age of three years. Josephine K. is the wife of William W. Armstrong, and they have one child, Anna Virginia, the family home being in Cadiz Township. Charles Frank- lin is married and resides in Great Falls, Mon- tana. Aaron Clark died at the age of nineteen years.

Mr. Ross bas in his possession a brass bullet and button mold, combined, which was owned by Adam Ross, the grandfather, and which bears the date of 1719.

CHARLES M. MITZEL has been a resident of Carroll County since his boyhood and since 1904 he has held the position of engineer at the large and modern plant of the Carrollton Pottery Company at the judicial center of the county.

Charles Milton Mitzel was born in Stark County, Ohio, October 31, 1876, and is a ton of William G. and Amanda (Bortner) Mitzel, both of whom were born in the state of Penn- sylvania, where they were reared and educated and where their marriage was solemnized. The father was a miller by trade and vocation, and after following his trade in Stark County, Ohio, for a term of years he finally came to Carroll County, in the year 1890, and became operator of the flour mill at Augusta, where he remained, a representative business man and honored citi- zen, until his death in 1914, at the venerable age of seventy-eight years, his wife having died in 1886, at the age of forty-five years. They are survived by eight children : Howard, Albert ., A. D., Sadie, Charles M., Frank L., Minnie and Wesley. The father was a communicant of the Reformed Church and the mother held mem- bership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. ' -

In the public schools of his native county Charles M. Mitzel acquired his early educational discipline, and he was fifteen years of age at the time of the family removal to Augusta, Car- roll County, where he continued to attend school and where also he became actively associated with the work in his father's mill, with which he continued his service about ten years. He then turned his attention to the operating of steam engines, and as a skilled engineer he has been continuously employed at Carrollton since November, 1904, his position having been con- tinuously that of engineer at the plant of the Carrollton Pottery Company, one of the leading industrial concerns of this section of the state.

In politics Mr. Mitzel has voted in harmony with his earnest convictions and has been a staunch advocate and supporter of the cause of the prohibition party. He has been an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Carrollton since January 15, 1905, and his wife is a zealous member.

November 27, 1898, recorded the marriage of Mr. Mitzel to Miss Carrie Kelley, who was born and reared in Carroll County, and they have six children: Esther, Mary, Ruth, James, Paul and Charles J.

ALBERT O. BARNES. As a school teacher and as an attorney Albert O. Barnes, of Cadiz, has been identified with the history of Harrison County for over sixty years, and is now one of the best known and highly respected men in this section of the state.

Mr. Barnes was born at Deersville, this county, on November 26, 1843, and is the son of the late Dr. James P. and Eliza (Houser) Barnes. Dr. James P. Barnes was a native of Pennsylvania, born in Frederickton, that state, in 1806. He read medicine in Pennsylvania, and came to Harrison County in 1826 and be- came one of the early physicians of the county. He first located at New Athens, but a short time later removed to Deersville, where he made his home and was successfully engaged in the practice of his profession until his death in 1852. His wife, Eliza, was born near Paris, Kentucky, and was the daughter of Jacob Hou- ser, who removed from Kentucky to Cadiz in 1820, and later to Conotton, Ohio, where the

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family resided thereafter. While living in Ca- diz the Houser home was a log cabin which stood on the site of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Barnes died at the home of her son Albert O. in Cadiz in 1886. The children of James P. Barnes and wife were as follows: Sarah Jane, who married James Martin and died on her wedding journey; Freman D., de- ceased ; Albert O .; Zerelda, who died in child- hood; Anna, who died in childhood; and five other children who died in infancy.

Albert O. Barnes is a self-educated man. He attended common school at Deersville until he was fifteen years old, but never attended any school after that. During the summer he was fifteen he clerked in a general store in Deers- ville, and in the following fall he began teach- ing school. On his sixteenth birthday he left Deersville and went to Moorefield, this county, to teach in the school of that village, and taught there that winter and the following spring, and then returned to Deersville and resumed clerk- ing. From the fall of 1861, with the exception of one summer which he spent in a store at Steubenville, Ohio, he taught until the spring of 1865, at which time he gave up teaching on account of his health, he having contracted bron- chial trouble. With the exception of one year after that he gave his attention to various oc- cupations which gave him out door work and an opportunity to recuperate his health. He re- sumed teaching in the fall of 1872, taking charge of a school in La Porte County, Indiana. In 1873 he took charge of the schools at Free- port, and from that time, with the exception of one year, he continued to teach in that village until 1883, in which year he retired from that profession.

During the last four years of the above time Mr. Barnes read law under the preceptorship of Judge John S. Pierce of Cadiz, and in Octo- ber, 1882, was admitted to practice in the Ohio courts. In 1883 he entered the practice of law in Cadiz, and from that time on he has con- tinued meeting with success and winning an en- viable position at the bar and as a man and citizen.

Mr. Barnes has long been a prominent mem- ber of the democratic party in Harrison County and has frequently been honored by his party by nominations for high office. The County, Ju- dicial and Congressional districts are over- whelmingly republican, and the nominations of this party means the "leading of a forlorn hope," yet Mr. Barnes, in order that he might help to maintain the democratic organization in Har- rison County, cheerfully became the leader of the minority, and always lead his ticket in votes in the several elections when he was a candidate. He has been the democratic nomi- nee for Probate Judge, Common Pleas Judge, for Circuit Judge, and for Congress in 1894 and again in 1920, and in each of these cam- paigns he fought a good fight and went down to honorable defeat. He has on many occasions been a delegate to democratic state, district and county conventions, and has at different times served on the democratic county committees.

In 1863 Mr. Barnes was united in marriage with Susan, the daughter of William Crooks, of

Carroll County, Ohio, and to them were born the following children : James William, Wilfred Freeman and Jean Florance, all now deceased. Mrs. Barnes died on March 6, 1910.

THOMAS M. LOVE, one of the progressive farm- ers and substantial citizens of Cadiz Township, is a scion of a family that was founded in Ohio in the early pioneer days and one whose name has been identified with the affairs of Harrison County for nearly four score years. Mr. Love was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County. October 14, 1871, and is a son of George and Barbara (Barclay) Love, whose marriage was here solemnized November 21, 1854, Mrs. Love having been a daughter of na- vid and Elizabeth (Kissick) Barclay, who were natives of Ireland, and who settled in Har- rison County in the pioneer days.

George Love was born in Belmont County, Ohio, August 14, 1827, and was a son of George and Mary (Moore) Love, both natives of County Tyrone, Ireland, where the former was born about the year 1784 and the latter in 1801, she having been a child when she accompanied her parents, John and Mary (Smith) Moore, to America, the family settling in Ohio. George and Mary ( Moore) Love became the parents of three children, Thomas, John and George, all of whom are now deceased. The father died on his old homestead farm in Belmont County, Ohio, February 21, 1829. He was about eight years old when his parents, George and Sabilla (Smith) Love left their native County of Ty- rone, Ireland, and immigrated to America, about the year 1792. After remaining for a time in the state of Pennsylvania the family came to Ohio and settled in Wheeling Township, Bel- mont County, where the father purchased a tract of wild land, which he reclaimed, and there both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. They were zealous members of the Seceder Church. Their children were eight in number.

George Love III, father of the subject of this review, was about four years old when he ac- companied his mother from Belmont County to Harrison County, where they arrived August 10, 1831, Mrs. Love having in the meanwhile be- come the wife of John A. Todd, a resident of Nottingham Township, this county, where she thus established her home as noted above and where she and her second husband passed the remainder of their lives. Here George Love (III) was reared and educated. After his mar- riage he purchased a farm of eighty acres in section 20, Nottingham Township, where later he purchased an additional 120 acres and be- came a successful farmer and stock-grower. He was influential in public affairs, having been called upon to serve in various township offices, and he also held the office of county commis- sioner. to which he was elected in October, 1879. He was a staunch republican, and he and his wife were zealous members of the United Presbyterian Church at Cassville. Still in the possession of the family is a prized heir- loom-the sword carried by his father in the War of 1812, a conflict in which he served as a captain of a company in the command of Gen-

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eral William Henry Harrison. Mr. Love was one of the venerable and honored pioneer citi- zens of the county at the time of his death. February 9, 1910, and his widow, revered by all who knew her, passed to the life eternal on the 13th of May, 1914. Concerning their twelve children brief record is made in the paragraph immediately following :

Elizabeth I. is the widow of John Blackwood, deceased, of Clay County, Kansas. Her birth occurred October 10, 1855. David B., born January 15, 1857, has been for many years a representative member of the bar of Sandusky County, where he is engaged in practice at Fre- mont, the county seat. The maiden name of his wife was Josephine Wood. John, born October 17, 1858, married Miss Margaret Wherry, and they reside in Cadiz Township, Harrison County. Mary Isabel is the wife of David Hutchinson, of Granville, Licking County. The date of her birth was February 6, 1860. Annie B., who was born June 28, 1861, became the wife of George Carrothers and they resided in Piedmont. Ohio, from where they removed to Amory, Mississippi, where she died July 27, 1898. William W., born July 20, 1863, married Miss Belle McBride and they reside at Freeport, Harrison County. George S., born September 16, 1865, is now a resident of Denver, Colorado. Ulysses S., born March 29, 1867, married Miss Laura Johnson, and they reside at Cadiz, Harrison County. James K., born May 27. 1869, married Miss Ada McClintock and they reside in Cadiz, Ohio. Thomas M., the immediate subject of this re- view, was the next in order of birth; Ella M., born February 4, 1874, is the wife of Harvey Love, of Fairpoint, Belmont County; and Charles B., born March 27, 1876, married Miss Susan Catherine Hines. He was a resident of Indian- apolis, Indiana, at the time of his death, April 15, 1918.

Thomas M. Love acquired his youthful educa- tion in the public schools of Nottingham Town- ship, and he continued to be associated in the work of his father's farm until 1906, when he went to the west. He was absent about one year in Kansas and Colorado, and upon his re- turn to his native county he resumed his asso- ciation with the work and management of the home farm. After the death of his father he there continued his activities until 1915, when he removed to Cadiz Township, where ample demands are placed upon his time and attention in the management of a fine farm of about 400 acres, devoted to well ordered agriculture and to the raising of excellent grades of live stock. He is one of the alert and progressive repre- sentative citizens of his native county. He is a loyal supporter of the principles of the re- publican party, and he and his wife hold mem- bership in the United Presbyterian Church at New Athens. Their pleasant home is known for its generous hospitality and good cheer.

August 7, 1913, recorded the marriage of Mr. Love to Miss Emma Barricklow, a daughter of John D. Barricklow and a representative of an old and honored family of which ample record is made on other pages of this work. Mr. and Mrs. Love are the parents of two children, Frederick B., who was born December 20,

1914, and Anna Margaret, born September 30, 1920.

WILLIAM JAMISON, whose death occurred on the 3d of December, 1910, passed his entire life in Harrison County. He was a representative of a sterling pioneer family of this now favored section of the Buckeye State, and in all of the relations of life he gave unequivocal assurance of strong, worthy and useful manhood.

Mr. Jamison was born in German Township, Harrison County, in the year 1841, and was a son of David and Esther (Bishop) Jamison, who here continued to maintain their home un- til their deaths, the father having reclaimed and developed a productive farm in German Township. William was the eldest of the five children, and the names of the younger chil- dren are here recorded: Frank, Almira, Bryce and Elizabeth Ann. William Jamison was af- forded the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period, and after his mar- riage, when a young man, he established his residence on the fine old homestead farm in Rumley Township, on which he passed the re- mainder of his life and on which his widow still remains. Mr. Jamison chose as his wife Miss Mary Nupp, who was born in Rumley Township November 22, 1846, and who is a daughter of Peter and Susannah ( Bollinger) Nupp, both natives of Pennsylvania. The fam- ily name of the first wife of Peter Nupp was Wolfe, and the names, with respective dates of birth and death, of their children are here re- corded : Jacob, born January 19, 1816, died December 24, 1884; Maria, born February 8, 1818, died September 28, 1896; Eliza, born Au- gust 15, 1820, died April 6, 1895; Sarah, born February 1, 1823, died October 19, 1895; George, born November 22, 1825, died August 21, 1899; Henry, born August 8, 1828, died February 26, 1891; Simon, born March 22, 1831, died April 12, 1900; and Susannah, born January 8, 1835, died November 24, 1903. After the death of his first wife Peter Nupp married Miss Susan- nah Bollinger, and their only child, Mary, born November 22, 1846, is the widow of the subject of this memoir.

Mr. and Mrs. William Jamison became the parents of nine children, whose names and dates of birth are here noted : Austin, February 21, 1865; Clara, January 6, 1867; Elsie, March 1, 1869; George, December 19, 1871; Etta, August 24, 1874; Emory, born October 1, 1876, de- ceased ; Charles, born May 23, 1878; Clarence, January 9, 1883; and Ira, October 9, 1887. Of the children George is made the subject of indi- vidual mention on the following page of this work. He is a substantial farmer in North Township. Since the death of the honored father the younugest son, Ira, has had the active management of the old home farm, where he remains with his widowed mother and other members of the family.

GEORGE JAMISON has been a resident of Har- rison County from the time of his birth and is now numbered among the substantial repre- sentatives of farm industry in North Township. He is a son of the late William Jamison, to

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whom a memoir is dedicated on the preceding page of this volume, so that further review of the family history is not demanded in this sketch.

George Jamison was born in Rumley Town- ship, this county, December 19, 1871, and the public schools of that township afforded him his youthful education. When about twenty years of age he began working by the month as a farm employe, and after his marriage, in 1895, he was for four and one-half years em- ployed as a workman on the line of the Pan- handle Railroad. Since that time he has marked his course by progressive independent enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower in his native county, his operations having con- tinued on rented land until March, 1910, when be purchased a farm of 125 acres in North Township, to which he has since added until he

now has a valuable farm property of 153 acres. This homestead is the stage of his vigorous activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower, and as a loyal citizen he takes lively interest in all things touching the communal welfare and the advancement of the civic and material prosperity of his native county. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and his wife holds membership in the Presbyterian Church at Scio.

In March, 1895, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Jamison to Miss Laura Minard, daughter of John and Rebecca Minard, , of Rumley Town- ship, and their only child, Gernard, married Miss Margaret Grissinger, their home being at the present time at Steubenville, Jefferson County. Gernard Jamison entered the nation's military service in August, 1918, and at Camp Sherman, Ohio, he received his preliminary training for the duties that might be required of him in connection with the great World war. Later he was transferred to Camp Taylor, Lou- isville, Kentucky, where he remained until re- ceiving his discharge, the war having closed before the service of his command was required on the stage of active conflict.

JOSEPH F. Ross, one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of Cadiz Town- ship, Harrison County, has been a resident of this township from the time of his birth and is a scion of a family that was founded in Har- rison County more than a century ago. He was born in Cadiz Township on the 12th of March, 1882, and is a son of John P. and Elizabeth (Finical) Ross, both likewise natives of Cadiz Township, where they continued to maintain their home until their deaths, the death of the father having occurred in September, 1919, and the mother having passed away in 1916. She was a daughter of John and Martha (Irwin) Finical, well known pioneer citizens of Cadiz Township at the time of their deaths. John P. Ross was a son of Joseph and Catherine (Patterson) Ross, whose other three children are still living: Dr. Albert O., of Columbus, Ohio; Rev. S. F., a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church; and Mary E., who is the wife of James Cope, their home being now in the state of California.

Joseph Ross, grandfather of the subject of this review, passed his entire life in Harrison County. He was a twin brother of the late Aaron Ross, of whom incidental mention is made on other pages of this work, and they were sons of Adam, who was born and reared in eastern Pennsylvania, where he married Miss Susannah Rowe and where in his youth he learned the trade of blacksmith. He came with his wife to Harrison County in the first decade of the eighteenth century, his parents having previously established a home in this county. and here he followed the work of his trade until he entered service as a soldier in the War of 1812. He proceeded with his company to a military post near Sandusky, where he was stricken with fever and where he died within less than a month after entering service. His widow remained on their home farm in Harrison County until her death in 1848, at the age of seventy years. Their children, all now deceased, were: John, Adam and George (twins) Caleb, Joseph and Aaron (twins). Adam Ross was a son of John and Charlotte (Hatcher) Ross, the former a native of Ire- land and the latter of Pennsylvania, where their marriage was solemnized and whence about the year 1804 they came to what is now Harrison County, Ohio, and took up Government land, this pioneer farm, in the midst of the forest wilds, having continued to be their place of abode until the death of Mr. Ross about 1830, when eighty years of age. His widow passed the closing years of her life in the home of one of her sons in Morgan County. Their chil- dren were: Adam, William, John, James, Han- nah, Eve, Susannah and Polly.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 41

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