History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 44

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

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James Mclaughlin, son of John and father of Samuel K., of this review, was born on the pioneer homestead near Adena, Jefferson County, and was the second son in the large family of children, of whom four sons and five daughters attained to years of maturity. Edu- cational advantages in his youth were limited in this section of Ohio, but by self-application he became a man of broad information and mature judgments. He was a staunch abolition- ist in the climacteric period leading up to the Civil war and united with the republican party at the time of its organization, his previous alignment having been with the whig party. He and his wife were zealous members of the United Presbyterian Church at Piney Fork, and on one occasion he represented his church as n delegate to the General Assembly of the de- nomination in the City of Philadelphia. He served long and effectively as an elder of the church, was a leader in movements tending to advance the material and civic welfare of the community and was specially influential in de- veloping an effective public-school system at Adena. He married Miss Sarah J. Kerr, who was born and reared in Harrison County, the eldest daughter of Samuel and Annie (Smith) Kerr, and of the nine children of this union one died in infancy; William B. was a resident of Adena, Jefferson County, at the time of his death; Ann D. became the wife of Lewis Bern-

hard, of Harrison County; Mary E. married William Courtright, of Harrison County; Nancy J. became the wife of Joseph C. McNary, of Unionport, Jefferson County ; Samuel K., imme- diate subject of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Sarah M. married Rev. Hugh W. Parks, of Harrison County; Joseph S., of Adena, Ohio, is now deceased; Mary Emma married Robert G. Dean, and they established their home at Omaha, Nebraska. She is now a widow, residing at Seattle, Washington, and the mother of two sons and two daughters liv- ing. James McLaughlin died August 26, 1865, in his fifty-second year, and his widow, surviv- ing him by many years, continued to reside at the old home in Jefferson County until her death, at the venerable age of seventy-two years.

Samuel K. MeLaughlin was born at Adena, Jefferson County, September 12, 1846, and was there reared to adult age. There he received the advantages of the common schools of the period, and at the age of eighteen years entered the McNeely Normal College at Hopedale, Har- rison County, where he continued his studies until the death of his father made it necessary for him to return to the old home and assist. his widowed mother in the management of the farm. While applying himself vigorously to farm work during the summer seasons he made- an admirable record as a successful and popu -- lar teacher in the public schools in the winter season after having passed the examination which entitled him to a teacher's certificate of the first class.

May 22, 1872, recorded the marriage of Mr. Mclaughlin to Miss Mary Belle Snider, who was born and reared in Green Township, Har- rison County, a daughter of Samuel and Hannah Snider, and soon after their marriage the young couple established their home on the old Hurford homestead in Short Creek Town- ship, Harrison County. In the following year they removed to Adena, Jefferson County, the old home of Mr. Mclaughlin, who resumed his educational service as a teacher in the village schools and who also erected in the meanwhile the best residence in the town. In 1875 they returned to Harrison County and established their home on the fine farm of 230 acres which was to continue as their abiding place for many years. In 1888 Mr. Mclaughlin erected on his farm one of the most commodious and modern farm houses in Short Creek Township. Mr. and Mrs. McLaughlin were members of the United Presbyterian Church until they took up their residence in Cadiz, since which time they have been members of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of four children : Charles Johnson, John Orfin, Hannah Lucretia and Samuel Parks, all of whom are deceased except Robert Parks, the youngest, who is now Government postoffice inspector at Waterloo, Iowa. He married Margaret McIlvaine, the daughter of Judge Walter G. Shotwell, of Cadiz. They are the parents of four daughters, Nancy Shotwell, Margaret McIlvaine, Mary Elizabeth and Ann.

Mr. Mclaughlin has never wavered in loyal allegiance to the republican party and has been

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influential in its council and campaign ac. tivities in Harrison County. He gave effective service as trustee of Short Creek Township and later represented Harrison and Carroll counties in the State Legislature for two terms, with a record that fully justified his election to this office. Mr. Mclaughlin made his farm one of the best improved and most valuable in Short Creek Township, and he still owns the property, though he has maintained his home at Cadiz since 1899 and is here actively and successfully engaged in the buying and shipping of wool, as one of the leading representatives of this line of business in Harrison County. A man of genial sincerity and sterling character, his circle of friends is virtually coincident with that of his acquaintances, and though he has passed the span of three score years and ten he is still hale and vigorous and takes satisfaction in his business activities.

HOMER CLYDE WILLIAMS. The editor of a newspaper in one of the smaller cities of the country comes in much more intimate touch with his public than does his fellow craftsman on one of the metropolitan dailies. Not only does the former know practically all of his readers personally, but he is acquainted with the history of his region and understands its needs so that he is able to give an intelligent and satisfactory support to its public-spirited measures and wage a relentless fight against those which, because of this very knowledge, he realizes will not be productive of lasting benefits. One of the men who is looked up to as one of the moulders of public opinion in Harrison County, is Homer Clyde Williams, editor of the Freeport Press, and one of the ablest journalists of this part of the state.

Homer Clyde Williams was born in Harrison County, Ohio, February 22, 1876, a son of Rev. Lyman B. Williams, who was editor of the Freeport Press until March, 1917, since which time he has been retired from all active busi- ness. H. C. Williams is a grandson of Elam and Elizabeth S. (McKitrick) Williams. Rev. Lyman B. Williams, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and an eloquent and able di- vine, has had the following children born to him : Hamilton Bertel, who married Olive Tewell, who bore him a son, Thomas, and he followed his father's example, entering the min- istry, but is a Presbyterian minister, and is also a writer of marked ability ; Homer Clyde, whose name heads this review; Everett, who was born March 5, 1879, died July 19, 1882; and Martha Edith, who married William A. Pettay and has four children, Jean Alton, Sarah Martha, William Lyman and Homer Buell. Mrs. Pettay is the youngest of the family. hav- ing been born February 9, 1892.

Homer Clyde Williams was reared in his na- tive county and attended its public schools. Always having a taste for editorial work, he developed it, and after he had secured a work- ing knowledge of his calling became part owner of the Freeport Press, of which he is editor, and he and his partner have made it one of the live journals of Carroll and Harrison counties.

On August 17, 1898, Mr. Williams was united in marriage with Margaret Derry, and they have two children, namely : Harry Dean, who was born September 3, 1899; and Mildred, who was born September 3, 1903. Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liams are numbered among the social leaders of Freeport, where they have lived for so long, and their pleasant home is often the scene of delightful gatherings of their many friends.

GEORGE O. FLEMING. One of the progressive general farmers and breeders of Holstein cattle and improved Chester-White hogs, who has attained to well-deserved distinction in these lines, is George O. Fleming, of Rumley Town- ship, whose well-cultivated farm contains 154 acres of valuable land.

George O. Fleming was born at East Spring- field, Jefferson County, Ohio, December 23, 1866, a son of Robert and Thryza ( Hamilton) Flem- ing, and grandson of James Fleming. James Fleming was born in Washington County, Penn- sylvania, while his wife, Mary Morland, was born in Maryland. Coming to Jefferson County, Ohio, about ninety years ago, James Fleming became one of the early farmers of that region and a man of considerable local prominence, both politically and in the Presbyterian Church, of which he and his wife were earnest members. Their children were as follows: Robert, James Dempsey and Sarah Ellen.

Robert Fleming was born in Island Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, and his wife. a native of the same county, was a daughter of Dr. George D. and Mary (Taylor) Hamilton. Dr. George D. Hamilton was one of the early physicians of Jefferson County. He and his wife had the following family : Thomas T., Thryza, Minnie, Minerva, Martha, George, Emma and Joseph. The Hamiltons were also members of the Presbyterian Church, while the Taylors were Quakers.

Until 1886 Robert Fleming continued to reside in Jefferson County, but in that year came to Harrison County and bought a farm in German Township, where he was engaged in agricul- tural pursuits until within a few years of his demise, when he retired and moved to Jewett. He died at the home of his son Charles at Marshallville, Wayne County, Ohio. He and his wife had the following children : George O .. Emma, Ada, Charles and Laura. Mrs. Fleming was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and was a lady of fine Christian character.

George O. Fleming went to school in Jefferson and Harrison counties, and had his initial ex- perience in individual farming in German Township. In 1897 he moved to his present farm in Rumley Township, and since then has improved all of the buildings and put every- thing in first-class shape. In addition to breed- ing cattle and hogs of the above mentioned strains he also breeds some Norman horses, and has been very successful with his experiments.

In 1893 Mr. Fleming was united in marriage with Ellen Johnson, a daughter of Alexander and Margaret (Galbraith) Johnson, and they have two children: Thryza and George Earl. Mrs. Fleming belongs to the United Presbyte- rian Church of German Township, while Mr.

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Fleming is a member of the German Reformed Church.

Alexander Johnson, father of Mrs. Fleming, was born in German Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and his wife was born in Rumley Township of the same county, a daughter of Samuel and Isabel (Galbraith) Galbraith. Samuel Galbraith and his wife were both born in Ireland, but came to the United States at an early day. Their children were as follows: James, Samuel, William, Jane, Margaret, Anna, Rebecca and an unnamed child. The family all belonged to the United Presbyterian Church.

The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Fleming, also Alexander Johnson, was born in Ireland, but when still a young man he came to the United States and located in Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. He was married to Ellen Brown, who was born in Maryland. For a time after coming to this country the elder Alexander Johnson was occupied in rafting timber down the river, and in 1800 he and several compan- ions took a load of flour on a raft on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans from Pittsburgh. Prices were so low in those days that they received so little for their flour that they were forced to make their way back to Pennsylvania on foot. About 1814 Alexander Johnson came to German Township, Harrison County, and, buying a farm, lived on it for the rest of his life, dying on it when ninety-six years and six months old. He and his wife had the following family born to them : John, Alex- ander, Andrew, Nancy and Mary. They, too, were all members of the United Presbyterian Church.

The younger Alexander Johnson, father of Mrs. Fleming, was reared in German Township, and for many years was one of the substantial farmers of that township, but during the later portion of his life he moved to Rumley Town- ship, and there he died. He and his wife had children as follows: John B., Samuel G., Alexander H., who is living at Columbus, Ohio, where he is engaged in the practice of law: Ellen Jane, who is Mrs. George O. Fleming: and Isabel Ann, who married M. H. Finnicum. Mrs. Johnson belonged to the United Presby- terian Church, and Mr. Johnson attended ser- vices with her, although he never connected him- self with any religious organization.

WILLIAM F. MULL. Having spent his life on his present farm, which is also his birthplace, William F. Mull, one of the intelligent farmers of Rumley Township, naturally is interested in the neighborhood and feels bound to it by ties of unusual strength. He is acquainted with the history of the county, and appreciates the value of the advance which has been made by it in every direction. He was born on this same farm July 14, 1866, a son of David and Rachel (Dotts) Mull. David Mull was born in Wash- ington County, Ohio, while his wife was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, at Stone Creek, a daughter of Thomas and Delilah Dotts.

Thomas Dotts was an old school-teacher, and was also a justice of the peace and married a large number of people. In addition to dis- charging the duties of his office he was engaged

in farming, operated a water-power grist-mill, but later on in life went to Iowa, and was there engaged in farming until the close of his life. The children of Thomas Dotts were as follows: Rachel, Julia, Margaret, Jennie, Orpha, Philip, William, Thomas and Reason, and three or four others who died when small. The Dotts family were all Lutherans.

David Mull had the misfortune to lose his father when he was only a small boy, and he was bound out to a slave owner of Virginia. Because of the harsh treatment he received he ran away from his master and came back to Ohio, and managed to find something to do. Although he had absolutely no schooling, he was naturally intelligent and managed to get along in life very well without the educational advantages now deemed so necessary. His first wife was Elizabeth Smith, and their children were Samuel, deceased, and Susannah, deceased, who became the wife of William Long and lived on a farm in Jefferson County, Ohio. After the death of his first wife David Mull married a cousin of the first Mrs. Mull, who also bore the name of Elizabeth Smith, and they had a daughter, Mary, who became the wife of James Hatfield. Rachel Dotts was the third wife of David Mull, and she bore him the following family : Delilah E., who is deceased ; Orpha L., who is deceased, was the wife of Sampson Shearer; Luther M., who lives at South Bend, Kansas; and William F., who was the youngest. For some years Mr. and Mrs. Mull were very active members of the Lutheran Church of New Rumley.

William F. Mull went to the rural schools of Rumley Township, and then, as his father was anxious for him to have the advantages denied him, he was sent to Hopedale Normal College at Hopedale, Ohio, during 1884 and 1885. In 1887 Mr. Mull began teaching school, and from then on until 1913, a period of twenty-six years, he was engaged in the educational .field, and be- came one of the most popular educators of Har- rison County. As a relaxation from the burdens of his calling he interested himself in farming, living on his farm and driving back and forth each day in order to reach his school, which at times was as far off as ten miles. Since 1913 he has been devoting himself to his farm and is the owner of the Mull homestead of 151% acres of land on which he has put all of the buildings except the residence and a wagon shed. He is doing general farming and stock- raising, specializing on feeding registered Shorthorn cattle. One of the features of his place is the fine seven-acre orchard.

On November 25, 1897, Mr. Mull was united In marriage with Emma C. Howell, a daughter of David Martin and Mary Jane ( Wheeler) Howell and they have three children, namely : Dean D., who was graduated from the Jewett High School and later from the business college at Scio, Ohio, is now a clerk of the Pennsyl- vania Railway Company at Cadiz Junction, Ohio; Iris Myrtle and William F., Jr. David Martin Howell, father of Mrs. Mull, was born near Hopedale, Harrison County. He served in Company C, Thirtieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry for over three years during

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the Civil war, and was wounded at Kenesaw Mountain. After the war he followed farming near Hopedale, where he died March 9, 1915. His wife died in 1912. Mr. and Mrs. Mull are valued members of the Lutheran Church of New Rumley. It would be difficult to find people who are more representative of the best element of the county than the Mulls, and through his connection with educational matters as well as otherwise Mr. Mull is known over a wide area, and many of the leading men and women of the county today are proud of the fact that they were at one time under his watchful and intelligent supervision, and re- member his painstaking efforts in their behalf with grateful affection.

WILLIS C. CHANEY, one of the younger ex- ponents of farm industry in Athens Township, Harrison County, was born in Short Creek Township, this county, on the 13th of Septem- ber, 1881, and is a representative of a family whose name has been worthily identified with the history of the county for more than a cen- tury. He is a son of Samuel V. and Clarinda (Edwards) Chaney, both likewise natives of Harrison County, where the father achieved success in connection with farm industry, to which he had been reared. He and his wife now reside in Short Creek Township, and con- cerning them more specific mention is made on other pages, in the sketch of the career of their eldest son, Charles A.

Samuel V. Chaney was born in Athens Town- ship December 14, 1846, and was reared to man- hood on the old pioneer farm of his father. He is a son of Thomas Chaney, whose death oc- curred July .1, 1890, and whose widow survived him by several years, the names of their chil- dren being as here noted : James, John, William, Sarah, Martha, Samuel V., Mary Ann, Elizabeth Ann, Mary Ellen, Thomas W., Hannah and Nancy. Thomas Chaney was born in Virginia, October 28, 1803, and two years later, in 1805, his parents came to Ohio and numbered them- selves among the early settlers of what is now Harrison County. He was a son of Nathan and Sarah . ( Mansfield) Chaney, who became the parents of six sons and seven daughters. Nathan Chaney was born in Maryland, where his ancestors settled in the early colonial days, and he became a farmer in Virginia, where his marriage occurred and whence he came with his family to Harrison County, as noted above. Here he died in 1837, and his wife survived him by ten years, her death occurring in 1847. They endured to the full the hardships of fron- tier life, and their names merit enduring place on the roll of the sterling pioneers of this now favored section of the Buckeye State.

Thomas Chaney was reared to manhood under the conditions of the pioneer days, and he eventually became the owner of one of the excellent farms of Athens Township, where he remained until the time of his death. Septem- ber 25, 1836, recorded his marriage to Miss Elizabeth Clark, daughter of James and Sarah ( Watson) Clark, who came to Ohio from Fay- ette County, Pennsylvania, Mr. Clark having served during the entire period of the War of

1812. Samuel V. and Clarinda (Edward) Chaney became the parents of four children- Iona Estelle, Charles A., William V. and Willis Craig.

Willis Craig Chaney is indebted to the dis- trict school locally known as the Hawk's Nest School, in Short Creek Township, for his rudi- mentary education, which was supplemented by his attending the village schools of New Athens for four years and the Cadiz High School one year, besides which he was for two terms a student in Franklin College at New Athens. He was reared on the home farm and early began to contribute his quota to its work, so that he was well fortified when in 1910 he purchased a farm of 125 acres in Athens Township, where he has since continued his activities as an agri- culturist and stock-grower, though he has since sold sixty acres of the original tract. He is a democrat in politics, and his wife is a birthright member of the Society of Friends, with mem- bership in the church of this denomination at West Grove.

On the 27th of April, 1910, Mr. Chaney was united in marriage to Miss Clara Belle Spar- row, daughter of John C. Sparrow, of Athens Township, and they have three children-Vir- ginia Isabel, Delma Iona and Sarah Marguerite.

HABTZELL LOVE, of Athens Township, has al- ways lived in one community. He was born December 19, 1884, and is a son of George and in the line of Georges through three generations of the Love family. George Love, the father, was born September 9, 1842, and the mother, Eleanor Caroline (Healea) Love, was born March 29, 1845, in Harrison County. Mr. Love lived on a farm until 1906, when he moved to New Athens. On September 17, 1910, Mrs. Love died in New Athens, and Mr. Love passed away on August 10, 1920. The Loves are Presby- . terians.

The grandfather, George Love, married Jane McCracken, of Athens Township. The great- grandfather, George Love, married Mary F. Cook. They were pioneers of Athens Township, Harrison County. Their children were: Robert. George, Mary, John, Martha, James and Mar- garet. James was a Civil war soldier and died in a hospital at Fredericksburg, Maryland. Of the above children only Margaret is living.

As a boy Hartzell Love attended Oak Hill District School and later he attended high school in New Athens. His entire life has been spent on the farm. Hartzell Love married first, Dora Annetta Moore, daughter of Walker Moore, of Athens Township, and she died in June, 1907. On October 1, 1913, Mr. Love mar- ried Bertha M. Howell, a daughter of Harvey W. and Mary (Griffith) Howell. They are members of the Presbyterian Church in New Athens. Mr. Love is trustee of Athens Town- ship. To Mr. and Mrs. Love a daughter was born in September 6, 1920, Martha Healea.

H. W. Howell was a farmer of Union Town- ship, Belmont County. His wife died in 1891 and he died in June, 1915. Their children are: Ralph C., deceased; Anna, deceased, and Bertha. Mr. Howell later married Ola M. Groves and they had two sons, Willard W. and

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Ray T. Howell. Mr. and Mrs. Howell are mem- bers of the Methodist Church in Flushing.

REV. JONATHAN SHARP MCCREADY. It has been the privilege of Mrs. Margaret McFarland McCready of Cadiz to commemorate her hus- band, the Rev. J. S. McCready, in whose honor McCready Post G. A. R. in Cadiz is named, in the annals of Harrison County. She became his wife on May 20, 1856, and on August 7 of the same year he was ordained and installed as minister of the Cadiz United Presbyterian Church, remaining as its pastor until August 14, 1862, when he enlisted and was made cap- tain of Company H, One Hundred Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and went to the front as a Civil war soldier.

On May 6, 1864, Captain McCready was wounded in the left arm while fighting in the battle of the Wilderness. He was carried from the field and taken to a hospital in Washing- ton, D. C., and on September 7 he died in Baltimore on his way home to Harrison County. As a minister of the Gospel Reverend McCready soon won the affection and confidence of his people. While he was kind and unobtrusive in manner and courteous to all, when it came to a question of right he was as firm as the rock. In his preaching he portrayed the truth in all of its strength and attractiveness. He served the church in Cadiz from the time of his ordination to the ministry until he an- swered the country's call and went into the Union army. Through all the years Mrs. McCready has continued her residence in the community. Reverend McCready was born in Darlington, Pennsylvania, and was a son of Hugh McCready, of an old Pennsylvania family.

While paying tribute to her husband Mrs. McCready also enrolls the McFarland family history among the pioneers of Harrison County. She is a daughter of William McFarland, who was born February 2, 1794, in Ireland. He was a son of Robert and Elizabeth (Ferguson) McFarland, the father born in Ireland and the mother in England. The year he was born they came to America, locating in Washington County, Pennsylvania. In 1800 they removed to Athens Township, Harrison County, beginning their residence in Ohio with the beginning of the nineteenth century. The children in this pioneer McFarland family were William McFar- land and a sister, Mary. They were members of the Seceder Church, which was later known as the United Presbyterian Church in Harrison County. William McFarland was educated at home by his parents, and when he was thirteen years old he was a teacher.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 44

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