History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 45

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

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On December 25, 1823, William McFarland married Elizabeth Henderson. His home was always in Athens Township, where he accumu- lated 300 acres of land, and he was a leader of thought and action in the community. In 1843-4 he was a member of the Ohio Legisla- ture, and later he served for several years as an associate judge of Common Pleas Court in Harrison, Belmont and Jefferson counties. Judge McFarland and his wife were pioneer temperance workers in Harrison County, and in the days when it was customary to supply

harvest hands with whisky they instituted the custom of supplying lunches-Coffee, Johnny cake, etc., instead of liquor. In that way they had the good will of the men in the field, who recognized their position on a moral question. Mrs. McFarland died in 1875, and he died two years later.

The McFarlands reared a large family in Harrison County. Their children are: Andrew, Mary, Elizabeth, Martha, James W., William, Margaret (Mrs. McCready), Robert, Nancy J. and Sarah, all of whom are deceased excepting Mrs. McCready and Sarah. All the sons were Civil war soldiers and James and William were ministers, the latter occupying the pulpit of the United Presbyterian Church in Cambridge as many years as the Children of Israel wandered in the Wilderness. Mrs. McCready and her sister Elizabeth were the wives of ministers. The McCready-McFarland names will always live in the annals of Harrison County.

WILLIAM J. MORGAN is the owner of an ex- cellent farm of 150 acres in Cadiz Township, Harrison County. He has been a resident of the county from the time of his birth and is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of this section of the Buckeye State. He was born in Athens Township, Harrison County, Febru- ary 14, 1854, and is a son of Michael and Eleanor (Whan) Morgan, the former of whom was born in. Belmont County, Ohio, June 14, 1817, and the latter was born in Athens Town- ship, Harrison County, May 13, 1813. Mrs. Morgan passed to the life eternal on the 24th of January, 1891, her husband having survived her by more than a decade and having died in Short Creek Township April 8, 1903. Philip Morgan, father of Michael, was born in Belmont County, where he became a prosperous farmer, and he and his wife, whose family name was Jenkins, were venerable pioneer citizens of that county at the time of their deaths. They be- came the parents of eight children-Michael, Philip, Amos, Levi, George, Milton, Sarah and Susannah. John and Margaret (Boggs) Whan, maternal grandparents of William J. Morgan, passed the closing years of their lives in Athens Township, Harrison County, where Mr. Whan developed a productive farm. His children were five in number-James, John, Eleanor, Sarah (Mrs. John Mccullough) and Hannah.

Michael Morgan was reared and educated in Belmont County and in his youth learned the tanner's trade. He came to Harrison County and found employment at his trade in the vil- lage of New Athens, where he remained until 1851, when he purchased and established his home on a farm in Short Creek Township, where he continued to devote his attention to agricultural industry and stock-raising during the remainder of his life. He and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church, in which he served a long time as elder, and they held secure place in the esteem of all who knew them. The names and respective dates of birth of their children are here noted : Mary R., November 3, 1840; George W., July 3, 1844 (died in early childhood) ; Emmett, June 15, 1846 (died in childhood) ; Margaret E ..

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August 5, 1848; James W., August 28, 1851 (died March 1, 1915) ; William J., February 14, 1854; and Flora E., January 20, 1859.

William J. Morgan gained his preliminary education in the district schools of Short Creek Township, and thereafter was for three years a student in Franklin College, his brothers and sisters likewise having been afforded the ad- vantages of this excellent institution. He con- tinued to be associated with the activities of his father's farm the major part of the time until his marriage, in 1882, and he then pur- chased the old farm of Joseph Clark in Cadiz Township, where he has since continued to be successfully engaged in agricultural and live- stock enterprise, with a record of having been at all times one of the progressive and success- ful exponents of farm industry in his native county. He is a republican in politics, and he and his family hold membership in the Presby- terian Church.

September 7, 1882, recorded the marriage of Mr. Morgan to Miss Elizabeth B. Cochran, who was born and reared in Harrison County, and they have three children: Ralph Cochran Mor- gan, who, was born July 5, 1883, is associated with his father in the management of the home farm; Clarence M., born January 11, 1890, is a dentist by profession and is engaged in prac- tice in the City of Canton, Stark County; and Margaret Helen, who was born May 2, 1893, remains at the parential home. Samuel Coch- ran, father of Mrs. Morgan, was born in Cadiz Township, this county, March 31, 1811, and his wife, whose maiden name was Margaret Thomp- son, was born in Green Township July 11, 1820. a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Stewart) Thompson. Samuel Cochran was a son of Rob- ert and Sarah (Calhoun) Cochran, whose mar- riage was solemnized in 1805, both having been natives of Pennsylvania, where Mr. Cochran was born September 15, 1771. He became one of the very early settlers in what is now Cadiz Township, Harrison County, where he estab-

lished his residence in 1803. He returned to Pennsylvania, where his marriage occurred, and upon his return to Harrison County his young wife accompanied him, she having made the journey on horseback. He reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds, and on this place he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. Following is a brief record concerning their children : Eleanor, born February 11, 1808, died September 17, 1867; Samuel, born March 31, 1811, died September 7, 1899; David Calhoun, born in 1814, died October 30, 1883; Mary King, born December 11, 1817, died July 23, 1899; Robert Reid, born September 15, 1822, died September 1, 1902; and Sarah Jane, born Octo- ber 9, 1825, is deceased, the exact date of her death not being available.

Samuel Cochran was engaged in farming in Cadiz Township until his death, which occurred in 1899, as noted in the foregoing list, and his widow passed away January 29, 1906. Both were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church, in which Mr. Cochran served many years as an elder. They became the parents of four children : Clara S., born April 3, 1850, died January 20, 1878; Robert B. was born

February 2, 1852, and is now deceased; Eliza- beth Belle, wife of William J. Morgan, of this review, was born May 8, 1854; and Martha Ellen was born October 27, 1856, and died Feb- ruary 27, 1914.

ALBERT W. LAUGHLIN was numbered among the substantial and representative exponents of farm industry in Harrison County, and his op- erations were conducted on the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth, in Cadiz Township, the place being well improved and comprising eighty-three and three-fourths acres. Here Mr. Laughlin was born on the 2d of March, 1856, a son of Robert and Rachel ( Mer- ryman) Laughlin, the former a native of Tus- carawas County and the latter of Harrison County. Robert Laughlin was long numbered among the successful farmers of Cadiz Town- ship, where he owned and improved a tract of eighty-three acres and where he and his wife continued to reside until their deaths, when well advanced in years, both having been earn- est members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of a family of four- teen children, namely : James, Hannah. Rebecca, Robert, Sheridan, George, Johnson, Albert, Ruth Alice, and Elizabeth, all of whom are deceased. Those living are Sophia, Rachel, Nettie and Isabel.

Albert W. Laughlin acquired his youthful education in the schools of his native township, where he was continuously identified with farm enterprise until his death on September 11, 1920. His success was on a parity with his well directed endeavors as an agriculturist and stock-grower. On Christmas day of the year 1884 he was united in marriage to Miss Anna Elizabeth Bricker, daughter of John and Lu- cinda Bricker, of whom more specific mention will be found on other pages of this volume. For seven years after his marriage Mr. Laugh- lin conducted operations on the farm owned by his father-in-law, and he then returned to the old homestead, where he lived until his death. He was a democrat in politics and served twenty years as a member of the school board of his district. To Mr. and Mrs. Laughlin the following children were born : George, a farmer in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, married Fannie McFar- land: Anna is the wife of Walter Cope, living near Jewett; John married Opal Rowland; Vera is the wife of Lyle Cope; Albert married Miss Clara Baker; Paul married Alice Housley ; and Margaret is the wife of Glenn Mckibben.

WILLIAM WILSON MOLAUGHLIN is the owner of an excellent farm of eighty and one-half acres in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, and is one of the vigorous and success- ful agriculturists and stock-growers of the younger generation in that township, where he is now beginning to give special attention to the breeding and raising of blooded Shorthorn cattle.

William Wilson Mclaughlin was born in Bel- mont County, Ohio, December 9, 1879, and is a son of James A. and Sarah (Barkhurst) Mclaughlin, individual mention of the father being made on other pages of this volume, 80

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that further review of the family history is not here demanded. He whose name introduces this article gained his early education in the public schools of Belmont and Jefferson counties and in 1907 he came with his father to Harri- son County, where the latter engaged in farm enterprise in Short Creek Township. Here Wil- liam W. was associated with his father's farm industry until his marriage on October 1, 1912, and the following winter they spent in Florida, and then resided in Cadiz for one year. In 1915 Mr. Mclaughlin purchased his present farm in Short Creek Township, and here he has since been successfully engaged in effective enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower, with high civic standing in the community. His political allegiance is given to the repub- lican party, he holds membership in the United Presbyterian Church, and his wife is a birth- right member of the Society of Friends, with which she maintains active and appreciative affiliation.

On the 1st of October, 1912, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Mclaughlin to Miss Erie Esther Fox, who was born on April 13, 1880, and reared in Short Creek Township, a daugh- ter of the late William Spicer Fox, whose death occurred January 28, 1908. Mr. Fox was born in Short Creek Township September 22, 1839, and was a son of Charles James and Esther (Cooper) Fox, the former of whom was born in the City of Washington, D. C., October 17, 1805, and the latter of whom was born near Baltimore, Maryland, April 4, 1810. The Fox family is of honorable English origin and its history has been fully written and published, representatives of the family in Harrison County having copies of these genealogical rec- ords, running back to the year 1650. Charles James Fox was a son of Josiah Fox, who was born in Falmouth, England, October 9, 1763, and who entered upon a seafaring life when a young man of about twenty-seven years. He visited many of the important parts of the world and in 1793 he was engaged by the United States Government as navy constructor, in which capacity he drafted plans for a goodly number of early war vessels. He continued in this service until 1811, when he located at Wheeling, West Virginia. In 1814 he established his home on a frontier farm at Colerain in Belmont County, Ohio, and there he died in 1847, his wife having passed away in 1841. By reason of his having been concerned in the building of war vessels Mr. Fox was disowned by the So- ciety of Friends, with which the family has been prominently identified for many genera- tions.

Charles James Fox settled in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, Ohio, in 1842, and here he passed the remainder of his life. He became one of the most successful farmers and wealthy and influential citizens of the county, and both he and his wife were venerable in years at the time of their deaths, they having been earnest birthright members of the Society of Friends. He died June 21, 1895, and his wife died April 2, 1896.

William S. Fox, a man of superior education and fine intellectuality, developed one of the

fine farms of Short Creek Township, and on his farm he constructed a large pond and engaged in fish culture. He was a leader in community sentiment and action, was a staunch republican and he and his wife were members of the Hick- site branch of the Society of Friends. In 1876 Mr. Fox wedded Miss Esther J. Moore, daughter of Jeremiah Moore, of Clearfield County, Penn- sylvania, and of this union were born three children-Mary Moore, John Francis and Erie Esther.

Mr. and Mrs. McLaughlin have three chil- dren, whose names and respective dates of birth are here recorded : Francis Fox, February 22, 1915: James Alfred, September 29, 1916; and Dorothy Loraine, born September 17, 1918.

GEORGE W. YOUNG, one of the enterprising business men of Freeport, is engaged in hand- ling hardware and agricultural implements, and is conducting his enterprise in such a manner as to build up a large trade and win the ap- proval of his fellow citizens because of his up- right methods. He was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, August 18, 1847, a son of Chris- topher Young. The birth of Christopher Young occurred in Maryland, October 7. 1805, while that of his wife, Elizabeth Burkhead, took place in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1816. She was a daughter of Thomas and Rachel Burkhead, who removed from Harrison County to Guernsey County, Ohio, when Mrs. Young was a small girl. They had the following children; Joshua, William, Jackson, Elizabeth, Rachel, Happy, Plesh and Anna.

Christopher Young went from Maryland to Wisconsin while still a young man, and for five years was employed in the lead mines of the latter state, but then returned home and moved to Guernsey County, Ohio, where he was mar- ried. A few years later he went to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and bought a farm, conducting it until 1872. In that year he sold his farm and moved back to Guernsey County, bought another farm, and lived on it until he passed away. His children were as follows: Sarah Jane and Elizabeth, both of whom died when small children; George W., whose name heads this biography; Rachel D., who was the fourth child; and Mary M., who was the youngest born. Both Mr. and Mrs. Young were stead- fast members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

George W. Young was reared by careful par- ents who taught him to make himself useful, and he remained with them until he was thirty- three years of age. At that time he bought a small store at Smyrna, Freeport Township, and conducted it for twenty-one years, gradually expanding it until it was a large establishment when he sold it in 1902, and moved to Freeport. Since locating in this city he has conducted his present hardware and farm implement business, one of the leading ones of its kind in the county.

On March 7, 1877, Mr. Young married Lovina Sheppard, born in Guernsey County, Ohio, a daughter of Hudson and Rebecca (Miller) Sheppard. Mr. and Mrs. Young have one son, Jetty H., who married Ada Reaves, and they have two children, Mary Elizabeth and Ruth

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A. The family all belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church of Freeport.

Jetty H. Young attended the public schools of Smyrna and a commercial college of Scio, Ohio. Since 1902 he has been associated with his father in business, and is now its manager. He belongs to Freeport Lodge No. 415, F. & A. M., and Cyrus Chapter No. 114, R. A. M., of Uhrichsville.

Both of the Youngs, father and son, are very fine men, good citizens in every particular, and their standing is of the best. They have not sought to gain wealth or prominence by any unusual methods, but have simply gone ahead carrying on their business and doing their duty to their families, their church and their .com- . munity as they ought to do, and as a result are numbered among the worth-while persons of Harrison County.

LONZO S. GREEN, postmaster of Freeport. is a man worthy of the confidence reposed in him by the Government, and one who holds the esteem of his fellow citizens. He was born in Freeport Township, Harrison County, Ohio, August 15, 1894, a son of Morris L. Green and grandson of Holland and Hannah Green. Hol- land Green was one of the pioneers of Harrison County, and was the pioneer cabinetmaker of Freeport Township. As was usual in those days, the cabinetmaker was called upon to make the coffins and act as undertaker at the time of death, and he assisted in burying many of the early settlers of the county. He continued to live in this neighborhood until his demise. and was a man widely known and universally re- spected. His children were as follows: Morris L., Wiliam, and Jennie, who married James Compher.

Morris L. Green was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, about one mile west of Smyrna, Septem- ber 15, 1856. As a young man he followed the saw-mill business, leaving it to become a well driller, and drilled wells at Freeport and the surrounding country. Still later he moved on a farm in Freeport Township, where he lived until 1911, all of that time being engaged in farming, but in that year he came to Free- port, where he has since resided. Since locat- ing at Freeport he has been occupied as a sta- tionary engineer with the Freeport Milling Com- pany.

On June 3, 1882, Morris L. Green was united in marriage with Margaret I. McMillin, born July 1, 1860, at Middleton, Ohio, a daughter of William and Rebecca MeMillin. Mrs. Green died February 17, 1920, having borne her hus- band the following children : Ethel, who mar- ried Joseph Maxwell, lives at New Philadelphia, Ohio, and has two children, James and Cath- erine; Elsie, who married W. B. Marsh, lives at New Philadelphia, Ohio; Jennie, who mar- ried Robert D. Cotton, lives at New Philadel- phia, Ohio, and has three children, Dalton, Freda and Beryl; and Lonzo S., who is the youngest in the family.

Lonzo S. Green attended the Dry Ridge School of Freeport Township, and after complet- ing the common school course took the teach- er's examination, received his license and began

teaching school, continuing in this line of work for seven consecutive years in Freeport Town- ship. During his vacation periods he attended normal school and in this way completed his high school work. For two summers he went to the Freeport County Normal School at Free- port during 1914 and 1915, and for one summer term was a student at Wooster, Ohio, complet- ing these studies with the summer of 1916. On July 25, 1919, Mr. Green was made acting post- master of Freeport, and was appointed post- master September 6 of that same year. He still holds that office, and discharges its duties effi- ciently and satisfactorily.

On August 25, 1915, Mr. Green was married to Mabel Cummins. Mr. and Mrs. Green are members of the Presbyterian Church, of which he has been an elder since 1917. They are de- · lightful people, the center of a congenial social circle, and number their friends by the extent of their acquaintances.

NATHAN M. GRAY, manager of the Freeport Milling Company, is one of the experienced business men and influential citizens of Harri- son County. He was born in Guernsey County, Ohio. June 5, 1859, a son of Nathan and Sarah J. (Fisher) Gray, and grandson of George Gray.

George Gray was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, where his wife, Matilda, was also born. He was a farmer of Belmont County, Ohio, to which region he came in young man- hood, and he was a well known figure of his dav. His children were as follows: William, Silas and Nathan. The parents were very re- ligious people and belonged to the Methodist Church.

Nathan Gray was born in Belmont County. Ohio, July 22, 1823, and died January 10, 1910. His wife was born in Maryland in 1822, a daughter of Perry Fisher. For some years after his marriage Nathan Gray was engaged in farming in Belmont County, and then moved to Guernsey County, Ohio, where he spent about the same length of time as a farmer. Finally he retired and spent the last four years of his life at Massillon, Ohio, where he died. He and his wife had the following children: H. B., who married Phoebe Hall, is deceased, as is his wife; Nathan M., whose name heads this review ; George E., who is deceased, married Lucy Thwaite, also deceased, was a Methodist clergy- man : and Mary, who married Dr. R. J. Pumph- rey, lives at Massillon, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Gray belonged to the Methodist Epis- copal Church.

Nathan M. Gray remained on the home farm until he reached the age of seventeen years, but at that time went to North Carolina and remained for three years. He then went to Kansas, where for two years he was engaged in the grain business, but returned to Ohio and established himself in a general merchandise business at Freeport, and conducted it for twenty years. Then failing health made it ad- visable for him to sell, and he did so In 1907. Having in a measure regained his strength, in 1908 he bought an interest in the Freeport Milling Company and has been its manager ever

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since. The company does a general and ex- change milling business.

On December 19, 1883, Mr. Gray was united in marriage with Alice Harbaugh, a daughter of O. P. and Olive Harbaugh, of Clifton, Kan- sas. They have no children. Mr. and Mrs. Gray are also members of the Methodist Epis- copal Church of Freeport. Mr. Gray belongs to the Blue Lodge at Freeport, the Chapter at Uhrichsville, and is well known in Masonry. Both he and his wife are held in high esteem and have many friends in Harrison and ad- joining counties.

JOHN M. PALMER was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, on the 27th of May. 1873. He gained his early education in the district schools of this township, and is now numbered among its substantial and progressive exponents of farm industry. He is a son of Andrew Palmer, of whom specific mention is made on other pages, with due record concern- ing the family history. At the age of sixteen years John M. Palmer began his independent career by obtaining employment as a farm hand. and he continued to be thus engaged for several years. After his marriage he established him- self upon his present farm, which comprised 110 acres at the time when he purchased the prop- erty, in 1901, but to which he has since added until he now has a well improved and valuable farm property of 186% acres, of which 160 acres constitute the home place, the remaining acre- age likewise being in Nottingham Township. Vigorous work and good management have brought cumulative success to Mr. Palmer in his independent activities as an agriculturist and grower of live stock, and he is one of the substantial and popular citizens of his native township, where he served two years as town- ship assessor. He holds membership in the Bethel Chapel of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the home township.

On the 26th of October, 1904, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Palmer to Miss Cora E. Walker, daughter of L. P. and Elizabeth (Adams) Walker, of Nottingham Township, and the supreme bereavement in his life came when his devoted wife was summoned to eternal rest. She was an earnest member of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church, and her death occurred on the 19th of August, 1919. She is survived by two children-Denver Lewis, who was born November 15, 1906, and Helen Elizabeth, who was born December 26, 1911.

GEORGE M. MALLARNEE. One of the most pleasing revelations of this publication is that in both Harrison and Carroll counties are to be found at the present day many representa- tives of honored pioneer families who initiated the work of development and progress in east- ern Ohio, and such distinction attaches to George M. Mallarnee, who is now one of the prosperous and enterprising exponents of farm industry in his native county. He was born in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, February 19, 1876, and he has resided since he was four years old on the fine farm which he now owns in Nottingham Township, the same comprising

160 acres, and special attention is being here given to the raising of fine sheep in connection with well ordered agricultural exploitation.

John Calvin Mallarnee, father of him whose name introduces this review, was born at Bloomfield, Jefferson County, Ohio, October 22, 1843, a son of John G. and Mary (Galbraith) Mallarnee, the former of whom was born in Maryland in 1815, and the latter of whom was born in Ohio about the year 1820. John G. Mallarnee was a son of Isaac Mallarnee, who was born in the State of Maryland about the year 1778, and who was there reared to man- hood. There he learned the trade of wagon- maker, and from his native state he went forth as a soldier in the War of 1812. Soon after the close of this conflict he came with his family to Ohio, where he first located at Bloomfield, Jefferson County, whence he removed to Smith- field, that county, shortly afterward. At the latter place he followed his trade until impaired health prevented, and he passed the closing years of his life in the home of his son John G., then a resident of Guernsey County, where he died in 1870. John G. Mallarnee was a child at the time of the family removal to Ohio, where he was reared to manhood and where he learned the trade of wagonmaker under the effective direction of his father. He finally en- gaged in the work of his trade at Bloomfield, Jefferson County, where he remained until 1850, when he removed to Tuscarawas County. Within a short time thereafter he purchased and removed to a small farm near West Chester, Guernsey County, where he and his wife remained until their death, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Protestant Church. They became the parents of eleven children : John Calvin (father of the subject of this sketch). Sylvester, Jasper, Laf- ton, Ashley, Samuel K .. Margaret, Sarah E., Mary C., Elizabeth and Estella.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 45

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