History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 48

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

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Lane: Charles C., of this review, was the next in order of birth: Eva is the wife of Harry B. McConnell; Jessie is the wife of Bingham C. Scott : Samuel F. resides in Cadiz ; and Emma is the wife of William Richey of Cadiz Township.

Charles C. Dickerson is indebted to the pub- lic schools of his native township for his early educational discipline, and he was a young man when he initiated his independent operations as a farmer in Athens Township. After his mar- riage, in 1897, he removed to Jefferson County, where he was engaged in farm enterprise twelve years, and in 1912 he purchased his present well improved farm, which is devoted to diversified agriculture and to the raising of good grades of live stock, the place being one of the valu- able farms of Cadiz Township. He is a demo- crat in politics, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Asbury Chapel Methodist Epis- copal Church, not far distant from their home, he having been superintendent of its Sunday School for a number of years.

On the 6th of May, 1897, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dickerson to Miss Bertie K. Birney, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County, and they have one child, Mary Helen, who was born March 17, 1908. Mrs. Dickerson was born in Athens Township Octo- ber 5, 1870, and is a daughter of Robert N. and Mary M. (Brown) Birney, the former of whom was born in Monroe Township, this county, Sep- tember 5, 1850, and the latter of whom was born in Athens Township, May 20, 1850, she having been a daughter of George and Catherine Brown and her father having been a prosperous farmer in Athens Township. Robert N. Birney was a son of Hugh and Anna ( Reynolds) Birney, pio- neer settlers in Monroe Township. Their chil- dren were five in number: Jane, William, Nel- son, Joanna and Robert N.

Robert N. Birney was one of the representa- tive farmers of Athens Township from the time of his marriage until his death, which occurred November 5, 1917. His wife passed to the life eternal on the 20th of February, 1912. Both were earnest and influential members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at New Athens, and he served many years as superintendent of its Sunday School. Of their children Mrs. Dicker- son is the first born: Daisy, born October 17, 1874, is the wife of William H. Chandler, now of Portsmouth, Ohio; George Hugh, who was born March 29, 1876, married Miss Bernice Dickinson, and is now living in 'Cleveland, Ohio : and Dwight, born May 5, 1885, married Miss Flora Birney. and is also a resident of Cleveland.

The pleasant rural home of Mr. and Mrs. Dickerson is known for its cordial and unas- suming hospitality and is a center of much of the representative social activity of the im- mediate community.

JOHN HARRISON. Both by reason of his ster- ling character and large and worthy achieve- ment and his status as a representative of one of the honored and influential pioneer families of Harrison County. is the late John Harrison entitled to special tribute in this history. He passed virtually his entire life on the fine old

homestead farm which was the place of his birth in North Township, this county, and in his civic relations as well as his career as a representative of agricultural and livestock in- dustry in his native county he was emphatically the apostle of progress, true and earnest in all of the relations of life and well worthy of the high esteem in which he was uniformly held. He was born July 10, 1830, on the ancestral farmstead in North Township, and on this place his death occurred December 2, 1908.

John Harrison was a son of Joseph and El- len (Hartley) Harrison, both natives of Eng- land. Joseph Harrison was born on a fine old homestead known as Stubbens Farm, near Otley, Yorkshire, England, and was a son of John Har- rison, who first came from England to the United States in 1814 and who at the time made his way as far to the west as Pittsburgh, Penn- sylvania. After his return to England he there remained until 1816, when he came again to America and soon afterward became the first representative of the English pioneer families in North Township. Harrison County. In 1823 he returned to his native land, and there his death occurred about ten years later. when he was seventy years of age. He was a farmer by oc- cupation during his entire active career, and in England was the owner of an excellent farm of 114 acres in Yorkshire. His wife likewise passed the closing years of her life in England.

Joseph Harrison was a youth of sixteen years when he came with his father to the United States in 1816, and the home was established in a pioneer log cabin on a tract of about eight acres of timbered land in North Township, Har- rison County, where he did well his part in felling the forest trees and making the tract available for cultivation. In 1823 he returned with his father to England, but in 1826 he came again to the pioneer farm in North Township. Harrison County. In 1828 he here wedded Miss Ellen Hartley, daughter of Christopher Hart- ley. who came from Carlton, England, and be- came a pioneer settler in Harrison County. Ohio, where he secured land in North Township and where his family joined him in 1820. Here he died in 1864, at the venerable age of eighty- six years, and his wife, Mary, passed away in 1867, aged seventy-eight years, their children having been seven in number. After their mar- riage Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Harrison settled on the farm which later became the property of their son John, subject of this memoir, and in 1835 they here replaced the primitive log house with a substantial frame building. Here Mrs. Harrison died in the year 1853, aged forty-seven years, and of their three children John and William became substantial farmers of North Township, the third son, Joseph, Jr., having died in 1847, at the age of seven years. In 1857 Joseph Harrison contracted a second marriage. when Sarah Heron became his wife, and he remained on his old home farm until his death. April 13, 1878, his widow having long survived him and having passed away in 1890, at the age of seventy-seven years. Both were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also the first wife. Joseph Harrison was a democrat until the anti-slavery movement led

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him in 1846 to transfer his allegiance to the free-soil party, from which he withdrew to ally himself with the republican party at the time of its organization. He had no desire for pub- lic office, but his civic loyalty caused him to give effective service as township trustee of North Township.

John Harrison gained his early education by attending winter sessions of the pioneer schools, and during the intervening summer seasons he found his youthful services in requisition in connection with the work of the home farm. He became not only the largest landholder in North Township, with a finely improved farm of 420 acres, but he also owned a farm of 290 acres in Carroll County. He was one of the foremost and most successful exponents of live- stock industry in this section of the state, was for a number of years a leader in the raising of sheep in Harrison County, but later gave his attention largely to dairy farming, in which connection he shipped large quantities of milk to Pittsburgh and other points, his shipment of milk in the year 1890 having aggregated nearly 15,000 gallons. Mr. Harrison was emphatically a man of prescience, enterprise and progressive- ness, and in this connection it is interesting to record that he introduced the first mowing ma- chine placed in operation in North Township, in 1857, besides which he manufactured and in- stalled on his farm the first tile drain-pipe in the township, his manufacturing of drain tile having been successfully continued for eleven years, within which he supplied much of the tiling utilized in his township. For fully half a century John Harrison rode a mowing ma- chine in each successive season, and he took great pride and satisfaction in his successful association with farm industry, in connection with which he was a leader in progressive move- ments in this section of the Buckeye State. On his farm he raised the largest steer ever shipped out of Harrison County, this animal having been shipped to Pittsburgh and having there tipped the scales at a weight of 3,250 pounds.

In politics Mr. Harrison became a stalwart advocate and supporter of the principles of the republican party, and in the climacteric period leading up to the Civil war he was a staunch abolitionist. A man of well fortified convic- tions, he never lacked the courage of the same, and his wife was guided and governed by the highest principles, so that to him was justly accorded the respect and confidence of his fel- low men. His widow survived until August 4, 1920. She was a devoted member of the Pres- byterian Church.

On the 22d of April, 1852, was solemnized the marriage of John Harrison to Miss Euphe- mia Patterson, who was born and reared in Carroll County and who was a daughter of John and Isabella (McMillan) Patterson, the latter of whom died September 13, 1859, and the former died November 17, 1846. They were married November 25, 1824. The Patterson family was founded in Carroll County in the early part of the nineteenth century. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison became the parents of twelve children. concerning whom brief record is here given : Joseph T., who is engaged in the prac-

tice of law, as one of the representative mem- bers of the bar in the City of Cincinnati, mar- ried Miss Venelia Smith, and they have one child, Louise Kerper. James M., who owns and resides upon a fine ranch in the State of Wash- ington, is, in 1920, serving his second term as representative of Skagit County in the Legisla- ture of that state. He married Miss Ora Holmes, and they have three children-George. Mina and John. John P., born March 31, 1857. died August 2. 1895. Charles S. was a resident of the State of Kansas at the time of his death on March 21, 1899. He was born March 22, 1858. Isabella and William were twins, born June 22, 1860. Isabella died March 24. 1896, and William died December 11. 1909. Isabella became the wife of Nelson Carter and was a resident of Marshall County Kansas, at the time of her death. Her twin brother. William, was a resident of California for a number of years prior to his death. Ella continued to reside in Harrison County until her death. in August, 1909. Abraham L., who was born February 28, 1864, died at Gunnison. Colorado, in the year 1882. Thaddeus S. is associated with his brother Milton B. in the management of the fine old home farm in North Township. Effie is the wife of Sherman McKlveen, of Scio, this county. Milton B. is the youngest of the sons. Virginia is the wife of Harry H. Whittaker, of Stock Township.

Thaddeus S. and Milton B. Harrison have maintained a partnership alliance in the owner- ship and operation of the old home farm since 1909, and the aggregate area of their holdings is 254 acres. They are well upholding the pres- tige of the family name as progressive agricul- turists and stock-growers and as loyal and puh- lic-spirited citizens. They give special attention to the raising of pure blood Aberdeen Angus cattle, and in this department of farm enter- prise they have been successful in their ac- tivities during a period of more than a decade. Thaddeus S. is numbered among the eligible bachelors of his native county. Milton B. mar- ried Miss Alice Viola Haines, daughter of George D. Haines, of whom individual mention is made in the following sketch of this volume. and the four children of this union are: Wilbur L .. Famy Marie, Delmar S. and Virginia Belle.

GEORGE D. HAINES, who has been a resident of Harrison County since the year 1909, is one of the prosperous representatives of farm enter- prise in North Township. where he is the owner of a well improved farm of 165 acres, devoted to diversified agriculture and the raising of ex- cellent types of live stock, including pure-blood Aberdeen-Angus cattle.

Mr. Haines was born in Greene County, Penn- sylvania. on the 23d of July. 1853. and is a son of Cyrenius and Mary Ann ( Pride) Haines, both likewise natives of the old Keystone State. where the former was born in Greene County and the latter in Monongahela County, she having been a daughter of Burton and Nancy (Sutton) Pride. George Haines, grandfather of him whose name introduces this review. was born in the State of New York and became a substantial farmer in Greene County, Pennsyl-

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vania, where he remained until his death. His first wife was survived by one child, John, and of the second marriage were born eleven chil- dren-Justus, Cyrenius, Aaron, Catherine, Re- becca, Maria, Margaret, Sarah, Nancy, Julia Ann and Eleanor. The religious faith of the family was that of the Baptist Church. Cyrenius Haines eventually became the owner of the fine old homestead farm on which he was born, and there he continued to reside, as one of the prosperous farmers of Greene County, Pennsylvania, until his death, his wife likewise having died on this old homestead, and both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which he had transferred his membership from the Baptist Church. They became the parents of ten children : Burton, George D., William, Olivia L. (died in early childhood), David (likewise died in childhood), Lewis, Dempsey D., John, Nancy Elmira and Alice.

The schools of his native county afforded George D. Haines his youthful education, and he continued his association with the affairs of his father's farm until his marriage, in August, 1876, to Miss Elizabeth Famy White, daughter of Brazil and Mary (Fox) White, of Greene County, Pennsylvania. After his marriage Mr. .Haines continued as a farmer in his native county until 1885, when he removed with his family to Marion County, West Virginia, and established his home on a farm four miles dis- tant from Mannington. There he continued his operations as an agriculturist until 1909, when he sold his West Virginia property and came "to Harrison County, Ohio, where he purchased this present farm, which has continued his place .of abode and which he has made the stage of :successful agricultural and live-stock enterprise. Wits political allegiance is given to the demo- cratic party, and he and his wife hold member- ship in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their children the eldest is Frank, who married Miss Catherine Kearns, their home being at Burgettstown, Pennsylvania ; Mary, born Au- gust 10, 1880, died May 20, 1895; Cora is the wife of Aaron Russell, of Cortland, Trumbull County, Ohio; Viola is the wife of Milton B. Harrison, of whom mention is made on other pages of this work, in the memoir dedicated to his father, the late John Harrison; and John D., who married on August 4, 1920, Nellie Thompson, of North Township, and Forney N. remain at the parental home. Forney N. Haines enlisted for service in the United States Army in October, 1917, was sent to Fort Worth, Texas, and was assigned to the Aviation Corps. From Texas he was transferred to Fort Omaha, Nebraska, and there he was discharged from the aviation service, by reason of a physical disability. He then enlisted in the Medical Corps, with which he went to France in No- vember, 1918, his service having there continued until July of the following year. He then re- turned to his native land and received his hon- orable discharge.

JAMES N. CROSS. The . annals of Carroll County bear evidence that the first representa- .tive of the Cross family to settle within its

borders was John Cross, who came here in the pioneer days and instituted the reclamation and development of a farm in the midst of the forest wilderness. He was twice married but left no children. This sterling pioneer was an uncle of the paternal grandfather of James Nicholas Cross of this sketch. In 1851 James L. Cross, father of the subject of this sketch, came from Wetzel County, West Virginia, and settled on the farm which his great-uncle, John Cross, mentioned above, had here obtained, and here he passed the remainder of his life, as one of the sterling citizens and representative farmers of Carroll County. The lineage of the Cross family is traced back to staunch Scotch-Irish stock, and the first representatives of the family in America came to this country probably be- fore the War of the Revolution. James L. Cross married Miss Margaret Anderson, and they passed the remainder of their lives on the fine old home farm in Monroe Township. Mr. Cross was about seventy-one years of age at the time of his death, and his wife is still liv- ing, eighty-eight years of age. They became the parents of a large family of children, con- cerning whom it is permitted to enter brief record in this connection. John, who is now sixty-eight years of age, married Nancy J. Lati- mer, of Tuscarawas County, in 1878, and they have three children, namely: Myrtle Alice is the wife of Lewis Waldman, of Mineral City; Margaret Ann is the widow of James Gordon, of Tuscarawas County, who died in 1912, and who is survived by two children, Donovan Philip and Margaret; and Edson L. is individually mentioned on other pages, as is also his father. Elizabeth Ann, the second child of James L. and Margaret ( Anderson) Cross, is the wife of B. O. Knight, of Leesville, Carroll County, and they have four children. Nancy Jane is the wife of Andrew William Davis, of Dover, Tus- carawas County, and they have two children. Sarah Katherine is the wife of Abraham Lin- coln True, of Sherodsville, Carroll County, and they have two children. Anderson William married Miss Emma Rainsberger, and they re- side in Dellroy, this county. Virginia Belle is the wife of Melvin J. Poorman, of Dover, Tus- carawas County, but they have no children. Thomas Jefferson, who resides in Jefferson County, married Miss Anna Roby, and they have three children, Frank, Raymond, who died in 1913 at the age of seven years, and Agnes, who is twelve years old. Rebecca Idola and Mar- garet Idella were twins, the former being a resident of Sherodsville and the latter having died in 1891, at the age of sixteen years. James N., subject of this review, was the third in order of birth of the children.

James Nicholas Cross, who now owns two of the excellent farms of Monroe Township, their aggregate area being 236 acres, has his attrac- tive home on rural mail route No. 1 from Sherodsville. One of the two farms which he thus owns is the old homestead of his parents, and it was on this place that his birth oc- curred April 6, 1857. Reared on this farm, Mr. Cross gained his early education in the district schools, including what was known as the "Little Fraction School" in Warren Town-

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ship, Tuscarawas County. At the age of twenty- seven years he wedded Miss Nancy Jane War- ner, daughter of George and Lydia (Pillars) Warner, of Palermo, Perry Township, this county. Mrs. Cross passed to the life eternal on the 24th of May, 1918, and is survived by one son, Emerson William, who was born Au- gust 4, 1889, and who is associated with his father in farm enterprise. On the 18th of June, 1919, Emerson W. Cross married Miss Myrta Griffin, of Monroe Township.

From the time of his marriage to the present James N. Cross has resided upon his present homestead farm of 110 acres, and his owner- ship of his father's old homestead brings the area of his landed estate up to 236 acres. He has proved himself one of the progressive and successful agriculturists and stock-growers of Monroe Township, and has also controlled a prosperous business in the operation of a thresh- ing machine year after year, and besides this be has owned and operated a saw mill and through its medium has been actively identifled with lumber manufacturing in this section of the state. He is a democrat in politics and has given loyal service in behalf of the party cause. He is affiliated with the Grange at Atwood and holds membership in the Presbyterian Church at New Cumberland, Tuscarawas County, of which his wife likewise was a devoted member.

WOOD HAVERFIELD, who is giving loyal and efficient service as a member of the Board of County Commissioners of Harrison County, and who owns and resides upon the fine old home- stead farm in Cadiz Township which was the place of his birth, has the further distinction of being a scion of one of the oldest and most honored pioneer families of this county, where he is a representative of the fourth generation to be actively and prominently identified with the great basic industry of agriculture and to stand exponent of loyal and liberal citizenship.

Mr. Haverfield was born on his present farm July 23, 1857, and is a son of Joseph and Mary Jane (Johnston) Haverfield, both likewise na- tives of Cadiz Township, where their marriage was solemnized March 15, 1855. Mrs. Haver- fleld was a daughter of Samuel Johnston, a pioneer of the county, where he and his wife remained until their deaths.

Joseph Haverfield was born November 15, 1832, received the advantages of the common schools of the period, and after his marriage he remained on his father's farm until the spring of 1856, when they located on the farm now owned and occupied by their only son, to whom was given the baptismal name of Kersey Wood Haverfield, though he is familiarly known only by the second of these personal names. On this farm Joseph Haverfield continued his suc- cessful activities as an agriculturist and stock- grower during the remainder of his active career, and here both he and his wife remained until their deaths, when of venerable age. He made excellent improvements on the farm of eighty-five acres, including the erection of good buildings, and was one of the representative farmers and influential citizens of Cadiz Town- ship. On the farm Mr. Haverfield developed a

coal mine that gave an appreciable yield of coal of excellent quality, and on the place he stocked what is probably the largest fish pond in Har- rison County. He was a republican in politics, and both he and his wife held membership in the United Presbyterian Church.

Joseph Haverfield was a son of Nathan and Harriet (Barnett) Haverfield, whose marriage was solemnized in Pennsylvania, where the latter was born and reared. Nathan Haverfield was born near Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1797, a son of James and Nancy Haverfield. James Haverfield was born in Ireland and was a youth when he came with his parents to America. In 1800 he came with his family from eastern Pennsylvania to what is now Harrison County, Ohio, and here he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives on their frontier farm. Their seven children were: William, John, Joseph, James, Nathan, Elizabeth and Ellen.

Upon coming with his wife and his parents to Harrison County Nathan Haverfield pur- chased 100 acres of land, all covered with heavy timber, and here he developed a productive farm from the forest wilds. Here he died at the age of seventy-six years, and his widow was eighty-six years of age at the time of her death, both having been devout members of the Seceder Church, which later became known as the United Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of eleven children : John N., James N., William B., Thomas H., Sarah Jane, Jemima H. (Mrs. Jeremiah Weaver), Joseph, Nathan B., Samuel P., George A. and Nancy E. (Mrs. Nell McCaffrey).

Nathan Haverfield was a man of superior in- tellectuality and possessed also much musical talent. He was a skillful performer on the violin and also a good vocalist. As a young man he taught old-time singing schools, and as a clerk in the Seceder Church he led in the singing. Two or more of his older brothers were soldiers in the War of 1812, in which he himself was too young to participate, but as a youth he served actively as a member of the old-time state militia of Ohio, in which he had command of a regiment. He united with the republican party at the time of its organization and supported its principles until his death.

Joseph and Mary J. (Johnston) Haverfield be- came the parents of three children: Elizabeth married James A. Mitchell and remained in Harrison County until her death; Kersey Wood, immediate subject of this review, was the next in order of birth; and Bertha Virginia is the wife of John B. Welch, of Harrison County.

Wood Haverfield gained his early education in the district school in Cadiz Township that bore the family name, and with the exception of four months passed as clerk in a hotel at Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County, he has re- sided continuously on the old homestead farm on which he was born and which still comprises eighty-five acres. He has always been loyal and zealous in support of measures and enter- prises tending to advance the civic and indus- trial interests of his native township and county, is a staunch advocate of the principles of the republican party and served six years as

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 48

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