History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 54

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

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Peter Hines was born in Archer Township, where he passed his entire life and where he gained. through his own ability and efforts, substantial prosperity in connection with farm industry. He not only purchased eventually the interests of the other heirs to the old home farm of his parents but also bought other land, with the result that he finally became the owner of a well improved and valuable farm estate of more than 200 acres, all in Archer Township. In politics he gave unswerving support to the principles of the democratic party, and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Pres- byterian Church. On the 22d of October, 1857, was solemnized the marriage of Peter Hines to Miss Maria Webster, daughter of the late John Webster, of Rumley Township, this county. The death of both occurred in the year 1901, Mr. Hines having passed away on the 4th of March and his widow having died in the following September. They became the parents of two sons, John Leonard and Jacob Elmer, the latter being the immediate subject of this sketch and John Leonard being individually mentioned on other pages.

J. Elmer Hines was born in Archer Township on the 27th of February 1871, and is fourteen years the junior of his only brother. He gained his early education in the public schools of his native township, and has remained from the time of his birth on the fine old homestead farm, which he has made a center of most progres- sive enterprise in agriculture and stock-growing his property comprising 214 acres of most fer-

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tile and productive land, with the best of im- provements, including substantial and well-kept farm buildings. He is a loyal supporter of measures and enterprises tending to advance the best interests of his home community and native county, is a democrat in political allegiance. and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Hines is the gra- cious and popular chatelaine of one of the beau- tiful rural homes of the county, and her cul- tured tastes give her leadership in the social life of the home community. Mr. and Mrs. Hines have one child, Robert Clive, who was born on the 1st of September, 1903. It should be noted that ancestors of Mr. Hines were gal- lant soldiers of the patriot forces in the war of the Revolution and that his brother holds ac- tive membership in the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.

On the 27th of December, 1901, was solemn- ized the marriage of Mr. Hines to Miss Edith Welling, who was born at Taylorsville, Ken- tucky, and who is a daughter of George Rob- ert and Eliza Ann (Darneal) Welling, the for- mer of whom was born in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, and the latter at Rock Haven, Ken- tucky. Mr. Welling was a successful merchant, as well as postmaster, at Taylorsville. Ken- tucky. at the time of the Civil war, and was em- ployed by the United States Government to pur- chase horses and mules for use by the Union forces in the field. He died of yellow fever in the city of New Orleans, just following the close of the Civil war, to which city he had gone with a shipment of horses and mules: Mrs. Welling died when Mrs. Hines was a child of between five and six years. Of their children Mrs. Hines is the youngest ; Mary Belle is the wife of Dr. Edwin R. Montgomery. a repre- sentative physician at Louisville, Kentucky ; Charles Carter is deceased: Elizabeth is the wife of Amos F. Brough, of Monterey, Califor- nia. Mrs. Hines is a graduate of Nazareth Academy at Bardstown, Kentucky, and also of the Kentucky State Normal School in the City of Louisville. The Bardstown academy was the first to open a school exclusively for women in Louisville. She is a cousin of the widow of Admiral Dewey, her mother having been a sis- ter of the mother of Mrs. Dewey, who was a sister to the late John R. McLean. the Cincin- nati newspaper man.

JOHN L. HINES, M. D., a man of high attain- ments and cosmopolitan experience, is now liv- ing in semi-retirement on the fine old homestead farm that figures as the place of his nativity and that is one of the valuable rural estates of Archer Township, Harrison County. Here, as a bachelor, he resides in the attractive home of his only brother, Jacob Elmer Hines, of whom individual mention is made preceding with incidental and interesting record concerning the family history. In the pleasing seclu- sion of the farm Doctor Hines finds satisfaction In giving his attention to the raising of fine poultry, and his success attests his careful study of scientific methods of propagation and care. Dr. John Leonard Hines was born on the 23d of December, 1858, and his preliminary educa-

tional discipline was obtained in the district schools of Archer Township. Thereafter he was for two years a student in Wooster University, and he then entered historic old Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1882 and with the degree of Bache- lor of Arts. There he became actively affiliated with the Phi Delta Theta college fraternity, in the affairs of which he continues to take lively interest. After leaving this university Doctor Hines attended Bellevue Medical College in the City of New York for one year. and the follow- ing year found him a student in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of Balti- more, Maryland. He then returned to Bellevue Medical College, Baltimore, where he was grad- uated with the Doctor of Medicine degree. During the winter of 1905 he toured through England. France, Italy and Switzerland, and in 1910 he amplified his foreign experience by travel not only in England. France. Belgium, Italy and Holland but also by a tour through Egypt and Palestine. Since his return from the latter tour he has remained with his only brother on the old homestead farm. He is a man of studious habits and distinctive culture, and in addition to his foreign trips he has traveled extensively in his native land. He is a democrat in his political proclivities and is affiliated with the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.

REV. HOSEA MCCALL. A life of exalted and consecrated service was that of this honored pioneer clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church in enstern Ohio, where in the early days be pursued the work of his noble calling under the old circuit-riding regime, which in- volved much of hardship and self-abnegation. His bigh sense of personal stewardship never foiled and be labored long and faithfully in the vineyard of the Divine Master and for the aiding .no uplifting of his fellow men, so that this history may well pay a tribute to the memory of this honored pioneer whose ministra- t'ons extended to various places in both Carroll end Harrison counties and who passed the clos- ing years of his long, earnest and useful life in the village of Malvern. Carroll County, where he died in the year 1882. his devoted wife. who shared with him in good works and kindly deeds, having survived him by about eleven years and having passed the life eternal in 1893, the names of both being held in affection- ate and reverent memory by all who came within the sphere of their gracious influence.

Rev. Hosea McColl was born in Middletown. Connecticut on the 2d of October. 1810, and thus was nearly seventy-two years of age when he passed from the stage of life's mortal en- deavors. He entered the Pittsburgh Conference in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. in 1835, and was married to Miss Margaret Campbell, born Jan- uary 15. 1815, at Greensburgh. Pennsylvania, February 5, 1838. As a circuit rider he gave effective service in eastern Ohio, in West Vir- ginia and Pennsylvania. and be continued in the active work of the ministry until about 1872, when he retired to Malvern and took pos-

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session of the attractive residence which he here owned and which is now occupled by two of his daughters. In this pleasant home he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives secure in the love of all who knew them. In the concluding paragraph of this memoir is given brief record concerning their children.

Elizabeth Ann married Rev. J. F. Huddleston, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, March 27, 1872, and died in Malvern, Ohio, June 10, 1912. Ebenezer Hudson resides in Oneida, Ohio. Rhoda Caroline resides in Malvern, Ohio. Sarah Jane died December 1, 1877, in Malvern, Ohio. Mary Isabel married Rev. R. W. Fresh- water, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, June 11, 1868, and died in Wheeling, West Virginia, January 15, 1894. Martha Eleanor resides in Malvern, Ohio. Margaret Samson married At- torney C. S. Cobbs, of Akron, March 2, 1881. She resides in Akron. William Hosea, a resi- dent of Chicago, Illinois, died in Akron. Janu- ary 1, 1900.

JOHN B. BEADLE. The name Beadle is found in the annals of both Carroll and Harrison counties. John B. Beadle, of Green Township, was born June 22, 1857, in Scio, but his father, William Beadle, dates back to Carroll County. When he located in Harrison County he mar- ried Elizabeth M. A. Bricker (see sketch of John Bricker). William was a son of John Beadle, born in Pennsylvania, but later a farmer and blacksmith in Carroll County.

William Beadle was a physician and prac- ticed medicine from 1856 to 1870 in Scio, when he removed to a farm in Green Township, where he combined farming and the practice of medi- cine as long as he lived, his death occurring there in 1880. Their children are: John B., Anna, Olive, Charles and Ida. The second child, Irena, died young. The Beadles were Methodists.

John B. Beadle had public school advantages in Scio and in Green Township, and when be began farming he remained thirty-five years on one place, starting with 100 acres and adding an eighty-acre tract later. In 1905 he left the farm and settled just outside the corporate limits of Hopedale on the Cadiz and Steuben- ville road. He has merited a quiet life at last after so many years of farm activities.

In 1886 Mr. Beadle married Lizzie L. Cole, a daughter of Farland B. Cole. Their daughter. Marie M., is the widow of Jay Stringer, and with her son, John Beadle Stringer, she lives with her parents again. Mr. Beadle served as trustee and as township treasurer while a resi- dent of the farm in Green Township. He has also served as a member of the Harrison County Infirmary Board of Directors. He is a Mason, a member of both the Blue Lodge and Chapter in Cadiz. When a man has filled positions of trust in a community it indicates that he has executive ability.

CHARLES S. MCCLAIN Is found aligned with the fine band of citizens who are maintaining the prestige of North Township, Harrison County, as a center of vigorous and productive farm industry, and further interest attaches to

his career by reason of the fact that he is a native of this township and a representative of a well known pioneer family whose name has been identified with the history of this county for virtually an entire century.

Mr. McClain was born on his father's farm in North Township on the 14th of January, 1858, and is a son of John E. and Jane (Ca- naga ) McClain, the former of whom was born in North Township September 15, 1828, and the latter was born May 28, 1837, a daughter of Jacob Canaga, another sterling pioneer of the county. John E. McClain was a son of James L. and Sarah (Endsley) McClain, the former of whom was born September 23, 1802, in West- moreland County, Pennsylvania, and the latter likewise was a native of the old Keystone state, where she was born September 19, 1803. James L. McClain came to Harrison County in the early years of the nineteenth century, here re- claimed land from a virgin forest, and here con- tinued his activities as a pioneer farmer in North Township until his death, both he and his wife having attained to advanced years. The names and respective dates of birth of their children are here made a matter of per- manent record : Jane, March 30, 1825; Joseph, March 4, 1827; John E., September 15, 1828: Samuel, September 2, 1830; Mary Ann, October 21, 1832; James Alexander, August 14, 1834; Sarah, September 18, 1836; Harriet, September 30, 1838; Thomas Endsley, July 6, 1840 (en- listed in 1862 for service in the Civil war as a member of Company A, One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he remained until his death, in 1863) ; William, July 21, 1843; Martha, October 2, 1844; and Nathan S., September 22, 1846.

John E. McClain passed his entire life in North Township. where he was reared under the conditions of the pioneer days, and where eventually he became a representative farmer and citizen, his death having occurred on his old home farm January 21, 1908, and his wife having passed away on the 18th of October, 1900. Both were zealous members of the United Presbyterian Church. Of their children the eldest is Charles S., who is the immediate sub- ject of this review ; Joseph H. was born July 2, 1859, and his death occurred in the year 1916; Sarah Ida was born May 7, 1861, and died April 24, 1911; Jessie R. was born July 29, 1863, and died January 22, 1911; John B., who resides on the old home farm and who is individually mentioned on other pages of this work, was born May 24, 1871.

Charles S. McClain between his youthful duties on the home farm and the pursuing of his studies in the Fisher School' of his home district had his time well occupied in his early years, and after leaving school he remained at the parental home until his marriage, in 1881. after which he was engaged in farming in Green Township one year, the following year having found him similarly applying himself in Archer Township, and the ensuing six years recording his residence again in North Township. He then spent two years in Monroe Township, and since that time he has resided continuously in North Township, where he owns an excellent

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farm of sixty-one acres, devoted to well ordered agricultural and live-stock enterprise. He is a republican in politics, served four years as assessor of North Township, and for twelve years was a school director of his present home district. Both he and his wife are active mem- bers of the Presbyterian Church at Scio.

On the 23d of December, 1881, was solem- nized the marriage of Mr. McClain to Miss Caro- line Hall, daughter of Tipton B. and Rachel (Fife) Hall, of Archer Township, and of this union have been born two children-Everett O., who is the subject of an individual sketch on other pages of this volume, and Lloyd Elbert, who remains with his parents and assists in the activities of the home farm.

WILLIAM S. KIRKPATRICK gained secure pres- tige as one of the representative exponents of farm industry in Carroll County, has served two terms as county commissioner and has otherwise been influential in community affairs in his na- tive county. He is now living practically retired in the Village of Malvern, and is a substantial and highly esteemed citizen who well merits recognition in this history.

He was born on the old homestead farm of the family in Brown Township, Carroll County, and the date of his nativity was August 28, 1857. He is a son of Isaac and Nancy (Reed) Kirkpatrick, the former of whom was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1824, and the latter was born in Brown Township, Carroll County, Ohio, in 1825, a daughter of John and Jane (Thompson) Reed, both natives of Pennsylvania and the former a son of John Reed, Sr., who came from the old Keystone state to Carroll County, Ohio, in the pioneer days, here passing the remainder of his life. John Reed, Jr., was long numbered among the representative farmers of this county, and here he died August 22. 1872. his birth having oc- curred in 1796. The family home was estab- lished in Carroll County about the year 1820. His wife died In 1867. Their children were seven in number-William, Nancy, Elizabeth, John, Mary, Robert and Eliza.

Isaac Kirkpatrick was a son of William and Betsey (Swisshelm) Kirkpatrick, both natives of Pennsylvania. William Kirkpatrick was born and reared in Westmoreland County, and there he was engaged in farming until 1832, when he came with his family to Carroll County, Ohio, and purchased 120 acres of land in Brown Township. There he followed farm industry until his death in 1841, his wife having died in the preceding year. They became the par- ents of six children-Betsey, Nancy. Priscilla, Catherine (Mrs. Mckinney), Joseph S. and Isaac. Isaac Kirkpatrick was eight years old at the time of the family removal from the old Keystone state to Carroll County, and here he was reared and educated under the conditions of the middle-pioneer period. He eventually be- came the owner of his father's old home farm and he continued to be one of the representative farmers and honored and influential citizens of Brown Township until his death, which occurred December 12, 1891, his cherished and devoted wife having followed him to the life eternal

on the 2d of the following March and both hav- ing been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. To them were born eight children-Almira, Elva, John, Jane, William S., James, Olive and Charles Isaac.

William S. Kirkpatrick has never regretted the sturdy discipline which he received in his youth in connection with the varied activities of the home farm, and the experience proved of inestimable value to him in his later and inde- pendent operations as an agriculturist and stock-grower. He profited fully by the advan- tages afforded in the schools of his native township, and during the entire period of his active career he gave his undivided time and attention to farm industry save for the period of his service as county commissioner, of which he was the incumbent six years from 1897 to 1900, and from 1903 to 1906. During these two terms of effective service he was a loyal sup- porter of progressive policies in the ordering and directing of county affairs, and the same at- titude characterized him during his six years of service as trustee of Brown Township-1890- 1896. Since leaving his farm in 1907 he has lived retired in his attractive home at Malvern. His political allegiance is given to the repub- lican party, he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of the Maccabees.

On the 17th of February, 1881, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Kirkpatrick to Miss Cath- erine Lewton, who was born in Harrison Town- ship, Carroll County, March 25, 1861, a daugh- ter of Abraham and Susan (Trussel) Lewton, who passed the closing years of their lives at Malvern, where the father died in 1892, at the age of sixty-six years, and where the mother passed away March 5, 1914, about one month prior to the eighty-seventh anniversary of her birth, which occurred April 1, 1827, in Brown Township, this county, where her parents were early pioneer settlers. Mr. and Mrs. Lewton became the parents of ten children: Artemas, Vincent, Mary, Almira, Emma, Catherine, Laura, Nelson, Elizabeth and Lulu. Of the children Artemas, Vincent, Mary and Laura are deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick have been born six children : Isaac L., a former post- master of Malvern; Maudie, who died when about nine years of age; Laura, the wife of Jesse Hawkins, of Carroll County, and they have four children-Mildred, Lucille, Donald and William ; Carrie is the wife of Jacob Wads- worth, of Carroll County, and they have two children-Mary Catherine and William; Ethel, a school teacher, remains at the parental home; and William died at the age of four years.

WILLIAM RAINSBERGER has been a resident of Carroll County from the time of his birth, and his entire active career has been marked by as- sociation with farm industry. . He now con- fines his operations to his well improved little farm of eighteen acres in Monroe Township, seven miles from Carrollton, from which city he receives service on rural mail route No. 4.

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Mr. Rainsberger was born in Union Township, this county, on the 12th of September, 1853, and is a son of Josiah and Nancy ( Fowler) Rainsberger, the former of German and the lat- ter of Irish lineage. Josiah Rainsberger was born in Monroe Township, where his parents settled in the early days, and he continued his active alliance with farm enterprise in his na- tive county until his death, April 11, 1911. at the age of sixty-nine years, his wife having passed away on the 16th of February, 1888. Of their family of three sons and six daughters the subject of this review is the youngest. One of the sons. David, was a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war, in which he served as a member of the Eightieth Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry, he having been mustered out and having received his honorable discharge in 1864, a few months prior to the close of the war. As a young man he was a successful teacher in the rural schools of Carroll County.

William Rainsberger early began to assist in the work of the home farm, and he continued to attend the district schools during the win- ter terms until he had attained to his legal majority. He was twenty-four years of age at the time of his marriage and thereafter he continued to be associated in the work and man- agement of the old home farm until 1905. when he purchased a farm of ninety-one acres in Center Township, one mile distant from Car- rollton. Six years later be sold this property. and after residing for a short time on another farm in the same township he purchased in 1911 his present fine little farm, the operations of which demand all of the time and effort he is justified in giving. now that he is approaching the prophet's span of three score years and ten. He has never wavered in loyal allegiance to the republican party, has taken deep interest in public affairs of local order, but has had no ambition for official preferment. He and his wife are active members of the Methodist Epis- copal Church at Carrollton.

In the year 1878 was solemnized the marriage. of Mr. Rainsberger to Miss Dorinda J. Long, who likewise was born and reared in Carroll County and who is a daughter of Alexander Scott and Nancy ( Brooks) Long. of Monroe Township. The father of Mrs. Rainsberger was a son of Alexander Scott Long. Sr., and Nancy (Scott) Long, the original American representa- tives of the Long family having come from the north of Ireland. The maternal grandparents of Mrs. Rainsberger were Henry and Dorinda (Fawcett ) Brooks, and they became the par- ents of one son and six daughters. The lineage of the Brooks family likewise traces back to staunch Irish origin.

In this concluding paragraph is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Rainsberger: Nancy A. is at home. David Reese died at the age of thirteen years. Jo- siah Clarke, who now resides in the state of South Dakota, married Johanna Capper. of Perry Township, Carroll County, and they have one son. Thomas William. Alexander L ... who resides in the city of Carrollton. married Miss Edna Nihart, of Center Township, and they have two children-Roxey May and Horace Del-

bert. William Ira, now a resident of the city of Canton, Stark County, married Miss Susan Slusser, of that place, and they have two chil- dren-Richard Charles and Ada Marie. Em- mett Earl, the youngest of the children, died at the age of twenty months, on the 10th of July, 1896.

THOMAS A. YOUNG. Beside being a farmer Thomas A. Young, of Green Township, is presi- dent of the First National Bank of Hopedale. He was one of the promoters when it was or- ganized and has always been a member of the Board of Directors, and was elected president of the bank in 1917. He is a native of Wayne Township, Jefferson County, born June 20, 1855. His father, Samuel Young, was born December 22, 1815, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and died January 22, 1881. On June 12, 1852, Mr. Young married Susan Harrington. She was born in Erie County, New York. She was a daughter of Dwight Gardner and Lydia (Searles) Harrington.

The father of Samuel was Hiram Young, who was born in Pennsylvania. The mother, Mar- garet (Fraizer) Young, was born in Ireland. Her parents came to America when she was young. Samuel was the only son of Hiram Young. As a young boy Samuel Young came from Pennsylvania to Wayne Township, Jeffer- son County, Ohio, with an uncle, James Fraizer. He grew into manhood in Wayne Township, and as a young man began farming there. He ac- cumulated about 170 acres of land and remained there till his death. January 22, 1881.

The children of Samuel and Susan Young are: James F., who married Ola Blake and lives at the old Young homestead in Jefferson County : Thomas A. Young, the subject of this review: Lydia Jane, wife of D. H. Welch, lives at Hu- ron, Ohio, and their children are Willard. Nel- lie, Olga, Vern and Margaretta; Samuel L. is a farmer of Wayne Township, Jefferson County ; Anna E. is the wife of J. C. Waggoner. and lives at Bergholz; Mary. the wife of G. W. Po- len. lives at Akron, and they have a daughter, Gwendolyn : Flora Estella and the mother are the home makers for Thomas A. Young, who is a bachelor farmer and business man of the com- munity. They are Presbyterians.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 54

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