History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 58

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

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James Warren was born in Green Township, this county, a son of James and Eliza Jane (Emfield) Warren, the former a native of Penn- sylvania and the latter of Harrison County, Ohio. James Warren, Sr., became a successful physician and surgeon. and was engaged in the practice of his profession in Pennsylvania prior to becoming a pioneer physician in Jefferson County, Ohio. Later he returned to Pennsyl- vania and spent the remainder of his life there. Eliza Jane Emfield, grandmother of Craig Warren, was born in Harrison County in 1826. the daughter of John Emfield, a pioneer of Harrison County. Not long after her marriage her husband left her and returned to Pennsyl- vania, leaving her to rear their only child. James. She lived the remainder of her long and useful career in this county, making her home with her son after he had married until her death in 1902. Their son James was reared to manhood in Green Township, and made good use of the advantages offered in the district schools of the period. As a boy he began work- ing on neighboring farms, and he continued his service in this line sixteen years. during which he carefully conserved his earnings and looked forward to the time when he might initiate in- dependent farm industry. He finally rented farm land on shares in his native township, where he continued operations under this plan for a period of sixteen years. He then pur- chased a farm of 212 acres in Cadiz Township. and here he remained as one of the broad- gauged and substantial farmers and sterling citizens of his native county until his death in 1918, his wife having passed away in 1902. In later years Mr. Warren became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, his wife hav- ing been a member of the Presbyterian Church. They became the parents of seven children :

Craig W., Clara, the wife of Wilmer C. Ed- wards. of Cadiz Township; Carrie, wife of Homer H. Heaston; Laura and John, twins, the latter of whom died at the age of twenty-one years; Clyde E., who married Ella Holmes; and Harry H., who married Martha Dickerson.

Craig W. Warren acquired his early educa- tion principally in the Beaver Dam District School in Franklin Township, and from his youth to the present time he has been actively identified with farm industry in his native county. In 1913 he established his home on his present farm, which comprises 166 acres and is one of the well improved places of Short Creek Township, and in addition to this he owns also a tract of forty-three acres in Cadiz Township. He is a progressive agriculturist and stock-raiser and has made a dairy department of his farm enterprise one of successful and important order. He is a democrat in politics, and he and his family hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Georgetown.

On the 9th of November, 1892, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Warren to Miss Mary Jane Baker, daughter of Orr and Elizabeth ( Heas- ton) Baker, and of this union have been born two sons, whose names and dates of nativity are here noted : Ralph Raymond, January 11, 1899. and John Orr, November 10, 1903, both on the home farm. Ralph R. married Lillian May Tedrow, who was born in Harrison County, the daughter of George F, and Elva S. (Black- well) Tedrow. The mother died on June 10, 1920.

Mrs. Warren's parents were both born in Monroe Township of Harrison County. Her grandfather was named Samuel Baker. Orr Baker spent all his life on the farm where he was born, owned 160 acres, and was successfully identified with general farming and stock rais- ing. He was born July 27, 1839, and died January 20, 1904, and his widow is still living. She was born July 3, 1844. Both were actively identified with the Methodist Church in their vicinity. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Orr Baker were: Addie. widow of William Harri- son : Mrs. Craig Warren; Samuel S .; Anson Ross, who died in childhood: and Margaret Ann. who died at the age of thirteen.

A. OSCAR ROSE has through his own efforts worked his way upward to a plane of distinc- tive success and prosperity in connection with farm industry in his native county, and since 1903 he has owned and resided upon his pres- ent excellent farm of eighty acres in Notting- ham Township, Harrison County. where he ex- emplifies modern and progressive methods in both agricultural and live-stock industry. He has been loyal in support of measures and pro- jects that have tended to advance the best in- terests of the community, is a republican in political adherency, and he gave three years of effective service as a trustee of Nottingham Township. Both he and his wife are active members of the Christian Church at Minks- ville.

Mr. Rose was born in Washington Township, this county, on the 25th of February, 1858, and is a son of the late John Stanley Rose and

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Elizabeth Betsy (Ford) Rose, who were repre- sentatives of sterling pioneer families of this section of the Buckeye State, Mrs. Rose having been born and reared in Nottingham Township and having been a daughter of Clayton Ford. John S. Rose devoted practically his entire ac- tive career to farm enterprise in Harrison County. He died in 1864 and his wife passed away in 1909. Their children numbered eight sons and four daughters.

A. Oscar Rose was able to attend the district schools of Washington Township, though in a somewhat irregular way, and was but a boy when he began working on a neighboring farm. As a workman by the day or month he thus continued his association with farm industry for twelve years, and about three years after his marriage he rented a farm in Nottingham Township. This place continued as the stage of his vigorous and resourceful activities for the ensuing fourteen years, and he then, in 1903, purchased his present farm, as previously noted in this context.

February 21, 1885, recorded the marriage of Mr. Rose to Miss Lizzie Louella Johnson, daughter of the late Benjamin H. Johnson. to whom a memorial tribute, with incidental fam- ily record, is made on other pages of this volume. In conclusion is given brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Rose : John Benjamin, who was born December 31, 1885, and who still maintains his residence in Moorefield Township, Harrison County, married Miss Etha Moore, and they have four children -Arthur Vern, Ella Marie, Harry Moore and Pauline. Della Vern, who was born February 22, 1888, Is the wife of Earl E. Price, of Akron, Summit County, and they have two children- Halcyon Pauline and Harold Wayne. Martha Blanche, who was born November 9, 1891. is the wife of Wilbur Poulson, of Nottingham Township, and they have five children-Oliver Lloyd, Elda Vern, Carl Leroy, John Andrew and Margaret Louise. Ralph Mckinley, who was born July 29, 1893, and who resides in Notting- ham Township, Harrison County, married Miss Etta Cope, the daughter of Isaac Cope, of Not- tingham Township. Their one child is a son, Alfred Clyde. Paul Johnson, who was born February 28, 1895, served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France during the World war, and of his record in this connection specific mention will be made in an appending paragraph ; Frederick C .. born October 17, 1899; Louella Frances, born September 15, 1903; and Forrest Wayne, born July 21, 1912, are all at home.

Paul Johnson Rose entered the nation's ser- vice on the 25th of July, 1918, and at Camp Sherman, Ohio, he was assigned to the Three Hundred and Thirty-sixth Infantry, Eighty- fourth Division. On the 2d of the following September he sailed with his command from the port of New York City, and on the 16th of the same month the regiment landed at Bristol, England. On the voyage Paul con- tracted measles, and upon arriving in England he was placed in a hospital at Bristol Bay. where he remained ten days. He was then transferred to an American rest camp at Wood-

leigh, England, and within a short time there- after was sent to France, as a casual. There he served with the Seventh Regiment of In- fantry, Third Division, and later his command became a part of the Allied Army of Occupation in Germany. He sailed for the United States June 5, 1919, on the "Leviathan," landed on the shores of his native land the 12th of that month, and August 19th he received his honorable dis- charge from United States General Hospital No. 21. He then returned to the parental home, where he has since remained, and his record as one of the patriotic young men who served in the World war shall ever reflect honor and distinction upon his name.

DAVID W. CUMMINS. In its general stock and appointments the attractive music store of Mr. Cummins stands forth as one of the representa- tive mercantile establishments in the vital little City of Cadiz, judicial center of Harrison County, and it also makes material contribu- tion to the artistic life and activities of the community.

Mr. Cummins was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, August 9, 1866, and is a son of David F. and Elizabeth (Allison) Cum- mins, both likewise natives of the old Keystone State, where the father was born March 9, 1822, in Washington County, and the mother in the year 1833, in Beaver County, she having been a daughter of Samuel and Mary (Miller) Alli- son, and her father having been a successful miller in Beaver and Washington counties. John and Anna ( Morrison) Cummins, grand- parents of him whose name initiates this re- view, passed their entire lives in Pennsylvania, where John Cummins was a farmer in West- moreland County at the time of his death. His children were Paul, Joseph, John, Jr., David F., Jane, Sarah, Lucinda and one other daugh- ter. Samuel and Mary (Miller) Allison became the parents of nine children-Joseph, James, Samuel, John (died from the effects of measles contracted while serving as a soldier in the Civil war), Mary, Emeline, Isabel, Margaret and Elizabeth.

David F. Cummins received good educational advantages in his youth and became a success- ful teacher in the public schools of his native county, where he continued to follow the pedagogic profession until he was forty years of age, his initial salary having been thirteen dollars a month and his first examination to prove his eligibility for pedagogic honors having been taken while he was seated with his in- quisitors on a pile of logs. He achieved marked success as a teacher, and after retiring from service in the profession he purchased a farm in his native county, where he remained until 1891, when he sold the property and came with his family to Harrison County, Ohio. Here he purchased a farm in Short Creek Township, where he died in 1894, after about three years' residence in the county. His widow here passed the remainder of her life, and she passed to eternal rest on the 28th of July. 1919, both being devout members of the United Presby- terian Church, in which he served more than thirty years as an elder. Of the children the

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eldest is James A., who resides in Freeport, Ohio; David W., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Ida is the wife of Henry H. Brownley, of Clayville, Pennsylvania; Samuel B. resides in the City of Pittsburgh, that state; and John K. is a resident of Cadiz.

David W. Cummins is indebted to the public schools of his native county for his early edu- cational discipline, and there he initiated his independent career as a farmer. He came with his parents to Harrison County, and here after his marriage he had the active management of his father's farm until 1905, when he became a piano salesman. In 1910 he engaged in the piano and general music business in an inde- pendent way, and he now has one of the lead- ing music stores in Harrison County, the same having a substantial and representative patron- age. He is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the local Blue Lodge and Chapter of the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife hold membership in the United Presbyterian Church of Cadiz.

In 1889 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cummins to Miss Jennie E. Rea, daughter of Charles C. and Catherine (Cook) Rea, of Wash- ington County, Pennsylvania, and of the six children of this union Ethel died at the age of six years, and Delbert at the age of four years; Myrtle R. married Lieut. Lawrence J. Bowman, of the United States Aviation Corps, now living in Nashville, Tennessee; Lela died at the age of six months; and Vera and Nellie are the younger members of the pleasant home circle.

JOHN B. BIRCH, proprietor of the Carrollton Nursery, has developed one of the important in- dustrial enterprises that has contributed ma- terially to the prestige of Carroll County, which has represented his home from the time of his birth and his allegiance to which is marked by appreciation and loyalty. He was born at Carrollton March 14, 1861, and is a son of Joseph and Isabel (Strayer) Birch, the former of whom was born at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1830, and the latter was born in Carroll County, Ohio, March 12, 1837, their marriage having been solemnized on the 17th of June, 1860. Of the eight children the subject of this review is the eldest, and the second, Margaret. died at the age of twelve years, the names of the other children being as follows: Ruth, Cal- vin, Mary, William, Demaretta and Robert. Joseph Birch was reared and educated in the old Keystone state and was a young man when he came to Carroll County and found employ- ment at farm work. At Carrollton he learned the shoemaker's trade under the direction of Jacob Helfrich, and eventually he engaged in the boot and shoe business at Carrollton, where he continued to conduct a prosperous business as one of the representative merchants of the city until his death in 1904. His widow passed away in 1913, and both were zealous communicants of the Lutheran Church. In poli- tics Mr. Birch was a republican, and in his civic attitude he was loyal and public-spirited.

John B. Birch gained his youthful education in the public schools of Carrollton and early

turned his attention to gardening, his success in which finally led him to establish his present nursery business, to which he has continued to give his attention since 1887. Prior to that year he had gained valuable experience as a salesman of nursery stock for a nursery estab- lished in Louisville, Ohio. His business head- quarters have continuously been maintained at 610 North Lisbon Street, and he has brought his nursery up to the best modern standard, the while he has gained to it an appreciative and substantial supporting patronage, his trade ex- tending into many counties in this section of the state.

In politics Mr. Birch maintains an indepen- dent attitude, and supports men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment, irrespec- tive of strict partisan lines. He and his wife are affiliated with the Tribe of Ben Hur, and Mrs. Birch holds membership in the Presby- terian Church.

May 14, 1884, recorded the marriage of Mr. Birch to Miss Mary J. Hartzell, who was born in Stark County, Ohio, January 4, 1861, a daughter of Samuel and Angeline (Smith) Hartzel, sterling pioneer citizens of that county, where they continued to reside until their deaths, Mrs. Hartzell having passed away in 1902, aged sixty-three years, and Mr. Hartzell having been seventy-four years of age at the time of his death, in 1913. Della, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Birch, was born March 4, 1889, and continued her studies in the Carrollton schools until her graduation in the high school. She is now the wife of Frank B. Roudebush, of Carroll County, and they have one son, Frank B., Jr., born May 13, 1918. ·

THOMAS GLADMAN has resided for a period of virtually forty years on his present fine home- stead farm in Washington Township, Harri- son County, and he has not only proved one of the resourceful and enterprising agriculturists and stock-growers of the county but is also a native of Harrison County and a scion of a family that was founded in Ohio more than a century His paternal grandparents, Thomas and Mary (Lavely) Gladman, were born and reared in the State of Maryland, where their marriage was solemnized and where they continued their residence until 1811, when they came with their four children to Ohio and became pioneer settlers in Jefferson County. They rented the old Joel Kirk farm, which was about one mile from York. They came with their son David to Franklin Township, Harri- son County, in 1842, the remainder of their lives having been passed in the home of this son, who became one of the substantial farmers and honored citizens of the township mentioned. Thomas Gladman died in the year 1855, and his wife survived him by six years, both having been earnest and devout members of the Chris- tian Church. They became the parents of five children-Margaret, Rachel, Nancy, David and John-and all save the youngest were born in Maryland prior to the migration of the family to Ohio.

David Gladman, father of him whose name initiates this review, was born in Maryland

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September 10, 1810, and thus was an infant at the time of his parent's removal to Jefferson County. He grew to manhood on the pioneer farm and continued his active association with farm enterprise until 1842, when, as already noted in the preceding paragraph, he came to Harrison County and became associated with his father in purchasing the farm in Franklin Township, where he continued his successful career as an agriculturist and stock-grower dur- ing the remainder of his life. The farm had been but slightly improved when it came into his possession, and the original family home was a log house of the true pioneer type. He reclaimed the place into one of the productive and valuable farms of the county, was a man of sterling character and marked ability, was influential in community affairs and was called upon to serve in various township offices, his political allegiance having been given unre- servedly to the democratic party and both he and his wife having been zealous members of the Christian Church. The death of Mr. Glad- man occurred in the year 1888, and his widow remained on the old homestead until she too passed to eternal rest in 1895.

On the 17th of March. 1842, was solemnized the marriage of David Gladman to Miss Eliza- beth Lyone, daughter of James and Nancy (McLaughlin) Lyons, who likewise were early settlers in Jefferson County. Mr. and Mrs. Gladman became the parents of nine children, namely : Nancy, John W. and Mary E., all of whom are deceased ; Thomas, who is the imme- diate subject of this sketch; and Sarah Mar- garet, Rachel Emma, James B., Lydia J. and Anna Bell (died in early childhood).

Thomas Gladman was born on the old home- stead farm in Franklin Township July 30, 1848, and his youthful educational advantages were those of the common schools of the locality and period. He continued to be associated in the work and management of the old home farm until his marriage, in the autumn of 1881, soon after which important event in his career he established his home on his present farm, which at that time comprised seventy-eight acres, but to which he has added until he now has a fine farm property of 101 acres, upon which he has made excellent improvements, in consonance with the increasing prosperity that has attended his efforts during the intervening years. In his civic loyalty and his effective enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower he has con- tributed a generous quota to the advancement and prosperity of his home township and county, and he is one of the substantial and honored native sons of Harrison County. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he and his wife are devoted and in- fluential members of the Christian Church at Tappan, in which he has served continuously as an elder for fully thirty-five years and in which he has previously been a member of the Board of Trustees. A man of alert mentality, he profited fully by his early educational privi- leges, even as he has broadened his mental horizon in later years by reading, self-discipline and the experiences of a busy and useful life. In this connection it may be noted that two of

his brothers and two of his sisters were success- ful teachers in the schools of this section of the state in the early days.

On the 22d of September, 1881, was solemn- ized the marriage of Mr. Gladman to Miss Rosetta J. Guthrie, who likewise was born and reared in Franklin Township, and who is a daughter of Andrew and Louisa (Turner) Guthrie, both of whom were born in that town- ship, where the respective families were founded in the pioneer days. Andrew Guthrie became a prosperous farmer in Nottingham Township, where also he followed the stonemason's trade. During the Civil war he served two and one- half years as a private in the Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He continued his residence in Nottingham Township until his death, on the 26th of February, 1901, his widow passing away in 1906, and both having been earnest members of the Christian Church. They became the parents of five children-Rosetta J., Elsie E .. James A., Emma and Melvin. Mr. and Mrs. Gladman became the parents of three children : Ada is the wife of Jacob R. Cecil, a prosperous farmer in Franklin Township, and they have seven children-Lyle R., Rosetta B., Evelyn Edna, Orlando T., George Leslie, Ruth Elizabeth and Marjorie Irene. Lizzie, the sec- ond daughter, died at the age of eight years.

James F., the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Glad- man. was born in the family homestead in Washington Township on June 25, 1889. He attended the township schools, and has spent 'his entire life on the old farm, of which he is now (1921) in charge in co-partnership with his father. He is also assistant mail carrier on Tippecanoe route No. 7, R. F. D. He is one of the prominent young citizens of the town- ship, his well-known reputation as a good farmer, honest and upright character as a man and his public spirit and progressive ideas as a citizen giving him the friendship of all who know him. He married Miss Verna Cecil, and they have two children. Charles Herman and Ella Irene.

JOHN WALLACE GILLESPIE was born in Cadiz on October 1, 1856, and died October 11, 1905, having been a life-long resident of Cadiz. He was a son of John W. and Nancy ( Anderson) Gillespie, and he is survived by a son, John W. Gillespie, who is now at the head of the furniture and undertaking business established by the first John W. Gillespie in 1840. For eighty years the name J. W. Gillespie has been actively connected with it. The J. W. Gillespie who founded the business in Cadiz in 1840 was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania. He was a cabinetmaker, and immediately after com- ing to Cadiz he established the business that has been handed down to son and grandson, and is still conducted by John W. Gillespie.

The senior John Wallace Gillespie was a cousin to the late James Gillespie Blaine, who was once active in national republican affairs. On November 29, 1842, Mr. Gillespie married Nancy Anderson, of Cadiz, and seven children were born to them: Albert, James, Nettie, Elozia, Laura, John W. and Wayne. The

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mother of these children died May 7, 1877. His second marriage was with Mrs. Jane Dallas.

John W. Gillespie second was associated with his father in business from the time he was twenty-one years old, and in 1884 he became the proprietor and manager of the business until his death in 1905. The business is still owned by the family and managed by the son John. W. third.

In 1890 John W. Gillespie married Agnes, a daughter of A. N. and Mary Sheriff. She died on November 14, 1920, leaving the following children : Mary, who married Francis W. Wright, of Warren, Pennsylvania, and is the mother of Francis W., John W. and David Gillespie Wright ; Cornella married L. D. Miller, who was a chaplain in the United States Regu- lar Army stationed at Fort Benning, Atlanta, Georgia ; and John W. third.

John W. Gillespie entered the service in the World war May 27, 1918, and was assigned to the Thirty-ninth Infantry, Fourth Division. On July 21st he sailed for France, landing August 3d in Liverpool, and within a few days he was "somewhere in France," where he remained until after the signing of the armistice. He went into action with the Third Battalion of Observation in the Thirty-ninth Infantry. Fourth Division, and he saw real warfare at Verdun, Saint Mihiel and in the Argonne For- est. On October 10th he was wounded by a high explosive shell and was in Base Hospital at Vichy until November 7, when he was trans- ferred to Base 8 and waited sixteen days for a boat. On November 25th he sailed for the United States. He received a hospital dis- charge from Park View Hospital in Pittsburgh and was sent to Camp Sherman, where on Feb- ruary 5. 1919, he received his final discharge from the army. Since his return to Cadiz he has resumed his position at the head of the John W. Gillespie Furniture and Undertaking business which has been identified with the his- tory of Harrison County for four score years.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 58

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