History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 60

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

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Cully, of whom mention is made on other pages, and in 1910 the milling plant was estab- lished at its present location, with modern equipment and facilities. Here the vigorous and prosperous industrial enterprise has been con- ducted under the corporate title of the Carroll- ton Milling Company, and Mr. Courtright has been able effectively to utilize his executive and initiative ability in furthering the splendid suc- cess of the business. In 1920 he sold his inter- est in the Carrollton Milling Company and is now manager of the Farmers Exchange Com- pany, who own the mill.

The republican party receives the allegiance of Mr. Courtright, and he has given six years of effective service as a member of the City Coun- cil of Carrollton, besides having been for nine years a member of the Board of Education. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of Amer- ica and the Knights of the Maccabees, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Meth- odist Episcopal Church.

In 1890 Mr. Courtright was united in mar- riage to Miss Lydia B. Ralston, who was born at Martins Ferry, Belmont County, Ohio. and who was a child at the time of the family re- moval to Carroll County. Her parents, John and Rebecca Ralston, are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Courtright have two children: Lillian is the wife of David O. Brown, and they reside at Broken Bow. judicial center of Custer County, Nebraska ; Ralph V. was graduated from the Carrollton High School and is now, in 1920, a member of the sophomore class in Mount Union College.

CLYDE M. BARE claims Harrison County as the place of his nativity, and for him can be claimed the honor of achieving distinct success as one of the prosperous and progressive repre- sentatives of mercantile enterprise in this County. He has been engaged in the general merchandise business in the village of Tippe- canoe since 1897. and is a citizen whose high standing in the community renders specially consistent his recognition within the pages of this history.

Mr. Barr was born in North Township, Har- rison County, on the 2d of February, 1869, and is a son of James W. and Mary ( Pierson) Barr, the former of whom was born near Paris, Penn- sylvania. and the latter of whom was born at Jersey. Licking County. Ohio, a daughter of Elijah and Sarah (Mingis) Pierson. Elijah Pierson was born in the state of New Jersey and was a young man when he came to Ohio and established his home in Licking County, where he became a representative merchant at Jersey. in which village he conducted a gen- eral store for many years. he having there re- malned until the time of his death, and his widow likewise having died at that place, their two children having been Martha and Mary. The parents were earnest members of the Pres- byterian Church.

James W. Barr was a son of Matthew W. and Margaret ( Williamson) Barr, both natives of the old Keystone state. In the '40s Matthew W. Barr came from Pennsylvania to Ohio and settled on Bacon Ridge, Jefferson County, where

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be passed the remainder of his life, he having been drowned while endeavoring to swim one of his horses across the Ohio River. His chil- dren were seven in number: Joseph, James W., Thomas W., Margaret Jane, Eleanor, Elizabeth and Nancy Ann.

James W. Barr was young at the time the family came to Ohio and established a home in Jefferson County. When the Civil war was precipitated he did not long restrain his youth- ful patriotism, for records show that on the 19th of August, 1862, he enlisted as a private In Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he continued in service until he was incapaci- tated by an attack of typhoid fever, his honor- able discharge having been received on the 30th of May, 1865. While afflicted with typhoid fever he was placed in a military hospital in the city of Columbus, Ohio, and it was while in this institution that he formed the acquaintance of the young woman who later became his wife. The disability entailed by his illness resulted in his receiving his honorable discharge from the army, and after recuperating he remained for a time on a farm near Conotton, North Township, Harrison County. In the early '70s he engaged in the retail hardware business at Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County, and shortly afterward his place of business was destroyed by fire. By reason of the impaired health of his wife they returned to the old home at Jer- sey, Licking County, and there his death oc- curred on the 15th of November, 1877, his de- voted wife having passed away on the 4th of January, 1874. Both were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church. Of their two chil- dren Clyde M., of this review, is the elder, and the younger, Bessie O., is the wife of Rev. Charles M. Robb, a clergyman of the Presby- terian Church and at the time of this writing pastor of the church of this denomination at Mount Vernon, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Robb have five children-Dorothy, Mary, Helen, Ruth and Gladys.

After the death of his parents Clyde M. Barr was taken into the home of his widowed mater- nal grandmother, at Jersey, Licking County, where he profited by the advantages of the public schools, as did he later by those of the city of Columbus, where he continued his studies two years. As a young man he was em- ployed two years at farm work in Harrison County, and thereafter he was similarly en- gaged in Licking County for a period of six years.

In 1897 Mr. Barr formed a partnership with Howard Auld and engaged in the general mer- chandise business at Tippecanoe, Harrison County, where he has continued his active and successful connection with this enterprise dur- ing the intervening years. In 1901 he pur- chased his partner's interest and he has since maintained sole control of the substantial busi- ness, with a store that is well stocked and gives the effective service that assures appreciative supporting patronage. In Stock Township he is the owner of an excellent farm of 171 acres. and he finds both satisfaction and profit in giv- ing to the same his personal supervision in a

general way. He and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village, and he has long given ef- fective service as a trustee and the treasurer of this church. In politics his support is ac- corded to the republican party.

July 28, 1901, recorded the marriage of Mr. Barr to Miss Addie B. McFadden, who was born and reared in Stock Township, Harrison County, and who is a daughter of William W. and Mar- garet J. (Johnson) McFadden. Mr. McFadden was born in Stock Township, and passed his entire life in Harrison County, where his death occurred on the 1st of January, 1885. His wife was born January 11, 1849 and her death oc- curred June 20, 1914. Mr. McFadden was one of the prosperous farmers of the neighborhood in which he was born, and he passed the closing years of his life on his farm in Stock Town- ship, a short distance north of Laceyville. He and his wife were earnest members of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church. Of their children the first two. Ora Lee and Della, died in early childhood; Shirley M. Is the wife of Charles L. Miller. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Addie B., wife of the subject of this review, was the next in order of birth; Robert E. met a tragic death while employed in one of the great steel mills at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1907; and Wil- lis Estelle is the wife of Homer Bower, of Port Washington, Tuscarawas County. Mr. and Mrs. Barr have five children: Ansel Lee, Robert Dale. Wayne W., Menzie Margaret and Shirley Estelle.

WILSON H. MADDOX, a representative farmer of Short Creek Township, is a scion of a ster- ling and honored family whose name has been identified with the history of Harrison County since the year 1825. He was born on the old Maddox homestead in Short Creek Township, March 6, 1871, and is the eldest child and only son of the late Thomas and Henrietta T. (Hague) Maddox, the former of whom was born in Short Creek Township June 22, 1841, and the latter likewise was born in this county, a daughter of Henry and Sarah A. (Thomp- son) Hague. Thomas Maddox was a son of Wilson Maddox, who was born in Caroline County, Virginia, July 24, 1813, and who was about twelve years old at the time of the family removal to Harrison County, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his life. November 30, 1836. recorded his marriage to Miss Mary Ladd, likewise a native of Virginia, she being a daugh- ter of Robert and Mary T. Ladd, who came to Harrison County in the early '30s. Wilson Mad- dox was a son of Thomas and Jane ( Freeman) Maddox. who came from Virginia to Ohio in 1825 and settled on a partially improved farm in section 15. Short Creek Township, Harrison County. where they remained until their deaths. Thomas Maddox having died January 5, 1838. aged sixty years, and his widow having been eighty-four years of age at the time of her death. December 30. 1858. Their two children were Eliza, who died in Virginia, and Wilson. Both families were actively affiliated with the Society of Friends, the faith of which has been retained by later generations. The Maddox

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family is of English origin and was founded in Virginia in the colonial era of our national history.

After the death of his father Wilson Maddox continued in charge of the old home farm un- til 1859, when he removed to a farm which he purchased in section 14, Short Creek Town- ship, and there he died before the close of that year-at the age of forty-five years. Of him the following estimate has been given: "He was an industrious farmer during his entire active career, and became one of the largest growers of fine wool sheep in Harrison County. He was an enthusiast in all things pertaining to the public good and always ready to support movements tending to advance his native county. In politics he was originally a whig and later a republican, and both he and his wife were birthright members of the Society of Friends." Wilson and Mary T. (Ladd) Maddox became the parents of four children-Eliza (Mrs. G. B. Coutant), Thomas (father of the subject of this sketch), Mary Jane (Mrs. Benjamin Chambers), and Virginia W. (Mrs. William Buchanan). The devoted mother survived her husband by fifteen years and entered into eternal rest in 1874, aged fifty-six years.

Thomas Maddox, father of him whose name initiates this article, was reared and educated in Short Creek Township. where in 1869 was solemnized his marriage to Miss Henrietta T. Hague. They remained on the old Maddox homestead until the death of the loved wife and mother, who passed away on the 13th of January, 1886, and who was survived by three children-Wilson H., to whom this review is dedicated : Annie M., who is the wife of Ben- jamin Haldeman, of East Rochester, Columbiana County ; and Miss Carrie F., who remains with her brother on the homestead farm to which their father removed after the death of the mother, he having sold his portion of the farm of his father and having then purchased the farm which was formerly owned and reclaimed by Isaac Thomas. Thomas Maddox continued as one of the honored citizens and representa- tive farmers of Short Creek Township until his death, on the 27th of February, 1919, a few months prior to the seventy-eighth anniversary of his birth. He was aligned with the repub- lican party until he transferred his allegiance to the prohibition party, of whose cause he was an ardent supporter, and he was a leading ex- ponent of agricultural and live-stock industry in his native county, his farm. comprising eighty acres in section 19, having been made a center of successful dairy enterprise, with the finest type of Jersey cattle, and the finely im- proved place being now the home of his only son and the younger of his two daughters, the son having assumed the active management of the place a number of years prior to the death of the honored father.

Wilson H. Maddox is fully upholding the civic and industrial prestige of the family name and is one of the enterprising and popular repre- sentatives of farm industry in his native county. He acquired his early education in the public schools of Short Creek Township, where he con- tinued to be associated with the activities of

the home farm until he had attained to the age of twenty-four years. He was thereafter a resi- dent of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for twelve years, and there became a successful dealer in butter and eggs. In 1907 he returned to and assumed charge of the old home farm, to the management of which he has since given his attention, the place being devoted to diversi- filed agriculture and dairy enterprise, in con- nection with which latter department Mr. Mad- dox is a successful breeder of registered Jersey cattle. He is a republican in political adher- ency, and he and his wife are birthright and zealous members of the Society of Friends, as was also his first wife. His affiliation is with the Friends Church at West Grove.

In 1894 Mr. Maddox was united in marriage to Miss Margaret L. Ladd, daughter of Joseph and Francina (Cook) Ladd, of Columbiana County, Ohio, and she passed to the life eternal in the year 1890. Joseph T. is the only child of this union. Joseph T. Maddox, who was for three' years a student at Earlham College, an ad- mirable institution maintained by the Society of Friends at Richmond, Indiana. He taught school in 1919-20 at Guilford College, North . Carolina, but in 1921 is a chemist with the Em- pire Oil & Fuel Company in Kansas. His inten- tions are to ultimately complete his college edu- cation.

The second marriage of Mr. Maddox was sol- emnized on May 11, 1904, when Miss Erba R., daughter of William E. and Anna ( Willis) Ladd, became his wife. She was born at Peoria, Illinois.

ALFRED P. SHERIFF. While he is an Ohioan, Alfred P. Sheriff, cashier of the Harrison Na- tional Bank of Cadiz, is not a native of Har- rison County. He was born April 20, 1857, in Steubenville. The parents, Adam N. and Mary (Vickrey) Sheriff, were Pennsylvanians. The father was born in 1832, at Mercer, Pennsyl- vania, while the mother was born in 1831, at New Brighton, and in 1856 they were married and located in Ohio. The mother was a daugh- ter of William Vickrey.

Adam N. Sheriff was a son of Joseph Sheriff, who lived in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and his mother was Nancy Fulton, of that com- munity. He was a saddler and harness maker by trade, and his active business career was passed at Mercer, Pennsylvania. When Adam N. Sheriff located in Steubenville as a young man he worked in a woolen mill with his uncle, James McDevitt. Soon after his marriage he entered the service of the Steubenville and In- diana Railroad, later known as the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, al- though at the time It only extended from Sten- benville to Newark, Ohio. Mr. Sheriff remained with the road the remainder of his life, a,- though in 1866 he came to Cadiz, and he died in 1880-an honorable record of employment through many years. Mrs. Sheriff died sixteen years later. They were members of the Cadiz Presbyterian Church, and Adam N. Sheriff was a member of the Masonic Lodge. Their children were: Alfred P., Agnes, wife of John W. Gil-

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lespie, William V., James M., and Caroline T., . wife of W. C. Bigger.

As a young man Alfred P. Sheriff attended the public schools of Cadiz, and, like his father, his early active life was in the railroad service. He had such employment both in Cadiz and Wheeling. In 1880, however, he entered the Harrison National Bank as teller, and was soon advanced to assistant cashier and later became cashier of the institution so long associated with the business interests of Harrison County. Mr. Sheriff is identified with the community inter- ests as secretary of the Third Equitable Build- ing and Loan Association, and he is also a di- rector and the treasurer of the Harrison and Jefferson Telephone Company.

In 1886 he married Platti McNeely, a daugh- ter of Platoff McNeely. Their children are Helen and Alfred P. Sheriff. Jr. On Septem- ber 7, 1917, Alfred P. Sheriff, Jr., enlisted in the World war and entered Camp Sherman for military training. He was a sergeant in the One Hundred Fifty-Eighth Depot Brigade, and in May, 1918, he was transferred to Camp Tay- lor, where he was assigned as sergeant to the One Hundred Fifty-Ninth Depot Brigade. In June he was returned to Camp Sherman with the Eighty-fourth Division, and when the ar- mistice was signed he was at Gordon Central Officer's Training School, all ready for over- seas service. He received his discharge in No- vember, after more than one year of special military training.

THOMAS WILLIAM WELLS. For many years Thomas William Wells has been plowing, sow- ing, tilling and reaping on the land and the farm which has been his home practically all his life. This place is one of the highly im- proved farms of Carroll County. contains two hundred acres, and is located in Harrison Town- ship on Rural Route No. 1 out of Dellroy.

Mr. Wells, who has a very substantial rela- tionship with the agricultural and civic com- munity, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, February 7, 1871, son of James Henry Farmer Wells and Belle James Wells. His grandfather was William Wells of an old Maryland family, who came to Ohio in pioneer days and lived in Columbiana and Jefferson counties. He died in Columbiana County in 1878, having survived his wife a number of years. They had five sons and five daughters, and second among the sons was James Henry Farmer Wells. The latter grew up and married in Columbiana County, but in the spring of 1871 when his son Thomas W. was six weeks old moved to Harrison Town- ship, Carroll County, and acquired the land now so capably handled by his son. He lived there until his death in 1890, and was one of the well known and highly respected citizens of Carroll County. The widowed mother is still living in Dellroy.

The oldest of three sons, Thomas William Wells lived at home and had the opportunities to attend the Nebo school only during the brief winter terms. His help was needed on the home farm and after his father's death which oc- curred when he was about eighteen he gave all his time to farming.

In 1900 Mr. Wells married Zua Kelly, daugh- ter of Alpheus and Anna (Cullar) Kelly of Mi- nerva, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Wells have five children : Charles Guy, born in 1901, a gradu- ate of the Dellroy High School; William Dwain, born in 1903; Howard Kelly, born in 1907; Morris James, born in 1912; and Erma Dorothy, born in 1919.

Mr. Wells' program since his marriage has been one of diversified farming, placing his de- pendence upon the staple and tried and true methods of agriculture and stock raising. He is a member of the Farmers Exchange of Car- rollton of Dellroy Grange No. 2113. The Wool Growers Association and the Farm Bureau. Some of his time has also been given to the wel- fare of the local community, and for two terms, four years altogether, he was township trustee. He is a republican in politics and a member of the Baxter's Ridge Methodist Episcopal Church.

KIRK W. BILLINGSLEY has, save for an inter- val of one year, been continuously engaged in the general merchandise business at Tippecanoe, Harrison County, since the year 1886, and thus he stands as one of the veteran merchants, even as he is one of the highly esteemed and repre- sentative citizens, of this attractive village. He has long controlled a substantial business, in which he has catered successfully to the require- ments of an appreciative trade drawn from the fine section of which Tippecanoe is the normal business center.

Mr. Billingsley was born on a farm in Flush- ing township. Belmont County, Ohio, and is a representative of a family that was founded in that county in the pioneer days. His father, George Billingsley, passed his entire life in Bel- mont County, where he not only became a pros- perous farmer in Flushing Township, but where he also followed the carpenter's trade for a term of years. He was a son of Lemuel Billings- ley, who settled in Belmont County in the pio- neer days and who there remained and devel- oped the productive farm upon which he continued to reside until his death. His children were five in number-Lemuel. Jr .. William, John, George and Rebecca. As a young man George Billingsley married Miss Lucretia Lind- say. who was born in the city of Baltimore. Maryland, and who was a child at the time of the family removal to Ohio, her father. Thomas Lindsay, having established the family home in Belmont County, where he and his wife re- mained until their deaths. George and Lucretia ( Lindsay ) Billingsley became the parents of five children-Adaline, Kirk W .. Melissa, Anna and Charlotte. The parents were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Kirk W. Billingsley gained his early educa- tion in the schools of his native county, and there he continued his association with farm industry until he was nineteen years of age, when he became a clerk in a general store in Birmingham, Guernsey County. In 1886 he opened a general merchandise store at Tippe- canoe. Harrison County, and here he has, as previously stated, been continuously engaged in this line of enterprise to the present time with the exception of one year. He has taken loyal

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interest in all matters touching the civic and material welfare of his home village, is a re- publican in politics, and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Tippecanoe.

In 1885 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Billingsley to Miss Jennie Thompson, of Guern- sey County, and of this union have been born five children : Pearl died at the age of twenty- four years; Nellle resides in the city of Cleve- land, as does also George B .; and Sanford T. B. and Marie remain at the parental home.

WILLIAM BOYD HAWTHORNE, one of the repre- sentative farmers of the younger generation in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, was born in this township on the 21st of December, 1883, and is a scion of a family whose name has been worthily linked with the history of east- ern central Ohio for more than a century. He is a son of James L. Hawthorne, who was born in Mount Pleasant Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, May 14, 1844. William Hawthorne, father of James L., likewise was a native of Mount Pleasant Township, where he was born in March, 1817, his death having occurred in 1896. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Lemmon, was born in Short Creek Township, Harrison County, in 1822, and was about eighty years of age at the time of her death. Her father. Griffith Lemmon, a native of Ireland, was one of the very early settlers of Harrison County. William Hawthorne was a son of John Hawthorne, who was born on shipboard while his parents were voyaging from their native Ireland to America, where he was reared to manhood. He became one of the pioneer farm- ers of Jefferson County, Ohio, where he endured the trials and vicissitudes of frontier life and where he remained until his death.

As a young man William Hawthorne learned and followed the cooper's trade, but the major part of his active career was marked by close association with the basic industry of agri- culture. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the United Presbyterian Church. Their children were four in number-Martha, James Lemmon, Alexander and Sheridan.

James Lemmon Hawthorne gained his early education in the common schools of Jefferson County and at the age of seventeen years he entered upon an apprenticeship to the trade of blacksmith. In the winter of 1861 he estab- lished his residence at Harrisville, Harrison County. where he opened a blacksmith shop and where he continued his vigorous application to the work of his trade until the year 1900, when he removed to a farm adjoining the vil- lage and turned his attention to agricultural and live-stock enterprise. In 1908 he sold his farm of 140 acres, and since that time he has lived retired in the village of Harrisville, in the enjoyment of the peace and prosperity that are the fitting reward for his former years of ear- nest endeavor.

On the 18th of October. 1866, was solemnized the marriage of James L. Hawthorne to Miss Jennie Mclaughlin, a daughter of William Mc- Laughlin. She was born and reared in Har- rison County and concerning the family ade-

quate record is given on other pages, in the sketch of Wilmer W. Mclaughlin. Mr. and Mrs. Hawthorne are members of the United Presby- terian Church in their home village, and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. Of their three children the eldest is Ross M., who is a farmer in Short Creek Town- ship; Reed I. is now a resident of South Bend, Indiana ; and William Boyd is the immediate subject of this sketch, he being familiarly known by his second personal name.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 60

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