History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 7

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

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Frederick C. Harrah supplemented his com- mon school education by attending Scio Col- lege from 1893 to 1896, and as a young man he began farming where he has always lived, com- bining the livestock business with agriculture. On August 30, 1906, Mr. Harrah married Lena

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Stringer, a daughter of John M. and Susannah (Buchanan) Stringer, their biography also ap- pearing in an old history.

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Harrah are: Clarence Claud, Charles Dean and John Barclay. The Harrahs are members of the Beech Spring Presbyterian Church.

FLORENTS E. HOFFEE has effectively proved his executive and administrative ability during his incumbency of the position of cashier of the Minerva Savings & Trust Company at its Mal- vern office in Malvern, Carroll County, and is one of the prominent and popular representa- tives of financial enterprise in his native county.

Mr. Hoffee was born in Rose Township. Car- roll County, on the 11th of March, 1863, and is a son of Simon and Catharine ( Sheraw) Hoffee, the former of whom was born in Shelby County, Ohio, April 12, 1828, and the latter of whom was born in Carroll County in 1832, a daughter of Sebastian and Elizabeth (Myers) Sheraw, who established their home in Rose Township about the year 1830 and who here passed the remain- der of their lives. Simon Hoffee was about six years of age when in 1834 his parents came to Carroll County and established their home on a pioneer farm in Rose Township, which continued to be their place of residence during the remainder of their lives.

Simon Hoffee was reared on the old home farm in Rose Township and received the advan- tages of the common schools of the locality and period. In his youth he learned the trade of shoemaker, but the major port of his active ca- reer was given to farm enterprise in Rose Town- ship. He was a man of energy and marked busi- ness acumen, was successful in his farm en- terprise, was an active and loyal advocate of the principles of the democratic party, and both he and his wife were communicants of the Catholic Church. He passed away on the 11th of Novem- ber, 1915, as one of the representative pioneer citizens of the county, and his widow entered into eternal rest on the 21st of April, 1916. They became the parents of seven children, Sylvanus, Margaret, William, Florents E., Franklin H., Urban L. and John F. Margaret, William and Franklin H. are deceased.

He whose name Initiates this review gained his earlier graded school in the village of Mag- nolia. Later he attended the Ohio State Normal School at East Sparta, and thereafter he con- tinued his studies for some time in Mount Union College. For eight years he was a successful and popular teacher in the public schools, prin- cipally in Carroll County, and he then engaged in the clothing and shoe business at Malvern, where he developed a prosperous enterprise that continued to engage his attention for a period of eighteen years. Since January, 1909, he has held the office of cashier of the Minerva Savings & Trust Company at its Malvern office, and he has wielded much influence in the upbuilding of the substantial and important business of this representative financial institution. In the mer- cantile business he was associated with George W. Hemming and R. P. Hemming, and in 1903 they erected a substantial brick building, forty- four by seventy-two feet in dimensions and three- stories in height, which is known as the Hoffee

& Hemming block and in which they established their well equipped store, this being one of the best business blocks in the village, and one of the best and most patronized stores on Sandy Valley.

The democratic party receives the unqualified allegiance of Mr. Hoffee, but the only public offices he has consented to hold are those of treasurer of the village of Malvern, member of the village council and member of the board of education. He and his family are communicants of the Catholic Church.

In September, 1889, was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Hoffee to Miss Emma Remmie, who likewise was born and reared in Carroll County and who is a daughter of George and Adaline (Perola) Remmie, both now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffee have three children-Lela who continued her studies in the public schools until she had completed a course in the Malvern High School and is now her father's able assist- ant in the banking office; Mabel, likewise prof- ited by the advantages of the local high school and remains at the parental home, as does also Raymond, who is still attending school at the time of this writing, in 1920.

MORRIS CHARMS. Born and bred in a far- off eastern country of Europe, Morris Charms, of Carrollton, came to America a short time be- fore attaining his majority, and in the years that have since elapsed has fully demonstrated his respect for American ways, methods and in- stitutions, and has acquired an honored position among the loyal and valued citizens of Ohio. He'is a self-made man in every sense implied by the term, and a brief record of his life may furnish to the rising generation a forcible ex- ample of the material success to be obtained by persevering industry and thrift. He was born September 15, 1885, in Russia, where he re- ceived his preliminary education.

Immigrating to the United States in 1905, Mr. Charms located in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended night schools, acquiring an excellent knowledge of the English language, and during the day he became familiar with various branches of industry. Coming from that city to Carrollton on February 14, 1911, he embarked in mercantile pursuits as a dealer in shoes and men's furnishing goods, his store being located on Main Street. Energetic, enterprising and pro- gressive, Mr. Charms met with success from the start, having become owner not only of the substantial building, 28 by 130 feet, In which his business is located, but of one of the finest residences in Carrollton. A man of pleasing address, courteous and genial in manner, he has made friends with all classes of people, and as he has the distinction of being the only Jew in the city his popularity was plainly shown when he raised, without difficulty, the tidy sum of $1,100.00 for the Jewish Relief Fund. He speaks seven different languages and has assisted greatly as interpreter, giving his services freely.

Mr. Charms married in February, 1912, Re- becca Comp, of Cleveland, and they are the parents of two children : Eleanor, born Decem- ber 25, 1915; and Gladys, born February 28, 1919. Religiously Mr. and Mrs. Charms are valued members of the Jewish Church. Frater-

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nally Mr. Charms is a member of Carroll Lodge No. 124, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Carrollton; of the Order of Knights of Joseph ; of Benedict Spinoza Lodge No. 92, of Cleveland, Ohio, and also of the Modern Woodmen of America.

JUDGE JOHN BROUGH WORLEY. But few, if any, of the native born sons of Harrison County in the present generation have attained a greater prominence in their chosen fields of endeavor or have gained greater personal popularity as a man and citizen than has Judge John B. Worley, lawyer and jurist of Cadiz, and judge of the Common Pleas Court of Harrison County. He is in the third generation of his family in this county-a family which has had part in the annals of the county for over a hundred years.

The pioneer of the family in Harrison County was Thomas Worley, grandfather to the present generation, who came into Ohio from Pennsyl- vania at the beginning of the nineteenth century and settled on his own land in Athens Township in 1809. He was a charter member of the Dick- erson Methodist Episcopal Church which was one of the pioneer churches of the county and which is still in existence. He had four sons and six daughters, the sons having been Thomas, David, Daniel and James, all of whom are deceased.

Daniel Worley, third son of Thomas, the pioneer, was born on the old Worley homestead in Athens Township in 1812, and died on the same farm in 1887. Before the building of rail- roads in Harrison County he frequently made trips by wagon to Baltimore, Maryland, hauling local products to the city markets and return- ing with merchandise for the local stores. His return from the east over the National pike, driving a six-horse team hitched to a wagon laden with needed goods and supplies, was an event in the community. The round trip in those early days required approximately six weeks; the same trip at the present time can be made easily with an automobile in four days. Daniel married for his first wife Sarah Peregoy, who bore him three daughters. Tem- perance, Mary and Sarah. For his second wife he married Mary Goodwin, who was born in Short Creek Township, this county, in 1826, of Quaker parents, and died in 1903. She was the daughter of Jesse Goodwin, a pioneer of Short Creek Township. To the second marriage were born the following children : William S., Jesse A., Emory L., Martha M., Emma L. (deceased), John B., Flora Alice and Lafayett B.

Judge John B. Worley, son of Daniel and Mary (Goodwin) Worley, was born in Athens Township on February 4, 1863. As a boy he . attended the district schools during winter and helped with the work on his father's farm in summertime. He was graduated from Franklin College with the class of 1888, spent three years in reading law under able preceptors, and was admitted to the bar in 1891. He entered the practice of law at Zanesville, Ohio, but a year later opened an office in Cadiz, and from that time on, with the exception of the time he has spent on the bench. he has continued in active practice in this city. He soon demonstrated his

ability as an able attorney and took rank with the leaders of the bar. His ability as a lawyer and his personality as a man won him the esteem and confidence of the community to such a degree that it followed as a natural conse- quence that he should be called upon to enter the domain of public affairs. He served one term as mayor of Cadiz (1896-98) and then was elected Probate judge (1899-06). After serving two terms on the bench he retired in February, 1906, to private practice. In 1912 he was elected Common Pleas judge in the Eighth Judicial Dis- trict, and in 1918 was elected Common Pleas judge for Harrison County under the law pro- viding a Common Pleas judge for each county, and he is still presiding over that court.

At the time of the change in the judicial dis- tricts by constitutional amendment giving each county in Ohio at least one Common Pleas judge, it was also provided for the creation of the position of chief justice of the Supreme Court, who should have general supervision of the courts of the state, with power to call upon local judges to render service outside of their own jurisdiction. Under this system the chief justice has frequently called upon Judge Worley to render judicial service in many of the larger counties of the state, at different times assign- ing him especially to cases of more than ordi- nary importance, and during the last few years Judge Worley has presided on the bench at Cleveland, Akron, Elyria, Newark and other large cities.

From the time of the entrance of the United States into war with Germany and until the armistice was signed Judge Worley was very active in local World war work, and he proba- bly rendered a greater amount of official and personal service than did any other one man in Harrison County. Even before this country had entered the war he was outspoken in his belief that the United States should go to the assistance of the allies, and advocated a dec- laration of war against Germany long before war was declared. He presided at the first war meeting and by virtue of his official position he recommended for appointment the members of the county Draft Board. He was chairman of the executive committee of the County Red Cross Chapter, was chairman of the local Ad- visory Board, was chairman of the County War Organization, and was chairman of the last four Liberty Loan campaigns.

In 1895 Judge Worley was united in marriage with Auta A. Groves, daughter of John F. and Levina Groves, of Belmont County, Ohio. Mrs. Worley taught in the public schools of Urich- ville, Ohio, for eight years before marriage. During her life in Cadiz she has been active in all community welfare work. To Judge and Mrs. Worley have been born a son and daughter -John G. and Mary Kathryn. John G., a graduate of Princeton College, class of 1920, was in training at Camp Sherman at the time the World war came to a close with the sign- ing of the armistice. Mary K. was graduated from Maryland College for Women with the class of 1920. Judge Worley and family are members of the Cadiz United Presbyterian Church, of which church the judge has served as elder.

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ISAIAH LAMBORN (LAMBORN BROTHERS). The late Isaiah Lamborn and his wife, of Green Township, are commemorated in the annals of the community by Lamborn Brothers, the two sons who are in active management of the Lamborn estate in Harrison County. The mother died February 21, 1908, and the father July 17, three years later. Isaiah Lamborn was born November 16, 1856, and died while yet comparatively a young man.

Isaiah Lamborn was a son of Thomas Lam- born, of Chester County. Pennsylvania. His mother was Mary ( Hayes) Lamborn, of the same community. Thomas Lamborn was a Pennsylvania farmer, but in the early '80s he removed from Chester County, Pennsylvania, to Cayuga County, New York, thence to Woodson County, Kansas. For a few years he followed farming and then engaged in the hardware business there. The children of that genera- tion are: Israel, Isaiah, Joseph. Charles and Mary. The Lamborns were members of the Friends Church, Pennsylvania having been the scene of the activities of William Penn in co- lonial history.

As a young man Isaiah Lamborn begun farm- ing in Cayuga County. New York. but in 1876 he removed to Short Creek Township, Harrison County, Ohio. In 1882 he removed to Belmont, where he remained twelve years. In 1803 he came to the farm of a little more than a quarter section in Green Township. where he and his wife died later. His wife was Anna, a daughter of David and Amy ( Smith) Hall. Their chil- dren are: Howard H. : Amy P .; Mary. wife of George Stringer, of Hopedale: Alice, wife of Harry Blaney, of Ellen Grove. West Virginia : Edith, wife of Adam Dunlap: and Chester Earl. who married Bessie B. Elliott. and they have a daughter, Maxine Annabelle, and a son, Robert Earl. A brother, Charles, died in 1906. Since the death of the father and mother, Howard H. and Chester E. Lamborn have farmed the homestead. In 1912 they started a fruit farm. planting an orchard of 200 peach trees, seventy. five apple trees and a dozen pear trees, and in 1921 they planted 200 apple and 300 peach trees.

JOHN M. GARVIN. The late John M. Garvin. of Cadiz. passed his entire life in Harrison County. became one of its strongest members of the bar. was a safe counsellor, a strong ad- vocate before courts and juries, and continued his active practice of the law at Cadiz. the county seat, until the time of his death, which occurred July 4. 1897. He was a man of sterling character and was influential in the affairs of his county and community. and in addition to building up a large and lucrative law practice he served two terms as prosecuting attorney of his county and one appointed term in that office. He also served two terms as clerk of courts at the time he was studying law. He was a leader among men, was foremost in the organization of the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank of Cadiz, Ohio, of several building and loan associations, and was prominently mentioned for state and district offices, but consistently and persistently refused to suffer his name to

be used for any office outside of his own native county of Harrison. He was one of the most forceful and resourceful trial lawyers at the bar.

Mr. Garvin was born at New Athens, Harri- son County, Ohio, on the 16th day of May, 1845, and was a son of Daniel and Catharine Davis Garvin, his father having been an early settler at New Athens, where he long continued in- business as the village blacksmith (also farm- ing some). and both he and his wife continued their residence in Harrison County until their deaths. Both were consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of seven children : Davis, Mary, Nancy, Rebecca. John M., James and Margaret.

The subject of this memoir acquired his early education in the public schools of his native village and in a course at Franklin College, located in New Athens, Ohio, and from 1862 to 1870. saving the time he was a soldier in the Civil war, turned his attention to teaching in the common schools of the county and in the Cadiz High Schools. He early formulated plans for his future career, and in consequence there- with read law in the law office of Hon. David Cunningham of Cadiz. He was admitted to the bar in 1870, and thereafter continued in the practice of law until his death, his life having been guided and governed by the highest prin- ciples of justice, and his profession having been honored by his worthy achievements therein. He was a republican in politics, and held mem- bership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, as does his widow also.

On June 14. 1862. he enlisted as a private in Company C of the One Hundred and Twenty- Sixth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry to serve three years during the Civil war, and he served with his regiment in its many battles. On May 6. 1864. at the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, he was wounded, and on April 5, 1865, he was discharged at Alexandria, Virginia, by renson of gunshot wounds received in action. His derth was caused by this gunshot wound.

As a young man Mr. Garvin married Miss Anna Lyons Bennett, and at her death she was survived by two children, Louisa, who is the wife of Webster B. Slusser. of Cleveland ; and Norris Cunningham, who resides at Billings, Montana. On February 17. 1892, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Garvin with Miss Addie D. Grider, who was born on Wheeling Island lo- cated in the Ohio River, near the City of Wheeling. West Virginia. She is the daughter of Lawrence Francis and Rebecca Jane ( Martin) Grider, who passed the closing years of their lives et Cadiz. Harrison County. Mr. Grider was born in Lititz. Pennsylvania, and came to Harrison County with his family in the '60s. He established his home in Cadiz, where for many years he followed the trade of painter, and he was of the venerable and honored citi- zend of the county at the time of his death. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their two children Mrs. Garvin is the elder, and Martha A .. her sister. resides in Cadiz.

Mr. and Mrs. Garvin became the parents of Philip Lawrence Garvin, who resides in the

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city of Cleveland, where he is associated with the Standard Oil Company. In June, 1917, he enlisted in the nation's service in connection with the great World war. He became a mem- ber of the One Hundred and Twelfth United States Enginers, and his company was assigned to duty at the headquarters of the Thirty- Seventh Division. With his command he went to France in June, 1918, and there he partici- pated in the historic and terrific Argonne and St. Mihiel campaign. After the signing of the armistice he remained in France until April, 1919, when he returned to his native land, ac- companying his command to Camp Sherman, Ohio, where he was honorably discharged.

Among the men of affairs in Harrison County none were nearer the hearts of the people and none left a greater impress than John M. Garvin.

ROY HENRY ADAMS. The Adams name has been carried to the fifth generation in Green Township through Roy Henry Adams in the fourth and a son bearing his name in the fifth generation of the family in Harrison County. John Adams, who brought the name to the United States, came from Ireland. It was in the spring of 1805 that he established a home in the wilderness of Harrison County. The chil- dren in his household were: William, James, Samuel, Hannah, Joshua and John. It is through Samuel Adams the name is perpetuated in local history. John Adams, the Irish emi- grant, died in 1812, and he lies buried in West Grove Cemetery. In 1846 the wife was laid beside him there.

At the age of sixteen years Samuel Adams was thrown upon his own resources, and he began farming for himself. In time he married Sarah, daughter of David Chambers. Their children are: Joshua, Rachel and John. The mother died February 7, 1851, and on April 2, 1857, Mr. Adams married Mary; a daughter of James Clark, of Athens Township. Their chil- dren are Clark and Sarah Elizabeth. While in its early history the Adams family in Harrison County had been Friends; the Adams family of this time are Presbyterians. Samuel Adams was spoken of as a self-made man, having made his own way in the world. The Commemorative Record says: "He had no capital save a good constitution, willing heart and hands, coupled with energy, perseverance and a determination to succeed," and he lived to realize his ambi- tion. In most instances, however, the pioneer plodded along without much definite vision of the future.

It is through Clark, the son of the second marriage, that the Adams name is perpetuated to posterity. He was born September 12, 1851, and on November 26, 1884, he married Dora, a daughter of Henry Copeland, of the same com- munity. Their children are: Mary V., born November 2, 1885, on June 19, 1907, became the wife of Ralph E. Galbreith; Samuel Wylle Adams was born February 29, 1888, and while he was almost twenty-seven years old when he died, May 1, 1914, he had only celebrated half a dozen birthdays. On January 1, 1914, S. W. Adams married Pauline Moore. R. H. Adams was born November 24, 1889, and Chester Clark was born December 14, ten years later. R. H.

and C. C. Adams are the farmers at the old family homestead today. In the study of calen- dars it is noted that R. H. Adams, born Novem- ber 24, 1889, came into the world the year the figure 9 came into the calendar to remain per- manently 111 years. While Mr. Adams lives he will never write a letter without using the figure 9 in dating it. There had not been a nine in the calendar for ten years until the time of his birth. The Adams family has now been in Harrison County more than a century. Clark Adams died October 19, 1907, and his wife died May 24, six years later.

While all the Adams family had common school advantages, R. H. Adams attended the Cadiz High School three years. However, the death of his father changed his educational plans and he returned to the farmstead. On June 25, 1913, he married Ocie Belle Henderson, a daughter of Aca and Delilah. (Barrickman) Henderson. At that time Roy H. Adams bought the interest of his brother in the homestead and the latter now lives in Cadiz. He has acquired the ownership of 140 acres. Thoroughbred Jersey cattle and Ohio Improved Chester White hogs are the live-stock specialties there.

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Adams are: Henderson LeRoy, born April 27, 1915; and Pauline Virginia, born November 16, 1918. While Mr. Adams is a Presbyterian, his wife holds membership in the Christian Church. In the old days when the circuit rider's horse knew the location of all the corn cribs in Harri- son County, they would no doubt have belonged to church together, but conditions are different in the twentieth century. "Where the pot boils the strongest, the preacher stays the longest," is antedated everywhere in 1920-the Tercen- tenary of the church in the New World. When the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620 they constituted themselves the first church in America.

WILLIAM VANCE SCOTT. Although living now in retirement at Hopedale, William Vance Scott has business interests in the community in addi- tion to the fine farm he owns in Green Town- ship. Mr. Scott was born May 21, 1850, in Washington County, Pennsylvania. His father, Josiah N. Scott, was born there in 1813, and the mother, Rachel Vance, was born three years later in the same community. Mr. Scott bears the maiden name of his mother. She was a daughter of William and Hannah ( Patterson) Vance, and they lived in Cross Creek Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.

William Vance was a Pennsylvania farmer, and the old Vance Fort was located on his farm in Cross Creek Township. He was at one time in the Pennsylvania Legislature and was speaker of the House. He served as a member of the Federal Grand Jury at Columbus one session. He was appointed by Governor Herrick as a delegate to the Farmers' Congress on two oc- casions. His children are: Joseph, Patterson, Allison, James, Thomas, John S., Cynthia, Eliza- beth, Caroline, Anna, Rachel (the mother of William Vance Scott), and Jane. The Vances of that generation were Presbyterians.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 7

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