History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 71

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

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DAVID ALLISON. The name of the late David Allison, of Green Township, is commemorated in the annals of the community by his son, Howard S. Allison, who is in charge of affairs at the old Allison family homestead in Green Township. Mr. Allison died there in 1894, after a long and useful life in the community.

David Allison was a native of Starke County, Ohio. Since his death Mrs. Allison and her sons have continued in possession of the family homestead near Hopedale. The mother and one son, Howard S., still live there. H. S. Allison has managed the Allison homestead farm for twenty-five years.

The Allisons are among the most highly re- spected people of the community. There are three sons. Harry F. Allison married Myrtle Baxter, and after she died he married Jean- nette Shultz. Willard R. Allison married Clara Snively. Howard S. Allison is unmarried and lives in the old Allison homestead with his mother.

JOSEPH MITCHELL MCELROY. The late Joseph M. McElroy was one of the well-known and popular citizens of Rumley Township, Harrison County. He was born in Island Creek Town- ship, Jefferson County, Ohio, December 30, 1855, and was a son of Joseph and Mary Jane ( Lee) McElroy, and grandson of James McElroy.

James McElroy was born in 1774, near Balti- more, Maryland, and died in Jefferson County, Ohio, where he had been a farmer for a num- ber of years, in 1858. He married Mary Mit- chell, who was born in 1776, and died in 1850. Their children were as follows: Margaret, James, Jane, Joseph, John and Elizabeth. They were all members of the Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church.

Joseph McElroy was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and his wife was born in Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of James and Ruth (Crouch) Lee. James Lee was one of the early farmers and stockraisers of German Township. During his younger years Joseph McElroy was a merchant, but later on in life he moved from German Township, where he had carried on his store, and became a farmer of Jefferson County, Ohio, and there he died December 4, 1863, his widow surviving him un- til June 11, 1876. Their children were as fol- lows: Mary Virginia, James Lee, Joseph M., Margaret Florence, who died in 1872, and Anna

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Elizabeth. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McElroy were members of the United Presbyterian Church.

The educational training of Joseph M. Mc- Elroy was that afforded by the district schools of Island Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio. As a young man he learned the harness- making and saddlery trade, and worked at it for a few years, and then went on a farm in German Township, Harrison County, and was engaged in farming and handling stock until 1896, when he moved to Jewett and became as- sociated with Samuel Arbaugh in a grain, stock and wool business, which partnership continued until the death of Mr. Arbaugh in 1917. Mr. McElroy continued to deal in stock and handle wool, conduct his fine property in German Town- ship, comprising 110 acres, until his death on November 8, 1920.

On December 27. 1877, Mr. McElroy was united in marriage with Irene Winings, a daugh- ter of Jacob and Mary (Chase) Winings. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. McElroy are as follows : Mary Estella, who married Cortez L. Williams, an attorney of Steubenville, Ohio. has one living child, Cortez McElroy, the other one, Edwin Lee, being deceased : Joseph Harold, who married Maude V. Baird, lives at Carroll- ton. Ohio, and has had the following children, Flora Irene, deceased, Joseph William, Harold Baird. Mary Elizabeth, Lee Montgomery, and Ruth Joan: William H., who married Clara Pratt. lives at East Cleveland, Ohio, and has two children, William H., Jr., and Beatrice Marguerite: Wilma Katherine, who is unmar- ried and is teaching in the Steubenville, Ohio, public schools. Mrs. McElroy died December 5. 1902. On October 24. 1907, Mr. McElroy was united in marriage with Jennie Herron, a daugh- ter of Robert and Mary (Hanna) Herron. Rob- ert Herron was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, April 10, 1817. ad died June 17, 1884. His wife, who was born in German Township, Harrison County, Ohio, July 10, 1825, was a daughter of James and Mary ( McCleary) Hanna. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Mc- Elroy, Andrew Herron, was born in Maryland, but hecame a farmer of Washington County, Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Neely.

Robert Herron was a minister of the Presby- terian Church, and in 1847 came to Harrison County, Ohio, as assistant pastor at the Beech Spring Presbyterian Church. In 1848 he was made pastor of the Ridge Presbyterian Church of Archer Township. The Rev. Mr. Herron was a man of great scholastic ability and a graduate of Muskingum College, class of 1845. He had also attended the Western Theological Seminary for his professional training. His pastorate of the Ridge Church lasted until 1874, and he was beloved by his people. to whom he was a tender and sympathetic friend as well as a spiritual director and pastor. His death occurred June 17, 1884. his widow surviving him until Novem- ber 27, 1901. The children of Robert Herron and his wife were as follows: Andrew, who was a Presbyterian minister, is now deceased ; John, who was also a minister of the .same faith as his father and brother, is deceased ; and Mrs. McElroy, who was the youngest born.

Mr. McElroy was a member of the Presby- terian Church of Jewett, and belonged to Gen- eral Custer Lodge, K. of P., at Scio, Ohio. A man of energy and determination, made a suc- cess of his various undertakings, and while do- ing so he did not neglect his duty as a citizen, and ever took an active interest in local mat- ters. Mrs. McElroy is a member of the Jewett Presbyterian Church.

DAVID P. HOST. While David P. Host has been a resident of Cadiz for many years his birth occurred January 3, 1842, in West Carlyle. Coshocton County, Ohio. His father, Samuel Ilost. was born in 1801, near Smithfield, Jeffer- son County, but the mother, Jane ( Hines) Host, is a native of Harrison County. She is a daughter of William and Sarah Hines, who came from Ireland. They were married in Ireland and later came to America. They were pioneers in Harrison County. Their children were: Mary, Christopher, William, John, David, Zilla and Lovina.

There has been evolution in the spelling of the name Host. as the grandfather, Samuel, . called himself Hoss. He was a blacksmith in Smithfield, Jefferson County. His children were : Harvey, Samuel, William and John. The son, Samuel, through whom the lineage is traced, was later a blacksmith in Coshocton County. Ohio. In 1847 he removed to Lacey- ville. Harrison County, where he was a black- smith the remainder of his days. In 1825 he married Louisa Oxley, and their children were : Henry. James, John and Louisa. She died, and his children by a second marriage were: Wil- liam, David, Eliza and Amos.

David P. Host enjoyed common school ad- vantages at the Sampson School in Stock Town- ship. and as a young man worked on a farm in that community. On November 16, 1861, he enlisted in Company C of the Forty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was out three years and eight months as a Civil war soldier. He was discharged July 13, 1865, and returned to Harrison County. Mr. Host was wounded at the battle of Corinth, Mississippi, and was in a hospital thirty days as a result of it. He was in some of the hardest fought battles and was with General Sherman in his march from Atlanta to the sea. When he returned to civil life Mr. Host first engaged in mercantile pur- suits at Tappan. Harrison County. Two years later he engaged in the coal business in Tus- carawas County. He afterward operated a saw mill in Harrison County for thirteen years.

Finally Mr. Host went on a farm near Tappan and remained there until 1892. when he was elected sheriff of Harrison County. He was sheriff four years and served as deputy sheriff four years, and when out of office he remained in Cadiz. For many years he has been a jus- tice of the peace, and he is known to almost everybody in Harrison County.

On June 5, 1872. Mr. Host married Catherine M. Granfell, daughter of Miles and Jane Gran- fell, and their children are: Amos Edwin, Grace Irene, the wife of W. C. Nicholas; Ivan Warren. James A. and John Warren. They are the mem- bers of the Methodist Church in Cadiz. Since

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1871 Mr. Host has been a member of the I. O. O. F. Lodge, and he is a member of the R. M. Lyon Post, G. A. R., at Bowerston, Ohio, of which he was a charter member and served as its first adjutant.

JOHN CROSKEY. When John Croskey, of Green Township, counts back to the third generation he finds that he is an Irishman. John Croskey, who is now past four score, was born July 22, 1836, in Green Township, Harrison County, where his father had come as a settler. Will- iam Croskey was born in 1796, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and his wife. Mary Crabb, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio.

Just one step backward in the Croskey line- age shows that Robert and Catherine (Ring- land) Croskey came from Ireland. They came to America in 1774- colonial period in Ameri- can history. They lived in Maryland through the Revolutionary struggle, and later they lo- cated in Washington County, Pennsylvania. It used to be said that Ohio was admitted into the Union in 1802. later historians to the con- trary, but according to recent data they were settlers in Ohio one year before statehood was granted. locating in Harrison County. They owned 100 acres of land and ended their days on it.

The children in the second generation of Croskeys in America are: John, William, Rob- ert. Samuel, Catherine, Rachel, Margaret, Eliza- beth and Mary. John Croskey is descended from the youngest son, William Croskey. He always lived in Green Township, Harrison County. In April, 1845, he moved to the farm where his son John Croskey lives today. He died there in 1872. His children were: Robert, Margaret, Henry, Anna, Mary, Sarab, John and William. The Croskeys are Presbyterians.

John Croskey had the meager educational advantages of his day, and early turned his attention to agriculture. He now owns 520 acres of land. In 1866 he married Eliza Ann Mansfield, a daughter of John and Rhody (Welch) Mansfield. Their children are: Wil- liam B., Rhody W .. John M. and Ephraim S. William lives at the family homestead and John M. near by, and they farm it together. John M. Croskey married Emma Porter, and their children are Naomi, Eliza, John and Mary.

The annals of the Mansfield family show that John Mansfield was a farmer in Wayne Town- ship, Jefferson County. He built the first brick house in that part of the country. The Mans field children are: Welch. Thomas. Eliza, Cyrus and Reason. John and William died in child- hood. The Mansfields are Presbyterians. The Croskeys are among the well known families of Harrison County. For more than a century the name has been written in the archives of the commonwealth of Ohio.

EDWARD CLIFFORD. While Edward Clifford is a prosperous Green Township farmer and stock- man, his father before him was an immigrant from Ireland. being one of five children who came with their widowed mother to the United States. Mr. Clifford was born in the commun- ity where he now lives December 16, 1856. His

father, John Clifford, was born forty years earlier in County Cavan, Ireland. The father died May 30, 1900. He married Mary Ann Jamieson, of Cadiz Township, after coming to Harrison County. She was a daughter of An- drew and Mary (McFadden) Jamieson.

John Clifford, Sr., was the head of the house of Clifford in Ireland. His wife was Maty Byers, and after his demise she brought her five children to the land of promise across the Atlantic. After stopping for a while in Wash- ington County, Pennsylvania. they located in Cadiz Township. Harrison County. . The chil- dren of this immigrant family were: Mar- garet, John, Edward, Mary and Esther. They must have come from the north of Ireland, as they were Presbyterians. It was in 1841 that the Cliffords came to America, and much de- volved upon this oldest son through whom Ed- ward Clifford is descended.

As a young man and a "stranger in a strange land" John Clifford worked out on farms in Harrison County by the month, and finally. when he started farming for himself, he bought a farm in Green Township. Here he spent the remainder of his active business life, retiring to Cadiz finally. Think of a young Irish immi- grant with a mother and other dependents who accumulated a competence and had 347 acres of land in Harrison County. Horace Greeley said : "Go west, young man," but he did not say anything about crossing the Atlantic ocean in order to "grow up with the country." The children of John Clifford were: Mary, who died in young womanhood : and Edward and Andrew are the two sons, and three other children died in childhood. Their mother died September 3, 1864, and in 1866, Mr. Clifford married Ann Croskey, and they had two children. Anna and William. The daughter became the wife of L. A. Morehead.

Edward Clifford attended the district school of the community, and as a young man he be- gan on the Clifford farm. On October 1, 1885, he married Alice M. Thompson, who was born In Green Township, a daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Morehead) Thompson. For a time after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Clifford lived on a farm on the Hopedale road in Green Township, and in 1902 they bought and removed to their present farm. It is a tract of 340 acres and Mr. Clifford is a breeder of Short- horn cattle and fine wool sheep combined with diversified farming operations. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford are Helen M. and Isabelle E. The Cliffords are Presbyterians.

REV. ROBERT GOWAN CAMPBELL, D. D., LL. D. The effectiveness of Franklin College at New Athens as an institution of higher education and Christian training and as registered in the minds and hearts of all who were enrolled as students there from the close of the Civil war until a comparatively recent date is by general accord attributed to the personality and active presence of Rev. Robert Gowan Campbell as president and for forty years a member of its staff of instruction.

Rev. Robert Gowan Campbell was born April 4, 1834, in York County, Pennsylvania. The

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founder of the Campbell family in Lower Chanceford Township was William Campbell, who was born of Scotch parentage in the State of Delaware in 1767, but was brought to York County, Pennsylvania, and reared among friends until manhood. Being a popular young man, he married into an excellent family of Scotch-Irish pioneers, founded by John Stewart, a Revolutionary soldier born in 1740, and whose wife was Elizabeth Henry of Baltimore, Mary- land. William Campbell, whose vocation was that of a farmer, married Margaret, the daugh- ter of John Stewart, in 1790, and to them were born ten children, six sons and four daughters, of whom survived to establish familles two daughters, Mrs. John Workman and Mrs. Hugh Anderson, in Baltimore, Maryland, and three sons, James, Robert and John, who lived as neighbors on or near the old home and reared large families.

The second brother, Robert, was born in 1802 and died in 1883. In 1829 he married Mary, the daughter of Alexander Gowan, Esquire, who came from Ettrick, Scotland, in the middle of the eighteenth century. Mary Gowan was born in 1798 and died in 1879. Both were natives of York County, where they spent their lives. To their marriage were born five sons: William, who died when two years old, Alexander Gowan, Robert Gowan, James Hervey and Isaac Williams. The second son, Alexander, married Margaret A. Smith, of York County, and died in Martins Ferry, Ohio, in 1894, leaving a numerous posterity. James H., the only living brother of Dr. Robert G., resides near Arkansas City, Kansas, and is the father of six sons and two daughters, all grown and settled in the great west. His wife was Agnes Smith, of York County. Isaac Williams Campbell married Agnes W. Grove, and lived and died in York County, leaving one son and two daughters, of whom two are married and one a widow.

Robert Gowan, the third son, married in 1863 Euphemia Elizabeth Smith, youngest daughter of Joseph B. Smith, of Belmont County, Ohio. To them were born four daughters and one son : Carrie Lauretta, Emma Blanche, Robert Addison, Margaret Felicia and Edna Crete. All graduated at Franklin College, New Athens, Ohio, but Margaret F. only in music.

Carrie L., born in 1865, at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, was married to Rev. Oscar J. Gregg, of Belmont, Ohio, and died in 1908, leaving one son, Howard Campbell, who after graduating from Wooster College in 1918 went to France and participated in the great war and is now doing school work in Ohio.

Emma Blanche, born at Martin's Ferry in 1867, was married to Rev. Harvey Graeme Fur- bay in 1890 and died in 1896, at Tyrone, Penn- sylvania, leaving two daughters, Faye Campbell and Helen. Faye is the wife of Theodore N. Westlake, of Newburgh, New York, and has three children, Theodore, Jr., Helen and Walton Harney. Helen was married to E. L. Wynne, of New York City, and lives on Staten Island.

Robert Addison, only son of Reverend Doctor Campbell, was born in 1869, at New Athens, Ohio, studied medicine, and for over a quarter .of a century has been one of the leading physi-

cians and surgeons at Homestead, Pennsylvania. He married in 1910 Bessie LaRue Coon, of In- diana, Pennsylvania. Their four children were named Robert Addison, Jr., Laura Elizabeth, Mary Florence and John Gowan. Mary Flor- ence died at the age of two and a half years.

Edna Crete, youngest daughter of Doctor Campbell, born at New Athens, Ohio, was mar- ried in 1904 to Rev. M. L. MacPhail, D. D., of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. After long pastor- ates in Boston and Pittsburgh Doctor MacPhail is now pastor at Auburn, New York. His con- gregation numbers 1,300 members. They have one son, Robert Campbell, fifteen years of age and attending school.

Margaret Felicia Campbell has been the faith- ful companion and careful housekeeper of her father since her mother died in 1898. She is a teacher of instrumental music and a church organist.

During his youth on his father's farm in York County, Pennsylvania, Robert Gowan Campbell was trained to the occupation of farming. His ambition to secure a liberal edu- cation led him to pursue classical studies under the direction of his pastor, Rev. William Car- lile. He made encouraging progress, and at the same time taught in common schools. After attending one term in 1854 at Port Royal Academy in Juniata County, Pennsylvania, in May, 1855, he started on a long journey to Madison College at Antrim, Guernsey County, Ohio. Remaining there three months, he started on foot and traveled the National Pike toward Saint Clairsville, Ohio, thence north to Wheeling Creek, and in Belmont County found friends and relatives and a generous welcome. He applied himself again to teaching, and in 1856 entered Franklin College, graduating with honors in 1858. His theological studies were pursued in the Pittsburgh United Presbyterian Seminary, where he was graduated in 1863. As a minister Doctor Campbell has held pastorates at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, four years; New Athens, Ohio, nineteen years; Uniontown, Ohio, twelve years and Roney's Point, West Virginia, six years.

It was in 1867 that he was called to New Athens as president to revive Franklin College after the war. In that college he remained four years as president, fifty years as vice president and fifty years as a member of the board and forty years an instructor. Since 1906 he has received a Carnegie pension. He was honored with the Doctor of Divinity degree from Frank- lin College and Rochester University of New York at the same time, and later the Doctor of Laws degree from Franklin.

In politics Doctor Campbell is a republican, and his first vote was for Abraham Lincoln. He is by birth and education a United Presby- terian. He intends to live at New Athens, Ohio, until the going down of life's sun.

GEORGE E. ROCHE. The record of the Roche family of which Professor George E. Roche, superintendent of schools in Harrison County, is a representative, seems to begin with the coming of two brothers to Belmont County. William H. Roche, the father of Professor

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Roche, was then a boy of seven, while his brother James was two years older, and they came here to live with a friend of their family. In later years, when W. H. Roche had grown into manhood, he located in Harrison County and became a Short Creek Township farmer. He died there in 1912.

Professor Roche was born September 21, 1871, near Harrisville, Short Creek Township, while his father was born in 1829 near Winchester, Virginia. He married Emily Carver, a native of Harrisville. She was born in 1835 and was a daughter of Thomas and Tamson (Gray) Carver, the father from Doylestown, Pennsyl- vania. Soon after their marriage they located in Short Creek Township. The home farm was purchased by Thomas Carver, father of Mrs. Roche, in 1818, and is now owned by Professor Roche. The children in the Carver family are: Joseph, Elizabeth. Mary, Julia and Emily, the youngest daughter becoming the wife of W. H. Roche. Her death occurred in 1906, while he lived six years longer.

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Roche are: Thomas C. (deceased), James F. (de- ceased), William H. (deceased), Ella L., Joseph B., Albert C., Frederick S. (deceased), Clarence F. (deceased), Clara T., George E. and Eva V. Roche. They all had common school advan- tages, and when he had finished high school at Harrisville G. E. Roche went to Columbiana and later he studied in Scio College. In 1900 he graduated from Franklin College. He has been a teacher since completing his education, and from 1895 to 1899, prior to his graduation from Franklin College, he was a township superintendent of common schools in Coshocton County. Mr. Roche entered the Ohio State Uni- versity in September and on December 7, 1900, was admitted to the Ohio State Bar as an at- torney at law. In 1917 he was elected super- intendent of schools in Harrison County. He was re-elected in 1919, and as an educator his mark is high and his success excellent.

In 1898 Mr. Roche married Emily Love, a daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Rusk) Love, of Coshocton County. Their son, William Carver, is a student in Ohio State University, and there is a daughter, Emily Gray Roche. While Mr. and Mrs. Roche were reared as Pres- byterians they are now members of the Metho- dist Church in Harrisville. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge. While he is admitted to the bar as an attorney, the call of the school room is unremitting and Mr. Roche is at heart an educator.

JOHN F. MERRYMAN is one of the busy and enterprising citizens of the Village of Cadiz Junction in German Township, Harrison County,. where he conducts a grocery and meat market and is a dealer in real estate. He has found in his native county ample scope for successful achievement, and is a popular citizen whose personality and ancestral record entitle him to recognition in this history.

Mr. Merryman was born at Hopedale, Harri- son County, on the 22d of October, 1868, and is a son of Charles and Mary A. (Frazier) Merry-

man, both natives of Wayne Township, Jeffer- son County, Ohio. Mrs. Merryman was a daughter of David and Susanna (Lamborn) Frazier, who remained on their old homestead farm in Wayne Township, Jefferson County, until the close of their long and useful lives. In that township Charles and Margaret (Bell) Merryman, paternal grandparents of the subject of this review, likewise continued to reside until their deaths, the grandfather having been a representative farmer of that county. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church, and their children were three in number-Mary, Margaret and Charles.

Charles Merryman was born in the year 1833 and was reared to manhood on the old home- stead farm of his parents, the while his educa- tional advantages were those of the common schools of the locality. About the year 1856 he came to Harrison County and engaged in the meat-market business at Hopedale, the butcher's trade having engaged his attention during the major part of his active career. In 1876 he removed to a farm in Green Township, near Cadiz Junction, but still continued his butcher- ing business in connection with the activities of his farm. In 1890 he established his resi- dence at Cadiz Junction, where for the ensu- ing decade he conducted a meat market and grocery and where he continued to reside until his death, which occurred in 1906, his wife having passed away in 1899. She was an active member of the Presbyterian Church. They be- came the parents of seven children : Margaret, Martha, Cora, John F., Charles, Louisa and Carrie. Of the children only Cora and John F. are now living.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 71

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