History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 75

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

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RALPH E. GALBRAITH is one of the representa- tive farmers of the younger generation in Ar- cher Township, where he is associated with his father in the operation of the fine old home- stead farm on which he was born and reared. the date of his nativity having been July 30, 1883. He is a son of James A. Galbraith, who was horn in Green Township, this county. on the 18th of January, 1844. a son of John D. and Margaret ( Allison) Galbraith. John D. Gal- braith likewise was born in Green Township. where he was reared under the conditions that marked the early pioneer period in the history of Harrison County. His father, James Gal- braith, was born in Ireland and was one of the early settlers at Cadiz, Harrison County, where he followed the carpenter's trade a few years. James Galbraith then removed to an embryonic farm in Green Township, and this he reclaimed to cultivation, the railway station known as Cadiz Junction being situated on his old home- stead. He was one of the substantial and hon- ored pioneers of the county and passed the closing years of his life in the village of Hope- dale. His children were seven in number-

Elizabeth, John D., Deborah, Sarah, Jane, Ta- bitha and Mary-and the family name of his wife was Delaney.

As a young man John D. Galbraith engaged in independent farm enterprise in Green Town- ship, but in 1858 removed to Jefferson County. In the autumn of 1861 he removed thence to Washington County, Ohio, where he became a successful farmer and where he remained dur- ing the rest of his active career. He passed the closing period of his life in Jefferson County, where he died in June, 1901, at a venerable age. His first wife died in 1857. and later he wedded Elizabeth Aiken. The four children of the first marriage were James A., John A., Isabel (Mrs. William Long) and Lavinia. David was the one child of the second marriage. John D. Gal- braith and both his first and second wives were members of the Presbyterian Church.

James A. Galbraith acquired his early educa- tion in the schools of Harrison, Jefferson and Washington counties, and as a young man be- gan working by the month as a farm hand. Fi- nally he became associated with his brother. John A., in the purchase of a farm of eighty acres in Athens County, but about two years later he returned to Harrison County, where he has since maintained his residence. On the 4th of November, 1875, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Amanda McKee, daughter of James and Sarah (Lewis) McKee, and in the spring of 1880 they established their residence on their present fine homestead farm of 143 acres in Archer Township. Their only child is Ralph E., whose name initiates this review. Mr. and Mrs. Galbraith and their son hold member- ship in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Ca- diz, where the latter's wife is a member of the Presbyterian Church, in the faith of which she was reared. Both father and son are to be designated as stalwart supporters of the prin- ciples and policies of the republican party. Mrs. Amanda (McKee) Galbraith was born in Green Township, Harrison County, on the 14th of Oc- tober, 1847, the eighth in order of birth of the twelve children born to James and Sarah (Lewis) McKee. James McKee was born in Archer Township, this county, on the 11th of February, 1811, a son of Robert and Rachel (Wills) McKee, who came from Pennsylvania and became early settlers in Harrison County. where they passed the remainder of their lives. Their religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal Church. James McKee became one of the successful farmers of Green Township. where his death occurred on the 8th of May. 1886. his widow surviving him by a number of years. Mrs. McKee was a daughter of Joseph and Rachel (Canby) Lewis, who came from Pennsylvania to Harrison County. Ohio, in 1829. and who here passed the residue of their lives.

Ralph E. Galbraith has remained with his parents on the old homestead farm from the time of his birth to the present, and here he has found ample opportunity for the exerting of his energies and the employing of his ability in connection with farm industry, he and his fn- ther having maintained & partnership alliance in the operation of the farm since 1907, and the combination of long experience on the part of

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the father, a man of mature judgment, and the youthful vigor and progressiveness of the son having proved specially effective in the co-ordi- nating and successful directing of the various departments of farm enterprise.

On the 19th of June, 1907, was solemnized the marriage of Ralph E. Galbraith to Miss Mary V. Adams, who likewise was born, reared and educated in Harrison County and who is a daughter of Clark and Dora (Copeland) Adams. Adequate record concerning the Adams family appears on other pages of this work, in the sketch of the career of Roy H. Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Galbraith have no children.

CERAL ARNOLD ORIN. It has been proved that practical industry, wisely and vigorously ap- plied, seldom fails of success. It carries the in- dividual onward and upward, brings out his in- dividual character and acts as a powerful stimu- lus to others. The most effective results of life are obtained through simple means and the ex- ercise of common sense, perseverance and well- directed effort. In the field of daily activity one of the men of Carroll County who has won an enviable success is Ceral Arnold Orin, proprietor of a general store at New Harrisburg. He was born at New Harrisburg in 1892, a son of Cas- sius and Melissa ( Holmes) Orin.

Until he was eighteen years old he attended the local schools and then took the summer term in the teachers' course at Scio College. Following this he became connected with the K-W Ignitor Company of Cleveland, Ohio, to learn the electrical business, and when he left after four years he was coil tester. Returning to the homestead, he conducted the general store his father had owned for seventeen years, and which at the death of the father in 1905 was taken over by Mr. Orin's sister, Mary Viola. She was the wife of James Long, but died in 1917, when Mr. Orin became the proprietor, and he has conducted it ever since with the excep- tion of the time he spent in the army.

Under the selective draft Mr. Orin was called into the service of the United States Army June 26, 1918, at Carrollton, Ohio, and sent to Camp Sherman, where he was placed in the Twenty- Second Regiment of the Sixth Training Bat- talion. One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Depot Brigade, July 26, 1918. On August 1 of that year he was placed in Company C, Three Hun- dred and Ninth Ammunition Train, and sent to Cleveland, Ohio, and thence by army trucks to New York City, sailing from that port by the northern route to Port Sidney, Halifax, Nova Scotia. After two days there the com- mand was sent to Liverpool, England, and spent a week at Knotty Ash Camp, from whence it was transferred to Havre, France. Following a week there Mr. Orin's unit was stationed at different French towns, finally going to Bour- deaux, where the men were engaged in the dan- gerous work of hauling ammunition, Mr. Orin being a wagoner, and was so serving at the time of the signing of the armistice. In February, 1919, he sailed from Bordeaux, France, for New York City, landing at Hoboken, and from there was sent on to Camp Sherman and honorably discharged February 14, 1919. Returning home he resumed operating his store.

In August, 1919, Mr. Orin was united in mar- riage with Helen Snook, a daughter of Benja- min and Cora (Haynam) Snook, of Columbiana County, Ohio, prominent people of that region. In politics Mr. Orin is a republican. His re- ligious convictions find expression in the creed of the Presbyterian Church. He belongs to the American Legion at Carrollton. The fore- thought, sound judgment and enterprise which form the elemental strength of Mr. Orin's char- acter have brought him to a well-earned pros- perity, although he is yet numbered among the young business men of his neighborhood.

WESLEY MCCOMBS is one of the venerable na- tive sons of Harrison County and has been long and successfully identified with farm industry. He still has the general supervision of his ex- cellent farm in Stock Township. and is a ster- ling citizen who is well entitled to representa- tion in this history. . He was born in Archer Township, Harrison County, on the 22d of Oc- tober, 1844, and is a son of the late Joseph and Jane (Tipton) McCombs. That the family was founded in the county in the early pioneer era needs no further voucher than the statement that his father likewise was born and reared in Archer Township, where he became a suc- cessful farmer, as had been his father, who here reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds. Joseph McCombs and his wife were venerable and hon- ored pioneer citizens of the county at the time of their deaths, both having been zealous mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Wesley McCombs gained his early education in what was known as the McCoy schoolhouse in Archer Township, and later continued his studies in one of the district schools of Stock Township. In the latter township he initiated his independent farm enterprise when he was a young man, and the basic industries of agri- culture and stock-growing have enlisted his ef- fective co-operation during the long intervening years. He is the owner of a valuable landed estate of 221 acres, and for more than a quarter of a century has resided on his present home- stead farm in North Township. He has been influential in local affairs, served eight years as trustee of Stock Township and three years as assessor of that township. Both he and his wife are representative members of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church at Hanover, in which he served. many years as a trustee.

On the 7th of July, 1870, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McCombs to Miss Emma Jane Campbell, daughter of the late Sylvester Camp- bell, and of this union the four surviving chil- dren are here mentioned : Harry married Miss Ida Huterly and they reside at Carnegie, Penn- sylvania ; Laura is the wife of William Homer Henderson, subject of a personal sketch fol- lowing this; Beatty has the active charge of the old home farm; and Earl married Miss Mary Snyder, their one child being a son, Allen.

WILLIAM H. HENDERSON has resided continu- ously, save for a period of twelve years during which he was engaged in the photographic busi- ness at Scio, on the old homestead farm which

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was the place of his birth. This place, com- prising 130 acres, is one of the valuable farms of North Township, Harrison County, and its owner was here born on the 7th of November, 1859, a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of this township. John Hen- derson, grandfather of William Homer Hender- son of this review, was born in Ireland and was sixteen years old at the time of the family im- migration to America. He was reared to man- hood in Maryland, after having run away from his parents and the other members of the family, who did not gain trace of him till many years later. This independent youth finally went to Hagerstown, Maryland, where he formed the ac- quaintance of a daughter of George Henderson, who was of Scotch lineage. This young woman became his wife, she having been a girl at the time of her parents' death and having received from them a goodly heritage of property. From Maryland the young couple removed to Indiana County, Pennsylvania, where they remained un- til 1816, when they came to Harrison County, Ohio, and became pioneer settlers in Rumley Township, where Mr. Henderson secured a large tract of land and reclaimed a productive farm from the forest wilds. On this frontier home- stead he continued to reside until his death, in February, 1862, and his widow passed away May 13, 1877. They became the parents of four sons and seven daughters, and all but one of the number attained to years of maturity, the while nearly all continued their residence in Harrison County after establishing homes of their own

James Henderson, son of John, was born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1813, and was about four years old at the time of the family removal to Harrison County, Ohio, where he was reared on the pioneer farm and afforded the advantages of the primitive schools of the period. As a young man he learned the carpenter's trade, at which he became a spe- cially skillful workman. Though he developed one of the excellent farms of North Township, he continued for many years to give more or less attention to the work of his trade. He and his wife were earnest members of the Presby- terian Church. Of him the following apprecia- tive estimate has been written: "Kind of heart and genial in disposition, he was an agreeable companion and excellent neighbor. He was noted for his great hospitality in his home, and his kindness to the poor and his sympathy for those in affliction or distress knew no limit. He was always ready to help in time of need."

In October, 1838, was solemnized the mar- riage of James Henderson to Miss Susannah Mcclintock, of Monroe Township, she having been a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Fisher) Mcclintock, whose marriage was sol- emnized in Harrison County. Mr. Mcclintock was a child at the time of his parents' immigra- tion from Ireland to the United States. He developed one of the excellent pioneer farms of Monroe Township, and there he and his wife remained until their deaths. their children hav- ing been ten in number. Mr. MeClintock was a member of the Presbyterian Church and his wife of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the

faith of which she was reared. Her parents were early settlers of Harrison County. James Henderson remained on his farm until his death, on the 1st of November, 1889, and his widow survived until the year 1893. Concerning their children the following brief record is consist- ently entered : John C. was one of the repre- sentative farmers of North Township at the time of his death in December, 1918, his birth having occurred July 21, 1839; Thomas M. died in the year 1873; Alexander served as a mem- ber of an Ohio regiment under enlistment for a term of one hundred days in the Civil war. Elizabeth Jane, who became the wife of John Lyle, died in 1918; George died in the year 1903; Lovina became the wife of John R. Mc- Cauley and is now deceased; Barbara is the wife of Dr. Judson T. Beall; Henry W. died in the year 1867; and William Homer, subject of this review, is the youngest of the number.

William Homer Henderson gained his early education in the public schools of Hanover, which village is situated near the old home farm on which he was born and reared and on which he now resides. Here he has been continously identified with agricultural and live-stock indus- try from his early youth save for a period of twelve years devoted to the photographic busi- ness in the village of Scio, this county. He keeps the farm of 130 acres up to high stand- ard and is one of the highly esteemed citizens of his native county. He is a democrat in poli- tics and served two years as trustee of North Township. For fully a quarter of a century he has served as an elder of the Ridge Presby- terian Church, in which he and his wife are zealous and influential members.

November 12, 1915, recorded the marriage of Mr. Henderson to Miss Laura McCombs, daugh- ter of Wesley McCombs, of whom specific men- tion is made on other pages of this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson have one child, Emma Almeda.

CHARLES A. SCOTT owns and give his active supervision to one of the fine farm estates of Harrison County, the same comprising 220 acres and being eligibly situated adjacent to the vil- lage of Germano, German Township, Harrison County. In that village Mr. Scott has an at- tractive home, and his is secure vantage-ground as one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of the younger generation in his native county. He is a brother of Bingham C. Scott, in whose personal sketch, on other pages of this work, may be found adequate record of the honored family of which they are popular representatives.

Charles A. Scott was born at Cadiz, judicial center of Harrison County, on the 28th of March, 1881, and is a son of Allen Will and Bertha Jane (Croskey) Scott. He gained his early education in the excellent public schools of his native town and those of Germano, to which village his parents removed in 1895. He remained at the parental home until his mar- riage. in the autumn of 1903, and within one year thereafter he purchased a farm of 170-19/50 acres, known as the old John Gault farm in

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German Township. He remained on this place until 1916, when he sold the property to the Apex Coal Company and purchased his present fine farm adjoining the village of Germano. Here he follows the most progressive policies in modern agriculture of diversified order, and in the live-stock department of his farm enter- prise he gives special attention to the breed- ing and raising of registered Aberdeen-Angus cattle. He is a republican in political allegiance is affiliated with the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons at Unionport, and he and his wife hold membership in the United Presbyterian Church at New Jefferson.

On the 28th of October, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Scott to Miss Margaret Johnson, daughter of John B. and Nettie John- son, of German Township, and they have a fine family of five children-John Will, Martha Jane, Bertha Margaret, Charles Allen, Jr., and Harry Dean. Mr. and Mrs. Scott are popular figures in the representative social activities of their home community.

EDWARD H. BUBBY. The necessarily circum- scribed limitations of this publication render it inexpedient to give dual entry of family records, and in the present connection this is avoided by directing attention to the ample family data appearing on other pages, in the sketch of John Busby, brother of him whose name initiates this paragraph.

Edward H. Busby holds prestige as one of the representative exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry in German Township, Har- rison County, and his secure hold upon com- munal confidence and esteem is indicated by the fact that he is now serving as township trustee, the duties of which office he assumed in 1919. He was born in Archer Township, this county, July 10, 1858, and is a son of Martin V. and Belinda (Healey) Busby. The district schools of his native township afforded him his early education, and he continued to be associated with the activities of the old home farm until his marriage, in 1878, as well as for a year thereafter. For the next six years he gave his attention primarily to the operation of a saw mill and a threshing machine, and the ensuing three years found him in sturdy service as a locomotive fireman on the Panhandle Railroad. Since his retirement from railroad work he has followed farm enterprise successfully and vigor- ously-in Archer, Green and German townships. His residence in German Township has covered a period of twenty years, and here he is now farming on rented land, as the year 1918 was marked by his selling his excellent farm of 117 acres, to the coal company which is conducting mining operations in German Township. In his operations as an agriculturist and stock- grower Mr. Busby is utilizing, in 1920, a tract of about 162 acres, and he has prestige as one of the substantial representatives of these basic in- dustries in his native county. He is a demo- crat in politics and, as already noted, is serving as trustee of German Township. He is also trustee and steward of the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, of which be and his wife are zealous and honored members.

In 1878 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Busby to Miss Letitia Dudgeon, daughter of William and Anna Jane ( Weir) Dudgeon, of Harrison County. Mr. and Mrs. Busby have four children : Laura Bell is the wife of Wil- liam Dennison; Blanche Anna is the wife of Burton P. Myers of this county, and they have three children-Venus, Jay Clark and Edward; Mary is the wife of Alonzo Tipton, and they have four children-Beatrice, Fred, Gayl and Hazel; Frank, a prosperous farmer in German Township, married Miss Bessie Moffett and they have three children-Duane, Donald and Glenn Franklin.

ELMER E. HENRY is staging his vigorous and successful enterprise on a well improved farm of ninety-six acres in Archer Township, Har- rison County, and has made for himself a se- cure place as one of the progressive agricultur- ists and stock-growers of his native county. He was born in Athens Township, this county, where he was reared to adult age and received the advantages of the district schools. As a young man he left the parental homestead farm and found employment as a farm hand in his native township. Later he was similarly en- gaged in Archer Township, and in the late '90s he purchased sixty-six acres of his present farm and instituted his independent operations as an agriculturist and stock-raiser. His ability and energy brought success to him and he eventually purchased an adjoining tract of thirty acres. 80 that his admirable farm now comprises ninety-six acres, as previously noted in this paragraph. He is alive to all that touches the welfare of the community and is liberal and progressive in his civic attitude. His political support is given to the republican party and he is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.

Elmer E. Henry was born in Athens Town- ship, Harrison County, on the 5th of January, 1862, and is a son of Nicholas S. and Mary (Thompson) Henry, the latter being a daughter of Thomas Thompson, a sterling pioneer citizen of Harrison County. As a young man Nicholas S. Henry followed the carpenter's trade, in which he was a skilled workman, and later he turned his attention to farm enterprise in Athens Township, where abundant success at- tended his well ordered activities. He and his wife became the parents of ten children, namely : Martha, William T., Ebenezer S., Thomas H., Elmer E., Maggie, Caroline, Rachel, Mary Ann and Margaret.

The year 1897 recorded the marriage of El- mer E. Henry to Miss Flora Smylie, who was born and reared in Archer Township and who was a representative of one of the old and in- fluential pioneer families of Harrison County. She was a daughter of John and Julia A. (Cox) Smylie, both of whom likewise were born in Harrison County, where the respective families were founded in the early pioneer days. John Smylie was born in Archer Township November 9, 1826, a son of William and Rachel (Borland) Smylie. William Smylie was born in Wash- ington County, Pennsylvania, in 1794, and was a son of David and Sarah Jane (Coon) Smylie,

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who were born and reared in Ireland, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came to America and settled in Pennsylvania in the latter part of the seventeenth century. Da- vid Symlie followed his trade, that of tailor, during the period of his residence in Washing- ton County, Pennsylvania, whence he removed to Westmoreland County, that state, where the family home was maintained until 1815, when he came to Harrison County, Ohio, and became a pioneer citizen of Cadiz, the present county seat. Here he died on the 13th of September, 1843, and his wife survived him by only a few days. William Smylie learned the trade of blacksmith, which he continued to follow more than thirty years. He remained in Pennsyl- vania until 1825, when he came to Harrison County, Ohio, and purchased a small farm in Archer Township. He later purchased another farm of 180 acres in the same township, and there he remained until 1855, when he numbered himself among the pioneer settlers of Washing- ton County, Iowa, where he acquired an entire section of land and where his death occurred in 1858, his widow there passing away in March, 1875. They became the parents of a fine family of fourteen children.

John Smylie became one of the most success- ful exponents of farm industry in Harrison County, and he was one of the venerable and honored citizens of Archer Township at the time of his death. He was a democrat, was called upon to serve in local offices of public trust, in- cluding that of township trustee, and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Pres- byterian Church. Of their eight children Flora, wife of the subject of this review, was the sev- enth in order of birth. Mrs. Smylie was a daughter of George and Sarah (Titus) Cox, who were early settlers in Harrison County and who here remained until their deaths, Mr. Cox having been one of the early superintendents of . the county infirmary and farm and having be- come the owner of a large and valuable farm property in Archer Township. George Cox was born in New Jersey in 1784, and his father, Richard Cox, was a native of Holland, he hav- ing first settled in New Jersey and having later become a very early settler in Jefferson County, Ohio, where he acquired land and developed a farm. On a part of his old homestead is situ- ated the city of Steubenville, the judicial cen- ter of that county.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 75

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