History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 77

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

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his active life, and there he and his wife main- tained their home until their deaths, the re- mains of both being interred in the Zion Ceme- tery in German Township. They were zealous and consistent communicants of the Lutheran Church, in the faith of which they reared their children-John, William, Samuel S. and Sallie, the only daughter having remained unmarried till her death.

Samuel S. Winings passed his entire life in German Township, where he became the owner of a valuable farm of 212 acres and where he stood as an honored figure in productive in- dustry and loyal and progressive citizenship. His death occurred on the 12th of June, 1890, and his second wife passed to the eternal rest on the 15th of September, 1898. On the 11th of August, 1842, Samuel S. Winings wedded Miss Elizabeth Beckley, who was born June 3, 1823, and who was survived by three children-Clark, Jane ( Mrs. J. Henry Mills), and Rebecca ( Mrs. George Mills). In February, 1854, was solemn- ized the marriage of Mr. Winings to Miss Phoebe Chase, and they became the parents of three children-Hannah Belle (Mrs. John W. Shultz), William A. and Harvey G. The par- ents were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the father was a repub- lican in political affiliation.

Harvey G. Winings availed himself of the ad- vantages of the district schools of his native township and in the meanwhile has gained valuable experience in connection with the work of the home farm, which has been the stage of his successful operations during his Independent career as a progressive agriculturists and stock- grower. He is the owner of a well improved and admirably equipped farm estate of 221 acres and is a leader in farm industry in Har- rison County, of whose manifold attractions and advantages he is deeply appreciative. His ster- ling character has gained to him unequivocal popular esteem, and his local status is such as to render impossible any application of the scriptural aphorism that "a prophet is not with- out honor save in his own country." He is a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party and is an influential member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Germano, of which he has served as a trustee for fully a decade. His wife likewise was a devoted mem- ber, and all of their children save the youngest holds membership in this church.

On the 2d of March, 1893, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Winings to Miss Mary Flor- ence Sawvel, who was born in German Town- ship October 1, 1871, a daughter of Daniel and Rachel ( Beckley) Sawvell. The supreme loss and bereavement in the life of Mr. Winings came when his cherished and devoted wife was summoned to eternal rest, her death having occurred on the 5th of February, 1906. She is survived by six children-Ralph S., Zella Mae, Ula Vern, Albert G., Earl B. and William Don- ald. Ralph S. Winings, the eldest son, was one of the patriotic young men who represented Harrison County in the nation's military ser- vice in the World war. He entered service April 2, 1918, and at Camp Sherman was as-

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signed to Company K, Three Hundred and Twenty-ninth Infantry, Eighty-third Division. May 28, 1918, he left the Ohio camp and was transferred to Camp Merritt, New Jersey, and on the 12th of the following month embarked with his command on a Government transport that in due time disembarked the troops in Liverpool. England. He passed five days at Winchester. England, and landed in France on the 1st of July. There he was transferred to Company F, One Hundred and Third Infantry, Twenty-sixth Division, and on the 12th of Sep- tember he arrived at the front-line trenches. He "went over the top" that same morning, on the St. Mihiel sector, and continued in active service at the front until the 14th of that month. He was absent from the front one week and after his return was eventually trans- ferred to the Verdun front. He endured the full tension that marked the conflict between the opposing forces and after the signing of the armistice he remained in France until Feb- ruary 24. 1919, when he sailed for home. He landed in the port of New York City on the 7th of March, and at Camp Sherman. Ohio. he received his honorable discharge on the 8th of April. He is now at the parental home. and his military record is one that will ever reflect honor upon his name and upon the county and state which he represented. Zella Mae. the elder daughter of Harvey G. Winings. married December 23, 1920, Robert Curtis Roof. and they reside with Mr. Winings. Ula V .. second daughter. is the wife of John M. Jones, and they reside at Hamlin, Pennsylvania. The other children remain at the paternal home.

WILLIAM A. WININGS is the only brother of Harvey G. Winings, in whose personal sketch. immediately preceding this, are given ample data concerning the family history. Mr. Win- ings, like his brother, is numbered among the representative exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry in German Township. Harri- son County. where he owns and gives character- istically effective management to his fine form of 206 acres.

Mr. Winings was born in German Township on the 6th of August. 1858. and his early edu- cational advantages were those of the district schools. He early began to lend his quota of assistance in connection with the activities of the home farm, and with the same he continued his association until he purchased his present homestead place,-one of the valuable farm properties of German Township. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Germano, as was also his wife, whose death occurred January 18, 1909.

On the 17th of February, 1887. was recorded the marriage of Mr. Winings to Miss Mary Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Jackson and Nancy ( Hosterman) Smith, of German Town- ship. and she is survived by three children- Jesse O., Harry S. and Nancy Phoebe. A fourth child. Theresa, died at the age of nine years. Harry S. Winings married Miss Mary Faina Cox and they have two children-Ernest Wil-

liam and Everett Harry. Jesse O. Winings, the eldest son, was one of the gallant Harrison County boys who served with the American Expeditionary Forces in the great World war, and his record in this connection has added luster to the name which he bears. He entered service September 21, 1917, and at Camp Sher- man was assigned to the supply company of the Three Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry Regiment. with which command he sailed for France in June, 1918. His regiment, however, was assigned to service in Italy, where it arrived on the 7th of August. and where he continued in service until March, 1919, when he departed for his native land. his return to Camp Sherman, Ohio, having finally resulted in his receiving his honorable discharge on the 3d of July. 1919. He is now at the family home.

WINFIELD S. WRIGHT has long stood forth as a vigorous, discriminating and successful ex- ponent of farm industry, is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of eastern central Ohio, and is today the owner of a valuable farm estate in Carroll County. the same comprising 257 acres in Monroe and Harrison townships and the attractive residence property being sit- uated in the township first named.

Winfield Scott Wright was born in Tuscara- was County. Ohio, in the 23d of November, 1849. a son of James B. and Anna (Ickes) Wright. The genealogy on the paternal side traces back to sterling Irish origin, and Samuel Wright. grandfather of the subject of this re- view. was numbered among the pioneers of Tuscarewas County. Ohio. He became the owner of n tract of land near the present Village of Renver Dam, and the locality became known as the Wright settlement. his name hav- ing been applied to the same by reason of his prominence in community affairs. The portion of Tuse"r"w"" County in which he established bis home later became included in the new County of Carroll, and on his farm near Tabor. this county. he continued to reside until his death in 1852. his widow. whose family name was Coleman, having long survived him and hoving passed to the life eternal in 1870. when venerable in years. Of their four sons James B. was the third in order of birth. and he con- tipued his active association with farm enter- prise in Tuscerawas County until his death. His first wife. mother of the subject of this sketch. died on the 5th of January. 1880, and of their seven children Winfield S. was the fourth in order of birth. By the father's sec- ond marriage were born three sons and one daughter.

Winfield &. Wright early gained close fellow- ship with the activities of the old home farm. rnd his youthful education was acquired in the rural schools of his native county. He con- tinued his association with the work of his father's farm until the time of his marriage. when he was twenty-seven years of age, and then established his residence In the Village of Dellroy. Carroll County, and found employment in the coal mines in that locality. He con- tinued to be thus engaged six years, and then

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purchased forty acres of his present landed estate. On this place he initiated the progres- sive activities through which he has achieved substantial and worthy prosperity, the best evi- dence of which is offered in his present owner- ship of one of the large and valuable farm properties of the county. The buildings on the place are of excellent order and all were erected by him. Mr. Wright has brought to bear splen- did energy and progressive policies in farm en- terprise, and thus his success has been of un- equivocal order. He has taken loyal interest in all things touching the communal welfare, is affiliated with the Grange at Dellroy, and his capitalistic Investments are of a noteworthy order, as is evident when it is stated that he is a stockholder of the First National Bank of Carrollton ; the Beam Spring Company of Mas- sillon, Stark County ; the Ohio Northern Trac- tion Company; the Gillian Manufacturing Com- pany at Canton, Stark County; the Chicago & Aurora Traction Company, operating one of the most important suburban electric lines in the State of Illinois; the Worthington Pump Com- pany of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the Middle States Rubber Company of Cleveland, Ohio; the Berger Manufacturing Company of Canton; and other corporations. He has shown marked discrimination in his various investments and is the holder of Government bonds and of bonds issued in connection with various public and corporate enterprises. He is a stalwart re- publican in politics and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Protestant Church at Dellroy, to the support of which he contributes liberally.

April 8, 1877. recorded the marriage of Mr. Wright to Miss Elizabeth Robart, of Rob- ertsville, Stark County, a village named in honor of her paternal grandfather, who was one of the first settlers in that vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Wright have two children. Nettie is the wife of John F. Leyda, of Harrison Town- ship, and their only child is a daughter, Gladys. Annie C. is the wife of George Best, of Harri- son Township, and they have two children- Lester Winfield and Paul Joseph.

CLEMENT E. MILLER has exercised with marked circumspection and progressiveness his functions as one of the constructive representa- tives of farm industry in his native county, and in German Township, Harrison County, he owns and resides upon the old homestead farm which figures as the place of his nativity. Here he was born on the 14th of June, 1863, and he is a scion of a family that was founded in this county more than a century ago, when this sec- tion of the Buckeye State was virtually a forest wilderness. John Miller, the original frepre- sentative of this family in Harrison County, came here from his native State of Maryland, in the year 1806, and in Rumley Township he reclaimed from the forest a productive farm, he having been the owner of an estate of 215 acres at the time of his death in 1836. His nine children were: Daniel, David, John, Jr., Jacob, Joseph, Catherine, Hannah, Polly and Sarah. Of these children Daniel, grandfather

of Clement E. Miller of this review, was born in Frederick County, Maryland, in 1788, and thus was a youth of about eighteen years at the time of the family removal to Harrison County in 1806. In 1817 he married Susannah Lowmiller, who was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1796, and whose parents, John and Catherine (Long) Lowmiller. became in 1800 early settlers in Harrison County, Ohio. Daniel Miller acquired a large and valuable farm property in Rumley and German Town- ships, and was one of the substantial and in- fluential citizens of the county at the time of his death, his widow having been more than ninety-five years of age when she passed from the stage of life's mortal endeavors. They had ten children-Catherine, Elizabeth, Sarah, John, Henry, Susannah, Rebecca, Margaret, Abigail and Eliza J.

John Miller, son of Daniel and Susannah (Lowmiller) Miller, was born in German Town- ship, this county, on the 22d of February, 1822, the place of his advent in the world having been a log house of the pioneer type. He con- tinued to be associated in the work of the home farm until the death of his father in 1854, and eventually he became one of the most success- ful exponents of farm industry in his native county as the owner of a large and valuable landed estate, including the fine old homestead now owned by his son Clement E., of this re- view. He was influential in local affairs of public order, served in various township offices, was a democrat in politics and both he and his wife were communicants of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Miller died at the age of eighty- four years and his wife at the age of eighty- nine years. They became the parents of eleven children : Oscar B., Rebecca Margaret, Henry A., Andrew B. (individually mentioned on other pages of this work), Daniel D. (a clergyman of the Lutheran Church), Samuel H. became a member of the faculty of Thiel College, Green- ville, Pennsylvania, John O., Joseph M., Clement E., Clayton L. and Jessie L. On the 1st of May, 1849, was solemnized the marriage of John Miller to Miss Susannah Mikesell, who was born in Rumley Township, Harrison County, February 15, 1824, a daughter of Peter and Mary A. (Long) Mikesell, pioneers who came to the county in 1800 from Frederick County, Maryland, and thus it is to be seen that the subject of this sketch is a representative of fine pioneer stock in both the paternal and ma- ternal lines.

Clement E. Miller was reared under virtually the same conditions and influences as other farm boys of his day and generation, and his early education was obtained mainly in district school No. 4, German Township. He has re- mained from the time of his birth on the old home farm, which comprises 166 67/100 acres in the portion owned by him, and here he has been engaged in independent and successful en- terprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower since the year 1906. He is one of the county's leaders in the breeding and raising of pure- blood and registered Poland-China swine, and in all departments of his farm industry he gains

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the maximum returns, owing to his progressive- ness and mature judgment, as combined with his long and practical experience. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he and his wife are active communicants of the Lutheran Church at New Jefferson.

On the 26th of March, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Miller to Miss Mary Eliza- beth Rutledge, who was born and reared in Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, a daughter of Thomas and Mahala (Skelley) Rut- ledge, both likewise natives of that township, where the respective families were founded in the pioneer days. Thomas Rutledge was one of the prosperous farmers and influential citi- zens of his native township and county at the time of his death, in 1905, aged seventy-eight years, and his widow passed away June 5, 1915, at the venerable age of eighty-five years. They were devout communicants of the Methodist Episcopal Church and four of their sons are clergymen in that denomination. Mr. and Mrs. Rutledge became the parents of nine children : James A. and Caleb H. are ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Margaret Jane is deceased ; William A. and John S. are Metho- dist clergymen, and the latter has given effec- tive service as president of the Anti-saloon League in the City of Cleveland; Bert M. is a resident of Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio; Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. Miller) was the next in order of birth; Franklin P. resides on the old home farm of his parents in Jefferson County ; and Myra R. married Howard Copeland, and they reside in Jewett, Ohio.

HARRY M. MILLIKEN is one of the progressive agriculturists and stock-raisers of the younger generation in his native county, where he owns fifty acres in Cadiz Township, this constituting his homestead place, and eighty-eight acres in the adjoining township of Nottingham. He is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of Harrison County, and thus by ancestry as well as by reason of his individual standing in his native county he is specially entitled to rec- ognition in this history.

Mr. Milliken was born in Nottingham Town- ship August 22, 1885. His father, William Milliken, was born in Cadiz Township in the year 1838, his entire life having been passed in Harrison County, where he was continuously identified with farm industry,-in Cadiz and Nottingham Townships. He was the owner of a valuable farm property of 187 acres at the time of his death, on December 13, 1916, his wife having passed away in 1889. He was a son of Michael Milliken, who was born in Green Township, this county, October 25, 1812, when this section of the Buckeye State was mainly a forest wilderness. He was a son of John and Hannah (Karbaugh) Milliken, who were born and reared in Pennsylvania, where their mar- riage was solemnized. Mark Milliken, father of John, was a native of England and was a young man when he came to America and established his home in Pennsylvnia. In the old Keystone State John Milliken learned the shoe- maker's trade, and this he found of much value

after he and his young wife became pioneer settlers in Harrison County, Ohio, where Mr. Milliken first settled on a tract of wild land in Green Township, whence in 1815 he removed to the farm which later was owned and occu- pied by their son Michael. Here John Milliken died in 1856, at the age of seventy-nine years, his wife having passed away at the age of sixty years. In 1838 Michael Milliken was united in marriage to Charity Day, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County, and they passed the remainder of their lives on their old homestead farm in Cadiz Township, Mr. Milli- ken having reclaimed much of his land from the native forest. He became the owner of 248 acres of land, in Cadiz and Nottingham town- ships, and was one of the honored and in- fluential men of his community. His political support was given to the whig party until the organization of the republican party. when he allied himself loyally with the latter. He and his wife were venerable in age at the time of their deaths, and of their four children, Wil- liam, father of the subject of this sketch, was the eldest; John is deceased; Adeline became the wife of George Christie, and they estab- lished their home in the State of Iowa; and Hannah Margaret became the wife of Albert Rogers, a farmer of Cadiz Township.

William Milliken was reared on the home farm and secured his early education in the common schools of the locality. In his active career he well maintained the prestige of the family name through his loyalty as a citizen and his resourceful and productive activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower. Follow- ing their marriage he and his wife returned to Nottingham Township, where the wife died September 13, 1887. In 1891 he married Hanna (Hines) Blair, the widow of Albert Blair, and then came to Cadiz Township where he died. His widow survives. By his first marriage Wil- liam Milliken became the father of three chil- dren : Lennie became the wife of Obediah K. Ourant and she is deceased; Nannie is the widow of Frank Carson; and Harry M. is the youngest of the children.

Harry M. Milliken is indebted to the public schools of his native township for his youthful education, and he was associated with his father in the work and management of the old home farm until the latter's death, his present farm property being a portion of the land formerly owned by his father. He gives his attention to well diversified agriculture and also raises excellent grades of live stock. He is a republican, but has no desire for political ac- tivity or official preferment. August 18, 1909, recorded his marriage to Miss Florence Keesey, daughter of John and Mary ( Haverfield) Keesey, of Harrison County, and they have three children-Allen Scott, born May 26, 1910; Neva Elizabeth, born January 25, 1912; and John William, born February 21, 1915.

WILLIAM H. RICHEY, who is one of the pros- perous and enterprising farmers of Cadiz Town- ship, is a representative of the fourth genera- tion of the Richey family in Harrison County, where his great-grandparents, Thomas and

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Mary (Clifford) Richey, established their mod- est home in a log cabin when this section of Ohio was little more than a forest wilderness. Thomas Richey and his wife were born and reared in Ireland, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came to America about the year 1795. For the first decade they maintained their residence in New York City. and they then girded themselves to face and bravely meet the trials and vicissitudes of pio- neer life in the wilds of Ohio. In 1805 they made their appearance in what is now Harri- son County, and at first they lived on a tract of land owned by a former neighbor in Ireland. who had induced them to come to Ohio. Within a short time Mr. Richey secured a tract of 160 acres of heavily timbered land, on which he made a clearing in the midst of the forest and provided space for the erection of his little log cabin. A man of vigor and ambition. he not only began the reclaiming of his land but also established within a comparatively short time after coming here a saw mill. This was lo- cated on his embryonic farm and was one of the first mills in the county. He developed a prosperous business in supplying rough lumber for the incoming settlers, and he was one of the leaders in the pioneer community. His loved and devoted wife, who shared with him in the experience of frontier life, died in 1823. at the age of fifty-three years, and he died in Septem- ber of the following year, both having been earnest members of the Associated Reformed Church. Of their children two died in infancy : Mrs. Margaret Milliken was a resident of Allen County, Indiana, at the time of her death : Mary became the wife of James Haverfield and both died in Harrison County; Jane became the wife of Joseph Watson, of this county. where they remained until their deaths: Samuel passed his entire life in this county ; John M .. grandfather of Wiliam H., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Sarah married Nim- rod Wagers, and after his death became the wife of John Weaver, and she died in Harrison County ; Thomas was a farmer in Cadiz Town- ship until the close of his life; and Nancy was the wife of John Haverfield, a well known citi- zen of Harrison County.

John M. Richey was reared on the pioneer farm and profited duly by the facilities afforded in the common schools of the locality and period. As a young man he married Miss Anne Gil- more, who was born in Jefferson County. Ohio, a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Collins) Gilmore, and after their marriage they remained with George McFadden, an uncle, in whose home Mrs. Richey had been reared. until his death, when they came into possession of a farm in Cadiz Township on which Mr. Richey had been born. There they remained thirty-one years. at the expiration of which they removed to the Vil- lage of Cadiz. where the death of the loved wife and mother occurred three years later. in 1880. Mr. Richey survived her. He was a democrat in politics, and both he and his wife were active members of the Presbyterian Church. They be- came the parents of ten children : Mary became the wife of Samuel McFadden, and her death

occurred in her native county; Ruth married Craig Gilmore, and they established their home in Illinois; George died young; Eliza Jane mar- ried Samuel McFadden, of Cadiz Township; Arabella became the wife of James McFadden, of the same township; Thomas J. is a success ful farmer in that township; Robert Gilmore married Susan C. Dickerson, and they removed to the State of Missouri; Samuel was the next in order of birth; Martha, whose twin died in infancy, became the wife of John Osburn, of Archer Township, and in her home her vener- able father passed the closing years of his life.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 77

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