History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 79

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

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On the 6th of November, 1895, was solemn- ized the marriage of Mr. Harrison to Miss Sadie Markley, daughter of Mathias and Sarah Jane (Shambaugh) Markley, of whom adequate men- tion is made on other pages of this work. in the personal sketch of Jeremiah J. Arbaugh. The Markley family was one of pioneer promi- nence and influence in Harrison County, and Mathias Markley, father of Mrs. Harrison. passed his entire life in this county, his death having occurred on his old home farm in Rum- ley Township October 22, 1887, and his widow having survived him by a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison have five children- Byron W., Ralph, Eva, Frederick and Edgar. Byron W. Harrison loyally responded to the nation's call for service in connection with the late World war, but was rejected one week after arriving at Camp Sherman, Ohio. by reason of impaired vision. He married on January 5. 1921, Sue Frances Crawford, daughter of Alexander and Nannie (Mitchell) Crawford, of North Township. Ralph Harrison, in and on the same date as his brother. this being a double wedding. wedded Vera Mae Easlick, daughter of Charles Easlick of North Town- ship.

JOSEPH HARRISON, younger brother of Benja- min Edgar Harrison, in whose personal sketch, immediately preceding this, is given adequate record concerning the family history, was born on the farm which is his present place of resi- dence, in North Township, Harrison County. and the date of his nativity was March 24, 1880. He has remained continuously on the old home farm, and his youthful education was acquired in the public schools of his native township. His practical experience in connection with farm activities has well qualified him for suc- cessful enterprise in this important field of en- deavor, and he is one of the representative agri-

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culturists and stock-raisers of the younger generation in North Township. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Metho- dist Episcopal Church.

The year 1910 recorded the marriage of Mr. Harrison to Miss Eva Carpenter, who was born and reared in Guernsey County, and who is a daughter of Frederick and Mary (McCourt) Carpenter. The pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison is brightened by the presence of their three children-Charles, Kathryn and Mary Martha.

DEMPSEY S. HINES is effectively maintaining both as a citizen of loyalty and public spirit and as a successful exponent of agricultural industry the distinctive honors of a family name that has been linked with the history of Harri- son County for more than a century, and it is pleasing to record that his activities as a farmer are staged on the fine old homestead in Cadiz Township upon which his great-grand- father, Rudolph Hines, settled in 1814.

Rudolph Hines was born in Germany, a son of John Hines, and was a youth when he ac- companied his parents to America, prior to the War of the Revolution. in which he took part as a valiant young soldier in the Continental Line. He came to Ohio in the early part of the first decade of the nineteenth century, as is demon- strated by the fact that it is a matter of record that in 1806 he removed with his family from Steubenville, Jefferson County, this state, into Virginia, where he was engaged in farming about eight years, within which time he saw the first steamboat pass down the Ohio River. In the spring of 1914 he came with his family to Harrison County and established his home in a pioneer log house that long remained a land- mark in Cadiz Township, on the farm now owned and occupied by his grandson Dempsey S., of this sketch. He reclaimed much of his land from the virgin forest and continued to occupy the little log house until his death. at the age of ninety years, his wife surviving him but a short time. They were the parents of twelve children, all of whom are now deceased.

William Hines, son of Rudolph and Sarah (Huff) Hines, was born in Allegany County, Maryland, March 19, 1800, and was four years old when the family home was established at Steubenville, Ohio, whence about one year later removal was made to Virginia, as above noted. Thus he was about twelve years of age when the family home was established in Harrison County. Ohio, where he was reared to manhood on the pioneer farm, and where on the 15th of February. 1827. was solemnized his marriage to Isabella, daughter of John and Jane (Mahon) Hitchcock. the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Ireland, she having been a child at the time of the family immigration to America, and the parents of her husband like- wise having been natives of the Emerald Isle. William Hines continued to reside upon the old home farm of his father until he too was sum- moned to eternal rest. September 8. 1887, his wife having survived him by more than a dec-

ade, her death having occurred April 15, 1800. Mr. Hines was eighty-seven years of age at the time of his death, and was one of the best known and most highly honored pioneer citizens of the county, where his valuable landed estate comprised about 380 acres at the time of his death. His widow was born January 24, 1806, and thus was ninety-three years of age when she passed from the stage of mortal life. secure in the reverent affection of all who knew her. They were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics Mr. Hines was first a whig and later a repupblican. Of the children the eldest was John R., who was born May 14, 1828, and who was a resident of of Iowa at the time of his death; Sarah Jane, born October 29. 1830, became the wife of Gil- lespie Haverfield and she died in January, 1915: the next child, a son, died in infancy ; Lemuel Browning, born April 15. 1834. finally established his home in the state of California, and he died in the fall of 1920; William F., father of the subject of this sketch, will be more definitely mentioned in a following paragraph : Mary Ellen, born January 13, 1839, became the wife of Joseph McBeth. of Deersville. Harrison County, and she died January 13. 1920: Samuel M., born April 27. 1841, was a successful farmer in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, and his death occurred October 29. 1901: James M. was born March 5, 1844, and died in May, 1920: Thomas H. was born July 5, 1847, and died on the 30th of the following December; and Ezra Lawson, who was born May 20, 1851, died May 17. 1865.

William . Fletcher Hines was born on the old homestead in Cadiz Township February 28, 1837, and he received the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period. He remained on the home farm until the outbreak of the Civil War, when, in 1861, he enlisted as a member of Company F, Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland and with which be continued in active service nearly three years. He participated in sixteen major battles, be- sides many skirmishes and other minor en- gagements. He was slightly wounded in one en- gagement, but this did not long incapacitate him, but it was his misfortune. however, to have contracted typhoid fever, which caused him to be confined four months in a military hospital at Nashville, Tennessee. Upon his re- covery he rejoined his regiment, with which he remained until the close of the war. his honor- able discharge having been received June 10. 1865.

After the close of his faithful and gallant service as a soldier of the Union Mr. Hines re- turned to the home farm, and on the 7th of February. 1867, was united in marriage to Miss Christina Spiker, who likewise was born and reared in Harrison County, a daughter of Chris topher and Ara (Carnes) Spiker. who were pioneers of the county, where the father died in 1870 and the mother in 1879. William F. Hines continued his active operations as one of the representative farmers of Cadiz Township until 1911, when he removed with his wife to Cadiz,

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where he lived retired until his death, which occurred December 7, 1917, and where his widow still resides. His farm, a part of the land entered by his grandfather, is now oc- cupled by his son Dempsy S. In politics Mr. Hines was unfaltering in his allegiance to the Republican party, he was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, and his religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his venerable widow likewise Is a devoted member. They became the parents of five children : Ara Bell is the wife of Oliver B. Tipton, of Harrison County; Dempsey S .. Immediate subject of this review, was the next in order of birth; Philip Ora is a resident of the city of Chicago; Mary Maude is the wife of D. R. Baker, of Harrison County ; and Lemuel Oscar died In childhood.

Dempsey S. Hines was born near the farm upon which he now resides, and the date of his nativity was January 21, 1869. His early edu- cation was secured in the public schools of Cadiz Township, and for the past twenty years 'he has had the active management of the old homestead farm on which his great-grandfather settled more than a century ago. Here he now ·owns 102 acres, and he is one of the enterpris- 'ing and progressive agriculturists and stock- ·growers of his native county. He has served .since 1918 as a member of the Board of Trustees .of (Cadiz Township, and is loyal and liberal in support of measures advanced for the general good of his home community and native county, his political allegiance being given to the Re- publican party and both he and his wife are : active members of Asbury Chapel of the Meth- .odist Episcopal Church, not far distant from thetr attractive rural home.

August 3, 1898, recorded the marriage of D. R. Hines to Miss Myrtle Belle Smith, daugh- ter of Frank and Sarah Elizabeth (Johnson) Smith, of Cadiz Township, and the two children of this union are Wilma Frances, born June 1, 1899, and Pauline Bernice, born May 3, 1913. Wilma married on January 21, 1920, William Mcclellan Patterson, son of William N. Patter- son, of Harrison County.

MICHAEL H. FINNICUM has been a resident of Harrison County from the time of his birth, is a representative of an old and well known family. of the county and is today numbered among the prosperous exponents of farm industry in Ger- man Township. Mr. and Mrs. Finnicum gave two of their sons to the nation's service in the great World War, and have reason to take pride in the records made by these sons in that pa- triotic service.

Mr. Finnicum was born in Rumley Township, Harrison County, on the 14th of July. 1860, and is a son of John Finnicum, who was born in the same Township December 30, 1832. John Fin- nicum first married Miss Henrietta Bishop, and she was still a young woman at the time of her death. The two children of this union are David E., born July 31, 1853, and Albert D., born April 1, 1855. For his second wife Mr. Finnicum wedded Miss Mary Shambaugh, who was born July 27, 1836, and the names and re-

spective birth-dates of the children of this union are here made a matter of record: Teresa E., April 13, 1857; Jesse William, July 17, 1858; Michael H. (subject of this review), July 14, 1860; Samuel, May 9, 1862; Hettie E., July 26, 1864; Charles H., October 8, 1867; and Minnie Margaret, March 23, 1872. The mother was born in Harrison County, a daughter of the late Michael Shambaugh.

Michael H. Finnicum gained his early educa- tion in the district schools of Rumley Town- ship and the village schools at New Rumley. His native township was also the stage of his initial activities as an independent exponent of farm enterprise, but after his marriage in 1887 he established his home on his present fine farm, comprising 265 acres of the productive soil of German township, Harrison county. He has made many improvements on the place, in- cluding the erection of most of the buildings that now mark it as a center of thrift and prosperity, and he has proved one of the vigor- ous agriculturists and stock-growers of the county, with special attention given to the rais- ing of fine Delaine sheep. Mrs. Finnicum is not to be outdone in initiative and successful enter- prise, as shown in the success which she has achieved in the raising of chickens of the White Wyandotte type. Mr. Finnicum is a republican in political allegiance, and he and his wife hold membership in the United Presbyterian Church.

On the 24th of February, 1887, was solemn- ized the marriage of Mr. Finnicum to Miss Anna Isabel Johnson, who is a sister of Mrs. George O. Fleming, the latter being the subject of a personal sketch which appears on other pages and which gives due incidental record concerning the parents and family history of Mrs. Finnicum. Mr. and Mrs. Finnicum have four children-John Alexander, Ralph Harold, Lester Acheson and Marshall Leroy. John Alexander Finnicum owns and successfully con- ducts a well directed business college at New- ark, Ohio. The maiden name of his wife was Alwilda M. Lutz. When the nation became in- volved in the World war John A. Finnicum en- listed in the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana, and on the 15th of August, 1917, he was com- missioned a second lieutenant in the Quarter- master's Corps. From the original camp he was sent to Chillicothe, Ohio, and in October, 1917, he was transferred to the headquarters of the Quartermaster's Department, in the city of Washington, D. C. There be won promotion to the office of first lieutenant, and later to the rank of captain. He continued in active and efficient service at the national capital until June 15, 1919, when he received his honorable discharge. Ralph Harold, the second son, was born January 30, 1891, and is associated in the work and management of the home farm. Les- ter A., the third son, was born August 22, 1898, and upon entering the nation's service in Sep- tember, 1919, he was sent to Paris Island, South Carolina, where he received three months' training for duty in the United States Marine Corps. He was then transferred to Norfolk, Virginia, and in August, 1919, he was assigned

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to duty at Washington, D. C. Thence he was sent to Philadelphia on the 1st of the following December, and on the 7th of that month sailed for Hayti, where he remains in active service at the time of this writing, in the summer of 1920. Marshall Leroy, the youngest of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Finnicum, was born on the 8th of December, 1906, and remains at the parental home.

WILLIAM S. TOPE, whose farm of 120 acres is situated in Monroe Township, Carroll County, on Rural Mail Route No. 1 from the village of Dellroy, has secure standing as one of the sub- stantial agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county, and he gives special attention to the raising of sheep and Shorthorn cattle, be- sides which he has established a prosperous business in the buying and shipping of live stock.

Mr. Tope was born in Union Township, this county, on the 4th of February, 1857, and is a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of this section of the Buckeye State. He is of Scotch-Irish lineage and his paternal great-grandfather came to America from Scot- land. The grandfather, Stephen Tope, was one of the early settlers of Carroll County, where he developed a productive farm and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, their children were eleven in number.

William S. Tope is a son of Jacob and Jane (Parker) Tope, who passed their entire lives in Carroll County, the father having been one of the representative farmers of Monroe Township at the time of his death, in 1886, and William S. was the eldest in a family of three children.

The district schools afforded William S. Tope his early educational advantages and in the meanwhile he gained equally valuable experi- ence in connection with the work of the home farm. He continued to attend school during the winter months until he had attained to the age of eighteen years, and his association with the activities of his father's farm was not inter- rupted until the time of his marriage. when twenty-one years of age, to Miss Dane Camp- bell, daughter of James and Catherine ( Hustin) Campbell, of Harrison Township. Mrs. Tope passed to the life eternal in 1906 and is survived by three children: Oliver James, who resides in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. married Miss Elva Woods, and they have two children,- James and Sarah Jane. Jackson Ralph, the second son. is engaged in farming in Stark County. The maiden name of his wife was Lettie Brooks, and their three children are Linn, John Lindsay and Katherine. Anna, the only daughter, is the wife of Donald Elliott, of Harrison Township.

On the 11th of June, 1919, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Tope to Mrs. Melissa Holmes, daughter of William and Rebecca (Boggs) Holmes, of Harrison Township, the Holmes family having long been one of prominence and influence in Carroll County.

After his first marriage Mr. Tope rented land in Monroe Township, where he became the owner of forty acres, and where he continued

his farm enterprise ten years. He then became associated with his brother Robert in the hard- ware business in the village of Dellroy, where they continued successful operations, under the firm name of Tope Brothers, for a period of thirteen years. The building and stock were then destroyed by fire, and William S. resumed his association with farm enterprise. For three years he utilized a farm of 160 acres in Harri- son Township, a property which he rented, and he then purchased a farm of equal area in the same township. There he remained eight years, at the expiration of which he sold the farm and engaged in the dry-goods and grocery business at Dellroy. Three years later he sold this busi- ness and purchased his present well improved farm of 120 acres, where he has since continued his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower.

Mr. Tope is a stalwart in the ranks of the Re- publican party, and has been influential in public affairs of a local order. He served three years as trustee of Monroe Township, and has given effective service also as Township Treas- urer and as a member of the school board. He is a charter member of Dellroy Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and he and his wife hold mem- bership in the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Tope is a woman of fine intellectuality and takes lively interest in all things tending to advance the social and material welfare of the com- munity, besides being a popular factor in social affairs.

JOHN A. DUNLAP. In the compilation of the various personal and family reviews appearing in this edition it has been specially gratifying to note that there remain in Carroll and Har- rison County a large percentage of representa- tives citizens who are scions of sterling pioneer families of this section of the state, and this distinction applies to Mr. Dunlap, who owns and resides upon the fine old homestead farm in Cadiz Township which figures as the place of his nativity, his birth having here occurred December 1, 1859. His grandfather, .Samuel Dunlap, was born and reared in Pennsylvania, a son of Adam and Rebecca (Work) Dunlap, the former of whom was a native of Ireland, whence he came with his parents to America when he was a lad of ten years. He was reared and educated in Pennsylvania, where his mar- riage occurred, both he and his wife having passed the closing years of their lives in Har- rison County, Ohio, where they were pioneer settlers. In the old Keystone State, about the year 1800, Samuel Dunlap married Miss Sarah Dickerson, daughter of Thomas Dickerson, and in 1807 they came to what is now Harrison County, Ohio, and established their home in a pioneer log cabin in the midst of the forest, Mr. Dunlap having secured 168 acres of govern- ment land in Cadiz Township, and having re- claimed the same into a productive farm, which continues in the possession of the family to the present day. His death occurred October 2, 1839, and his widow passed away November 11, 1858, their name having place on the roster of the honored pioneers of Harrison County, where

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they lived and labored to goodly ends. They became the parents of seven children, all of whom are now deceased, one of the last survi- vors having been Mrs. Nelson Pearce, of Cadiz Township.

Adam Dunlap, father of John A. Dunlap, was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1805, and thus was a child of about two years at the time of the family removal to Harrison County, where he was reared under the conditions and influences of the early pioneer days, his educa- tional advantages being limited to the primitive subscription schools, which he attended in his boyhood. He eventually became the owner of his father's old homestead farm, on which he continued to reside until his death and which is now owned and occupied by his son John A. He added to the area of the original tract and was the owner of a valuable landed estate of about 400 acres at the time of his death, in 1883. He was a staunch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party, and assisted in the erection of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church edifice, he having been a liberal supporter of this church, of which his wife was a zealous member.

As a young man Adam Dunlap married Miss Martha Thompson. daughter of David Thomp- son, of Cadiz Township, and she was still a young woman at the time of her death. They became the parents of three children: Sarah became the wife of John Porter; Martha mar- ried Samuel M. Porter: and Mary became the wife of John D. Barricklow. The second mar- riage of Mr. Dunlap was with Miss Elizabeth Jane Spratt, who was born in Pennsylvania but who was a child at the time of her parents' re- moval to Harrison County, Ohio. She preceded her husband to eternal rest. her death having occurred May 15, 1871, when she was forty-two years of age. Of their children the eldest. Nancy E., now deceased, became the wife of A. M. Ferrell, and they established their home in West Virginia : Elizabeth Jane, deceased, be- came the wife of Robert Holliday, of Moorefield Township, Harrison County; Samuel died in early childhood : Amanda Adeline, deceased, be- came the wife of Henry Bartow, who survived her; John A., of this review, was the next in order of birth : William S., deceased, was a sub- stantial farmer in Athens Township; and Clara Belle died at the age of eleven years.

John A. Dunlap learned in his boyhood and youth the best methods of carrying on farm enterprise, for he early began to lend his aid in the various activities of the old home farm, which has continued to be the stage of his pro- gressive service as one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of Harrison County to the present day. He is the owner of a well improved and valuable landed domain of 300 acres and is one of the substantial and in- fluential citizens of his native township. In the live-stock department of his farm enterprise he gives special attention to the raising of sheep and Shorthorn cattle of the best types. In his many years of active association with farm in- dustry he has kept abreast of the advance- ments made in this important field of enterprise.

and as a citizen he is loyal and public-spirited. His political allegiance is given to the Repub- lican party, and he and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church at New Athens.

On the 6th of December, 1882, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dunlap to Miss Mary Hannah Chaney, who was born and reared in Cadiz Township, a daughter of James and Mar- garet Chaney. Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap have three children : George Alvin, who is now superin- tendent of the public schools at Jewett, Har- rison County, married Miss Anna Dickerson, and to them were born two children, Vivian Maxine and John Albert, but the son is de- ceased. Chauncey Adam married Miss Ola Gar- ner, and they now reside in the city of Cleve- land. Clyde Beatty, of Cadiz, married Miss Helen Grear, and they have six children-Mary Josephine, Elizabeth Jane, Zora Leonda, Mil- dred Ellen, Edith May and a baby daughter.

FRE PATTON. The indubitable consistency and value of thought and study as applied in con- nection with farm industry has received strik- ing demonstration in the career of this well known citizen and native son of Harrison County. With an exceptionally comprehensive and well selected library in his attractive farm home, in Archer Township, the scientific vol- umes on agronomy, horticulture, irrigation, food preservation and conservation, etc., give evi- dence of the close study which he has given to them, and he has gained wide reputation as an authority in practical and scientific truck farming, of which industry he is one of the foremost and most successful exponents in Ohio. His vigorous and well disciplined mind has found numerous channels through which to exert progressive influence, as later paragraphs in this review will disclose, and it is gratify- ing to accord to him in this publication the rec- ognition due him as one of the representative men of his native county.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 79

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