History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 8

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

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Gen. Samuel Scott, the grandfather of W. V. Scott, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.

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His wife was Mary Wylie, and the name Wylie as well as Vance has been carried down through the different generations. In civil life General Scott was a blacksmith by trade. While the blacksmith is not so much in evidence today when there are so many factory products, older persons remember how necessary a good black- smith was in every frontier community. The poem, "The Village Blacksmith," will always live in literature. The children of Gen. Samuel Scott were: Josiah, William and Samuel.

William V. Scott, of Hopedale, is a son of the oldest son of General Scott, Josiah N. Scott, who in his day was a real son of the American Revolution, his father being the soldier. W. V. Scott easily establishes his eligibility to mem- bership in the Sons of the American Revolution. His wife died in 1866, and he died in 1894, at the advanced age of eighty-one years, after having spent all of his life in Washington Coun- ty, Pennsylvania. Their children are: Hannah Lauretta, Mary Anna, Samuel Clark, Lina, Alla M., William Vance, Jennie and Josiah Ernest, the latter a physician at New Hope, Pennsy !- vania.

It was in 1882 that W. V. Scott removed from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Harrison County, Ohio, locating on a farm in Green Township. He had been a farmer in Pennsylvania, and he is a farmer in Ohio. In the spring of 1919 Mr. Scott abandoned the farm and took up his residence in Hopedale. He owns a farm of 173 acres in Green Town- ship, where he lived thirty-seven years. Mr. Scott is one of the Board of Directors of the First National Bank of Hopedale, having al- ways been a stockholder and being elected a director at the time of its organization. He helped organize the Hopedale Telephone Com- pany, and has served as president and is now a member of the Board of Directors. He is the mayor of Hopedale and a justice of the peace of Green Township.

On June 8, 1880, Mr. Scott married Mary E. Smith, a daughter of William K. and Isabelle (Wylle) Smith. Their son, William Wylie, married Leola Caldwell, and the grandchildren in the family are William Walter and Wanda. Mrs. Scott died August 7, 1913, and later Mr. Scott married Effle McFarland. She is a daughter of Ebenezer and Mary Jane ( Byers) McFarland, of Mercer County, Pennsylvania.

William Wylie Scott was graduated from Athens (Ohio) County ; then spent three years at a medical college in Baltimore. He gradu- ated from the Medical College at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and also from the Medical Depart- ment of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and is now a prominent and successful physician of Canton, Ohio.

AUSTIN BROTHERS, now one of the most vener- able native sons of Carroll County still resid- ing within its borders, is entitled to special recognition in this history, both by reason of his own worthy life and achievement and on account of being a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of the county. After having borne to the fullest extent "the heat and burden of the day," he is now living in gracious retirement in the attractive village of

Oneida, secure in the high regard of all who know him.

On the old homestead farm in Brown Town- ship, this county, Mr. Brothers was born July 14, 1835, a son of Levi and Lydia (Clark) Brothers, the former of whom was born in the State of Maryland June 1, 1799, and the latter of whom was born in Columbiana County. Ohio, on the 13th of September of the same year, a date that indicates conclusively that her parents were numbered among the earliest settlers of that county. The marriage of the parents of the subject of this review was solem- nized September 19, 1822.

Levi Brothers was a son of Stephen Brothers, of whom more specific mention is made elsewhere in this volume, and was a boy at the time of the family removal from Maryland to Ohio, where his father took up a tract of Govern- ment land in what is now Brown Township, Carroll County, where he reclaimed a farm from the virgin forest and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, as sterling pioneer citizens of the county. Levi Brothers was reared under the conditions and influences of the pioneer days and in due course of time became one of the substantial exponents of farm enterprise in Brown Township, where he developed a productive farm and was loyal and liberal as a citizen. His political allegiance was given to the democratic party and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Brothers passed away October 5, 1867, and his widow's death occurred on the 6th of November of the follow- ing year. They became the parents of thirteen children, and of the ten who attained to years of maturity brief record is consistently entered : Mary Jane was born October 31, 1823; George C., February 10, 1826; Joseph, September 16, 1827: Stephen, September 25, 1829; Lydia Octo- ber 1, 1831: John, July 28, 1833; Austin, July 14. 1835; Fannie, August 30, 1837; Richard, September 13, 1840; and William, May 24, 1843. Of the number only two are living in 1920.

Austin Brothers was reared to the sturdy discipline of the pioneer farm, received his educational training in the common schools of Brown Township, and there he eventually en- gaged in independent farm enterprise. Later he was successfully engaged in the same line of industrial enterprise in Brown Township, and after there remaining twenty-five years he felt justified in retiring from the heavy labors and responsibilities that had so long been his por- tion, and he has since maintained his home at Oneida, where he is enjoying, in the gracious evening of his life, the peace and prosperity that are justly his due.

Mr. Brothers is unswerving in his allegiance to the democratic party, and while he never de- sired or sought official preferment his civic loyalty led him to give thirty-five years of effective service as school director of his dis- trict. Lasting honor shall attach to the name of Mr. Brothers by reason of the loyal and patriotic service which, as a young man, he rendered as a soldier in the Civil war. He responded to the first call for volunteers by enlisting in July, 1861, as a member of Com- pany A, Thirty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry,

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with which he went to the front and with which he took part in many of the most notable en- gagements of the great conflict between the states of the North and the South. He was wounded several times, the most serious wound being received when he was shot through the mouth, but he did not falter in patriotism, and as soon as possible resumed his place with his regiment, his service continuing until the close of the war. He took part in the battle of Cheat Mountain, and the historic Atlanta cam- paign, including the siege and battle of Atlanta, in which he was wounded, and other engage- ments in which he participated were those of Green Briar, West Virginia; Camp Allegheny ; McDowell and Cross Keys, Virginia; Port Re- public; Harper's Ferry (where he was taken captive) ; Port Gibson; Raymond and Jackson, Mississippi ; Champion Hill, Siege of Vicksburg, Baker Creek, Clinton, Mississippi; Kenesaw Mountain; Nackajack Creek ; Peach Tree Creek ; and the great battle of Atlanta. In later years Mr. Brothers has vitalized the more gracious memories and associations of his military career by his active affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. After the close of the war and the reception of his honorable discharge he re- sumed his alliance with farm enterprise in his native county, and he is still the owner of valuable farm property in Brown Township, where he gives personal attention to various portions of farm work and thus keeps himself in the fine physical condition that makes him in appearance and vitality deny the years that are his, for he is not satisfied to remain supine or inactive, and takes satisfaction in knowing that he is still able to get results when he applies himself to any piece of work in connec- tion with his farm property.

In the year 1868 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Brother to Miss Mary Jane Rogers, who was born in Steuben County, Ohio, in 1846, a daughter of John and Martha (Orem) Rogers, who came to Carroll County and passed the closing years of their lives in Brown Township, the father having served in the Civil war as a member of Company F, Thirty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the same regiment in which Mr. Brothers gallantly served during the entire period of the war. In fitting conclusion of this review is given a brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Brothers: Irvin is a bachelor and remains at the parental home; Verner died July 4, 1896, aged twenty-five years; Laura was united in marriage January 1, 1902, to Charles A. Walter, who died in 1908, and she is now a practical nurse bv profession, the while she maintains her home with her parents; Stella died in 1881, at the age of ten months; Herbert, who has a rendering plant in Cleveland, was united in marriage in 1908 to Miss Blanche Zuschlag, and they have one child, Lillian.

HOMER R. VASBINDER made an excellent record in connection with mercantile business in Car- rollton until 1920, when he disposed of his business and has since been connected with the Bowman & Hosterman Company, manufacturers of aluminum ware, Carrollton, Ohio.

Homer Raymond Vasbinder was born in Har- rison County, Ohio, April 7, 1864, and is a son

of Samuel B. and Nancy (Buchanan) Vas- binder, the former of whom was born in Harri- son County July 2, 1834, and the latter was born near Carrollton, Carroll County, June 17, 1839. Ephraim Vasbinder, father of Samuel B., was born in Pennsylvania May 4, 1809, and his wife, whose maiden name was Maria Bu- chanan, was born near Jewett, Harrison County, Ohio, June 26, 1805, her parents having been numbered among the earliest settlers of that county. Ephraim Vasbinder was a youth when he came to Ohio, and in Harrison County was solemnized his marriage to Maria Buchanan, his parents likewise having been pioneer settlers of that county. He became a prosperous farmer and continued his residence in Harrison County until his death in 1847, his widow passing away in 1849. John Buchanan, maternal grandfather of Homer R. Vasbinder, was born in Pennsyl- vania in 1807, and he and his father entered land near Jewett, Harrison County, Ohio. Later he came to Carroll County and purchased a tract of wild land in Union Township. This he reclaimed into the productive farm now owned and occupied by his grandson, Ross P. Buchanan. He passed the closing period of his life near Amsterdam, Ohio, his wife, whose maiden name was Mary W. Pettenger, having died on the old homestead in Union Township July 6, 1860. Ephraim and Maria ( Buchanan) Vasbinder became the parents of four children -William, Jacob, Margaret and Samuel B. John and Mary ( Pettenger) Buchanan had five children-William, Samuel, Nancy, Susan and John.

Samuel B. Vasbinder was still a boy at the time of the death of his parents, and he was then taken into the home of his uncle, Samuel Slemons. He learned the shoemaker's trade, to which he gave his attention until 1866, when he established himself in the boot and shoe business at New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County. There he remained until 1873, when he removed with his family to Perrysville, Car- roll County. Later he established his home on a farm in Monroe Townshin and there he con- tinued his residence until his death in 1903, his widow now maintaining her home at Carroll- ton. Mr. Vasbinder was a stalwart republican and was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, his religious faith having been that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his widow likewise is a zealous member. At the time of the Civil war Mr. Vasbinder was called into military service, but was soon re- turned from camp to his home, as it was found that his services would be of greater value in the making of shoes for the soldiers in the field. Of his children the eldest is John O., deceased ; Laura is the wife of Alfred A. Stewart, of whom mention is made on other pages of this volume; Homer R., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Sylvia L. is deceased ; Leona E. is the wife of George A. Davis, of Harrison County ; and Henry B. and Myrta A., of Sherrodsville, Ohio.

Homer R. Vasbinder gained his rudimentary education in the schools of New Philadelphia and was about nine years old at the time of the family removal to Perrvsville, Carroll Coun- ty, where he continued his studies in the public

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schools. Later he attended Harlem College at Harlem Springs, for one and one-half years, and thereafter taught in the district schools during the winter terms and applied himself to farm work during the intervening periods until he took a position as clerk in a general store at Bowerston, Harrison County. On the 1st of May, 1903, he became a clerk in the mercantile establishment of Henry Butler at Carrollton and in May, 1911, he engaged inde- pendently in the grocery business in this city. He built up a prosperous enterprise, to which he continued to give his attention until Janu- ary 1, 1920, when he sold his stock and business. He is unwavering in his support of the prin- ciples of the republican party and is affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabee.

In 1889 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Vasbinder to Miss Nancy C. Davis, and of their eight children three died in infancy. Roy D. is associated with the management of a leading hardware store at Carrollton. Harold married Miss Florence Williams, daughter of Dr. John R. Williams, of whom individual men- tion is made on other pages, and she died in January, 1920, being survived by one child, Irene. When the nation became involved in the World war Harold Vasbinder entered mili- tary service at Camp Sherman, whence he was transferred to Waco, Texas, where he con- tinued in service from 1918 until December 26, 1919, when he received his honorable discharge. He is a graduate of the Carrollton High School and is now residing at Carrollton. Mary Lois was graduated in the Carrollton High School and is now a successful and popular teacher in the public schools of Carroll County. Ellen was graduated in the Carrollton High School, later took a course in a business college in the City of Cleveland, and she is now the wife of E. O. Sala, editor and publisher of the Minerva News. Perry J. is employed in the Carrollton office of the American Express Com- pany.

Mrs. Nancy C. (Davis) Vasbinder passed to the life eternal in 1906, and in 1910 Mr. Vas- binder was united in marriage to Mrs. Anna (Tinlin) Gottschall, widow of Harvey Gottschall and a daughter of George S. Tinlin, a merchant at Carrollton. By her first marriage Mrs. Vas- binder has one child, Harvey A. Gottschall, who was but three days old at the time of his father's death and who was a classmate of Harold Vasbinder both in the public schools and in Sunday school. He served as a member of the Marine Band in the navy during the country's participation in the World war, and was stationed the greater part of the time at Newport, Rhode Island. He is now associated with a leading brokerage firm in the City of Cleveland. His wife, Georgette, is a daughter of George W. Dunn, of Carrollton.

GILBERT G. DICKERSON. A man of industry and enterprise, possessing mechanical skill and ability of high order, Gilbert G. Dickerson, of Georgetown, is widely known throughout Short Creek Township as one of the foremost black- smiths in this section of Harrison County, his superior workmanship and his prompt attention to the wants of his patrons having won him a

substantial business. A native of Harrison County, he was born November 24, 1866, in Cadiz Township, a son of Thomas Hudson and Hanna (McCoy) Dickerson, being one of a family of ten children.

His parents removing when he was a child to Short Creek Township, Mr. Dickerson there obtained his early education in the Science Hill School, and as a young lad worked out by the month. In 1888, shortly after attaining his majority, he responded to the lure of the far West, making his way to the Territory of Washington, where he remained eleven years. The financial returns for his labor in that sec- tion not being very satisfactory, Mr. Dickerson returned to Ohio, and for two years thereafter was engaged in breaking colts in Harrison County, training them for track work. Locating in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1902, he was in the employ of the United States Coal Company for six years, and since that time has been a resident of Harrison County. Establishing a smithy in the village of Georgetown, Short Creek Township, 1911, he has since been ac- tively employed at his trade, having an exten- sive and remunerative patronage.

Mr. Dickerson married in 1903 Bertha Rhodes, an adopted daughter of Greenberry Frier. Two children were born of their marriage, namely: Raymond, born in 1903; and Lillian L., who was born January 8, 1905, and died in infancy. Mrs. Dickerson lived but a comparatively short time after her marriage, her death occurring January 18, 1905. Mr. Dickerson, true to the religious faith in which he was reared, is a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Georgetown. Fraternally he belongs to Lodge No. 8476, Modern Woodmen of America, of Smithfield, Ohio.

J. C. HAVERFIELD. The fact that he was born March 12, 1842, made J. C. Haverfield of Cadiz old enough to enlist as a Union soldier in the Civil war. He was only twenty when he en- listed in Company H, One Hundred Twenty- sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, giving two years and seven months to the service of his country. He was in some of the most decisive battles and on July 9, 1864, was made a prisoner of war, spending seven months in Confederate prisons. Mr. Haverfield had some thrilling ex- periences, and at the battle of Spottsylvania Courthouse a soldier at his right was shot through the head, another at his left received a bullet in the hip, and the soldier in his rear was shot through both wrists. He helped a comrade carry the wounded men to the rear and renewed the attack when a minnie ball struck down the comrade, but he reached the front uninjured. In one battle he was slightly stunned by a piece of spent shell, but at the end of the war he returned to Harrison County without serious physical injury.

Realizing the need of a better education after his return from the Civil war, Mr. Haverfield entered Hopedale College, but the loss of the family home by fire necessitated his leaving school and returning to work at the family homestead. He is a son of Alexander and Catharine (Shimer) Haverfield, who always lived in Cadiz Township. The grandfather, John

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Haverfield, came to Harrison County when there were deer and wolves in the forest. The Haverfields have been United Presbyterians and republicans, and for a time Alexander Haver- field was a member of the Board of Directors of the Harrison County Infirmary. He was an elder in the church and a director in the Harri- son National Bank-a busy, progressive, pioneer citizen.

In 1870 J. C. Haverfield married Mattie G. Thompson. She was a daughter of R. G. and Jane Thompson, who lived in Carroll County. While Alexander Haverfield lived they remained with him on the farm, but in January, 1876, they removed to Cadiz, where Mr. Haverfield engaged in the hardware trade as a member of the firm of Harrison and Haverfield. However a few years later he returned to the farm. His children are: Della Verne, wife of Charles E. Glover, of Columbus, and their children are Martha Isabelle, John Haverfield and Charles E. Glover; Harvey B. Haverfield, a railroad man living at Cleveland, married Maude Gill- vary; Calvin Leroy Haverfield, a dentist in Akron, married Cordelia Kesler; Ralph F. Haverfield, who married Edith Hale, lives in Columbus; Lida Orvetta Haverfield, a teacher of music; William R. Haverfield, a traveling salesman living in Columbus; and Melvin George Haverfield, who married Vera Nottingham, is a mining engineer and lives in Baxter Springs, Kansas.

In 1895 Mr. and Mrs. Haverfield again left the farm and they now live in Cadiz again. He had spent fifty years on the farm. He is a member of Cadiz Post Grand Army of the Republic, and while he came out of the Civil war without injury, it is related that a brother, James H. Haverfield, who responded to the final call for one hundred days men, lost his life in the first engagement, and a cousin who saw him fall helped a comrade carry him to the rear and across the river, where they laid him to rest in a small garden, and his remains now lie buried in an unknown grave. The South- land is dotted with many unknown graves of Northern soldiers, just as the cemeteries of France. today contain all that was mortal of the young World war soldiers who went over- seas at the call of their . country.

A. CLARKSON GROVE, M. D. In the attractive and thriving village of Jewett, Rumley Town- ship, Harrison County, are maintained the resi- dence and professional headquarters of Doctor Grove, who has a substantial and representative practice and who is one of the influential citi- zens of the village, as well as representative physician and surgeon of his native county.

Doctor Grove was born in Cadiz Township, this county, on the 18th of March, 1864, and is a son of Thomas C. and Sarah (Croskey) Grove, sterling citizens of whom more specific mention is made on other pages, in the sketch of another of their sons, Thomas E., so that a repetition of the record is not required in the present connection. Doctor Grove gained his early education in the district schools of his native county and his higher academic dis- cipline was received in Franklin College. In the autumn of 1885 he was matriculated in the

celebrated Starling Medical College in the city of Columbus, an institution that now constitutes the medical department of the University of Ohio, and in the spring of 1889 he was gradu- ated with the well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. Well fortified for the exacting work of his chosen profession Doctor Grove established himself in practice at Jewett in August of the same year, and in the passing years he has built up and retained a large and representative practice, the character and extent of which demonstrate alike his professional ability and his personal popularity. He insist- ently keeps in touch with the advances made in medical and surgical science, and maintains affiliation with the Harrison County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. As a citi- zen he is loyal and progressive, and takes marked interest in all things touching the wel- fare of his home village. Both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church at Jewett.

In June, 1893, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Grove to Miss Elizabeth J. Aiken, who was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daughter of Josiah Aiken. Doctor and Mrs. Grove have two children, June Augusta is a graduate of the Jewett High School and also of the musical conservatory of Westminster College at New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. She married Ralph Bragg, of Boston, Massachusetts, a graduate of Amhurst College, who enlisted with the Twenty-fifth Regiment of Engineers for the World war and served many months in France. He is now an engineer with the A. D. Taylor Landscape Gardening Company of Cleve- land, Ohio. Thomas A. Grove was graduated from the Jewett High School as a member of the class of 1920.

SAMUEL B. PORTER. Just now and then a man performs the sacred function of enrolling his ancestry the second time in the annals of any given community. The men of today owe it to the men of yesterday to commemorate their deeds of privation and endurance in bringing about the transformation from savagery to civilization in any community. Now that a "Who's Who" of Harrison County is again in prospect, Samuel B. Porter, of Cadiz, again waves the family banner and keeps the memory green of his immediate ancestry.

While Mr. Porter now lives in Cadiz, the farmstead in Athens Township, where he was born, October 8, 1843, has been in the Porter family name since it was entered from the Gov- ernment in territorial days in Ohio, within a year or two from the beginning of the nine- teenth century. S. B. Porter is a son of David and Theresa (Stone) Porter, who were pioneer residents of Harrison County. In his days of farm activity Mr. Porter was among the leading agriculturists of Green Township, although he was born in Athens Township.

The Porter family in Harrison County harks back to Samuel Porter, who came from Penn- sylvania. He was a saddler and always worked at the trade. He trained with the democrats from the organization of the party. His son, David Porter, was born February 5, 1802, just

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 8

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