History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 80

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

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The eleventh in order of birth of a family of twelve children, Mr. Patton was born in Rum- ley Township, Harrison County, on the 12th of April, 1862, and is a son of Matthew M. and Sarah Jane (McCullough) Patton, the former of whom was born in Fayette County. Penn- sylvania, September 3, 1815, and the latter of whom was born in Stock Township, Harrison County. Ohio, October 1, 1820, a daughter of Samuel Mccullough, who later removed to Car- roll County. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Patton was solemnized on the 3d of March, 1842. and after a gracious companionship of more than thirty-six years, the marital ties were broken by the death of the loved wife and mother, on the 13th of June. 1878. Mr. Patton had the sterling qualities that make for be- nignant influence in connection with social and industrial progress, and became one of the specially successful exponents of agricultural and live-stock enterprise in Harrison County, where he accumulated a large and valuable landed estate, in Rumley Township, which sec- tion of the county continued to be his place of residence until his death, at the age of eighty-

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three years and sixteen days. He was influen- tial in the local councils and work of the re- publican party, and both he and his wife were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church. The names and respective birth-dates of their children are here made a matter of permanent record: Sarah Margaret (Mrs. Adam Miller), January 19, 1843; James, October 23, 1844; John H., August 25, 1846; Joseph, May 7, 1848 (died August 22, 1851) ; Samuel M., April 12, 1850 (died August 31, 1851) ; Addison, May 25, 1852; William, August 17, 1854 (died February 27, 1858) ; an infant daughter, born March 12, 1859, died on the 17th of the same month; Ida, February 9, 1860; Fre, April 12, 1862; and Thomas B., December 8, 1863.

Matthew M. Patton was a son of Joseph and Sarah (Burns) Patton, who were born and reared in Pennsylvania, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they came to Ohio in the spring of 1816; they became pioneer settlers in Rumley Township, Harrison County, where they reclaimed and developed the fron- tier farm which continued to be their home the rest of their lives. Mrs. Patton died in Sep- tember, 1842, and his death occurred in Febru- ary, 1851, the names of both meriting place on the roster of the honored pioneers of the county. They became the parents of ten children-John, Sarah, Joseph, Margaret, Matthew M., James, Mary, Cynthia J. David and Ann, all deceased. In politics Mr. Patton was a democrat, and he was influential in public affairs in Harrison County, where he served in various offices of trust. Further data concerning the Patton fam- ily are to be found on other pages, in connec- tion with the personal sketches of Joseph and Thomas B. Patton.

Fre Patton is indebted to the district schools of Rumley Township for his early education, which has been effectively supplemented by his assiduous study and reading in later years, his home library giving evidence of his appreciation of the best in standard literature. Soon after attaining to his legal majority he became asso- ciated with his brother, Thomas B., in leasing the old homestead farm, to the affairs of which he continued to give his attention until Janu- ary, 1888, when he removed to his present model farm of sixty-five acres, in Archer Township. about one mile southwest of the village of Jewett. He has made this splendid farm a cen- ter of remarkably successful enterprise in the raising of fruits and garden products, and has demonstrated in no uncertain way the possi- bilities in intensive truck farming in his native county and state. In 1911 Mr. Patton ampli- fied his truck farming by establishing on his farm a canning factory of modern facilities and appointments, and he now markets virtually all of his products in cans, with special attention given to the raising and canning of tomatoes. beans and pumpkins, as well as cabbages of the finest type. the latter being largely manufac- tured into sauerkraut, which is canned on the place. There has been nothing uncertain or haphazard in the progressive activities of Mr. Patton, but, on the contrary, his study, his ex- perimentation and his general industrial produe-

tion have been carefully and scientifically directed, with the result that in many senses he has established a precedent, even as he has achieved large and gratifying success and high reputation in his chosen domain of enterprise. In 1895 Mr. Patton began planting catalpa speciosa trees on his farm, and his catalpa speciosa grove of seventeen acres now shows a total of fully 14,000 trees. He has made many and punctilious soil experimentations in con- nection with the propagation of these timber trees, his fine young forest of which has at- tracted attention from all parts of Ohio, as well as outside the boundaries of this commonwealth. Another of the admirable incidental works of Mr. Patton has been the development and ap- plication of the fine irrigation system on the bottom lands of his farm, his initial work in this direction having been done a quarter of a century ago. Many of the representative truck- growers of Ohio have visited the Patton farm, to study its methods of cultivation, propaga- tion, irrigation, etc. In his special field of in- dustrial enterprise Mr. Patton is well recognized authority. and he takes pride not only in his achievement as a successful truck-farmer and in the results that have attended his raising of catalpa trees, but also in the lesson and incen- tive which his work has given. He has gladly imparted to others the results of his study, experimentation and practical application. and has done a large amount of effective "mission- ary work" in connection with farmers' institutes throughout his native state, the state board of Agriculture and Experiment Station having repeatedly called upon him to give public ad- dresses upon the subjects of truck farming, irrigation and forestry.

Outside of the progressiveness which he has shown in connection with productive farm in- dustry. Mr. Patton has further manifested his initiative and self-reliance in the furthering of enterprise for the general good of the com- munity. In May, 1904, he founded the effective telephone system which is maintained by him under the title of the Patton Telephone Com- pany. This system now has sixteen miles of pole-line. sixty-four miles of wire and fifty-one subscribers, its service is maintained at the highest standard.

Mr. Patton is well fortified in his opinions concerning economic and governmental policies and gives his allegiance to the republican party. though he has manifested naught of ambition for public office. Both he and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church, and their attractive home is a center of gracious hospitality. even as it is the stage of much of the representative social life of the community.

On the 11th of March, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Patton to Miss Annettie Viola Patterson, daughter of the late Capt. Jo- seph C. and Mary Ann ( Simpson) Patterson. the former of whom died August 25, 1918, and the latter on the 24th of March, 1919. Of the four children of Mr. and Mrs. Patton the first a son, died in infancy. March 18. 1889. Paul F .. born February 11, 1891, a prosperous farmer near Avella, Pennsylvania, married, April 14,

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1916, Miss Frances Buchanan, of Washington, that state, and they have one child, Robert Paul, born March 26, 1917. Leona Ruth, born January 25, 1896, married to Stanley M. Law- thers, July 30, 1920. And Hearn Lowell, Janu- ary 4, 1899, are successful and popular teachers in the public schools of Harrison County. All of the children were given collegiate advantages and all have been successful teachers.

Capt. Joseph C. Patterson, father of Mrs. Pat- ton, was born in Archer Township, Harrison County, August 30, 1835, and was one of the venerable and honored citizens of his native county at the time of his death. His father, Joseph Patterson, was born in County Down, Ireland, in April, 1799, and his parents, who were of staunch Scotch lineage, immigrated to America when he was twelve years old. They became pioneer settlers in Harrison County, Ohio, where they remained until their death. Joseph Patterson reclaimed one of the pioneer farms of Stock Township and passed the closing years of his life in Cadiz Township, where he died in 1879. February 14, 1822, recorded his marriage to Jemima Hoagland, daughter of James Hoagland, a pioneer of Stock Township, and of this union were born six sons and five daughters. Joseph Patterson was first a whig and later a republican in politics, was a leader in community sentiment and action and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Patterson survived her husband and was more than ninety-six years of age at the time of her demise.

Capt. Joseph C. Patterson was given the ad- vantages of Hopedale College, and was one of the gallant young men who went forth from Harrison County in defense of the Union when the Civil war was precipitated on the nation. He left college and enlisted in the Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he soon won promotion to the office of captain of Company F. With his. regiment he took part in the various battles of the Army of the Cumberland, was with Sherman in the Atlantic campaign and the historic march . to the sea and continued in service until the close of the war. After par- ticipating in the Grand Review, in the city of Washington, Captain Patterson returned home and engaged in teaching. He eventually became one of the representative farmers in Stock Township and was one of the substantial and highly honored men and influential citizens of his native county. He was a stalwart repub- lican and he and his wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

On the 7th of September, 1865, Captain Pat- terson wedded Miss Mary Ann Simpson, daugh- ter of John and Margaret Simpson and a rep- resentative of the Simpson family that gave the late Bishop Simpson and the mother of Gen- eral Ulysses S. Grant. Captain and Mrs. Pat- terson became the parents of six children, of whom Annettie Viola, wife of Fre Patton, of this review, is the eldest, she having been born October 17, 1866; Vernon was born July 11, 1868; Glenn V., October 10, 1871; Henry O., March 8, 1874 (died December 14, 1900) ; Min-

nie J., December 21, 1875 (died December 5, 1896) ; and Clara G., January 28, 1879.

SHERMAN W. SNEE controls a substantial and representative mercantile business as a dealer in hardware and agricultural implements in the village of Dellroy, Carroll County, and is a pop- ular citizen who has passed his entire life thus far in the section of Ohio to which this history is dedicated. He was born at Deersville, Har- rison County, on the 5th of September, 1855, a son of William and Emma (Wells) Snee and a scion of staunch Scotch and Irish ancestry.

William Snee was born and reared in Penn- sylvania, and there learned in his youth the trade of shoemaker. Upon coming to Ohio he established his residence in Harrison County. and he was engaged in the work of his trade at Deersfield, that county, at the time of his death, in 1868. His wife survived him by many years and was of venerable age at the time of her death in 1901, both having been active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They be- came the parents of three sons and four daugh- ters, and of the number Sherman W., of this review, was the fifth in order of birth.

Sherman Weller Snee gained his early educa- tion in the village schools of Deersville, and he was but thirteen years of age at the time of his father's death. The financial position of the family was such that he forthwith began to work at whatever employment he could find, and thus be aided in the support of his widowed mother and the other members of the family. At the age of eighteen years he entered upon an apprenticeship to the blacksmith trade at Deersville, and after becoming a skilled work- man he followed his trade as a journeyman. On the 25th of November, 1880, he came to Carroll County and established his residence at Dellroy, where he engaged in the work of his trade with a partner. One year later he assumed full control of the business, and there- after he successfully conducted his well equipped blacksmith shop in this village until 1906, be- sides which he conducted also a prosperous livery business for some time. In 1906 he en- gaged in the hardware business at his present location, and here he has built up a large and prosperous enterprise in the handling of heavy and shelf hardware, stoves, ranges, and agricul- tural implements and machinery, his trade ex- tending throughout the wide area of country normally tributary to Dellroy as a distributing center. Mr. Snee also owns a well improved farm of seventy-seven acres in Harrison Town- ship, and twelve acres in Monroe Township, and to this he gives a personal supervision.

In 1882 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Snee to Miss Alice Yant, daughter of Samuel and Ester (Wyse) Yant, of Dellroy, and of their three children the eldest is George Ray- mond, who is now associated with his father's business. George R. Snee was one of the patri- otic young men who represented Carroll County in the nation's military service in the late World war. He entered service in 1918, and after be- ing for some time in training at Camp Sher- man, Ohio, was sent to Virginia, from which

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state he was later transferred to Camp Merritt, New Jersey, where he continued in service un- til the signing of the armistice, which brought the war to a close. Upon his return to Camp Sherman he was mustered out and received his honorable discharge. Ethel, the second of the children, was graduated in the Dellroy High School and has been for the past eight years a successful teacher in the public schools of her native county. Mary B., the younger daughter, was graduated in the Dellroy High School and in Scio College in Harrison County, and she likewise is a successful and popular teacher in the public schools.

Mr. Snee is a democrat in politics and has been a staunch advocate of prohibition. He is known as one of the progressive and public- spirited citizens of Dellroy, has served two terms as mayor of the village, besides having been otherwise a member of the village council for a number of terms and having also given effective service as a member of the Board of Education, as treasurer of Monroe Township, and as a member of the Dellroy Board of Health. Both be and his wife, as well as their daughters, are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Dellroy, in which he has served in virtually all official positions for which a lay member is eligible.

ALMER E. MILLS was born in German Town- ship, Harrison County, on the 30th of October, 1852. He was reared to manhood on the old homestead farm of his father, gained his youth- ful education in the public schools of the county, and in his independent career he has shown the urge and ambition and progressiveness and gained and maintained a place as one of the substantial exponents of agricultural and live- stock industry in his native county and town- ship. Here he is the owner of a valuable farm property of 262 acres, and he has insistently fol- lowed methods and policies that have conserved the productiveness of his broad acres, which yield generous returns from season to season, the while he has been equally successful in the raising of live stock of excellent types. Since coming into possession of this attractive and valuable farm Mr. Mills has erected the sub- stantial and commodious house which is the family home, and has effected other improve- ments of permanent value. He has never failed to do his part in the furtherance of measures and enterprises advanced for the general good of his community, is a loyal and liberal citizen who commands unqualified popular esteem, and he served two years as trustee of German Township. His political views are indicated by his active support of the cause of the repub- lican party, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church in the neighboring village of Annapolis, Jefferson County, he being an elder of this church at the time this sketch is in preparation, in the summer of 1921.

Almer Emerson Mills is a scion of the staunchest of English stock. He is a son of John and Elizabeth ( Webb) Mills, the former of whom was born in Worcestershire, England, on

the 4th of July, 1804, and the latter of whom was born in the city of London, England, Janu- ary 3, 1814, a daughter of George and Sarah (Dowland) Webb. The Mills family has long been one of prominence in connection with Wor- cestershire, England, and there Henry Mills, grandfather of the subject of this review, passed his entire life, his vocation having been that of farming.

John Mills was reared and educated in his native land, where his marriage was solemnized and where the first two of his children were born. In 1842, accompanied by his wife and these two children, he came to the United States, and within a short period after his ar- rival he established his family in a house next door to that of the Custer family at New Rum. ley, Harrison County, Ohio, Gen. George Custer, who later lost his life in the historic Indian massacre that perpetuates his name, having been a small boy at the time when the Mills family came to Harrison County. After remain. ing at New Rumley six months Mr. Mills re moved with his family to Salem Township, Jef. ferson County, but nine years later returned to Harrison County and became a farmer in German Township, where he remained until his death in 1861, his widow having survived him by more than a quarter of a century and having been venerable in years at the time of her death, in 1888. They became the parents of seven children-John Henry, George William, Thomas Anthony, Sarah Elizabeth (Mrs. Isaac Wheeler), Charles Albert, Almer Emerson and Flora Jane (Mrs. Ezekiel Kerr).

On the 12th of February, 1884, was solemn. ized the marriage of Almer Emerson Mills to Miss Harriet V. Davis, who was born and reared in Harrison County and who is a daugh. ter of William and Nancy (Grimes) Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Mills have five children: Bertha is the wife of John Miller, a prosperous farmer in German Township, and they have two children -Vera Virginia and Mary. Walter R. is a physician and surgeon and is engaged in the successful practice of his profession at East Springfield, Oblo. Warner D., a substantial farmer in Salem Township, Jefferson County, married Miss Inez Dye, and they have three children-Almer Eugene, Walter and Doyle. Harold and Emerson, the two younger sons, remain at the parental home.

WILLIAM H. MILLER, who maintains his resi- dence and business headquarters at Carrollton, judicial center of Carroll County, has become one of the representative buyers and shippers of live stock in his native county, and is a scion . of one of its well known pioneer families. He was born in Center Township, this county, June 19, 1858, and is a son of John and Susanna (Cox) Miller, the former being a native of Union Township and the latter of Center Town- ship. Jonas Miller, grandfather of William H., was born and reared in Lancaster County. Penn- sylvania, and from the old Keystone State he and his wife came in an early day to Carroll County and settled on a pioneer farm in Union Township, he having taken up a tract of Gor-

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ernment land there and having reclaimed the same from the forest into a productive farm. Both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives on this old homestead.

John Miller was reared under the conditions and influences of the pioneer days, receiving the advantages of the common schools of the period, and eventually became one of the sub- stantial and representative farmers of his na- tive county, where he died when about seventy- four years of age and where his wife passed away when about seventy-two years of age, both having been zealous members of the Re- formed Church and Mr. Miller having been a republican in political adherency. They be- came the parents of six children-Sarah Ann, Jacob N., Alice. William H., Hannah and Caroline.

William H. Miller was reared on the home farm which was the place of his birth and is indebted to the public schools of Carroll County for his early educational discipline. As a young man he was engaged in independent farm enterprise about eight years, and since 1886 he has been engaged successfully in the buying and shipping of live stock, with resi- dence in the city of Carrollton, where he occu- pies the handsome and modern residence which he erected in 1915. on West Main Street. He is a stockholder in the Cummings Trust Company, of Carrollton, and also in the First National Bank of this city. Though never manifesting aught of ambition for political activity or pre- ferment. Mr. Miller is a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party and is liberal and progressive in his civic attitude. He is afil- liated with the Masonic fraternity and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Epis- copal Church.

Mr. Miller is still actively associated with the basic industry of agriculture, as the owner of two well improved farms, in Washington Township, and in addition to his substantial business as a shipper of live stock he also buys and ships wool each successive season. His reputation is that of a vigorous, resourceful and successful business man. His maternal grandparents, Henry and Hannah (Price) Cox, the latter a native of Scotland, were early set- tlers in Center Township, where Mr. Cox de. veloped a good farm, though he was a young man at the time of his death, his wife having survived him by many years.

In September. 1881. was recorded the mar- riage of Mr. Miller to Miss Lucinda Adams, who likewise was born and reared in Carroll County and whose death occurred in 1888, she having been a devout member of the Methodist Episco- pal Church. She is survived by her only child. Grace, who is the wife of Robert E. Cameron. of Carroll County, they having become the par- ents of five children-Helen, Miller (deceased), Margaret, Robert and Dorothy.

In 1891 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Miller to Miss Maude Florence Stewart. who was born in Perry Township, Carroll County, June 23, 1865. The one child of this union is John Stewart Miller, who is engaged in the electrical business, and resides at Lorain, Ohio.

He married Miss Ruby Moore, and they have one child, Lois Adrianna. Mrs. Miller is a daughter of Edward and Martha Ann (Davis) Stewart, the former of whom was born in Perry Township, Harrison County, a daughter of William Davis, a pioneer of that county. Ed- ward Stewart became one of the most substan- tial farmers and influential citizens of his na- tive township and also operated a tannery for a number of years. He owned a fine farm of 464 acres, was a republican in politics, and served with marked ability as a member of the board of county commissioners, both he and his wife having been zealous members of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church and both having been venerable in years at the time of their death. Their marriage was solemnized in 1847, and they became the parents of eleven children. Edward Stewart was a son of Mahlon and Eliza- beth (Park) Stewart, natives of Maryland, and in 1804 they became pioneer settlers in Jeffer- son County, Ohio, whence they came in 1820, to what is now Carroll County, where he reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds and where he re- mained until his death, in 1879, when nearly ninety-two years of age, his wife having passed away in 1871, at the age of eighty-four years. Mahlon Stewart became a resident of Carroll County more than a decade prior to its organi- zation, and in. 1835, on his land, he laid out the village of Perrysville. He was first a whig and later a republican in politics and he and his wife held membership in the Methodist Episco- pal Church, though she was a birthright mem- her of the Society of Friends. They became the parents of seven children, all of whom are now deceased.

JOHN W. CARMAN has been a resident of Har- rison County since he was a lad of twelve years, and is now one of the progressive farmers of German Township. He was born in Salem Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 24th of March, 1872, and is a son of Lewis N. and Mahala A. (Hobson) Carman, both of whom likewise were born in Jefferson County-the former on the 8th of October, 1840, in Wayne Township, and the latter in Salem Township. on the 23d of March, 1876, she being a daugh- ter of Caleb and Sarah A. (More) Hobson.

Lewis N. Carman was a son of Andrew and Isabelle (Maxwell) Carman, and a grandson of John Carman, who was born in Maryland, of Welsh ancestry. John Carman was born in the year 1785, and in 1817 he became a pioneer set- tler in Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio. He went forth as a soldier in the War of 1812. and it was after the close of this conflict that he established his home in Jefferson County, where he reclaimed a productive farm and where he remained until his death, in 1861. His children were ten in number: Andrew, Samuel. Marshall, Mary, John, Elizabeth, Pa- tience. Thomas, Jane and Cyrus. Andrew Car- man was born in Maryland, in the year 1810, and thus was about seven years old at the time of the family removal to Jefferson County, Ohio. where he was reared to manhood, and where he passed the rest of his life, his active career

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 80

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