History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 85

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

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IRA F. SLONAKER. one of the successful farm- ers of Monroe Township, and a man who is held in the highest esteem in Harrison County, owns a fine farm of 261 acres of land. He was born in Monroe Township, Harrison County. Ohio, September 13. 1870. a son of David and Sarah Jane ( Robey) Slonaker, both of whom were born in Monroe Township. Mr. Slonaker was a daughter of John and Zinema ( Newton) Robey. John A. Robey was one of the early farmers of Monroe Township and after locating in this neighborhood. continued to reside here until his death. The children of John A. Robey and his wife were as follows: Luther. William, Sa- rah Jrne. George. Martha. Addie and Anna. The Robey family were all members of the United Brethren Church.

David Slonaker was reared and educated in Monroe Township, and became one of its ener- getic farmers. For many years he was also an employe of the Panhandle Railroad, but spent his last years on his farm. Like the Robeys he and his wife united with the United

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Brethren Church. David Slonaker and his wife had these children born to them: Laura, who lives at Colorado Springs, Colorado; Edwin, who lives at Indianapolis, Indiana; Ira F., whose name heads this review; Aljo, who died in infancy; Luella, who married Von Boston, lives at Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Etta Bell, who is deceased, married Warn Woodruff.

Ira F. Slonaker attended the district schools of Monroe Township until he was thirteen years old when he went to live with his uncle, E. M. Long, with whom he remained until his mar- riage in 1893 to Diana Trushell, a daughter of George and Rushilla (Clark) Trushell. Follow- ing his marriage Mr. Slonaker began farming in Monroe Township on one of the farms he now owns, and has continued to be engaged in this line of endeavor ever since. In addition to carrying on general farming and stockrais- ing, he specializes in fruit-growing, and has some of the most valuable property in the town- ship. Mr. and Mrs. Slonaker became the par- ents of the following children: Mary Jane, who married Roy Palmer, a farmer of Monroe Township, has one son, George; May Bell, who married Arthur McMillen, had three children : Pauline, Donald and Lela Jane, and lives at Bowerston, Ohio; Earl Edward, William and Frank, who are all deceased; and Laura, who is the youngest. In November, 1918, Mr. Slo- naker and his wife were called upon to bear one of the heaviest sorrows which can befall parents for their three sons, fine, healthy young men, were stricken with the influenza and died within four days of each other. It has taken all of the Christian fortitude gathered from their long membership in the Tunnell Hill United Brethren Church to enable them to sub- mit to their loss. It is in times like this ter- rible affliction that the souls of humans are tried, and those who are professed Christians emerge from the ordeal sustained by a strength given them from above. The entire neighbor- hood sympathized with the bereaved family and remember the young men with kindly regret and admiration for their many excellent traits of character.

CHARLES F. MCCAULEY is the youngest of the three sons of the late Booth and Mary Eliza- beth (Smylie) McCauley, and it is gratifying to record that each of the sons find individual representation in this history of their native county, with whose history the family name has been long and worthily identified. For de- tailed information concerning the family, and especially the late Booth McCauley, reference may readily be made to the sketches dedicated to Smylie F. McCauley and Robert Forbes Mc- Cauley, on other pages.

Charles F. McCauley was born on the fine old homestead farm which is his present place of residence, in Monroe Township, and the date of his nativity was January 14, 1889. His father accumulated a large and valuable landed estate in this township, and of the same Charles F. owns the old homestead place, which comprises 231 acres and which has been the stage of his activities from the time he Initiated his con- structive service in connection with farm in-

dustry. He profited fully by the advantages afforded in the public schools of his native township and is one of the vigorous and dis- criminating young representatives of agricul- tural and live-stock enterprise in Harrison County, where his popularity is on a parity with his sterling character and genial personal- ity. He gives his political alegiance to the democratic party and takes lively interest in measures and enterprises advanced for the gen- eral good of his home community and native county. On June 10, 1920, he married Mary, the daughter of William and Margaret (Wag- ner) Morland, of Monroe Township.

SMYLIE F. MCCAULEY, who has impressed himself admirably in successful farm industry in Monroe Township, Harrison County, is not only a representative farmer of his native town- ship and county but also a scion of a family whose name has been long and worthily iden- tified with the civic and material interests of this favored section of the Buckeye State. As ample data concerning the family appear on other pages of this work, in the sketch dedi- cated to Robert Forbes McCauley, it is unnec- essary to repeat the record in the article here presented.

Smylie F. McCauley was born in Monroe Township, this county, on the 9th of May, 1880, and is a son of Booth and Mary Elizabeth (Smylie) McCauley, the former of whom was born in Monroe Township and the latter in Ar- cher Township, this county. Booth McCauley was a son of Robert McCauley, who was born in Ireland and who became an honored plo- neer settler in Harrison County, where he re- claimed a farm in Monroe Township and where he and his wife passed the rest of their lives. Booth Mccauley was reared and educated in this county and became one of the prosperous farmers and substantial and popular citizens of Monroe Township, his entire life having there been passed and his death having occurred March 11, 1919. He and his loved and devoted wife were not long separated, as she died one year and two days later, on the 13th of March, 1920. Mr. McCauley was a man of much ability and accumulated a valuable landed estate of 388 acres, in connection with which he held status as one of the most successful farmers of his native county. He was a democrat in poli- tics and his wife held membership in the Pres- byterian Church. They became the parents of four children-Robert F., Smylie F., Sarah A., and Charles Floyd. The only daughter is the wife of John M. Hamil, of Crafton, Pennsyl- vania.

Smylie F. McCauley is indebted to the public schools in Monroe Township for his youthful education and he continued to remain at the parental home until the time of his marriage, in 1905. Since that time he has lived on one of his father's farms, not far distant from the old homestead, and he is now the owner of his residential farm, of 104 acres, as well as an- other farm, of fifty-three acres, likewise in Mon- roe Township. He is a staunch democrat, takes lively interest in all that touches the wellbeing of his home community and native county and

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in September, 1919, he entered service as trustee of Monroe Township, an office in which he is giving excellent account of himself at the time of this writing, in the summer of 1920. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Pres- byterian Church at Bowerston.

The year 1905 recorded the marriage of Mr. McCauley to Miss Aleta Hanna, daughter of Robert A. and Alice (English) Hanna, of Mon- roe Township, and the three children of this union are Wilfred Booth, Mary Maxine and Robert Hanna.

The mother of Mr. McCauley likewise was a representative of a sterling pioneer family of Harrison County. She was a daughter of Rob- ert and Esther (Hanna) Smylie, and her fa- ther was one of the fourteen children born to William and Rachel (Borland) Smylie. Will- iam Smylie was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1794, a son of David and Sarah Jane (Coon) Smylie, who there es- tablished their home upon immigrating to America from their native Ireland. In 1815 David Smylie came to Harrison County, Ohio, and established his residence at Cadiz, where he and his wife remained until their death and where both passed away in the year 1843. They were the parents of three sons and one daugh- ter. William Smylie continued his association with farm industry in Harrison County until 1855, when he became a pioneer settler in Washington County, Iowa, where he secured a large tract of land and where he died in Febru- ary, 1858, his widow surviving until March, 1875. Robert Smylie became a representative farmer of Harrison County and both he and his wife here remained until their deaths.

ROBERT C. SCOTT, JE., who is associated with his brother James M. in the conducting of a prosperous general merchandise business at Harlem Springs, Carroll County, has had a di- versified and interesting career that has involved his residence in various states of the Union, but his loyalty to and appreciation of his native county eventually led to his returning to the same and identifying himself with his present business enterprise. He is a scion of a family that was founded in this section of Ohio nearly a century ago, by Robert G. Scott, Sr., who was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, a son of Josiah Scott, who was one of the early settlers in that county. Two brothers of Rob- ert Scott became clergyman of the Presbyterian Church. He himself was reared and educated in the old Keystone State, where, in 1804 was solemnized his marriage to Elizabeth Munnel, and in 1827 they came to Ohio and settled in that part of Harrison County that is now in- cluded in Carroll County. Here he remained until his death, in 1830, and his wife survived him by several years. Their son Robert G., grandfather of Robert C., of this review, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Sep- tember 18, 1813, and he was about fourteen years old at the time of the family removal to Ohio, where he was reared to manhood under the conditions marking the pioneer days. In April, 1835, he married Miss Elizabeth Steeves, who was born in the Province of New Bruns-

wick, Canada, in April, 1814, her parents, Chris- tian and Olive (Lutz) Steeves, having come to Ohio in 1829 and settled in North Township, Harrison County. Robert G. Scott followed the trade of carpenter for a number of years, was a sutler with the Union forces during about one year of the Civil war, and at the time of his death he was a resident of Germano, Harrison County, his business having been that of oper- ating a planing mill at that place. He was one of the leading citizens of Harrison County and one of its honored and venerable pioneers at the time when his life came to a close. He was a republican in political adherency and he and his wife were earnest members of the Presby- terian Church. Of their eleven children Robert C. Jr., was the eighth in order of birth.

Robert C. Scott, Sr., whose death occurred at Harlem Springs, Carroll County, November 9, 1916, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, Oc- tober 24, 1847. He was five years of age at the time of the family removal to Carroll County, where his early educational advantages included those of Harlem College. He was employed for some time in his father's grist mill, and in 1871 he engaged in the buying and shipping of farm produce, at Kilgore. He became one of the leading wool buyers of the county, and shipped an average of 75,000 pounds of wool annually for a number of years. In the autumn of 1912 he removel to Harlem Springs and became asso- ciated with his sons in mercantile business, and here he remained until his death. He was a man of sterling character and marked business ability, was a republican in politics and his re- ligious faith was that of the Presbyterian Church, of which his widow likewise is a zeal- ous member.

October 30, 1873, recorded the marriage of Robert C. Scott, Sr., to Miss Almira Shipps, who was born in Loudon Township, Carroll County, August 30, 1853, a daughter of James and Mar- garet (Simmons) Shipps, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of what is now Car- roll County, Ohio, she being now a resident of Carthage, Missouri, and celebrated in 1921 the ninety-third anniversary of her birth. Mr. and Mrs. Scott became the parents of five children, of whom the first, Maggie O., died at the age of thirteen years; Robert C., Jr., and James M. are partners in the mercantile business at Har- lem Springs, as previously noted; and Paul died in infancy.

Robert C. Scott, Jr., elder of the two surviv- ing children of Robert C. and Almira (Shipps) Scott, was born at Kilgore, Carroll County, on the 18th of October, 1876. He received the ad- vantages of the public schools and also attended college at Harlem Springs. When he was but fifteen years old he and his younger brother, James M., began the operation of a huckster's wagon from Kilgore, and they continued the enterprise about two years, in the handling of farm produce. Mr. Scott became a street car conductor in the city of Cleveland, and after thus serving one year he followed the same vo- cation at St. Louis, Missouri, for three years. For the ensuing three years he held a position in the auditing department of the Wabash

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Railroad, at Detroit, Michigan, and his next change took him to Texas, where he was for three years in the auditing department of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, with head- quarters at Dallas. Finally he returned to Kil- gore, Ohio, where he was for one year asso- ciated with his father and brother in the con- ducting of a general store. Removal was then made to Harlem Springs, where he and his brother purchased a substantial business block and in the same opened the general store which they have here successfully conducted since that time. The brothers are wide awake, progressive and reliable business men and have developed a substantial enterprise, based alike on their per- sonal popularity and on the effective service given. Mr. Scott is aligned in the ranks of the republican party, is affiliated with Union Lodge No. 3, Free and Accepted Masons, in the city of Detroit, Michigan, and is identified also with the Scottish Rite branch of the Masonic fra- ternity. He and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church in their home village.

In June, 1905, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Scott to Miss Monica Phillips, who was born at Kilgore, this county, and who is a daughter of Andrew and Mary (Seaton) Phil- lips, both likewise natives of Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have one child, Lucile Mary, born July 23, 1906, in Dennison, Texas.

JAMES M. SCOTT. In the preceding sketch of the career of his brother, with whom he is associated in the mercantile business at Harlem Springs, Carroll County, is given adequate rec- ord of the fraternal partnership and also of the family history, so that this sketch of James M. Scott may permit the elimination of data al- ready given.

Mr. Scott was born at Kilgore, Carroll County. on the 2d of December, 1878, and here he was reared and educated. While a mere lad he became associated with his brother in the run- ning of a huckstering wagon, as noted in the preceding article, and after the termination of this juvenile business alliance he went to Noda- way County, Missouri, where he was employed on a farm for one year. Thereafter he held a position in the Ohio State Hospital at Cleve- land. for six months, and for five years there- after he was a street car conductor in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He then returned to Kilgore and became an assistant in his fa- ther's wool business. About a year later the father and son here established a general store, and of the removal to Harlem Springs and the upbuilding of the present thriving mercantile business of the Scott brothers sufficient descrip- tion is given in the foregoing sketch. Mr. Scott gives his allegiance to the republican party. he and his wife hold membership in the Presby- terian Church, and he is affiliated with the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, No. 124. Carrollton Township, while in the Scottish Rite of Masonry he maintains affiliation with the Carson Lodge of Perfection, at Steubenville.

In November, 1910, Mr. Scott wedded Miss Mary Blazer, who was born in Lee Township. Carroll County, a daughter of Joseph and Mar-

garet (Scott) Blazer, both likewise natives of Carroll County.

JOHN W. GOTSCHALL. Vigorous and prolific have been the activities of Mr. Gotschall in con- nection with farm industry in his native county, and he still remains on the farm, adjoining the corporate boundaries of Carrollton, though he sold the property to his only son, in the spring of 1920, and is now virtually retired, his son proving an able successor in the operation of the farm, which comprises eighty acres and is equipped with modern improvements.

Mr. Gotschall was born in Loudon Township, Carroll County, August 2, 1860, and is a son of Eli and Malinda (Yingling) Gotschall, the for- mer of whom was born in Lee Township, this county, in March, 1830, and the latter in Tus- carawas County, Ohio, in 1837. Eli Gotschall was a son of George and Anna Gotschall, who were pioneer settlers in Lee Township, Carroll County, where they established their home upon immigrating from Pennsylvania to Ohio. Both passed the closing years of their lives on a farm in Loudon Township, the property being now owned and occupied by their only surviving child. Cyrus. John Yingling, maternal grand- father of the subject of this sketch, likewise was a sterling pioneer settler in Carroll County, whither he came from Tuscarawas County.

Eli Gotschall was reared on the pioneer farm of his father, in Lee Township, and received the advantages of the schools of the locality and period. During the long years of a sig- nally active and worthy life he never faltered in his allegiance to farm industry. and he gained prestige as one of the substantial and representative agriculturists and stock-raisers of his native county, where, honored by all who knew him, his death occurred February 11, 1904. his venerable widow being one of the revered pioneer women of the county and hav- ing celebrated in 1920 the eighty-third anniver- sary of her birth. Eli Gotschall was a loyal supporter of the principles of the republican party and was a specially zealous and devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. as is also his widow. He was active and liberal in the support of church work and during a period of five years he never failed in attend- ance at the regular services of the Methodist Church at Simmons Ridge, of which the Rev. Mr. Piggott was pastor at that time. Mr. and Mrs. Gottschalk became the parents of nine children : Anna (wife of Frank Lowmiller) John W., George, David, Mary (wife of Will- iam Beckley). Cora (wife of Oliver Gotschall). Harvey, Ida (wife of John B. Summers). and Frank.

John W. Gotschall was reared to the sturdy and invigorating discipline of the home farm. received the advantages of the public schools of his native county, and in Lee Township he initi- pted his independent activities as a farmer. He followed the same line of enterprise in Loudon Township, and in 1895 he purchased and estab- lished his home on a farm of eighty acres in Center Township, adjacent to Carrollton. Here he has since maintained his residence. but. as previously noted, the farm is now owned and

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operated by his only son, with whom he and his wife maintain their home.

The republican party receives the loyal alle- giance of Mr. Gotschall, but he has had no am- bition for public office of any kind. He and his wife are earnest and active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Carrollton.

In 1886 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Gotschall to Miss Anna M. Gotschall, who was born in Lee Township, in 1862, a daughter of William Gotschall. Mr. and Mrs. Gotschall have two children. Bernice is the wife of An- son Brooks, a successful farmer in Carroll County, and they have six children-Mary, Wil- son, Pauline, Neva, Robert and Dorothy. John Gotschall, the only son, was born January 1, 1891, and is indebted to the public schools of Carroll County for his educational training as a youth. He is making an admirable record as one of the progressive young farmers of Center Township and is loyal and public-spir- ited as a citizen, his political support being given to the republican party and he and his wife being members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Carrollton. On the 15th of August, 1912, Mr. Gotschall wedded Miss Bertha Rinder, of Martins Ferry, Belmont County, and they have three fine little sons-John Ray, born Oc- tober 13, 1914; Jack Orrin, born March 1, 1916; and Leland Edward, born January 22, 1920.

ROBERT M. GEORGE, SB., one of the substantial farmers of Carroll County, owns and operates a very valuable farm of 160 acres in Fox Town- ship, and is recognized as one of the repre- sentative agriculturists or his neighborhood. He was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in No- vember, 1858, a son of Mitchell R. and Mary E. (McCausland) George, and grandson of Robert and Isabella (Ramsey) George, early settlers of Carroll County, Ohio; and George and Mary (Kelley) McCausland, who were also early set- tlers of this region.

After their marriage Mitchell R. George and his wife moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, and there he died in 1867, and she was later mar- ried to Samuel McBurney, a farmer and they settled at Scroggsfield, where both later died. The children born to Mitchell R. George and his wife were as follows: Lemuel C., who lives in Jefferson County; Robert M., whose name heads this review; and John A., who lives in Center Township. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. McBurney were as follows: Anna, who lives at Scroggsfield; Ida, who is Mrs. John Ramsey ; and Elva, who is the widow of W. G. Donaldson of Scroggsfield.

Robert M. George, Sr., attended the public schools and a private school at Scroggsfield, and learned to be a farmer. In 1888 he became the owner of his present farm in Fox Township. and here he has since been engaged in a gen- eral line of farming, in which calling he has been very successful. Although the place was improved, he has remodeled some of the build- ings and erected a new residence, and has a property which reflects creditably on his skill and good management. It has been his policy to install machinery and appliances as they

were required, and he carries on his work in a capable and modern manner.

The mineral resources are proving to be very valuable on this farm as well as adjoining farms. The first test well being the best gaser in eastern Ohio which was sold to the Natural Gas Company of West Virginia for thirty thou- sand dollars. There is already two producing oil wells on this farm and the derricks are being built for other wells to be drilled. There has been a pipe line laid to the field for the purpose of marketing the oil. The field is being devel- oped by A. L. Curry of Amsterdam, Ohio, who has had much experience along this line and was a former resident of Carroll County.

On March 4, 1888, Mr. George was united in marriage with Belle Moore of Jefferson County, Ohio, a daughter of George L. and Mary (Les- lie) Moore. Mr. and Mrs. George became the parents of the following children: Paul L., who lives in Fox Township, married Grace Bla- zer, who died leaving four children-Doris, Marjory, Richard and Stanley; Mary M., who died at the age of fourteen years: Helen, who married Warren Hill of Salineville, Ohio, and has one son born December 7, 1920, and called William Robert after both grandfathers; and Elva Agnes, who died at the age of four years. Mrs. George died July 2, 1910. Mr. George be- longs to the United Presbyterian Church of Scroggsfield. A man of strong convictions he prefers to select his own candidate and casts his vote for the man he deems best fitted for the office under consideration.

JESSE T. SIMMONS. It is given to this well known citizen and representative farmer of Loudon Township, Carroll County, to be not only a native son of this county but also a scion of the third generation of the family in this section of the state, for his paternal grandparents settled, in Loudon Township, Car- roll County, fully a century ago, prior to the creation of this county. Mr. Simmons was born in Loudon Township, on the 5th of May, 1862, and is a son of Adam and Mary Catherine (Lucas) Simmons, both natives of the state of Maryland, where the former was born in 1808 and the latter, in Frederick County, on the 20th of June, 1822. Adam Simmons was one of the substantial farmers and influential and honored citizens of Loudon Township, Carroll County, at the time of his death, July 25, 1877, his landed estate in this county having com- prised 320 acres. He was a son of Peter and Catherine (Jacobs) Simmons and was a lad of about ten years when, in 1818, his parents came to Carroll County and established themselves as pioneer settlers in what is now Loudon Township, where they passed the remainder of their lives and where Adam was reared to manhood on the pioneer farm. His widow sur- vived him by many years and was about sev- enty-eight years of age at the time of her death. They became the parents of eight children, of whom only two are now living: Harvey died at the age of fifteen years, John at the age of four years, Sarah at the age of two years, Mar- tha died in infancy, Catherine at the age of six and Joseph at the age of four years, Jesse T.,

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 85

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