History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 87

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

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agriculture, but during much of his active ca- reer he has given his attention primarily to the manufacturing of lumber, as the owner and operator of a saw mill. In his varied activities he has contributed to the civic and material ad- vancement of his native county, and here his circle of friends is coincident with that of his acquaintances. He is affiliated with the Patrons of Husbandry, as a member of the Grange at Atwood, is a democrat in his political proclivi- ties, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church at New Cumberland, in Tuscarawas County, he being a member of the board of trustees of this church.

The year 1878 recorded the marriage of Mr. Cross to Miss Nancy J. Latimer, of Tuscarawas County, and of this union have been born three children : Myrta Alice is the wife of Lewis Waldman, of Mineral City, Tuscarawas County ; Margaret Ann was the wife of James Gordon, of Lawrence Township, Tuscarawas County. She died August 10, 1913. She had two children- Donovan Paul and Margaret Mable; Edson L., the youngest of the children, is the subject of an individual sketch on other pages of this work.

FREDERICK BRANDT has been a resident of Lou- don Township, Carroll County, from the time of his birth, which here occurred on the 10th of February, 1851, and he has long held secure vantage-ground as one of the substantial agri- culturists and stock-growers, as well as repre- sentative citizens, of his native township. He as a scion of one of the honored pioneer fami- Mies of this part of the Buckeye State. His fa- ither, Frederick Brandt, Sr., was born in Ger- many, in the year 1802, and in his native land was reared to pastoral life. At the age of twenty-one years he immigrated to America and he remained in the state of New York until 1829, when he came to Ohio and purchased a tract of virtually unimproved land, in Loudon Township, Carroll County. Here he reclaimed and developed a good farm, and that abundant success attended his earnest and well ordered activities is attested by the fact that at the time of his death, in December, 1868, he was the owner of a valuable landed estate of fully 1,000 acres. His first marriage was with Margaret Shawver, and they became the parents of four children-William, Elizabeth, Henry and Susan (Mrs. James). After the death of his first wife Mr. Brandt married Miss Elizabeth Able, who was born in Loudon Township, Carroll County, on the 5th of July, 1819, a daughter of Conrad and Mary (Shriver) Able, whose marriage was solemnized in the state of Virginia and who be- came pioneer settlers in Loudon Township, Car- roll County, where Mr. Able died in 1845 and his widow in 1853, their children having been twelve in number. George Able, father of Con- rad, was one of the German soldiers subsidized by the English for service in the war of the American Revolution, after the close of which he settled in Loudon County, Virginia, where he passed the remainder of his life.

After their marriage Frederick and Elizabeth (Able) Brandt continued to reside on their farm in Loudon Township until their deaths, Mrs. Brandt having survived her husband by many

years and having been eighty-six years of age at the time of her death. Both were communi- cants of the Lutheran Church, but Mrs. Brandt was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church the latter part of her life. The children of the first marriage are all deceased, and of the children of the second union the following brief data are available: George W. is a resi- dent of Nebraska ; Frederick, Jr., is the imme- diate subject of this review; Mary Etta is the wife of Robert Campbell, of Loudon Township; John M. is a prosperous farmer in this town- ship; Lizzie Belle is the wife of George T. Burrier, of this township; Andrew died at the age of twelve years; and Harrison is a resident of the state of Oklahoma.

He whose name initiates this article has ef- fectively upheld the prestige of the family name, both as a successful exponent of agri- cultural and live-stock industry and as a loyal, upright and public-spirited citizen. In addition to receiving the advantages of the schools of his native township he was for two terms a student in Mount Union College. After his marriage, in 1882, he established his home on his present fine farm, of 190 acres, in London Township, and he has since been recognized as one of the substantial and progressive farmers and citizens of this township, which he has served as trustee and in the communal welfare of which he has shown a lively and helpful in- terest at all times. He is a republican in politi- can allegiance, is an active member of Kilgore Grange, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Kilgore, in which he is serving as a steward.

In April, 1882, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Brandt to Miss Margery Fawcett, who was born and reared in Union Township, this county, a daughter of John and Roseann (Cro- zier) Fawcett, both likewise natives of Carroll County. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Brandt the firstborn, John Curtis, died at the age of four years; Anna is the wife of Paul Shepherd, of Loudon Township; Flora remains at the parental home and is a popular teacher in the public schools; and Margery, likewise a suc- cessful teacher, is also a member of the parental home circle.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. Of the men whose abil- ity, industry and public spirit have added to the character, prosperity and good government of Fox Township, few are better known than John Quincy Adams. Mr. Adams is an agriculturist not only by training and long practice, but by temperament and preference. He has tilled the soil throughout an active and successful career. Political tendencies and executive ability have added to his possibilities of agricultural compen- sation and have broadened his efforts into the channels of school director, land appraiser and justice of the peace, in which last-named office he is now serving his eleventh year.

Mr. Adams was born on a farm in Fox Town- ship, Carroll County, Ohio, December 15, 1866, a son of Christopher C. and Eleanor (Lewton) Adams, natives of Carroll County, and a grand- son of John and Elizabeth (Kimmons) Adams. John Adams was born in the suburbs of London,

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England, and as a young man adopted the voca- tion of a sailor, which he followed for some years. On his last trip his ship was wrecked off the coast of Cuba, and Mr. Adams, swimming ashore, subsequently made his way to the United States, where he was married, and set- tled down to an agricultural life in Columbiana County, Ohio. Not long thereafter he came to Carroll County, where he entered eighty acres of Government land in Fox Township, and there passed the remaining years of his life in till- ing the soil. Jacob Lewton, the maternal grand- father of John Q. Adams, was likewise an early settler of Fox Township, where he followed farming.

Following their marriage, the parents of Mr. Adams located at Knoxville, Jefferson County, Ohio, but later moved to Scroggsfield, where Mr. Adams followed the trade of blacksmith. He was a man of ambitious character, and while working at his trade began the study of law, which he finally mastered and was admitted to the Ohio bar. He then went to Carrollton, where he engaged in successful practice for many years and advanced to a recognized place in his profession, being eventually elected Pro- bate judge of Carroll County, an office in which he served efficiently for two terms. He died near Scroggsfield in 1893, Mrs. Adams having passed away in 1880. They were the parents. of the following children: P. W., who is de- ceased; Lucinda, who is also deceased; George L., a resident of Newcastle, Wyoming; Ell J., who is engaged in farming in Fox Township; John Quincy; and Minnie, who is the wife of John A. George, an agriculturist of Center Township, Carroll County.

John Quincy Adams attended the public schools in his youth and resided with his parents until his marriage, at which time he moved to a farm in Fox Township owned by his father. This farm he later bought from his father's second wife, and at present his operations cover 220 acres of highly cultivated land, Mr. Adams being known as one of the leading general farm- ers of his community and as a man whose prac- tical and progressive measures and methods have been productive of highly satisfying re- sults. He is a well educated and well posted man, fully abreast of the times in all that per- tains to agriculture and its most practical de- velopment, and takes a deep interest in poli- tics, education, religion and home-making. He

is a consistent member of the United Presby- terian Church, of which he is secretary. For four years he served as a member of the school board and also acted for a time as land ap- praiser. In 1910 he was appointed a justice of the peace, and subsequently was elected to that office, in which he has served to the present. In politics he is a republican. He holds mem- bership in the East Township Grange, and as a fraternalist is affiliated with Lodge No. 752, Knights of Pythias, at Berkholz, Ohio, in which order he has numerous warm friends.

Mr. Adams was married March 31, 1896, to Miss Minnie Wiggins, who was born in Fox Township, daughter of John R. and Jennie (Ault) Wiggins, the former a native of Carroll County and the latter of Jefferson County,

Ohio. To this union there have been born five children : Carl, who died aged four years; Bertha, who died when eighteen years of age; and Earl, Ruth and Jean, who reside with their parents.

JOSEPH B. FERGASON. After being engaged in many lines of business, Joseph B. Fergason has definitely settled down upon that of farming, and for the past ten years has owned and con- ducted his father's old homestead of 1101% acres of land in Fox Township. The results of his farming are such as to justify his selection, and in addition to his material prosperity he enjoys the confidence and respect of his associates. Mr. Fergason was born in Fox Township, May 15, 1858, a son of Robert and Mary E. (Butcher) Fergason, natives of New Jersey and England, respectively, and grandson of Henry and Pris- cilla (Berry) Butcher, natives of England. The parents came to Fox Township when young, and were married on the present farm of Mr. Fergason, March 24, 1853. The father, who was born December 25, 1830, died in 1886: and the mother, who was born July 14, 1834, died Au- gust 4, 1916. Their children' were as follows: Priscilla, who was born December 15, 1853, is deceased; Thomas, who was born February 20, 1855, died in infancy; Sarah M., who was born October 25, 1856, is the widow of James White of Fox Township; Joseph B., who was next in order of birth; Henry S., who was born June 15, 1860, lives at Sebring, Ohio; Robert George, who was born May 21, 1862, lives at Salineville, Ohio; Hannah E., who was born April 24, 1864, married B. E. Neel of Fox Township; David J. W., who was born February 5, 1868, died at the age of thirteen years; James A., who was born December 27, 1869, lives at Newburg, West Virginia ; Anna, who was born in 1870, married William Reed of Denver, Colorado; and Rachel Cora, who was born in 1872, married Addison Todd, of Denver, Colorado.

Until he was about seventeen years old Jo- seph B. Fergason attended the rural schools during the winter months, and then began work- ing out by the month, and he also conducted a saw-mill, but his father took charge of his money until he was married. Following his marriage he resided with his father for about a year and then moved into a log house stand- ing on the homestead. A few months later he went to another farm in the neighborhood. In 1910 he bought the old home farm, and has since then devoted himself to its cultivation. For eighteen years he was engaged in operating a threshing outfit, but gave that up in 1910.

On September 30, 1880, Mr. Fergason was married to Genora Willson, who was born in Fox Township, in February, 1862, a daughter of Hugh and Ann Jane (Lewis) Willson, na- tives of Ireland, and Salineville, Ohio, respec- tively. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Fer- gason was Madison Willson. Mr. and Mrs. Fer- gason became the parents of the following chil- dren: Berthetta, who was born September 29, 1881, married John Morrow of Fox Township; Robert Hugh, who was born October 8, 1883, lives in Columbiana County, Ohio; Earl Clyde, who was born April 1, 1885, lives in Fox Town-

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ship; Mary E., who was born April 29, 1887, married Doctor O'Ran of Belleview, Ohio; and Nora V., who was born August 13, 1899, married Harold Goddard, lives with her father. Mr. Fergason belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has been a steward of it for many years. Active as a republican he was a justice of the peace for thirteen years, and was elected to other offices within the gift of the people, in which he proved reliable and capable. He main- tains membership with the Protected Home Cir- cle. and is interested in its development.

JOHN S. DUNLAP. The monotony which often ensues from the continuous following of a cer- tain line of work has never been a feature of the career of John S. Dunlap. Gifted with me- chanical ingenuity beyond the average, this well-known wagonmaker of Fox Township has, at different times, followed the occupations of wagonmaker, carpenter and builder, saw-mill operator and farmer, in each of which he has demonstrated his ability. His career has been one in which he has worked industriously in his own behalf, but in which he has likewise found time to devote at least a part of his activities to the betterment of his community.

Mr. Dunlap was born on a farm in Harrison County, Ohio, September 20, 1856, a son of Hazzard Perry and Rebecca Ann (Brown) Dun- lap. His father, a carpenter by trade, came to Fox Township, Carroll County, about the time of the birth of John S. Dunlap, and here pur- chased an eighty-acre farm. During the re- mainder of his life he divided his time between carpentry and farming and through his industry won a modest competency. He was a man of sound business integrity and a good citizen, and his standing in his community was accord- ingly high. When he died July 1, 1911, at the ripe old age of eighty-four years, there were many to mourn sincerely the loss of a true friend. Mrs. Dunlap, a woman of splendid qualities, passed away in February, 1892. They were the parents of the following children : William, who is a resident of Carrollton; Mary E., who is deceased; John S., of this review ; Jane, who is deceased ; Edward, who is engaged in agricultural pursuits in Center Township. Carroll County : and Effie, who is the wife of Tipton Tobin, of Stark County, Ohio.

John S. Dunlap received his education in the rural schools in the vicinity of his father's farm, and was reared on the home place, on which he was associated in work with the elder man until he was about twenty years of age. At that time he turned his attention to the mastery of the trade of wagon-maker, which he subsequently followed for some years. In 1892 he purchased a tract of eight acres, located in Fox Township. on which he erected a fine home and wagon-making shop, and this property con- tinued to be his place of residence until 1913. when he bought a farm of eighty acres, in the same township, with a stable and wagon shed. For the most part Mr. Dunlap has applied him- self to wagon-making. although at various times he has followed farming, carpentry and saw- milling. He has always adhered to the prin- ciple that work worth doing at all was worth

doing well, and in consequence has built up a reputation as a careful, skillful and reliable workman. He is esteemed also for his integ- rity and moral worth, and for his consideration and fairness as an employer of labor.

On September 29, 1881, Mr. Dunlap was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Potts, who was born in Fox Township, Carroll County, a daughter of William and Mary ( Miller) Potts, natives of Jefferson County, Ohio. To this union there have been born the following children : Hallie M., who is the wife of Mervin Dorances, an agriculturist of Jefferson County, Ohio; Dora Ann, who is the wife of John Cameron, of Lisbon, this state; Arthur, who is a resident of Jefferson County; Elva, who is unmarried and resides on the home place with her parents; and James, who is a resident of Salinesville.

Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the work of which they take an active and helpful part. In his political allegiance Mr. Dunlap is a re- publican, but has not been a seeker for personal preferment. He belongs to the Fox Township Grange, in which he is at present serving his fellow-members in the office of treasurer. Since his own attendance at the Potts and Greenbrier schoolhouses in Fox Township, he has been a friend of education, the movements of which find him a generous supporter as do all other worthy enterprises which promise to be of bene- fit to the community.

JAMES CLENDENING. The great-grandfather of James Clendening was born and mar- ried in Ireland and his children were all born in that country. He came to America with his family in 1802. He located for a time in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and soon thereafter came as one of the early settlers to Jefferson County, Ohio, and located near Knox- ville. William Clendening, oldest son of James. and grandfather of our subject moved to Not- tingham Township, Harrison County, Ohio. in 1844. John W. Clendening, third son of Wil- liam and Elizabeth (Birney) Clendening, was born at Knoxville, Jefferson County, in 1839 and died at Freeport, Ohio, in 1918. John W. Clendening was five years old when the family moved to Harrison County and located at Not- tingham Township. His early life was spent on the homestead farm. In 1863 he left farm life and entered merchandising in partnership with his brother James in Freeport. Ohio, re- tiring in 1869 on account of declining health. He then purchased 320 acres adjoining his father's homestead and again gave his attention to farming which he continued to follow the remainder of his life with eminent success. He continued his residence on this farm, except for five years he resided on a farm he had purchased adjoining Freeport. until two years of his death, when he built a commodious resi- dence in Freeport and moved to it a short time before his death.

In 1863 he was married to Sarah Niblock. daughter of John and Matilda ( Kerr) Niblock. To this union two children were born. James. born December 4, 1871. and Oliver Lentz. horn

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March 29, 1869. For a more extended account of the genealogy of the Clendening and Niblock families reference is made to the biographical sketch of Oliver Lentz Clendening on another page of this volume. Both branches of the family are pioneers in this section.

The first forty years of James Clendening's life was spent with his father improving his large acreage of grazing lands and in keeping the same stocked. In his early life he received a liberal education in the common schools of the neighborhood which was supplemented by a college course at Oberlin College. In selecting his life avocation he decided to follow the foot- steps of his father and has always had an active interest in agriculture and stock raising, spe- cializing in cattle, in which he has been emi- nently successful. He has always taken an active part in the local affairs of the neighbor- hoods in which he has lived, and is always found at the forefront in matters for the best interest of the community. After the death of his father in 1918 he was elected by the stock- holders of The Fourth National Bank of Cadiz, to succeed him in the office of director in that institution, which is one of the strong financial institutions of the county. In 1919 he moved from his Washington Township farm near Free- port and located in the village, having pur- chased the old homestead occupied for many years by his uncle. Thomas Green, deceased. Thus he has provided excellent school advan- tages for his children, and located adjoining his father's late town residence, where he can cheer his mother in her declining years.

December 25, 1899, James Clendening was united in marriage to Ella Black, daughter of B. H. and Eliza (Fulton) Black. To this union three children have been born: Sarah Eliza, born July 27, 1905; Elizabeth, born January 30, 1907; and John Black, born February 7, 1909.

The family of Ella (Black) Clendening has been prominently connected with Freeport affairs for many years. In 1852 her grand- father, Dr. H. C. Black. moved to Freeport, Ohio, from Guernsey County and began the practice of medicine, and continued in active practice for more than fifty years. retiring only a few years before his death in 1906.

Daniel Black, the grandfather of Dr. Henry Clay Black, was a native of Ireland, where he was married. A short time prior to the Revolu- tionary war he and a brother. James, came to America and first located in Virginia. The family of Daniel Black consisted of seven chil- dren, viz. : James, Joseph K., Daniel. Ralph. Margaret. Mary and Elizabeth. In 1803 the family moved from Virginia and located in Guernsey County, Ohio, where both Daniel Black and his wife died and are buried near the old homestead in Adams Township.

Joseph K. Black was born April 16, 1794, in Virginia and came with his parents to Guernsey County when he was nine years old. In Au- gust, 1818, he was married to Ann Eliza, daugh- ter of Joseph Hutchison, a resident of Loudon County, Virginia. They began their married life on the lands of his father. In 1832 they moved to a farm they had purchased near Cambridge. where Joseph K. Black died in 1850

and was buried in the old cemetery in Cam- bridge, and was followed by his wife in 1874, who was buried in the Baptist Cemetery at Center, Guernsey County. The following chil- dren were born to them: Lucretia (1819-1902), married John Scott; Clarinda (1820-1896), mar- ried Joseph Pugh ; Cephas N. (1822-1912) ; Gain R. (1823-1921) ; Caroline A. (1824-1891), mar- ried George Scott; Henry Clay (1825-1906) ; Eliza F. (1827), married Joseph Linkhart; Charlotte C. (1829-1859), married R. I. Thaker; Mary C. (1832), married William Scott. This family have a remarkable longevity. Two are yet living and one died at the age of 30 years, yet the average life of the family is more than eighty years.

Dr. Henry Clay Black, grandfather of Mrs. Ella (Black) Clendening, was twice married. In 1848 he was married to Rebecca McCarty (1818-1881), a daughter of John and Sarah (DeFrance) McCarty, and a sister of Prof. H. D. McCarty, late State School Superintendent of Kansas. The issue of this marriage was four children: Clelia DeFrance (1850-1919), married James C. Carver; Rucinus McCarty (1851), married Jane Allen; Bourrienne Hutchi- son (1853-1917), married Eliza Fulton; Ottis King (1854-1917), married Ruth Caldwell.

Bourrienne Hutchison Black was born August 28. 1853, and was married in 1874 to Eliza Fulton, daughter of James and Mary (Boyd) Fulton. They lived in Freeport during their entire married life and until the death of the husband, March 3, 1917. B. H. Black was an active business man of Freeport for nearly fifty years and had a very wide business acquaint- ance. For many years he dealt in horses and sold farm machinery. To this union four chil- dren were born, Ella B., who married James Clendening, was born April 9. 1875; Lena, wife of Paul Lawrence, was born July 7, 1879; Charles F., married Bessie Willis and was born November 28, 1883; Hal McCarty, born Febru- ary 19, 1885, a lawyer of Wichita, Kansas, married Helen Simm.

John McCarty, the great-great-grandfather of Mrs. Clendening, was one of the early settlers in western Pennsylvania. He married first Ilepsibah Green, and had issue as follows: Elizabeth. married John Stewart; Hepsibah, married Robert Johnson, and later William McClure: Timothy, married Jane McConnell ; Polly, married Andrew Birch; John, married Sarah DeFrance; Sarah, married Thomas Con- ner. By his second wife, Kesiah Cooper, John MeCarty had the following children : Katharine. married James McDowell; Nancy, married David Walsh; Jane, married Robert Thompson ; James: Kesiah, married William Elder; Sam- uel. married Sallie Aires and later Mariah Henry.

John McCarty, Jr., was born August 23, 1782. and on May 30, 1809, was married to Sarah DeFrance, who was born January 13, 1794, and had issue as follows: Jane, married William Lindsey ; Hepsibah, married Robert Cassiday : John. married Julia Marquis; Rebecca, married Dr. H. C. Black ; Timothy. married Ann Smith ; Hugh: Sarah, married Wiliam K. Mathewson;

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Martha ; Kesiah, married William Forbes; James; Elizabeth, married James Portlock.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 87

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