History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 89

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

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Mr. Hamilton early became familiar with the various details of farm industry, in the mean- while profiting fully by the advantages afforded in the district schools of his native township, and he continued to be associated in the work of the home farm until his marriage, April 20, 1910, to Miss Rosa Hunt, daughter of Daniel and Nettie (Shipley) Hunt, of Moorefield Town- ship. During the first year after his marriage he was employed at public work in the county, and since that time has given his attention to progressive enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower. In 1916 he purchased his pres- ent farm, of 144 acres, Nottingham Township, and on the same he has since made excellent improvements, including the erection of most of the farm buildings.

His political allegiance is given to the demo- cratic party and he is a member of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church at Piedmont, as was also his wife, who passed to the life eternal on the 14th of March, 1919. They became the parents of four children, the second of whom died on the 3d of March, 1919, aged six years, his mother's death occurring only eleven days later. The surviving children are Albert Ross, May and Mary. On March 30, 1920, Mr. Hamilton was married to Elsie Johnson, daughter of Henry and Jane (Barcroft) Johnson, of Not- tingham Township.

JOHN W. SHOTWELL. Experience has taught a number of the prosperous men of Carroll County that there is profit in farming, and they are devoting their energies and abilities to this line of work. One of them deserving of more than passing mention because of what he has accomplished is John W. Shotwell of Union Township, whose valuable farm of 212 acres stands as a monument to his good manage- ment and energy. Mr. Shotwell was born in this same township February 27, 1870, a son of James and Mary Ann (McCray) Shotwell, natives of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and Penn- sylvania, respectively, and grandson of Jacob and Mary (Carlysle) Shotwell. the latter of whom was born in Pennsylvania. After their marriage James Shotwell and his wife settled in the northern part of Union Township, and remained in Carroll County all of their lives. He died as the result of an accident when he fell out of the barn in February, 1910, and was survived by his widow, who passed away in August, 1919. Their children were as fol- lows: Winfield Scott, who is a resident of Mon- roe Township; H. Mary, who is deceased ; Flor-

ence, who is Mrs. Thomas J. Davis, of Carroll- ton, Ohio; Ella, who is Mrs. Charles Rutledge, of Lee Township; John W., whose name heads this review; Bertha, who is Mrs. John E. Smeltz, of Lee Township; Anna B., who is Mrs. E. C. Herron, of Harrison Township; Sada B., who is Mrs. I. B. Phillips, of Cleveland, Ohio; and Sarah Edna, who is Mrs John Ellen- berger, of Dayton, Pennsylvania.

John W. Shotwell attended the district schools of his native township and took a nine- months' course at the Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, and then from 1889 until 1898 was engaged in teaching school during the win- ter months, in the meanwhile living on the homestead of eighty-three acres, of which he owned thirty acres. In 1910 he bought ninety- two acres of his present farm, to which he has added until he now has 212 acres, on which he is carrying on general farming and stock-rais- ing. Taking as he does a great pride in his property, he is constantly improving it and has one of the fine farms of Carroll County.

On June 1, 1895, Mr. Shotwell was married to Rosa J. McCort who was bor nin Missouri, a daughter of Hugh and Margery (Fawcett) McCort, natives of Ireland and Carroll County. respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Shotwell became the parents of the following children : Ruby, who is Mrs. Roy C. Orwick, of Carroll County ; Mary, who is Mrs. Okey German, of Monroe Town- ship: Fay, who is Mrs. Lorin Marshall, of Washington Township: James and John, twins, who are at home: and Lynn, who is also at home. Mr. Shotwell is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a republican. and served for eight years as a member of the School Board. Believing in the efficacy of co-operation, he belong to the Grange at Petersburg, and is one of its active factors. An excellent farmer. good business man and dependable citizen, Mr. Shotwell has fairly earned his present standing in his community.

GEORGE W. GOTSCHALL, owner of a very valu- able farm of eighty-eight acres of land in Cen- ter Township, is one of the representative men of Carroll County. He was born in Louden Township, this county, June 26, 1862, a son of Eli and Malinda (Yingling) Gotschall, and grandson of George Gotschall, a pioneer of Carroll County, who married a Miss Albaugh, and they had four sons and one daughter, the former all becoming farmers. The grandfather Yingling came to Carroll County from Tus- carawas County, Ohio, married Mary Burler, and they had five daughters and one son. Elf Gotschall attended the public schools of Har- lem Springs, Ohio, and became a farmer. His death occurred at Simmons Ridge, Carroll County. in 1904, but his widow survives him and is living at Amsterdam, Ohio. They had ten children, and of them George W. Gotschall was the fourth in order of birth.

Like the majority of the farmers' sons of his day and locality George W. Gotschall went to the rural schools during the winter months and worked on the farm in the summer ones, and grew up on the homestead, where he re- mained until he was twenty-four years of age.

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On December 22, 1887, he was married to Essie Ann Brown, a daughter of David and Eliza J. (Long) Brown, of Loudon Township, and of English stock. The grandfather of Mrs. Got- schall, Henry Brown, came to Loudon Town- ship from Georgetown, Maryland. He married Sarah Shephard, who died in 1909, having sur- vived her husband for many years, he having been killed in an accident when only thirty- seven years old.

After his marriage Mr. Gotschall rented a small farm and was engaged in a teaming business in Lee Township, where he remained for a year, and then moved to Louden Town- ship and operated the homestead and continued doing the teaming for a time. Still later he rented a farm of 140 acres in the same town- ship and conducted it for five years. He then moved to Center Township, and from 1905 to 1908 rented the Huston farm. At the expira- tion of three years he rented 134 acres of land, and after two years bought eighty-eight acres of it, which land constitutes his present farm, upon which he has since made a number of improvements. He raises a general line of crops, but specializes on dairying and has a herd of twenty-five Jersey cows.

Mr. and Mrs. Gotschall became the parents of the following children: Laura, who is at home; Ola B., who is Mrs. David Smith, of Carrollton, and has three children, Pearl, Moine and Maxine; Mary Florence, who is at home; George Frederick, who is assisting his father on the farm, was drafted for service during the great war, but the armistice was signed before he was called; Forrest Herbert and Raymond Clark, both of whom are at home. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gotschall are strong republicans, and exercise their right of suffrage. The Methodist Episcopal Church of Carrollton has in them earnest, purposeful workers and members. While they have attained success in a material way they have acquired something more important than the mere accumulation of money, the re- spect and friendship of those with whom they are associated, and are justly numbered among the worth-while people of Carroll County.

ADAM BEAMER. Inheriting his love of farm- ing, Adam Beamer is making a success of his life work and owns 127 acres of very valuable land in Harrison Township, where he makes his home. His grandfather on the paternal side came to Monroe Township, Carroll County, from Maryland at a very early day. He married a Miss Stoody, and they had ten children. of whom Philip Beamer, the father of Adam Beamer, was the eldest. Later on in life the grandfather moved to Owen County, Indiana, where he died in about 1860, his wife having died in 1852. All his life he was a farmer. He was a soldier in the War of 1812.

Philip Beamer was also a prosperous farmer of Monroe Township. He died March 17, 1871, and his wife, whose name was Sarah Fick be- fore her marriage, passed away April 1. 1899.

Adam Beamer was born in Monroe Township in 1853 and was the eldest of the children of his parents. He attended the public schools at Atwood, Ohio, until he was eleven years old,

after which he was a student of Valley Hall School No. 3, Harrison Township, until he was eighteen years of age, and during that time assisted in the farm work.

When he was twenty-seven years old Mr. Beamer was married to Ruth Ann Scott, a daughter of William C. and Mary (Scott) Scott, of Tabor County, Ohio, the ceremony taking place on September 14, 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Beamer became the parents of the follow- ing children : William C., who lives at Canton, Ohio, married Alvina Beider, and they have one child, Katherine; Sarah Isabelle, who is at home; Mary, who is a school-teacher of Can- ton, Ohio; Alice, who married Archibald Krohe, of Harrison Township, and has no children; and John Wallace, who died February 5, 1893, when three months old.

After his marriage Mr. Beamer moved to his present farm and here he has since been en- gaged in general farming with very gratifying results. He takes great pride in his place and carries on his operations in a thoroughly effi- cient manner. Active as a republican, he was elected a school director of his township three times, and has served as road superintendent for fifteen years. The Presbyterian Church of Dellroy, Ohio, holds his membership and he is an elder in it. In addition to his other inter- ests Mr. Beamer is a stockholder in the Farm- ers Exchange of Carrollton. He is a man who has always been in favor of the public schools,

good roads and other improvements, and rec- ognizes the fact that no community can grow unless its people are public-spirited enough to make an effort to keep it abreast of the times. Both as a farmer and public official Mr. Beamer has borne his part in the expansion of his neighborhood, and deserves the confidence he inspires among his associates.

WINFIELD SCOTT SMITH. Prominently asso- ciated with the representative farmers of Car- roll County. Winfield Scott Smith owns 138 acres of land in Center Township and 220 acres in Harrison Township, 160 of which is owned in partnership with his son, and he is a man of ample means and flourishing interests. He was born In Union Township, Carroll County, May 15, 1865, a son of Perry Andrew and Mary (Parker) Smith. The paternal grandfather married a Miss Gartrell, and they had six chil- dren, of whom Perry A. Smith was the only son. The latter was always engaged in farm- ing, and died on his farm in 1897, but his widow survived him until 1916, when she, too, passed away. Of their four children Winfield Scott Smith was the youngest.

After attending the country schools in Orange Township and that held in what was known as Smith's schoolhouse during the winter terms until he was eighteen years old Winfield Scott Smith worked on the home farm until his marriage. when he bought fifty-seven acres of land in Orange Township and operated it for five years. Moving to Harrison Township at the end of five years, he rented 177 acres for eighteen months, and then came to his present farm in Center Township, which then comprised sixty-five acres. Having faith in the farm land

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in Carroll County he bought sixty-two acres in Harrison Township, to which he added more land, and is now kept busy operating all his acreage, doing general farming and stock-rais- ing upon his land.

A republican, he was elected on his party ticket supervisor of Center Township, and was re-elected several times. Mr. Smith was mar- ried to Lucinda M. Cogan, a daughter of Henry and Mary (Easterday) Cogan, of Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Cogan is dead, but Mr. Cogan sur- vives. Mrs. Smith was the second child born to her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Smith became the parents of three children, namely ; Clenton A., who is the eldest; Virgil Lewis, who was drafted into the United States Army during the great war: and Mary Vivian, who is the young- est. While Mr. Smith has attained to a large measure of prosperity, he has not made this progress without working very hard, practicing thrift and using good judgment in making in- vestments. When he served on the county board it was his constant endeavor to act and induce his colleagues to do likewise, just as though he were carrying out a private invest- ment so as to give the taxpayers the benefit of the same sound principles which had proven so valuable to him. As a result his services were requested for the same office by his fellow citizens at the polls. He is a member of the Grange.

ALVAH OTIS HOOBLER is one of the solid American citizens of Carroll County and has gained his independent circumstances as the result of many years of studious devotion to the vocation of farming. He lives in Rose Township, where he has a well improved farm of sixty-two acres.

He was born in Harrison Township of the same county October 9, 1868, oldest son in a family of two daughters and three sons born to Adam and Rebecca (Little) Hoobler. His grandfather was William Hoobler, who came to Carroll County from Jefferson County. and lived out his life in Rose Township, where he died in 1892. He was the father of five sons and four daughters. Adam Hoobler was born in Jefferson County and has spent his active life in Harrison and Rose township. where he still owns 100 acres of farm land. For a num- ber of years he operated threshing outfits and saw mills.

Alvah Otis Hoobler acquired his education in the Willow Run School of Harrison Township, and after the age of fifteen in the Hoffey School. Like most other boys in the country, he attended during winter session and had a round of duties on the home farm the rest of the time.

Mr. Hoobler remained at home and assisted his parents until 1892, when he married Ada Roof, daughter of Frederick and Sarah (Tru- sell) Roof. of Monroe Township. This is one of the pioneer families of Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Hoobler had two children. The daugh- ter. Zana May, is the wife of Jerry Baxter, of Dellroy. and has two young children, Earl Lloyd, born in 1916, and Chester Wayne, born in 1919. The only son of Mr. and Mrs. Hoobler

is an ex-service man, Lloyd Clark, born in 1897. Just after he reached his majority he enlisted in Carrollton in 1918, was trained at Camp Sherman, at first as a private in the infantry but after a month or two was transferred to Company G of the First Gas Regiment and re- ceived his honorable discharge as a first class private in the Ninety-fifth Regiment December 15, 1918. He is now a member of American Legion Post No. 475 at Dellroy.

After his marriage Mr. Hoobler began his career as a renter, handling the James Little farm of ninety-five acres in Rose Township for two years. In 1894 he bought his present farm and there he has worked and reared his family and made himself a factor in local affairs. He is an independent democrat in politics.

LOUIS J. GOTTSMAN, one of the practical farmers of Carroll County, is profitably engaged in operating his valuable farm of 157 acres in Rose Townshp. He was born in Alsace, France, September 11, 1863, a son of Jacob and Julia (Simon) Gottsman, of German-French stock. While the greater number of the members of the family were agriculturists, Jacob Gotts- man was a weaver of cloth. He and his wife had the following children : Julia, who is Mrs. Alfred Dedre, of Paris, France, has two chil- dren ; Elizabeth, who died at the age of forty years, was a resident of Alsace: and Louis J., who was the youngest. Jacob Gottsman died in 1894, in his home town in Alsace, but his widow survived him until 1913, when she passed away, having reached the venerable age of ninety-one years.

Growing up in his native province, Louis J. Gottsman attended the public schools until he was fourteen years old. He was then ap- prenticed to the saddlery trade, and for the first three years received no remuneration, not even his board. For two years more he worked to complete his apprenticeship, going to Paris, France, for this purpose, and left Paris at the age of nineteen years for Antwerp, Belgium. In May, 1884, he landed in New York City, from whence he came to Rose Township, Carroll County. Ohio, and until 1890 worked as a farm hand on different farms. In that year he mar- ried. and then he and his wife operated a farm for another party during the succeeding seven years, saving their money until they were able in the spring of 1899 to buy their present farm, then comprising eighty acres. In 1916 they added thirty-eight and one-half acres, and in the spring of 1917 bought thirty-six acres more, so that they have today 157 acres, which their industry has developed into a very valuable and productive property. Here they are carrying on general farming.

In 1890 Mr. Gottsman was married to Mag- dalena Steinbach. a daughter of Francis and Mona ( Wilner) Steinbach, of Rose Township. Mr. Gottsman and his wife became the parents of the following children: Frank Jacob, who married Catherine Motter, of Rose Township, but has no children; Charles Augustus, who is at home; James Harvey ; Herman Louis ; Victor Raymond, and Eugene Valentine, who died at the age of nine months in the fall of 1899.

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Since receiving his papers of naturalization Mr. Gottsman has voted the republican ticket and has been honored by his fellow citizens by election to the office of township trustee of Rose Township upon two occasions, and to that of school director. He and his family belong to Saint Mary's Catholic Church. During the late war Mr. Gottsman's sons Charles and James were drafted for service and called to the colors in 1917. They left Carrollton and went to- gether to Camp Sherman, Ohio, from which James was sent to Camp Forrest, was assigned to Company L, Eleventh Infantry, Fifth Di- vision, as a first-class private, and was sent to France in April, 1918, on the Leviathan to Havre. From there he was sent to Nancy in Alsace, and saw service in the Saint Mihiel and Argonne offensives, and participated in engage- ments of less moment. After the armistice was signed he was sent to Coblenz as one of the Army of Occupation, and still later to Luxem- burg. Finally he was returned to Alsace, and was sent home July 5, 1919, uninjured in spite of his long and active service. The other son, Charles, remained at Camp Sherman until May. 1918, in Supply Company, Three Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment, Eighty-third Division, and was then sent overseas to England, and thence to France, where he saw service, follow- ing which he was sent to Italy. Frank Gotts- man was sent to Camp Sherman May 26, 1918, as a member of Company C, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Infantry, Thirty-fifth Division, and was sent to France, where he was in the commissary department. He was slightly gassed while driving a supply wagon to the fir- ing line trenches. He was returned home in May, 1919.

Mr. Gottsman is a hard worker and thrifty, and he and his wife richly deserve the pros- perity which has come to them, for they have earned it. He is recognized as a good citizen, and a man worthy the confidence of all with whom he does business.

SIDNEY SHEPPARD GALLATIN. Though he had to fight life's battles alone from the age of fourteen. Sidney Sheppard Gallatin early took his place as a man among men in Carroll County, where he is known for his upright and industrious character, and his successful opera- tions as a farmer and horticulturist. His valu- able farm of 206 acres is in Rose Township, on rural route No. 1 out of Sherrodsville.

He was born in East Huntington Township. Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1866, a son of Albert W. and Anne (Sheppard) Gallatin, and is descended from Albert Gallatin. who came from Geneva, Switzerland, was an officer in General Washington's army during the Revolution, and was an engineer by profession. He laid out the City of Geneva, Ohio, and sur- veyed many extensive tracts of land in northern Ohio. His son, Abraham Alphonse Gallatin. was for many years a Mississippi River pilot. His son, Daniel Gallatin, the next in line of descent. and grandfather of Sidney S. Gallatin, spent his life as a farmer in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1852. His second wife was Jane Montgomery, of Pitts-

burgh, who became the mother of nine children, including Albert W. Albert W. Gallatin was a soldier of the Civil war, being company clerk of Company B of the One Hundred Forty-sec- ond Pennsylvania Infantry, and was with Gen- eral Mcclellan's army in the Richmond cam- paign. After the war he farmed, was also a teacher, and died September 28, 1918. His wife died in May, 1913.

Oldest of a family of five sons and three daughters Sidney Sheppard Gallatin acquired most of his education in Rose Township of Carroll County. At the age of fourteen he began to earn his own living, and his subsequent education was paid for out of his own efforts, and he continued to attend school in winter sessions until he was twenty-one. When he was eighteen years of age he hired out to George Jameson, of Rose Township, as a farm hand at an agreed upon wage of a hundred dollars a year. Two years later he took the hand of his employer's daughter in marriage, Minerva Jameson, and she is a daughter of George and Emma ( Williams) Jameson. Mr. and Mrs. Gallatin have four children: Oliver Bowman, born in 1888, married Elna Scarlott, of Rose Township, and their three children are Lester Sheppard, Iva Irene and Pearl. George Albert Gallatin, born in 1890, married Lucy Gilmore, of Atwood, Ohio. Charles R. Gallatin, born in 1895, married Mary B. Price, of Canton. The fourth and youngest child is Miss Effie Pearl, still at home with her parents.

Mr. Gallatin's extensive farm of over 200 acres is part of the old Jameson homestead, where members of that family have lived since 1815. Originally the estate comprised 320 acres, and the title to it rests upon a Govern- ment deed written on parchment and now more than a hundred years old. Mr. Gallatin has done general and diversified farming and has also been one of the leading apple growers of the county and still has a large orchard of fine trees. He is independent in politics. At one time he was candidate for county commissioner, and he was elected and served two terms as township treasurer. He is a charter member of the National Grange at Atwood and a member of the Methodist Church.

WILLIAM GALBREATH HERBON. Having de- voted his life to agricultural pursuits, William Galbreath Herron, of Harrison Township, is recognized as one of the leading farmers of Carroll County. He is conducting the 208 acre farm owned by him and his brothers, which is one of the best rural properties in this region. Mr. Herron was born in Monroe Township July 10. 1862, a son of Robert Power and Rachel ( Galbreath) Herron, who came of Irish and Scotch stock. The history of the Herron fam- ily in America dates back to Charles Herron, who came here from Ireland during the eight- eenth century and settled at Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, but he died in Washington County, Pennsylvania, September 27, 1818. The first name of his wife was Anna, and she died at Cannonsburg. Pennsylvania, November 14. 1803. Their children, all of whom were born in Ireland, were as follows: James, Robert,

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Margaret and Willam. After the death of his first wife Charles Herron was married to a lady whose first name was Bridget. The Her- rons, however, trace still further back in their family record than Charles Herron, for the Herrons were found in Rouen, France, at a very early date, and went to England in 1066, at the time of the Norman conquest of that country by William of Normandy. Representa- tives of the family spread out into Scotland and Ireland.

James Herron, a son of Charles Herron, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1755, and came to America later on in the eighteenth century. On October 7, 1784, he was married to Rachel Reed, who died May 15, 1821, he surviving her until November 22, 1822, when he passed away in Washington County, Penn- sylvania. Their children were as follows: Charles, John I., William, James, Robert, John II, Joseph, Thomas, Samuel and Rachel.

Of the above family, William Herron was the grandfather of William Galbreath Herron, of whom we write, and he married Mary Powers, a daughter of Robert Powers. After his marriage Wiliam Herron moved from Wash- ington County, Pennsylvania, to Holliday's Cove, Brooks County, Virginia, now in West Virginia, but in 1827 moved to Cumberland, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he died De- cember 17, 1848, his widow surviving him until March 12, 1875. Their children were as fol- lows: James P., Elyaser, Robert, Margaret, Charles, Joseph B. and Rachel.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 89

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