History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 9

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

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before the family came from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Harrison County. He married Theresa Stone, of Belmont County. She died in 1859, and lies buried in Crab Apple Cemetery in Belmont County. David Porter died December 22, 1885, and he lies buried in the cemetery at Cadiz. The Porters have been Presbyterians throughout the family history. While David Porter refused office in party affili- ation, he was always active in affairs of the democratic party. The children born to David and Theresa (Stone) Porter are: Sarah, John D., Mary, Samuel B., James, David S. and Theresa Elizabeth.

When he was twenty-one years old Samuel B. Porter married Margaret, a daughter of John and Eliza (McFadden) Dickerson. For ten years they lived on a farm in Athens Town- ship, when they located in Green Township. Mrs. Porter died there in 1900. He remained on the farm until May, 1918, when he moved to Cadiz. Mr. Porter owns two farms, there being 242 acres in the Green and 160 acres in the Cadiz farm. The building site in Green Town- ship is one that commands a fine view of the surrounding country.

On October 31, 1906, Mr. Porter married Josephine Thornberry. Their sons and daugh- ters are: Mary Belle, wife of Fry Shepler. They have one daughter, Myrtle, and they live in Chicago. David D. Porter married Harriet Haverfield. Emma Alice is the wife of John Croskey. Samuel Augustus farms the land in Green Township. Eliza May is the wife of William Corbley and lives in Cadiz. While living in Green Township, S. B. Porter served as trustee of the township four years.

The Porters were given common school ad- vantages as they were growing into manhood and womanhood, D. D. Porter attending public school in Cadiz, Green and Short Creek town- ships, and later he studied business methods in the Buchanan Business College at Hopedale. As a young man, however, he turned his atten- tion to agriculture. On April 6, 1898, he mar- ried Harriet C. Haverfield. She is a daughter of Nathan and Mary A. (Harper) Haverfield. They located on a farm in Green Township, and in 1902 moved to their present home. the farm having been in the Porter family name for more than one hundred years. The deed from the Government was issued to the ancestry in the Porter family. The children born to D. D. Porter are: Everette H., December 8, 1901; David P., August 16. 1906; and Mary Doris, June 13, 1910. As in the past generations the Porter family are members of the Presbyterian Church in Cadiz.

WILLIAM L. ENGLAND, M. D. Few men of Harrison County have been more closely identi- fied with the professional and business life of the county, or have won a greater measure of the esteem of his community than has Dr. William L. England, who for the past forty years has been a successful physician of Jewett.

Doctor England is descended from an old Pennsylvania Quaker family which has been In Ohio for over 100 years. Isaac . England, grandfather of the Doctor, was born in eastern Pennsylvania. He came to Jefferson County,

Ohio, in 1806, and a few years later he settled in Cross Creek Township, that county, on 135 acres of land, for which he paid $1,200, and this land is still in the family name. He became the father of a son, David, and a daughter, who married a Mr. Green.

David England, son of Isaac the pioneer, was born in Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1809. He spent practically his entire life upon the old England homestead, where he died in 1901. He married Elizabeth McGrew, who was born near Smithfield, Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1830, the daughter of Finley and De- borah (Blackburn) McGrew. Finley McGrew was long a prosperous farmer in Jefferson County, where he reared a large family. The McGrews were Quakers. David England and wife became the parents of the following chil- dren : Elma, who has never married; Isaac Newton, who served as an enlisted soldier dur- ing the Civil war as a private in Company H, Fortieth Ohlo Volunteer Infantry, was taken sick, confined to the hospital and finally was invalided home, where he died as a result of his disabilities in 1863; Deborah, who married Stephen Morton, a Civil war veteran; Oliver, who met death by drowning when he was twenty-one years of age; David, who was a resident of Steubenville, Ohio, where he died in January, 1920: William L., subject of this review, and John B., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who died at Senecaville, Ohio, in 1917.

Doctor England was born near Steubenville, Ohio, on April 18, 1853. He was educated in the district schools, Hopedale (Ohio) Normal School and the Slatelick Academy in Pennsyl- vania. He taught school for six years, and in 1878 entered the Columbus (Ohio) Medical Col- lege, where he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, class of '81. In April, 1881, he entered the general practice of medi- cine in Jewett. In 1884 he engaged in the retail drug business, and since that time he has prac- ticed medicine in conjunction with his drug store.

For many years Doctor England has been ac- tive in the busines and civic affairs of Jewett, and has greatly contributed to the growth, de- velopment and welfare of his adopted city and of the entire community. In 1898 he assisted in the organization of the Jewett Bank, the only banking institution in this part of the county, and since its organization he has been its president and one of its guiding spirits. In 1909-10 Doctor England erected the England Block on Main Street, which is regarded as the best business property in Jewett. The block is of yellow-faced brick, forty-one by seventy-five feet in dimensions, two stories and is in every way a modern business building. The first floor is occupied by the England Drug Store and the James A. McKee Company's mer- cantile establishment, while the entire second floor is devoted to the England Auditorium, Jew- ett's only public hall. So it will be seen that Doc- tor England has done his full share in the civic as well as professional and business life of Jewett.

On October 6, 1881, Doctor England was united in marriage with Sadie, the daughter of

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Thomas and Malissa (Martin) Roberts, and to them have been born three children, as follows: Thomas, who died an infant in 1885; Elizabeth, who became the wife of Dr. C. H. Lynch and they are residing at Middletown, Ohio; and William, who married Susan Beeman and re- sides at Galion, Ohio. In addition to their own children, Doctor and Mrs. England have reared two nephews, Paul R. and John R. England. The former was but two weeks old when he was taken into Doctor England's home. He was educated in the Jewett High School, the Scio School of Pharmacy and the Philadelphia School of Pharmacy, and is now the proprietor of the England Drug Company of Alliance, Ohio. He married Carrie Dennis. John R. became an in- mate of the England family when he was eight years of age, and that was his home until, at the age of eighteen years, he enlisted in the United States Marines for service in the World war He died in the Portsmouth (Virginia) Naval Hospital on Christmas day, 1917.

Doctor England and wife are members of the Jewett Methodist Episcopal Church, in the work of which they take deep interest. In all the relations of life, professional, business and social, Doctor England has lived up to high standards and ideals, and by doing so he has now a lasting place in the esteem of his fellow- citizens which will serve to keep him in grateful remembrance by the people, especially by the many to whom he has ministered professionally for so many years.

JOSEPH H. LONG, deceased, was born in Fay- ette County, Pennsylvania, June 21, 1845, and in the same county his parents, James and Sarah (Kell) Long, passed their entire lives. There the father was born in the year 1819, a son of Robert and Abigail (Kell) Long, the former of whom for many years followed the vocation of blacksmith at Connellsville. Fayette County. Later he purchased a small farm near that place, where he continued to work at his trade in connection with his farming operations and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. They had the following children : James, John, Samuel, William, Robert, David, Sarah and Mary. Mrs. Sarah (Kell) Long was born at Connellsville, Pennsylvania, and was a daughter of Gustavus and Abigail (Smith) Kell. the former of whom was born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, and the latter at Con- nellsville, Fayette County, in which latter county Mr. Kell became a prosperous farmer. His three children were Sarah, Celinda and Caroline. Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

James Long was reared and educated in his native county, and in addition to his successful activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower he engaged in the buying and shipping of wool. He was venerable in years at the time of his death, in 1904, and his loved and devoted wife died a month later in the same year. They became the parents of nine children-Joseph, Kell, Robert, David, Harriet, Mary, Catherine. Nancy and Sarah. Of the children Mary and Catherine died in childhood. The parents were life-long members of the United Presbyterian

Church and were held in high esteem by all who knew them.

The public schools of his native county afforded Joseph H. Long his youthful education, and as a young man he continued to be asso- ciated with farm enterprise during the summer seasons, the while he taught in the district schools during the intervening winter terms. Eventually he engaged independently in farming in Franklin Township, Fayette County, and the passing years brought to him due returns for his earnest and well directed activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower in his native county. There be served twenty-three years as a justice of the peace, and in his rulings he made the office justify its title, his fairness and mature judgment enabling him to render judi- cial decisions that conserved equity and justice and that added to his strong hold upon the confidence and esteem of the community that long represented his home. He was a supporter of the principles of the democratic party until the prohibition party was organized and always afterward he was a member of that party. He was an earnest member of the United Presby- terian Church in his home village.

On the 7th of November, 1867. was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Long to Miss Ann Eliza- beth Essington, daughter of Jacob Essington, of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and they have been residents of Cadiz, Ohio, since 1905. They became the parents of four children: James married Miss Margaret Hall, and his death occurred in 1897, he being survived by bis widow and one child, Elizabeth; Clifton, mar- ried Ida Clifton and they are now officers of the Thorn Hill School in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania : Walter K., a graduate of West- minster College, and who now resides in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, married Allene Davis, of Madisonville, Kentucky: Narcissa is deceased.

Joseph H. Long died June 10, 1920.

FRANCIS M. HEAVILIN, who is a popular rep- resentative of one of the sterling pioneer fami- lies of Harrison County. and who is one of the vigorous and successful exponents of farm enterprise in Archer Township, was born in Stock Township. this county, September 16. 1851, and is a son of Isaac and Susannah ( Bricker) Heavilin, both likewise natives of Harrison County, where the former was born in Cadiz Township August 3, 1811, and where the latter was born in Green Township in November, 1823. Her parents, Henry and Lydia (Meisor) Bricker, were pioneers of the county, as were also Samuel and Mary (LaPort) Heavilin, pa- ternal grandparents of him whose name intro- duces this paragraph. Samuel Heavilin came to Harrison County in the first decade of the nineteenth century, when this section of the Buckeye State was little else than a forest wilderness, and he secured 160 acres of Govern- ment land in what is now Cadiz Township. From the forest wilds he developed a productive farm, and here he and his wife passed the residue of their lives, both having been con- sistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of a fine family of thirteen children, namely; Elizabeth,

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Nancy, Rhoda, Mary, Margaret, Lydia, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, John, Samuel, Daniel and Ephraim.

Isaac Heavilin was reared under the condi- tions that marked the pioneer epoch in the history of Harrison County and in his youth he learned the shoemaker's trade, to which he gave his attention during the greater part of his active life, though he accumulated farm property and aided his sons in their active management of the same, his farm having com- prised 123 acres. His marriage was solemnized in Cadiz Township and both continued to main- tain their home in Harrison County until their deaths, when venerable in years and secure in the high regard of all who knew them. Mr. Heavilin was a member of the Methodist Epis- copal Church and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian Church, in the faith of which she was reared. They became the parents of three children-Henry, Francis M. and Albert W. Albert W. Heavilin died September 14, 1917, and the other two sons still remain in Harrison County.

Francis M. Heavilin is indebted to the schools of Cadiz Township for his early educational training, and in that township also be initiated his independent activities as a farmer. In 1875 he purchased and removed to his present fine homestead farm of 148 acres in Archer Town- ship, and in the same township he now owns another well improved farm, which comprises 130 acres. He has been especially progressive in his enterprise as an agriculturist and stock- grower, and his excellent management of his farm property has gained to him the maximum returns, while he has been specially successful in the raising of sheep. His political support is given to the democratic party, and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church known as Asbury Chapel.

March 4, 1875, recorded the marriage of Mr. Heavilin to Miss Jennie Anderson, daughter of Hugh and Catherine Anderson, representatives of old and honored families of Harrison Town- ship, and of the ten children of this union brief record is given in conclusion of this re- view : Anna is the wife of Arthur Beck, and they have three children-Elizabeth, Frances and Anna. Anderson R. married Miss Geneva Miller, and they have two children-Martha and Mary. Howard I. is a successful representative of farm enterprise in his native county. Beatty died in 1915. Leroy married Ada Beall and after her death wedded Blanche McKee, Ada Ruth being the one child of the first marriage and Albert M. being the child of the second marriage. Harry married Miss Wilma Auld. Robert P. is more specifically mentioned in a later paragraph. Vincent F. remains at the parental home. Pearl died in 1916. Nellie J. is the wife of William G. Given. and they have two children, Frank A. and Ada Jane.

Robert Park Heavilin was born in Archer Township, October 25, 1887, and in his boyhood and youth he profited by the advantages afforded in the public schools of this township. At the age of nineteen years he learned the trade of telegraph operator, and as a skilled operator he continued in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company about ten

years. In the spring of 1919 he established his home on his present excellent farm of 100 acres in Monroe Township, Harrison County, where as a successful agriculturist his youthful experi- ence is coming into practical and effective utilization. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his wife holds member- ship in the Baptist Church. On April 24, 1916, he wedded Miss Winnifred Barger, daughter of James C. Barger, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this work. Mr. and Mrs. Heavilin have two children-Phyllis Jane and Eugene Vincent.

ELMER E. GREEN. In the heart of every man there lies a deep and abiding love for the place of his birth, and the one who is fortunate enough to secure possession of his family home- stead is to be envied. Elmer E. Green of Washington Township is one of the farmers of Harrison County who is thus favored, for he owns the farm on which he was born on No- vember 3, 1863, and here he has passed his entire life, so that he is thoroughly identified with the locality and has taken part in its later development. He is the son of James S. and Eliza (Petty) Green.

The grandfather, Richard Green, was born in Maryland, and came to Ohio at a very early day, settling in Tuscarawas County. His chil- dren were as follows: William, Robert, Joel, John, Barbara and James S. The last named was born in April, 1822, and died March 31, 1901. He married Eliza Petty, who was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, Ohio.

While still a young, unmarried man James S. Green came to Tippecanoe, Washington Town- ship, Harrison County, Ohio, and worked at his trade of wagonmaking. In about 1852 he bought 230 acres of land in Washington Town- ship, and remained on his farm the remainder of his life. He and his wife had the following children : Thompson, Albert, George (deceased), Elizabeth, Ellen, Lafayette, Margaret. Elmer E. and Almeda. Both parents were consistent members of the United Brethren Church.

Elmer E. Green was reared on the homestead and attended the local schools. He assisted his father in the farm work, and when the latter died inherited eighty-four and one-half acres, containing the homestead. and here he is carry- ing on general farming and dairying with gratifying success.

On August 4, 1886, he was married to Lona Johnson. born in Nottingham Township, a daughter of Adolphus and Sarah Anna (Row- land) Johnson. Adolphus Johnson was a farmer and blacksmith of Nottingham Town- ship who died November 30, 1918, his wife having passed away November 30. 1910. The children born to Adolphus Johnson and his wife were as follows: Ellen, Rhoda. William (deceased ), Lona. Emma, Frank, Susan (de- ceased ), Olive, Lloyd and Maud and Forrest, both of whom are deceased.

Mr. and Mrs. Green became the parents of the following children : Florence, who married George Carrothers, has two children. Carl and Nellie: Iva, who died March 14, 1918. married Harvey Blackwell, had three children, George,

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Mabel and Wilma; Olive, who married Chester Blackwell, had four children, Zelma, Harry, Vivian and Clyde; Sadie, who married Edward Mallernee; Jesse, who is mentioned below; Brady, who is at home; and Elwood and Viola, who are also at home. The family all belong to the United Brethren Church. For four years Mr. Green served as assessor of Washington Township, and since January, 1920, he has been one of the trustees of the township.

Jesse M. Green is one of the veterans of the great war, and entered the service July 24, 1918. He was stationed at Camp Sherman and as- signed to Company E. Three Hundred and Thirty-sixth Infantry, Eighty-fourth Division. His organization sailed for France September 3, 1918, and after landing he was transferred to Company F, Three Hundred and Sixty-second Infantry, Ninety-first Division. Mr. Green served on the Belgian front from October 31 to November 11, the day of the signing of the armistice. He arrived in the United States on his return home April 16, 1919, and after re- ceiving his honorable discharge came back to the farm. Although he is fortunate in escaping injury, he doubtless will carry with him through life the effects of his experience just as the veterans of the war between the states have done. No man of peaceful disposition can leave the ordinary occupations of life and be- come a soldier at the front without feeling the results upon his return home. Fortunately for the men and country Americans are very adaptable, and the majority of the returned soldiers will be the better citizens for their sacrificial service and take a deeper interest in the affairs of the Government they risked their lives and limbs to save.

SAMUEL BEACH. As executive head of the Beach Milling Company In the village of Mal- vern, Mr. Beach became a prominent representa- tive of industrial and commercial enterprise in Carroll County. He takes due pride in claiming Ohio as the place of his nativity, and is a representative of a family that early became one of prominence in connection with civic and material development and progress in Ashtabula County. He was born in that county April 23, 1845, and is a son of Joshua H. and Amy Ann (Kyle) Beach, the former of whom was born in Connecticut, a scion of colonial New England stock, and the latter was born in the State of New York, where their marriage was solemnized, he having accompanied his parents on their removal from Connecticut to the Empire State. Joshua H. Beach was a young man when he came to Ashtabula County, Ohio, and joined his older brother, Marvin W., who had there settled about the year 1823 and who became an influential pioneer citizen of the county. The subject of this sketch was but three days old at the time of his mother's death, and he was fourteen years old when his father's death oc- curred, in 1859. He was the younger of two children, his older sister being Marla Cecelia, who was a resident of Cleveland, Ohio, at the time of her death. For his second wife the father married Mrs. Harrison Hunt, her family name having been Poole, and of this union was born one child, Rosalie. Joshua H. Beach was

a carpenter by trade, and as a young man be- came a successful contractor and erected a number of the early houses in Trumbull and Ashtabula counties. He was a whig in politics until the organization of the republican party, when he united with the latter, to which he gave his allegiance until the time of his death, only a few years later.

Samuel Beach gained his early education he the schools of Trumbull County, and was six- teen years of age at the inception of the Civil war. His youthful patriotism was not long to be curbed, for in 1863 he enlisted as a private in Company C, One Hundred and Seventy- seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he proceeded to the front and with which he took part in seventeen engagements, principally of minor order. He continued in service until the close of the war and after receiving his honor- able discharge returned to Ohio. For some time thereafter he was employed in a shop in which were manufactured farm implements, principally forks, in Trumbull County, and later he engaged in the manufacturing of handles for farm tools. Thereafter he passed a number of years in the oil regions of Pennsylvania, where he was identified with oil producing activities. About 1896, in partnership with his eldest son, Charles R., he erected a grist mill at Jefferson, the judicial center of Ashtabula County, Ohio, and after operating this mill three years they sold the property and went to Albion, Pennsyl- vania, where they engaged in the general merchandise business and also conducted a feed store. There Mr. Beach remained twelve years, at the expiration of which he disposed of his business interests in Pennsylvania and returned to Ohio. In July, 1910, he established his resi- dence at Malvern, and here he erected the thoroughly modern flour mill which has since been successfully operated under the corporate title of the Beach Milling Company. Though Mr. Beach still continues his interest in this industrial enterprise he is now living virtually retired and his son Charles R. has the active management of the substantial business.

Mr. Beach has been an ardent supporter of the principles of the republican party from the time of his youth. He is affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic and is now proba- bly the oldest member of the Lodge of Indepen- dent Order of Odd Fellows at Geneva, Ashta- bula County, with which he has been affiliated since 1872.

In 1867 was recorded the marriage of Mr. Beach to Miss Susan Davis, who was born March 6, 1849, a daughter of Robert and Sallie (Colvin) Davis. She was born in Pennsylvania, as were also her parents, and was a child at the time of the family removal to Geneva, Ohio. Her parents in later years returned to Pennsyl- vania and established their home in Erie County, where the father died January 29, 1892, at the age of sixty-eight years, and where the mother died in 1902, at the age of seventy- seven years. They became the parents of nine children : Lester died in January, 1920, at Ash- tabula ; Demetrius died in 1914; William died about 1915; Susan is the wife of Mr. Beach, of this review; Polly died in 1875, when about twenty-five years of age; Leona, Lois and Emma

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and Ella, twins, are the younger daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Beach became the parents of two children, Charles R. and Lynn H. Charles R. Beach was born in the year 1868, and received his early education in the public schools of Ohio and Pennsylvania and in an academy at Waterford in the latter state. He has long been associated with his father in business and now has the active control of the prosperous enterprise of the Beach Milling Company, as previously noted in this review. He married Miss Louise Chenot, whose death occurred Feb- ruary 16, 1918. They became the parents of four children-Heber (died in March, 1917), Robert, Samuel (named in honor of his paternal grandfather) and Susan Rose. Lynn H. Beach was born November 20, 1876, and gained his youthful education principally at Waterford, Pennsylvania. He served four years in the United States Navy, and within this period made the voyage around the world. After re- tiring from the navy he took a course in electrical and steam engineering, to which he devoted his attention for several years. He installed the Delco electric light system in the mill of the Beach Milling Company and is now associated with his brother in the active opera- tion of this mill. He married Miss Maude Lawton, of Harrison County, and they are popular factors in the social life of Malvern.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 9

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