History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 93

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

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David T. Bower is a son of David and Eliza- beth (Swinehart) Bower, the former of whom was born May 14, 1803, and the latter on the 3d of July, 1806. David Bower was a repre- sentative farmer and miller and an influential citizen In Monroe Township, and served many years as justice of the peace, with the result that he was familiarly known as 'Squire Bower. Other family sketches in this history give ample information concerning this honored pioneer. He was a communicant of the Lutheran Church and his wife was a Dunkard in religious faith. They became the parents of ten children, whose names and dates of birth are here noted : Jere- miab, January 6, 1829; Mary Ann, May 18, 1831; Isaiah, April 26. 1833; Ezekiel, August 18, 1835; Margaret, August 8, 1837; Obediah, May 15, 1840: Caroline, January 3, 1842: Will- iam Henry. January 15, 1845; John A., Septem- ber 1, 1847; and David T., May 14, 1850. The son William Henry represented Harrison County as a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war. He enlisted in Company A, One Hun- dredth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was captured by the enemy, at Limestone Station, in eastern Tennessee, September 6, 1863, and was there- after held a captive in the odious Andersonville Prison of the Confederacy until his death, which occurred March 6, 1865.

David T. Bower has been actively identified with farm industry in Monroe Township during the greater part of his active career, though he has also followed teaming and carpenter work at intervals, and is now living in the village of Bowerston. He still retains ownership of a

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farm of 122 acres, in Monroe Township. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village. Their marriage was solemnized September 2, 1875, and the names of their children are here en- tered with respective dates of birth: Louella F .. October 1, 1876; John W., January 4, 1870; Albert S., March 23, 1880; Iva R., January 11, 1882; Mack C., May 23, 1885; and Ward ("., August 1, 1895.

The early education of Mack C. Bower was obtained in the public schools of Bowerston and the schools of Union Township, Carroll County. At the age of eighteen years, in the autumn of 1903, he became a telegraph opera- tor in the employ of the Pennsylvania Rail- road Company, and he has since continued in this service on the Panhandle division, his pres- ent post as operator at the O. B. tower having been held by him since 1903. He is a democrat in politics and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Conotton.

On the 11th of June, 1913, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Bower to Miss Ethel Mark- ley, daughter of Daniel and Laura (Hoobler) Markley, and the two children of this union are sons Donald C. and Ernest Dean.

MARTIN WASHINGTON BORLAND. Nothing has interfered with the continuous play of Mr. Borland's interests, industry and activities as a farmer since he started life for himself in Carroll County. He is one of the leading farm- ers of Harrison Township, where he is pro- prietor of two farms aggregating 198 acres. His home is on rural route No. 1 out of Dellroy.

Mr. Borland was born in Monroe Township of Carroll County in 1860, son of Washington and Magdalene (Easterday) Borland. He is of Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His grandfather, Samuel Borland, was married in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and at an early day came to Harrison County, Ohio, where both of them lived out their lives. Washington Borland was the oldest of a family of two sons and one daughter, his brother being William, and his sister, Lyda, who became the wife of James Waddington. Washington Borland was one of the highly esteemed residents and pros- perous farm owners of Monroe Township. where he died in September, 1904. His wife died in February, 1895, and of their ten children Mar- tin W. is the seventh.

Mr. Borland, as he grew to manhood, acquired his education in the country schools of Nebo, Glendale and Dellroy, going to school in winter and working at home on the farm in other sea- sons of the year. He continued assisting his father until he was twenty-three, and then for four years was a share farmer on his father's place of 115 acres. After his marriage he con- tinued on the old homestead, raising crops and live-stock on the shares. Eventually he bought fifty acres in Harrison Township, and his con- tinued progress has brought him the ownership of the larger property noted above. He has lived in Harrison Township since 1917. Mr. Borland takes an active part in local affairs, is a member of the Farmers Exchange Elevator Company of Carrollton, a member of the Na-

tional Grange at Dellroy, and was elected and served two years, 1916-17, as township trustee. He is a democrat and a member of the Presby- terian Church.

In 1887 Mr. Borland married Clarinda Haz- lett, a daughter of George and Louisa (Gossett) Hazlett, of Harrison Township. She died in 1891, and later Mr. Borland married her sister, Mary Jane Hazlett. Mrs. Borland's grandfa- ther, Samuel Hazlett, came from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and her great-grandfa- ther was a native of the north of Ireland. Mrs. Borland's father was the oldest of four children, and he lived for some years in Jeffer- son County and later in Harrison Township of Carroll County, where he died in 1904. By his first marriage Mr. Borland has one son, George Howard, born in 1890. He married Verna May Little on April 4, 1917. She is a daughter of Daniel and Mary (Finefrock) Little. of Rose Township, Carroll County. George H. Borland and wife have a son, Ralph Howard.

EDWARD LINDER utilizes in his resourceful farm activities 237 acres of the excellent land of Monroe Township, Carroll County, his home being on rural route No. 1 from the neighbor- ing town of Sherrodsville.

Mr. Linder has the distinction of being a native of the fair little republic of Switzerland, * where he was born, In picturesque Canton Berne on the 6th of March, 1861, a son of Peter and Elizabeth ( Krabill) Linder. The home farm on which Mr. Linder was born is situated two miles distant from the City of Thun, and the family of which he is a representative has been for many generations actively identified with stock farming in Switzerland. Mr. Linder, the third in a family of five sons, acquired his youthful education in the public schools of Gwatt in his native canton of Berne, and he continued his studies until he had attained to the age of six- teen years. He then entered upon an appren- ticeship to learn the baker's trade, and in this apprenticeship he received careful instruction and experience under the able direction of his father, who has not only been active as a farmer but also had conducted a bakery. After the completion of his four years' apprenticeship Mr. Linder continued to work as a journeyman at his trade in his native land until he had attained to the age of twenty-one years, when, in 1882, he severed the ties that bound him to home and native land and came to the United States, where he felt assured of better oppor- tunities of winning success through individual effort. After disembarking in the port of New York City he passed only one night in the national metropolis, and then made his way to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he found em- ployment as a cheesemaker, a vocation with which he had become familiar in his native land. He next passed one summer on the Crooked Run Farm near Oldtown, Ohio, and in that locality he thereafter continued to be employed as an expert cheesemaker for a period of six years. He then, in 1888, returned to Switzerland, and that he had a definite attrac- tion and worthy object in making this visit is attested by the fact that soon after his arrival

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in his native country he was united in marriage to Miss Elezebeth Meyer, daughter of John and Suzanne ( Wittmer) Meyer, the father of the bride having been a successful farmer near Thun. This marriage was solemnized March 19, 1888, and within a short time thereafter Mr. Linder returned to America, accompanied by his fair young wife. They established their home in the City of Philadelphia, and there Mr. Linder was manager of a cheese factory for the ensuing two years. At the expiration of this period he came to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and in consonance with cherished ambi- tions and well formulated plans here purchased a farm of 100 acres near Strasburg. There in connection with other departments of farm en- terprise he developed a prosperous business in the manufacturing of cheese, according to the celebrated Swiss formulas. At the expiration of nine years he sold this farm and in 1901 purchased 200 acres of his present fine landed estate in Monroe Township, Carroll County. In 1912 he purchased an adjoining tract, and thus he is now the owner of a valuable property of 240 acres, devoted to diversified farming and conducted with the progressiveness and ability that have significantly marked the course of Mr. Linder during the entire period of his resi- dence in the United States and that have enabled him to achieve large and worthy suc- cess through his own efforts, with his wife as a devoted helpmeet and coadjutor. On his farm Mr. Linder keeps a fine herd of cattle, and from his milch cows he obtains much of the milk utilized in his successful cheese manufac- turing enterprise, the products of his cheese factory commanding the maximum prices when placed on the market. In politics Mr. Linder has aligned himself loyally in the ranks of the republican party, and both he and his wife are earnest communicants of the Lutheran Church.

Concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Linder brief record is given in this concluding paragraph : Walter Edward, who was born May 8, 1889, and who is now successfully engaged in farming in Stark County, married Miss Ruth Busby, daughter of Jacob Busby, and they have four children-Leroy Edgar, Wilson, Elizabeth and Wilma. John Albert, who was born July 4, 1893, and who is associated in the activities of the home farm, was one of the gallant young men who represented Carroll County in the nation's military service at the time of the late World war. In October, 1917, at Carrollton. he enlisted, and after being sent to Camp Sher- man he was assigned to the Three Hundred and Thirty-second United States Infantry, Eighty- third Division. After serving six months as a private he was transferred to the Cooks' and Bakers' School of the army, and his further service was in connection with the food-produc- tion department of the army. He was attached to the Quartermaster's Corps, and after the close of the war he continued in service until Octo- ber 11, 1919, when he was mustered out and honorably discharged, with the rank of sergeant of the first class. Elmer, the third son, was born June 13. 1895, is likewise associated with the work and management of the home farm. He married Miss Ethel McCartney, of Rose

Township, and they have one son, William Ed- ward. Edward Carl, the youngest of the four sons, was born December 15, 1897, and remains at the parental home, his energies being en- listed in connection with the progressive activi- ties of the fine farm. All of the sons were afforded excellent educational advantages and all are doing honor to the name which they bear.

GEORGE G. MAGEE is a native son of Carroll County and has here found ample opportunity for the exercising of his energies through asso- ciation with industrial and business affairs. He is now one of the representative merchants of the village of Dellroy in Monroe Township, where he owns and conducts a well equipped hardware store and also handles agricultural implements and machinery.

George Grant Magee was born in Harrison Township, this county, on the 14th of August, 1868, and is a scion of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His paternal grandfather, William Magee, was born and reared in the north of Ireland and was a young man when he came to America and settled in Washington County. Pennsyl- vania. In 1850 he came from the old Kerstone State to Carroll County, Ohio, and settled on a farm in Washington Township, where he be- came the owner of 160 acres of land and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. In Pennsylvania was solemnized his mar- riage to Miss Anna Scott, whose ancestors, according to family tradition, were of the no- bility in Scotland, there being also a strain of royal blood in the family. William and Anna (Scott) Magee became the parents of three sons. John. James and George, and of the number James was the father of him to whom this re- view is dedicated.

James Magee became a successful farmer in Harrison Township, where he continued his ac- tive association with agricultural industry until 1880, when he came to Dellroy and retired. He lived retired during the closing period of his life and passed away on the 12th of August. 1916, as one of the sterling and highly esteemed citizens of the county. His wife did not long survive him, as her death occurred on the 6th of January. 1917. both having been earnest members of the Methodist Protestant Church. They became the parents of six sons and one daughter, and of the number George G. was the fourth in order of birth.

George G. Magee gained his early education in the public schools of his native county. In 1893 he became the owner of a barber shop at Dellroy, and this he successfully conducted eleven years. He then formed a partnership with his father-in-law, the late Crawford Barnes Scott. and engaged in the hardware business at Dellroy. For the ensuing fifteen years the en- terprise was successfully conducted under the firm name of Scott & Magee, and since the death of Mr. Scott, on the 1st of April. 1900, Mr. Magee has individually continued the pros- perous business. He is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Carrollton.

Mr. Magee has proved himself most loyal and progressive as a citizen and has inviolable place

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in the esteem and confidence of his home com- munity. He has served three terms as town- ship clerk of Monroe Township, and in 1912 be- came town treasurer, of which office he con- tinued the incumbent one term of two years, besides which he has been several times selected a member of the village council of Dellroy. He is a staunch supporter of the cause of the re- publican party, and he and his wife are active members of the Protestant Methodist Church in their home village, in which he has served as class leader and steward and also as superin- tendent of the Sunday school. He is now a member of the Board of Trustees of the church and also a trustee of its parsonage.

In 1898 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Magee to Miss Elsie May Scott, daughter of the late Crawford B. and Margaret (Dunlap) Scott, and the two children of this union are Gladys Margaret and Dwight Scott. The daughter is now the wife of Fred Newell, of Leavittsville, this county, and the son is not get two years of age at the time of this writ- ing (1920), his birth having occurred on the. 6th of May, 1919.

OSBERT FORBES MCCAULEY. Numbered among the successful agriculturists of Harrison County, the late Robert Forbes McCauley of Monroe Township accumulated during his life- time a competency and left a valuable farm and good name to his family. He was born in Monroe Township, Harrison County, Ohio, September 27, 1852, a son of Robert McCauley, and grandson of Robert McCauley and his wife Mary (Booth) McCauley, who had three chil- dren, namely : Margaret, Samuel and Robert. Of these children of the grandfather, Margaret and Robert came from Ireland to the United States in 1832, at which time Robert McCauley was seventeen years of age as he was born in Ireland, March 17, 1815. They settled at once in Monroe Township, Harrison County, and bought eighty acres of land. The following year their parents and Samuel joined them, and all spent the remainder of their lives in this township.

Robert McCauley was the only one who left descendants. Samuel McCauley never married, and while Margaret was married to Alexander McCauley, she had no children. They were all consistent members of the Presbyterian Church, and they were of Scotch-Irish descent from County Tyrone, Ireland. The wife of the sec- ond Robert McCauley bore the maiden name of Sarah Forbes, and she, too, was born in Ire- land, a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (John- son) Forbes. The children born to Robert and Sarah McCauley were as follows: Booth, who married Elizabeth Smiley; Sarah Jane, who never married; Robert F., whose name heads this review. This generation also belonged to the Presbyterian Church.

Robert F. McCauley attended the district schools of Monroe Township, and lived at home until he was married on May 6, 1880, to Sadie A. Brown, a daughter of James and Rebecca (Evans) Brown. James Brown was born in Monroe Township, Harrison County, Ohio, Feb- ruary 12, 1834, and his wife was born August

1, 1836. For many years they were engaged in farming in Monroe Township. Their chil- dren were as follows: John, Sadie, Annie E., Laura E., Robert D., Mary Ida, Emma, Eliza- beth, James Edmond and Bell Jane. The Browns were Methodists. The paternal grand- parents of Mrs. McCauley were John and Sarah (Davis) Brown, natives of Ireland. John Brown came to the United States as a young man, and was one of the pioneers of Monroe Township, Harrison County, Ohio. John Brown and his wife had the following children: Mar- garet, George, Joseph, William, Samuel, David, James, Jeremiah and Hester Ann. They, too, were Methodists.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. McCauley came to the farm now owned by Mrs. McCauley, which is near Bowerston, in Monroe Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and contains 160 acres. On it Mr. McCauley carried on general farming and stock-raising until his death, which oc- curred November 26, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. McCauley had two children : Olive M. and Ida J. The latter was married to L. C. Price and lives at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since the death of Mr. McCauley . Mrs. McCauley and her daughter, Olive M., have continued to live on the farm. Mr. McCauley was a supporter of the Presbyterian Church, but his widow and daughters belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a Blue Lodge Mason, belong- ing to the lodge at Leesville, Ohio. A man of the highest principles he lived up to them and was recognized as a person of fine character and pleasant manner, and left behind him many friends in addition to his family, to mourn his loss.

HUGH WESLEY BIRNEY, who was born in Green Township, Harrison County, Ohio, March 17. 1848, died at Cadiz, judicial center of his native county on the 24th of November, 1916, known and honored for his fine personal at- tributes and also as a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of this section of the Buckeye State. In connection with other personal sketches and genealogical reviews ap- pearing in this work is given adequate record concerning the Birney family, so that in this present connection it will not be necessary to enter again into these details.

Hugh Wesley Birney was a son of Asbury Birney, who was born in Green Township, Har- rison County, March 15, 1815, a son of Hugh and Elizabeth (Brown) Birney, natives of Ire- land. In 1815 Hugh Birney and his wife be- came residents of Chester County, Pennsylvania, their marriage having been solemnized in their native land, in 1800. After residing in Penn- sylvania about four years the family came to Ohio and Mr. Birney purchased wild land in Harrison County, where he bent his energies to reclaiming and developing a farm in the midst of the surrounding forests, and where he was one of the substantial men of the county at the time of his death, in September, 1862, his children having been nine in number.

Asbury Birney passed his entire life in Green able age at the time of his death. He achieved Township, Harrison County, and was of vener-

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distinctive success in connection with farm en- terprise, and in 1875 he erected upon his farm what was at that time one of the finest houses in the county. He and his wife, who survived him by a few years, were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On April 23, 1840, Asbury Birney married Miss Ellen McCol- lough, who was born May 29, 1821, in Jefferson County, Ohio, where her parents, Hugh and Isabella (Cunningham) McCollough, natives of Ireland, settled in the year 1810. Of the chil- dren of Asbury and Ellen Birney, the first born was Isabella, who died May 22, 1863; Oliver is individually mentioned on other pages of this volume; Almond removed to Labette County, Kansas; Hugh W., of this memoir, was the next in order of birth; John William; Eliza- beth became the wife of Joseph McCollough; and Rebecca J. became the wife of Henry K. Ford.

Hugh Wesley Birney gained his youthful edu- cation in the schools of his native county, and with the passing years he achieved marked suc- cess in connection with farm industry, he hav- ing purchased, in 1884, a part of his father's old home farm, and having improved the place with a fine new house and other good buildings. He gave special attention to the raising of live- stock of excellent grades and was a leader in sentiment and action in his native township. He remained on his farm until the spring of 1903, when he removed to Cadiz, the county seat, where he passed the remainder of his life and where his widow still maintains her home. He was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he served as a trus- tee and as recording steward for a long term of years.

Mr. Birney was thrice married. June 15, 1883, he wedded Miss Estella Montgomery, whose death occurred in the following year. February 9, 1886, recorded his marriage to Miss Hadassah Jackman, who was born in Washing- ton County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of An- drew and Elizabeth (Gaddiz) Jackman, natives of Ireland. Harry J., the only child of this union. died June 26, 1895, and the devoted wife and mother passed to eternal rest December 20, 1903. a zealous member of the Methodist Epis- copal Church.

On the 22d of November, 1911, was solemn- ized the marriage of Mr. Birney to Miss Caro- line Snyder, who, as before stated. resides at Cadiz, she being an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and holding mem- bership also in the Order of the Eastern Star. Her father, Jacob Snyder, was born July 5, 1814, and died October 21, 1896. Mr. Snyder remained on the old homestead on which he was born, in Green Township, Harrison County. and was one of the representative farmers and citizens of that section of the county at the time of his death. His grandfather. Martin Snyder, was born in Germany, in 1728, and came to America as a youth of eighteen years, his marriage having occurred in Pennsylvania, whence, in 1802, he came to what is now Harri- son County. Ohlo, where he obtained a large tract of forest land in Green Township and

where he remained until his death, in 1810. His was died in 1821, and their remains rest in the li) tle family burying plot on the old home m. Of their children eldest was Martin, Jr., father of Jacob. MEctin, Jr., was born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, in 1775, and came to Ohio with his father. In 1803 he here married Ruth, daughter of Samuel Tipton, who had settled in this section of Ohio in 1801. Martin Snyder and his wife remained on the old home farm in Green Township until their deaths, he having died as the result of injuries received when he was struck by a falling tree. He died April 12, 1819, aged forty-four years, and his widow was seventy-two years old at the time of her death. Both were earnest com- municants of the Lutheran Church.

Jacob Snyder was reared to manhood on the old home farm and continued throughout his active career to be one of the representative farmers of Green Township. He was influential in public affairs in his community, held vartous offices of trust, including that of township grus. tee and was a stalwart republican in politics June 24, 1847, he married Miss Elizabeth Brad- ford, daughter of Thomas Bradford, of . Gre Township. Jacob Snyder died October 20, 1 and his widow died April 27, 1899. Of their children the eldest, Martin, was born March 1848, and is still living on the home farm. He first married Mary J. Carson, who died in August, 1875, leaving one child, Clark W. For his second wife Martin Snyder married Nancy Jane McGuire, and they became the parents of six children-Lizzie (died in 1900), John J., Walter Clyde, Mary (died in childhood), Caro- line and Amanda. Catherine, the second child of Jacob and Elizabeth Snyder, resides at Min- erva, Stark County. She is the widow of Leander Bigger, who died March 25, 1898. They had three children-Walter (died in infancy), Mary E. and George B. Sarah, the third child. never married, and her death occurred April 15. 1899. Caroline, widow of the subject of this memoir, was the next in order of birth. Isabella is the wife of Finley Mattern, of whom mention is made on other pages of this work.

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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Part 93

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