History of Columbiana County, Ohio and representative citizens, Part 66

Author: McCord, William B., b. 1844
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Biographical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 912

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Shortly before Captain Taggart's retire- ment from the service, an examining commis- sion at Greensboro, North Carolina, reported that he should have been a field officer and Ma- jor General Cox offered to have him appointed to such a position in a regiment about to be sent west of the Mississippi. This offer was declined, and, with his regiment; Captain Tag- gart was mustered out, gladly returning home to care for his farm and coal business.

In civil life, Captain Taggart took a place. among the people of his county that in IS, led to his election as-county treasurer and to his re-election in 1871. He served for four years with great acceptance. In 1881 it was proposed to organize a bank at East Palestine if he would accept a' position in its manage- ment. This he was forced to decline on ac- count of his health, having arranged to spend the winter. in Washington, D. C., under the treatment of Dr. Bliss.

While in Washington, Captain Taggart was appointed by William McKinley, then Repre- sentative in Congress from Ohio, clerk of the committee of which Mr. Mckinley was chair- man. This position, which was made especial- ly congenial through the warm personal friend- ship existing between Major Mckinley and himself, he retained until a change in the poli-

'cal complexion of the House brought about a change in the chairmanship. Declining other political appointments tendered him by Mr. McKinley, he accepted, July 14, 1883. a posi- tion in the Treasury Department, in the class- ified civil service. Promotion followed through the various grades to division chief, but instead

of taking that position offered him. he preferred the appointment of United States superinten- dent of the Government Paper Mill at Dalton, Massachusetts, in the picturesque Berkshire Hills. Here, representing the Treasury De- partment, he has supervision of the government employees who register, count, guard, seal, pack and ship by express to Washington all the localized silk-fiber paper used for United States securities, national bank notes, registered and coupon bonds and Philippine certificates ; he attends to the bookkeeping which relates to the appropriations made by Congress each year for this distinctive paper; he makes daily re- ports to the department, accounting for every perfect and imperfect sheet of paper manu- factured for the government, and witnesses the destruction of each imperfect sheet. Captain Taggart was a director in the Ohio National Bank of Washington, which position he re- signed on removing to Dalton.

There being no Presbyterian Church in Dalton, Captain Taggart united with the Con- gregational Church on certificate from the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, of Wash- ington, D. C. Politically he has been a mem- ber of the Republican party ever since its or- ganization in 188.5 . He spends his annual sum- iner vacation in his native town, and from 1882 to 1900 never failed to return each year to vote at the State election. Since then he has voted in Dalton. He has laid out several ad -- ditions to the town of East Palestine, and has assisted a number of persons to secure homes on easy terms. For several years he was inter- ested in the State Line Sewer Pipe Company, later. the National Fire Proofing' Company, but sold his interest in 1903. The organization of the Sons of Veterans at East Palestine, now the fourth largest in the State, with 80 mem- bers, bears his name. His life record as citi- zen, teacher, soldier and public official has been one to inspire a high degree of public confidence and respect.

On June 22, 1875, Captain Taggart married Mrs. Anna (French) Coppock, daughter of William R. and Judith (Crew) French, and widow of Capt. Ezra Coppock. His step-

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daughter, Lavina Coppock, is the wife of Hon. John B. Gilfillan, a well-known citizen of Minn-' eapolis, Minn., and former Member of Con- gress from that city.

5 J. PELLEY, M. D., who is a leading citizen as well as a prominent prac- ticing physician in the village of Dun- gannon, near Millport, was born in Brooke County, West Virginia, in 1865, and is a son of Rev. James and Margaret (Wells) Pelley.

Rev. James Pelley was a native of Virginia (now West Virginia). He was engaged in farming and was a local preacher in the Metho- dist Episcopal Church for many years. His death was occasioned by an accident in 1885, when he was 70 years of age. He was a son of James Pelley, of West Virginia. His widow still survives and nine of the family of II chil- dren, our subject being the ninth in order of birth. .

In 1875 the parents of our subject removed to Pennsylvania and there he was educated in the common schools and in an academy, and prepared for college by a course of medical reading. In 1889 he entered the Western Penn- sylvania Medical College at Pittsburg and was there graduated in 1892. He then sought more extended experience and took a post-graduate course at the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, making specialties in the departments of gynecology, obstetrics, diseases of children, surgery, diseases of the chest, der- matology, ophthalmology, laryngology, rhin- ology, otology, diseases of the nervous system, and physical diagnosis. The wonderful and varied experiences offered by that great metro- politan school of medicine and practice, are in- valuable in character to the young physician, and Dr. Pelley settled at Dungannon, thorough- ly prepared for any cases in medicine or surgery that might be presented to him. He has con- tinued to reside in the midst of the kind and neighborly people of this town, which his prac- tice practically covers, and enjoys the esteem of its residents.

In 1896 Dr. Pelley was married to Sadie: E. Gamble, who is a daughter of William and. Rhoda Gamble, of Franklin township, and they have four children, viz: Margaret, born in 1898; Bruce Gamble, born in November, 1900 ;. Annie Mildred, born in November, 1903, and an infant which entered the family in March,. 1905.

Dr. Pelley is a Republican in his political views. He is a member of the Masonic, fra-, ternity. He belongs to the Presbyterian Church while his wife belongs to the Christian. Church.

OMER M. CALVIN, M. D., one of the- leading physicians and surgeons of Salineville, was born November 20,. 1867, at Calcutta, Ohio, and is a son of Dr. Joshua and Caroline (Hamil- ton) Calvin.

The Hamilton and Quigley families, with whom Dr. Calvin is bound by ties of kindred, were the first people to locate on the present site of the quiet village of Calcutta. The fam- ily has been largely professional, two maternal uncles of Dr. Calvin studying medicine with the noted Dr. Samuel Quigley, his great-uncle, and his father being also for many years a prominent physician in Columbiana County.

Dr. Joshua Calvin was born in Pennsylvania and was a graduate of Willoughby Medical College, Ohio. He engaged in general practice- at Calcutta, where he died March 9, 1890. Of his 10 children, nine survive and all reside in Columbiana County except a daughter. All the sons, save our subject, are farmers. Sheri- dan and William reside with their mother on the 60-acre homestead farm. They raise a: large amount of stock and also deal in farm ma- chinery. Harvey, in addition to being a farm- er, carries on a mercantile business at Calcutta ; he married Isadore Rauch and they have two- children,-Joshua and Thomas.

Homer M. Calvin completed his primary education in the local schools and then spent- two years in the Western Reserve Medical Col- lege, after concluding a course at Mount Un -- ion College. He was graduated at the Colum-

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bus Medical College, March 4, 1891, and has been established in practice at Salineville ever since. He is well equipped as a physician and surgeon and his offices are fitted with all mod- ern appliances for, the treatment of disease, in- cluding X-ray and static machinery. He is a valued member of the county and State medical societies and also of the American Medical As- sociation and a frequent contributor to medical literature.

Dr. Calvin was married November 20, 1892, to Beaut Maple, who is a daughter of James and Ann (Hoey) Maple, residents of Salineville. They have two children, Everson and Louise. Dr. Calvin and wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically the Doctor is identified with the Republican party. He fills the office of health officer and under his careful supervision the sanitation of the town is above the average. Professionally and person- ally he is held in universal esteem.

AM C. SCOTT, the genial proprietor of the Tip Top Mills and a merchant miller of New Waterford, whose ex- - tended patronage and steadily increas- ing business have been potent factors in the continued prosperity of the village, is the natural successor to a business which has been handed down from father to son for several generations. He is a son of James C. and Mar- garet Jane (Cobb) Scott and was born in Knox township, Columbiana County, Ohio, July 24, 1860. His grandparents were William and Abigail Scott. His great-grandfather, also supposed to have borne the name William, came from Baltimore and settled in Virginia, whence he moved to Ohio about 1805. Here he built a stone mill which is still standing on Bull Creek and which at that time was considered one of the best mills in the State of Ohio. This mill did a thriving business and to it resorted the old pioneers from great distances, each with his load of grain to be made into flour and meal.

William Scott, the grandfather of Sam C. Scott, was born in Virginia about 1795. He came with his parents to Ohio, became a miller,

married and reared a family. His wife, Abi- gail, was also a Virginian by birth and was about the same age as her husband. Her par- ents were Friends, who came to Columbian? County in 1805 and settled in Elkrun township. She survived her husband 20 years, dying in 1867. Among the children born to them was Jehu Scott, who resides in Sacramento Valley, California, and

James C. Scott, who was born in Knox township, Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1829. He was but a child when he began to help in the mill, it being necessary for him to stand on a block in order to reach the flour chest. In addition to milling, the Scotts also carried of farming and as the land was covered with a heavy growth of timber, James assisted in clear= ing it and getting it ready for crops. His father died when James was 18 years old and the responsibility of operating the mill fell upon the latter. He remained there two years and then leased the property and went to Iowa but returned and sold the business and moved to Indiana. He built a saw and grist-mill which he operated for a time before selling it and re- turning to Ohio. He then repurchased the old mill and moved it to Westville, Mahoning County, where it may still be seen. In 1858 he traded his mill for a farm in Knox township and embarked in agricultural pursuits but after two years he once more turned his attention to milling and moved to Lisbon where he pur- chased the old steam mill which stood on the canal bank where the` Pittsburg, Lisbon & Western Railroad depot now stands. He ran this mill until 1865 when he sold it and rented the stone mill at Lisbon which he ran two years. His next purchase was a mill located about three-quarters of a mile up the creek from New Waterford and which he moved in the spring of 1873 to its present site. , He operated this mill for upwards of 20 years until his death, June 3, 1893. On April 7, 1859, he married Margaret Jane Cobb, daughter of Lewis and Jeannette (Stanley) Cobb and five children were born to this union, viz: Sam C .; Seth P., who resides in Elkrun township; William Grant, who conducts a large printing plant at Columbus; Mrs. Sarah R. Edgerton, a widow

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residing in Columbiana ; and Annie D., wife of Marion Huston, of Middleton township.

Sam C. Scott attended the Lisbon school and the district schools of New Waterford until he acquired a fair education, which has since been supplemented by comprehensive reading. He was brought up in the milling business, hav- ing spent the greater part of his life as child and man in his father's mill and when the death of the father, occurred, in June, 1893, he at once bought the interests of the other heirs and in July assumed full ownership and con- trol. Mr. Scott is a shrewd, careful manager and has remodeled the entire mill, putting in the latest improved machinery, making it up to date in every respect. It is now operated on the oscillator system with an output of 50 bar- rels per day and the result will bear comparison with that of any mill. Mr. Scott was town clerk two years, treasurer for many years and is now assessor of Unity township. He is on the Board of Health and is clerk of the School Board. He is a member of the K. O. T. M., the Junior Order of United American Me- chanics and was made a, Mason in East Pales- · tine Lodge, No. 417, F. & A. M. He is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is trustee.

Sam C. Scott married Maggie Niehaus, a native of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and daugh- ter of John D. and Callie ( Ehlers) Niehaus. Her parents, who were of German birth, were married in the United States. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Scott are Callie E., born January II, 1885; James Ralph, born, November 15, 1886; David Carle, born March 12, 1891 ; and Hobart Mckinley, born November 4, 1896. Mr. Scott is a strong Republican and a great admirer of the late William Mckinley.

HE HOMER LAUGHLIN CHINA COMPANY, one of the largest manufacturers of utilitarian and art ware in the United States, has its home in East Liverpool, Ohio. When the name of this city is mentioned in any sec- tion of the United States, it immediately brings

to mind its chief industry-its potteries-and this reputation has been given it largely by the above named company.

This business enterprise was established in 1873. by Homer and Shakespeare Laughlin under the title of Laughlin Brothers. They built two kilns in what was then the extreme eastern section of the city, and three years later such headway had been made as to warrant the building of two additional kilns. After the death of Shakespeare Laughlin in 1879, the business was continued in the name of Homer Laughlin until 1897, in which year it was in- corporated as The Homer Laughlin China Company, with a capital stock of $150,000. The plant was immediately thereafter enlarged to six kilns and in 1899 the present mammoth works were begun in the East End. In 1901 the capital stock was increased to $500,000 and a surplus of $500,000 was retained. In 1903 the old plant of this company was ex- changed for the plant of the National China Company, adjoining the new plant, thus mak- ing an exceptionally large establishment. The company has at the present time 33 kilns in op- eration, with a daily shipment of three car- loads of ware, comprising about 150,000 pieces of finished pottery. The company employs about 1,000 people. The trade extends throughout this country ; the trade department is under the general management of George W. Clarke ..

The founders of this important industry were both born near the mouth of Little Bea- ver Creek near Smith's Ferry, Ohio. They were reared in East Liverpool but were en- gaged in the business of importing crockery in New York City from 1865, when Homer Laughlin was discharged from the army at the close of the war, until 1873, when they established their business in East Liverpool. They were close students of the business and practical potters and success attended their ef- forts from the first. The first great recognition came to their work at the United States Cen- tennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876, when Homer Laughlin competing with Ameri- can and with English and other foreign exhibi- tors was awarded a medal and diploma for

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the best earthenware. This success was re- peated at Cincinnati in 1879, when he was awarded a gold medal, and again at the Col- umbian Exposition at Chicago, in 1893, in com- petition with English and American exhibits. In 1898 Homer Laughlin moved with his fan- ily to Los Angeles, California, where his en- terprise and public spirit have placed him among the foremost men of that Western State. He built the first fire-proof building in Cali- fornia .. He is now one of the largest real estate owners of Los Angeles.

When Homer Laughlin retired from the company bearing his name, he sold the con- trolling interest to Louis I. Aaron, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, who has since served as presi- (lent. The remaining interest was sold to those who had been associated with him in the busi- ness in various capacities. W. E. Wells, secre- tary and treasurer of the company from its in- corporation and a man of great natural business ability, has continued to serve as such and is the general executive officer. He is a man of wide acquaintance with the people, and to him is due much of the success of the company in recent years. The present board of directors includes the following representative business men : Louis I. Aaron, Charles I. Aaron, F. D. Kitchel, Julius Goetz and W. E. Wells.

R OBERT J. MARSHALL, M. D., a leading physician and surgeon of the East End of East Liverpool, whose portrait is herewith shown, is also a very successful man in other lines of business and is at the present one of the heaviest real estate holders in his section of the city. He is a man of energy and enterprise and suc- cess has come wholly through his own efforts.

Dr. Marshall was born in Big Beaver town- ship, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, November 26, 1862, and is a son of Hugh James and Amanda (Hudson) Marshall. His grand- father, John Marshall, who was a native of the North of Ireland, died in this country in 1862, aged 79 years. He was six years of age when brought to this country by his parents, who set-

tled in Western Pennsylvania, and where he followed farming all his life.

Hugh J. Marshall was born in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, December 31, 1831, and in early life engaged with his father in farming and also taught school. About four years after his marriage, he moved from Lawrence County to Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and in 1857 settled on a farm in ,Big Beaver township where he purchased what was known as the Henry Newkirk farm. He is a Republican in politics, and in 1871 was elected county com- missioner, in which position he served two terms. He is past noble grand of the Odd Fel- low lodge at Beaver Falls. He was united in marriage with Amanda Hudson, a daughter of Stockman Hudson, who lived most of his life in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and they have had five children : John, of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania : Mary Elizabeth, wife of Fulton Patterson, of New Galilee, Beaver County, Pennsylvania : Amos, who resides near Home- wood, Beaver County ; Matilda, wife of Robert Crawford, of Homewood; and Robert J., our subject. Mrs. Marshall died in 1870, aged thrity-nine years. Religiously, she and her. family were members of the Methodist Episco- pał church.

After completing the prescribed course of study in the public schools, of his native county, Robert J. Marshall attended Greersburg Acad- emy at Darlington, Pennsylvania. He then read medicine under Dr. W. A. Sawyer, for a time, after which he attended Western Reserve Medical College at Cleveland, Ohio, from which institution he was graduated March 3, 1886. During the following summer he prac- ticed with his former preceptor, and then was located at Fairview and at Ohioville, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. He made rapid progress in his profession and in 1889, seeking a larger field for practice, located in the East of East Liverpool, where he has since lived and practiced. He has a very thorough mastery of his profession, having been a constant stu- dent during the years of his practice, and has probably performed as many successful capital operations as any other surgeon in this section. His skill has many times been demontrated and

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to-day he enjoys the unbounded confidence and respect of his fellow-citizens.

Dr. Marshall is a member of the County, State and American medical associations, and also belongs to Glasgow Lodge, F. & A. M., of Smith's Ferry ; East Liverpool Lodge, No. 379, I. O. O. F., ; East Liverpool Encampment, No. 107, I. O. O. F .; and Eureka Circle, No. 86, Protected Home Circle, for which he is ex- amining physician. He was one of the incor- porators and is president of the Federal Build- ing & Loan Company ; and is a director of The Electric Porcelain Company. He is an active business man and owns what is known as the "Meadow Brook Place" in the East End. On "Meadow Brook Place" and many other valu- able properties he has drilled a number of oil- wells, all producers, and he also has oil interests in neighboring counties. He is a Republican in politics and for nine consecutive years was a member of the City Council.

In 1888 Dr. Marshall was united in mar- riage with Sue E. Piersol, a daughter of Prof. S. H. Piersol of West Bridgewater, Pennsyl- vania and they have had five children : Robert Earl, who died at the age of three years and two months; Wilma W., Ila M., Roberta and James Allabaugh. Religiously they are mem- bers of the Second United Presbyterian Church.

OHN VOGLESON, a pioneer of Fair- field township, was born at New Ox- ford, near Gettysburg, Adams Coun- ty, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1806, and died June 27 1894, after a busy, upright and useful life of almost 88 years. His parents were Philip and Elizabeth (Fuller) Vogleson.

The parents of Mr. Vogleson were of Ger- man extraction. Their lives were passed in Adams County, Pennsylvania, where their son attended school, prepared for the duties of life and on October 21, 1828, was united in mar- riage to Leah Albert. In 1830 they removed to Geauga County, Ohio, where they remained until the spring of 1831, when they removed from Painesville to Columbiana, which was

then a promising little hamlet, surrounded with pastures and belts of woodland where now stand substantial business buildings and resi- dences.

To Mr. Vogleson's enterprise and business. foresight the town is much indebted. He was one of the very first to inaugurate substantial improvements. His first building was a small. residence on the lot where Dr. King formerly lived, which at that time was at the extreme- southern end of the village. Here he embarked in a shoe business at which he continued for 25 years. In 1852, in partnership with Joseph: Wallace, he built a warehouse near the rail- road, afterward known as the Rea & Powell warehouse, and engaged in a general produce business for 10 years.

In 1865 Mr. Vogleson and his son George- embarked in the stove business in what was. then known as the Farrand Block; they carried' on the business here for about four years when. they sold out to the Farrands and Mr. Vogleson again turned his attention to shoemaking. After a few years, he became interested in the lumber- business which was the last of his business: enterprises. This was carried on under the name of Vogleson & Irwin and when Mr. Vogleson withdrew it was to retire entirely from business care. On the night of June 26, 1894, at the hour of 10 o'clock, he was stricken with apoplexy, at his beautiful home on Main street, and he lingered unconscious until 5:45 the following morning.

Certainly no other man did so much in the- way of improvement for the town of Colum- biana as did Mr. Vogleson. All of the build- ings he erected were of strong construction and" great utility. He erected all of the buildings now known as the Farrand Block; he built the residence of John Beard; he was interested in the building of a large warehouse on Elm street, one block east of Main ; a dwelling house- on Vine street, and in 1852 he erected the fine home one door north of where his daughter, Miss Elizabeth E. Vogleson, now resides. She recalls when the land on which the business houses stand was woodland and she remembers playing in childhood in the fields south of the railroad. She was watched with interest al-

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most the whole of the development of Colum- biana. Her residence is situated opposite Grace Reformed Church.

The mother, of Miss Vogleson and the be- loved and faithful wife of our subject was born at New Oxford, Adams County, Pennsylvania, on August 7, 1808, and died at Columbiana, Ohio, May 23, 1888. She was a daughter of Daniel and Charity (Demaree) Albert.

Her family lineage on the maternal side is traceable to the 16th century, her ancestors being French Huguenots who moved from France first to Germany, thence to Holland and sailed from Amsterdam in the ship "Brindle Cow," for America, on April 16, 1663. They settled on Staten Island, New York, and sub- sequently removed to Harlem, thence to Bergen County, New Jersey, and later to Adams Coun- ty, Pennsylvania. At the time of death, Mrs. Vogleson was survived by her aged husband and five children-three sons and two daugh- ters-five grandchildren and four great-grand- children, all of whom attended the funeral. She was a loving and devoted mother and was universally esteemed. Her nature was so kind- ly disposed that she always had a pleasant word for every one. Like her husband she had been converted in early life, both becoming worthy members of the Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church. The Bible was her daily companion and the beautiful fifth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans was her favorite portion of the "Holy Word." On the Sabbath prior to her death, she attended and enjoyed preaching twice, at the church of her denomination, some- thing she had not done in years, the infirmities of age having prevented her taking advantage of church privileges. Surrounded by loving filial care, she passed to her certain reward.

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History of Columbiana County, Ohio and representative citizens, Part 66

Author: McCord, William B., b. 1844 Publication date: 1905 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Biographical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 912

Author: McCord, William B., b. 1844
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Biographical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 912