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MINERVA CHAPTER, NO. 123, R. A. M.,
was organized at Minerva, March, 1870, with the following as officers : J. Craig, H. P .; J. S. Hostetter, S. S. ; J. Grim, E. K .; H. A. Foster, C. of H .; A. E. Perdue, P. S .; M. Foracre, R. A. C .; A. E. Petit, G. M. 1st V .; W. L. Parthe, G. M. 2d V .; W. B. Reed, G. M. 3d V .; J. Hib- bets, Guard. The chapter was removed to Hanover, Feb. 11, 1879. The members number now 44, and the officers are : D. W. Wells, M. E. H. P .; F. H. Hawley, E. King; H. A. Foster, E. Scribe; J. C. Hostetter, C. of H .; W. J. Mong, P. S .; D. J. Davis, R. A. Cap .; E. Messmore, G. M. 2d V .; John Numan, G. M. 3d V .; M. S. Mil- burn, G. M. 1st V .; John Numan, Treas. ; W. J. Mong, Sec .; James Hibbets, Guard.
HANOVER LODGE, NO. 655, I. O. O. F.,
was organized at Hanoverton in 1876 with 15 charter- members and the following officers : Harrison Cox, N. G .; Owen Stackhouse, V. G .; Peter Phillips, R. S. ; Jarvis Hotchkiss, P. S. ; John Roudebush, T. The members now number 30, and the officers are : Thomas Ehrhardt, N. G. ; Wm. Davidson, V. G .; Chas. Swearingen, R. S .; James Sultner, P. S .; Daniel Burt, T.
GILLFORD GRANGE, NO. 934,
was organized at Gillford in 1872 with 30 charter-mem- bers. The grange is now flourishing, has a membership of 80, and owns a hall at Gillford, in which meetings are held. The officers at present are Jacob Calrup, M. ; Aaron Arter, O .; George Blythe, S .; Leonard Hoops, A. S .; Geo. Hos-
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tetter, Sec .; Geo. Green, T .; Anna Morgan, Lecturer ; Albert Chandler, Chaplain.
POST-OFFICES.
A post-office was established at Hanover about 1812, when James Craig was postmaster, and the name of the post-office was Hanoverton, as there was already a Hanover in Ohio. After the failure of the " company" store, which Craig managed, the post-office at Hanoverton was discon- tinued for a time.
In 1832 Owen Williams was appointed.
George Fries was the incumbent in 1837, and after him the office was held by Henry Fries, J. R. Arter, Wm. Hamilton, A. N. Kincau, George Akers, H. B. Pearce, E. L. Strohm, and Stephen Keith, the latter being the pres- ent incumbent. The first postmaster at New Garden was Joseph Griswold, who kept the office on his farm near the village. James Graham, the next postmaster, had the office in his store in the village, and was the postmaster for forty years, save for an interregnum of four years, during which Clayton Thornbury and Jonah Parker were appointees. Mr. Graham was succeeded in 1870 by Jesse Kepner, the present incumbent. Mr. Graham used often to relate that the first mail he changed after his appointment was changed by the light of the moon, the mail-rider, in pass- ing through from Hanover, having arrived late at night.
Dungannon was established as a post-office about 1836, when Hiram Gaver was appointed postmaster. John Conlon was his successor, and in 1846 James Hogan took the office, and has held it ever since.
Gillford was established as a post-office in 1835, but, by reason of there being another post-office with that name in the State, the name of Bucks P. O. was given to it as a compliment to Moses Buck, the first appointee. After Buck's term, the postmasters were Caleb Hawley, Moses Louthan,. Benjamin Hawley, Robert Pitcairn, Isaac Miller, Wm. McMillan, Emanuel Hawley, Shepard Hawley. The latter has been the incumbent since 1865.
When the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad was com- pleted, in 1852, the present village of Kensington was made a postal station and Jacob Dutton appointed post- master. Dutton kept store, and when that burned, a short time after 1852, the post-office was discontinued. To that time the place, as a post-town, had been known as Ingra- ham, although called Maysville as a town. The office was not revived until 1860, when B. C. Battin was appointed postmaster and the name of the postal-station changed to Maysville. There was an attempt made to rob Maysville of its post-office, and at the end of four months the office was again discontinued. It was again revived, in 1861, discontinued at the end of fourteen days, but revived again almost directly; it has since then been undisturbed. Mr. Battin was reappointed in 1861, and held the office until 1866, when Levi Shaw, the present incumbent, was ap- pointed. In 1876 the name of the town as well as post- office was changed to Kensington.
MANUFACTURES.
About 1840, or before, Anthony Taylor put up a foundry at New Garden, and began to make plows and plow-points.
To him succeeded Pierce Taylor, his son, and afterwards Jacob Liber, who made additions to the foundry-building, put in a steam-engine, and added machine-castings to the original list of manufactures. He sold out to Thomas Gardner, who took in Chas. Liber as a partner, and to the latter disposed of his interest. Charles Liber still operates the foundry, and makes plows, plow-points, and castings.
E. K. Liber began, in 1865, to manufacture carriages and wagons at New Garden, and since then has carried on the business profitably. He makes about sixty carriages and wagons annually, employs nine men, and disposes of the major portion of his manufactures at home. His father, Charles Liber, was engaged at New Garden in the manu- facture of wagons from 1839 until his death, in 1874. Jas. Saffell had a machine shop at New Garden at an early date, upon the site of Liber's wagon-factory, and operated it about fifteen years.
In 1814, Samuel Holland, of New Lisbon, set up a card- ing-machine upon the present site of Hudd & Son's woolen- mill. at Kensington, and shortly afterwards added a linseed- oil mill. He put in a tramp-wheel, and, when water failed, used a pair of oxen as the motive power, and soon added two mill-stones. At his death, in 1837, the mill was bought by Wm. Hicklin, who, continuing Holland's business until 1854, built the present mill, introduced steam-power, and began to manufacture woolen goods. In 1864, J. Hudd & Sons, the present proprietors, purchased the mill, and since that time have been making all kinds of woolen goods, knitting-yarns, blankets, hosiery, etc., in the manufacture of which they employ five people.
The grist-mill now occupied by Lawson & Levinger, at Hanoverton, stands upon the site occupied by the grist-mill built in 1839 by Elimelech Swearingen and George Sloan. It was a water-mill until 1849, when steam was made the motive power, and in that year Swearingen disposing of his interest to Sloan, the latter carried it on until his death, in 1870, when Lawson Levinger purchased the property and still controls it. The mill is four stories in height, has four run of buhrs, and can manufacture about thirty barrels of flour daily.
David Grim & Co. have a steam grist-mill north of Hanoverton, with two run of buhrs. This mill was built by Burton Sinclair, upon the site of the mill put up by George Brown, one of the pioneers of Hanover. George Moore operates a saw-mill at Hanoverton, which he took in 1873 from William Sinclair. Mr. Moore cuts about three hundred thousand feet of lumber annually, besides doing considerable planing and turning-work.
J. Hardesty & Sons have a fine four-story steam grist- mill at Kensington depot. It was built in 1857, by Abra- ham Leatherberry, who sold it to Hardesty & Sons in 1863. The mill has three buhrs, and has a manufacturing capacity of twenty barrels of flour daily. Shortly after settling in Hanover in 1817, Michael Arter started a tannery on the present site of Arter & Swearingen's store. He continued it at that location until 1835, when he removed it a short distance north. In 1849 his son, A. R., succeeded him in the business, and since then has carried it on. He employs three men and tans about one thousand hides yearly.
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EARLY MILLS.
Edward Whitacre & Sons built a grist- and saw-mill in 1808, on the narrows of the west fork of the Little Beaver, south of where Gillford now stands. In 1810, Nicholas Miller built one just below there. Hugh Hillis and Joseph Bailey purchased Whitacre's mill, and ran it until 1846, when it was abandoned. George Brown, from Virginia, moved into Hanover in 1810, with a wife and five children, and put up a grist-mill on the site now occupied by J. Grim's mill. In 1808, James Craig, who laid out Hanover, built a saw- and grist-mill, which in 1817 was purchased by William Kennedy and Arthur Lockard, who put into it the first buhr-stones seen in those parts.
In 1811, Amos Frost came into the township from Fay- ette Co., Pa., and settled on the west fork of the Little Beaver, where, in 1814, he built a grist- and saw-mill. There S. J. Rolder has a grist-mill now.
Levi Miller established a fulling- and saw-mill in 1832, just below Hanover. This was the first mill in the town- ship to use steam as a motive power, and continued in oper- ation about thirty years. John Emory put up, in 1810, a small tannery on the place now occupied by F. Shearer, but transacted only a light trade.
THE HANOVER RIFLES.
Hanover village many years ago boasted the possession of a crack military company, known as the Hanover Rifles. The company was organized about 1833, when military ardor ran rampant, with 60 members. Edward Rhodes was the captain, and Samuel Fox first lieutenant. Capt. Rhodes was shortly afterwards chosen major in the militia, and, re- signing his command of the Rifles, was succeeded by Joseph Brown. The company paraded occasionally in showy uni- form of white, with red sash, and was the sensation for seven years, when, military enthusiasm declining, it passed gradually out of existence.
HANOVER CORNET BAND.
Hanover village has a fine cornet band of eleven pieces, under the leadership of Thomas Fox. The first band or- ganized in the village was called into existence in 1847, through the efforts of A. R. Arter and others. There were originally fifteen pieces, and in a brief space of time the Hanover Band was a well-drilled organization, whose fame extended east and west as far as and farther than Buffalo and Chicago, whither it was frequently called. The first band-teacher was Lewis Carr, who, passing through the town with a show, was induced to tarry behind and take charge of the Hanover Band.
He continued to serve as teacher and leader for several years, and when he was absent his place as leader was filled by Lucien Shoemaker. Since 1847, Hanover has had a band as the almost steady and almost uninterrupted out- growth of the original organization, although there have been brief intervals when its interests were permitted to languish.
THE OHIO AND TOLEDO RAILROAD.
A narrow-gauge railway, known as the Ohio and Toledo Railroad, was projected at Leetonia in 1872, and was, ac-
cording to intention, to extend from some point on the line between Pennsylvania and Ohio to Toledo via Hanoverton and Bolivar, with a branch, moreover, at Hanoverton con- necting the latter with Painesville. The enterprise was encouraged by people along the proposed line, but bad management and failure of contractors on the work brought the matter to grief,-as far as concerned Hanoverton, at least, the only progress effected in that vicinity being the grading of about two miles of the roadway from the town to the township-line.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
A. R. ARTER.
Prominent among the pioneers of Columbiana County we find the name of Michael Arter, who came to New Lis- bon (the county-seat)-in 1805. He was born in Maryland, and came here, with his parents, when ten years of age. "In 1816 he married Lydia, daughter of Joseph Richardson.
A. R. ARTER.
The father of Mrs. Arter was one of the best-known pub- lic men of the State of Ohio, having been elected to the Legislature and Senate of the State, serving as speaker of the latter for some time.
Michael Arter moved from New Lisbon to Hanover in the year 1816. There was then only one house in the place, the whole surrounding country being at that time almost entirely unsettled. He held many prominent posi- tions in the county. In all these he acquitted himself to the satisfaction of those who had confided their trusts to him. He was the father of seven children,-five sons and two daughters,-viz. : Joseph R., born in New Lisbon, Oct. 18, 1817 ; now living in New Lisbon ; has held some prom- inent positions, viz. : clerk of court of Columbiana County and State revenue collector for Eastern Ohio during the
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Rebellion. D. A., born Jan. 3, 1820; now living in Can- ton, Stark Co., O .; a prominent physician and surgeon. A. R., born Feb. 11, 1822; now a merchant in Hanover, Columbiana Co. Jane K., born Jan. 8, 1824; deceased. Jason R., born Dec. 12, 1825; served two years as surgeon in the army, under Gen. Thomas; died 1873. Catharine A., born April 30, 1828; married to Rev. J. Wright, a Methodist minister; now living in Cardington, O. T. J., born July 22, 1830; held the ofices of United States as- sessor and collector during the Rebellion; is now living on the old farm, first bought by his father. A. R. Arter, the third son,-who contributes this family history,-learned the tanning trade when quite young, and took charge of his father's tannery until 1845, when he married Mary, daughter of Elimelech Swearingen ; from this union were born seven children,-six sons and one daughter,-viz. : Leonard, born Aug. 3, 1846; served in the Union army during the Re- bellion; escaped the dangers of the battle field and sickness of the camp; reached home in safety ; died June 19, 1870. Alonzo, born Feb. 3, 1850; died July 22, 1859. Newton S. and Norman R. (twins), born Nov. 24, 1862; Newton S. died June 8, 1863. Elbert E. and Gilbert M. (twins), born June 27, 1865.
In 1863, A. R. Arter helped to organize the 18th Ohio Battalion, and was commissioned a captain by Gov. Todd. At the call of Gov. Brough, May, 1864, this battalion re- sponded and reported at Columbus, and with part of the 69th Battalion organised and formed the 143d Ohio Regt. ; was mustered into the United States service on the 13th of May, and on the 15th left for Washington City; on its ar- rival was assigned to Gen. Hawkins' Div., 22d Army Corps. A. R. Arter was assigned full command of Fort Slocum, one of the most important points, at the head of Seventh Street, which was held with honor by four companies until the regituent was ordered to embark for Bermuda Hundred; there it was assigned to the 10th Army Corps, and placed
in the entrenchments around Richmond and Petersburg, where it remained in active service until relieved from duty, and, proceeding to Camp Chase, O., was there mus- tered out of the service. Mr. Arter then left for home with his command, and has since been enjoying a business life in a quiet way.
Elimelech Swearingen, father of the wife of A. R. Arter, was born in Beaver Co., Pa., Dec. 31, 1791. When about sixteen years of age, moved to Columbiana Co., O., where he resided until his death, July 20, 1869. Mr. Swearingen married Sarah Wilcoxon, June 14, 1810. From this union were born thirteen children,-five sons and eight daughters,-vis. : Mary A., born May 15, 1811 ; died Feb. 14, 1821. Rebecca, born Feb. 4, 1813; was married to John Eidley, of Hanover, O .; died May 26, 1865. Ruth, born Jan. 17, 1815 ; died May 20, 1875. Elimelech, born November, 1816; married Martha Hurford, of Can- ton, O .; died August, 1862. Virlinda, born Oct. 14, 1818; was married to Richard Aten, of Wellsville, O George W., born Sept. 14, 1820; married Matilda Chap- man, of Virginia ; is now a practicing physician in Bed- ford, Taylor Co., Iowa. Elizabeth A., born Aug. 26, 1822; was married to A. Hurford, of Canton, O .; died Ang. 21, 1843. Daniel, born Feb. 23, 1826; married Hannah Chambers, of Steubenville, O .; now residing on a farm near Indiana, county-seat of Indiana Co., Pa. Lucinda, born Sept. 1, 1828; was married to O. G. Russell, of Wells- ville, O .; died March 13, 1858. Henry H., born July 17, 1830 ; married Maggie Poulton, of Columbiana County ; she died Jan. 17, 1868. He then married Jennie Steele, of Carrollton, O .; is now living in Hanover, O .; engaged in mercantile business. Greenberry, born Jan. 21, 1833; mar- ried Sarah Swearingen, of Columbiana County; resides at Kensington, Columbiana Co., O .; engaged in mercantile business. Sarah, born March 1, 1836; resides at the old homestead
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KNOX.
SITUATION-WATER-COURSES.
THE township of Knox, No. 17 in range 5, is the north- west corner township in the present county of Columbiana. It comprises 36 square miles of land, more or less hilly, and is well drained by the Mahoning River and its tribu- taries. It has no low or marsh lands incapable of success- ful cultivation. The waters of the Mahoning, which rises in West and Butler, are considerably augmented in their passage through the township. The township is bounded north by Mahoning County, east by Butler township, south by West township, and west by Stark County.
EARLY SETTLEMENTS.
Early settlements in Knox township, as in many others, were induced by the low price fixed by the Federal Govern- ment in the sale of the public lands. The natural situation, the fertility of the soil, and the healthful climate were addi- tional causes of early immigration and rapid settlement. These considerations resulted in the permanent settlement of the township, notwithstanding a very large portion of its territory was purchased by speculators, who, within the ensuing twenty years, disposed of it to settlers at advanced prices.
The first permanent settler of the township was John Thomas, of Adams Co., Pa., who came with a family of grown children. He entered sections 27, 28, and 29 in the year 1804. The children were John, Michael, Samuel and Peter (twins), Henry, Mary, who afterwards married John Niswander. Susan, Sarah, and Thomas were born in Knox.
The children of John, the oldest son, were Elizabeth, John, Mary, and Catharine. The children of Henry were Mary, Samuel, David, Jacob, Daniel, Barbara, George, Esther, Margaret, and Henry, Jr. Michael,. the second son, brought a family of two children from Pennsylvania,- Margaret and Henry. Thomas, the youngest son, lives on the homestead farm, on section 28.
John Thomas, the pioneer, died in the year 1818, at the age of seventy-three years, and was interred in the burying- ground in Butler township, cast of the present village of North Georgetown.
Moses, John, Thomas, and Richard Gilson, brothers, made & ermanent settlement in the township soon after the Thomas fumily, and probably in the next year. Thomas Gilson, now living on section 31, is a grandson of Thomas the pioneer.
Jacob Shaffer, a native of Lancaster Co., Pa., settled in Knox in 1804. His children by his first wife were Solomon and Margaret, who married Joseph Bloom Eng- lish. During Sabbath morning service on the banks of the Sandy, June 2, 1822, Mrs. Shaffer and her infant child
were killed by a falling tree. The second wife of Jucob was Nancy Linard, by whom he had children,-Lydia, who married David Johnson ; Joseph, who married Elizabeth Thomas, and lives in Knox township; Susanna, who mar- ried Michael Haveley ; Hannah, who married John Myers ; Mary, who married Henry Hustand; Amanda, who became Mrs. Thomas Isaman ; Abigail, who became the wife of Dayton Holloway ; Joshua, David, and Jacob.
Daniel Whiteleather, now living at North Georgetown, is one of a family of eight children, sons and daughters of Andrew Whiteleather. This family, all grown, settled in the township in 1807. The children were John, Christo- phel, George, David, Polly, Mary, Elizabeth, and Catharine. Of this family, David, who alone survives, lives on the homestead farm, on section 25, and has had thirteen chil- dren,-Andrew, John, Harriet, Mary, Joseph, Moses, Margaret, Jane, wife of Levi MeLaughlin, David, William, Jacob, Rebecca, Elizabeth, and Rosanna.
Parmenas Lamborn, of Chester Co., Pa., settled on sec- tion 13 in the year 1814, having a family consisting of a wife and four children,-Isaac; Mariam, who married John Buck ; Dinah, who married Jutnes Hartley ; and William. These were born subsequently : Elizabeth, who married Joseplı Ball, and died in 1874; Annie, who died in 1851 ; Lydia; and Mary, who died in 1837.
The children of John and Mariam (Lamborn) Buck were Nathan, who died in 1848 or '49; Jonathan, who died aged three years; Rebecca, who died in iufancy ; Jo- siah, who died in 1855; John W .; and Mary Anna, who married James Brandon, and lives in Knox township.
John Weaver, of Bedford Co., Pa., settled on section 35 in 1819. His children, all of whom are natives of Knox, are David, Isaac, John, William, Nancy, and Catha- rine. Of these, Isaac only now lives in the township.
John Weaver, Sr., the father of John, the settler men- tioned above, settled on section 36 in 1822. With him came five children,-Nancy, who married Isaac Yengling ; Abraham, who married Susan Conser ; Samuel, Isaac, and Barbara. Isaac married Catharine Shively, and had nine children,-Daniel, John, Susan, who married Henry Hoff- man, and was killed by lightning in 1868; Elizabeth, who married Eli Stoffer; Franklin, Isaac, Delilah, who married Barney Neal; David, and Levi.
In 1821, Cornelius Shechan, of Lancaster Co., Pa., set- tled on section 32. In his family were ten children,-five boys and five girls,-viz. : Isabella, John, William, Jere- minh, Rebecca, Elizabeth, and Samuel; and step-children,- Mary A., Nancy, and James. Of these, Jeremiah, Elizabeth, and Samuel live in Knox township. John, the second son, died in 1852. The children of Jeremiah are Ann, who married Nerr Burns; and Calvin, Thomas, Jesse, Franklin,
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Hannab, Mary Jane, Ella, Alice, and Stanton. Elizabeth married Jesse Thompson, and has one child, Rebecca Jane. The children of Samuel are John, Albert, Mary (Mrs. Smith Davis), Elizabeth ( Mrs. John Piel ), Luther, George, Amanda, who died in 1866, William, and Florence. Wil- liam, the son of Samuel, died in 1866, leaving three chil- dren,-Joseph W., Elizabeth ( Mrs. Dr. J. L. Johnson), and James A. Joseph W. and James A. live on the home- stead farm.
James Johnson entered a quarter of section 17 in 1823. His children were Sarah, James, Christopher, Samuel, David, Jane, Eliza, William, Nancy, and Margaret. Of these, Nancy and Margaret are natives of Knox township. David lives on section 28, and has eight children,-Mar- garet Jane, Nancy Ann, Eliza Ella, James, Jucob, Hannah Mary, Joseph, and Clement L. V.
James Beer, a pensioner of the war of 1812, settled in Wayne township in 1805, and in 1830 removed to Knox, bringing a wife and family. The children were Jane, who married Dr. Joshua Anderson, and lives in Knox township; John, Margaret, who married Dr. Joseph Dilworth, and lives in Stark County ; James, Susan, who married David Ruff; Hannah, Elizabeth, and Ellen. Mr. Beer still lives in Knox township, at the village of Homeworth.
. Rev. Joshua Beer, another son of the pioneer James, had settled in Knox in 1825, leaving in Portage County, from whence he came, a family of grown sons and daugh- ters. Mr. Beer had preached in Knox as early as 1818. While preaching at the Middle Sandy Presbyterian church, in 1843, he was suddenly. attacked with illness, and died in a few days afterwards.
Christian Dellenbaugh settled in Knox township in 1824. In 1826, Dr. John Dellenbaugh, son of Christian, con- menced the practice of medicine at North Georgetown, continuing twenty-eight years.
Daniel Borton, a native of Burlington Co., N. J., bought lands from the government, comprising 77-56 acres on section 9, receiving a grant therefor bearing the signature of President John Adams. He settled on the land in 1826. Ile married Mary Foughty, by whom he had eight children : Charlotte, who married Amos Wilson, and lives in Butler; Rachel, who married Joseph Towns, and lives in Missouri; Eliza, who lives at home; Horace P., who married Paulina Clement, and lives in Knox ; Sarah, who married Jesse Towns, and lives in Mason Co., Mich. ; Cyrus, who married Phebe A. Brosius, and lives in Smith ; Mary, who died in infancy ; and Daniel, Jr., now living in Knox.
Samuel Hoffman, a pioneer of Salem township, settled on section 21 in 1829. John, the oldest son living of a family of eight children, resides in Knox, on the homestead farm.
George M. Bowman settled on lands in section 23 in 1832. He married Catharine Summers, by whom he had five children,-Aaron, who died in 1834; David S., who married first Rachel E. Criswell, and after her death married Mary J. Shadle; Emeline H., who married Rev. John Clement, and died in 1875; Samuel, who died in 1842; and Mary L., who married Samuel Stoffer, and died in 1878. Mr. Bowman died in 1874, aged nearly sixty- three years. The children of David S. are Charles Sum- .
ner, Homer Addison, George and David (twins), both of whom died in infancy, and Irene B.
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