History of Columbiana County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 65

Author: D. W. Ensign & Co.
Publication date: 1879
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THE PROSPECT HILL COAL COMPANY, having among its members Enoch Lawton, James Sutherin, and Andrew Burnett, to develop the mineral on the west

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part of section 36. A railroad track, one mile in length, was laid to join the main line at the village, to which loaded cars are conveyed by gravitation. The main entry to the mine was driven from the north, and follows the upper vein a distance of seven hundred yards. At present four side drifts, each several hundred yards in length, are employed. The vein is from two and one-half to three feet in thickness, and the coal is highly esteemed for its qualities as fuel. Vein No. 4 has also been opened, but has not been much worked. About 60 tons per day are mined and shipped to Cleveland. Forty persons are em- ployed in the mines and shops of the company, and only one fatality has been connected with the operations here. On the 18th of April, 1879, Enoch Lawton, one of the proprietors, was overcome by the impure atmosphere in a little-used part of the mine, and before he was found death had ensued. ' The mine is at present operated by James Sutherin as lessee, the other proprietors having no active in- terest in the work.

THE STATE LINE COAL COMPANY.

In January, 1874, a company with this name, com- posed of C. B. Herron, J. W. Chalfin, and James Mul- lins, was organized to operate the coal-land on the eastern part of sections 25 and 36. Hugh Laughlin was ap- pointed superintendent, and yet fills that position. He at once secured a large force of workmen, and before the end of the year had built 3000 feet of railway-track from the main road, near the State line, leading to the principal entry of the mine, which had been extended about eight hundred yards.

The coal was found to be superior for generating steam, and was soon in active demand, and has since been largely used by the railroads of this part of the State. It is found in veins nearly four feet in thickness, and is mined with ease and safety. No accidents fatal to life have thus far occurred, and but one or two persons have been injured. The operations of the company have been chiefly confined to the coal found in Vein No. 4. The business has been gradually extended, until at present about 400 men are employed, requiring a monthly payment of $10,000.

An average of 50 cars per day are loaded and shipped to the various railroad centres. The main entry has been extended a mile, and 17 cross-entries are in use, some of them being nearly a mile in length. The coal is drawn to the surface by means of steam-power, operating an endless steel-wire rope a mile long, by means of which 32 loaded cars can be moved at the same time, and, in turn, be trans- ferred to the outside track without stopping the machine. This ingenious arrangement was devised and constructed by Messrs. Mullins & Laughlin, and has attracted great attention from its simplicity and perfect operation. The company has also patented a machine for washing the slack of the mines, thereby effecting a great saving of coal and labor. The superintendent has a very neat and well-appointed office at the village, distant from the mines one mile.

Northwest from the village small coal-mines are operated by Joseph Davis, Samuel Wilhelm, and Firm, Clark & Co.

In the southwest part of Unity coal has been mined on the farm of Wm. C. Baker and others.

At East Palestine excellent potter's clay has been found, and a company is about being formed to establish a pottery to manufacture Rockingham-ware.

CIVIC AND MILITARY ORDERS.

The township has had but a few societies that retained a noteworthy existence.

EAST PALESTINE LODGE, NO. 417, F. AND A. M.,

was chartered Oct. 21, 1868, with the following members : George Lamb, Joseph Young, B. F. Sheets, John F. Stacy, S. N. Euton, Martin Koch, Hugh Laughlin, B. D. Sheets, Seth Meek, James J. Sheets, Ferdinand Oberlander, Isaac Cress, James Fitzsimmons, Charles Shook, Stephen Palmer, Hugh Garrett, John Tritt, and Ed. P. Young. The three first named held the principal offices, and had filled the same positions under a warrant granting a dispensation to form a Lodge.

The Lodge had, April, 1879, 35 members and the follow- ing officers: T. H. Elser, W. M .; George B. Alaback, S. W .; J. F. Stacy, J. W .; W. T. Hamilton, Sec .; B. F. Sheets, Treas. ; Seth Meek, S. D .; H. J. Fraiser, J. D .; Thomas R. Davis, Tyler.

THE EAST PALESTINE GRAYS.

This military body was organized as an independent company, Aug. 23, 1875. It received its name from the style of uniform adopted, which was at first a handsome gray, but the company being a part of the State militia the prescribed uniform of army-blue is worn. In 1876 the Grays were mustered as Company E, 10th Regt. Ohio Na- tional Guards, and were regarded by that title by the State authorities until about January, 1879, when the regiment was relettered, and the Palestine company became Company D, although it is yet locally known by its original name.

The State has provided arms for the company and a limited number of uniformns. An armory and drill-ball has been furnished at East Palestine by the village and township of Unity, each bearing a proportion of the ex- pense according to the relative number enlisted from the village or the township. The company is subject to the orders of the military department of the State, but may at any time be called to serve as a special police force by the mayor of the village without the intervention of outside authority.

The officers at the organization of the company were Hugh Laughlin, Captain, promoted Lieutenant-Colonel of regiment ; J. A. Sampsell, First Lieutenant, promoted Major of regiment; John Flowers, Second Lieutenant, promoted Captain of company.

The present (1879) organization of the company is as follows : Captain, W. T. Hamilton ; First Lieutenant, Bart- lett Early ; Second Lieutenant, J. M. Frankhouser; First Ser- geant, A. A. Bushong; Second Sergeant, Martin Sutherin ; Third Sergeant, George H. Miller; Fourth Sergeant, Morris Alaback ; Fifth Sergeant, Edward E. Kelley ; First Corporal, Caleb Garrett ; Second Corporal, Adam Elge; Third Corporal, Samuel Meek ; Fourth Corporal, Heman Reed ; Fifth Corporal, A. B. Correll ; Sixth Corporal, W. W. Young; Seventh Corporal, Henry W. Horne; Eighth Corporal, Samuel M. Hoon; Fife-Major, Wilson Ritchie;

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CHARLES LONG.

MRS. LUCINDA WALLACE.

W. C. WALLACE.

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RESIDENCE OF CHARLES LONG, UNITY TP., COLUMBIANA CO., O.

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Drummers, Edward Ritchie, George Ritchie, George Flow- ers; Color-Bearer, James Slack ; Wagon-Master, Levi Neville; Privates, Moore R. Alaback, George B. Alaback, James Andre, R. A. Baker, W. H. Bowes, Eli Clubber, Frank Crowl, John Cannell, Lincoln Early, Henry C. Elge, John Flowers, David Forney, Emmet Gorby, Harry Gannon, James Garrett, William Johnson, Richard Lake, William Lyon, William Meek, Samuel McNees, John McGowan, W. W. McNees, Eugene May, Thomas Nichols, Robert Officer, B. F. Rupert, John Rafferty, Albert Shaf- fer, Peter Shuster, C. M. Torrance, James A. Teegarden, R. F. Vogan, James W. Walker, N. A. Williams, Joseph Young, W. W. Young.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

HON. JAMES MARTIN.

The gentleman whose name heads this brief notice, and who is essentially a self-made man, was born Nov. 24, 1808, in Unity township, Columbiana Co., Ohio. His father, Andrew Martin, emigrated to this county from Pennsylva- nia, about the year 1801. His mother, whose maiden

HON. JAMES MARTIN.

name was Elizabeth Ammon, came to Columbiana with her parents from Virginia, about the same date. Andrew Martin was married in 1804, had a family of nine children, and followed agricultural pursuits.

James Martin was educated in the rude school-house of pioneer times, und spent his minority chiefly upon his father's farm. At the age of twenty-one years he com- menced teaching school, which he continued for some time successfully, meanwhile reading both law and medicine, besides giving attention to farming and sheep husbandry.

May 1, 1848, he married Miss Harriet McCalla, of East Palestine, Ohio, who died in less than a year after her marriage. For his second wife he married, Nov. 9, 1858,

Miss Louisa C. Foulks, of Beaver Co., Pa. They have one child, a daughter, named Kittie Lou.

Politically, Mr. Martin is a Republican, and has long been identified with that party in this county ; as its rep- resentative he has been honored with several positions of honor and trust. In 1854 he was elected probate judge of Columbiana County, and re-elected in 1857, serving six years, during which time he never had a case reversed. He was subsequently (1866) elected to the State Legisla- ture from his native county. He is now (1879) living in retirement upon his farm, within the corporate limits of East Palestine, in this county.

CHARLES LONG.

Charles Long, Sr., settled in what is now Unity township in 1803, emigrating from Rockbridge Co., Va. Therefore the history of the Long family may be said to have com-

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menced with that of Columbiana County, for it was the year the county was organized and christened. This oc- curred when the subject of our sketch, Charles Long, Jr., was but five years of age. His father settled here, and took up a section of land, upon a portion of which Charles, Jr., still resides.

Charles, the senior, was a man of strong physical powers, as is evinced by the remarkable age to which he lived, for most of his life enduring the hardships incident to that of early settlers, and dying at the age of ninety-three.

Mr. Long, Jr., has raised a family of seven children, and, what is remarkable in a family of that number, all are still living. He has been very successful in his chosen pursuit,- agriculture,-accumulating considerable property, which he now (though eighty-one years of age, and hale and hearty) lives to enjoy. Politically, Mr. Long has always been and remains a Democrat, though office and political honors have been shunned rather than sought by him.

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WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, numbered 12 in the list of townships, and occupying range 3, lies on the southern border of Columbiana, and is bounded north by the townships of Franklin and Wayne; south, by the Jefferson County line; east, by Yellow Creek township; and west, by Carroll County and Franklin township.

The Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railway passes through the township diagonally from the southeast to the north- west, and has at Salineville a station, where all trains halt. A short track, of about two miles in length, owned by the Salineville Railroad Company, extends west from Saline- ville to the Carroll County line, and is used exclusively for the transportation of coal from the mines along its line. Big Yellow Creek, receiving at Salineville the waters of two of its forks, flows southeast through the township, along the line of the railway. Once a water-course of some power, it has dwindled, within the township limits, to an insignificant stream.

Washington occupies a hilly and healthful region, and, like the adjoining country, is noted as a place where sick- ness is rare, and where extreme longevity is a common thing, while those who reach a ripe old age retain in a remarkable degree a vigorous exercise of the faculties.

EARLY SETTLEMENT.

Washington township received its first settlers as carly as 1803, and not long after that date the announcement of the discovery of salt on Yellow Creek brought the salt- boilers into the township in considerable force.

William McLaughlin, with his wife and eight children, sailed from Greenock, Scotland, in 1807, in the ship " George Yorke," Capt. Taylor, of Greenock, and after a speedy pas- sage of twenty-eight days landed at New York. Thence he passed to Philadelphia, and crossing the Alleghenies to Pittsburgh, floated down the Ohio, and in due season reached his place of destination, which was the territory now occupied by Washington township. Here, upon section 6, where J. W. Anderson now lives, he settled and began a pioneer's work. Alexander, the fifth son of William Mclaughlin, and the only living member of that pioneer band, resides in Wellsville, Ohio. Although in his ninety- first year, he is quite active and in the enjoyment of ex- cellent health. Indeed, he says he has never known sick- ness, and states that his father and mother-although the first lived to be eighty-eight, and the latter eighty-five- were never ill twenty-four hours at a time. Mr. A. C. McLaughlin relates that when he settled in Washington he was then a young man of nineteen, and vividly recalls his experiences and observations of that early time. There were several settlers there, and touching them he speaks as follows:

George Clark, a settler on section 4, where Perry J. Clark now lives, came in from Pennsylvania, and located in the township in 1803. Clark was the father of seven children, a worthy, industrious citizen, and, being the first person in the township chosen as justice of the peace, became a man of mark, and filled the office many years.

One Fishel, an Italian, was a settler in 1804, and built the first grist-mill in the township, at the place now known as Clark's Mills. It was a poor apology for a mill, where flour was sifted through a bit of cloth tacked upon a small box-frame, but it served a useful purpose, nevertheless, and was probably well patronized. Fishel was a carpenter as well as miller, raised a large family, and lived upon the place until his death.

James Sharp, from Pennsylvania, located in 1803 upon section 35, where James Sharp, one of his descendants, now lives. George, Isaiah, and Silas Burson were among the earliest settlers, and after a time became extensive sult- boilers on Yellow Creek. Silas occupied a farm which he afterwards sold to John McIntosh, from Scotland. whose widow now lives on the place. Isaiah, who owned a farin near Silas, had been a Quaker, but blossomed into a Disci- ple preacher, and went about among the people enunciating the principles of that faith with much vigor. George was likewise a -Disciple preacher, and like Isaiah was popular. They attracted many people to hear their discourses, but their hearers, it is said, were drawn thither chiefly through curiosity.

Cornelius McLeest came over from Ireland and located in 1804, north of William McLaughlin.

William Draghorn, from Scotland, settled upon section 12, northwest quarter. His brother-in-law, Robert Mc- Auley, settled upon the place in 1810, and, being killed. at a barn-raising, his place was taken up by Draghorn. Mc- Auley's brother met also with a violent death while in search of an eagle's nest upon one of Scotland's high cliffs, whence he was dashed to pieces. William Draghorn's son John sold the old farm, and removed westward some years ago.

It is related of George Clark that upon a visit to New Lisbon he was to ask at the post office for letters for Wil- liam Draghorn. He thought the name was a poor one, and, thus reflecting upon it, determined that he was ashamed to ask for Draghorn's letters. While at the post-office, however, probably discussing the matter with himself, he heard a German ask for a letter for " Mr. Ruter." "Hello!" cried Clark ; " that's a worse name than Draghorn, and so I'll not be further ashamed to ask for Draghorn's letters."

Alexander McLaughlin located in 1812 upon section 5 where Theophilus Cox now lives. Daniel Swearingen en- tered the tract, and from him Mclaughlin purchased it.

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John Farmer, a member of the Society of Friends, and an early settler in Hanover township, moved into Washington about 1814, and took up at Salineville the salt interests previously owned by the Bursons. Mr. Farmer became one of the most prominent men in Washington township, as did after him his son James; now one of Cleveland's capitalists, and largely interested in coal-mining at Saline- ville as well as in railway and mining interests elsewhere. James Farmer built at Salineville, in 1838, the first grist- mill of any consequence in Washington. The mill is now owned by J. G. Lacock & Co.

A few Quakers located at and near Salineville shortly after the days of early settlement, and about the time John Farmer located there. They were a few years afterwards numerous enough to organize a religious society, whose members worshiped in a church built by John and James Farmer, and now owned by the Disciple congregation. Shortly previous to 1852 the society began to lose strength by removals, and in that year very few Quakers were living in the township.

Thomas and Martin Adams, of Pennsylvania, settled about 180-4 in that part of Washington afterwards set off to Jefferson County. Martin was a justice of the peace and a whisky-distiller in a small way. Moses Marshall, Martin Adams' brother-in-law, came in from Pennsylvania, and located near the latter.

Abraham Croxton was a settler in that neighborhood and laid out a village, called Monroeville (now in Jefferson County) in honor of President Monroe, of whom Croxton was a great admirer. Croxton was a farmer and store- keeper, and at Monroeville kept the first store known in those parts. After him, the store was kept by Daniel Mc- Arthur, related to Governor McArthur, of Ohio. John Moore, of Pennsylvania, was a settler on the west side of the township, and was a famous justice of the peace.

George James, from Tennessee, was one of the first salt- boilers at Salineville. He was noted particularly for his hatred of Gen. Jackson, whose sister he desired to marry. Jackson did not like him, and prevented the marriage, where- upon James vowed eternal enmity to Jackson, became a Bult-boiler, and died a bachelor.

James and John Ogle, from North Carolina, were black- smiths, and settled near the centre of the township. Be- tween them they had eight stalwart sons, all of whom were blacksmiths.

Horse-thieves made their unwelcome presence felt in those early days, and much trouble they caused. Thomas Baker, an early settler, who came in from Pennsylvania, was deprived, by thieves, of his horse, and, keeping up a fruitless search for the animal all through one summer, not only failed to find the horse, but lost his crops, not being at home to care for them.

George, Alexander, Hugh, and Samuel Clark, from Penn- sylvania, were early settlers upon the east side of the town- ship. Samuel was very fond of an occasional drink of bitters, and being told one day at a store, when well charged with fire-water, that he could not have any more drinks, ex- citedly exclaimed, as he danced like a wild man, " By Heavens, I'll have it, if it cost a dollar a bushel !" Samuel was, however, a good citizen, and a good blacksmith to boot.

George Clark undertook, for $60, to " blaze" a road from Yellow Creek to New Lisbon,-a distance of fifteen miles. This was a part of the State road from Steubenville to New Lisbon, but it was not wisely selected, and very little of the route is now used for a public highway.

Thomas Patterson located in the north, and John Hart, a "Yankee," on the east. Hart raised a family of fourteen children, of whom seven sons served in the Rebellion of 1861, and passed through the war without receiving as much as a scratch.

James Hoey is said to have kept, at Salineville, one of the first taverns, if not the first tavern, in the township.

James Sharp intended at one time to lay out a town upon his property, and talked of starting the town with a first- class tavern. Sharp, like many others about that time, had the " town fever" in an aggravated form, but the fever abated as fast almost as it rose, and Sharp's town, as well as his tavern, never assumed material forin. In the west- ern end of the Scotch settlement, Angus McDonald, Angus Noble, Evan McPherson, and other Scotchmen were early settlers. Hugh Baes, of Pennsylvania, was a settler in the eastern portion of the township.

Upon the outbreak of the war of 1812, a number of the citizens of Washington went to New Lisbon and offered to enter the army if arms were provided for them. The arms were not forthcoming, and they went home again.

Recurring to Angus McDonald, above mentioned, it may be observed that he owned the property upon which High- landtown is now located, and himself laid out that village.

As one of the features of the days of early settlement in not only Washington, but many of the Columbiana town- ships, it will do to observe that the supply of rye whisky for each family household was as scrupulously looked after as the supply of bread, and, according to tradition, the early settlers would as soon have thought of doing without one as the other.

Evan McPherson, already alluded to, came over from Scotland in the ship " Frances," of New Orleans, in 1812, with his wife and six children, and located upon the north- west quarter of section 6. Finding, after a time, that he would not be able to pay for the whole of it, he disposed of half of it to Angus McDonald. Upon that portion Mal- colm Cameron now lives, and upon the portion retained by Evan McPherson his son, Richard McPherson, resides.

In the same ship with Evan McPherson, Alex. Dallas and David Rose came over from Scotland. They stopped some time, however, at New York, but settled eventually in Washington,-Dallas where William Garside now lives, and Rose upon the Rose place, at Highlandtown.

ORGANIZATION.

Washington was organized in 1816 as Saline township, and, upon the erection of Carroll County in 1832, a portion of Saline township being set off to that county and the name retained there, that portion remaining in Columbiana was renamed and called Washington in 1833, when, on the 3d of June, the county commissioners remodeled the township of Wayne and fractional townships of Franklin and Saline. To the latter, altered to Washington township, additions were made of sections 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36,

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from Wayne township. The first township election after the reorganization was held at the residence of Squire Gilson.

The obtainable list of officers who have served the town- ship dates from 1837, as follows :

1837 .- Trustees, Daniel D. McIntosh, Thomas Ward, Wmn. Milner; Clerk, Hugh Clark ; Treasurer, Richard Gilson.

1838 .- Trustees, Daniel D. McIntosh, James Hoge, George James; Clerk, Wm. Farmer; Treasurer, Richard Gilson.

1839 .- Trustees, Alanson Clark, James Hoge, James McLaughlin ; Clerk, Hugh Clark : Treasurer, Richard Gilson.

1840 .- Trustees, D. D. McIntosh, Joseph Williams, William Milner ; Clerk, John Sharp ; Treasurer, Richard Gilson.

1841 .- Trustees, D. D. McIntosh, John Thompson, Henry Paul; Clerk, Peter Dallas : Treasurer, Samuel Paisley.

1842 .- Trustees, James Sharp, Wm. Milner, Stephen Clark ; Clerk, Peter Dallas; Treasurer, James Farmer.

1843 .- Trustees, W'm. Milner, Stephen Clark, George Farmer ; Clerk, Peter Dallas; Treasurer, James Sharp.

1844 .- Trustees, Stephen Clark, John Farmer, Alexander Boyle: Clerk, Peter Dallas : Treasurer, James Sharp.

1845 .- Trustees, Alexander Boyle, William Sharp, John S. Hart : Clerk, Peter Dallas : Treasurer, James Sharp.

1846 .- Trustees, John S. Hart, Alexander Boyle, Thomas Creighton ; Clerk, Joseph Milner : Treasurer, Stephen Clark. 1847 .- Trustees, Alexander Boyle, D. D. McIntosh, John S. Hart : Clerk, Rodney Ogle : Treasurer, Stephen Clark.

1848 .- Trustees, D. D. McIntosh, Alexander Boyle, Alanson Clark ; Clerk, James McGonagle : Treasurer, Stephen Clark. 1849 .- Trustees, James Spears, John Fogo, Alexander Boyle: Clerk, Joseph F. Williams; Treasurer, Stephen Clark. 1850 .- Trustees, John Fogo, Abner Gore, Alexander Boyle; Clerk, R. W. Milner : Treasurer, Stephen Clark.

1851 .-- Trustees, E. B. Maple, William Garside, Richard McPherson ; Clerk, Abner Gore; Treasurer, Stephen Clark.

1852 .- Trustees, E. B. Maple, William Garside, William Milner; Clerk, James McGonagle ; Treasurer, Stephen Clark.

1853 .- Trustees, E. B. Maple, William Garside, William Milner; Clerk, John Conner ; Treasurer, Stephen Clark.

1854 .- Trustees, William Milner, William Paul, J. B. Milner; Clerk, John Conner; Treasurer, Stephen Clark.

1855 .- Trustees, William Paul, William Gilson, P. G. Clark : Clerk, William McGillivray ; Treasurer, S. Clark.

1856 .- Trustees, P. G. Clark, William Gilson, Charles Morrow ; Clerk, Benjamin Johnson ; Treasurer, S. Clark.

1857 .- Trustees, Charles Morrow, Hiram Kellogg, William Sharp; Clerk, Lewis Weaver; Treasurer, Stephen Clark.

1858 .- Trustees, William Sharp, Charles Morrow, Edward Pumphrey ; Clerk, Lewis Weaver; Treasurer, Stephen Clark. 1859 .- Trustees, Edward Pumphrey, Hugh McPherson, Hugh Wat- son ; Clerk, Lewis Weaver ; Treasurer, Stephen Clark.

1860 .- Trustees, Hugh McPherson, Hugh Watson, Thomas Coburn ; Clerk, George D. Clark ; Treasurer, Stephen Clark. 1861 .- Trustees, A. Baker, James Hoge, A. McGonagle; Clerk, Geo. D. Clark ; Treasurer, Stephen Clark. 1862 .- Trustees, A. Baker, James McGonagle, James Hoge; Clerk, J. M. Bayless ; Treasurer, H. McPherson.

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History of Columbiana County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 65

Author: D. W. Ensign & Co. Publication date: 1879 Publisher: Number of Pages: 541

Author: D. W. Ensign & Co.
Publication date: 1879
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 541