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Mr. Trenner is one of the few old pioneers and he has lived a life that has resulted in much good to the community, and is in every way deserving of the high esteem in which he is held by all who know him.
GEORGE S. KAHO.
The name of George S. Kaho has been so intimately associated with the material and civic interests of Senecaville, Guernsey county, where he has long resided, as to reflect great credit upon the town and vicinity, at the same time gaining the undivided respect of all who know him for his well directed life, which has been along paths of honor and uprightness.
Mr. Kaho was born on July 9, 1849, in Baltimore county, Maryland, the son of Daniel and Eliza ( Armstrong) Kaho, both natives of the state of Maryland, the father born in Baltimore county and the mother in Hartford county. The family emigrated to Senecaville, Richland township, Guernsey county. Ohio, in 1857. The father was a tinner by trade. but upon coming to this place he engaged in the grocery business, which he continued until his death. He was very well known in commercial circles of this locality. His widow survived him many years, dying in Quaker City about 1900. Daniel Kaho was a Democrat up to 1861, when he became a Republican. He was interested in public matters, and he served as treasurer of Richland township. He was also treasurer of the town of Senecaville for a period of twenty-four years. He was a man of fine character and high standing. He was a mem- ber of the village council and held other public positions. He belonged to the Presbyterian church and was an elder in the same for many years, being a devoted churchman. His father, Daniel Kaho, was from Tipperary, Ireland,
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and the Armstrongs were Scotch-Irish, having come to America in the early years of the last century. The family of Daniel and Eliza Kaho consisted of eight children, six sons and two daughters, namely: Alexander, deceased; James. deceased ; George S. Hezekiah, of Linton, Indiana; Sylvester, de- ceased : Susan L., now Mrs. Frank Stevens, of Senecaville; Catherine M., a teacher in the Senecaville schools; John D., of Cleveland, Ohio, is a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church.
George S. Kaho spent his childhood and youth in Senecaville and he was educated in the public schools here. On December 6, 1872, he was married to Anna Dennison, daughter of and Rachel (Finley) Dennison, a family of Senecaville. The father of Mrs. Kaho was a member of the vast tide of emigrants to the California gold fields, and while en route overland he took sick and died. As a young man Mr. Kaho learned the watchmaking business in Senecaville and at the time of his marriage he was located in busi- ness in Summerfield, Noble county, remaining there about three years. In 1874 he went to Portland City and engaged in the jewelry business for more than a year. In April, 1875, he returned to Senecaville and engaged in busi- ness as a painter and contractor, working at the wagonmaking trade during the winter months. He has continued these lines of endeavor and has been very successful. All his life he has been a very busy man.
Politically, Mr. Kaho is a Republican and has long been active in the affairs of his party, serving it in an advisory way, with the county Republican central committee and as a delegate to party conventions. He has served as a member of the Senecaville board of education for three years, during which time he succeeded in introducing some needed reforms necessary for the ad- vancement of the schools.
In July, 1910, Mr. Kaho was appointed postmaster at Senecaville and on August 24th the following he assumed the duties of the same, and is giving the best of service in this capacity. He is a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics and is presiding officer in the local council. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian church and he is a deacon in the same.
Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Kaho: Howard F. is married and resides in Salida, Colorado; Lulu H., now Mrs. William T. Strausthon, of Senecaville: Estella, now Mrs. Grant Trott, of Cumberland, this county ; Helen, now Mrs. Mark E. Sayer, of Portersville, California.
This family is prominent in church and Sunday school work, and the Kaho home is prominent in the social life of this community. It is one of the cozy and attractive cottages of Senecaville.
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ANTON E. DRUESEDOW.
Success has been worthily attained by Anton E. Druesedow, the well known and popular photographer of Cambridge, who has always believed in doing well whatever was worth doing at all, and as a result of his painstaking efforts in his chosen calling he ranks second to none in his line in eastern Ohio. He was born January 14, 1872, in Wheeling, West Virginia. He is the son of Albert and Amelia (Hoy) Druesedow, both natives of Germany, from which country they came to America when young and were married after coming here. The father was a stationary engineer, but he was never a resident of Guernsey county. John Hoy, the maternal grandfather of the subject, was for many years a resident of Guernsey county, but later moved to Nebraska where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a carriage- maker in Germany and followed this trade after locating at Winterset, Guern- sey county, Ohio. The parents of the subject are both deceased, the father being buried at Washington, Pennsylvania, and the mother is buried at Steu- benville, Ohio. They were people of the most sterling attributes.
Anton E. Druesedow was educated in the public schools of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and Cambridge, Ohio. The family moved to Pittsburg when he was young, and after the mother's death, the son came to Cambridge and attended school and here he has resided ever since. His first employment was in the Cambridge Chair Factory, when he was sixteen years of age and he remained there three years. He then found employment in the freight office of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at Cambridge, in which he remained about three years. He always had an eye for the beautiful and on many occasions his esthetic nature asserted itself and he was always apt ivith brush and pencil. and after leaving the Baltimore & Ohio road he took up fresco work and in- terior decorating, which he followed at different cities, but only for one sea- son. He was then employed by the Standard Oil Company at Pittsburg for six months. During all these years he had been studying photography with a view of engaging in the business and in 1902 he opened a studio on North Sixth street where he operated successfully for about three years, then he moved to his present quarters in the Guernsey Bank building, the studio form- erly occupied by W. T. Dollison, an old established studio. He has always been very successful in this line, being recognized as an artist of rare skill and artistic ability, his work being excellently done in all lines of photographic work. He has a finely equipped studio and his work has won him wide notoriety and patrons come to him from remote localities.
Mr. Druesedow is a member of the National Association of Photograph-
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ers and he attends their annual meetings and takes an active interest in them. He is greatly interested in his work. He belongs to the Methodist Protestant church, and politically he is a Democrat, but he is not active in the party, though well informed on public questions. Until recently he gave a great deal of attention to music and for some time he was a member of Cambridge's famous band, but the press of business compelled him to give up this avoca- tion and he now merely plays a little occasionally as a sort of diversion from his work.
Mr. Druesedow was married October 26, 1910, to Mary E. Hommer, daughter of David and Rachael ( Keller) Hommer, of Huntingdon, Pennsyl- vania, a well known and prominent family of that city.
MICHAEL E. SHRIVER, M. D.
The relief of actual, gnawing pain, and life-destroying sickness, the pro- longation of the days of man's sojourn on this earth, sometimes accomplished by snatching him from the very portals of death-these are some of the achievements which bring the physician close to his brother man, and render him more tangibly than the member of any other profession a servant of humanity. For he heals material disease, apparent and real; the lawyer and the minister prescribe for intangible troubles of mind and soul, not outwardly apparent. And in no profession is there need of higher qualities of mind and heart than in the physician's, nor in no other is there such complete abnega- tion of self to the demands of others. Truly in these days you will find in the ranks of the practitioners of medicine much of the old spirit which ani- mated the martyrs. The present sketch is concerned with the life of a young man who was born and reared in Guernsey county, the descendant of a well known family, and who has so strongly felt the call to the practice of medicine that he entered upon it at a later period of life than most men care to take up a new profession.
Michael E. Shriver was born on March 11, 1874, on his father's farm in Jackson township, Guernsey county, Ohio. He is a son of Mark Gordon and Caroline (Camp) Shriver, whose record appears in a preceding sketch. His boyhood was spent on the farm, and in attending the district schools. At the age of nineteen he went to Illinois, and there farmed and taught school for several years. He then in 1899 went to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and was there for four years in the employ of a grain dealer. In the autumn of 1903 he
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began the study of medicine in the medical department of Creighton Uni- versity, at Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from that institution in the class of 1907, on May 14 of that year. At once he began the practice of medicine at McClelland, Nebraska, which was his location until October, 1909, when he moved to his present home at Calloway, Nebraska, where he is now prac- ticing, and is meeting with success. He is much devoted to his profession. and keeps abreast of the latest developments in the medical realm, and his varied experience in life is of great aid in his beginning practice.
Doctor Shriver was married on October 24, 1909, to Blanch Fox, of Council Bluffs, Iowa.
MARK GORDON SHRIVER.
In the present article is recorded much of the history of a family which from pioneer times to the present day has been prominently identified with the activities and interests of Jackson township, the members of which have been men and women of solid worth and substantial virtues, fulfilling their duty in every situation in which they were placed-men and women who have caused the name of Shriver to be honored and respected in their community.
Mark Gordon Shriver was born about a mile and a half southwest of Byesville, Jackson township, Guernsey county, Ohio. He was the son of Adam, Jr., and Delilah (Gordon) Shriver, who were pioneers of that locality. Adam Shriver, Jr., was the son of Adam Shriver, Sr., and was born in Mary- land; Delilah Gordon was born in Monongahela county, Virginia, in 1790. Adam Shriver, Sr., was a soldier in the Revolution, and was the father of four sons, Adam, Jacob, Elijah and Michael, and with his family lived for some time in Greene county, Pennsylvania, near Jollytown. In 1808 he came to Guernsey county, Ohio, and entered a large amount of land south of Byesville, then returned to Pennsylvania. In 1809 his son. Adam Shriver. Jr., and his wife set out for the new country, where his father had made his entries from the government. They came on foot and horseback, he walking and she riding, and they led a colt that carried a bed and other possessions necessary to pioneer life when necessities were few and simple.
Adam Shriver, Jr., came to this country at such an early day that wild turkeys, deer and bears were still seen, the former in abundance. He once met a bear on his farm coming toward him and shot it, but as the bear kept coming he ran; however, the bear fell dead from its wound before it could reach him. He also killed deer near his house. All the land about was a
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forest wilderness, none of it having been cleared at that time. His cabin was built of logs, with no doors or windows except holes, and they hung a quilt before the door at night. Thus he established his first humble home in the wilderness, and set to work to improve his farm. In later life he became the owner of a large tract of land, was prominent in his community, and held numerous minor offices. He died in 1861, his wife in 1871.
Mark Gordon Shriver grew up on his father's farm, and during the Civil war was a soldier in Company E, One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served in many arduous campaigns. Throughout life he was a farmer and a capable one. He was first married to Rachel Kirk- patrick, who bore him two daughters, Alice Odella and Mary Etta. Alice Odella married George L. Beach, and lives just west of Byesville. Mary Etta married Rev. H. H. Dunaway, and died in Kansas. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Shriver married Caroline Camp. She was the daughter of Joseph and Louisa ( Jordan) Camp, and was born in the western part of Jackson township, where Mt. Zion church now stands. To this marriage six children were born : Ida L. married Asbury Watson, and lives between Byes- ville and Trail Run : Adam G. lives near Mt. Zion church in Jackson township; John W. lives on the home farm ; Leota L. married Andrew Gibson, and lived in Byesville, where she died when about thirty years old; Michael is a prac- ticing physician at Calloway, Nebraska: Josephine married John B. Smock, and lives at Osborne, Kansas.
Mark G. Shriver died on February 26, 1905, a man respected and esteemed by all who knew him. His wife now lives on the old home place. with her son, John Wesley Shriver, and his family.
GEORGE ALEXANDRIA McMILLEN.
One of the owners of extensive farming interests in Westland township, Guernsey county, is the gentleman whose name initiates this sketch. His valuable property has been acquired through his own efforts, his persistency of purpose and his determination, and the prosperity which is the legitimate reward of all earnest effort is today his. Mr. McMillen has also richly earned the high esteem in which he is held by all who know him owing to his life of honesty, his straightforward dealings with his fellow men and the fact that while advancing his own interests he has never lost sight of the fact that it is his duty to lend his influence in furthering the interests of his community.
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George Alexandria McMillen was born in Washington county, Penn- sylvania, July 14, 1850, and he is the son of John and Nancy Jane McMillen, both born in the same county in the old Keystone state and were schoolmates there. Their marriage took place on February 19. 1839. She was two years his junior; their married life was a happy one and they were popular in their community and by hard work and economy became well established. Five children were born to them, named as follows: Mrs. Mary Jane Ewing. John F., William, George Alexandria, of this review, and Mrs. Margaret Wilson. This family remained in Pennsylvania until 1871 when they moved to Guern- sey county, Ohio, making the overland trip in a covered wagon, and the father bought the farm which is now owned by his son. George Alexandria, of this review. John McMillen was a good farmer and he continued his voca- tion until his death. on December 13. 1895, and his wife was called to her rest on January 6, 1901. They were both members of the United Presbyterian church and took active parts in its maintenance until their deaths.
The subject of this sketch was twenty-one years old when he came to this county. He had received a very serviceable education in the common schools of his native county and he early in life began working in his father's fields and took up farming for himself when he reached maturity. He located, upon his arrival here, on the farm where he still resides, which is situated five miles southwest of Cambridge. While carrying on farming, he learned the black- smith's trade. Later he took up breeding fine stock, became one of the leading stock raisers in this part of the county, and owing to the superior quality of his livestock he has always found a very ready sale for what he placed on the market. He is regarded as an excellent judge of stock and he has made a specialty of Poland-China hogs and Devon cattle. The latter have taken many blue ribbons at the county, state and general fairs, showing as far west as the state of Washington, and the name of Mr. McMillen in this connection is known to the stock men of the West and middle West and parts of the East, his fine stock being greatly admired by all who have seen them and they. have commanded tip-top and fancy prices. He was honored by the Republican party by being elected to membership on the board of agriculture of Guern- sey county, and he served in a manner that reflected much credit upon himself and to the entire satisfaction of all concerned for a period of eighteen years, and he is now the efficient president of that organization which is one of considerable importance and is doing a very commendable work.
On the 19th day of February, 1873. Mr. McMillen was married to Mary Elizabeth Fergus, a very estimable lady and the representative of a sterling old family of the Keystone state, she being the daughter of John and Ellen
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Fergus, both natives of Washington county, Pennsylvania. To Mr. and Mrs. McMillen five children have been born, named as follows: Martin, who lives at home : John F. married Nannie Patton, and they have one child, Ada Eliza- beth : Dessa Ellen lives in Cambridge, and she married A. C. Braden ; Sarah Belle married J. R. Fulton, of Jackson township, and they have two children. Edna and Anna ; Frank F. is single and living at home. These children have all received good educations and were reared in a wholesome home atmosphere.
Mrs. George A. McMillen is one of a family of eight children, named as follows: Agnes has remained single ; Mrs. Sarah McClay, Mrs. Belle McClay : John married Lida Walker-Fergus ; and Thomas.
As already indicated, Mr. McMillen is a prominent Republican and has long been active in the affairs of his township and county. He has served eighteen years on the local school board and has done a great deal in pro- moting the cause of education here. In 1910 he was elected director of the county infirmary and he is serving very conscientiously as such. He is a faithful member and a liberal supporter of the United Presbyterian church at East Union, being treasurer of the same.
Mr. McMillen is deserving of the large success that has attended his efforts and he has one of the "show" places in his locality. The old home- stead is a picturesque place, the dwelling being commodious, attractive, on the order of the famous old plantation homes of the South. It is in the midst of beautiful surroundings, in a grove of stately evergreens and a spacious, well- kept and inviting lawn, and this place has always been known for its genuine hospitality and the cordial welcome to the many friends of the family and the good cheer generously dispensed to them here.
Personally, Mr. McMillen is a gentleman of pleasing address, generous, honorable in all the relations of life, but never ostentatious or found seeking the plaudits of his fellowmen.
THOMAS AQUILA SPAID.
A prosperous and well known business man of Pleasant City, of which place he is a native, and a descendant of a family long resident in this region, is Thomas Aquila Spaid, who was born at Pleasant City, Guernsey county, Ohio, on August 28, 1864. the son of John Wesley and Elizabeth (Dyson) Spaid.
The Dyson family were among the first settlers in Valley township, and
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the postoffice at Pleasant City was formerly called Dyson. The family was well known and some of their descendants are still living in Valley town- ship and are of high standing in their community. Of the Spaid family, it is said that they are descended from a Hessian soldier who located in Vir- ginia after the Revolution. George Spaid was the first of the family to come to Guernsey county. He was a farmer and large landowner in Hampshire county, Virginia, near Winchester, and in 1819 came by wagon and located here, and owned a large amount of land in Valley township. He had a son, William, who was nineteen years old when the family came here from Vir- ginia, and who married Elizabeth Secrest, the daughter of Jacob Secrest, also of Hampshire county, Virginia, near Winchester. She came here with her parents about the same time the Spaid family came, when the county was still wild and mainly unsettled. Jacob Secrest was a large landowner, and both the Secrest and Spaid families were prominent in the public, business and social life of the community.
William Spaid was also a farmer in Valley township, owning many acres, and a successful man during the years of his activity. He took much interest in fine horses. John Wesley Spaid was one of the ten children of William-Spaid. He married Elizabeth Dyson, and was a tanner, owning and operating a large tannery on the south side of Main street in Pleasant City, half a square east of the railroad, on the present site of Grossman's department store. He also ran a shoe shop, and made shoes, saddles and harness.
Thomas Aquila Spaid was one of twelve children, four of whom died in childhood. The others who are deceased are Mrs. Eliza Jane Waller, who left four children : Olive, who died unmarried ; James, who died at about twenty-six years of age, leaving a son and daughter. The living are: Wil- liam Joseph, of Morristown, Belmont county, Ohio; John Wesley, of Jasper county, Missouri ; Charles L., of Joplin, Missouri; Thomas A., and Elverson Luther, a Lutheran minister at Carey, Wyandot county, Ohio. John W. Spaid died on March 3, 1877, and his wife survived until June, 1900, both being much respected in the community. Thomas grew up in Pleasant City, and worked at various occupations, in coal mines, on the railroad, etc. He and his brother-in-law for five years were in the general mercantile business in Pleasant City. Then, in 1895, he returned to coal mining, and remained at that until about 1900, when he bought out J. H. B. Danford's tin shop in Pleasant City. Since he has added a good line of hardware and has continued in this business, and has prospered and increased his trade greatly.
Mr. Spaid was married in 1890 to Sonora L. Secrest, the daughter of David and Sarah Jane ( Miller) Secrest. David Secrest was a son of John
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and Sallie Secrest, who came from Virginia, and is of the same branch of the family as are Noah E. Secrest, Sr., and William Secrest, of Hartford. Mrs. Spaid was one of thirteen children, and was born and reared near Hart- ford, Valley township, Guernsey county. To Mr. and Mrs. Spaid has been born one daughter, Olive Ruth.
Mr. Spaid is a member of the Knights of Pythias. He, his wife and his daughter are members of the Lutheran church, and all are active. Mr. Spaid has served as Sunday school superintendent, and has been a deacon in the church since the second year of his membership, and began to teach in the Sunday school when only fifteen years old. He is a thorough Christian, a man of sterling character and spotless integrity, successful in business, and prominent and influential in his community.
LAFAYETTE TEMPLE.
Among the respected farmers and influential citizens of Wheeling town- ship, Guernsey county, is LaFayette Temple, who was born on February 27, 1865, on the farm where he now lives, one mile east of Guernsey station. He is the son of William and Martha Jane (Lanning ) Temple.
Edward Temple, the grandfather of LaFayette, came with his wife, Jane (Gibson) Temple, from Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1808, and entered eighty acres of land which are yet a part of the farm on which LaFay- ette Temple now lives. Grandfather Temple was a sturdy man and began life in the new country by building a log cabin which served as a family home, with some additions, until 1886, when it was destroyed by fire. Grandfather Temple was active in the affairs of the community. His family consisted of seven children: George, Thomas, William and John, four sons, and Jane, Ruth and Elizabeth, daughters. Of these, John now resides in Columbus, Ohio, and Elizabeth is now Mrs. William Alloway, in Kimbolton; the rest are deceased.
William Temple, the father of LaFayette, was always a farmer, at which occupation he prospered, and accumulated over three hundred acres of land, the care of which made him a busy man. A stanch Republican, he was not an office seeker, but was always a voter and interested in public affairs. He. his family and his ancestry were all members of the Methodist church. He (lied on December 29. 1899, his first wife had passed away in 1866, when La- Fayette was but eighteen months old. The father was married a second time
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