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and is hoisting engineer at the mines. Emmett lives at Akron, Ohio, and is employed in the rubber works. He was a good baker, but quit that because it was impairing his health. He is married and has one son. Flo F. is at home with her parents and is clerk in one of the Byesville stores.
Mr. Smith is a member of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. He and his wife both belong to the Methodist Episcopal church of Byesville. He is the oldest class leader in the church and is a steward, and is also district leader in the church. When he came to Byesville there was not a church nor school house in the town. Now churches and schools are adequate to the size of the town and are of a high grade of excellence. The church of which he is a mem- ber is the largest in Byesville, with a membership of four hundred, and a church edifice costing twenty thousand dollars. In the growth of the church Mr. Smith has performed a creditable part. Starting as a poor boy, with no means, working as a section hand, Mr. Smith has made his own way, and he and his wife have reared a family to be proud of and accumulated a good property and several town lots, and have money in the bank. His life is an encouraging example to young men who have nothing but industry and char- acter to start with, but who are determined to make something of themselves. Mrs. Smith, too, has done her part and the lives of her children are ample proof that she has done her work well.
ELIJAH MILLHONE.
Any volume which ventures to give anything like a comprehensive enumeration, biographically, of the prominent citizens of a past generation in Guernsey county, must necessarily be incomplete without inclusion of the life history of the late Elijah Millhone, for he was well known as a man of in- dustry, public spirit and business ability, and in his sphere of endeavor he sought, as best he could, to expound and inculcate the higher ideals of citizen- ship. Among the pioneer element he wielded a potent influence and deserved in every respect the genuine esteem that was accorded by all classes.
Mr. Millhone was born about three miles from Senecaville, Ohio, near the Noble and Guernsey county division line. in 1834. When he was three years of age his parents moved to within a mile of Hartford. Guernsey county, on what is now known as the Saltsgaver farm, a four-hundred-acre place. There he grew to maturity, assisted with the work on the farm, attended the public schools during the winter months, and remained under his parental roof until
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his marriage. He was the son of Isaac and Mary (Stiers) Millhone, the father born inf Virginia in 1800. His parents moved to Pennsylvania and there lived about a year, then came on to Ohio and settled three miles south- east of Senecaville, in pioneer times.
Elijah Millhone grew to maturity near Hartford where his father had four hundred acres of land. On July 10, 1862, he married Hannah Amanda Moser, daughter of John and Sarah Howe (Anderson) Moser. She was born two and one-half miles north of Senecaville and lived there until her mar- riage. Her father came from Pennsylvania when a young man and made his ,
home near Senecaville. He and the father of Elijah Millhone were about the same age and died about the same time. After the marriage of the subject he continued to reside on his father's large farm, also lived a while in Hartford. On February 17, 1869, he and his wife came to where Byesville is now located and bought a farm of one hundred and thirty acres, later buying eight acres, then twenty-five acres. A brick house was on the original purchase, but in 1879 he erected a costly, substantial and commodious dwelling, which is still the family home and which has been kept so carefully that it has the appear- ance of a comparatively new house. There were only nine houses in Byes- ville when they came here: there was no railroad and no schools, and one small church some distance to the south. When the Advent church was organ- ized Mr. Millhone gave half an acre on which to erect the building, and this was the first church started in Byesville. Mr. Millhone's farm is now largely covered with houses and streets of Byesville. From Depot street west this farm extends north and south from the south side of Main street on the south to Second High street or Spruce street. In 1899 Mr. Millhone sold sixty-six acres for town lots, gave ten acres for the site of the glass factory, and within ten years it has built up almost solidly, and on it stand many pleasant homes, a fine school house, four churches and another church is soon to be built there- on. The glass factory, a great institution, is also built on this land. Mr. Millhone was an extensive dealer in livestock, mostly sheep in the early days, and later extensively in Jersey cattle, also handled a number of good horses. He was a business man of rare ability and foresight, keen of perception, and could foresee with remarkable accuracy the future outcome of a present trans- action. He was a man whose word was considered as good if not better than the bond of most men and his dealings with his fellow men were always hon- est and straightforward.
Mr. Millhone's family consisted of four children, named as follows : Cassius M., who married Sadie Millnes, of West Liberty, Iowa, and they live on a farm about three miles from that town, and have two children, Olive
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and Everett; Belle married Robert E. Brown, of Cambridge; John Isaac lives at Columbus, Ohio, and deals in real estate; Mary Edna is at home with her mother in Byesville, being a young lady of culture and popular in the social life of the city.
Mr. Millhone was interested in the public and civic duties of the com- munity and he served as trustee and school director, also other minor offices. He was a member of the Lutheran church until he came to Byesville, then he identified himself with the Methodist Protestant church. Mary E., the daugh- ter, is a member of the Baptist church ; her great uncle, Elijah Millhone, was a minister in this denomination, and John Millhone, the first of the family to come to this locality, was also a Baptist minister. This daughter was edu- cated in music, being naturally talented in this direction, but she does not teach ; her sister, Belle, has been an instructor in instrumental music for nearly twenty years, but she recently gave up teaching and is assisting in the man- agement of the large estate left by her father.
When Mr. Millhone came to Byesville there was a grove of forest trees, a picnic ground from Depot street, where the Burt block now stands, over to Grant street, and there was a grove of sugar trees where the glass factory now stands. He remembered when, from Hartford to Cambridge, there was almost a continuous forest. Church goers, in those days, at evening services, brought their own candles with which to light the church, and it was interest- ing to hear him recall reminiscences of the early days.
The death of this excellent and highly honored citizen occurred on June 16, 1909, after an illness of only a few moments, having been in his usual ro- bust health all along. His sudden taking away was a shock and a severe blow to the community, and his place can never be filled, for he was always alert to the interests of this locality. He reached the age of seventy-four years, six months and two days. He was a favorite with all classes of people and was especially admired by the children, none of whom would refuse his friendship. He was industrious and prosperous as an agriculturist, keeping his lands well improved and everything attractive and neat, being a man of progressive ideas and never afraid of hard work, and the ample competence he laid by was the result of good management and hard labor, for he never depended upon any- one to do his work or his thinking, being an original investigator and broad- minded. He rendered most efficient service to his church as trustee and stew- ard, giving liberally of his time and means to its support,-in fact, he was a pillar in the local congregation. He was a devout student of the Bible, his old family Bible showing much usage. He was a cheerful, kind, accommodating friend, a thorough Christian gentleman, aiding churches in great numbers
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throughout this locality, doing good wherever and in whatever way he could, therefore he left a host of friends who will always revere his memory. His funeral was attended by nearly every minister in Byesville, and all the stores of this city closed out of respect at that time, and his burial was attended by people from all over Guernsey county, giving evidence of his universal popu- larity.
WILLIAM ALBERT HUTTON.
One of the best known and most influential men of Jackson township, Guernsey county, is William Albert Hutton, a man who has lived to goodly ends because he has worked persistently along established and time honored lines. He is the representative of an excellent old family of this county, having been born on a farm at Trail Run in Jackson township, on May 28, 1858. He is the son of Solomon and Mary J. (Stewart) Hutton, the former the son of William Hutton, who was of Dutch extraction, having been brought from the old country during his boyhood by a man named Seaman, a merchant, and he made his home with Mr. Seaman and wife until their deaths, which was during his youth. He came to Guernsey county, it is believed, some time prior to 1822, the year of Solomon Hutton's birth. He was a picturesque pioneer. The death of Solomon Hutton occurred on July 27, 1904, at his home at Trail Run, where he had resided about sixty years, the exact date of his birth having been October 30, 1822. He is buried at Enon cemetery, at the south edge of Byesville. On December 12, 1842, Solomon Hutton was married to Mary Stewart, who was born January 22, 1822, and whose death occurred on March 25, 1897. Eleven children were born to them, named as follows: Sarah Louisa, John Wesley, Mary Catherine, Nancy Ellen, Penelope Halley, Emma Jane, Jesse Franklin, Leana Frances, William Albert, Zadoc Davis and Effie Alice. The living are : Mrs. L. C. Rogers, Mrs. Thomas Mitchell, Mrs. I. Oliver, William of this review, John lives in Florida, and Davis lives in Richland township, east of Trail Run. The father of these children was a very shrewd and successful business man, and he accomplished much in his advanced age. Being honest to the letter he was respected by all in his busi- ness relations ; he was an obliging neighbor, a kind husband and father; he was ready at all times to help not only his own children but also those of his neighbors when in need. Solomon Hutton was nearly ninety years of age when he died. He started out when a young man without means or assistance of any kind, and by hard work and good management he became one of the
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wealthiest men of Guernsey county and one of her leading citizens in every respect.
William Hutton's mother was Mary Stewart, and her father was John Stewart, a native of Hagerstown, Maryland, and of Scottish descent. His father, the subject's great-grandfather, Charles Stewart, was a good old Scot- tish gentleman, and by lineal descent he had royal blood in his veins, being a descendant of King Charles II. The subject's maternal grandmother was a native of Virginia. Her father, Jacob Lewis, immigrated to Ohio when she was twelve years old.
William A. Hutton, of this review, grew to maturity on the home farm at Trail Run and there he worked during his youth and remained until his marriage. He attended the local schools during the winter months. His marriage was celebrated on September 2, 1880, to Anna May Trott, daughter of Benjamin Griffith and Eliza Jane ( Martel) Trott, a fine old family. She is the sister of Elza Trott, whose sketch appears on another page of this work. For a short time after his marriage Mr. Hutton worked in the mines, then went to farming and teaming, owning a small farm near Trail Run at first, but a few years later he purchased a farm in Richland township. He also found teaming to be profitable in connection with his farming. He continued at that line of endeavor until about 1902, when he gave up his teaming and moved in with his father, who was getting old and who was cared for by the son, who ran the farm, living there until the death of the father, July 27. 1904. On August 28th of that year, the son moved to Byesville, where he had built a home on North Seventh street in 1900, and he has resided here since. When he was first married he bought a little home in Byesville while he worked in the mines. He has been very successful as a business man, being possessed of a rare soundness of judgment, clear discrimination, foresight and acumen. and is now the owner of seventeen or eighteen rental properties, also four resi- dences in Byesville. He also owns the farm which his father bought when he was a young man, many years before the subject was born, and it has been in the family for a period of more than sixty years. Mr. Hutton has a modern, beautiful and attractive home.
Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hutton: Charles Earl was drowned in the summer of 1900, when fourteen years of age ; Leo Minor and Cecil Martel are the living children. The former married Bertha Wheeler and lives in Byesville, a member of the firm of Hutton & Clay, dealers in gen- eral merchandise ; Mr. and Mrs. Leo L. Hutton have one child, Hazel Laverna. Cecil M. Hutton married John Henry Clay, and they have one child, Doris Pauline. Mr. Clay is in business with his brother-in-law. Leo M. Hutton.
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The Hutton family is one of the most prominent in Guernsey county and has been for some three or four generations. They have played well their parts in the drama of citizenship in every respect, and have lived lives of integ- rity and gained the esteem and confidence of all classes.
FRED FINLEY GREEN.
Among the highly respected and progressive citizens of Byesville, Guern- sey county, is Fred Finley Green. For many reasons he is deserving of special mention in a work of this character, for his life has been one of consecutive endeavor along such lines as the public is glad to sanction and approve, and he is at all times honorable and straightforward in his dealings with his fellow men.
Mr. Green was born northeast of Byesville, on April 13, 1878, and he is the son of James and Agnes (Finley) Green, who are given proper mention in a separate sketch in this work. When Fred F. was about five or six years of age the family moved into Byesville and this has been the home of the subject nearly ever since. He attended the local schools and graduated in the first graduating class in 1897, and in 1900 he graduated from the college at Ada. Ohio, taking the civil engineering course, and in 1901 he was graduated from the same institution in electrical engineering. Thus well equipped for his life work, he returned to Byesville and took up civil engineering in the coal mines of the James W. Ellsworth Coal Company. When that firm sold out to the Wills Creek Coal Mining Company, he went with other companies, giv- ing his usual satisfaction. He is at present doing the engineering for the Imperial Mining Company, the Puritan Coal Company, the Cambridge Valley Coal Company and the Guernsey Valley Coal & Mining Company, with head- quarters at Byesville. He is regarded as an expert in his line and his services are in great demand.
Mr. Green was married on January 25, 1902, to Jennie Tuck, daughter of John and Mary Tuck ; she was born in England near South Church, and she emigrated with her parents to America when she was not quite five years of age and located at Delroy, Carroll county, Ohio, and lived there until 1900, when the family moved to Byesville, where they now reside. She graduated at Delroy high school in 1899. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Green, named as follows: Esther Marie, Ernest Everett, Wendell Graham. Lucile Evelyn, Mildred Margaret and Herbert J.
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Mr. and Mrs. Green belong to the Methodist Episcopal church, and are faithful in their attendance and support of the same.
John Tuck, father of Mrs. Green, was born in England, not far from London, probably in Essex, on November 9, 1859, and he is the son of James and Emily (Thurlow) Tuck. In his youth he was a fireman at the coal mines, in England, later becoming an engineer. He married Mary Jane Matthews, of Durham county, England, the daughter of Richard and Jane (Graham) Matthews. Mr. and Mrs. Tuck came to America in May, 1886, locating in Carroll county, Ohio, but in 1888 they moved to Byesville. Remaining there a short time, he returned to Carroll county and made that his home until 1900, then moved back to Byesville where the family now reside. Mr. Tuck belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Masonic fraternity. He and his wife both belong to the Order of the Eastern Star and also the Rebekahs. Both the Tuck and Green families are highly respected and pop- ular in their communities.
EPHRAIM M. DILLEY.
A well known and successful contractor of Cambridge and one of Guern- sey county's public spirited and enterprising citizens is Ephraim M. Dilley, whose past record has been such as to commend him to the masses and render him popular with all classes. Mr. Dilley was born August 16, 1859, in Sen- ecaville, this county, of an excellent old family, being the son of Burkley and Jemima (Shaw) Dilley. The father was born in Sussex county, New Jersey. and the mother in Frederickstown, Maryland. Both came to Guernsey county, Ohio, in their youth and here they were married. The father was a brick contractor and a practical brick layer, and his services were in great demand. He was a man of excellent character and intelligence and was well liked by all who knew him. His death occurred in Senecaville in February, 1894, and his widow died in March, 1908; they are buried in the cemetery at Senecaville.
Ephraim M. Dilley was educated in the public schools of Senecaville, and he learned the bricklayer's trade under his father when a young man. He became proficient in this line and worked in Canton, Ohio, and other cities for several years, and in 1898 he came to Cambridge and engaged in the brick and stone contracting business and has prospered. He has maintained a reputation for honest, high class work, promptly done and has been kept very busy all the while. He is a splendid workman and a successful business man.
On January 17, 1899, Mr. Dilley was married to Mrs. Clara Dugan,
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daughter of William and Isabelle Kanouff, of Guernsey county, Ohio. To this union one son has been born, William Eldridge Dilley.
Mr. Dilley has always been a Republican in politics and has been active in party affairs. He has frequently served as a member of the county com- mittee and as a delegate to the county, district and state conventions. During the years 1907-8-9, he served very faithfully and acceptably as a state district inspector of buildings and factories in Ohio, under Chief Inspector Morgan. After retiring from this office he resumed brick and stone contracting.
Mr. Dilley is a member of Senecaville Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Bricklayers' Union. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, while Mrs. Dilley is a Methodist Protestant.
MAJOR JAMES W. MOORE.
It will always be a badge of honor in this country to have known that a person's father, or even his uncle, enlisted in defense of the "Star Spangled Banner" when the greatest of rebellions threatened to disrupt the Union in the early sixties, and thereby not only did a great service in keeping the states cemented together, but also in eradicating slavery from our soil forever. Just as to this day we boast that our grandfather or great-grandfather fought in the Revolution to gain independence, or in the war of 1812 to protect our rights on the ocean, so the descendants of the gallant soldiers who fought in the Civil war to save the nation will boast through the coming years of the bravery and self-sacrifice of their fathers or their relatives. One of this his- toric horde was Major James W. Moore, a prominent citizen of Wills town- ship, Guernsey county, who went forth to die on the field of battle or in no less dangerous fever camp, if need be, for the salvation of the country.
Major Moore was born on August 25, 1838, in Wills township, one-half mile west of Middleton, Oxford township, the son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Riggs) Moore, the father born at Wellsville, in Belmont county, where the family stopped for a few years en route from Delaware to their Ohio home in Guernsey county.
Grandfather Andrew Moore, the direct descendant of his grandfather, William Moore, was the first of the Moore family who came to America from Scotland and settled in the state of Delaware. Andrew Moore, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came to America from Scotland and settled in Dela- ware. Eventually he came to Pultney Ridge, Wills township, Guernsey
MRS HANNAH MOORE.
JAMES W. MOORE.
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county, Ohio, and settled on what was known as the old Zane trace. He built a hotel, blacksmith shop, store, wagon-making shop and various other build- ings, making a considerable settlement which was called Frankfort and which was a commercial point of considerable importance. Andrew Moore became a large land owner and was a busy man of affairs and active in every move- ment affecting the welfare of the early settlers, being a man of sterling char- acter and of broad influence. He had a large family, his wife being Eliza- beth Bines, daughter of Robert and Sarah (Ellexwell) Bines, by whom he had nine children, born along the way from Delaware to Ohio, the journey cover- ing several years, stops being made at various places for a considerable time. He died in 1821.
Andrew Moore, the sixth child and father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Wellsville. Ohio, in 1803. He first married Elizabeth Bines, a second cousin of his mother's, and a son, Robert, was born to this union. Mrs. Moore did not live long. Mr. Moore married a second time, this wife being Elizabeth Riggs, daughter of James Riggs, of near Barnesville, Ohio. They had three children, James W., Malvina ( now Mrs. Col. Cyrus P. B. Sarchet), and Anna, deceased. Andrew Moore was a farmer and for years a wagoner on the National road between Cambridge and Wheeling, during the days be- fore the railroad came. He was a large land owner. He died September 2, 1880, and his wife died in September, 1869; both are buried in the cemetery at Cambridge.
James W. Moore went with the family to Cambridge in 1848, where most of his childhood and youth were spent. He attended the public schools of Cambridge and the Miller Academy at Washington, Guernsey county, for two years and received a very liberal education for those days. He became the captain of the first company recruited in Guernsey county in April, 1861, for service in the Union army during the Civil war, responding to the first call for troops by President Lincoln. This was Company H, Sixteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a month's enlistment, but the company served nearly four months. The following year he was appointed major of the Ninety- seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, by Governor Tod, of Ohio, and was the youngest field officer in the Second Brigade, Second Division, Fourth Army Corps, under General Wagoner. The regiment served in the Army of the Cumberland at the battle of Mission Ridge and he was wounded on the 25th of November, 1863. The Ninety-seventh Regiment was the first regiment to enter Chattanooga and take possession of the lower part of that city, early in the morning, and planted their flag on Cameron Hill, Major Moore being in command of the skirmish line. He participated in all the hard-fought battles
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of the Chattanooga and Atlanta campaign, and on June 22, 1864, he was wounded at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, having command of the Second Brigade's skirmish line. He lost one hundred and twenty-two men in killed and wounded in the one-half hour, but established and held the Union lines. His wound in the ankle proved serious and he was discharged from service September 13, 1864, by war department orders from the hospital at Cincin- nati as being disabled from further service. He returned to his home after his discharge.
On August 17, 1865, Major Moore was married to Hannah Margaret Carlisle, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Kirkpatrick) Carlisle. She had been the wife of John Carlisle prior to her marriage to Mr. Patterson, and was a widow at the time of her second marriage. To Mr. and Mrs. Moore four children were born: An infant, deceased; Elmer, who died at the age of thirty years, in 1898; Margaret Elizabeth, at home, and Alice Malvina, also at home.
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