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was a man of superior intellectual attainments, naturally broad-minded, and his judgment and advice were often sought in various perplexing problems that confronted the pioneers and he very frequently assisted in adjusting all kinds of matters and solving their questions of difference. In addition to his large land interests and his judicial duties, he was actively interested in num- erous business enterprises of his time, a natural promoter and organizer, and he was very successful in whatever he turned his attention to.
Turner G. Brown, Jr., grew to maturity amid such activities and he par- ticipated in the work on the farm and in other varied interests of his father as he grew to young manhood. He was educated in the public schools of his native vicinity, and for a time attended Athens College. He continued to reside on the farm until his marriage, on January 5, 1871, to Rhoda M. Brown. daughter of Bernard D. and Maria (Denning) Brown; although of the same name, they were in no way related. Bernard D. Brown came to Guernsey county in 1828 from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and he became one of the most active and widely known men here, for many years prominent in business circles. He was extensively engaged in farming, milling and mer- chandising and was decidedly a man of affairs, high standing and popular with all classes.
After his marriage, Mr. Brown became a resident of Cambridge. He was engaged in various business enterprises, and at the same time maintained a fine farm about one mile north of Cambridge. For several years he was interested in the Cambridge News, the Republican party organ in Guernsey county, and he was business manager of that paper. For several years he was superintendent of the Norris Coal Company's mines. He was a Re- publican in politics and wielded a potent influence in local party affairs. He was progressive in all that the term implies, in all phases of citizenship, and was highly respected and honored for his clean, upright life and genuine worth. He believed in clean politics and that public officials should be selected with a view of purifying public office as well as ably representing the people.
The Browns were of the Quaker faith and the subject adhered to the tenets of his fathers. His wife, who still survives, is an earnest worker in the Methodist Episcopal church, a great charity worker and a woman who has a host of warm friends and has done a great deal of good in this vicinity. For several years prior to his death, Mr. Brown was president of the Law and Order League, which stood for law enforcement, and probably more to his efforts than to those of anyone else has been established that high regard for law and order that now so prevails in Cambridge and Guernsey county as to make this locality a leader in the march of civilization.
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HENRY H. VEITCH.
It has been said that the great Civil war was fought out by the boys of this nation, and such a statement is undoubtedly qualifiedly true, for we find that the rosters show the names of many thousands of boys even in their early "teens," hence the appellation "boys in blue" is not a misnomer in the strictest sense of the term. One of these "boys" whom we honor or should honor to- day is Henry H. Veitch, a well-known citizen of Cambridge, Guernsey county. Not alone for the service he rendered his country during her hour of need is he worthy of a place in history, for his life has been true to high ideals and has been lived in a manner as not to give offense to any one.
Mr. Veitch was born August 19, 1849, in Zanesville. Muskingum county, Ohio, and he is the son of Gideon and Catherine (Callahan) Veitch. The father was a stone cutter, a native of Scotland, having come to America with his parents when three years of age. the family locating in Ohio in an early day. The paternal great-grandfather, John Veitch, was an officer in the British army and while his vessel was on a cruise his son, William, grandfather of Henry H. of this review, was born, in the harbor of Charlestown, South Carolina. William Veitch became a highly educated man and was professor of languages in Edinburgh University. He later came to America, and his son, Gideon Veitch, came to Guernsey county, Ohio. in 1856 and lived here until his death, in 1860, his widow surviving until 1870; both are buried in Cambridge cemetery.
Henry H. Veitch was educated in the public schools of Cambridge, and in January, 1864, when only fourteen years of age, he enlisted in Company A. One Hundred and Seventy-Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and after serv- ing four months, re-enlisted in Company B. One Hundred and Eighty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served until the close of the war. His regiment was a part of the Army of the Cumberland and participated in the battles of that famous army, and Mr. Veitch performed his every duty with the courage of a veteran. After his honorable discharge he returned home and launched in the mercantile business, which he followed with very satisfactory results for a number of years. Later he engaged in the oil, gas and real estate business with his usual success.
Mr. Veitch was married in 1872 to Alvaretta Orme, daughter of John and Lucy (Snyder ) Orme, a prominent pioneer family. Mr. Orme having long been a conspicuous figure in the commercial life of Cambridge. He died sev- eral years ago, but his widow is still living. To Mr. and Mrs. Veitch six children have been born. five of whom are living, namely: Gertrude, who
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married C. R. McIlyar, superintendent of the Cambridge plant of the iron and steel company ; Albert O. lives in Vincennes, Indiana, engaged in the oil producing business and has coal interests in Guernsey county ; James R. lives in Portland, Oregon, and is general freight and passenger agent of the Chi- cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company ; Lillie May married Frank S. Casey, a shoe merchant of Cambridge; Carroll W., of Coffeyville, Kansas, is a prominent oil producer of that section; Lucy, the youngest, died when three years of age.
Mr. and Mrs. Veitch and his sons and sons-in-law are all Republicans in politics and are always interested in political affairs. Mr. Veitch has been a member of the city council and has held various other city offices. He is a member of the Cambridge post of the Grand Army of the Republic and is a member of the Masonic order. The Veitch home, situated on North Seventh street, is one of the handsomest in Cambridge and is well known for its genuine hospitality. The sons and sons-in-law of the family have all risen to conspicuous places in the business world, and are all men whose true worth and perseverance have carried them to the prominent positions they occupy. Mrs. Veitch is a genial, affable woman whose life is devoted to her family and home and both she and Mr. Veitch have well earned the life of comfortable retirement which they now enjoy.
ELMER E. VORHIES, M. D.
Naturally endowed with the capacities of the successful practitioner of medicine, Dr. Elmer E. Vorhies, of Cambridge, has won an eminent reputa- tion among the people of Guernsey and adjoining counties and he stands very high also among his professional brethren, for he has shown what a man of careful mental training, honesty of purpose and an abundance of zeal and per- sistence can accomplish when directed along proper lines.
Doctor Vorhies was born July 12, 1864, in Sarahsville, Noble county, Ohio, and he is the son of Peter and Mary (Williams) Vorhies, the father having been a farmer in Noble county, never residing in Guernsey county. He was a man of excellent characteristics, possessing a high sense of honor and was highly respected for his industry, uprightness and genuine worth. His death occurred on January 18, 1910, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. His widow, a woman of many praiseworthy traits, still survives.
Doctor Vorhies spent his youth on the home farm, where he was put to
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doing various forms of light work when he became of proper age, attending the district schools during the winter months. He remained on the farm until he was twenty-four years of age, then began railroading as a messenger for the Adams Express Company, following this for about four years, during which time he spent his spare time reading medicine, which profession he had from early boyhood had a laudable desire to enter. He accordingly entered. in 1890, the Starling Medical College, at Columbus, Ohio, from which insti- tution he was graduated with honors in the class of 1893. Having made rapid advancement and shown special ability in surgery, he became connected with Mt. Carmel Hospital, at Columbus, as house surgeon, and for one year very faithfully performed his duties in this connection. In 1894 he located for practice in Cambridge and has since continued here, enjoying a very lucrative patronage. He has made a specialty of emergency cases and he has practically all the business of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company, the Inter-State Iron and Steel Company, and the Midland Power and Traction Company, all of Cambridge. Besides he enjoys a large general practice, as al- ready intimated, but as a surgeon he stands second to none in this section of the Buckeye state.
Doctor Vorhies is a member of the Guernsey County, the State and the American Medical associations, and he is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, being the physician for the latter. Politically, he is a Re- publican and is an active party worker. He has served as a member of the Republican county central committee. and is still a member. He has been a frequent delegate to county, district and state conventions, and he has always been a faithful party worker, and his counsel is frequently sought by party leaders and candidates, his influence being very pronounced in this connection. He was elected county coroner in 1900, and served two terms, or four years. in a manner that reflected much credit upon himself and to the entire satis- faction of all concerned.
Doctor Vorhies has been twice married, first on January 29, 1884. to Minnie B. Cooper, of Stafford, Monroe county, Ohio, daugliter of Charles and Jane (Elliott) Cooper. This union resulted in the birth of two children : Homer C., a pharmacist of Columbus, Ohio, and Clyde L., a graduate of Starling Medical University of Columbus, who is successfully practicing with his father. The wife and mother was called to her rest on March 2, 1899.
The Doctor's second marriage was solemnized on March 28, 1910, to Verna G. Foster, daughter of James and Catherine Foster, of Lore City, Guernsey county, both of whom are still living. The Doctor and his family
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are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and the Vorhies home, at No. 430 North Fourth street, Cambridge, is a modern, attractive and neatly- kept one, where the many friends of this popular family frequently gather.
JUDGE NATHAN HAMPSON BARBER.
A prominent attorney, politician and public benefactor is Judge Nathan Hampson Barber, of Cambridge, who was born on August 28, 1859, near Morristown, Belmont county, Ohio, the son of Matthew and Tabitha (Shep- herd ) Barber. The father came from county Antrim, Ireland, and the mother, who was of Scotch-Irish descent, was born in Maryland. The father was brought to America when two years of age, with his parents, James and Margaret Barber, in 1816. They first settled in Belmont county, Ohio, on the same farm where Nathan Hampson Barber was born. Grandfather Bar- ler was a farmer and a member of the United Presbyterian church. He was a most worthy and upright man. His son, Matthew, father of the subject, was also a farmer and a member of the church of his parents. He was a large land owner and was prosperous for those pioneer times, being proficient in the affairs of the community. The Shepherds were Virginia people and came to Ohio at an early date, settling in the same community in Belmont county with the Barbers, and there Matthew Barber and Tabitha Shepherd were mar- ried and reared their family of three sons and six daughters, of whom two sons and three daughters are still living, the children being as follows: Mar- garet, deceased ; James, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Anna, deceased; Sarah, deceased : William, deceased ; Nathan H., of Cambridge; Ella, now Mrs. David S. McClelland, of Guernsey county, Ohio; Ada, Mrs. John W. Hard- ing, of Jewett, Harrison county, Ohio; Lucy, now Mrs. Elwood Murphy, of Columbus, Ohio. Matthew Barber died in November, 1895, in the same house and in the same corner of the room in which he and Tabitha Shepherd were married fifty-three years before. His wife had died two years prior, in November. 1893, and both are buried in Fairview cemetery.
Nathan H. Barber spent his youth on the farm and worked just as other boys worked and attended the county district schools during the winter. Later he attended Washington and Jefferson College, at Washington, Pennsyl- vania, but was compelled to leave his studies before graduation on account of failing health. Before entering Washington and Jefferson College he taught school for two years in Belmont county. He studied law with Hon. Lorenzo
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Danford, of St. Clairsville, who represented that Ohio district in Congress for several terms and who was an intensely eloquent man. Mr. Barber began the practice of his profession in Barnesville, Belmont county. In November, 1887, he was elected probate judge of Guernsey county, the youngest man who had ever occupied the position up to that time. Nearing the end of his second term as probate judge, he was elected as a member of the Ohio Legis- lature from Guernsey county and resigned the office of probate judge to ac- cept the legislative position. He served one term in the seventy-first General Assembly, making a commendable record. He served on the judiciary committee and on the ways and means committee and other important com- mittees, and was active in securing important legislation. He is a Republican in politics and has always been active and has served as chairman of both the Republican central and county executive committees, and was connected with the Republican national committee in 1904. operating from the Chicago head- quarters as field man, and has always been recognized as a wise counselor in campaign matters. He has continued his prominent place at the Cambridge bar and is a careful, painstaking and successful attorney and an earnest and eloquent pleader.
Judge Barber was married on January 4, 1884, to Sarah Virginia Clark. daughter of William and Henrietta West Clark, of Fairview, Guernsey coun- ty. both the Clark and West families having been prominent pioneer families. To this union three children have been born : Dolly Patterson Barber, occupy- ing a prominent editorial position on the Ohio State Journal; Herbert O., of Hudson, Wyoming, the boy who built the present electric railway connecting Cambridge and Byesville, is now engaged in managing a coal and grain com- pany that is doing a business of one million five hundred thousand dollars an- nually : Helen is a teacher in the public schools of Cambridge. In addition to his legal and official life, Judge Barber has been active and energetic in building up Cambridge to its present proportions as an industrial center. In 1889 he was foremost in organizing the Cambridge Iron and Steel Company and secured its capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars. The president of that company was Augustus Byers ; the manager was Arthur W. Brown and the directors were Messrs. Byers, Brown, N. H. Barber, W. C. Brown and A. Holler ; the secretary was John C. Beckett. The Barbers built the Hub business blcok, the Colonial theater and every house on South Eleventh street between Wheeling avenue and Goston, except one, a choice resident dis- trict of the city and the business blocks among the most imposing in the city. both being three-story. substantial brick blocks. The Barbers, both father and son, have added to the prosperity of Cambridge by not only adding a great in-
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dustry and substantial business blocks, but also street railways and several sub- stantial and commodious modern homes. Judge Barber's energy and money have always been freely given and invested for the improvement, development and uplift of Cambridge. The Judge's family now consists of his wife and daughter, Helen, his granddaughter, Margaret Patterson, the daughter of his older daughter, who was educated in the public schools of Cambridge and Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio; the son Herbert attended the Mili- tary Academy at Peekskill, New York, and the younger daughter, Helen, was graduated from the Cambridge high school and attended college at Lynch- burg, Virginia. The Barber home is refined and cultured in its atmosphere and the family are prominent in the social life of the city.
Personally, the Judge is a very affable gentleman, popular in all circles and a recognized leader of men, a man in whom the utmost confidence is re- posed by all classes owing to his genuine worth, his public spirit, industry and fidelity to every trust reposed in him.
HIRAM K. MOORE.
In any history of the progressive and representative citizens of Guernsey county the name of Hiram K. Moore, the present efficient and popular sheriff of the county, should be given conspicuous mention, for he is one of those strong, sturdy characters who has contributed largely to the material welfare of this community, being a public-spirited man and conscientious worker for his locality and the general good of his fellow men.
Mr. Moore was born on October 10, 1855, in Jefferson township, Guern- sey county, Ohio, and is the son of Hiram and Caroline (Linn) Moore. The father was born in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, and the mother in Guern- sey county, Ohio. The father's people came to Tuscarawas county, Ohio, about 1822, when the elder Hiram was but a mere lad. Grandfather Burris Moore was a pioneer farmer. deer and bear hunter of the then new country. He was a man of courage and sterling integrity, fearless and a typical early settler. He finally left Ohio and took up his residence in Iowa with the pio- neers of that state. He lived a conservative life and reached the remarkable age of ninety-seven years. His son, Hiram, accompanied his parents to Iowa and when a young man he returned to Ohio, making the long journey on horseback. He engaged in farming in Jefferson township, and was married in February, 1843. He reared a family of nine children, five sons and four
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daughters. George L. died as a soldier during the Civil war; Thomas lives in Guernsey county ; Ira, of Wichita, Kansas; Cyrus E., of Cambridge ; Hattie married Elijah Ferbrache, of Kansas; Hiram K., of this review ; Mary mar- ried Ellsworth Sunnafrank, of Chillicothe, Ohio; Anna married John C. Hill- man, of Nevada; Nancy Augusta, of Cambridge, has remained single. The father of these children was called to his rest on December 23, 1894, in the seventy-ninth year of his age, his widow surviving until July 30, 1902, and they both are buried in the Cambridge cemetery. The father was a Republican in politics, but early in life he was a Whig, as were all his people ; so are all his sons Republicans. While not an active man in public affairs, he was inter- ested in the general progress of his community, and was a pious and influ- ential man. He was not a church man, but he was honest and upright in all his relations with his fellow men.
Hiram K. Moore spent his youth on the home farm and attended the home schools. When a youth he learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed for a number of years at different points in Guernsey county and became very skillful in this line. On February 13, 1886, he was married to Georgia Huffman, daughter of Reason and Catherine ( Keepers) Huffman, of Guernsey county, in which both parents were native and they were highly re- spected. The mother died when Mrs. Moore was only one year old, and the father's death occurred on June 11, 1904. They are buried at Winchester. Mr. Huffman was a tailor by trade. To Mr. and Mrs. Huffman six daughters were born, namely : Mary, deceased, married William Hanna; Signora mar- ried Edward Burson, of Winterset, this county ; Mattie married Robert Mills. of California; Emma married Nathan Myers, both now deceased; Jessie married Simon Wallace, of Cambridge. To Mr. and Mrs. Hiram K. Moore two children have been born, Nettie and Robert, both living at home.
Mr. Moore followed the blacksmith's trade until 1905, when he gave it up on account of impaired health. He is a Republican in politics and has always been active in public matters, and in 1906 he was the nominee of his party for sheriff of Guernsey county, and was elected at the polls in November following. He made such a commendable record, performing his duties in such an able and conscientious manner, that he was again elected to this im- portant office in the fall of 1908 and with the close of 1910 he served four years as sheriff, and, according to the consensus of opinion, the county never had a better sheriff, always popular with the people and firm in the discharge of his duty as a public servant. He is a man of highest integrity, broad- minded upon public questions, and his official record is without a stain. Mrs. Moore and daughter are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. and
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while Mr. Moore is not a member of the church, he is a faithful supporter of the same and a man given to good works, charitable in his instincts and in every respect a good citizen who is eminently deserving of his honored posi- tion in the estimation of the public.
ALLEN R. McCULLOCH.
A well known member of the local bar who is now moving along the pathway of professional success, with many years of profitable activity before him, and a man of thought and study, who finds essential nutriment in supping and dining with the legal authorities, is Allen R. McCulloch. He is an earnest man, and in that sense applies himself to business and has been re- warded by a large measure of success ; simple in his tastes, he is without os- tentation and is therefore admired by all classes.
Mr. McCulloch was born on July 4, 1863, in Wills township, Guernsey county, Ohio. He is the son of William and Sarah E. (Sproat) McCulloch. The father was born in Scotland and he came to America when about sixteen years of age, with his older brother, Robert, who afterwards became a prom- inent Presbyterian minister. William, the father, became a school teacher and was a student at Princeton University for a time, and he was a prominent and progressive educator of the old school, a man of high ideals and exem- plary character. Becoming a land owner, he farmed in later years. He was a Democrat of the Jackson type, and a devout Presbyterian. His death occurred on March 20, 1891, at the old family home in Wills township. His widow survives, still making her home in Wills township, where she was born and where her entire life has been spent. She is a noble woman, noted among a host of friends for her many estimable traits of character. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. William McCulloch and seven of them are still living, namely : Alpheus H., of New Concord, Ohio; Allen R., of this review ; Emma F. married Francis Howard, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Alexander D., a Presbyterian minister, now deceased; Chalmers W., a farmer on the home farm in Wills township, this county; Laura M. married Homer C. Knowles, of Bradner, Ohio; Harry D., a physician of Toronto, Ohio; Jay S. is a physician at Wellsville, Ohio.
Allen R. McCulloch, of this review, spent his youth on the home farm and assisted with the general work on the place, attending the country schools during the winter months. He was graduated from the schools at Wash-
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ington, Guernsey county, and later from Muskingum College at New Con- cord, Ohio. He was a close student and obtained an excellent general educa- tion. After leaving school he taught at Cumberland, Guernsey county, for four years. Meanwhile he studied law at home, having been ambitious to fol- low the legal profession from his boyhood, and he subsequently completed the course at the Cincinnati Law School and was graduated from that institution in 1892, and in the same year he began practicing at Cambridge and was suc- cessful from the beginning. He is regarded as a very able counselor and ad- vocate and is always a very busy man with his numerous clients. He has offices with Robert T. Scott. He is profoundly versed in the law, is careful and painstaking and is a forceful pleader before a jury.
Following in the footsteps of his honored father, Mr. McCulloch is an uncompromising Democrat in politics and he has been active both in county and state politics, and is regarded as one of the strong and influential local men in the party, his advice being often sought during campaigns. As chair- man of the Democratic county executive committee, he is a very important factor in the party's affairs in Guernsey. This position he has held at various times. He is also district committeeman of the Democratic state committee, and is a popular and able campaign orator in the county and state, standing high in the councils of his party. He is a member of the Cambridge school board, the Cambridge public library board and the Chautauqua board, and he is very active in all these organizations. He is a friend of education, a lover of good books, and an advocate of every good movement. He is a member of the Presbyterian church and has been since he was sixteen years old. He has been superintendent of the Sunday school at the local church for the past fifteen years. He is an active church man and he stands high in the esteem of the people in every way. Mr. McCulloch has never married.
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