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To Mr. and Mrs. Barr four daughters have been born, namely: Vera married J. I. Wilson, of Cambridge; Ada married Jesse Slingluff, of Cam- bridge ; Fay and Eva are living at home. The Barr residence, a modern and neatly kept one, is located at No. 237 North Tenth street, Cambridge, in one of the best residence districts. Mrs. Barr and her four daughters are all graduates of the Cambridge high school, and prior to her marriage Mrs. Barr was a prominent and progressive teacher of this county.
Fraternally, Mr. Barr is a member of Cambridge Lodge No. 66, Free and Accepted Masons ; Cambridge Commandery No. 47, Knights Templar; is a thirty-second-degree Mason, belonging to the Cincinnati Consistory. Mr. Barr and family are members of the Presbyterian church and are active in church and Sunday school work.
For a time Mr. Barr was interested in newspaper work in this city. Being a loyal party man he has always been active in Republican politics, not only in his home city and county, but in the state. He is faithful to party principles and loyal to his friends. For years he has been a recognized party leader and is always ready to make his position known on any issue. He is a very pleasant man to know and is in every way worthy of the high esteem in which he is held.
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MILTON L. HARTLEY.
The Hartley family, of which the principal subject of this sketch was a member, has been identified with Guernsey county since its beginning and for many years has had a part in its commercial development. Noah Hartley and his wife, Milla ( Hall) Hartley, came from Lebanon valley, Pennsylvania, about 1806 or 1807. entered government land in Millwood township, and there established their home. Their son, William H., father of Milton L., went to Quaker City in 1853 and learned the blacksmith trade. He went into mercan- tile business in that place in 1868 and is still there. His wife, Mary J. Mc- Clellan Hartley, was a sister of Mrs. Mattie Mcclellan Brown, the well- known lecturer, formerly of this county.
The children of William H. Hartley were five boys and three girls. Mc- Clellan, who died March 21, 1907, was one of the best-known business men in the eastern part of Guernsey county. He was an active member of the firm of William H. Hartley & Sons, a large house dealing in general hardware. building material, implements, wagons and carriages. He was secretary of the Building and Loan Association about thirty years, and also. for about thirty-five years, secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Sunday school. His home paper, commenting at the time of his death, said :
"He was such a careful, thorough, clear-headed and judicious business man that every local enterprise sought for his official and executive relation to help carry forward the organization to success. From town executive down through all the local planes of material interests and moral progress. McClellan Hartley was always regarded as a safe counsellor and a trusted executive and financier. Not only in public affairs, but also in private under- takings men sought his advice, his help, his co-operation for personal success and family betterment, insomuch that a real grief for personal loss was felt by many whose close confidence had been a sacred matter, revealed only at the obsequies of their devoted friend."
On the day of Mr. Hartley's funeral business in the city was practically suspended, while a thousand people followed the remains to their last resting place. He left a wife and two children, Gilbert and Marie.
Leon C. Hartley, also deceased, was the fifth son of the family. He was born March 29, 1871, and was married October 27, 1904. to Mary Hill. He was always industrious, bright and cheerful. From his boyhood he was a great lover of music, for six years was leader of the Quaker City Band. and was prominent in musical circles, in the church choir and at public meetings. It was said of him, "We never saw him out of patience or angry." At his
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death memorials of high tribute were adopted by various organizations of which he was an active and influential member, and also by the Epworth League, the Methodist Episcopal Sunday school and the Knights of Pythias. He was of the strictest honesty, punctual in the discharge of all duties, pure and patient in spirit, faithful and earnest in every good work, a worthy and upright citizen. He died December 5, 1895. Other sons besides Milton L. are Homer S. and Orvon G. The former is assistant cashier of the Quaker City Bank, and the latter is with his father in the hardware, paint, roofing and furnace business at Quaker City. The daughters living are, Laura and Hallie. The first-named is the wife of W. A. Lingo, a tobacco merchant of Quaker City, who died in 1909. She, with three sons and three daughters, live at Quaker City. Hallie is the wife of Ross Bundy, who is associated with her father in business. They live at Quaker City.
Milton L. Hartley was born in 1858 at Quaker City, where he lived until 1893. In February of that year he came to Cambridge and went into the roofing business with his father and brother. In this business he still remains. Probably no city has a greater percentage of slate roofs than Cambridge, and Mr. Hartley put on a very large proportion of them. The firm was also in the furnace business and in 1908 added the paint business. It now is doing a large trade in all three lines besides a general business in sheet metal work.
Mr. Hartley was married in 1881 to Dora I. Carnal, daughter of Ed- ward and Phoebe ( Marsh) Carnal. She was born in Quaker City, but was reared in Vinton county, Ohio. Her mother lives at Newark, her father hav- ing died at Wellston several years ago. The mother is a daughter of Joseph and Delilah (Dillon) Marsh. The Dillons and Marshes were both pioneer families near Quaker City.
Mr. and Mrs. Hartley have two sons, M. Revere and William H. Revere married Helen P. Herrberg and lives on North Seventh street, in Cambridge. William H. is at home with his father in Cambridge. Before coming to Cam- bridge Mr. Hartley was mayor of Quaker City and was also a councilman there. Since coming here he has been on the water works board and also a member of the city council. In 1897 he erected the Hartley building on Wheeling avenue, and also has other property in Cambridge. In Masonry he is a Knight Templar and also a Scottish rite Mason of the thirty-second degree. He is vice-president of the Central Bank of Cambridge, director of the Home Telephone Company and director of the Home Building and Loan Company of Cambridge. He is also interested in slate quarries in Vermont. Mr. Hartley is active in lodge work. In character he is a quiet, unassuming man. fond of his family, and steady and substantial in both domestic and public life.
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JAMES GREEN.
The present sketch is concerned with the life of one of the most worthy citizens of Guernsey county, a man who in his lifetime was prominent among his fellows, James Green. He was born about two miles north of Byesville, Guernsey county, Ohio, on January 22, 1847, the son of Jacob and Eliza- beth (Foraker) Green. Jacob Green was of Pennsylvania-Dutch descent, and his wife, who was a distant relative of Senator Foraker, was born at San- dusky, Ohio, on February 15, 1816, while the Indians were still there. When Jacob Green and his wife came to Guernsey county they had to cut their way through the woods. Deer and other game were then abundant. He bought a farm near the present location of the Ideal mines, north of Byesville, getting his land from the government, some of the deeds being signed by President Jackson. Here he and his wife made a home and spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of ten children, all of whom grew to ma- turity, namely : Obadiah, deceased, who was a soldier ; Mrs. Mary Ann Cole, now of Abingdon, Illinois; Isaac Green, deceased, who ivas a soldier ; Mrs. Rhoda A. Slay, of Byesville, the widow of David M. Slay; Mrs. Lavina Brown, deceased; Hugh, of Linton Mills, Coshocton county, Ohio: George, of Noble county, Ohio; James, deceased, the subject of this sketch: Mrs. Charity Clippinger, deceased ; and John, of Cambridge, Ohio.
James Green grew up on the old farm north of Byesville. In 1870 he married Agnes Finley, a daughter of David and Elizabeth (Graham ) Finley, who was born in Ohio county, West Virginia. David Finley was born near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, and Elizabeth Graham was a native of West Vir- ginia, a daughter of James and Agnes ( Finley) Graham. James Graham was a native of Ireland, and in all probability was descended from the Scotch Covenanters, and through a long line of dukes, earls and marquises in Eng- land.
James Green was a farmer, but also engaged in coal mining. In 1881 he moved to Byesville, built a house at the corner of Mill and Seneca streets, and lived there the balance of his days. There were six children in his family : William S .; Elmer E., for whom see his sketch; Daisy, now Mrs. Charles Selders; Fred F., for whom see his sketch: Mrs. Elizabeth McAuley, and Harry, all married save Elmer and Harry. William is business manager of the Byesville Enterprise ; Mrs. Selders lives at Byesville, her husband being an engineer at the Ideal mines; Mrs. McAuley lives at Christopher. Illinois : Harry is a clerk in the Ogara Coal Company's offices at Derwent, Ohio.
James Green died on December II, 1904. He was a kind husband and
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father and a good citizen, trusted and respected by all who knew him. In his dealings with mankind he was honest and straightforward, and tried to prac- tice the Golden Rule and to treat every one in a manner worthy of a good American citizen. Being of a quiet and reserved disposition, his circle of friends may not have been as broad as that of many others, yet those who truly knew him never doubted his integrity, honesty and friendship. He was great- ly missed by many whom he had befriended in their adversities. He and all his family were members of the Methodist church.
ELMER ELLSWORTH GREEN.
Among the well-known and influential residents of Byesville is Elmer Ellsworth Green, a man who has given much thought to the problems of the present day, and who is well fitted for leadership among his fellows. He was born in Jackson township, Guernsey county, Ohio, on February 15, 1871, the son of James and Agnes (Finley) Green, whose sketch appears herein. His boyhood was spent in Byesville, where he attended the public schools and graduated from high school. Since that time he has been engaged in coal mining, and is thoroughly familiar with all of its phases.
In politics Mr. Green is a Democrat. In 1892 he was elected city clerk of Byesville, and was twice re-elected, serving for three terms of two years each. For the next five years he was township clerk for Jackson township, and ever since he has been clerk of the township board of education. In 1906 he was elected mayor of Byesville, but, because of lack of time to devote to the office, resigned it. A few years ago he made the race for county treasurer. and came as near being elected as any Democrat could have been in this strongly Republican county, he having run nearly a thousand votes ahead of his ticket. In his fraternal relations he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and was for many years the keeper of records and seal in his lodge. He is a member of the American Mechanics and one of its strongest support- ers, and for fifteen years was secretary of the local organization. Recently he was appointed by the secretary of state to be local registrar of Jackson township and Byesville, which form District No. 220.
In 1907 Mr. Green wrote a history of Byesville, which work was highly creditable, both from a historical and a literary point of view. He has also written many articles for various newspapers, chiefly on topics concerning labor and politics. He is very popular and is one of the best informed resi- dents of the county on local and county matters.
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Elmer E. Green is a solid and substantial citizen, and an able representa- tive of a well-known and honored family of the county. With all the senti- ments of a true and worthy character, he unites a keen appreciation of the humorous side of life in a way to make himself at once an able and conscien- tious adviser and a jolly good fellow.
THE ROSEMOND FAMILY.
In April, 1810. Philip Rosemond settled on a quarter section of land ad- joining the site of the Fletcher Methodist Episcopal church in Oxford town- ship, Guernsey county, Ohio, a few days before the township and county were organized. Here he lived until his death. October 14, 1831, in his sixty- sixth year. He was a stock-raiser, drover, tavern-keeper, postmaster at Fletcher ( which antedated Fairview ), and farmer. At one time he owned more than six hundred acres of land in one body, out of which he provided for two of his sons, so at his death the home farm contained only three hun- dred acres. In 1834 it was sold to Robinson Baker, and later became sub- divided. Philip Rosemond is said to have kept the first stopping place for travelers between Wheeling and Cambridge, and to have been the first post- master between Wheeling and Zanesville. He was an exact and successful business man. He was born, and until 1795 lived in county Leitrim. Ireland. where he married, and where a part of his family was born. He landed at. Philadelphia in August, 1795, and sojourned there, and at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and St. Clairsville until April, 1910. In western Pennsylvania his two brothers, Edward and James, and Moses Morton were his neighbors. Morton and Edward married there two sisters named Dowler, and Philip and Morton were afterward neighbors at Fletcher.
In later years there were at the same time several families in Fairview. bearing the name of Rosemond, and some distinction among them is necessary. Some were descendants of the first Philip; some were descendants of his brother Edward; some were descendants of his brother William, who emi- grated in 1841, and died a few weeks after he reached Fairview, and some were descendants of his brother Bennett. who never left Ireland.
Descendants of Philip .- In 1812, his daughter, Nancy, married John M. Coleman, of Belmont county, later removed to the vicinity of Terre Haute, Indiana, and died there leaving several children. In 1817, his daughter Mary married Mordecai Van Meter, of Belmont county, who died about 1830, leav-
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ing her a widow with several children. She lived for a number of years at Fairview after this, and then married Dr. J. C. Parry, and removed to Flush- ing, Ohio, where she died. His daughter Fanny married George Glassford, a merchant, who died soon afterward, leaving one daughter, Mary Ann ; Fanny later married William Thompson, of Fairfield county, and died in Columbus, Ohio, where children and grandchildren survive her. His daughter Jane married Rev. Thomas J. Taylor, a Methodist Episcopal minister, who served charges in Guernsey and Belmont counties, left the ministry because of loss of voice and went into business at Senecaville, and later removed to Paola, Kan- ·sas, where he died. After his death Mrs. Taylor returned to Senecaville and spent the remainder of her days there. Among her children and grandchildren living are Mrs. Mary Dilley, of Senecaville, Mrs. Mame Shively, of Cam- bridge, and Frank R. Smith, Mrs. Daisy Kerr, Mary B. Smith and William L. Smith of Cambridge. Philip's son Edward and his daughter Eliza survived him, but died unmarried, and another son, William, had died in his youth. Philip's son Martin was in business at New Birmingham (now Milnersville ) and in Fairview for many years, at which place he died in 1867. Ann Eliza, daughter of Martin, married Enoch G. Nicholson, and removed to New York City. Another daughter, Margaret Louisa, married Edward Barker and re- moved to Waukesha, Wisconsin, where both died, leaving one son, Edward Rosemond Barker, surviving. Martin's son, Edward Martin, married Sarah Clark, and later went to the far Southwest, where he died. His widow and some of her children are living at Oberlin, Ohio. Philip's son, James, mar- ried Sarah Teater, of St. Clairsville, and removed to West Union, Ohio, where he merchandised for some years, later returning to Fairview where, during the remainder of his life, he was in business and one of the most re- spected and influential members of the community until his death in 1855. Of his family of eleven children, all are dead, and the only grandchildren sur- viving are Mrs. Harriet Rosemond Hunter, of Chillicothe, and Fred L. Rose- mond, of Cambridge.
Descendants of Edward .- This Edward came to America with, or soon after, the first Philip and settled in Cambridge soon after Philip settled at Fletcher. Edward lived here until his death, in 1850, in the eightieth year of his age. He married Sarah Dowler, near Brownsville, Pennsylvania. His children were, Nancy (or Ann), who first married Jesse Barcus, survived him, and later married Thomas Ruckle ; James, who married Eleanor Beall in 1826; Joseph : Margaret, who married John Cox; Edward Dowler (Morristown Ed), and Frances, who married Joshua Forshey in 1830, survived him and in 1837 married Joshua Davis. All of these are dead. Among their descend-
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ants are : Mrs. Emma Sarchet, granddaughter, and Jessie C. Grimes, great- granddaughter, of Nancy Barkus Ruckle, of Cambridge; Dr. Clarence D. Romans, of Cambridge, grandson of James and Eleanor; Edward M. Rose- mond, of Lorimer, Iowa, and Isaac N. Rosemond, of Bristol, Vermont. who are among the children of Joseph; Dr. Wilbur F. Rosemond, of Fremont, Nebraska ; Mrs. Helen R. Griffith, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Frank M. Rose- man, of Caldwell, Idaho, who are among the descendants of "Morristown Ed."
Descendants of William .- This brother, by a first marriage in Ireland, had three sons, who emigrated, namely: William, James and Philip ( who was called Philip the Tanner, to distinguish him from the elder Philip), and by a second marriage in Ireland had three other sons, John, Bennett and Ed- ward. The junior William was a saddler and harnessmaker, at New Birming- ham (now Milnersville), for many years, but about 1853 removed to Musca- tine, Iowa, where he died ; and among his descendants are James B., of Musca- tine, and William, of Carbon Cliff, Illinois. Four of his sons served in the war of the Rebellion. William's son, James, a saddler also, married in Ire- land, was at New Birmingham for a while and later went to Lucas county, Iowa, and died there, leaving Elizabeth surviving. Philip the Tanner mar- ried first Susan Giffee and later Mary Morton and lived in Fairview until about 1870, when he removed to Taylorsville, Illinois, and in 1882 removed thence to Independence, Iowa, where he died in 1883. One son of the younger Philip is Capt. William E. Rosemond, of Independence, who married Caroline Bumgardner, of Washington, and whose family consists of his wife and six children and several grandchildren. Another son was John R., familiarly known as "Jack," who died at Cuyahoga Falls in 1901 ; and a third son, Moses Morton, lies buried in the National cemetery at Quincy, Illinois. All three of these sons had good war records, that of William Edward being marked by several wounds in action, and by successive promotions to bugler. lieutenant, and finally, for gallantry at Mission Ridge, to captain. William's son, John, died a bachelor. William's son, Edward ( Irish Ed), was a mer- chant at Newtown, Ohio, married Nancy Ripley, and later for some years was president of the City Bank, at New Philadelphia, where he died in 1895, leav- ing two daughters, Mrs. Clara R. Browne and Mrs. Kate C. Miller of that place, surviving him. William's son, Bennett, was a resident of Cumberland, Ohio, from 1853 until his death, in 1904. His wife was Mary Thompson and two children, Katharine and Mrs. Mary Bay, survive him.
Descendants of the elder Bennett .- Bennett, brother of the elder Philip. never left Ireland, but several of his sons came over. One of these was the
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Edward known as "Canada Ed," who, from 1840 until his death there in 1876, lived at Fairview and followed the trade of stone-mason and the business of a builder. His daughter Mary married John S. Craig, of Washington, and spends much of the time with her daughter, Mrs. Martha Harrison, of Cam- bridge, and with her granddaughter, Virginia Zellers, of Freeport. Dr. Wil- liam B. Rosemond is and for many years has been a practicing physician at Milnersville, and has two living children, Fannie and George. James R., an- other son, lives at Hendrysburg, Belmont county, and has several children, some married. Another daughter, Margaret, married Thomas W. Slasor, and now lives at Avalon, Pennsylvania, in which vicinity are also several of their children. Another daughter. Fannie, married Samuel W. Shipley. de- ceased, and, with a daughter and son, lives near Fairview, while some of her married children live in other parts of the county.
The first trace of this family is found in a drill sergeant who was in the army of William of Orange in its invasion of England in 1688, and who set- tled in the north of Ireland about 1689, refusing, however, to accept any grant of the lands which the government confiscated. Three generations passed before the emigration of Philip, though some of the name emigrated and set- tled in the south as early as 1740, and gave rise to southern branches of the family. By occupation they were weavers and farmers. All were Protes- tants and Orangemen, and the cause, in part at least, of the emigrations, was persecution for religion's sake. There is reason to believe that the drill- sergeant was of Huguenot descent. The name can be traced back historically as far as the fifth century, and the spelling is variant, though the original form seems to have been "Hrosmond."
One of the best known members of this old, important and influential family of the day is Fred L. Rosemond, of Cambridge, Ohio, born August 25, 1861, the son of James Henry and Amanda Maria (Campbell) Rosemond. He graduated at Cambridge high school in 1878 and received his collegiate education at Ohio Wesleyan University. He was associate editor of the Hamilton Daily News and Weekly Telegraph, at Hamilton, Ohio, from 1880 to 1883. He was admitted to the bar in October, 1883, to the United States circuit court in 1894 and to the United States circuit court of appeals in 1900. He has practiced law continuously at Cambridge since 1883, part of the time alone and at other times as one of the firm of Steele & Rosemond : Campbell & Rosemond ; Rosemond & Pace and Rosemond & Bell.
Mr. Rosemond is president of the board of trustees of the Cambridge Public Library and a trustee of the First Methodist Episcopal church. He is president of the Guernsey Hardware Company and a director of the same.
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also a director of the National Bank of Cambridge, director of the Cambridge Grocery Company : secretary and director of the Cambridge Improvement Company : president and general manager of the Hotel Star Company, of Columbus.
Mr. Rosemond has served in various capacities in appointive offices without salary, but has never held an elective office. Recently he has been endorsed by the Guernsey County Bar Association for circuit judge of the seventh circuit, comprising fourteen counties.
In 1889, Mr. Rosemond married Ella, daughter of James O. Grimes, of Cambridge, a well known lawyer and influential man. They have four children: Alice. Marjorie, Philip G., away from home at college, and Leslie. His residence is at No. 1001 Gomber avenue.
Mr. Rosemond is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a lawyer of eminence, a profound counsellor and eloquent exponent of the law, a man of high standing in all the walks of life.
WILLOUGHBY B. GREEN.
One of the most progressive and influential business men of Cambridge and one of the representative citizens of Guernsey county is Willoughby B. Green, who was born August 15. 1853. in Noble county. Ohio, on a farm, the son of Edward F. and Isabelle ( Spooner ) Green. Both parents were born in Noble county, Ohio, both the Greens and the Spooners being pioneer families. The Greens came from Worcester, Massachusetts. The Spooners were also a New England family and both parents were active in the early pioneer life. Edward F. was a farmer and a large land owner in Noble county. He served through the Civil war in the signal service, stationed mostly in the Red River district, serving till the close of the war. After his discharge he bought a farm in the northwestern part of Missouri, where he located. engaging in the grain buying and shipping business, carrying on an exclusive business for the Chicago and St. Louis markets. After a number of years of successful business, he sold his interests in Missouri and came to Cumberland, Guernsey county, where he entered the general mercantile business and in 1875 he sold out in Cumberland and moved to Cambridge, where he engaged in the mer- cantile business, buying property and continuing until January. 1903. when he retired from active business life. He has attained the advanced age of eighty-six years, hale and hearty, and is yet greatly interested in all current
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