History of Noble County, Ohio: With Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 43

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James Caldwell started the first store at Olive Green in 1856, and is still in the mercantile business at | in 1860 to Rachel M. Daniel, of Cald-


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well; children: Thaddeus II. and Nettie I. The family are Presbyte- rian and Republicans.


Robert Bell is of Irish and Scotch descent. Both his grandfathers were in the Revolutionary War. His par- ents were both born in Belmont County, whence his father removed to Morgan County in 1837. His mother died in 1837, and his father came to Noble County in 1869. Robert was born in Belmont County in 1837, and came to Morgan County with his parents. Ile was the oldest of five children, the others being Agnes A., Mary J., Nancy (who married Oliver Keyser), and Alice. Mr. Bell is a farmer. He has served as justice of the peace. He is a Dem- ocrat in politics.


W. B. Boyd, a prominent farmer, was born in Sharon Township in 1856. Mr. Boyd has 366 acres of land, and is largely engaged in breed- ing fine stock. Mr. Boyd was mar- ried in 1875 to Helen L. Carr, of Sharon. They have two children. Hle is a Democrat and a member of the Methodist Protestant church, to which his wife also belongs.


Joseph Bigley was born September 30, 1826, and resided on the farm which his father entered in 1821. Ilis parents were natives of Pennsyl- vania; his father was a soldier in the War of 1812, and came to this town- ship from Belmont County. The family consisted of four daughters and two sons, all living except JJacob, who died in 1844. Joseph was mar- ried in 1858 to Catharine Ijams, of this county ; children: James I. . tonville and Raleigh. Mr. Brown (deceased), John R., Mary M., Wiley , was married in 1871 to Lizzie Dye;


II., Jefferson W., Amy C., Joseph V. and Ilettie M. Mr. and Mrs. Bigley are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Bigley's father died when he was but seven years of age and the widow and family were left to brave the hardships of pioneer life alone. The mother was a brave woman, well fitted for her position. She once killed a large rattlesnake alone and unaided, and on another occasion killed a deer; the animal, pursued by dogs, jumped into the creek ; she seized a rail, threw it upon his horns and drowned the deer, by getting upon the rail and holding his head under water.


John Brown was born in Belmont County in 1815, and has been a mer chant and farmer during life. For- merly he was in the mercantile busi- ness at Newburg, in this county, where he did a large business, buying and shipping tobacco to Baltimore. Ile has been twice married and is the father of nine children, all of whom are living.


William Brown was born in Bel- mont County, in 1842. His father and mother were also born in the same county. They came to New- burg, Noble County. and thence to Sharon Township. William enlisted in the Ninth Ohio Cavalry and served during the war, taking part in the battles of Big Creek Gap. Tenn., siege of Knoxville; Athens, Florence and Decatur; Rousseau raid; East Point, Ga., Atlanta, Jonesboro', Nashville, Aiken, Columbia, Fayette- ville. Rockingham, Averysboro', Ben-


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children : Emmet, Nora, Minnie, Dora and Fulton. Ile is a Republican. Mrs. Brown is a member of the Bap- tist church.


John Brownrigg and family came from England and settled in this township among the early pioneers. IIe died in 1856. Mary Brownrigg, daughter of John, married George Walters, whose parents came from Pennsylvania to Belmont County. George Walters settled in Sharon Township. He followed farming; died in 1869, his wife in 1862. Peter J. Walters, son of George, was born in Sharon Township, June 7, 1838, and is now a farmer in Noble Town- ship. He married Theresa A. Brown, daughter of Edmond G. Brown and granddaughter of Dexter Brown, an early settler, who came from Rhode Island. Edmond G. Brown married Elmy MeFerren, whose parents came from Pennsylvania and settled in Noble Township in 1833. Edmond G. Brown died in 1874; his widow is still living. Peter J. Walters was enrolled as corporal of Company I, First Ohio Heavy Artillery, June 24, 1863, and served until July 25, 1865, when he was discharged at Knox- ville. Tenn.


B. F. Burlingame was born in Noble Township, October 16, 1830, and is the son of one of the early settlers who came from Rhode Island. Mr. Burlingame is a Repub- lican in politics, and has followed farming and shoemaking as his occu- pations. He was married in 1861 to Sarah J. Early, a native of Ireland, and has one son, - Sidney.


James Caldwell, merchant at Olive


Green, was born near the site of the town of Caldwell in 1830, and is one of a family of nine children, seven of whom are living. He has fol- lowed farming and mercantile pur- suits. Ile is perhaps the oldest postmaster in Noble County, having served in that capacity for thirty-one years. He is a Republican, and with his wife belongs to the Methodist Protestant church. He has been married twice, first to Mary J. Long, of Wyandot County, Ohio; and sec- ond, to Agnes Parrish, of Olive Township. Mr. Caldwell is the father of six children, all living except one daughter.


John J. Delancy, a prominent farmer, was born in Monroe County, Ohio, May 19, 1831. He was one of twelve children, eight of whom are still living. Ilis father came from Pennsylvania and his mother from Maryland. Mr. Delancy has followed farming. He is a Republican in poli- tics. Ile was married in 1852 to Miss Cordelia Wilson, of this county ; chil- dren : S. Ellsworth, Ulysses S. (de- ceased), Frank L., John II., Urilla T. and Sarah F.


Samuel Danford, Sr, was born in New Jersey in 1774. His wife was a native of Virginia. They were mar- ried in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1800, and reared sixteen children. Samuel Danford, Jr., of Sharon Township, the twelfth of these children, was born June 28, 1818, in that portion of Monroe County now forming a part of Noble. Ile was married in 1840 to Jane Adair, who died in June, 1846; again in December, 1846, to Isabella Humphrey, who died in


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January, 1864; and a third time to Maria Delancy. in April, 1864. Mr. Danford is the father of eleven children, of whom seven are living. Ile signed the temperance pledge at the age of eighteen, and never broke it. He was formerly a Whig, but has been a Republican since the formation of the party. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and has held several church and township offices.


James Danford was born in Marion Township, Noble County, in 1833. Ilis father, a native of Virginia, and his mother, who was born in Penn sylvania, were early settlers in that township, and reared six sons and five daughters. Mr. Danford mar- ried Margaret A. Kapple, of Morgan County, and is the father of four sons and two daughters. Ile is a Republican, and a Past Master in the Masonic fraternity.


Ralph Essex was born in Mus- kingum County in 1808, and came to Noble County in 1820. Ilis wife, a native of Scotland, was born in 1820. They were married in 1841, and reared four sons and four daughters. Ralph Essex, Jr., the seventh child, i Thompson; children : Charles D., was born September 30, 1856, on the John F., Hannah E., Owen G. and Omer II. (twins). Mr. Harmon is a ---- farmer by occupation and a Repub- lican in politics. farm where he now resides. IIe received a common-school education, and has followed farming. In 1881 he married Phema M. Phelps, of Rufus P. James was born in Mus- Morgan County. They have one | kingum County in 1820, and is of Welsh and Irish descent. His father Mr. James has been twice married, and is the father of ten children, five by each wife, of whom six are still living, Dr. Frank James being the


Frank M. Gill was born in Sharon in 1:52, and educated at the Acad- emy in his native place, and has fol- lowed teaching. Mr. Gill was mar- ried in 1878 to Sarah Davidson, of Iliramsburg, and has two children. Ile is a Democrat. Mr. Gill served as school examiner for nine consecu- tive years.


Conrad Harmon, of German de- scent, was born January 27. 1843. llis grandfather Harmon came from Germany about 1771, and served in the Revolutionary War, receiving a wound at the battle of Germantown. Ile died in Morgan County. Con- rad's father was born in Pennsylva- nia, and is still living. Conrad Har- mon entered the service of the United States in 1862, in Company K, Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infan- try, and was discharged August 25. 1863, having participated in the bat- tles of Fredericksburg, Chancellors- ville and Gettysburg. Re-enlisting !in Company G, Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he served until July 25. 1865. In 1869 he married Electa W. Robinson, who died in 1871. In 1873 he married Mary E.


child -- Jennie G. Mr. Essex is a , Republican. Both he and his wife ' was a soldier in the War of 1812. belong to the Methodist Episcopal church. Three of his brothers were in the late war; two were shot, one of them fatally.


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only child unmarried: Mr. James belongs to the Baptist church, and is a Republican in politics.


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The Keysers are of English and German parentage. The father and mother of Andrew Keyser were born in Pennsylvania and were carly set- | beth Ijams. "Their children are Anna tlers in Belmont County. They had five sons, all now living except Oliver, who was a representative to the legislature from Noble County and a draft commissioner during the Rebellion. He died in 1882. Another brother, John, was in the legislature at the same time with Oliver. Andrew Keyser, of Sharon Town- ship, was born in Belmont County in 1815. In 1837 he married Miranda Luellen, in Belmont County, by whom he had eight children, five of whom are living - Jesse, Isaac, Oliver, John and Jacob. Mr. Key- ser is a Democrat and a Method- ist.


Oliver Keyser, son of Andrew Keyser, was born in Sharon Town- ship in 1847 and has followed farm- ing. In 1875 he was married to Lida Bell; children : Effie A., Nora P. (deceased), Nellie B. and Herbert II. Mr. Keyser belongs to the Methodist Protestant church and his wife to the Presbyterian.


Isaac Keyser was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1817. IIe settled in Noble County in 1864, and is now engaged in farming. Ile was mar- ried in 1850 to Miss Monica Porter- field, of Belmont County. Their children are five sons and one daugh- ter. Four of them are still living. One of the sons is six feet and eight inches in height. Mr. Keyser and


wife are Presbyterians. Ile is a Democrat in politics.


Isaac Keyser, Jr., was born in Belmont County in 1844 and came to Noble County with his parents. He was married in 1861 to Eliza- Albertine and Andrew J. Mr. and Mrs. Keyser are members of the (Christian church. In politics he is a Democrat. He served as land appraiser in 1880.


Samuel Long was a prominent early settler, a man of intelligence and an exemplary citizen. IIe was born in Pennsylvania in 1786, and was of Scotch descent He came to Ohio with his parents, who settled in Belmont County about 1800. In 1810 he married Mary Wiley and soon afterward settled near the site of the town of Caldwell, where he remained a short time, then removed to the farm in Sharon Township on which he died in 1868. Ilis first wife died in 1824. She bore six children (three sons and three daugh- ters). In 1825 Mr. Long married Mary Olephant, of Morgan County ; she also had six children (five sons and one daughter). She died in 1852, and in 1853 Mr. Long married Han- nah Read, of Muskingum County, who survived him a short time.


William Long, second child of Samuel and Mary (Olephant) Long, was born in this township October 28, 1827, and is a prominent and success- ful farmer. Ile has been identified with every public interest calculated to promote the welfare of Noble Counts, and is a friend and encour- ager of education and religion. He


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has served in several township offices. and has held the office of county commissioner two terms. Mr. Long is a Republican and a member of the Methodist Protestant Church. IIe - has been married three times - first, to Mary Ross, a native of Pennsyl- vania, who died in 1870; second, to Lucretia Phipps. of this county. who died in 1876; and in 1878, to his pres- ent wife, nee Mary J. Bell, of Noble . crat and a farmer.


County. Mr. Long is the father of nine sons and three daughters. all liv- ing except two daughters (Mary J. and Sarah K.) and an infant son. On the farm of Mr. Long is a frame barn, built in 1824 by George Morrison, which is believed to be the oldest in Noble County.


Robert Lowe is an old resident. Ile was born in Virginia in August, 1803; came to Washington County. Ohio, and thence, in 1814, to what is now Noble. During life he has been a farmer. He was married in 1824 to Rebecca Boyd, and is the father of eight sons and four daughters; eight children are still living. Mr. i a Presbyterian.


Lowe is a Democrat and a Methodist.


John Lowe was born in Noble County in 1836, and is a farmer. He was married in 1857 to Margaret J. HIannan; children : Orris (died at the age of twenty-six), Mary E., and Wil- lard. Mr. Lowe is a Democrat.


James Lowe, son of Robert, was born September 18, 1829, on the farm where he now lives. He married ('atherine Amelia O'Donovan, from London, England, and is the father of four sons and four daughters. Three of the children are dead - Philip C., Rosa J. and Mary R. (Par-


rish). Mr. aml Mrs. Lowe are mem- bers of the Methodist Protestant church, in which he has held several offices. Ile is a Democrat.


Alonzo B. Lowe, son of Robert Lowe, was born December 3, 1849. Ile married in 1885, Anna S .. daughter of William McGee, of Noble Township, and has one child. Lulu Belle. Mr. Lowe is a Demo-


- .Joseph E. Marquis, merchant at Sharon. is the son of John E. Mar- quis, a prominent citizen, whose parents were among the early settlers. and Mary Perrin, his wife. Ile was born July 6, 1854, and has followed mercantile pursuits. For twelve years he has served as postmaster at Sharon. Mr. Marquis is a Demo- crat, and a member of the Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows. Ile was married in 1875 to Venora E. Gill, of Sharon, and they have five children : Carrie May, Frank M., Herman II. ; and Bernard B. (twins), and Lillie M. Mr. Marquis is a Methodist ; his wife


A. II. McFerren, a prominent farmer, was born in Noble County May 10, 1849. He was educated at Sharon Academy, and followed teaching several years. Ile is a Democrat, and has served as clerk and assessor of the township. In 1872 Mr. McFerren married Lydia E. McKee, whose grandparents were among the carliest settlers of Sharon Township. Hle is a member of the Masonic Lodge at Sharon.


The McKee family is represent- ed in Sharon Township by Will- iam McKee, who was born on


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Duck Creek, in Noble Township, . was the father of Hon. Isaac Parrish, in 1825. (See sketch of the MeKee | a lawyer and member of Congress, family in Noble Township.) Ile is a whose biography appears elsewhere ; and of William Parrish, who served Democrat in politics, and a successful farmer. Mr. McKee was married in | as sheriff of Morgan County. The 1851, to Maria Gird, and is the family consisted of six sons and five father of seven children, five of : daughters. Stephen Parrish, a prom- whom are living.


William M. Morrison is of Scotch and Irish descent. Ilis father, a native of Maryland, came to Belmont County in 1817, and thence to this township. The elder Morrison was the father of ten children. William M., the ninth child, was born in 1826, on the farm where he now lives. IIe has followed farming. In 1850 he married Martha Gaston, of Knox County. They have but two chil- dren living. Robert A. died in 1852, in his second year; Joseph F., in 1863, aged seven years; Asa V., in 1875, aged fifteen years; Charles M., in 1883, aged thirty years. Two others died in infancy. Mr. Mor- rison and wife belong to the Presby- terian church, in which he is a deacon. In politics he is a Demo- crat.


Charles Nichols was born in Elk Township, Noble County, in 1864. Ilis father was a native of this county, and his mother was born in Ireland. Mr. N. is a farmer, and a Democrat in politics. He was mar- ried in 1883 to Annie Stout, of Shar- on Township. They have one child, Ernest I.


--- inent citizen, is a member of the same family, and was born January 22, 1816. Ile has followed blacksmith- ing, farming, and stock-dealing. Mr. Parrish was married to Ann Boyd in 1839, and is the father of six sons and three daughters. Robert, the oldest, volunteered in the Fourth Iowa Regiment of infantry, and was honorably discharged after two years of service. Ile died at Grand Junc- tion, Ill., while on his way home. Mr. Parrish is a prominent Democrat.


Thomas W. Parrish was born in McConnelsville, Ohio, in 1843. Ilis father, William Parrish, son of Edward Parrish, who settled in Sharon Township in 1819, was then serving as sheriff of Morgan County, which office he held from 1841 to 1845. T. W. Parrish has followed farming and the mercantile business. HIe enlisted February 12, 1862, in Company D, Sixty-third Ohio Volun- teer Infantry, and by re-enlistment served until the close of the war, and was discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 8, 1865. He was in the engage- ments at New Madrid, Island No. 10, Iuka. Corinth, siege of Vicksburg, Resaca, Lookout Mountain, Atlanta, and other battles of Sherman's march ' to the sea. Ile is a Republican, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and of the Grand Army of


Edward Parrish, a prominent early settler, was born in Maryland in 1781. and came to this township from Bel- mont County in 1819, arriving on the 19th of August. Edward Parrish | the Republic and Odd Fellows. Ile


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was married in 1877 to Susannah B. Wiley, of Sharon ; children : Helen M. and Henry S.


Riley Parrish, son of Stephen and Anna Parrish, was born in the vil- lage of Sharon in 1841. Ile was . engaged in farming until 1872 when typhoid fever while in the service.


he met with a severe accident by which he was rendered lame. Ile has since been engaged in making brooms and brushes. He was mar- ried in 1862 to Miss Ellen Orr of Zanesville; children: Robert W., Ira L., and Stephen R. Mr. and Mrs. Parrish are Presbyterians. Ile is a Democrat and a member of the Masonic order. Ile has served in several township offices.


. The father and mother of Samuel Patterson were Pennsylvanians, and came to Morgan County, Ohio, where they were married. Ilis mother's maiden name was Hannah L. Davis. Mr. Patterson was the fourth of ten children, five of whom are living. Ile was born in 1848 in Sharon Township and is a farmer and car- penter. In 1872 he married Sarah Fidora Swank, of Olive Green; children : Tempest W., Charlie, and Maple F. . Mr. Patterson is a Dem- ocrat ; his wife is a Baptist.


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in 1875 to Miss M. J. Tidrick who died in 1884. He is a Republican, an Odd Fellow, and a Baptist. Four of his brothers were in the war of the Rebellion, and two of them, George C. and Jonathan R., died of


Samuel F. Rock, a prominent farm- er, was born in Dresden, Musking- um County, in 1826, and is of German and Scotch ancestry. By occupation he is a farmer, saddler and harness maker. In 1847 he married Mary Elmira Archibald, a native of this county. She died in 1855, and in 1865 he married Sarah E. Emmons, a native of Belmont County. Three children were born of the first marriage - Hannah F. (deceased), Susan E., and Mary L. Mr. and Mrs. Rock are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Hle has served as steward, class-leader and superintendent of the Sabbath school. Ile was an Abolitionist and is a Republican. Mr. Rock enlisted in 1864 in Capt. Floyd's company. One Hundred and Seventy-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, served until the close of the war and was honorably discharged. He was in the battle of Nashville and other noted engagements.


Adam F. Pickenpaugh was born in 1848. His father, a native of Rev. Randall Ross was born in . Westmoreland County, Pa., in 1818, and came to Sharon in 1848 to take charge of the Sharon and Cumber- Pennsylvania, came from Virginia to Ohio and about 1826 married Jane Phillips, of Guernsey County, by whom he had nine children. The | land Associate Reformed churches grandfather of Adam settled in ( afterward United Presbyterian ). About 1851 he founded Sharon Col- lege, which he taught until the out- break of the war. For some time Noble County in 1825. Ile was killed by the falling of a limb from a tree while at work in his field. Adam F. Pickenpaugh was married ; he edited the Consolidated Republi-


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can, a county newspaper. In 1861 he went into the army as a private in the Sixty-second Ohio Volun- teer Infantry. After serving about eighteen months he was appointed chaplain of the Fifteenth Regiment with which he served until the close of the war. He went to New Con- cord, Guernsey County, and thence to Missouri, where he died in 1877.


Robert Rowland is from an early Morgan County family. His father was born in Pennsylvania in 1805, and his mother in West Virginia in 1813. They came to Morgan County about 1816. The family consisted of six sons and six daughters. Robert, the fifth child, was born in Sharon Township in 1843, and is a farmer. Ile married in 1873 Susannah Shus- ter, of Morgan County ; children : Losia C., Charles S. and Clara B. Mr. Rowland belongs to the Demo- cratic party.


Hugh Shields was born in Berkeley County, Va., February 2, 1809. IIis parents were natives of the same State. His father, a soldier of 1812, came to Ohio soon after 1830. In 1836 Hugh Shields entered at gov- ernment price ($1.25 per acre), eighty acres of land where he now lives. The country was then wild and prim- itive. Mr. Shields has followed farming all his life. He was married in Belmont County in 1833, to Mary Lowman, and is the father of seven sons and two daughters. Four sons and one daughter are still living.


George Shields was born in Sharon Township in 1856. In 1879 he mar- ried Miss Addie Dyer. They have two children living - Mary L. and


Oakey Owens. Both he and his wife belong to the Methodist Epis- copal church.


Matthew Steen, of Sharon, is of Irish descent. His grandfather lived, it is supposed, to the age of one hun- dred and four years. The father of Matthew was born in Pennsylvania in 1800 and died in Sharon in 1885. The family came to Noble County in 1847.


James II. Stewart was born in Noble County in 1831. In 1858 he married Mary J. Coulter, and they have three children. The Stewart family were pioneers in Belmont County, living there in a fort while hostile Indians still roamed through the country, frequently having Louis Wetzel as their guest. The family came to what is now Noble County in 1824. The father of James H. was a soldier of 1812.


The Stout family came from New Jersey to Belmont County and thence, in 1820, to the vicinity of Olive Green. One of the family married Christina Matilda Ann Har- mon, and reared five sons and three daughters. Enoch, one of the sons, died at Vicksburg during the siege. George Edward Stout was born in 1860 and lives on the homestead farm. In 1880 he married Cordelia Baker, of Brookfield Township; children : Emil, Florence and Lydia Francis. Mr. Stout is an enterpris- ing farmer, a Republican and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.


Levi Millard Stout was born near Olive Green in 1846. His grand- father was an early settler, a native


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of New Jersey, who came to this township in 1820 from Belmont County. He was married in 1869 to Clarissa D. Gooden, of Olive Town- ship. They have had six children: Happy N., Charity R. (deceased). Thirsa I., Albert M., Alta L. and Florence E.


Philip Swank was born in 1828 in the house which he now occupies. Ilis father, who was a soldier of 1812, was born in Belmont County ; his mother, nee Harriet Paul, in Penn- . sylvania. They had twelve children, of whom Philip was the fourth. Hle married Hannah Dye in 1847. They have had seven children, of whom five are living. Mr. Swank is a Democrat. Ile and wife belong to the Methodist Protestant church.


J. W. Swank, a well-known mer- chant, is a representative of one of the early families. Ilis grandfathers were from Pennsylvania and his maternal grandfather served in the War of 1812. The maiden name of his mother was Barbara Picken- paugh. She was married in 1823. J. W. Swank, the third of ten chil- dren, was born in Sharon Township in 1829 and has followed farming and the mercantile business. He is a Democrat in politics. In 1850 he married Jane Brownrigg, of this township. They have had five chil- dren. Their daughter Lillian mar- ried James Arnold and died at the age of nineteen. Mrs. Swank is a Baptist.


of Mr. Swank's business. lle first . ty, in 1869. They are members of


The breeding of deer is a feature obtained black -tailed deer from , Nebraska; but on trial, found that | a Republican in politics.


the climate did not agree with them. Afterward, obtaining cotton-tailed deer, he was very successful in raising them. They run with the cows and are easily domesticated. At present he has thirteen on hand.




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