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fantry. He was discharged on sur- geon's certificate of disability after one year in the service. In 1862 he married Lillie H. Earhart, of this county. Four children living - Al- bion E., Mattie H., Mary A. and Dora R. The Osborns are Free Methodists.
Samuel Craig, a native of Ireland, came to America about 1818. He settled in this township on the farm now owned by Fawcett L. Craig, who was born on the place in 1843. In 1871 F. L. Craig married Catherine McGirt, of Scotch descent ; children - Emma B., George W. and Nellie J. Mrs. Craig is a member of the Methodist church. Mr. Craig is a successful farmer.
In 1818 Nathamel Capell, his wife and family of six children came to this county from Delaware. They afterward had one child. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Capell died in 1855; his wife, in 1853. Mary Capell, widow of Richard Horton, was born in Delaware in 1809, and came to Ohio with her parents. She was married in 1829 and is still living on the farm where she then settled. Mr. Horton was a farmer, and for the last twenty-five years of his life a minister in the Wesleyan Methodist church. He died in 1878. Mrs. Horton is the mother of ten children. six of whom are living - one in Vir- ginia and five in Noble County. She is one of the few remaining early set- tlers to whom pioneer life was a real- ity. Her children in this county are Maria (Calland), Moses I., Nathaniel, James F. and Robert C.
Joseph Calland was born in Dum-
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fries, Scotland, in 1783. He came to America in 1819 and entered land just east of Summerfield, where he died in 1832. He built the house now occupied by Nancy and Rachel Danford. He served as township trustee several years. ITis wife died in 1882 in her ninety-seventh year. They had eleven children, six of whom came to this county, five now living - Elizabeth (Brown), Summer- field ; Nancy (Ogg), Indiana; Cath- erine (Swain), Center Township; Robert, Marion Township; James, Stock Township.
Robert ('alland, an old resident, was born in Scotland in 1808, and came to this country with his father's family. In 1832 he married Nancy Capell, who bore ten children, four of whom are living - Nathaniel C., Mary E. (Miller), Ilorton S. and Will iam B. Ilis first wife died in 1854, and Mr. Calland married Mary Bal- dridge (nee Stewart ) They had four children, three of whom are living - Jennie (Ilorn), Nevada B. (Williams) and Friend Milroy. Mr. Calland has been a very prominent citizen and has served in the following offices: County commissioner, deputy United States marshal, township trustee, justice of the peace for twenty-seven years in succession, trustee of the church, cemetery and temperance hall. He has been a local preacher in the Methodist church about thirty years, and class-leader and exhorter for over fifty years.
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marriage, of Robert W., Joseph and Elizabeth (Bell), all still living. Mrs. Calland died in 1850. Mr. Calland afterward married Lucy Stanley of Washington County, who bore four children, one of whom is living- Diantha (King). Mr. Calland is a prominent farmer and a representa- tive citizen. Joseph, his son, enlisted in 1863, in Company D, Ninety-sec- ond Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was transferred to the Thirty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, after the mus- ter-out of the Ninety-second, and served about six weeks longer.
Robert W. Calland was born in Marion Township in 1842. In 1862 he enlisted in Company D, Ninety- second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served until mustered out June 10, 1865. He was in the battles at Hoover's Gap, Kenesaw Mountain, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, the Atlanta campaign, Savannah, and through the Carolinas. He followed farming until 1878, and has since been engaged in the hardware busi- ness at Summerfield. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Calland belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic. Ile was married in 1866 to Mary E. Wilson. They have two children- James W. and Joseph II.
William McClintock and family came from Ireland to Pittsburgh in 1812. There Mr. McClintock found employment in a brewery. IIe re- mained in Pittsburgh nine years. and Joseph Calland came to this town- ship with his father's family. Ile married Ariana Ogg, of Belmont in 1822 removed with his family to 160 acres of land in this township, which he had entered two years pre- County, and was the father, by this | viously. The country was then a
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wilderness, and the family, unaccus- tomed to such a life, found existence full of hardships. But they succeeded in gaining a good home. They had two children born in Ireland and four in this country. The family were Methodists. Mr. McClintock died in 1862; his wife in 1845. James MeClintock, the only survivor of the family, was born in Pittsburgh in 1817. In 1839 he married Catharine Lemmax. They had ten children : Jonas R., Elizabeth ( Amos), deceased ; William W., Sarah (Rownd), Mar- garet (Donelly), Martha (Philpot), Mary ( Washington), Samuel D., Alice and Emmett, deceased. Samuel D., the third son, was born in 1854. In 1881 he married Ollie Mason, of Monroe County, and they have one child -Clyde E. Ile was in the mer- cantile business at Freedom for about two years, but is now farming.
John and Mary Franklin came from the vicinity of Dublin, Ireland, and settled in Pittsburgh. In 1822 they came to this township, whence they returned to Pittsburgh. In 1833 they located on the farm now owned by Mrs. Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin was born in Pittsburgh in 1821, and came to this county with his par- ents. Ile died in 1876. Ile married Jane E. Hopper, of Belmont County, in 1847, and was the father of Mary A. (Cleary), deceased ; William II., John B., Robert D. and Ellen E., living.
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John B. Franklin was born in Pitts- burgh in 1825, and came to this town- ship with his parents in 1833. In 1846 he married Hannah J. Wharton ; children, nine, all living: Swazey D., Mary E. (Guiler), Samuel K., Martha | sponse.
A. (Barnes), George W., Sarah G. (Barnes), Winfield S., James A. and Robert E. Mr. Franklin learned the blacksmith's trade and followed it for fifteen years, but for about twenty years has been a farmer.
Thomas Franklin was one of the enterprising and energetic settlers of " Young Ireland." He came to this country from " Erin's Isle" about 1818, and after remaining in Pitts- burgh about six years, settled on what is now section 11 of Marion Township. He settled in the woods, cleared his farm, and proved a suc- cessful farmer. None of his family are now living. Ile was the father of six children. Alexander, his third son, married Mary Amos in Pitts- burgh, and was the father of Mary (Mason) deceased; Violet (Summers), Caldwell; Margaret (Lemmax), Free- dom; Elizabeth, Rosa P. (Gulick), and John A. The latter was born in 1837 on the farm he now owns. In 1862 he married Matilda Danford. Their children are Mary R., Maggie L., Ilomer W., John M., Wilbur, Lizzie, Violet, Cliff and Edna J.
Gassaway Trott and wife came from Maryland to Barnesville in 1824, and in 1826 removed to the farm in this township on which Mrs. Trott still lives. IIe died in May, 1886. The family were Methodists, and well-to-do as farmers, and made life a success. They stood high in the esti- mation of the community in which they resided for their acts of benevo- lence, and never were called upon in vain for favor or assistance, but al- ways met demand with a hearty re-
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John M. Rownd, for many years of the store in alarm when his father caught him, pulled him back and told him under no circumstances to tell anyone what he had seen. Ile then sent the boy to school, promising to explain things on his return. Mean- time, the negro was removed to other quarters. one of the prominent business men and best known citizens of Summer- field, was born in Barnesville in 1814. In 1828 he came to Summer- field and entered the store of his brother in-law, Mr. Shankland, as clerk. In 1830, during the cholera epidemic in Wheeling, he went to that place and engaged in making coffins, turning out thirty to forty per day. In 1834 he returned to Summerfield, where he opened a cabinet-maker's shop, continuing in that business for about six months. He then went to Lexington and went into partnership with Mr. Shankland as a general merchant. He continued in Lexington until 1844, then again returned to Sum- merfield and opened a store on the corner where the Summerfield hotel : indebted to him. Two of his sons
now stands. About two years later he built the store now occupied by Rownd & Paull. IIe continued to do business at this location from 1847 to 1873, buying his goods in Balti- more during the greater part of the time. Ile was in active business from 1828 to 1873, nearly forty six : years, and bore an enviable reputa- tion for honor, honesty and fair dealing. In the days of the anti- slavery agitation his place was an Underground railroad depot, and him- self a very active and efficient official of that road. On one occasion his son, James S., then a boy, went to the rag bin to get some walnuts which he had hidden there and was sur- prised and badly frightened when he discovered a burly, black negro in the bin. The boy was rushing out
Mr. Rownd was one of the best friends of the Union cause in Noble County. Ile was a member of the State Military Committee, and was active in raising and equipping troops for the field, spending liberally his time and money for that purpose. It is an undisputed fact that he spent more for the cause of his country during the Rebellion than any other man in Noble County. He also lost fully $8,000 from the deaths of cus- tomers in the army, who went away were in the service and were gallant soldiers. Mr. Rownd was a public- spirited citizen, a thorough and suc- cessful man of business, and through life possessed that priceless gift, an unsullied reputation. He was mar- ried in 1840 to Martha A. Gibson, a native of Maryland, and was the father of seven children, who reached mature years. The oldest son, John G., now deceased, was a member of Company C, Ninety-second Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry, and served until his company was mustered out. Enter- ing the service as first sergeant, he rose to the rank of first lieutenant ; James S., also a soldier in the late war, is now senior member of the mercantile firm of Rownd & Paull, in Summerfield. The other children are Ann E. (Mechem), Kansas; Mar-
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tha V. Williamy. Summerfield : Maggie E. (Hyde). Kan-as ; Thomas W ... Emily I. fdeceased). The mother died in 1-30, and the father, Febru- ary 26. 1954.
James S. Rownd. one of the enter- prising and representative business men of Noble County, was born in 1×42, and has followed mercantile pursuits. In 1864 he enlisted in the hundred days' service. In 1870 he married Sarah E. Hall. of Quaker parentage. They have three children: Minnie F., John HI. and James T.
James Mc Vickar and family came to this townshipin 1828 from Hamp- shire County, Va. He was a mem- ber of the Presbyterian church, and his wife was a Lutheran. He died in 1843 and his widow in 1856. They had seven children, one of whom died in infancy. Henry F. McVickar was born in Hampshire County, Va., in 1822, and came to Ohio with his parents. lle is a leading farmer. The family are members of the Cum- berland Presbyterian church. Mr. MeVickar was married in 1844 to Catharine Ward, of Guernsey County; children : Elizabeth (Okey), Drucilla (Rich), Kate (Guiler), Eliner, HI. Grant, Lindley E. and Josie.
William Philpot * came to America about 1802. Ile first settled on a sec- tion of land, with two others, where the town of Belmont now is. His health becoming impaired, he entered the employ of James Barnes, propri- etor of Barnesville, and sold for him the first goods ever sold in that town. He had previously been a
merchant's clerk in Ireland. and understood the business. From 1:30 to 1447 he was in business in Sum- merfield. He died in 1-64.
James M. Rownd came to Sum- merfield after his sons located there. He was the father of Samuel. James Q .. John M. and Henry. Samuel Rownd started a tannery. and car- ried on harness making in Summer- field. Ile removed to Iowa. James Q. settled on a farm and had a pot- tery. Henry carried on the mercan- tile business in Sarahsville, and John M. was in the same business in Lex- ington and Summerfield.
Peter Barnes and family came from Belmont County in 1:33. and settled on 160 acres of land which they bought of William Philpot. Ile died in 1861 and his wife in 1858. They had eight children, of whom three are living - Abel, Lenox and Vachel; the two last named live in Springfield, Ohio, as does also their sister. Mrs. A. Davis. The family were Methodists. Abel Barnes, the oldest son, was born in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1514, and came to this county with his parents. In 1840 he married Catharine Brown of this county ; children : Margaret A. (Davis), Rhoda E. (Gant), Nathaniel B., Adam C., Peter F., George B., Abel W., Allen W., and James S. Several of the children live in the West. James S. is a county sur- veyor in Kansas. Mr. Barnes and wife are Methodists.
William Craig and family came from Montreal, Canada, in 1837, and settled in this township. They brought five children with them and
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one was born afterward. Mr. Craig died in 1855 and his wife in the same year, only two days later. Ile was a leader in the Methodist church. Two of the children are living in Missouri and two in this county - Mrs. Jacob Guiler and Mrs. David Campbell. Elizabeth, the oldest child, married Rev. Joseph II. Stewart, of Marietta. She died in 1861, leaving one. child, Rosa J. (Campbell). Joshua, the next child, was born in 1821, and died in Kansas in 1874. Mary J., born in 1826, is the wife of Jacob Guiler. Martha C. was born in Canada in 1828. In 1874 she married Henry Cleary, who died in 1884. In 1886 she married David Campbell, a retired capitalist. Margaret, born in 1833, married William II. Harper, and lives in Missouri. Emma, born in 1837, also resides in Missouri. and is the wife of Elijah Cleary.
William II. Craig, son of John D. Craig, was born in 1845, in Marion Township, and is engaged in farm- ing. Ile was married in 1870 to Ann E. Kent, of this county, and by this union has had three children, none now living.
Francis A. Wharton was born in Pennsylvania February 26, 1814, and when a boy emigrated with his par- ents to the neighborhood of Barnes- ville, where he married Miss Amelia Barnes, and where he resided until 1838, when he removed to the head- waters of Duck Creek, three miles west of Summerfield, in what is : now Marion Township. Mr. Whar- ton was not only one of the early settlers of the county, but one of its i nie O., Ina J. and Arthur F.,
substantial and respected citizens. He was a thrifty business man and a zealous Christian. At the age of twenty years he joined the Methodist Episcopal church, and soon after was licensed to exhort. He became a local preacher about 1839, and for forty years he faithfully performed the duties assigned him. His charity was proverbial, and while he was a fearless defender of the right he never gave offense to those who dif- fered from him in opinion. Ile died October 11, 179, " without having a known enemy in the world," and it is but just to say that no one held a larger share of public esteem. IJis sole aim in life seemed to be to ben- efit others, and it may be truly said he was a blessing to the poor. His wife (familiarly known as Aunt Amelia) survives him and resides on the old homestead. Of a family of eight children, five are living.
Arthur Wharton was born in this township in 1842. At the age of nineteen he enlisted in Company I, Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infan- try, and served four years, being in the battles at Cheat Mountain, Green- brier, Cross Keys, Honey Ilill, and a number of skirmishes. He was wounded in the right shoulder in a skirmish at Cattle Creek, S. C., and at Honey Hill was wounded through the hand. Ile was on detached serv- ice for hospital duty about a year, and January 4, 1865, was discharged on a surgeon's certificate of disabil- ity. In 1867 he married Mary E. Car- ter; children : Bertha S., deceased ; Emery O., Alva G., Adda M., Min-
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living. Mr. Wharton is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church ; occupation, farming and stock deal- ing.
Henry Floyd, born in Pennsylva- nia in 1813, came to this township when twenty-six years of age, and still resides here. He married Rebec- ca Danford and has six children living. Ile has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church fifty-four years and his wife has belonged to the same church sixty- one years.
John Cleary and his wife and one child came from Cincinnati to Marion township, in 1842. They afterward had ten more children. The family belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church.' Mrs. Cleary died in 1879. John W. Cleary was born in 1856. In 1879 he married Mary A. Ruther- ford. Their children are Angie E., Edward D. and Luella P. Mr. Cleary is a member of the Methodist Epis- copal church.
Timothy Cleveland was a native of Maine, and a pioneer settler of Noble County. He married Sarah W. Pierce, in 1817, and with his wife and one child located at an early date a mile south of Summerfield. Ile was a prominent and worthy citi- zen, and a true type of the enterpris- ing pioneer. He was the father of seven children by his first wife, two of whom are living-Mary (Gail), of Columbus, and Thaddeus S., of Mon- roe County. His wife died in 1835. In 1839 he married Margaret Dement, of Monroe County. They had two children, of whom one survives- Frank G., the popular landlord of
the Cleveland Hotel, at Summerfield. Timothy Cleveland died in 1866, and ; his widow in 1875.
Frank G. Cleveland was born in 1840, and lived with his parents until 1861. when he enlisted in Company I, Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infant- ry, and becoming a veteran, served until the close of the war. He was in the battles of Shiloh, Vicksburg, Champion Hills, the Atlanta cam- paign and Savannah. After the war he engaged in tobacco-packing in Monroe County. In 1878 he came to Summerfield and engaged in the hotel business. In 1882 he bought the Elk House and changed the name to the ('leveland Hotel. He married Sarah Greeneltch in 1865; children: Charles (dead), Ella, Mary, Edna J., Forrest T., Hattie, Fred and Rose.
Richard D. Cleary was born in 1843. Ile married Mary A. Frank- lin in 1867; children: Joseph F., William D. and Edward B. His wife, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, died in 1872. In 1877 Mr. Cleary married Caroline Cox, of this county, and their chil- dren are Annie. Alice and Richard D. Mr. Cleary is an honorable, pros- perous and successful farmer, as was also his father above mentioned.
Matthew West, born in Kings County, Ireland, in 1827, came to America to seek his fortune at the age of fourteen, and in 1842 located in Marion Township. After working twenty years as a farm laborer he bought land of William Danford, and began work for himself. Ilis first purchase was 136 acres, but he added to it from time to time until he
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owned 7233 acres, all the result of | 1872 to Emma A. Penn, who died in 1881. They had two children, of 1885 he married Miss Eliza Philpot. Methodist Episcopal church. his own industry and economy. Ile ! has given 136 acres to his son and , whom one is living - Frank. In eighty-one acres to his daughter, and . still owns about 525 acres. In 1854 ' The family are members of the he married Martha Shook ; children : Eliza A. (Danford), William II., Jane M. (Thomas), and John A. The family are members of the Protestant Episcopal church. Mr. West is one of the leading farmers of the town- ship. At one time, when refused credit for a chip hat in Freedom, he said he would some day be able to buy all the merchants there, and his success has verified the prediction.
Lewis J. Moore was born in Marion Township in 1842. At the age of seven years he was bound out until he was twenty to Andrew J. Moore. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Com- pany D, Ninety-second Ohio Volun- teer Infantry, with which he served until the close of the war, participat- ing in several noted battles.
Liston II. Prettyman was born in Sussex County, Del., in 1817, and came to this township in 1844. He married Mary Shankland in 1845, and to them was born one child -James S. Mr. Prettyman was a farmer, and a member of the Methodist Epis- copal church. He died in 1883. His widow resides on the farm with her son.
James S. Prettyman was born in 1846. At the age of twenty years he went to West Virginia, where he was in the mercantile business. In ! purchased eighty acres of land, to 1872 he returned to Ohio, and for eleven years was engaged in the same business in Carlisle, and has since : been farming. Ile was married in
Wyndham Sparling, with his wife and one child, lett Ireland for Amer- ica June 1, 1849. Reaching this country he came to Ohio, and pur- chased of Lemuel Moore eighty acres of partially improved land, situated near Freedom, for $11 per acre. Soon after he engaged in teaching school, which, like farming, was new work to him. In the fall he went to work to put in a crop of wheat. Buying a horse and borrowing a shovel plow from a preacher who lived near, he set to work on a six- acre field. The horse did not under- stand the language of his driver, and Mr. Sparling had a serious time among the stumps. The first of his wheat was up before the last was sown. Yet he secured a bountiful crop. In the work of cradling wheat and chopping down trees he found great difficulty, but finally learned the process. Once when making fence-rails be selected gum-trees, and worked upon them for a day before he discovered that that was not the kind of timber to use for rails.
Wyndham Sparling was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1805. In 1849 he landed in Philadelphia and imme- diately came to this township. He which he has since added eighty- eight acres. Ile was married in his native land in 1826, and had by this union two sons, one of whom is liv-
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ing in Washington County, Ohio. ; 1878 and he in 1886. The grand- His first wife died in 1851, and in ' father of William Finley and his the following year he married Mrs. brother, aged nineteen and twenty- Alexander, of Belmont County, who one years respectively, came to America from Ireland just before the Revolution. Landing in New York without means, they there sep- arated, and the identity of the two families was never certainly fixed, except that the family of Patrick Finley had a similar legend. died in 1868. In 1871 Mr. Sparling married Mrs. Ford (nee Campbell). Mr. Sparling is a Royal Arch Mason. He is proud of being an American citizen, and though cherishing an affection for his native land, has no desire to return to it. His son, Dr. John Belton Sparling practiced for a time in this county. Wyndham ! Sparling has been a school director for twenty-four years. He also served many years as a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church, and as superintendent of the Sabbath school, filling those positions with credit to himself and profit to church and school.
James M. Philpot was born in this township in 1849, and has followed farming most of his life, though he was in a store several years. In 1875 he married Martha C. Mcclintock ; children : Shepard B, Clifford M. and Emily. Mrs. Philpot is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Philpot is engaged in farming and stock-raising.
William Finley came from Penn- sylvania when a young man, and : settled in Seneca Township about 1825. Ile was a worthy, industrious pioneer, and used to claim that he had cleared more land than any man he ever knew, except Aaron Morris. In 1832 he married Rachel Glover, whose parents came to the county about the same time that Mr. Finley did. Among his pioneer experiences was hauling grain to the Muskingum River, forty miles, over poorly con- structed roads, selling it at from twenty-five to forty cents per bushel, and taking the larger part of the proceeds in trade. After living in 1 Seneca Township thirty-five years, in 1860 he removed to Center Town- ship, and thence in 1870 to Wayne County, Iowa, taking with him his younger children. His wife died in | being a diligent reader, a close ob-
Stephen Wilson was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1821. In 1825 his parents removed to Belmont County, and in 1835 Stephen began learning the harness-maker's trade in St. Clairsville, serving six years and seven months. In 1841, at the age of twenty-one, he engaged in busi- ness for himself in Barnesville, where he remained until 1858. In 1845 he married Sarah Ann, daughter of Colonel Benjamin Mackall, a very prominent man, and by this union had eleven children, six of whom are living - Mary, Charles E., Emma (Miller), Ernest, Harriet A. and Annie. In 1858 Mr. Wilson came to Summerfield, where he has since fol- lowed harness and saddle making and tanning. He is one of the best informed citizens of Noble County,
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