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While living in New Comerstown our subject, in addition to his practice, started a paper called the New Comerstown Argus. This he considers a very successful venture, as the plant was all paid for, and netted him a good income. His career as an editor was cut short in 1877, when the office was destroyed by fire. Mr. Buchanan has always been an active politician, and in 1889 was nominated by the Democratic party for State Senator from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Districts. Being very popular, he was elected, and while in the Senate served as a member of the following committees: the Judiciary, Municipal, Corporations, Mines and' Mining, Revision of Laws (of which he was Chair- man) and Industrial Schools. While a member of that body he introduced a bill providing for the election of Presidential Electors by congressional districts. Although this bill failed to pass the Leg- islature, a similar document was accepted by the Michigan Legislature, but was considered uncon- stitutional by the Supreme Court of that state. It was afterward taken to the United States Supreme Court and there sustained. This was the first in- troduction of a bill providing for the election of electors by that system.
Mr. Buchanan was elected a member of the City Council in 1888, serving until taking his seat in the Senate. He has been connected with many im- portant cases, among them that of John J. Spear- man vs. Mrs. Lizzie Ward, which was tried in Pitts- burg, Pa. The case grew out of the fact that the defendant had failed in ber business in Ohio and owned property in Pennsylvania, upon which the
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creditors undertook to get judgment. Mr. Bu- chanan took the ground that in case of a married woman the indebtedness was not a personal obliga- tion, and did not follow Mrs. Ward to Pennsylva- nia and become a liability against the property situated in that state. The case involved a large amount of money, and was decided in behalf of Mrs. Ward. It was later carried to the Supreme Court by the plaintiff, and it sustained the decision of the Common Pleas. After the settlement of this case Mr. Buchanan was taken ill and for one year was not able to carry on the business.
September 1, 1872, our subject was married to Miss Anna Barber, daughter of Matthew and Tab- itha Barher. To them were born two daughters, Jessie and Ella. Mrs. Buchanan departed this life September 29, 1890, firm in the faith of the Pres- byterian Church.
In social affairs Mr. Buchanan is a Knight of Pythias. In 1893 he was again nominated by his party for re-election to the Senate, but was de- feated on account of the failure of the judges of elections in a precinct of Coshocton County to make returns of the vote cast for State Senator. This district gave MeKinley one hundred and forty majority, and he ran one hundred and eighty-one ahead of his ticket. Mill Creek Town- ship, the precinct in which the vote was not re- turned, gave our subject one hundred and seven votes and his opponent thirty-eight, and the latter was declared elected.
Mr. Buchanan is Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Committee, also the county com- mittee. He is a sound lawyer and a good advo- cate, always commanding the respect of the Court and the attention of the jury.
W GILLIAM KALEY, proprietor of a fine meat-market in the city of Cambridge, has been engaged in this line of busi- ness since the fall of 1894. 1Ie has a well stocked establishment, complete in all its appointments, and from the beginning his trade has constantly
been on the increase, so that now he has an excel- lent patronage. He is courteous and fair in his dealings with all, and ranks among the successful business men of the city.
A native of this state, our subject was born in Trumbull County, July 16, 1863. His parents were John and Ella (Kennedy) Kaley, natives of County Kilkenny and Tipperary, Ireland, respec- tively, the former of whom was born in 1820. They were greatly respected in the neighborhood in which they lived, and reared twelve children: Martin, a resident of Girard, this state; Michael, living in Newburg, Ohio; William, of this sketch; Ellen, the wife of Flori Gard; Julia, deceased. formerly Mrs. Patrick Coad; Katie, who married Thomas Loftes, and is also deceased; Agnes, resid- ing in Mineral Ridge, this state; and Tracy, Jolin, James and Edward, at home.
John Kaley emigrated to the United States in 1841, and found his first employment working on the Alleghany Mountain Railroad, being in the employ of one company for four years. He then removed to New Castle, Pa., where he lived for five years, engaged as a teamster. ITis next move found him a resident of Niles, this state, where he hauled coal from Mineral Ridge to Niles, working bis own teams. Hle made his home in that place for four years, when he removed to Mineral Ridge and became the owner of a farm. He still con- tinues teaming in the winter time. Miss Ella Ken- nedy emigrated to America in the year 1844, and some years later was joined in marriage with the father of our subject. She was a most estimable lady, and active in all good works in the vicinity of her home.
As before stated, William Kaley, our subject, was born in Trumbull County, this state, July 16, 1863. Ile was educated in the common schools of his dis- trict, and lived at home until nineteen years of age, but at the age of fifteen commenced working in the rolling-mills at Niles, Ohio. On leaving home he proceeded to New Philadelphia, and worked in the rolling-mills at that place, and when the roll- ing-mills at Cambridge started up in 1891 he came to this eity and engaged his services to the Cambridge Iron and Steel Company, continuing therein until the latter part of 1894, when he
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started his present meat-market, engaging a skill- ful manager to run it.
William Kaley, when ready to establish a home of his own, was married, December 14, 1883, to Miss Nettie Ellis, a native of New Philadelphia, this state. Her parents were Johnson and Julia Ann (Hensel) Ellis. Her grandfather on the pa- ternal side was a native of England, and her graud- mother a native of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Kaley was given a fair education, and belongs to the Catholic Church, to which our subject also belongs, and is a regular attendant. In politics he is a supporter of Republican principles.
DWARD II. McGREW. For the past thir- teen or fourteen years, this worthy old citizen of Tuscarawas County has been partially retired from active labors, and during this period has made his home in the village of Sandyville. For the main portion of his life he - was identified with agricultural pursuits, and im- proved several good farms. Through his indus- try, economy and well directed efforts, he made a competence amply sufficient to provide the com- forts and necessities of life for his remaining years.
Nathan MeGrew, the father of E. H., was born in Westmoreland County, Pa., and was one of five children who grew to mature years. Samuel is now deceased; Stephen died in Iowa; James passed away in Sandusky, Ohio; and Martha is still liv- ing. In 1804 Nathan MeGrew came to this coun- ty, and settled in New Philadelphia. He served in the War of 1812 as an officer, and recruited a company of patriots. Up to the time of his death he was County Surveyor, an office he had held for several years, and also for a long period he was Justice of the Peace. Ilis death occurred while he was yet in the prime of life, in Fairfield Town- ship, January 12, 1834, at the age of forty-eight years. In politics he was a Whig. His widow survived him for about half a century, dying in
Clay County, Ind., in the fall of 1883, aged eighty- four years. Her seven children are as follows: Martha, who became the wife of Sam M. Martin; Eliza; Edward H., our subject; Deborah, who be- came the wife of Alfred Davis; Sarah A., wife of Markus Dolls, now of Meeker County, Minn .; Nathan, whose home is in Iowa; and David, now of Sullivan County, Ind. The mother of these children was Mary, daughter of Edward and Sarab (McCluitice) Huston, natives of Ireland and Vir- ginia, respectively. The father was one of the pioneers of this county, but died in the East. His calling in life was that of manufacturing mill burrs. Their two children were Mary and Eliza, the latter of whom married a Mr. Bears. After the death of her first husband, Mrs. Sarah Huston, became the wife of a Mr. Pritchard, and bore him two children: Jane, who became the wife of David Bacon; and Sarah, wife of George Howe. Mr. Pritchard was a leading farmer, and represented his county in the State Legislature. His death occurred in Jefferson County, and his widow then came to make her home in this locality, but died while visiting in Medina County, Ohio. Mrs. Mary McGrew was born in the eastern part of Pennsylvania or Virginia, and from the time she was eight years of age was an active worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Her last years were spent with her daughter in Indiana, in whose home her death occurred.
Edward II. McGrew was born near New Phila- delphia, April 27, 1822. He obtained his educa- tion in the primitive log schoolhouse of that day, and worked for his mother on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age. For the next seven years he operated a homestead, after which he bought a farm for himself. This, his first pur- chase of land, comprised ninety acres, situated north of Zoar Station, and for this farm lie paid at the rate of $23 per acre. After improving the place, he traded it for one hundred and forty-two acres west of Sandyville. In the spring of 1859 he removed to this homestead, which in time was increased to two hundred and fifty-six acres by purchase. He continued to dwell thereon for some twenty-two years, but finally, in the spring of 1881, came to reside in Sandyville. He received
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$500 from his father's estate, but with this excep- tion has had to make his own way in the world by his individual efforts.
In the spring of 1850 Mr. McGrew married Mary J. Bailey, who was born in Sandyville, Jan- uary 4, 1831, and is a daughter of John and Eliza- beth (Dickson) Bailey. The former was born Jan- uary 8, 1806, and died in 1882. Mrs. Bailey, who was born January 17, 1806, died in March, 1885. They were the parents of nine children, five of whom were reared to manhood and womanliood, namely: James, Jolın, Alfred, Mary J. and Martha. The father was a Whig, subsequently a Republican, and served as Justice of the Peace, and in lesser offices. His father, James Bailey, who came from Pennsylvania, was one of the early pioneers of this county, and a full account of liis life may be found in the sketch of John D. Bailey, which ap- pears elsewhere in this volume.
Mr. and Mrs. McGrew have not been blessed with children of their own, but many years ago adopted a little girl, whom they cared for and loved as though she had been their own child. This lady, whose given name is Rose, is now the wife of Napoleon Shott. For forty-three years Mr. McGrew and wife have been members of the Lutheran Church, and for thirty-eight years of this period the former has been an Elder in the congregation. Fraternally he has been a Mason for twenty years. In all matters of political mo- ment in his locality he takes an active part, and at all times manifests a patriotic spirit.
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J ACOB R. LEBOLD. The old saying that "industry brings reward as surely as does virtue" is proven in the life of the gentle- man whose name opens this sketch. Al- though given a start in life by his honored father, he has invested his means in such a manner as to bring him handsome profit, and is now considered one of the largest land-owners and a financial pillar
of Tuscarawas County. His possessions aggregate over eight hundred acres of as fine farming land as is to be found in this section, and the cultivation of his farm occupies the greater part of his time and attention.
The original of this sketeli was born at Bolivar, this county, August 18, 1847, and is the son of John and Catharine Lebold. The first-mentioned was born October 28, 1816, in Wurtemberg, Ger- many, and was the seventh in order of birth of a family of nine children comprised in the house- hold of Conrad and IIedwig Lebold. The emigra- tion to America occurred when John was a lad of fourteen years, and he well remembered the long and tedions voyage of six months across the At- lantic. The family located in 1830 in Zoar, this state, where the father worked at his trade as a cooper during his stay there of about eighteen months. At the end of that time, deciding to fol- low the life of an agriculturist, he purchased the land known as the Moser Farm, and, moving upon it, was engaged in its cultivation, at the same time working, off and on, at his trade. He was stricken with paralysis in 1860, and died when in the eighty-fourth year of his age. The mother preceded him to the better land by ten years, pass- ing away at the age of seventy-four.
According to the old German custom, the elder sons of the family were educated to follow the trade of their father, and consequently were coopers. George lived in Sandy Hook a number of years prior to his removal to Alton, Ill., where he worked at his trade. John Conrad, the second son, made his home in Zoar for seven years, after which he took up his abode in Seneca County, this state, where he entered land, and was engaged in its cul- tivation until his decease, in 1889, at the age of eighty-five years. Hedwig, the eldest daughter, married Jacob Shutz, of Massillon, Ohio, and after a residence there of a few years removed to Illi- nois. Mrs. Shutz on the death of her husband married a Mr. Hammel, and in 1852 they returned to Guernsey County and lived in Bolivar until her death, which occurred in 1891, aged eighty- five. Christiana Lebold became the wife of Mar- tin Smeltz, and in 1835 removed to Seneca Conn- ty, where she died in the year 1858. Jacob, the
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third son and fifth child, also removed to the above county about the time his sister Christiana made the journey, and is now living in Attica. Barbara, now Mrs. Jacob Smeltz, makes her home in Williams County, this state.
John, the father of our subject, remained under the parental roof, working for his father, until at- taining his twenty-fifth year, when he started out to make his own way in the world, and married Miss Catharine Mayrer, a native of the Father- land. The lady came to this country with her parents in 1841, and the year after was married to Mr. Lebold. The young couple began life with a very moderate amount of this world's goods, but possessing an unusual amount of energy and push, coupled with good judgment, they began to save at the start. Their first land consisted of one hundred and ten acres of the old homestead, for which our subject paid the other heirs $1,350, and in addition to this gave one-third of the grain cul- tivated to his father during the eighteen years that he lived.
John Lebold added traet after tract to the old homestead, until the one hundred and ten acre farm was enlarged to six hundred aeres. With this amount of land he was enabled to lay by each year a much larger sum of money, which he in- vested from time to time in real estate, until he owned as much as three thousand acres in Tuscara- was County and the state of Missouri. Thus from a moderate start in life in 1842, this honored couple, with united efforts, amassed the handsome fortune of $150,000, besides giving each of their nine children a very generous start in life, either in a farm or cash.
Mrs. Catharine Lebold died March 2, 1891, being greatly mourned by all who knew her. She was a loving wife, a kind and indulgent moth- er and an excellent neighbor. No person was ever turned hungry from her door, and she was ever ready at all times to help the needy. In fact, to meet her was to respect her; to know her was to love and adore her and revere her for her kindness and goodness of heart. Had she lived one year longer they would have celebrated their golden wedding.
John Lebold survived his noble wife nearly
three years, and in his death the county lost one of its most honored and valued citizens, one who had done much toward the upbuilding of his com- munity and was active in all good works. He was a very peaceable and law-abiding man, which is evidenced by the fact that he never had more than two or three lawsuits in his life, and these were all on the defensive. He always acted upon his own judgment, and even in important business transactions would rather suffer a wrong than to have his actions questioned. He was liberal and honest in all his dealings with his fellow-man, and never asked anyone to do more for him than he would freely do himself.
Mr. and Mrs. Lebold were members in excellent standing of the German Lutheran Church, with which they were connected for many years, and in their death the church lost two of its most active workers. In social affairs the former was an Odd Fellow of good standing and was also a prominent Mason. Although in no sense of the term an of- ficc-seeker, he was at various times called upon to fill positions of trust and in each and every instance discharged the duties of the same with characteris- tic fidelity and satisfaction to all concerned.
Jacob R. Lebold received a good common-school education, and two years after attaining his major- ity was married and began life for himself. He rented the old homestead for one year, and in the spring of 1871 located on the tract where he now resides. This embraces four hundred and ninety- four acres, finely improved with substantial build- ings and stocked with the best breeds of horses and cattle. Mr. Lebold also owns another fine farm of three hundred and sixty acres in Sandy Township. In addition to operating his home place he has since 1861 been more or less engaged in running a sawmill. His stock always takes the first premi- ums at the various fairs at which they are exhibi- ted.
Our subject is very prominent in public affairs and is now serving his sixth term as Trustee of the township and is also one of the Directors of the infirmary. In politics he is a stanch Democrat and takes great interest in the success of bis party. He was married, December 7, 1869, to Mary Mo- hart, who was born in this county and is the daugh-
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ter of Jacob and Mary Mohart, natives of Ger- many, whence they emigrated to the United States in an early day.
Of the seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Ja- cob R. Lebold, six are living: Amelia, John W., Jacob R., Henry, Charles and Florence. Katie is deceased. The parents are members in good stand- ing of the Lutheran Church and are highly hon- ored and respected in the community in which they reside.
F. LOWRY, M. D., of Lore City, is a prominent practitioner of Guernsey Coun- ty, and is a descendant of one of its pio- neer families. Immediately after his graduation from Starling Medical College, at Columbus, this state, he settled here, and since that time he has been engaged in practice. For the past two years he has been surgeon for the Baltimore & Obio Rail- road Company at this point, and has built up a lu- crative practice in this section.
The ancestors of the Doctor were natives of Ire- land, and located in Ohio at an early day. Elijah Lowry, the great-grandfather of Dr. O. F. Lowry, as the record shows, was eighty-two years of age at the time of his death, which occurred on the 4th of August, 1842. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth A. Mills, was a native of Pennsyl- vania, and their marriage was celebrated in that state. To them were born three sons and two daughters, James, John, William, Elizabeth and Margaret. William Lowry, our subject's grand- father, who was born on the 1st of September, 1806, in the Keystone State, died March 18, 1872, on his farm south of this city. His boyhood was passed on his father's homestead, which is now in the possession of Emerson B. Lowry.
October 22, 1835, William Lowry married Nancy St. Clair, who was born in Belmont County, Ohio, September 25, 1813. Soon after their marriage the young couple settled on a farm a mile south
of Lore City, where they passed the remainder of their days. A log house was later replaced by a substantial frame structure, and many other im- portant improvements followed. The original farm comprised one hundred and twenty-seven acres, to which was subsequently added a tract of seventy-five acres. William Lowry died March 18, 1873, aged sixty-five years. For many years he had been a consistent member of the Lutheran Church, and his piety and many amiable qualities won for him the confidence and esteem of his fel- low-citizens.
His worthy companion and helpmate is still liv- ing, and is now nearly eighty-two years of age. She is a daughter of William and Alice (Smith) St. Clair, who were natives of Loudoun County, Va. The father located in Ohio before its settle- ment by white people, and on his various business pilgrimages made more than thirty trips across tlie Alleghany Mountains, and also made two trips to New Orleans on flatboats, when it took six months to make the round trip. His father, James, a man possessed of considerable wealth, bought for each of his four sons and five daughters a quarter-sec- tion of land in Ohio. The following account of William St. Clair's life appeared in a newspaper after his demise: " William St. Clair died March 13, 1871, at his residence one mile west of Sales- ville, Guernsey County, in the ninety-second year of his age. He was one of the earliest pioneer set- tlers of eastern Ohio, and was born in Loudoun County, Va., May 24, 1779, of Quaker parents. He was married, in the spring of 1801, to Miss Alice Smith, whose parents were also Quakers, and residents of Loudoun County. In 1803 Mr. St. Clair; with his wife and one child and household effects, packed in a four-horse wagon, crossed the mountains and settled in Belmont County, Ohio. His father had previously entered section 34, now on the west side of Richland Township. Mr. St. Clair located on the southeast quarter of that sec- tion, and put up the large stone house there about 1807. About 1801 he built a gristmill with an overshot wheel. This was probably the first water- mill erected in Belmont County. While a resident of that county he served six terms as Justice of the Peace, and was once elected to the Legislature,
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but was beaten after taking his seat by his oppo- nent. and at the next election was again beaten, by one vote. During the War of 1812 he was Captain of a company of volunteers. In 1836 he erected a large gristmill near his residence, which contributed largely to the settlement and prosper- ity of the country around it. Before his death some ten or twelve years, he divided his wealth among his children and prepared for death. He voted at every Presidential election, except those at which Washington was elected. He and his wife, who died about ten years before him, lived happily together for sixty years. At the time of his demise he was the progenitor of one hundred and thirty-three persons. He retained the full use of his mental powers to the moment of his death."
To William and Nancy Lowry the following children were born: St. Clair Milton, who died in childhood; Newton, who is unmarried, and with his mother occupies the homestead; Smith T., who was born August 11, 1844, and died April 1, 1887; John William, who married Lucinda Linn, and died in May, 1892; Emily C., wife of John C. Rose, of Senecaville; and Orlando.
Dr. Smith T. Lowry obtained a common-school education, and in 1864 went to Oberlin College, where he learned telegraphy, and graduated with the first honors of his class. In April, 1865, he was employed at Spencer's Station to take charge of the telegraph office and store at a large salary. For six years he continued in this capacity, but in November, 1871, was thrown from a horse, receiv- ing injuries which resulted in paralysis of the lower limbs. Studying medical works relative to his own case, he became much interested in the science and became quite an authority. His neigli- bors frequently consulted him, and on account of friendship he began prescribing for simple cases of disease. In time he worked into a large practice, and went to Starling Medical College for more thorough training. After graduating in 1878, he began regular practice, and was very successful. As a student he was zealous and unwearied, all his spare time being passed in the perusal of his numerous and valuable books. Although par- tially crippled, a man being required to move him
from place to place, he was full of energy, and drove out day and night in all kinds of weather, to the rich and poor alike. In 1864 he became identified with the Presbyterian Church and died in that faith.
Dr. O. F. Lowry was born March 15, 1856. He received a common-school education, and when seventeen years of age began teaching, an occupa- tion he followed for ten years with success. He con- tinued his studies during this period, and then en- tered the Ohio State University at Athens. In the fall of 1887 he took up a course of medical lec- tures at Starling College, from which he gradu- ated in the spring of 1889. During the few years which have since elapsed lic has built up a good local reputation, and ranks high among his profes- sional brethren. Socially he belongs to Eureka Lodge of Masons, of Washington, in which he has filled all the chairs, and is also a member of Cambridge Chapter. In politics he is a Repub- lican.
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