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Belmont County, Ohio
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BIOGRAPHIES
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)

HISTORY OF
BELMONT and JEFFERSON COUNTIES,
OHIO,

AND
INCIDENTALLY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
PERTAINING TO
BORDER WARFARE AND THE EARLY SETTLEMENT
of the
ADJACENT PORTION OF THE OHIO VALLEY,

By J. A. Caldwell
with Illustrations
Assistant, G. G. Nichols                 Managing Editor, J. H. Newton               (Assistant, A. G. Sprankle.
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WHEELING, W. VA.
PUBLISHED BY THE HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
1880

 

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  Barnesville -
KELION HAGER

Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 330

  St. Clairsville -
JOHN HAGUE
, son of Reuben and Anna V. Hague, was born in Springfield, Sept. 19, 1853.  When very small his parents removed to St. Clairsville, Ohio, where our subject was educated.  When Nineteen yeas of age he began tailoring with his father, and has been engaged at the business ever since.  Sept. 19, 1874, he was united in marriage to Miss Mattie Hilligas, of Cadiz, Ohio.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 245
  Colerain Twp. -
THOMAS HALL, ESQ.
, was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1831, and is a son of Thomas and Mary Hall.  His father was born in the year 1788, in North Carolina, and emigrated to Jefferson county, Ohio, about the year 1801, settling in the same locality where he now resides.  Our subject was married to Miss Hannah Webster, in 1856, and has raised a family of four children, all still living.  He was educated in the common schools and at Mt. Pleasant boarding school, then under the control of the Society of Friends.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 389
  St. Clairsville -
CHARLES HAMMOND - First among the names of the honored members of the bar of Belmont county, stands that of Charles Hammond, who afterward became a prominent lawyer of the state.  He was a native of Maryland and a graduate of Washington College.   Soon after quitting school he entered the law office and was a pupil under the celebrated Philip Doddridge.  He migrated to the county in 1801, to follow his chosen profession.  In November of that year, he was appointed prosecuting attorney by the court, and then, soon afterwards, legally appointed by the Governor of the Northwest Territory, in which capacity he served until near the close of 1804.  He was not only a lawyer of fine talent, but a man of great popularity with all classes.  He was honest in the fullest sense of the word, and remarkably affable in manner.  During the war of '12 he published The Federalist, of St. Clairsville.  At this time he resided on the farm now owned by Charles H. Amick, near the top of Wheeling hill.  In 1824 he removed to Cincinnati and attained a high position there as editor of the Gazette.  He was the author of the celebrated political essays, signed "Hampden," published in the National Intelligencer in 1820, regarding the character and Constitution of the United States government, for which he was highly complimented by President Jefferson.  He died in Cincinnati in 1840.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 229
  Cross Creek Twp. -
ANDREW HERALE - Mr. Herale was born in Germany in 1832, and came to this country in 1859.  He first located in Connecticut, and lived there about a year, when he came to Steubenville and went to work at common labor in the rolling mill, where he accumulated enough to purchase the farm on which he now resides.  He is an enterprising man and has a fine farm, and is always ready to interest himself in any enterprise by which he or his family may be benefited.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 599
  Richland Twp. -
JOSEPH HARPER
was born in county Down, Ireland, Dec. 14, 1800, and when 18 years of age, he, with his uncle and cousin, emigrated to America.  For about one year he remained at Philadelphia.  In the year 1824, he came to Belmont county on horseback and located in Colerain township, where he remained for five years.  From thence he removed to Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson county, remaining there some nine years, and from thence to Harrison county, where he lived for fifteen years.  In 1869 he removed to the farm on which he now resides in Richard township, Belmont county.  On June 16, 1825, he married Miss Nancy Major, who died Apr. 16, 1861, and on Dec. 18, 1863, he married Miss Clarinda A. Rice.  Has followed farming as his occupation.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 254
  Barnesville -
FRANK W. HIBBARD

Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 332

  St. Clairsville -
SAMUEL HILLES,
Sheriff of Belmont county, a son of Nathan and Sarah Hilles, nee Cole, was born June 10, 1836, in Chester county, Pa.  His parents migrated to Belmont county in 1844, and located in Loydsville.  He received a common school education in this village.  In the spring of 1858, he began the study of dentistry with Dr. Y. H. Jones, of Loydsville, remaining under his supervision two years.  In 1861, he enlisted as a private in company "E," 15th O. V. I.  Immediately after being sworn into service he was made sergeant, and in 1862, he was promoted to second lieutenant, which rank he held but a few weeks and being regarded as meritorious, was again elevated to the position of first lieutenant.  His army life was an active one - full of danger and suffering.  He was engaged in the battles at Shiloh, siege of Corinth, Stone River, Liberty Gap and Chickamauga.  At the battle of Stone River, he received two severe wounds by the explosion of a shell - one piece striking him on the right leg above the knee and another piece in the back between the shoulders, and in the engagement at Chickamauga, he received a slight wound.  He was discharged Dec. 15, 1863, on account of disabilities by the Medical Board of Cincinnati.  On Sept. 20, 1864, he was united in marriage to Lizzie N. Lee, of Belmont county.  At Loydsville he embarked in the mercantile trade and merchandised until October, 1867, after which time he went into partnership with Dr. H. W. Baker, of Barnesville, in dental surgery.  In 1870, he removed to Red Oak, Iowa, and followed dentistry there in connection with agriculture.  Came back to Barnesville in November 1874, and in January 1875, he took charge of the bas works as superintendent.  In 1878 he became a candidate for sheriff on the Republican ticket, and in the fall of that year he was elected, which position he now fills to the people's satisfaction.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 244
  Flushing Twp. -
SMITH HIRST - Born Feb. 2, 1809, in Loudon county, Va.  His father, David Hirst, removed to Jefferson county, near Mt. Pleasant, Ohio.  Educational facilities being quite limited in those days, a boy was considered quite proficient when he had mastered Comley's spelling book and Jesse's arithmetic.  Young Hirst made the most of his opportunities and was considered a good scholar.  In 1850, he married Phoebe Wilson, of Chester county, Pa.  His wife having died, he married in 1856, Lydia Hoge, daughter of John Van Pelt.  In 1847, he bought one hundred acres of land in the southwest corner of Wheeling township, where he now resides.  Mr. Hirst is a man of studious habits and through extensive reading has accumulated a fund of information not not often secured by a man whose life has been spent on a farm.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 380
  Barnesville -
ROBERT HODGIN. - In the early part of the present century, several families (among whom were the Plummers, Griers, Croys and others) members of the Society of Friends or Quakers, migrated to Belmont county, and their settlement was the objective point toward which a large number of Georgians were attracted, both on account of the salubrity of the climate and the fertility of the soil, the fame of which had reached their neighborhood, and the ties of religion and amity, joined to a natural antipathy to the institution of slavery.
     In 1803 the Hodgins, Todds, Williams, Vernons, Sidwwells, Millhouses, Childreys, Hayes, Stubbs, Pattens, and other families, from a section of country about fifty miles northwest of Augusta, arrived in Warren township.
     Our subject's father, Wm. Hodgin, was born in Georgia.  He, in 1802, in company with William Patten, visited this portion of the Ohio valley.  They examined thoroughly the lower Miami lands, (as they were termed), but on account of the sickness generally prevailing they decided to move to the Friends' settlement in Belmont county.
     Mr. Hodgin left the necessary money with Jonathan Taylor to enter two sections of land.  Mr. Taylor attended faithfully to the business, and Mr. Hodgin (in 1803) found himself the owner of the sections of which the Wm. Bundy and the Lindley Bundy farms form parts.  His brother Stephen accompanied him to his new home.  He (Wm. Hodgin) died in 1820, in North Carolina, while an route to Georgia, at the age of 54.  His wife, who was Agnes Childrey, died several years later at the age of 74.
     The children were: Mary, John, Sarah, William, Martha, Laban, Robert, Rebecca and Stephen, several of whom accompanied their parents to the trip to Ohio.
     Robert was born in Warren township in 1805.  He at the age of nineteen, began to labor at the millwright trade, and farmed when not engaged in that calling.  In 1837 he removed to Barnesville, and in later years was in the grocery, drug, and other business.  For several years he has retired from active work.
     He was married in 1828 to Eunice, daughter of George and Elizabeth Starbuck.  The latter were born and married in North Carolina, and removed to Warren township in 1806.  George Starbuck died in 1815, at the age of forty-one, and his wife, Elizabeth Starbuck, died at the age of seventy-four.  Their children were:  John, Rachel, Elishal, Mary, Lydia, Eunice, Elizabeth and George.  Elizabeth, George, Elisha and Eunice are the only children still surviving.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 329
  Flushing Twp. -
JOHN C. HOGE, son of Absalom Hoge, of Loudon county, Va., who came to Ohio in 1800 and located three miles west of St. Clairsville, where John C. was born July 2, 1813.  He married Rebecca Bonsall, Apr. 26, 1843.  Children born - Lindley M., June 18, 1844; Hannah E. Jan. 12, 1848; Elizabeth B., Oct. 2, 1853.  Mr. Hoge is a farmer by occupation and owns 111 acres.  He was reared a "Friend" and has always adhered strictly to the customs and usages of that society.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 381
  Barnesville -
ABRAHAM C. HOGUE,
a native of Jefferson county, Ohio, was born in a log cabin near what is known as the "Rock Houses, on the 7th of April, 1826.  His parents removed to Mt. Pleasant whilst he was but a mere child.  Here he received a common school education, and at the age of eighteen he began to learn carding and spinning.  He served an apprenticeship of three years, and after having finished his trade he worked as a journeyman, working at various places.  In the spring of 1851, he found his way to Hendrysburg, Belmont county, and engaged with Taylor, Tidball & Co., remaining in their employ three years. During this period he formed the acquaintance of Cynthia Sells, whom on the 28th of March, 1854, he led to the marriage altar.  After this he rented a woolen factory on Wheeling creek, Ohio, conducted it for nine months and then returned to Hendrysburg, where he was made superintendent of the “Effort Mills,” for two years, and then became a partner, remaining as such for four years.  In 1865, he removed to Barnesville, and in partnership with William Barlow, started the Barnesville Woolen Mills, which he is still operating.  Mr. H assisted in weaving the first figured silk ever manufactured in the United States, and also assisted in organizing the primitive Odd Fellows’ lodge in Belmont county.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 329
  Somerset Twp. -
SOLOMON HOGUE, son of Samuel Hogue, of Loudon county, Virginia, was born Feb. 28, 1821.  In 1828 his father came to Ohio and located in Union township, Belmont county.  Solomon remained at home till the age of nineteen, when he engaged as clerk in his brother's store at Lamp's Mill, in Goshen township.  Here he remained until 1844, when he removed to Hocking county, Ohio, and engaged in merchandizing in company with John Meade.  Returned to Lamp's Mill in 1845 to settle up his brother's business, and the same fall bought an interest in the store of William Hogue, in Somerton, and continued in partnership until 1853, when he purchased his brother's interest.  Mr. Hogue  was married June 7, 1847, to Cornelia H. Kontz, daughter of Hon. John Koontz, of Somerton, Ohio, by whom he had two children, who died in their infancy.  His wife died in August, 1850, and on Jan. 20, 1852, he married Orilla E. Koontz, sister of his first wife.  To them were born six children, three of whom are now living, viz.:  Honoria Z., married to Charles Koll, of Salem, Ohio; Martha R. K. and Emma H.  While continuing in business at Somerton, Mr. Hogue was also engaged in the dry goods and grocery business at Barnesville, in 1862; wholesale groceries in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1863-4; and general merchandizing at Fairview, Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1865.  In 1867 Mr. Hogue was nominated for the Legislature on the Republican ticket, but was beaten by his Democratic opponent.  In 1879 he was again nominated for the same office, but was beaten by eight votes.  He was elected county commissioner in 1874, and served three years with ability and integrity in that capacity.  Mr. Hogue is still engaged in the general merchandise, tobacco and wool trade in Somerton, and does a business of forty or fifty thousand dollars annually.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 409
  Union Twp. -
WASHINGTON HOGUE was born in Loudon county, Virginia, December, 1813.  In 1828 he migrated to Belmont county, and located on section eight in Union township.  He was married to Miss Phoebe Gregg, in 1836.  Their family consists of four children - three sons and one daughter.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 373
  Barnesville -
DR. HOOVER - In 1833 the scarlet fever scourged Barnesville and vicinity as an epidemic.  In the midst of its ravages Dr. Isaac Hoover, a young and promising physician came to Barnesville from St. Clairsville, Ohio.  He at once obtained a good practice, which in a short time, by the death and the retiring of the Drs. Judkins, became very extensive.  He continued a successful career here until 1868, when he removed to Bellaire, O.  There he met with nothing but disappointment, under the pressure of which his mind gave way, and for several years his life was a blank.  His son Thomas, a young physician of the finest promise, having secured a good practice at Columbus, O., took charge of his father and family.  Dr. Isaac Hoover died at Columbus in 1878, and was buried in South Cemetery, Barnesville.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 317
  St. Clairsville -
WM. B. HUBBARD.  As a Mason, William B. Hubbard acquired a national reputation.  He was made a Mason in this lodge.  He filled the different offices of the same with satisfaction to his brethren.  In 1838 he removed to Columbus.  Whilst residing there, he was appointed Grand Orator for the year 1842.  In 1850 he was appointed Grand Orator for the year 1842.  In 1850 he was elected Grand Master of the state, which position he held for three successive years, with distinguished ability.  Was elected the Most Eminent Grand Master of the General Encampment of the United States, serving in that capacity from 1847 to 1856.  He died in Columbus, Jan. 5, 1866.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 231
  St. Clairsville -
WILLIAM B. HUBBARD, emigrated to St. Clairsville in 1820.  He came as an indifferent lawyer, but through Jacob Nagle he became quite a successful one.  Served as prosecuting attorney from 1825 to 1833.  He removed to Columbus where he accumulated a master fortune.  He lived in that city until his death.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 229
  Goshen Twp. -
J. A. HUTCHISON was born in Washington county, Pa., Jan. 4, 1819, and came with his parents at an early age to Belmont county.  When about twenty-two years of age, he went to Jefferson county and engaged in the tanning business at Tiltonville, on the Ohio river.  He was married Dec. 11, 1845, to Miss Jane Cochran, and raised two sons, both of whom grew up to manhood, but are now deceased.  He carried on the tanning business till about 1863, when he removed to Goshen township, and bought a farm, where he has since resided.  He is a great reader of books, and well versed in history, and is a member of the United Presbyterian church.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 406
  Barnesville -
WILLIAM HYDE

Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 331

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