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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
COMMEMORATIVE
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
of the Counties of
HARRISON AND CARROLL, OHIO
Containing
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, and of Many of the Early
Settled Families.
ILLUSTRATED
Publ.
CHICAGO:
J. H. Beers & Co.
1891
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JOHN TAYLOR, a prosperous and
highly respected farmer citizen of Harrison Township, Carroll County, is a
native of England, born June 18, 1821. Robert Taylor, his
father, was a native of Derbyshire, England, where he was apprenticed to a
weaver, with whom he remained until he had fully mastered his trade.
He carried on the business of weaving for many years in his native country,
but judging that there were better chances of bettering himself and his
family in America, he set sail for the New World with his wife and children,
landing in New York, whence they proceeded at once to Troy, N. Y., arriving
early in November, 1827. Here for six years he lived, and then came to
Carroll County, where he purchased a farm in Harrison Township, on which he
lived until the death of his wife, Sept. 26, 1856, when he made his home
with his son, John. The farm on which he settled was very
little improved when he went on it, the dwelling being but a small rough
cabin. Here Mr. Taylor struggled on, and finally
succeeded, by industry, perseverance and economy, in clearing his land.
Of the hardships he and his family endured in those pioneer times the
present generation know but little; of how the days were occupied in the
fields, and of how it took one day to carry their grist to the nearest mill
on horseback - hardships that are read of, but not experienced in these
advanced days of railroads, telegraphs and telephones.
In England, Robert Taylor had married Hannah
Rhodes, also a native of that country, and the names of the children
born to them are as follows: James, Ann, Thomas,
Sarah, John, Mary, Robert and Jane, all born
in England. For the first few years of his residence in America Mr.
Taylor was. in his political convictions, a Democrat, but, his ideas
changing, he united with the Whig party, and anally with the Republican,
always assisting at elections. He and his wife were members of the
Disciples Church many years, in the management of which he took an active
part. Mr. Taylor died Nov. 22, 1869.
John Taylor, the subject proper of this
sketch, has been a resident of Carroll County, ever since he was twelve
years old. His school training was all secured in Troy, N. Y., where
in that respect he had exceptional advantages, and his knowledge of
agriculture was obtained from practical lessons received on his father's
farm. On June 1, 1843, he was united in marriage with Nancy,
daughter of Isaac and Tamar (Robbins) Lewton, an early settler of
Harrison Township, Carroll County, and they then located for a few years in
that township. In 1847 they moved to Illinois, remaining four years,
and returning to Harrison Township Mr. Taylor purchased his
present property in 1855. His farm consists of 160 acres, pleasantly
situated about three miles from Carrollton. The children born to our
subject and wife are named as follows: Eliza Ann (deceased),
Sarah Jane, Caroline, Robert, Harriet E.,
Isaac, James (deceased), John O, Leonard, Lewis, Mary Etta,
and Alvira; those alive are all in Ohio, except John O.,
who is in Denver, Colo., and Leonard, who is in Kansas.
Politically Mr. Taylor is a Republican, and has served his
county as director of the infirmary, as well as in other positions of trust.
In his township he has been honored with election to nearly all the offices,
the various duties of which he has always discharged with ability and
fidelity. Mrs. Taylor is a member of the Disciples
Church.
Source: Commemorative Biographical
Records of the counties of Harrison and Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated -
Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co. - 1891 - Page 1125 |
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THOMAS TAYLOR, a member of
one of the oldest families of Carroll County, was born in England, Nov. 11,
1808. Robert Taylor, his father, was a native of
Derbyshire, England, where he learned the weaving trade, which he followed
till after he was married; he then got a hand-loom, and went to the
manufacturing town of Staleybridge, where he was engaged in a cotton-mill,
preparing warps for power-looms. This business he followed for about
eight years, at the end of which time he and his family set sail for
America, Sept. 8, 1827, and arrived at New York some time between the 5th
and 11th of November of the same year. He then proceeded to Troy, N.
Y., where he lived six years, and then moved to the State of Ohio, settling
on a farm in Harrison Township, Carroll County, arriving in the fall of
1833. Robert Taylor was a man of good habits, and being
industrious he settled down to the business of farming, enduring cheerfully
the hardships and privations incident to those pioneer times. Very
little of the farm on which he located had been cleared, but by industry,
perseverance and economy, with the aid of his industrious and willing
children and faithful wife, he succeeded in clearing it up and making a
pleasant home for himself and family. In England Robert
Taylor had married Hannah Rhodes, a native of Derbyshire,
and the names of the children born to them are as follows: James,
Ann, Thomas, Sarah, John, Mary, Robert
and Jane, all of which children were born in England. Robert
Taylor enjoyed his quiet home until the death of his wife, which
occurred Sept. 26, 1856; he passed from earth Nov. 22, 1869, aged eighty-six
years and eleven days. Robert Taylor and his wife were
members of the Disciples Church; in politics he was at first Democrat; but,
changing his views, he united with the Whigs and finally with the
Republicans, always assisting at elections.
Thomas Taylor, the subject proper of this
sketch, was eighteen years of age when he accompanied his parents to America
and to Troy, N. Y., where he was employed in the cotton mills six years.
He then came with the rest of the family to Ohio settling in Harrison
Township, Carroll County, where he has since resided. He assisted his
parents in the improvement of the farm, and aided them in the erection of
the log cabin, which stood till about the year 1885. At the age of
twenty-nine Mr. Taylor was married to Mary A., daughter
of Adam Crosser, of Carrollton, Ohio, and the children born to them
were as follows: Robert, Hannah D., George, Zack, Sarah Ann, Adam,
Caroline, John and Mary Ann, of whom Robert, Adam,
George, John and Mary Ann are all deceased.
George, who enlisted in the One Hundred and Eighty-fourth O. V. I.,
Company F, was sent South and died at Bridgeport, Ala., of fever.
Hannah D. was married to Isaac Leyda; Zack was
married to Millie Lewton; Sarah Ann was married
to Emanuel C. McCarty; Caroline was married to William
Gautchie. Thomas Taylor is a well informed man,
and has held several offices of trust. He has traveled extensively,
and has always done with his best energy whatever he has undertaken.
Source: Commemorative Biographical
Records of the counties of Harrison and Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated -
Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co. - 1891 - Page 1124 |
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THOMAS R. TAYLOR, one of
the leading merchants in Harlem Springs, Ohio, is a native of County
Fermanagh, Ireland, born Aug. 3, 1845. His grandfather, William
Taylor, had a family of seven children: Richard, Jonathan, Thomas,
Catherine, Bessie, Jane and William, and died in Ireland at the
patriarchal age of one hundred and three years. He and his family were
members of the Episcopal Church. Of his children, Richard, born in
the Emerald Isle in 1798, spent his early life in the land of his birth, and
received his education there, being brought up to agricultural pursuits.
He married, in Ireland, Alice Reynolds, and by her had the
following named children: Elizabeth, Mrs. William Taylor,
in Harlem Springs, Ohio; William, a resident of Turney's Station,
Clinton Co., Mo.; Joseph, in Kansas; Mary Ann, Mrs. Elisha Chase,
and Richard W., both in Kansas; Catherine died in 1857, at the
age of sixteen; Alicia D., Mrs. John Patton, in Madison,
Monroe Co., Mo., and Thomas R., in Harlem Springs. In 1852
Richard Taylor came to America with his family, landing in New
York City, where they remained about a year, and then came to Loudon
Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, and here he purchased a farm, on which he
remained till 1866, in which year he bought another farm in Lee Township,
whither they removed, settling thereon. The parents died, the father
Feb. 6, 1884, the mother Dec. 1, 1863, and are buried in the cemetery at
Simmonds Ridge. Mr. Taylor was a member and liberal
supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Harlem Springs, and in
politics he was a Democrat, always evincing great interest in the working of
his party.
Thomas R. Taylor was seven years old when he
came with his parents to American soil, and received his primary education
in Carroll County, Ohio, which was supplemented by a few terms at the
college in Harlem Springs. On June 11, 1873, he was married to Emma
E., daughter of John and Elizabeth (Fawcett) Riley (the former
came to this country with her parents in the year 1816, being eight years
old, and died in 1889 in her eighty-first year), and the young couple
immediately located on a farm in Lee Township, where they remained till
1885, in which year they came to Harlem Springs, where he engaged in
mercantile business, which he still continues in. In 1868 Mr.
Taylor commenced teaching, a profession he followed five successive
winters in Carroll County. The record of the children born to him and
his wife is as follows: Alice H., born Nov. 1, 1874, and died June
16, 1875; John Riley, born Apr. 7, 1876; Mary Edna,
born June 5, 1878; Nellie, born Mar. 16, 1889, died Aug. 13, 1889.
The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Harlem Springs,
of which he is steward and trustee. In politics he is a zealous
Prohibitionist, and has supported the Democratic party.
Source: Commemorative Biographical
Records of the counties of Harrison and Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated -
Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co. - 1891 - Page 917 |
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SAMUEL
THOMPSON TELFER (deceased), one of the early settlers of Carroll
County, Ohio, was born Mar. 14, 1816, in Pennsylvania. His
grandfather, Alexander Telfer, a native of Scotland, came to
America about the middle of the eighteenth century, and settled in
Pennsylvania, where he died. His family consisted of three sons and
one daughter, all of whom settled in the Keystone State. Samuel
Telfer, father of Samuel T., was also a native of
Pennsylvania, where he was reared and received his education. In early
manhood he commenced teaching, a profession he followed after coming to Ohio
in 1841; he was also a surveyor, and did much work in that line for the
people of Carroll County. Samuel Telfer was married to
Elizabeth McWilliams, born Sept. 28, 1792, a daughter of
Nathaniel McWilliams, an early settler of Ohio. By this union
there was one child, Samuel Thompson. The parents died,
the father in 1860, and the mother in 1871, and are resting side by side in
the cemetery at Amsterdam, in Jefferson County, They were members of the
Presbyterian Church at Harlem, of which he was one of the organizers and
chief supporters; in politics he was a stanch Democrat, taking an active
interest in the movements of his party.
Samuel Thompson Telfer received a liberal
education in his native State, and was engaged in teaching several years.
He came to Ohio with his parents, in 1841, and here, Aug. 14, 1851, married
Mary Ann, daughter of Nathaniel Fields, who came from
New England to Pennsylvania, and there married Elizabeth Hagerman,
who bore him the following-named children: John, Samuel,
David, Mary Ann, Nancy, Thomas,
Nathaniel, Elizabeth and Emma. Mr. and
Mrs. Nathaniel Fields and family came to Ohio in 1842, and
settled in Lee Township, Carroll County, where he purchased a farm.
The parents died here, the father in 1854. and the mother in 1867, and were
buried in the cemetery at Amsterdam. They were members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, in his political preferment Mr. Fields
was first a Whig and then a Republican. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
T. Telfer after their marriage settled on the farm in Lee Township,
Carroll County, where she and her son, John W., yet reside.
This farm had been originally entered by John McGarran, who
partially cleared it, but the main part was brought under cultivation by the
Telfer family. The children born to Mr. and Mrs.
Telfer were Samuel F. and Nathaniel H., both deceased, and
John W. The father died in 1856, and is buried in the cemetery
at Amsterdam. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church at Harlem
Springs (as are his widow and son, John W.), and in politics he was a
sound Democrat with Abolition proclivities. He served as clerk and
treasurer of his township several years.
JOHN W. TELFER, the only surviving son of
Samuel T. and Mary Ann (Fields) Telfer, was born in 1856, and received a
liberal education at the common schools of his district. He has
managed the home farm ever since he has been old enough to assume control,
and is engaged in general farming and stock-raising. He is an active
politician, a member of the Republican party, and was elected a justice of
the peace in 1886, serving one term.
Source: Commemorative Biographical
Records of the counties of Harrison and Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated -
Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co. - 1891 - Page 844 |
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HIRAM G. TOPE ranks among the
influential citizens of Carroll County, and is one of the most popular and
successful medical practitioners. A resident of Perrysville, Perry
Township, Carroll County, for over a quarter of a century, he has succeeded
in surrounding himself with a large circle of friends and patrons.
The first of his family on the paternal side came from
Germany to America at a very early period, and settled in Maryland, where
was born George Tope, great-grandfather of the subject of this
memoir. Some time in the last century George Tope left
his native State for that portion of the then "Far West" afterward formed
into the great State of Ohio, and settled on a piece of wild land in what is
now Carroll County, where he built the first grist-mill (called Tope's
Mill) in that part now known as Union Township.
George Tope, Dr. Tope's grandfather, was born in
(1782) and reared and died in (1832) in what is now Carroll County, Ohio,
having been one of the first pioneers of Eastern Ohio; he was the father of
four sons and two daughters, of whom John lives in Jackson County,
Ohio, where he follows carpentering; George W. is a farmer in Gallia
County, same State, and Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson also lives in Ohio,
where her husband is a farmer.
Henry Tope, father of our subject, and by
trade a gunsmith, was born in Carroll County, Ohio, in 1813, and died at
Peru, Ill., in 1849. He was married in June, 1836, to Catharine
Croghan, a native of Carroll County, born in 1818 and died in 1849, and
they had four children, viz.: William A., who was born in 1837, and
died at Nashville, Tenn., Apr. 24, 1862, aged twenty-five years, while
serving as a member of Company C, Sixty-ninth O. V. I.; Hiram G.;
John H., born in 1841, now in the lumber business in Michigan, and
Catherine M., born in 1844, and married to Craton McCoy, a
stock-dealer in Van Wert County, Ohio. The parents both died of
cholera in Peru, Ill., in July, 1849, just two days apart. The
maternal grandmother died at the patriarchal age of one hundred years, and
in her long life had seen many changes in the world; she had met Gen.
Washington frequently, had shaken hands with him and was present at
his funeral; she was of English descent, as was her husband.
Hiram G. Tope, whose name appears at the opening
of this sketch, was born July 1, 1839, in Carroll County, Ohio, and when
four years of age went with his father to Peru, Ill., where he lived six
years. On the death of his parents, as above stated, young Hiram
was left to the care of his grandparents, who moved to New Hagerstown,
Carroll Co., Ohio, where he grew to manhood, attending the public schools
and academy of the place. At the age of nineteen, having decided on
the medical profession as his life work, he proceeded to Columbus, Ohio,
where he studied four years at college, teaching school at intervals in
order to help out the expense of his education. After his graduation
and receipt of his diploma, Dr. Tope went to the western part of
Ohio, where he practiced one year; but not being satisfied with the
locality, he moved to Perrysville. Carroll County, which has since been his
home. Toward the breaking out of the Civil War, the Doctor, in
response to his country's call, volunteered into the army, joining, in 1862,
the Eightieth O. V. I., of which he was hospital steward about two years,
and then assistant surgeon to the close of the war, receiving his discharge
Aug. 13, 1865, at Little Rock, Ark. His regiment participated in many of the
most important engagements of the war, including Iuka, Corinth, siege of
Vicksburg, Atlanta, Jackson, Champion Hills, Missionary Ridge, Raymond and
many others, being also with Sherman on his memorable march to the sea.
Returning to Perrysville, the Doctor renewed the practice of his profession,
having in connection a flourishing drug store.
In 1862 Dr. Tope was married to Mary
A. Shultz, daughter of Solomon and Rachel (Knouf) Shultz, who
were of Dutch descent and were reared in Jefferson County, Ohio, but in 1832
moved to Harrison County, same State, where Mary A. was born.
Her father died at the age of eighty-one and her mother when eighty-four
years old; they were both members of the Lutheran Church. To the union
of Dr. and Mrs. Tope have been born two children: Cadmus A.
(a teacher in the public schools of Carrollton, Ohio, also a member of the
common council of that place) and Ulysses I., now aged twenty years
(at present at home, reading medicine under the instruction of his father.)
Dr. Tope, politically, has always been a Republican, and socially is
a Royal Arch Mason.
Source: Commemorative Biographical
Records of the counties of Harrison and Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated -
Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co. - 1891 - Page 1004 |
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WILLIAM
S. TOPE, one of the young and rising young business men of Dell lf[
Roy, was born in Union Township, Carroll County, Ohio, Feb. 4, 1857.
His father, Jacob Tope, was born in Carroll County, Ohio, where his entire
life was spent. He early devoted himself to study and assisting in the
duties of the farm. Soon after coming of age he married Ann
Jane, daughter of Robert Parker, one of the early settlers of
Monroe Township. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Tope settled
on a farm in Union Township, where they lived a short time, and then moved
to Monroe Township, where they lived until the husband's death, Jan. 24,
1803. His family consisted of three children: William S., Robert J.
and Joseph V., all of whom are now living. In politics
Mr. Tope was a Democrat, and took an active and leading part in the
party's welfare. A member of the Lutheran Church, he did much for its
advancement and development. While engaged in farming, still Mr.
Tope was one of the well-posted men of his section, and one who was
always enterprising and progressive.
The early life of William S. Tope was spent on
the home place, where his life alternated between farm duties and attendance
at the common schools. Mr. Tope's education, however,
did not cease with his leaving school, but has been added much to by study
and reading during his leisure. Feb. 6, 1879, he was united in
marriage to Dane, daughter of James Campbell, of
Harrison Township, and three children have been born to add to the felicity
of this union, as follows: Oliver, Apr. 10, 1880; Jackson,
Mar. 26, 1882; and Anna, May 9, 1884. In 1885 Mr.
Tope, in connection with his brother, opened a hardware store in Dell
Roy, which he has since conducted in a business-like and satisfactory
manner. In politics Mr. Tope has always been a member of
the Republican party, and has served as township treasurer for five
consecutive years, and at present is in that position. In church
matters Mr. Tope and family are members of the Presbyterian
Church. As one of the leading and energetic men of his town Mr.
Tope holds an enviable position, and is highly respected and esteemed
by all.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and
Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.
- 1891 - Page 839 |
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JOHN H. TRIPP
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and
Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.
- 1891 - Page 874 |
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WILLIAM TRIPP
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Harrison and
Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co.
- 1891 - Page 846 |
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