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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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ABRAHAM
VAN HORN. The Van Horns in Carroll County
claim their descent from an old Dutch family of that name who came with a
colony of settlers in this country from Holland, and took up their abode
near what is now New York, but in those long ago days as known as New
Amsterdam. In 1790, at Potterstown, N. J., was born Abraham Van
Horn, a son of Abraham and Eva (Pickle) Van Horn, and some years
afterward the family removed to Pennsylvania and settled in Union County,
where Abraham Van Horn (grandfather of our subject) died at the age
of ninety years nine months twenty days. His son Abraham was a
powerful athlete, and became the champion wrestler of Union County. He
was married in Pennsylvania to Mrs. Sarah Renner (nee Reed), a
native of the Keystone state and daughter of Robert and Annie Reed,
by birth New Englanders, who had come to Pennsylvania in an early day, but
subsequently moved to Ohio, where they died.
About the year 1817 Abraham Van Horn came with
his family to Ohio and settled in the wilds of Columbiana County, where he
entered a quarter section of land which is now part of Carroll County.
On one occasion Mr. Van Horn paid a visit to his old home in New
Jersey, walking the entire way, there and back. He and his wife, about
the year 1843, removed to McHenry County, Ill., where he died in 1862, at
the age of seventy-four years; his widow returned to Ohio and spent her last
days among her children, dying at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joel
Pennock, at the age of seventy-eight years.
Abraham Van Horn, the subject proper of this
sketch, is the fourth child in the order of birth in the family of four sons
and four daughters born to Abraham and Sarah (Henner) Van Horn, seven
of whom grew to maturity. He was born Nov. 11, 1821, in a log cabin
near New Lisbon, Ohio, and his boyhood and early youth were passed in
alternating between the subscription schools of the neighborhood and the
duties of the farm. When he was about twenty years of age his parents
moved, as already related, to Illinois, and he then commenced to learn the
trade of cabinet-maker, serving his apprenticeship in Hanover and
Carrollton, Carroll County, at times working as journeyman. In 1844 he
was married to Miss Julia Ann Fishel, a native of what is now Carroll
County, Ohio, and daughter of John and Amy Fishel early pioneers of
this part of the State. Soon after marriage the young couple located
in Augusta, Carroll County, where he established himself at his trade.
Here they resided some two years and an half, when Mr. Van Horn was
called from earth, the mother of two children - Sarah Samantha, who
died in infancy, and John Fishel, who grew to manhood, but was killed
in Illinois by a boiler explosion. After his wife's death Mr. Van
Horn spent some time in traveling in the Wet, through Indiana and
Illinois, among other places visiting, in 1847, Chicago, then a
comparatively small town. Returning to Carroll County in the fall of
that year he located in Malvern, where he again established himself in
business, also carrying on farming near that town. Here, in 1848, he
was married to Harriet P. Rodocker. In 1862 they moved to
Minerva, same county, and soon afterward settled on his present place in
Brown Township, one mile south of Minerva, where Mrs. Van Horn died
in 1884 at the age of fifty-six years. The results of this union were
nine children, seven of whom are living. On Sept. 21, 1886, Mr.
Van Horn became united in marriage with Mrs. Matilda Leith, widow
of William Leith, and a daughter of Patrick and Elizabeth (Brown)
McCauley.
Patrick McCauley, when a child, was brought
by his parents to America, and was reared to maturity in Columbiana County,
Ohio. He there married Elizabeth Brown, a native of Loudoun
County, Va., who came in an early day to Columbiana County with her parents,
Samuel and Susan Brown, who bought and cleared up three farms in that
county, and there died. Patrick McCauley and his wife
moved from Columbiana County to Jackson County, same State, and from there
emigrated with their teams and wagons to Iowa, where they died, aged,
respectively, seventy-eight and seventy-two years. Mrs. Van Horn,
who is the fifty in order of birth in the family of eleven children born to
this pioneer couple, grew to womanhood in Columbiana County, Ohio, and there
was united in marriage with William Leith. In 1850 they removed
to Iowa, locating in Jefferson County. Mr. Leith enlisted,
during the Civil War, in Company E, One Hundred and Third Ia. V. I., and
participated with his regiment in all of its campaigns and marches.
After about one year's service he was obliged, owning to impaired health, to
return home, but he continued to suffer until death relieved him: he died in
1863, in Fairfield, Iowa, Mr. and Mrs. Leith were the parents of five
children, three of whom are yet living. After Mr. Leith's death
his widow returned to Ohio, where she was married, as above stated, to
Mr. Van Horn.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Horn now reside in their pleasant
home near Minerva. They are members of the Disciples Church; in
politics he is a Republican, and has held various offices of trust in his
township. One of Mr. Van Horn's sons, James M., is a
minister in the Disciples Church, and is now located in Warren, Ohio.
He lived in England nine years, engaged in the service of his church.
Source: Commemorative Biographical
Records of the counties of Harrison and Carroll, Ohio - Illustrated -
Published: Chicago - J. H. Beers & Co. - 1891 - Page 1063 |
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