JOSIAH THOMPSON BARRICK is a well known resident of Harrison Township, Carroll County, a prosperous and representative farmer, and comes of a family which deserves a place in the history of this part of Ohio.
     Mr. Barrick, whose life has been one of industry and since his majority has been devoted to the cultivation of the old homestead of 120 acre, was born on this farm July 29, 1884, a son of William Clark and Mary Margaret (German) Barrick.  His grandfather, Samuel Barrick, came to Harrison Township in pioneer days later lived in Rose Township and while  he farmed he also followed the trade of carpenter, building many of the houses and barns in his country district.  As a cabinet maker he also performed the chief functions of a pioneer undertaker, making the coffins.  He was twice married, and had seven children by each wife, two of whom are still living.  William Clark Barrick was the second among the children of the second marriage.  He lived in Carroll County all his life, was a successful farmer and died Sept. 14, 1917.  His widow is still living.
     Josiah Thompson Barrick is the seventh of ten children, and as a youth he attended the country school at Mount Nebo, and for three years the Dellroy High School.  He found duties and responsibilities ready at hand when he reached mature years, and since the age of twenty has had some active part in the management of the old homestead.  He has never married.  In 1921 he and his brother-in-law.  B. F. Sells, purchased the John Hess farm of 156 acres.
     Mr. Barrick is a popular citizen, a man of convictions and great earnestness, and for a number of years has been a local minister.  He is a trustee of the Pleasant Valley Church and a teacher in the Sunday School.   A prohibitionist in politics, he has a candidate on that ticket for county auditor in 1916.
Source:  History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Vol. II - Page 862

JAMES ROY BAXTER, a leading stockman and farmer in Harrison Township, belongs to the noted Baxter family which has been in Carroll County for more than a century.  One of the very definite community names in the county is Baxter's Ridge, where Mr. Baxter's great-grandfather settled in the early part of the nineteenth century and the topography and community were named in his honor.
     The Baxters are of English lineage.  The great-grandfather was Cornelius Baxter, who came from Pennsylvania.  He acquired eighty acres of Government land at Baxter's Ridge and in 1814, in his log house, was held the first meeting for organization of a Methodist Church, and the Baxter's Ridge Methodist Church has been in existence ever since.  After living at Baxter's Ridge twenty years Cornelius moved to Willow Run in Harrison Township, and died there at the age of sixty.  He married in Pennsylvania Rachel Pillars, and of their seven children the grandfather of James Roy Baxter was fourth in age.  He was born at Baxter's Ridge, but for many years cultivated a farm of 160 acres in Harrison Township, where he died in 1910.  His wife was Ianthe McCrary, of Rose Township, who died in 1915, leaving ten children, nine of whom are still living.
     The oldest of these is Finley Baxter, who was born in 1853 and is still numbered among the intelligent and highly respected citizens of Harrison Township.  Though retired from farming he still owns a place of eighty acres here.  At different times he conducted cider mills and saw mills in connection with his farming.  He is a republican, served three years as a director of the local School Board, and four years as a township supervisor of Harrison Township.  In 1874 he married Emmeline Suitor, and they have four living children.
     The youngest of these two sons and two daughters is James Roy Baxter, who was born in Harrison Township Apr. 19, 1881.  He received his education in the same school as his father attended, the Willow Run School, which he attended during winter terms until he was eighteen.  After leaving school he found his time and energies taken up by work on the home farm.
     In 1904, at the age of twenty-three, he married Texas Inez Davy, daughter of Abraham Gardner and Sarah (Little) Davy, of Rose Township.  Mr. and Mrs. Baxter had five children: Helen Beatrice, born in 1907; Sarah Emmeline born in 1911; Ralph Finley, born in 1914; Verna Evelyn who died in April, 1918, at the age of eighteen months; and Wilford Otis, who died in January, 1919, aged nine months.
     After his marriage, Mr. Baxter became a renter, and for seven eyars had charge of the eighty-acre Henry Smith farm.  while he began in comparatively moderate circumstances he acquired much valuable equipment and livestock, saved some money, and in 1911 bought land of his own and has since occupied his place in Harrison Township.  This is the old Strayer farm and contains 158 acres.  Its cultivation is well diversified under Mr. Baxter's management, and he has done some advanced and profitable work in  raising Shorthorn cattle and has a flock of fifty-odd American Delaine sheep.
     Mr. Baxter is a member of the National Grange at Dellroy, is a republican in politics, and is a member of the Lutheran Church of Rose Township.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Vol. II - Page 952

WILLIAM J. BAXTER, deputy clerk of the probate court of Carroll County, is a popular scion of a family that was founded in this county in the year 1810.  He was born in Center Township, this county, Jan. 11, 1857, a son of William and Catherine (Albaugh) Baxter.  His paternal grandparents, Richard and Elizabeth (Comley) Baxter, came from Kentucky to what is now Carroll County, Ohio, in 1810, their one child at the time having been a daughter, Hannah.  Settling in the midst of the forest that then marked Center Township, Mr. Baxter secured a tract of Government land, near the present fair grounds of the Carroll County Agricultural Society.  His first log house was destroyed by fire, as was also the second, and he then erected one of the first brick houses in the county, the same being still in excellent preservation and being now occupied by Frank True.  In this home Richard Baxter passed the remainder of his life, and his widow was a resident of Carrollton at the time of her death, in the home of one of her daughters.  Of the children, as previously noted, Hannah was born in Kentucky, and the others were born on the old homestead in Carroll County - Joshua, William, Mary, Edith, Edmund and Ellen (twins), and John C.  Joshua died in early childhood, and records indicate that he was the first child to be interred in the cemetery at Carrollton.  The maternal grandparents of the subject of this sketch were early settlers of Carrollton, to which place they came from Baltimore, Maryland.  They made the long overland trip with team and wagon and continued to reside at Carrollton until their deaths.
     William Baxter passed his entire life in Carroll County.  He was born in Center Township, in 1812, and his wife was born in Frederick County, Maryland, in 1813.  He became one of the prosperous farmers of his native township, was a republican in politics from the tie of the organization of the party, his wife having been a birthright member of the society of Friends.  William Baxter was one of the venerable and honored citizens of his native county at the time of his death, in 1891, and his widow passed to eternal rest in 1894.  They became the parents of eleven children - Harriet, Mary, Hannah, Edmund, Richard, Sarah, Elizabeth, Edith, Margaret, Emeline and William J.  Of the children only Mary, Elizabeth, Edith and William J. are living.
    William J. Baxter remained on the home farm until he was sixteen years of age.  He was afforded the advantages of the public schools of Carrollton, and as a youth learned the trade of telegrapher, as a representative of which he became the first operator for the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad at Carrollton, where he continued his services in this capacity for six years, in the meanwhile having been elected township clerk, of which position he continued the incumbent ten yeas.  Thereafter he served a number of years as treasurer of the Village of Carrollton, and for three successive terms he held the office of county recorder.  For four years thereafter he was assistant cashier of the private bank of L. D. Stockon and since 1902 he has served continuously as the efficient and popular deputy clerk of the probate court of the county.  He is a staunch advocate and supporter of the principles of the republican party, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and holds membership in the Reformed Church.  Mr. Baxter is still found arrayed in the ranks of eligible bachelors in his native county. 
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Vol. II - Page 993