OTTO EICK.  The opportunities given the Carroll County farmer to acquire more than a competence are many, for not only is the soil fertile, but the transportation facilities are excellent and the agriculturists can market their produce rapidly and profitably.  One of them who has taken advantage of these opportunities is Otto Eick of Harrison Township, who owns and operates a farm of seventy-eight acres of land.  He was born at Sherodsville, Carroll County, Feb. 9, 1860, a son of John and Martha (Belknap) Eick, and grandson of Peter Eick, who after his marriage to a Miss Jennings in New Jersey, drove overland to Orange Township, Carroll County, with a wagon, and lived on the farm he bought there, and he and his wife both passed away on their homestead.  They had seven children, of whom John Eick was the youngest.  On Mar. 22, 1869, John Eick moved to Harrison Township on a 160 acre farm he has bought and there he rounded out his useful life, passing away July 5, 1903, his wife having died in 1900.  They had five children, Otto Eick being their first born.
     Until he was eighteen years old Otto Eick attended the Swamp school in Harrison Township during the winter terms, and always made himself useful on the farm, where he remained until he was twenty-two years old.  For the subsequent two years he operated his father's homestead, and then moved on his present farm, where he has lived ever since being occupied with general farming.  He has other interests and is a stockholder of the First National Bank of Carrollton.  Very active as a republican, he has been elected on his party ticket to several offices, in 1909 becoming county commissioner for a two-year term, and being elected to succeed himself for another two years, and he was also elected township treasurer of Harrison Township.  The Presbyterian Church of New Harrisburg holds his membership, and he is well liked in it as he is elsewhere in his community.
     Mr. Eick was married to Elizabeth Hess, a daughter of John and Christine (Vance) Hess of New Harrisburg, Ohio, and they have one son, John H, who is at home, married Blanche Conway of Carrollton, and they have one son, Samuel Otto.  An excellent farmer and good business man Mr. Eick has made a success of his work, and won approval as a public official.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Vol. II - Page 970

DONALD McGREGOR ELLIOTT.  The life of Donald McGregor Elliott, one of the successful farmers of Carroll County, has been such as to elicit just praise from those who know him life in Harrison Township, where he lives today, engaged in the pursuits for which nature and training have best fitted him, though for several years in his early manhood he was also one of the popular teachers of the county.
     Mr. Elliott, who represents one of the respected old families of Carroll County, was born in Harrison Township Aug. 18, 1884, son of William Cellars and Nancy Flora (McGregor) Elliott.  His father was also a native of Harrison Township, and in early life taught school in that locality.  The rest of his years were devoted to farming in Monroe and Harrison townships, and he died in June, 1909.  Mrs. William C. Elliott, who is now living at Carrollton, was born on the old McGregor farm near Atwood in Monroe Township.  Donald McGregor is the oldest of three children.  His brother is Joseph Howard Elliott, and his sister, Mary Rebecca, is the wife of Wilford Janson, of Canton, Ohio.
     Donald McGregor Elliott completed his common school education in the Mount Nebo country school, was graduated from the Dellroy High School in 1903, and subsequently spent two summer terms in the normal school at Wooster, Ohio.  By experience in the meantime he was well qualified for farming and at the death of his father he took charge of the home place, which he now owns, in Harrison Township, on rural route No. 1, out of Dellroy.
     In 1910 he married Miss Anna Catherine Tope, daughter of W. S. and Mandane (Campbell) Tope, of Monroe Township.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Vol. II - Page 862

JOHN M. ELLIOTT has every reason to take pride in his fine homestead farm, and is the fortunate owner of a landed estate of 400 acres in Monroe Township, Carroll County, and his is secure vantage place as one of the progressive and representative exponents of farm industry in his native county.  His farm is situated one-half a mile distant from the Village of Dellroy, which is his postoffice address.
     Mr. Elliott was born in Rose Township, this county, on the 3d of August, 1860, and is a son of James Blaine Elliott and Mary (Wilson) Elliott, both likewise natives of this county.  Aaron Elliott, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in the north of Ireland, of Scotch ancestry, and was there reared and educated.  When ten years old he embarked on a sailing vessel at Londonderry, Ireland, and voyaged across the Atlantic ocean to the port of New York City with his mother and family.  Thence he proceeded to Philadelphia and later to Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he remained a few years.  In 1817 he came to Carroll County, Ohio, and became one of its sterling pioneer settlers, where he instituted the reclamation and development of a farm of 163 acres, a Government claim, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, his death having occurred in 1857.  Of the family of two sons and five daughters James B. was the youngest, and he passed his entire life on the old home farm in Rose township which was the place of his birth.  He was one of the honored pioneer citizens and representative farmers of the county at the time of his death, in 1897, when sixty-five years of age, and his widow attained to the venerable age of eighty-seven years, she having passed to the life eternal in 1917.  They became the parents of three sons and one daughter and John M. of this review was the third in order of birth.  The parents were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church and the father was a republican in his political proclivities.
     John M. Elliott passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the old home farm, assisted in its work during the summer seasons and attended the district school during the winter terms until he was fourteen years of age.  There after he continued his studies in a well ordered select school in the village of Dellroy until he had attained to the age of eighteen years.  Thereafter he completed a short course in the Hagerstown Academy, and he put his acquirements to practical test by teaching one year in the district school at Mingo, Prairie Township.  He taught the next year in the Willow Run District School in Harrison Township, and his successful pedagogic career included also one year of service in a district school in Rose Township.  After his marriage, in 1883, he continued to be engaged in farm enterprise on the old homestead until 1898, and in the meanwhile utilized eighty acres of the place in his operations.  From this nucleus, with the increasing financial prosperity that has marked his course as a vigorous and progressive representative of farm enterprise, he has gradually added to his holding until he now has a valuable property of 400 acres, all well improved and devoted to diversified agriculture and the raising of excellent types of live stock.  Mr. Elliott is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Carrollton, and as one of the popular and substantial citizens of his community he has been called upon to serve as trustee of Monroe Township and as a member of the school Board of his district.  He is a staunch advocate of the principles of the republican party and has always been ready to lend his co-operation in the furtherance of enterprises projected for the general good of his home community and native county.
     The year 1883 recorded the marriage of Mr. Elliott to Miss Margaret D. Davis, who likewise was born and reared in Carroll County, a daughter of William and Harriet (Parr) Davis, of Monroe Township.  In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Elliott: Raymond Davis, who was born in 1886, is now a resident of Whittier, California.  Lorin S. married Miss Zella Pearl Brown, who died in April, 1916.  Their two children are Arthur Francis and Margaret Esther.  Winona is the wife of Ralph Downes, of Magnolia, Carroll County, and they have two children - Genevieve and Margaret Ellen.  Paul, the youngest of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Elliott, has to his honor a splendid record of service in connection with the nation's participation in the late World war.  He entered service at Carrollton on the 29th of April, 1918, and after having passed three weeks at Camp Sherman, Ohio, was sent to Camp Merritt, New Jersey, where he became a private in the Head-quarters Company of the Three Hundred and Thirty-second United States Infantry.  On the 8th of June, 1918, he sailed with his command for the state of conflict.  He landed at Liverpool, England, and proceeded thence to Southampton, and he arrived at Havre, France, on the 17th of June.  His initial training and service in France was in the Chaumont district, and there he was assigned to the Regimental Band, the Three Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry having become a part of the Eighty-third Division of the American Expeditionary Forces.  The regiment was sent to Turin, Italy, and thence to Verona, and it then proceeded with the forces sent to repel the Austrians in Trentino, in which district he remained until Oct. 24, 1918.  It next participated in the great Treviso drive against the Austrians, and in this action the command marched 100 miles in ten days, crossing the Piave River to Undine in Austrian Baden.  After this expedition the regiment was sent to Montaigne, France, and finally it returned to Treviso, where it was stationed at the time of receiving news of the signing of the historic armistice, which brought a termination to the conflict.  With his regiment Mr. Elliott then proceeded to Geneva, Italy, and on the 31st of November, 1918, the command set sail for the United States.  The members landed, en route, at Gibraltar, and Mr.  Elliott, was thus permitted to visit and view the sights of that great English stronghold.  He landed in the port of New York City on the 14th of April, 1919, remained ten days in the national metropolis, and finally returned to Camp Sherman, Ohio, where he was mustered out on the 5th day of May, 1919, as a musician.  In the Regimental Band he had played the alto horn.  While in Italy he made three visits to the City of Rome, - on one occasion to take part in the concert given by his Regimental Band in honor of President Wilson, and on the other two occasions to pay similar tribute to other distinguished persons, his regiment acting as escort at these notable events.  The varied experiences which Paul Elliott met during the period of his service in Europe will ever remain as an interesting chapter in his life history, and his record of patriotic service is one that will reflect enduring honor on his name. 
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Vol. II - Page 803