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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio
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Vol. II -
Under the Editorial Supervision of Judge H. J. Eckley
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Published by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York
1921
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JUNIUS
C. FERRALL. In every cursory survey of the activities of those
who have wielded large influence in the furtherance of the civic and
material advancement of Carroll County and its attractive judicial center,
the vigorous little city of Carrollton, it becomes evident that few have
exerted so strong and benignant progress-making influence as Judge
Ferrall, whose loyalty has been not merely that of sentiment but also
that of constructive action. His interests have been varied and
important and as one of the leading citizens of Carroll County, as well as a
scion of an honored pioneer family of this favored section of the Buckeye
State, he is entitled to special recognition in this publication.
Judge Junius C. Ferrall was born in Harrison
Township, Carroll County, on the 6th of December, 1851, and is a son of
Edwin and Mary A. (Huston) Ferrall, the former of whom was born at
Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, Dec. 29, 1821, and the latter of whom was born May
6, 1831. The parents were residents of Carrollton at the time of their
death, the father having passed away March 7, 1913, and the mother on the
6th of August, 1918. Hon. Edwin Ferrall was nine years of age
at the time of the family removal from the old Keystone state to Carroll
County, Ohio, where he was reared to adult age and where his early education
was obtained in the common schools. He was a son of James Ferrall,
who was born at Lynchburg, Virginia, and who was born at Lynchburg,
Virginia, and who later became a resident of Pennsylvania and whose first
visit to the Ohio wilderness was made on a hunting expedition, in which he
gained trophies of deer and other wild game. After returning to
Pennsylvania he there married Susanna Snyder, and it was the year
1829 that they established themselves as pioneers on a farm near the present
village of Mechanicstown, Carroll County, Ohio. From this place, in
Fox Township, they later removed to Harrison Township, and there they passed
the remainder of their lives, Mr. Ferrall having been a prominent
pioneer merchant and farmer in this section of the state. James
Ferrall was a staunch democrat and served as a member of the first board
of commissioners of Carroll County, besides having been otherwise
influential in community affairs. He had four sons and two daughters,
and the names of the sons were Edwin, Calvin, John and George.
Edwin Ferrall was reared on the pioneer farm in
Carroll County, and as a youth he here proved his constructive energy in
connection with the basic industry of agriculture. In 1850 was
solemnized his marriage to Miss Mary A. Huston, daughter of Robert
and Elizabeth (Howey) Huston, who established their home in Carroll
County in 1828. Mr. and Mrs. Ferrall became the parents of four
children, of whom Judge Junius C., immediate subject of this review,
is the eldest, the other children being Robert J., Lannes L. and
Anson E. Edwin Ferrall became a man of prominence and distinctive
influence in Carroll County, and as a young man, in 1857, he was elected
sheriff of the county, an office in which he served two consecutive terms.
In 1873 he was elected to the state senate on democratic ticket, was
prominent democrat and was one of the most venerable and highly honored
citizens of Carrollton at the time of his death in his 92d year.
As a boy, in 1862-3, Judge Junius C. Ferrall
gained an appreciable experience in connection with the newspaper business,
as he was employed within these years in the offices of the Carroll County
Union, the Carroll Union Press, Courier. For a short time thereafter
he was a clerk in the mercantile establishment of Isaac Crumrine, and
later he held a similar position in the general store of McCullough &
Ferrall, of which first his father was junior member. The father
finally purchased his partner's interest in the enterprise, which was
thereafter continued under the title of E. Ferrall & Son until the
autumn of 1872, when Junius C. Ferrall, the junior member of the
firm, went to Rockyford, Colorado, and became bookkeeper in a general store
which supplied the requirements of men on neighboring cattle ranches.
In 1874 Judge Ferrall returned home, but soon afterward he accepted a
position as traveling salesman of the wholesale mercantile house of C.
Atwell & Company, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He remained thus
engaged until the spring of 1879, when he returned to Carrollton and formed
a partnership with James T. Smith, with whom he was associated in
purchasing the general merchandise business here previously conducted by
Charles Rukenbrod, James T. Smith and John Couch. The firm
of Smith & Ferrall continued the business until the autumn of 1880,
when Mr. Ferrall purchased his partner's interest and assumed full
control. He continued the enterprise until 1887, when he was erected
judge of the probate court of Carroll County, as candidate on the democratic
ticket. To insure the proper management of his mercantile business he
at this juncture admitted William M. Shepherd to partnership, and
after having served two terms as probate judge he purchased his partner's
interest in the business, of which he continued the executive head until
March, 1898. As a leader in the local ranks of the democratic party
Judge Ferrall was a candidate for presidential elector in 1884, and in
1897, he again led a "forlorn hope," as democratic candidate for state
senator.
Judge Ferrall virtually initiated his special
activities in the furtherance of the industrial and commercial advancement
of Carrollton when he became one of the organizers of the Carrollton Granite
Brick Company, and later his progressiveness and liberality were further
shown by his becoming one of the incorporators of the Carrollton Electric
Light Company, of which he continues the active general manager to the
present time. He was one of the promoters of the first telephone line
established in Carroll County, in 1898, and became an official of the
Carroll County Telephone Company. In 1899 the company sold its
equipment and business to the Bell Telephone Company. Judge Ferrall
is vice president of the Cummings Trust Company and a director of the Scio
Bank Company, Harrison County. He has shown marked initiate and
administrative ability, as well as liberality, in the promotion of measures
and enterprises that have been of great value in furthering the
progress of his home city and county, and has been one of the most
enthusiastic in the promoting of the "/greater Carrollton." His
enthusiasm has been potent in the commercial awaking of Carrollton, and he
well merits the unqualified esteem in which he is held in his native county.
M ember of United Presbyterian Church and Knights of Pythias Lodge.
On the 27th of September, 1877, was solemnized the
marriage of Judge Ferrall to Miss Emma M. Simpson, daughter of
Alexander and Eliza (Latta) Simpson, of Carroll County. In
conclusion is entered brief record concerning the children of Judge and
Mrs. Ferrall: Ida A., who was born Feb. 9, 1880, is the wife of
Harvey S. Allen, of Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, and they have three
children - Mary M., James F. and Ralph W. Edwin S., who
was born in June, 1881, is now executive head of the E. S. Ferrall
Company, wholesale and retail dealers in grain, feed and building supplies,
at Canton, Ohio; he married Miss Vern Beatty and they have had four
children - Emma Elizabeth, Junius B., Robert and John Edwin,
the last mentioned being deceased. Esma A., who was born in
March, 1885, is the wife of George Spanagel, of Canton, Start County,
and they have four children - Marian Elizabeth, Emma Louise, Jane
Fredericka, and Pauline Ethel. Mary Latta is the
widow of John H. Ransberger, late a member of the firm of McCarty,
Armstrong & Ransberger, of Canton, Ohio.
Source: History of Carroll and
Harrison Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub.
Co., 1921 - Vol. II - Page 808 |
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FRANK WOODS
FISHEL has spent all his life in Harrison Township of Carroll County,
and his friends and neighbors recognize in him a man of substantial industry
and thrift, one who has improved his opportunities and achieved a
comfortable home and farm, and altogether proved worthy of his American
citizenship.
Mr. Fishel was born on the homestead where he
now lives Nov. 14, 1881, son of James and Mary (Woods) Fishel.
His father was four years old when the grandfather died in Washington
Township of Carroll County. James Fishel lived as a farmer in
Washington and Harrison Townships, and died in 1907, one of the highly
respected citizens of his community. His widow is still living.
Frank W. Fishel is the youngest of their children. His brothers
are Lawrence of Chicago and Charles of Tuscarawas County,
Ohio, and his only sister is Mrs. Maud Hudson of Dellroy, who is the
mother of two children, Mary and Charles.
Frank W. Fishel grew up at home, attended country
school at Mount Nebo, and graduated from the Dellroy High School in 1901.
He took two summer normal courses in the Ohio Northern University at Ada,
and before getting down to farming as a permanent vocation he taught in his
home school of Mount Nebo and also in District No. 1 of Rose Township.
Since his marriage his tasks and duties have been on the old homestead,
where he has 140 acres devoted to general farming and dairying. Mr.
Fishel is a good business man, and besides his farm interests is a
stockholder in the First National Bank of Carrollton. He is a member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Dellroy.
His first wife was Ella Benedum, daughter of
Frank and Mary Elizabeth (Hough) Benedem. She died in July, 1918,
leaving two children. James David born in 1908, and Myrta
May born in 1911. On July 31, 1919, Mr. Fishel married
Sylvia Gamble, daughter of William Melville and Olive Jeannette
(Long) Gamble of Rose Township.
Source: History of Carroll and
Harrison Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub.
Co., 1921 - Vol. II - Page 826 |
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