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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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WASHINGTON
EARL HARDGROVE. In Washington Earl Hardgrove is found an
example of the men who have brought Carroll County into the limelight as a
prosperous agricultural center. Endowed with natural ability and
backed by shrewd business judgment and determination, this farmer has worked
his way to the ownership of a valuable farm of eighty acres in East
Township. He is a native of this township and was born Dec. 18, 1868,
a son of George H. and Amelia (Long) Hardgrove.
Washington Hardgrove, the paternal grandfather
of Washington E., was born in Harford County, Maryland, in 1798, and
was a lad when her went with the family to Greene County, Pennsylvania,
where his father died. Later his mother brought the family to East
Township, Carroll County, Ohio, about 1821 or 1822, and here Washington
Hardgrove secured land by purchase. He continued to be engaged in
agricultural pursuits during the rest of his life, and died about 1880, one
of his community's highly respected and esteemed citizens. His wife,
who bore the maiden name of Priscilla Clark, was a native of Chester
County, Pennsylvania.
George H. Hardgrove was born Jan. 25, 1833, in
East Township, and here was reared and educated, and on reaching manhood
married Miss Amelia Long, who was born in Augusta Township, Carroll
County, Feb. 2, 1831, she being a daughter of John and Amelia (Ambler)
Long, the former a native of Holland and the latter of England.
John Long was a small boy when brought to this country by his parents,
and grew to young manhood in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. About 1816 or
1817 he came to Carroll County, engaging in a race with a Mr. Baker
to Steubenville, on horseback, to enter a tract of land. Mr. Baker
won the contest and entered the tract, whereupon Mr. Long entered 160
acres in East Township, where he passed the greater part of his life as an
agriculturist. Following their marriage. Mr. and Mrs.
Hardgrove settled on a farm of eighty acres in East Township, which
Mr. Hardgrove purchased from a family named Withrow, who had
entered the land from the Government. There he and his wife rounded
out long, useful and honorable careers, Mr. Hardgrove dying Apr. 21,
1912, and his widow surviving him until Feb. 15, 1917.
The only child of his parents, Washington Early
Hardgrove secured his educational training in the public schools of East
Township, and at Mechanicstown Academy, and was reared to the work of the
home farm. He was married Jan. 28, 1897, to Miss Ella Whittiker,
who was born in Fox Township, Carroll County, May 30, 1868, a daughter of
Joseph and Annis (Petterson) Whittiker, a descendant on both sides of
families which had settled in that township at an early date. Her
paternal grandparents were Thomas Whittiker and his wife, a
Yagely, natives of Pennsylvania, and her maternal grandparents
Charles and Louisa (Emeline) Petterson, natives of England.
Joseph Whittiker was born in September, 1825, in Fox Township, and his
wife was born July 4, 1842, and died July 4, 1874.
Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs.
Hardgrove moved to Mr. Hardgrove's father's farm of eighty acres,
which adjoined the original Hardgrove farm, and the ownership of
which Mr. Hardgrove has since assumed. His eighty acre tract is
in the best of cultivation, and on it is carrying on extensive
operations as a general farmer. Here he has realized his wholesome and
meritorious ambitions, and the impression in his community, where he has the
respect and esteem of all, is that he is one of the reliable and progressive
agriculturists of his township. Mr. Hardgrove is a republican
in politics and has served several years effectively and satisfactorily in
the capacity of justice of the peace. As a fraternalism he belongs to
Augusta Lodge No. 504, F. & A. M.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties,
Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub.
Co., 1921 - Vol. II - Page 890 |
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JAMES
R. HILL was not yet two years old at the time of his father's death
and remained on the old homestead of his paternal grand parents until he had
attained to the age of thirteen years. His widowed mother then became
the wife of James Shepherd. After her second marriage
the mother of Mr. Hill took him into her new home, where he
was reared to adult age. Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd
became the parents of three children: Emma became the wife of
Hiram Scott and is now deceased: Margaret is the wife of
James H. Roudebush, of Carroll County; and Miss Jane Shepherd
resides at Carrollton.
The public schools of his native county afforded
James R. Hill his early education, and as a young man he was engaged in
farm enterprise, in Center and Lee townships. Thereafter he spent
seven and one-half years as a farmer in the State of Nebraska, and upon
selling his property in that commonwealth he returned to Carroll County,
where, in 1907, he became a carrier on one of the rural mail routes from
Carrollton, a service in which he has since continued. He owns and
occupies a good residence on Main Street in the City of Carrollton, is a
republican in politics and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
To Mr. Hill and wife eight children were
born, John A., who is now retained in the position of wool specialist
in connection with the agricultural department of the University of Wyoming.
married Miss Evelyn Corthell, and they have four sons—Robert,
John, Ross and Nellis. John A. Hill enlisted
in 1917 for service in the World war, was sent to an officer's training camp
in the State of Washington. and was made captain, he having continued in
service eighteen months. Alva L., who is clerk in one of the
leading mercantile establishments of Carrollton, married Myrtle
McCausland, and they have one son, Donald. Mabel
is deceased. Robert, a bachelor, is engaged in farming in
Carroll County. Harry H., who is employed as a Government
chemist in the State of Oklahoma, married Miss Natalie
Berry. Elizabeth was graduated in the domestic science
department of the University of Ohio. and is now taking a course in the
training school for nurses maintained in connection with a leading hospital
in the City of Jackson, Michigan. Inez remains at the paternal
home and holds a position as operator in the telephone office at Carrollton.
Scott M., who holds a position with one of the leading manufacturing
concerns in the City of Canton, Ohio, enlisted in the Marine Corps of the
national service in 1917, and continued in service somewhat more than two
years, within which he accompanied his command to France, he having been in
Paris at the time of the signing of the armistice which brought the great
war to a close.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties,
Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub.
Co., 1921 - Vol. II - Page 994 |
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JAMES HUSTON.
A publication of this order exercises one of its most consistent and
important functions when it enters memorial tribute to honored pioneer
citizens whose lives and labors have lent dignity and honor to the
communities which the publication represents. Thus there is special
satisfaction in being able to present a review of the career of the late
James Huston, who was one of the sterling pioneers and early merchants
of Carroll County and whose character and ability made him a worthy leader
in community affairs.
Mr. Huston was born in Allegheny County,
Pennsylvania, on the 17th of April, 1813, and was a son of John and
Rachel (McNaughton) Huston. In the old Keystone State he received
his youthful education and he was seventeen years of age when he accompanied
his parents to Carroll County, Ohio, where the family home was established
on a pioneer farm near Mechanicstown, his parents having there passed the
remainder of their lives. In the earlier period of his residence in
Carroll County James Huston was engaged in farm enterprise in Fox
Township, where later he engaged in the operation of a grist mill.
Finally he established a general merchandise business at Mechanicstown,
where he continued the successful enterprise until 1853, when he engaged in
the same line of business at Carrollton, the county seat. There he
developed a large and representative business in the mercantile line,
besides becoming a leading grain dealer of the county. In 1868 he
purchased a hardware store at Carrollton, and this he conducted in
partnership with his son Vincent E., under the firm name of J.
Huston & son, until 1886, when he retired from active business, his
death having occurred on the 2d day of Jan., 1887, and in his passing the
county having lost one of its most honored and revered pioneer citizens.
Originally a democrat in politics, Mr. Huston was among the earliest
and most loyal supporters of the cause of the prohibition party, and in all
of the relations of life he exemplified the finest type of character.
Through his own ability and efforts he achieved substantial and worthy
success, and no one man had more influence in furthering the business
prosperity of Carrollton than did he. For the accommodation of his
mercantile business he erected the store now occupied by the Carrollton
laundry, and later he erected the substantial and attractive brick block
which perpetuates his name and memory. In addition to his alliance
with the hardware and general merchandise business he was associated with
James Hayes in the ownership of a well equipped clothing store.
His old home in Carrollton was situated on the lot on which his daughter
Emma (Mrs. Fawcett) later erected one of the finest modern houses in the
city, the same being her home at the present time. Mr. Huston
took loyal interest in all things pertinent to the communal welfare and was
liberal and progressive in his civic attitude. Both he and his wife
were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church.
In the year 1838 was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Huston to Miss Christine Emsley, who came with his family to
America and remained for some time in Washington County, Pennsylvania,
whence he finally came to Carroll County, Ohio, and engaged in farming near
Mechanicstown, where he passed the remainder of his life. Mrs.
Huston passed to the life eternal on the 31st of December, 1881, and her
memory is revered by all who came within the sphere of her gentle and
gracious influence. Mr. and Mrs. Huston became the parents of
three children: Amanda became the wife of Cyrus A. Shober
and was a resident of Carrollton at the time of her death, Sept. 4, 1868,
her only child, Emma, having become the wife of a Mr. Ruhman
and having become the mother of one daughter, Harriet, who is the
wife of Charles H. Woodworth and who has one daughter, was reared and
educated at Carrollton and after the death of her first husband, J. V.
Cellars, she became the wife of Robert Crozier Fawcett, who was
long associated with Vincent Huston in the hardware and clothing
business at Carrollton and whose death here occurred in 1910, his widow
remaining in the fine home which she erected, on Second Street, southwest,
and having long been a gracious figure in the representative social life of
the community in which she has resided during the greater part of her life.
Vincent Emsley Huston, only son of the subject of this memoir, well
upheld the honors of the family name in connection with civic and business
affairs, and was one of the leading merchants of Carrollton, as senior
member of the firm of Huston & Fawcett, at the time of his death,
Mar. 26, 1894.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties,
Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub.
Co., 1921 - Vol. II - Page 489 |
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