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Mack, Horace -
History of Columbiana County, Ohio
: with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers.
Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co.,
1879
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NATHAN HEACOCK was born in Rockhill township, Bucks Co., Pa., Apr. 16, 1783. He was the son of Jeremiah and Sarah Heacockb. Jonathan, the grandfather of Jeremiah, emigrated from Staffordshire, England, to America about the year 1711, and settled in Chester, Delaware Co., Pa. He and his wife, Ann, brought with them from England a certificate of their rights of membership in the Society of Friends, which has been continued in a direct line to the present generation. William, the son of Jonathan, was born in Marple, Chester Co., Pa., Jan. 13, 1716. He subsequently settled in Rockhill township, Bucks Co., Pa., where he married Ann Roberts, a lady of Welsh descent. He and his son, Jeremiah, were both millwrights, and were owners of a saw- and grist-mill in Bucks County. Sarah Heacock, the mother of Nathan, was the daughter of James and Ann Morgan, also of Welsh descent. Her father, while on the road with his team, was forced into the service of Gen. Braddock, and was at Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburgh) at the time of the memorable defeat of the British in 1755.
About the year 1790, Nathan's father, Jeremiah Heacock, sold his property in Bucks Co., Pa., and removed to Northampton Co., Pa., where he remained some seven years. In that rough backwoods region was the boyhood of Nathan spent. His father, Jeremiah, died Jan. 1, 1797, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. This event produced an entire change in the course of his son, whose career we are briefly depicting. With a brother younger than himself he went on foot forty miles from their late residence to the neighborhood of his grandfather's place, in Richland township, Bucks Co., Pa. Remaining in the family of Joseph Custard for three years, he was apprenticed to John Trumbower to learn the wagon-maker's trade.
Sept. 9, 1806, he married Dinah Dennis, daughter of Amos and Jane Dennis, and settled with her mother, who was a widow, in Richland township, Pa.
In 1813, he removed to Columbia Co., Pa.; but three years later he came to Ohio, and settled in Goshen township, Columbiana (now Mahoning) Co., about two miles northwest of Salem. Here for several years he battled with the forest, and by perseverance and frugality earned a living, but his limited means becoming involved, in 1821 he sold his farm and sought another location "farther in the woods." At the Steubenville land-office he "entered" the southwest quarter of section 28, in Smith township, Columbiana (now Mahoning) Co. The parchment deed, which gave him title to this tract, was signed by President James Monroe, and is now in the possession of his son, who retains the old home. This land was in what was then known as the "beech woods," and was considered by the early residents as scarcely worth possessing. But good cultivation and careful management have made it one of the finest farms in the county. The following incident, which occurred at the time of their removal to their new and forest home, will illustrate some of the hardships of the pioneers: Nathan and his two eldest sons went to the first of the week to their place to chop, taking a week's provisions with them; the early summer weather, warm and showery, caused their bread to mould, and to make their allowance hold out the allotted time they concluded to eat the worst portions first. As it moulded as fast as they consumed it, their fare consisted of mouldy bread through the entire week. When ready to return home, they went to the house of their only neighbor, Daniel Barton, a mile distant, to get meal to sustain their strength for an eight mile walk. And the good wife gave them plentifully of corn-cake. Mr. Heacock often remarked that he thought this was one of the best meals he ever ate.
After building his log cabin, he moved his family to the wilderness home Apr. 3, 1825. By diligent labor they soon had a comfortable home.
Mr. Heacock was one of the few who, in 1829, erected a building and opened a Friends' meeting (Hicksite) two miles south of the centre of Smith township.
His family consisted of eleven children, - eight sons and three daughters, - namely: Jane D., born in Bucks Co., Pa., Aug. 12, 1812; married Ezra Barton, 1832; died January, 1837. Edwin, born in Bucks County, Apr. 19, 1811; married Hannah Barber, 1836; is a farmer, located near his father's place. Milton, born at Fishing Creek, Pa., Dec. 23, 1815; is a carpenter by trade, and built the house shown in the illustration of Mr. Heacock's farm; was twice married, - to Rebecca Thomas, 1838 (deceased), and Hannibah Passmore, 1846; he now resides in Oregon. Barton, born in Goshen township, Columbiana Co., Ohio, Jan. 13, 1818; married Rachel Barber, 1839; a farmer. Asenath, born at Fishing Creek, Pa., June 26, 1814; married Nathaniel Thomas, 1841; at present living in Iowa. Amos D., born in Bucks Co., Pa., Oct. 27, 1808; died at his father's home, in Columbiana Co., Ohio, Nov. 18, 1841. Uriah A., born in Goshen township, Columbiana Co., Ohio, June 14, 1819; married Sarah Barber, 1843; died May 1854. Elias H., born in Goshen township, Jan. 6, 1821; married Eliza T. Thomas in 1843, and settled on his father's place; was killed, by being thrown from a wagon, January, 1850. Josiah W., born in Goshen township, July 8, 1824; died January, 1852. Tacy, their third daughter and youngest child, was born in Smith township, Mahoning Co., Ohio, Apr. 22, 1827; married Milton Coffee, 1852, and now resides in Williams Co., Ohio.
Enos Heacock, the present proprietor of the old homestead, and son of Nathan and Dinah Heacock, was born in Goshen township, Mahoning Co., Ohio, Sept. 5, 1822. When he was three years old his parents removed to the neighboring township of Smith. His opportunities for obtaining book-knowledge were limited; but, growing up in the midst of the forest, he became a great lover of nature. In 1830 the first school was established in his neighborhood, and this he attended. At the age of ten he went to live with a married sister, in Lexington township, Stark Co., Ohio, and while residing there witnessed the remarkable meteoric shower of the fall of 1833. In 1835 he returned to his father's house, and thenceforward was a diligent laborer on the farm, in the days when scythe and flail held sway, and before reapers and mowers had won the field. In 1851 he obtained, partly by purchase and partly by bequeathment, a portion of his father's land, and thus became possessed of the old homestead. In that year the Ohio and Pennsylvania (since merged into the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago) Railroad was opened through his farm. He was married Sept. 30, 1852, to Ann Taylor, daughter of Jacob and Anna Taylor, of Chester Co., Pa. To them were born three children, - Jacob T., Nov. 11, 1854; Addie, June 27, 1860; and Nathan E., Aug. 21, 1866; the former deceased 1864. Addie was married May 1, 1879, to William Tombaugh.
Dinah Heacock, mother of Enos, died from a stroke of palsy, Jan. 29, 1854. His father, Nathan, departed this life in 1866, the 26th day of the sixth month, in the eighty-fourth of his age.
Source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio - Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1879 - Page 314
Sanford HillSANFORD C. HILL. For over half a century one of the best known citizens of the county was Sanford C. Hill, who was born near Pughtown, W. Va., on the 20th day of June, 1796. From the time he was old enough he regularly attended school, and obtained an early, liberal education. In 1813, with the consent of his parents, he was employed as a clerk in a Pittsburgh bookstore. In 1818 he looked out a situation in Ohio, and entered into the mercantile business at a public crossroad now within the limits of the town of Wellsville. In 1819 he made a purchase in the town of East Liverpool, and removed his store to that place, being the first dry-gods store opened in the town. Sept. 29, 1820, he was married to Vashti B. Moore, of Pughtown, W. Va. Soon thereafter he sold out his stock of goods, and entered into a business far more congenial to his taste. He procured a complete set of surveying and mathematical instruments, and for more than forty years made practical surveying his chief business, besides teaching students in the theory and practice of civil engineering. For many years he spent his leisure time in studying astronomy and all the various branches of mathematics. September 6, 1832, his wife died, leaving four children. Nov. 10, 1833, he was again married, to Mrs. Sarah Sansbury, of Achor, Ohio, who died June 25, 1866, also leaving four children.
In local matters in his own neighborhood he long had a controlling voice; was elected a justice of the peace for over twenty consecutive years, and did more office work as a conveyancer and counselor than, perhaps, any other man in the county. The allotment of the different additions to the town of East Liverpool were nearly all laid out by him.
For forty-two years in succession he made a series of almanac calculations for the various publishers of the country. It was through this instrumentality that his name became a household word, and Sanford C. Hill's almanacs were to be found in almost every family, especially in the West and South.
He was a frequent contributor of mathematical and astronomical articles to the leading periodicals of the country, and was regarded as high authority upon all subjects of that nature. His talents and acquirements were recognized and acknowledged among men of science.
He died on the 17th day of April, 1871, aged seventy-four years, nine months, and twenty-seven days. His remains are interred in the East Liverpool Cemetery, and the grave is marked by a plain marble monument, bearing the text of the funeral discourse pronounced in his memory in the Presbyterian Church, in which he had long been a ruling elder: "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; for the end of that an is peace."
(Source #1: Mack, Horace - History of Columbiana County, Ohio : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers.
Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1879 - Page 186
J. L. Hime
John Hime
John Crisinger
Residence of J. L. Hime
West Twp., Columbiana Co., OHWest Twp. -
JOHN L. HIME was born Oct. 4, 1823, in Guilford township, Franklin Co., Pa.; assisted his father (who was a blacksmith) at intervals in and about the shop from a very early age until in his seventeenth year. In the year 1840, the family, in company with those of three of his uncles, emigrated to Ohio. John Heim (the father) purchased 72 acres of what was then commonly called Hahn's section (section 8), in West township, Columbiana Co., where the subject of this sketch assisted in clearing up the farm, going to the district school during the winter term. When in his twentieth year, at the urgent request and solicitation of his father, but against his own inclination and desire, he went to Andrew Deppen, of New Franklin, Stark Co., to learn the trade of saddle- and harness-making; he served two years and nine months for the sum of sixty-dollars, washing, mending, and two weeks free each harvest. After learning his trade he taught school two terms of three months each in Paris township, Stark Co., and one term of four and one-half months in West township, Columbiana, Co.
Married Judith Crisinger, Oct. 20, 1849. Of this union were born two children, viz.: Mary E. and Mary S. Mary E. is married to a Mr. Burger. In 1849, John L. Hime located in New Chambersburg and engaged in the saddle and harness business until the spring of 1864, when he moved on the northwest quarter of section 15, having purchased it two years previous of George Messimore. Has been postmaster at New Chambersburg from September, 1853, to April, 1864; has held the office of township treasurer five years, and clerk of the township two years. In politics is a Republican. The father of Mrs. Him (John Crisinger) was born Jan. 8, 1806, in Somerset Co., Pa. Within a year after his birth his father moved to Columbiana Co., Ohio, and settled near Dungannon, on section 35, in Hanover township. John Crisinger resided her with his father until 1840, when he purchased one hundred acres of land in the northwest part of section 33, in Knox township, Columbiana Co., and resided there until 1873; he then sold his farm and purchased a house and lot in Moultrie, where he died of paralysis, August, 1874, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. During his residence in Knox township he held the offices of township trustee and township treasurer. In the early part of his life he united with the Lutheran church; in later life he joined the Presbyterian. Politically a Democrat. In 1826 he married Salome Lindesmith, who is yet living. Had seven children, - four sons and three daughters, - two sons and three daughters yet living.
The father of Mr. Hime (John Hime) was born in Northumberland Co., Pa., Oct. 24, 1794, and although his father was a school-teacher, the son was in school only four weeks, and that in a German school, - the German language being used exclusively in that neighborhood until within the last fifty years. John Hime worked on his father's farm, which was poor and rocky, until he was apprenticed to a blacksmith. After working at his trade four or five years he took to tramping, with a view of seeing more of the world, and settled in Franklin Co., Pa., where he subsequently married, and bought five acres of land and a house for nine hundred dollars. At the time of purchasing he had not one dollar to pay for his property, yet he managed to pay for it and save some money besides. Worked at black-smithing for twenty-six years. Married three times, - first wife of Miss Burkholder, who died shortly after marriage; second wife Catharine Lehman, who died in 1834, the mother of six children, two of whom survive, viz: J. L. Hime and Mary Hahn; third wife, Martha Burkholder, who died in 1854, the mother of five children, one only living at this time, viz.: Elizabeth Knight. John Himes died of paralysis in November, 1870, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. He was in politics a Democrat; in religion a Lutheran.
Source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio - Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1879 - Page 275
E. S. HollowayGEN. EPHRAIM S. HOLLOWAY, son of John and Lydia (Dixson) Holloway, was born in Fairfield township, Columbiana Co., Ohio, July 27, 1833. He was raised upon a farm, and pursued that calling until 1857. His education was obtained by an irregular attendance at a district school during the winter months each year until he arrived at the age of seventeen; but his lack of proper educational advantages were compensated in part by a resoluteness of purpose which has been a leading characteristic in all his undertakings. from 1857 to 1861 he followed the carpenter and joiner business.
In October, 1861, he enlisted in the army as a private soldier in Company F, 41st Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and in the organization of the company was by a unanimous vote of the same elected first lieutenant. early in December he was required to take command of the company, which he retained until relieved, by promotion to the command of the regiment, early in the Atlanta campaign in 1864.
During four and a quarter years of service he was almost constantly on duty with his company and regiment, and of the fifty-eight engagements in which his regiment participated, among which were Shiloh, siege of Corinth, Perryville, Stone River, Woodbury, Chickamauga, Brown's Ferry, Bald Knob, Mission Ridge, Rocky-face Ridge, "Resaca, Picket's Mills, Adairsville, Cassville, Kenesaw Mountain, Chattahoochee River, Peachtree Creek, Jonesboro', Franklin and Nashville, he participated in fifty-four. On the 28th day of July, 1864, in front of Atlanta, he was selected by his brigade commander, Gen. William B. Hazen, to lead an assault upon a strongly posted line of the enemy, which had been attempted on the day previous by Gen. Gross's brigade, assisted by a battery, but failed after considerable loss. The assault was made across an open field through a marsh, a distance of about four hundred yards. Gen. Holloway with one hundred and fifty picked men from his regiment deployed as skirmishers, dashed across the field through the marsh and into the enemy's lines, capturing twenty-eight prisoners, with a loss of but two men.
He was commissioned first lieutenant Oct. 10, 1861; captain, Sept. 8, 1862; major, Nov. 26, 1864; lieutenant-colonel, Mar. 18, 1865; and colonel, May 31, 1865. Upon the recommendation of Maj. Gens. "Samuel Beatty, Thomas J. Wood, David S. Stanley, H. G. Wright, and P. H. Sheridan, he was appointed and commissioned a brigadier-general of volunteers by brevet, to rank as such from Mar. 13, 1865. Gen. Beatty, in addressing Gen. Lorenzo Thomas, Adjutant-General United States Army, upon the subject, said:
"I have the honor to invite your attention to the following brilliant record of Col. E. S. Holloway 41st Regiment Ohio Veteran Volunteers, and respectfully recommend his promotion to the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers by brevet.
"Col. Holloway entered the service as a private on the 10th day of October, 1861, and was soon after commissioned first lieutenant and served in that capacity during the siege of Corinth. He commanded a company in the campaign through Northern Mississippi, Alabama, and Middle Tennessee, and in the Kentucky campaign under Gen. Buell He was commissioned captain on the 8th of Sept., 1862, and served in the campaign against Murfreesboro' and Tullahoma, under Gen. Rosecrans, in 1862 and 1863, and in the Atlanta campaign under Gen. 'Sherman. He commanded the regiment in the campaign through Northern Georgia and Alabama, and in the retreat from Pulaski to Nashville. He was commissioned major on the 26th of November, 1864; lieutenant-colonel on the 18th of March, 1865, and on the 31st day of May, 1865, he was commissioned colonel, but could not be mustered in consequence of the regiment being reduced below the minimum number. He has participated in the battles of Perryville, Stone River, Picket's Mills, Franklin, and all the skirmishes and battles in which his regiment has been engaged, and was severely wounded at Kenesaw Mountain, June 21, 1864, while advancing the skirmish line. Col. Holloway has served constantly with his regiment at the front since its organization in 1861, and is a strict disciplinarian and an excellent officer, and I recommend that this rank of honor so justly earned may be conferred upon him."
In indorsing the recommendation of Gen. Beatty, Gen. Stanley said: "As commander of the 4th Army Corps I have, for the last year and a half, known Col. Holloway. I fully concur with the recommendation of Gen. Beatty, and commend him to the government as a gallant, energetic, and meritorious officer."
After the long service with his regiment, on its return to Ohio to be mustered out of service, and on the eve of muster-out, the officers called upon the colonel and presented him with the following testimonial, signed by every commissioned officer of the regiment.
"FORTY-FIRST OHIO VET. VOL. INFANTRY.
"CAMP CHASE, Ohio, Nov. 25, 1865.
"Col. E. S. Holloway.
"41st O. V. V. I.
"SIR: The time has arrived for us to part. Before we separate, however, permit us to express the deep sense of the obligations we are under to you for the courtesy and kindness you have always shown us in all our social and official relations, and to bear testimony to your gallantry on the field of battle, your care and consideration for the sick and wounded, and to assure you of our lasting friendship and regard. You go back to civil life with the prayers and good wishes of the many whose fortunes you have shared during the four long years of the rebellion. They wish you prosperity, happiness, and honor in the future; they are proud of your record, and proud of the record the regiment has maintained under your command; they will emulate your example in the future, and ever regard the honor and interests of their country more than life itself; they will refer to the great battles and campaigns in which they have been engaged with no greater pride than they will with gratitude for their long-tried comrade and commander, and now ere they part from you, they tender you the homage of grateful hearts, and beg leave to subscribe themselves through every fortune your sincere friends."
A day or two later, after all had again returned to civil life, the late officers of his command presented him with further testimonials in the shape of a fine gold-headed cane and superb editions of Hume's and Macaulay's "Histories of England," Bancroft's History of the United States," and Scott's "Poetical works." The presentation was made by Brevet Lieut. Col. McCleary in a short address, which was responded to by Col. Holloway, who had been taken entirely by surprise, in a few words expressive of his heart-felt thanks for the parting testimonials he had received. The enlisted men of his regiment had a short time previously presented him with a solid silver set of four pieces, costing $150, as a testimonial of their regard for him as their commanding officer.
On returning home from the army he resumed the carpenter and joiner business, which he followed until the first of March, 1868, at which time he was appointed superintendent of the Enterprise Agricultural Works, which position he held until September, 1873.
In November, 1871, he purchased a half interest in the Independent Register office, and in addition to his duties as superintendent of the Enterprise Works, took editorial charge of the paper. In June following he purchased his partner's interest (Mr. N. E. Nold) and has since that date owned and controlled the paper now published under the firm name of E. S. Holloway & Sons.
In politics he has been a life-long Republican, and has taken an active and influential part, both in his county, district, and State. In 1873 he was elected as representative in the State Legislature, and re-elected in 1875. Of his career in the General Assembly, Senators W. P. Howland and R. G. Richards write us:
"Hon. E. S. Holloway was elected a representative of Columbiana County in 1873, and re-elected in 1875, thus serving in that capacity for four years. During that time there was not a more faithful and conscientious member of that body. He was known and admitted to be one of the most useful and able men of the Sixty-first and Sixty-second General Assemblies.
"In the Sixty-first he took a leading part on the standing committees of insurance and public printing, and was appointed on the following committees of investigation: to investigate and report upon the conduct of the officers of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans House at Xenia; also as to the necessity of providing further protection to burial grounds; was chairman of a committee to investigate and report on the management of the Ohio penitentiary under the administration of Col. Junis During the progress of the investigation Gen. Holloway displayed the qualities that gave him his reputation and rank in the military service; for, despite all the obstacles with which the military service; for, despite all the obstacles with which the opposition endeavored to obstruct the course of the investigation, he conducted the work with indomitable will and unflagging zeal, and, although in the minority on the committee, set forth in his report facts that could not be successfully contradicted, and laid open to the General Assembly the errors and weaknesses of that administration, which brought about a willing reorganization on the part of the opposition, and saved to the State that important institution from general confusion and extravagance. The labor was so severe that the general's health failed him, and he was on that account confined to is room for nearly two weeks.
"Then came what is known as the Wood County Investigation. A large and persistent lobby had for two sessions infested the State capital, for and against the removal of the county-seat of Wood County form Bowling Green to Perrysburgh. The Perrysburgh party were at last victorious, but it was openly charged that corrupt measures had been used, that money had been tendered and taken by some of the members, for either withholding their opposition, or favoring removal. Never in the history of the State was there a more heated contest, more bitter feelings and harsher language used in the course of legislative investigation than upon that occasion. Night after night, for over two weeks, the examination of witnesses continued, interspersed with frequent sharp and bitter contests as to rulings, etc. A report was finally reached, finding several guilty of attempts to bribe some of the members, and part of the committee, of which Gen. Holloway was one, made a report recommending the expulsion of certain members. Thus, with courage and a high sense of honor, he maintained, with a few others of his associates on that occasion, the regard and dignity due the Legislature of a great State.
"During the Sixty-second General Assembly he was made prominent on the committees on penitentiary and reform schools; was chairman of the committee on retrenchment, and saved to the State by one act alone $7000 annually, in abolishing a needless office that had been little less than a sinecure for years.
"It was during this term that General Holloway unearthed the outrageous abuses practiced by the parties in charge of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans Home at Xenia, which resulted in the reorganization of that institution. Although maligned and misrepresented, he stood firmly by his guns until he accomplished what brought that favored institution to a condition better than it had ever before enjoyed.
"The General was the author of several measures that will eventually result in great good to the commonwealth and in the interests of justice and humanity; among them was a bill providing for district reform prisons. The bill gave evidence of great labor and research; it provided for intermediate prisons where those found guilty of minor felonies could be confined, where those young in years and crime could be separated from older and confirmed criminals; thus giving an opportunity for their reformation. Without extending this sketch to greater length, it is due General Holloway to say, that he is a man whose love of country, whose sense of duty and whose abilities are of such a character and of so high an order, that in whatever position he may be placed, his services would be valuable and satisfactory to all those who, like himself, have the greatest good to the greatest number as their object."
In April, 1877, he was admitted to the bar, in Columbus, Ohio, and commenced the practice of law Nov. 1, 1877, and is rapidly building up a lucrative practice. On the 29th of April, 1852, he married Miss Margaret Windel of Fairfield township, who was one year his junior. There have been born to them five children, as follows: John W., Orlando T., Theron W., Owen B. and Carrie, four of whom are living, Theron W. having died at the age of two and one-half months.
(Source #1: Mack, Horace - History of Columbiana County, Ohio : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1879 - Page 152
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