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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Guernsey County, Ohio
by Col. Cyrus P. B. Sarchet
- Illustrated -
Vols. I & 2.
B. F. Bowden & Company,
Indianapolis, Indiana -
1911
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JAMES D. ABELS.
No more progressive or broad-minded citizen is to be found
in the vicinity of Byesville than James D. Abels, and no
more public spirited man in Guernsey county, consequently he is
gladly given a place in this history. He was born near
Middleton, Guernsey county, in 1834, and is the son of John,
Jr. and Mary Ann (Seveard or Bevard) Abels. The
paternal grandfather, John Abels, Sr., was the son
of a pilot on the ocean vessel that plied between Holland and
New York city and it is believed that he was born in Holland.
His father, the pilot, brought him on a trip to New York when a
small boy, prior to the year 1800 and on the voyage the father
died, and the boy was left alone at New York. A stranger
took him up-town and kept him over night, taking him to the
market the following morning, and inquired if any one wanted a
boy to raise. Thomas Thorne, a farmer living near
the city, being pleased with the boy's appearance, took him and
reared him, keeping him until he was married. Later he
moved to Guernsey county, Ohio, and settled near Middleton,
taking up land, being among the early settlers. His son
John Abels, Sr., was born in 1808, and grew up in Guernsey
county and there married Mary Ann Bevard. Her
parents came from Maryland and were pioneers in the locality
lying between Middleton and Quaker City. Nine children
were born to this union: Rachel, James D.,
Rebecca, Nancy, Margaret (who died when three years old),
William, Sarah Jane, Phoebe and Susan M.
About 1840 John Abels, Jr., entered
land in Washington County and moved there, but his land lying in
the midst of an almost impenetrable forest, he had to stop on
his removal thereto several miles away until a road could be cut
to it. On his trip he took his family and all his
belongings in a wagon drawn by oxen. A short time before
he came another had cut a road to his own new home, which was
about two miles from that of Mr. Abels. This road
was followed by the latter as far as it went, then he finished
cutting a road to his land; then went afoot until he found where
he could get water. He then cut a road back to his wagon
and brought the family on into the forest, cleared a little
space, drove down stakes and plied brush over them for a shelter
to live under until he could clear a larger space and build a
log cabin. So dense and unbroken was the forest that the
father got lost on his own farm, one evening, only two or three
hundred years from his home, but hearing the cow bell, followed
his cows home. In due course of time he had a good farm
cleared and improved, James D. taking his share of the
work. The father made this his home until 1873, then sold
out and moved to the southwest part of Jackson township where he
bought a home and there he and his wife spent the remainder of
their days, dying there and they are both buried at Mt. Zion
church cemetery, having been members of that church. The
father had been a Baptist minister back in Washington county,
also preached in adjoining counties, but he gave up active
preaching when he moved to Guernsey county, although he still
preached occasionally.
James D. Abels grew to maturity on the farm in
Washington county. After he grew into manhood he came over
into Jackson township, this county, and worked about a year in
the mines and on the farm, and here he met the woman he later
married. Returning home, he remained there a year, then in
April, 1858, returned to Jackson township and married Rebecca
Delarue, daughter of John and Martha (Dennison) Delarue.
She was born and reared in Guernsey county, her father having
come to this country form France. He died in 1846, leaving
a widow and large family to be supported on an eighty-acre farm
which he owned. The mother died in 1876. After their
marriage Mr. and Mrs. James D. Abels established their
home in the western part of Jackson township, directly south of
the court house in Cambridge. When Mr. and Mrs. Abels
were married he ran the farm for her, later bought more land
adjoining and now has a fine farm of one hundred acres, which is
well improved and under a high state of cultivation.
Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Abels,
one of whom is deceased. They are: John T., who
lives on the home farm, married Alta Beach and his family
consists of nine children, of whom six are living, Charlie,
Harry, Thomas, Albert, Frank and Eva. William E.,
who is a general merchant in Byesville, married Mary Long,
and has had a family of five children: Virgie died
in Iowa when four or five years old; James D.; Jonathan, Roy
and Dorothy. Mary M. married Alexander
Newman, and their children, four of whom are living, are
Ethel, Ora, Otto and Homer; Mary, their other
child, died in 1907. Cora Abels married W. K.
Booth, a grocer in Cambridge, and they became the parents of
six children, only two of whom are now living: Vera and
Freda. Elizabeth married Durward Williams;
they live in Salesville and have two children: Bernetta
and Cora.
Mr. Abels was one of the loyal sons of the North
who fought to defend the flag and Seventy-second Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, in which he served very faithfully, and he is now a
member of the Grand Army of the Republic post at Cambridge.
He and his wife belong to the Mt. Zion Baptist church near his
old home in Jackson township. About 1903 he moved his
family to Cambridge, with the expectation of buying a home
there, but a year later decided to locate in Byesville, and they
now have a beautiful and comfortable home there.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 613 |
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WILLIAM JOHNSON ADAIR.
Influential and prominent in his neighborhood, a man who has
made a success of his vocation, and has in many ways aided in
the development of his community is William Johnson Adair,
who was born on March 11, 1853, in northwestern part of Valley
township, Guernsey county, the son of Joseph and Sarah Ann
(Johnson) Adair.
Joseph Adair was born either in Washington or
Greene County, Pennsylvania, and came to Belmont county, Ohio,
with his father, Robert Adair, when young. About
1846 he came to Guernsey county and located in the southwestern
part of Valley township. In February, 1848, he was married
to Sarah Jane Johnson, the daughter of William and
Charlotte (Lazear) Johnson. Her parents came from
Pennsylvania, where they were married in 1814, and shortly after
the birth of Sarah Jane Johnson, in 1828, they came to
the southwestern portion of Valley township, where the Opperman
mine is now located. Charlotte Lazear was the
daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Braddock) Lazear; Thomas
died in 1858, at the age of eighty-eight; Joseph died
on August 15, 1822, at the age of ninety-seven. All the
Lazear family down to Charlotte were buried in
Greene county, Pennsylvania.
The Johnsons and Adairs were both
Scotch-Irish, their ancestors being Presbyterians, and
originally Scotch Covenanters, and both families came to this
county from either Washington or Green counties, Pennsylvania.
Joseph Adair was in his early days a carpenter here.
In 1852 he moved from the southwest part to the northwest part
of Valley township, which remained the family home. Here
Joseph died in 1864; his wife survived until December,
1903.
William J. Adair was one of six children:
Almira married Robert Davidson, and lives in
Spencer township, Guernsey county; John Wesley was born
in 1850, and died in February, 1879; William J. was the
third child in order of birth: Isabel was born in
1857 and died in 1876; Charlotte married Jacob
Salladay, whose sketch see; Joseph Howard was born in
1864, and died in 1867. Joseph Adair was a Democrat
and was township trustee for many years. He and his wife
were both faithful members of Bethel Methodist church and were
highly respected by all who knew them.
William J. Adair grew up in the community in
which he was born, and was in his twelfth year when his father
died, after which his mother bought, pursuant to an agreement
made by the father, the farm two miles west of Derwent, where
William J. has sine lived. He was married in December,
1873, to Mary Elizabeth Clark, the daughter of William
F. and Ada (Gregory) Clark. Her mother was born in
September, 1828, the daughter of Noble and Sarah
(Spencer) Gregory. Her father came from Ireland, and
her mother from New Jersey.
William F. Clark was born in
March, 1825, and reared northwest of Pleasant City in Valley
township and was married in December, 1851. He is the son
of Benjamin and Mary Ann (Gregory) Clark. Benjamin
Clark came from Pennsylvania in very early days.
William F. Clark and wife were the parents of eight
children. Martha Jane died in childhood.
Mary E. is the wife of William J. Adair.
Clarissa lives in Valley township with her mother and
brother Samuel. Samuel Gregory now lies with his
mother on the home farm. Rosa died when a young
woman. Allen and Alice were twins, Allen
is a physician of Joplin, Missouri, Alice married
Hayden McKinley, and lives in Kansas, not far from Joplin,
Missouri. Martha Jane was the wife of Joseph
Davidson, and died on June 4, 1896, leaving one son,
Clovis. William F. Clark was a Mason, and he and his
family were members of the Methodist church. He died on
December 22, 1894. His wife survives, and is in her
eighty-sixth year. Mr. Clark was a trustee of the
church, and a steady, faithful member.
To Mr. and Mrs. Adair six children were born:
Olive is a home with her parents. Ross Wesley,
who is pastor of the Methodist church at Larimore, North Dakota,
married Maud Elizabeth Carmen, of East Liverpool, Ohio,
and has one child, Robert. Emma Charlotte is
teaching at Joplin, Missouri. Ala is teaching at
Amsterdam, Ohio. Joseph Paragoy is attending
Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois. Leonard
Benson is at home with his parents.
William Adair has held various township offices.
He is a member of the Masons at Pleasant City, and he and his
wife and children are members of the Methodist church at Derwent,
in which he is a class leader, trustee and Sunday school teacher
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 763 |
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PERRY M. ALBIN. The
present review is concerned with the deeds of one of the oldest
residents of Guernsey county, who has during his life witnessed
many changes in the customs and manner of living of the people.
In the days of his youth the farmers of Guernsey county used to
haul six-horse loads of tobacco to Baltimore, and bring back
goods for the use of their families; now they are supplied with
the best of all manufactured articles at their own homes, and
other changes have been proportional to this one. And when
his family first came to this county, it was then the home of
numerous red men, and the present fertile farming country was
then a forest wilderness. But within the life of one man
these great changes have taken place.
Perry Milton Albin was born on the old Albin
farm, a short distance northwest of Pleasant City, Guernsey
county, Ohio, on January 26, 1834, the son of Abraham and
Mary Elizabeth (Trenner) Albin. Abraham Albin was born
in the north part of West Virginia, near Big Capon river, on
December 25, 1798, the son of James Albin, who at the age
of eighteen enlisted in the Revolutionary army and served
through the war. In the spring of 1806, James Albin
brought his family, including Abraham as a lad of
1806, James Albin brought his family, including
Abraham as a lad of seven, to Guernsey county, and
entered land south of Dewent, where he made his home. He
had stopped on his way one year near Wheeling, then finished the
journey, which was made by wagon. Then the county was
sparsely settled, with only a small settlement at Cambridge.
The nearest mill was at St. Clairsville, and they pounded corn
in the hominy box to get meal for food. James Albin
spent the remainder of his days on this farm. He was twice
married, and by the first marriage was the parent of two sons
and a daughter, by the second, of four sons, of whom Abraham
was one, and six daughters.
Abraham Albin grew up on his father's farm, and
on October 4, 1819, was married to Mary E. Trenner, the
daughter of Henry Trenner and on aunt of Benjamin
Trenner, whose sketch see for the Trenner family.
She was born in West Virginia on January 31, 1797. After
marriage Abraham Albin looked about for a farm, and
decided that land west of Claysville was not worth paying taxes
on, though he could have gotten it for one dollar and
twenty-five cents per acre. He came back near his old home
and paid four hundred dollars for one hundred and thirty-five
acres northwest of Pleasant City, later increasing his holdings
to two hundred acres. Here he spent the remainder of his
life, and kept store for several years at Pleasant City, and for
about a year at his country home. Eleven children were
born to Abraham and Mary Albin; Amos, Sarah, Henry, George,
Moses, David, Milton, Thomas, Abraham, Peter and Martha
Jane. Abraham Albin, Sr., died on April 22, 1863, and
his wife on April 15, 1875. Three of their children are
now living: Thomas, on the old home farm;
Martha, the widow of Joseph Dyson, who lives near
Thomas; and Perry M.
Perry M. Albin grew up on the home farm, and
married Margaret E. Trott on May 17, 1855. To this
marriage six children were born: Thomas Francis, on April
6, 1856; Asbury Sylvester, on April 1, 1858; Charles
Strahan, on June 28, 1860; Viola on October 19, 1862;
Michael, on April 20, 1866, and William A., on
September 19, 1867. Mrs. Albin died on October 31,
1868; Michael, on May 11, 1866; William A.,
on September 1, 1868; Thoams F., in June, 1877.
P. M. Albin was married to Lydia M. McCoy,
on August 9, 1869, and of this marriage six children were born:
Edward M., on October 23, 1870; Osborn O., on
August 9, 1873; Jennie Mabel, on April 22, 1878; Perry
E., on February 10, 1877; Blanche L., on October 23,
1881; and Elva, on July 26, 1882. Lydia M. Albin
died on September 19, 1885. Osborn, Jennie and
Blanche all died in infancy. On August 1, 1892, Mr.
Albin was married to Mrs. Jane (Spaid) Secrest, the
widow of Melville A. Secrest and the daughter of J. E.
Spaid, whose sketch see. She bore to Mr. Secrest
two children, Arthur M., and Virgil, now the wife
of Roy Kackley. To Mr. Albin she bore two
children, Ira C., on February 10, 1893, and Octa
W., on April 21, 1904, both of whom are at home with their
parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Albin are both members of the
Methodist church. Mr. Albin has been a successful
farmer, has many friends, an is a man of sterling and upright
character.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 531 |
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RICHARD M. ALLISON.
We read with interest the biography of a man, especially one
young in years, who, by indomitable courage, overcomes the many
obstacles found in the pathway of everyone who has an ambition
to attain to heights above the mediocre. Such a man is
Richard M. Allison, one of the progressive citizens of
Cambridge, Guernsey county, in which city he was born, on Sept.
12, 1875. He is the son of John A. and Hannah (Moore)
Allison. The father was born in this county, and was
the son of John and Martha Allison, who came to the
county among the early pioneers form Pennsylvania, and they were
among the founders of Cambridge and they were active and
prominent in the early development of the county. When a
mere youth the father began working with the Scott Coal and Salt
Company, with which he remained for a period of twenty-one
years, which was the earliest and largest operating company of
its kind. His family becoming of school age, he realized
the necessity of better educational advantages and he left the
employ of the Scott Coal and Salt Company and moved to Cambridge
in order to obtain such advantages. Upon coming here he
began work for the Cleveland & Marietta Railroad Company as car
inspector and was with this company until incapacitated for so
strenuous a line of work, so he resigned and accepted the
janitorship of the South Side school building, which he held for
eleven years, or until his death, on Apr. 25, 1910. After
leaving the Scott Coal and Salt Company and prior to going
with the railroad company he was superintendent of the Cambridge
workhouse. Politically, he was a Democrat and he served in
the city council from the fourth ward for two years and he was
always prominent and active in public matters. He was a
devout member of the Baptist church for many years, was a deacon
in the same and was treasurer of the local church from 1890
until his death. He was also a Sunday school worker.
He was a man of exemplary habits and positive traits of
character and he had a host of warm personal friends. He
was a member of the Cambridge Lodge, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and Ambridge Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and was an
active lodge worker, having served in all the official
capacities and at the time of his death he was the oldest living
member in both these lodges. His widow survives and is
living in Cambridge. She, too, is a devoted member of the
Baptist church and is known for her charitable deeds, always
finding time to give aid and comfort to her suffering neighbors,
although devoted to her own home and family. She is the
mother of five children, namely: William A. an
engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; John A.
is shipping clerk for Suitt Brothers; Anna is now
Mrs. F. B. Scott, of Newark, Ohio; Kenneth died
Nov. 18, 1905, at the age of eighteen years; and Richard M.
of this review, he being the eldest of the family.
The education of Richard M. Allison was obtained
in the public schools of Cambridge. Leaving school at the
age of sixteen years, he found employment with the Cambridge
Chair Company, with which he remained for nine years, learning
the trade of hardwood finisher. He became an expert at
this, but resigned to become an employe of the Cleveland &
Marietta Railroad Company's shops at Cambridge in 1901, and he
was with this company for eight years in charge of the paint
shop. In March, 1908, he resigned his position with the
railroad company and engaged in the upholstering and picture
framing business for himself. He continued to this line of
business until the fall of 1909, when he was elected mayor of
Cambridge on the Democratic ticket, assuming his official duties
on Jan. 1, 1910. Although the city is largely Republican,
he defeated his opponent by two hundred votes, which is
certainly criterion enough of his excellent standing here and of
the universal confidence in which he is held by all classes.
He is a good mixer, a man of integrity and much native ability,
and his administration started off very auspiciously, and he is
doing many things for the city that will be of permanent good to
the community and will endear him to his constituents and the
people in general. His able and judicious administration
so far has proven the wisdom of his selection for this important
office. He is an uncompromising Democrat and has always
been interested in public matters; he was never before a
candidate for any office.
Fraternally, Mr. Allison is a member of the
Cambridge lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and has been ever
since old enough to be come a member. He has passed all
the chairs, and held the offices of trustee and financial
secretary. He is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of
America.
Mr. Allison was married on Oct. 21, 1896, to
Jessie D. McKinney, daughter of Jesse and Sarah (Morrow)
McKinney. Her father served in the Union army
throughout the Civil war, and he was a man of wonderful physical
strength. He was foreman company for many yeas in this
capacity. Prior to that time he was a blacksmith and
wagonmaker in Cambridge. His death occurred Feb. 10, 1910.
He retired to his farm several years previously and spent his
last years enjoying the comforts of life as a result of his
former years of activity. His wife preceded him to the
grave, dying on Feb. 3, 1897. Both are buried in the
Cambridge cemetery.
To Mr. and Mrs. Allison have been born five
children, three sons and two daughters, Donald M., Sarah
Vernita, Harrold K., Richard M. and Dorothy. Mr.
Allison and wife are members of the Baptist church and are
active in church and Sunday school work. Mrs. Allison
is a most estimable woman and has a wide circle of friends.
Mr. Allison was always a baseball enthusiast and has lost
none of his interest in the game, - in fact, he is an advocate
of all healthy athletics, especially outdoor sports. He is
a man of fine personal traits and is deserving of the confidence
which is reposed in him by everyone and of the high esteem in
which he is held.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vol. I. B. F. Bowden & Company,
Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 907 |
John M. Amos |
JOHN M. AMOS. The name of
John M. Amos stands deservedly high in the list of
enterprising business men of Guernsey county, his long, useful
and unusually active career having been fraught with much good
to himself and family and also to those who have come into
contact with him. His life has been such that he is held
in the highest esteem by all classes. He was born August
20, 1839, in Belmont County, five miles north of St. Clairsville.
His parents were James G. and Jane (Gillespie) Amos.
In April 1848, these parents, with their four sons, settled in
Monroe county, now Noble county, near Summerfield, where John
M. grew to young manhood, working on the home farm and
attending school each winter. In 1856 he spent the winter
with his uncle, John Major, after whom he was named, in
Belmont county, where he had the advantage of instruction under
Alex. Wilson, a graduate of Franklin College and a
renowned teacher. He became well educated and began
teaching in the common schools at the age of eighteen years,
and, saving his earnings, he began a course of study under the
care of Joseph C. Clark and Capt. William Wheeler,
where he was a fellow pupil with John Hamilton, now a
noted bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church. Later he
entered, as a student, Allegheny College, Meadville,
Pennsylvania, when Rev. Dr. Loomis was its president, but
owning to the breaking out of the Civil War his regular course
of study was interrupted, and after one year in Ontario Academy,
under the instruction of Professor Boyd, he
pursued his studies as he taught school and worked on the farm,
until, by private study and occasional recitations to tutors,
among whom were the late J. S. Foreman and D. S.
Spriggs, he completed a course of legal studies and was
admitted to practice law in the state courts and later in the
federal courts. He was also honored with the degree
of Master of Arts by Allegheny College. He holds a high
school life certificate from the board of state school
examiners.
Mr. Amos pursued teaching as the principal of
schools in Batesville and Caldwell and at the same time
reviewing his legal studies, and he later engaged for about ten
years in the practice of law. In 1872 he formed a law
partnership with Fred W. Moore, an excellent young
lawyer, and they brought the Caldwell Democratic newspaper, but
Mr. Moore's death soon afterwards left Mr. Amos
with the entire management of the newspaper and of their law
business, which he soon practically abandoned and ever since has
devoted his time and attention to journalism, from 1872 to 1884
with the Caldwell Press, and from 1886 to the present
time with the Cambridge Jeffersonian, which he
bought of the late John Kirkpatrick. He is
now the president of the Jeffersonian Company and senior editor
of the daily and weekly editions. He has been very
successful in the field of journalism. He has made his
paper here one of the best in every respect in this part of the
state, valued as a news disseminator, an advertising medium and
as an exponent of the people's rights. It is attractive in
mechanical appearance and shows at a glance that it is under a
splendid system and able management. It has rapidly
increased in circulation, and the plant is equipped with modern
appliances and is a valuable property.
Mr. Amos was married in 1862 to
Elizabeth Franklin McClintock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James McClintock, of Noble county, formerly of Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania. To this union six children were born, four
sons and two daughters, all living except the eldest son,
James Ernest, whose death occurred on February 22, 1891, and
the youngest daughter, who was called away in August, 1873.
The wife and mother passed to her rest in 1873. Mr.
Amos was married again, in 1875, to Mary E. Waller,
of Jackson township, Guernsey county, who died September 11,
1904. To this last union two sons, Harry W. and
Frank B., were born. Four of Mr. Amos's sons
are now associated with him as stockholders of the Jeffersonian
Company, in Cambridge. One son is superintendent of the
J. E. Addison Manufacturing Company and resides in Belmont,
Ohio. The sons are all bright, well educated and
enterprising business men and the entire family stands high in
all circles.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 544 |
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CHARLES MELVIN ANDERSON.
A popular and successful merchant of Byesville and one of the
progressive and public spirited citizens of Guernsey county is
Charles Melvin Anderson, a man who is deserving of the
confidence which all classes repose in him and of the large
success which is today his, for he has lived a very industrious
and honorable life and has sought to keep untarnished the
excellent family name which has been known here for several
generations. His birth occurred in Jackson township, this
county, on October 12, 1868, and he is the son of Matthias C.
Anderson and wife, who are fully mentioned in another sketch
in this work. Young Anderson grew to maturity on
the home farm and there began working when a mere boy, attending
the district schools during the winter months. He later
took a term in the Byesville high school under Prof. John A.
Bliss. While a young man he did quite a large
amount of agency work, taking orders for tea and other
commodities. His mind was always commercially inclined and
he very early evinced marked innate ability in the mercantile
field. He began working in a general store at Trail run,
in Jackson township, for O. E. and Caleb Trinner.
He then went with Moss Brothers & Rigley, with whom he
remained until they sold out to the Wills Creek Supply Company.
In October, 1899, Mr. Anderson came to
Byesville and started in business for himself, buying a gents'
furnishing establishment of J. E. Addison & Company, and
he at once put in a stock of stock of shoes and clothing, taking
as a partner in business his brother, O. L. Anderson.
They enjoyed a liberal patronage from the fist, being men of
hustle and true business ability. In 1903 Charles M.
purchased the interest of his brother, O. L. Anderson,
going to Columbus, where he opened a jewelry store. On
September 22, 1904, the store adjoining that of the subject was
entirely destroyed by fire, including contents. Only a
five-thousand-dollar insurance was carried on a
twelve-thousand-dollar stock of goods. After the fire
Mr. Anderson bought a half interset in the lot where his
store was located and he and L. S. Resoner built the
large cement block building in which the store is now located at
Depot and Seneca streets, Byesville. Mr. Anderson's
was the first stock of clothing in Byesville and was the only
stock for many years, and, although it has since withstood a
great deal of competition, it is still growing and does a very
large business, having a prestige second to none. On April
8, 1905, the new building was finished and Mr. Anderson
took J. E. Booth into partnership with him. In the
fall of 1907 he bought Mr. Booth's interest. In the
summer of 1908 Mr. Resoner sold his interest in the
building to John Carnes, of Cambridge, and he is still
part owner of the same with Mr. Anderson.
Besides his large clothing store, Mr. Anderson
has other interests, being regarded as one of the leading
business men of the county. He has an interest in the Hall
Gas Engine Works and in the Citizens five, ten and twenty-five
cent store at Cambridge.
Mr. Anderson has been a prominent member
of the Knights of Pythias for about twenty years.
On October 1, 1902, Mr. Anderson was married to
Nancy Adeline Coulter, a lady of culture and refinement
and the representative of an excellent and influential old
family. She was born at Cutler, Washington county, Ohio,
and is a daughter of Isaac B. and Esther C. (Goddard) Coulter.
Her father was for many years prominently engaged in business at
Cutler, and when Mrs. Anderson was fifteen years of age
she went into her father's store. He disposed of his
business, retaining, however, the day goods department of his
store, which he moved to Byesville, locating three doors from
Mr. Anderson's place of business. The daughter took
charge of the store, which was the first exclusively dry goods
store in Byesville and it while she was conducting the store
that she and Mr. Anderson met. Her parents still
reside at Cutler, her old home. Five children have been
born to Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, named as follows:
Mary A., Harry C., Esther E., Ida M. and Bertha L.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson belong to the Methodist
Protestant church, and they are both prominent in the social
life of this community and have a host of warm personal friends.
Like the rest of his family, Mr. Anderson is a diligent,
honest, straightforward, genial and genteel business man, who
makes a success of whatever he turns his attention to, and he
has so conducted his business that he has the confidence and
good will of all classes. He is a man of broad charity and
kind impulses and always ready to do his full share in promoting
the general good of his community.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 818 |
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MATTHIAS C. ANDERSON.
Among the honored veterans of the Civil war living at Byesville,
Guernsey county, is Matthias C. Anderson. There is
much that is commendable in his life record, for he has been
found true to duty in every relation, whether of a public or
private character, and while energy and unbending industry have
been salient features of his business career, he is equally well
known for his uprightness and the honorable methods he has
always followed and for his loyalty to every trust reposed in
him. Mr. Anderson was born in Richland township,
not far from Lore City, Ohio, April 28, 1837. He is the
son of JOHN and Hannah (White) Anderson. The
mother, who was born in Belmont county, was a daughter of
John White and wife. JOHN ANDERSON was born
near White Haven, England. He worked in a canvas factory
in boyhood in England, then became a sailor, and was in the
English navy, and near the close of the war he deserted the
English warship off the shore at Charleston, South Carolina,
with three companions, towed ashore and ran away into Virginia,
traveled at night and hid during the day, until convinced that
they were safe. He went on to Beaver county, Pennsylvania,
where he got a place weaving with an old Irishman. The
runaway sailors had a novel way of choosing their route of
travel. They set up a stick at cross roads and which ever
way it fell two out of three times they went in that direction.
Mr. Anderson stayed in Beaver county several years, and
then came down the Ohio river with people en route to Kentucky
and left them at Wheeling. He came to Belmont county,
Ohio, and went to weaving with a man named James White,
whose niece, Hannah White, he married. He then set
up an establishment of his own for weaving, had a loom, a swift
and quill and wheel , along with the other things needed for the
work. Hannah White's father was from Maryland and
her mother was German. Her wedding dress was calico at one
dollar a yard.
Before the National pike was built, Mr. Anderson
and wife emigrated to Guernsey county in wagons, driving
his sheep. Guernsey county was woods and swamps then.
A sheep got swamped, the father tried to get it out and fell
back into the mud himself. His wife had been so opposed to
coming that she thoroughly enjoyed his discomfiture. He
bought a farm of eighty acres, in Richland township, a few years
later, when it was all in woods, buying the land from Jack
Barrett, an old hunter. Deer and wild turkey were very
plentiful then. He counted eleven deer at one time in a
wheat field. John and Hannah Anderson had two
children born in Belmont county, the others being born in
Guernsey county. One died in infancy, the others were:
Sarah, James, Katherine, John, William, Thomas, Mary, Amanda
and Matthias. Mary is living on the old homestead
and she and Matthias, of this review, are the only
survivors of this large family.
John Anderson bought eighty acres of land and
eventually had one hundred and sixty acres. He kept on
weaving, lived all the balance of his life on the farm in
Guernsey county, and became a good farmer later in life, though
ignorant of it in early life.
He and his wife belonged to the Methodist Episcopal
church, he having been converted at Senecaville after he was
married. His mother belonged to the Church of England.
Matthias C. Anderson, who grew up on the home
farm, was the youngest of the family. At the age of
fourteen he was put to plowing and worked hard at this and
general farm work. On January 22, 1862, he enlisted in
Company B, First Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and was in the Army of
the Cumberland. He was fortunately never wounded nor taken
prisoner, but at Pittsburg Landing he took the fever and was in
the hospital about a month at St. Louis. He was hurt by a
falling horse at Clifton, Tennessee, before the spell of fever.
He was discharged, because of disability, the last of December,
1862, or first of January, 1863. He stayed at home,
disabled by ill health, nearly a year, unable to work, but when
he got stronger he farmed for his father, who was getting old.
On October 25, 1866, Mr. Anderson married
Catherine E. Rogers, daughter of Lawson W. and Alice A. (McGaw)
Rogers. After his marriage, Mr. Anderson stayed
a year on his father's farm, then bought a farm two miles south
of Byesville, in Jackson township, in the spring of 1868.
They lived there until 1904, then moved to Byesville, where they
now reside and live a retired life. He subsequently bought
fifty-one and one-half acres, now owning in all one hundred and
thirty-one and one-half acres.
Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs.
Anderson. The first, Hannah Alice, died in
infancy. Two daughters and two sons grew to maturity,
namely: Charles Melvin, who resides in Byesville;
Orthello L., who lives in Columbus, Ohio, and has a jewelry
store there, married Mary Engle; Minnie J. married
Benson Larrick, and lives at Ava, Noble county, where he
is in the grocery business; she has two sons, Benson Melvin
and Dwight O.; Flora L., who is at home with
her parents in Byesville, is a woman of much thrift and business
ability. The whole family are members of the Methodist
Protestant church.
Lawson A. Rogers and wife, parents of Mrs.
Anderson, lived in Hartford county, Maryland, and were
married there. In October, 1842, they came to Guernsey
county, Ohio, and settled in Jackson township about four miles
southeast of Byesville, not farm from Hartford. There they
bought a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, most of which was
in the woods. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson still have
eighty acres of the original farm. Seven children were
born to Mr. and Mrs. Rogers; Sarah J., George F., Lawson H.,
Catherine F., Mary M., Roland J. and Lucinda S.
Sarah Jane is dead. Lawson H. Rogers enlisted
in the army, on August 18, 1862, in Company H, One Hundred
Twenty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was in the Army
of the Potomac and took part in the battle of Winchester and
many others. He was wounded and taken prisoner at the
battle of the Wilderness, was taken to Richmond, then to
Lynchburg, Virginia, and died a prisoner of war. His left
limb was amputated before his death. He is buried at
Lynchburg, Virginia. George F. who lived two miles
south of Byesville, was a farmer and he died in 1908.
Mary M. is the wife of John L. Bruner, of Cambridge,
whose sketch appears elsewhere in these pages. Roland
James died February 28, 1905, in the old home neighborhood,
south of Byesville, Lucinda S. is the wife of Joseph
F. Bruner, brother of John L. Bruner, and lives in
Richland township, on a farm. Lawson Rogers and wife
lived the rest of their lives on the old home in this county.
Both belonged to the Methodist Protestant church.
When Mr. Anderson's mother first came here,
nearly a hundred years ago, she planted an apple tree that still
bears fruit. It was grafted and for a time bore four kinds
of apples. Their old country home was a beautiful place,
not fancy but well kept, with many beautiful rose bushes and
orchards and well kept lawns. There remains about one
hundred and sixty-eight acres in the old homestead. The
family are plain and substantial citizens, thoroughly reliable,
industrious and thrifty, praiseworthy citizens, esteemed and
honored by all who know them.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 813 |
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ALEXANDER W. ARBUCKLE.
For many reasons Alexander W. Arbuckle, an honored
citizen of Byesville, Guernsey county, is entitled to
representation in this history, not the least of which is the
fact that he is one of the loyal "boys in blue" who saved the
national union for succeeding generations and to whom we owe too
huge a debt of gratitude to ever be paid. He has spent
practically all his life within the borders of Jackson township,
where he was born on May 13, 1848. He is the son of
James W. and Isabel (Henry) Arbuckle, both natives of
Allegheny county Pennsylvania, from which state the father was
brought to Guernsey county by his parents about 1810 and here he
grew to manhood. He entered one hundred and sixty acres of
land from the government in the southwest section of Jackson
township. It was here that he married Isabel Henry.
She was brought here when a child by her parents. James
W. Arbuckle cleared most of his farm, which at first was all
virgin forest. Later he traded for another farm in the
same township, and he lived near Mt. Zion until his death in
1884. He was a Republican and a member of the old
Cambridge Baptist church in its early history, being active and
a regular attendant. His wife died in August, 1857.
Alexander W. Arbuckle, of this review, was the
youngest of a family of ten children, of whom three were sons:
Joseph died when eighteen years of age and James
lived in Cambridge township, married and reared a family,
devoting his life chiefly to farming; one sister, Leah,
still lives in this county and is now the widow of Jackson
Burns, and lives near the old home in the western part of
Jackson township.
Alexander W. Arbucke remained on the home place
until the latter part of the Civil war when, on February 22,
1864, he enlisted at Cambridge for three years' service in
Company B, Ninety-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, although he
was not sixteen years of age at the time. He was sent
south and participated in the following engagements: Rocky Face
Ridge, Adairsville, Resaca, Cassville, Dallas, New Hope Church,
Pine Mountain, Kennesaw Mountain. HE was seized with
typhoid fever and was sent to the hospital at Chattanooga,
Tennessee. He was detailed for hospital duty at Camp
Dennison, Ohio, May 19, 1865, by special order from the war
department. His regiment saw some very hard service during
the closing days of the war, was under fire two hundred and
twenty days and lost six hundred and seventy-three men in
battle. Mr. Arbuckle was quartermaster of Davis
Kimble Post No. 662, Grand Army of the Republic, at Byesville.
After the war he came back to the old home and remained
two or three years, then went to Illinois and was there three
years on a farm. Returning to this county, he was married
on September 19, 1874, to Mary Jane Reynolds, of Jackson
township, the daughter of Samuel and Leah (Sigman)
Reynolds. Her parents came from the same county in
Pennsylvania as did Mr. Arbuckle's parents and were old
settlers in the county.
After his marriage, Mr. Arbuckle farmed most of
his life, although he worked some in the coal mines. About
1878 he bought a small farm near Mt. Zion and lived there until
he sold it and moved to Byesville, where he has lived ever
since. In 1886 he bought the place where he now resides at
the corner of Second, High and Grant Streets. About 1895
he bought a farm about a half mile west of Byesville where he
maintains a dairy which is very popular with the people of this
town and vicinity. Since about 1900 he has owned and
operated a threshing machine. He also owned a farm in
Cambridge township for five years, then sold it. He has a
very wide acquaintance in this part of the county, where his
threshing takes him through several townships every year.
Two children have been born to Mr. and
Mrs. Arbuckle, James Leroy and Leah Belle. The
son is in business for himself in Byesville, owning a harness
and general leather establishment, and has a very satisfactory
trade. The daughter married Owen Mackley and lives
near her father in Byesville.
Mr. Arbuckle is a member of
Byesville Lodge No. 763, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
He has taken an active part in the political life of his county
and is an unswerving Republican. For eight yeas he
was trustee of Jackson township, and in 1910 he was nominated
for infirmary director by a good majority, and on November 8th
was elected, his selection meeting with universal approval among
all classes.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 725 |
Howard W. Arndt |
DAVID ARNDT. A gentleman
to whom the following tribute is paid embodies all the necessary
pre-requisites and necessary qualifications, in a marked degree,
to insure success in the medical profession, and by energy and
application he is drawing to himself a large and remunerative
practice, and at the same time is building up an enviable
reputation, being recognized as one of the leading physicians of
Guernsey county and a man of honor and integrity at all times.
Mr. HOWARD W.
ARNDT, of Lore City, Ohio, was born April 12, 1872, near
Senecaville, Guernsey county, but his paternal home was just
over the county line in Noble county. He is the son of
David and Elizabeth (Ward) Arndt. The father was
born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, while the mother is a
native of Noble county, this state. The Arndts are
of German descent, Grandfather Charles Arndt coming from
Germany in 1818, first settling in Washington county,
Pennsylvania, and he came to Noble county, in 1836. He was
a cabinetmaker, being the first in the locality where he settled
on the borderline between Guernsey and Noble counties. His
death occurred in 1861, after a useful and upright life.
His son, David Arndt, the father of the Doctor, was a
carpenter and followed that trade most of his active life.
In an early day the Arndts bought land near Cambridge,
and for many years the grandfather worked at his trade here;
however, the family finally settled near Senecaville, where
Charles Arndt spent the remainder of his life and he and his
wife are buried in the cemetery there. When advanced in
years David Arndt gave up carpentering and devoted his
attention to his farm near Senecaville, in Noble county.
He is now living in retirement and with his wife lives at
Senecaville, on the Guernsey county side, the town being on the
dividing line between Guernsey and Noble counties. Mr.
Arndt has reached the age of eighty years, while his wife is
seventy-three. They have journeyed down life's pathway,
through its sunshine and shadow, hand in hand, for a period of
fifty-two years, this union having been a most fortunate and
harmonious one. November 5, 1910, marked the fifty-second
anniversary of their marriage. In their family were four
daughters and one son: Howard W., of this review;
Allie, who married James Callow, of Platteville,
Colorado; Texanna, who married George Black, of
Columbus, Ohio; Ruth, who married Hugh Bergmer, of
Senecaville; Bartha, who married Tecomseh McLaughlin, a
farmer living on the old homestead.
Howard W. Arndt spent his childhood and youth on
the home farm and his early education was obtained in the
district country schools, attending later, for a short time.
Muskingum College at New Concord. In 1893 he entered
Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, and, making an
excellent record there, he was graduated from that institution
on March 25, 1897. Two days later he located in Lore City
and began the practice of his profession, and he has been here
ever since, building up a very satisfactory patronage and taking
a very high rank among the leading medical men of this locality.
He is not only very successful as a general practitioner, but
also as a surgeon and he has the full confidence of the people
in both lines of this practice.
The Doctor was married on December 30, 1897, to
Carrie Melick, daughter of John and Mary (Davis) Melick,
of Malta, Morgan county, Ohio. Her father was formerly an
undertaker in that city, but is now retired. His wife is
also living; they were never residents of Guernsey county.
Doctor Arndt has no children.
In addition to his extensive practice Doctor Arndt
is engaged in large farming operations, being the owner of two
fine farms adjoining Lore City, mostly bottom lands in the
Leatherwood valley. They are well improved, well kept and
under a high state of cultivation. He engages in general
farming and gives special attention to the raising of fine
stock, cattle and horses, being an excellent judge of both.
His cattle are regarded as of the best grade for grazing
purposes and when ready for the market always command top notch
prices. He is a breeder of thoroughbred Percheron horses,
which are always in demand. His residence is in Lore City
and is one of the most attractive, modern and convenient in the
vicinity. He is a member of the county, state and national
medical societies, and he belongs to the Senecaville lodge of
the Independent order of Odd Fellows, having been allied with
the same since he was twenty-one years of age. He also
belongs to the Masonic order and holds affiliation with the
Cambridge chapter of Royal Arch Masons, and the Cambridge
commandery of Knights Templar. He and his wife belong to
the Methodist Episcopal church, the latter being organist at the
local church and interested in church and Sunday school work,
being a teacher in the latter for years. She is a member
of the Rebekah Lodge at Lore City, and the Order of the Eastern
Star of Quaker City.
Doctor Arndt is an ardent advocate of outdoor
sports and recreation, and he likes to spend a day occasionally
with his dog and gun. Politically, he is a Republican and
has long been active in the affairs of the party, and he has
served as a member of the Republican county central committee
and is a frequent delegate to county, district and state
conventions, and he always makes his influence felt at such
gatherings. He has never been an office seeker, being too
busy with his large practice and his extensive farming and stock
raising. He is always ready to aid in any cause looking to
the general advancement of his community, is one of the leading
citizens of Guernsey county in every respect, and the Arndt
home is prominent in the social life of the community.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 608 |
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ROBERT
HENRY ATKINS. The name of the late Robert Henry
Atkins will long be remembered by the people of Guernsey
county, for it is a name that was ever associated with the
material, civic and social progress of the community. No
aspersions can be made on any action of his during an extended
pilgrimage here, and for a half century has was one of the
leading business men and representative citizens of Cambridge.
He was a man of the highest ideals, straightforward in all his
business transactions and a man of splendid address.
Mr. Atkins was a fine type of the genteel
Southern gentleman of the old school, his birth having occurred
in Orange county, Virginia, November 29, 1829, and, although he
spent the major part of his life in the Buckeye state, having
come to Guernsey county with his parents when ten years of age,
he evinced traits of the cultured and hospitable son of the Old
Dominion all his life. With the exception of a year or two
spent in Washington City, he spent his life in the city of
Cambridge, receiving his education in the local schools and
starting in business here when a young man. He was married
in January, 1852, to Martha A. Hyatt, daughter of Noah
Hyatt, another prominent early family, a record of whom
appears in this volume. To Mr. and Mrs. Atkins nine
children were born, of whom five are living, as follows:
Bertha, wife of M. R. Patterson, of Columbus;
Maley M., wife of S. M. Burgess, of Cambridge;
Rose R., wife of A. L?. McCullough, of Ashland,
Kentucky; Robert Noah, jeweler of Cambridge, whose sketch
appears herein; James Henry, also of Cambridge.
In very early life Robert H. Atkins, engaged in
the mercantile business. He maintained the first book
store in Cambridge and in 1862 embarked in what was from that
time the occupation of his life, the jewelry business.
From an humble beginning he forged his way to the front in due
course of time, by industry, honest dealing and close
application, with the unflagging aid and encouragement of his
estimable wife, building up one of the largest as well as one of
the most reliable jewelry establishments in this part of Ohio,
this store being twice as old as any other jewelry establishment
in Cambridge. He always carried a neat and well selected
stock and his repair department was considered second to none in
the country.
The death of this estimable citizen occurred on March
7, 1892, after an illness of several months. His kind and
genial manners brought to him both old and young as patrons.
While he was in no sense of the word a politician, he was always
in accord with the principles of Democracy, and, though loving
the retirement of home, he never neglected to exercise his just
prerogative as a citizen. He became a member of the
Presbyterian church in January, 1870, and he was a useful and
influential member as long as he lived, regular in his
attendance and liberal in its support. He was treasurer of
the local church for many years. He was a good and useful
man against whom no word of unkindness could be uttered for to
know him was to admire, revere and respect him.
After his death, Mrs. Atkins continued the
business for about fifteen years, showing herself a woman of
unusual ability in business affairs. She still makes her
home in Cambridge, and, like her esteemed husband before her, is
highly regarded by a wide circle of warm personal friends.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 599 |
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ROBERT NOAH ATKINS.
One of Cambridge's progressive and worthy young business men is
Robert Noah Atkins, for he has demonstrated beyond a
doubt what one can do who has a well defined purpose, energy,
persistency and who does not admit the word "fail" to his
category. He comes of an excellent old family and was born
in Cambridge in 1874. He is the son of Robert Henry and
Martha (Hyatt) Atkins, whose life records are given in a
separate sketch in this volume; suffice it to say here that they
each represented pioneer families of the greatest worth.
Robert N. Atkins grew to maturity in his native
town and attended the local schools, later attending the Ohio
State University with a law course in view. He was
compelled to give this up by the death of his father, and at the
request of his mother he went to Chicago in 1892 and 1893 and
learned the jewelry business in the Chicago Watch Makers'
Institute, thoroughly mastering his chosen vocation. From
there he went to Toledo, Ohio, where he was employed in jewelry
work about eight months; he was then employed at Newark, this
state, about a year, and three months at Zanesville, then a year
at Athens, after which he returned to Cambridge and took a
position in the jewelry store owned by his mother, which had
been established by his father about 1850. He remained in
the store assisting his mother until about 1908, when he bought
the store, which he has continued to conduct in a most
satisfactory manner. It has never been out of the family
since it was first started and is one of the best known and one
of the most popular jewelry stores in Guernsey county, having a
prestige second to none and drawing a trade from a past
territory. Here is always to be found a very large, modern
and carefully selected stock of goods. The highest grade
of repair work is also done promptly.
Mr. Atkins was married in 1895 to Queen
Markley, of Newark, Ohio, daughter of George and Ellen
(Wilson) Markley, an excellent and influential family, and
to this union two children have been born, Marian M. and
Robert M.
Mr. Atkins is a member of the Modern Woodmen of
America and he and his wife belong to the Presbyterian church.
He is a popular and highly esteemed young man and has ever
sought to bear aloft the untarnished escutcheon of the family
name, for the Atkinses have long been among the best
known and most highly respected residents of Cambridge, both in
business and social life.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 599 |
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CHARLES M. AULT. Success
has been worthily attained by Charles M. Ault, of
Fairview, Guernsey County, for his methods have ever been those
of the man of the hour and while laboring for his own
advancement he has not been unmindful of his obligations to his
neighbors and fellow citizens and has done much for the
promotion of those movements looking to the general good.
Mr. Ault was born on Sept. 19, 1864, in
Fairview, Ohio, the son of Daniel and Mary (Cranson) Ault;
the father was born in Belmont county, near St. Clairsville, and
the mother was born in Oxford township. The Aults
are of German extraction and grandfather John Ault came
with his family to Ohio in the early pioneer days.
Daniel Ault came to Oxford township, Guernsey county, in
1841, from the home and farm of his parents, to begin life for
himself. He learned the trade of a tanner, then an
important industry, and soon engaged in the business for
himself, operated a large tannery and was very successful.
In later years he engaged in the mercantile business in
Fairview, then a most unimportant commercial point on the
National road, and also engaged extensively in the saw-mill and
lumber business, in all of which he was successful. On the
completion of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad he was also one of
the very foremost promoters of building at Quaker City, building
a planing and saw-mill and other enterprises. He was
decidedly a man of great activity and his interests were many
and widely diversified and invariably successful. It was
said of him that his enterprises and holdings covered more
ground with roof than any other man's in Guernsey county at that
time, operating extensively in Oxford and Millwood townships.
Later in life he gave up these activities and devoted most of
his time by looking after his farm interests, always maintaining
his residence in Fairview. His home was a large and
pretentious brick residence for its time and it yet remains one
of the most conspicuous residences of the town. He was a
Democrat in politics and very active in public matters,
believing this to be the duty of all good citizens. He
filled various offices and was a justice of the peace for many
years. He was a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church
and liberal in the support of Pisgah congregation near Fairview,
to which he belonged. He was three times married, his
first two wives being sisters named Bratton. By his
first marriae there were five children, and by the second
marriage one child. From his third marriage to Mary
Crauson three children were born, of whom Charles M.,
the subject of this sketch, is the only one living. Of the
children of the two former marriage there are living, John W.,
of George W., of Marion, Ohio, and Ella, now
Mrs. R. E. Cowgill, of Belmont county, Ohio.
The son, Charles M. Ault, of this review, was
born and spent his entire life in Fairview and obtained his
education in the Fairview public schools. He has been and
is yet engaged in farming, his farm being in Oxford township.
He has engaged in the livery business in Fairview for
twenty-five years, and for eighteen years in the undertaking
business, all of which he still continues. He has other
interests, too, that require considerable attention, and Mr.
Ault is a very busy man. He is always a booster
and with his time and his means he is always willing and ready
to assist in every worthy effort that has for its object the
development of the locality and benefiting the people. He
was one of the moving spirits that conceived a way for getting a
railroad to tap the rich, undeveloped coal fields of the
locality. A careful estimate of the field was made and the
matter was presented to persons connected with railroad building
and extension. There were many disappointments in this
effort, but he persisted and the results were the organization
of the Marietta & Lake Railroad Company, with a contemplated
road from the river to the lake, with Fairview and the adjacent
coal lands on the line. Four miles of this road is now
built, from Lore City to Washington, and the necessary
preliminary activity is going on all along the line, and much of
this effort and the work already accomplished is due to the
perception and foresight of Mr. Ault, fo whom much
credit is given.
Mr. Ault is a Democrat in politics and an active
party member, - in fact it is impossible for him to be a drone
in any organization with which he is connected. He is a
member of the Democratic county central committee and has served
in the capacity of delegate to county, district and state
conventions. He has filled various township offices,
including justice of the peace and treasurer, most of the
village offices and member of the board of education. He
is a member of the Masons, Barnesville Lodge, and was made a
Mason the night he was twenty-one yeas old. He is also a
member of the Modern Woodmen of America.
Mr. Ault was married Feb. 8, 1887, to Mary L.
Stevens, daughter of John and Mary (Coltrap) Stevens,
a prominent family of Oxford township. To this union one
daughter was born, Ann G., now Mrs. Thomas R. Reed,
who resides with Mr. and Mrs. Ault, and there has been a
little grand-daughter born, named Lillian L. Reed.
Mr. Ault and family occupy the old Ault home
in Fairview and are prominent in the social life of the
community. Mr. Ault has for many yeas been one of
hte boosters of the Pennyroyal Reunion, a member of the
executive committee and secretary of the organization. He
retains his membership in the Evangelical Lutheran church and
was a member of Pisgah congregation until the congregation was
dissolved. Mrs. Ault is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church and Sunday school, and is an active worker in
both, as is Mr. Ault a liberal supporter.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 650 |
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CHARLES AUSTIN. Among the
prominent and successful physicians of Guernsey county is Dr.
Charles R. Austin, who was born in Dresden, Ohio, August 15,
1871, the son of Dr. D. A. and Bethany (Springer) Austin.
The father, who was born in Clinton county, Ohio, in 1822,
was a successful practitioner and continued in his profession
until about 1894. He was a Quaker, and gained quite a
little attention as an Abolitionist, being a promoter of the
famous "underground railway." He died two years after his
retirement from active practice, in the month of April, 1896,
being survived by his wife for several years, she having died at
Byesville, Guernsey county, on the 24th of July 1906. She
was a woman of beautiful character, and an active worker in the
Baptist church, of which she was a member. There are now
five children living: L. L. H., Dr. J. S., Dr. Charles R.,
David A. and Laura Merriam Austin.
Charles R. Austin was reared in the town of his
birth, and there received his education, having graduated from
the Dresden high school in 1888 in the fall of the same year he
took up the business of civil engineering, continuing at this
for nearly a year. This was not his first business
venture, however, for while still attending school he had worked
at intervals at the printing business. He had also taught
school near Dresden, in Muskingum township. Not being
satisfied with any of these ventures, he decided to follow in
his father's footsteps and to that end entered the Medical
College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in
1894. the same year that his father retired from the
practice. He began the practice of his profession in
Nebraska, where he spent three months at the expiration of which
time he returned to Byesville, in October, 1894. and has since
been engaged in the practice of his profession from his point.
In his political allegiance, Doctor Austin is a
Republican and has served the people of Guernsey county in
sundry offices. For seven years he was a member of the
board of education at Byesville, being also a clerk of the board
all that time. While a member of this board he did much
for the public school system of the county, was active in the
reorganization of the schools and was instrumental in, and
largely responsible for, their advancement in standing from the
third to first grade. April 8, 1907, he was further
honored by being appointed postmaster of Byesville, and was
chosen his own successor in December, 1907, being still in that
position at this writing (1910). However, because of the
heavy demands made on his time and energy by his large and ever
growing practice, he was compelled to turn the management of the
office over to an assistant who ably conducts the office for
him. In common with the majority of wide-awake,
enterprising men, he is interested in fraternal and benevolent
organizations, being a member of Cambridge Lodge No. 448,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and Red Prince Lodge
No. 250, Knights of Pythias, at Byesville. He is also a
member of the Guernsey County Medical Society, of which he is
ex-president.
Dr. Austin was happily married in 1901 to
Laura Stewart of Cambridge, a daughter of William and
Phoebe (McPeek) Stewart. To this union two children
have been born, David W. and Emma Merriam.
One of Doctor Austin's ancestors, his
father's grand uncle, David Williams, gained distinction
in the Revolutionary war, being one of the three who captured
Major Andrew, and the powder horn belonging to this man is
now a treasured family heirloom.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 783 |
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