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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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JOHN H. NASH
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 735 |
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ELIJAH NEELAND.
Prominent in the activities of the village of Hartford, in which
for many years he has cast his lot, is Elijah Neeland,
who was born at Claysville, Guernsey county, Ohio, on June 20,
1854, the son of James and Marinda ( Galloway) Neeland.
James Neeland came from county Tyrone, Ireland,
when he was about twenty-one years of age. He died on Aug.
24, 1900, aged about eighty. In 1841 he came to Cambridge,
Ohio, and there learned the blacksmith's trade under James
Davis, and after three years went to Claysville, where he
kept a blacksmith shop for the rest of his life, fifty-six
years. While in Cambridge learning his trade, he married
Marinda, the daughter of Elijah and
Susan (Rector) Galloway. Elijah
Galloway was born on Oct. 19, 1789, near
Washington, D. C., in Maryland, of German ancestry.
Susan Rector was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, on
May 24, 1804, from which place her parents moved to Belmont
county, Ohio, where Susan was married to Mr.
Galloway on Jan. 25, 1820. The young couple moved to
Guernsey county and entered half of a quarter section of virgin
forest land from Congress, purchasing the other half from a
neighbor. Here, amid pioneer hardships, they built a log
cabin, and raised a little corn to make bread for food, and a
little garden. The next year more land was cleared, and they
raised wheat and tobacco. Mrs. Galloway
bravely did both a man's and woman’s part, and worked in the
tobacco while carrying her baby. Later they got beyond
these hardships, and established the home which has since been
that of the Galloway family, and where their fourteen children
were horn and reared to maturity. They all wore homespun
clothes of flax and wool, and the family cooking was done on the
big eight-foot fireplace with its big backlogs and swinging
crane. Elijah Galloway died on Feb. 19,
1858, aged sixty-nine, his wife on Jan. 1, 1889, aged
eighty-five. Both were active members of the Methodist
church, Mrs. Galloway being a charter member at
Claysville. James Neeland and his wife were also
life-long members of this church, taking leading parts in church
work. James Neeland was a plain, quiet and
hospitable man and a very worthy citizen. He and his wife
were the parents of eleven children, one of whom died in
infancy, while the following grew to maturity, and were all
living until 1907: Mrs. Susan Burman, of
Van Buren, Ohio; Andrew Neeland, of Leipsic;
Mrs. Ellen Sheppler, who lived near
Cumberland, and died in 1907; Mrs. Sarah Frazier, of
Zanesville, Ohio; Elijah, of Hartford; Mrs.
Mary Foulk, of near Claysville: Mrs.
Elizabeth Hammond, of New Concord; Mrs.
Grace Moore, of Zanesville; James, Jr., a
carpenter and builder of Claysville: John B., of
Hartford.
Elijah Neeland lived at Claysville until
he was twenty-five years old, and learned the blacksmith's trade
from his father. In April, 1879, he came to Hartford,
Guernsey county, and for a time ran a blacksmith shop, then was
for many years a blacksmith at the mines. Once or twice in
his life he has been away from that work for a few years, but it
was his main occupation until Nov. 15, 1909, when he left the
occupation. He also has a farm of eighty acres adjoining
Hartford on the north, and in 1910 he platted about twenty-six
acres into town lots as an addition to Hartford. This is
an unusually well situated tract for town lots, and will prove a
valuable addition to the residence district of Hartford.
Mr. Neeland has in his possession several deeds
from the government, one dated in 1807, signed by Thomas
Jefferson, a patent to Joshua W. Satterthwaite
for land in section 4, Valley township, a part of which is the
land which Mr. Neeland has just platted for an
addition to Hartford.
On Oct. 27, 1886, Mr. Neeland was married
to Jessie F. Robins, the daughter of Peter D. and
Deborah (Thompson) Robins. Fifty-three years before,
lacking three days, the minister, the Rev. G. Keil, who
married them, had married her parents, and three years
previously her parents had celebrated their golden wedding.
For the early history of the Robins family see
sketch of Dr. James E. Robins. Mrs.
Neeland has in her possession a silver cup brought from the
isle of Guernsey by her grandparents, engraved June 23, 1777. Peter
D. Robins was in early life a miller, owned a large farm,
and later engaged in wool buying as his main business. He
was an influential citizen in his neighborhood. Deborah
Thompson was the daughter of James and Mary Thompson.
Her father was born near Senecaville, Ohio, and her mother was
from Pennsylvania. Mr. Neeland's father is a
Methodist and Mrs. Neeland’s father an Evangelical
Lutheran; both were faithful members of church and their homes
were always stopping places for the preachers and church people,
and Mrs. Neeland's mother has been known to get
supper for the preacher even as late in the night as two
o'clock, after the late protracted meetings.
Peter D. and Deborah Robins were the parents of
fourteen children, namely: John William, deceased,
of Cambridge; Mary Jane, who died at the age of
thirteen: James Thompson, who, as a soldier in the
Civil war, was accidentally shot by another Union
soldier: Madison, deceased, of Cambridge; Harrison,
a commission merchant in Baltimore; Alexander, of
Cambridge; Peter Hubert, of Eureka. Kansas;
Martin Luther, deceased, father of Dr.
James E. Robins, whose sketch see; Martha Maria,
the wife of E. J. Milhone, deceased; Charles
Abraham, of Eureka, Kansas; Rosa E., who married
Henry Moss, of Cambridge; and Jessie F., the wife of
Elijah Neeland.
Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Neeland are the
parents of one son, Harold Robins, now a student
at the Ohio Medical University at Columbus, Ohio, in his second
year. Mr. Neeland has held various township
offices, has been school director, and was township trustee for
five years. Both he and his wife are faithful members of
the Lutheran church. Mr. Neeland is a man who has
striven to do his duty in every situation of life as he has seen
that duty, and his neighbors all testify as to the true value of
his character and life. In his community he is much
esteemed.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 705 |
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EDWIN M. NELSON
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 686 |
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W. G. NICHOLS.
A man of marked individuality and a leader in the affairs of
southwestern Guernsey county is W. G. Nichols, editor and
proprietor of The Echo at Cumberland. His life has been
one of honest endeavor and filled with good deeds throughout,
for he has ever stood ready to foster and develop any movement
that makes for the general uplift of his community.
Mr. Nichols is an American by adoption
only, having been horn in Liverpool, England, Oct. 8, 1870.
He came to America with his parents when less than two years of
age. He attended school some in his early boyhood and when
nine years of age entered his father's printing office and while
yet very young mastered the “art preservative." He is the
son of George G. and Susan (Wines) Nichols, both natives
of England, where they were reared, educated and married.
George G. was the son of William T. and Ann
(Garraway) Nichols. She was the daughter of George
Garraway, a noted English composer of music. The
Garraways were connected with the royalty of England.
William T. Nichols, the paternal grandfather, was an
officer in the English army and was prominently identified with
the service for many
years, being a major in the First Dragoon Guards (the Queen's
body guard), and for thirteen years was champion swordsman of
the English army. He spent his entire life in England.
Susan Wines’ mother (the grandmother of the
subject of this sketch) was a Heale, a cousin or second
cousin to Edward Everett Hale, the great American
author. George G. Nichols learned the printer’s
trade in England. He came to America in 1872, first
stopped at Bellevue, Ohio, where he worked for a time. He
was later employed on the Toledo Blade with Nasby
and for that paper was present at the Ashtabula wreck, and
witnessed the recovery of the body of P. P. Bliss, the
hymn writer. He was also employed later on the Cincinnati
Enquirer. In 1884 he established a newspaper at
Zanesville. Ohio, the Family Herald, a weekly, national
organ of the Independent Order of Rechabites. a temperance
order. After closing out this, he engaged in the history
work travels a few years and later engaged as an advertising
writer and manager. He later organized the Northside
Business Men's Association, at Columbus, Ohio. He was a
man of more than ordinary ability, a fluent writer and a
splendid organizer. His home and family remained at
Zanesville. He was attending to some business at Columbus
when he took sick and died, on July 10, 1891. He was a
member of the Congregational church. His wife survived
about six months, dying in January, 1902. They were the
parents of the following children: Ann, now Mrs. L. W.
German, of Zanesville; Mary, now Mrs. S. C.
Hammond, of Zanesville; John H., of East Ringold,
Ohio; W. G., of this review; George R., registry
clerk in the postoffice at Zanesville; Fanny, now Mrs.
E. W. Harvey, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
W. G. Nichols, of this review, commenced his
work as printer at the age of nine years, as stated above, and
he has filled all positions in all branches of the business in
Pittsburg and other cities. He filled these positions with
credit to himself and with satisfaction to his employers.
He continued to work in various newspaper offices until 1894,
when he bought a job printing plant at Zanesville, remaining
there four years. He then came to Cumberland and took
charge of the plant here, which he found very much run down.
He moved his job plant from Zanesville, and began operations
here in March, 1898, starting up anew, with an exceptionally
well equipped plant, and he was successful from the first.
He has one of the best papers of its type in the state, the Echo
being all that could be desired from a mechanical viewpoint,
well edited, its columns teeming with the latest, crispiest and
best news of the day, and its editorials strong, well written
and convincing. It has been rendered valuable as an
advertising medium, and its circulation has gradually increased
until the list now numbers over nine hundred. He has all
up-to-date equipment and he has made a success where others have
failed. He does all kinds of job work in a neat,
attractive manner, is prompt and tries to please, he has made a
success here and is the owner of a valuable, substantial and
convenient three-story building, and has several apartments
which he rents in this commodious structure, besides his office.
Mr. Nichols was married in 1895,
Zanesville, to Nellie B. Hocking, a lady of intelligence
and culture, who was liorn at Zanesville. She is the
daughter of Richard Hocking, a descendant of a
pioneer family of Ohio. He was born in what is now the
District of Columbia. His father was a native of England,
and an uncle of his father preceded him to Ohio. His home
city was Logan, England, the place where the Hockings
originated, and when the first member of this family came to
Ohio he was a surveyor and laid out and was instrumental in
naming Hocking county after the family and the county seat was
called Logan, after the old home town. Richard
Hocking was one of the first rolling mill men to locate at
Zanesville. He still resides there, being now seventy-five
years of age. His wife also survives. He is a member
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has filled all the
chairs in this lodge. He has been a faithful member over
fifty years.
The following children have been born to Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Hocking: Harry, manager of the
Laughlin plant of the Whittaker-Glessner Steel
Company, at Martin’s Ferry, Ohio; Alice, now Mrs. H.
J. Kimble, of Zanesville: Ida, Mrs. Sheridan
Swingle, of Stovertown; Richard, Jr., is at home;
Nellie B., wife of Mr. G. Nichols, of this review;
Abbie, now Mrs. Guy Fitz, of Zanesville;
George was killed in a railroad accident; Ella,
who died in infancy.
One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs.
W. G. Nichols, Alice B., who is living at home.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Nichols are members of the
Methodist church. Mr. Nichols is a member of
the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows;
also Buckeye Camp No. 3224, Modern Woodmen, at Zanesville; also
Merit Tent, No. 415, Knights of the Maccabees, of Cumberland;
Rebekah Lodge, No. 338; also Cumberland Chapter No. 110, Eastern
Star. Mrs. Nichols is prominently identified
with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Daughters of
Rebekah, and the Eastern Star.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 972 |
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ANDREW W. NICHOLSON
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 747 |
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JACOB NICHOLSON
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 806 |
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JOHN L. NICHOLSON
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 809 |
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JOHN R. NICHOLSON
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 755 |
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ULYSSES G. NICHOLSON
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 749 |
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DAVID W. NOSSET
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