COLONEL Z. A. BEATTY.
John Beatty, father of Colonel Z. A. Beatty,
with his family came to this place in April, 1803, from
Loudoun county, Virginia. His family consisted of
himself, his wife, two sons and three daughters.
During the year 1805 the survey of Cambridge was made, and
the first house built on the town plat was occupied by
John Beatty. His children were: Colonel
Z. A. Beatty, Cyrus P. Beatty, Mrs. Susan Gombar, Mrs.
Elizabeth Hutchinson, and Mrs. Sarah McClenahan.
Colonel Zaccheaus Affaba Beatty died in November,
1835, in the sixty-first year of his age. He was one
of the earliest settlers in this part of the State. He
was born in Frederick county, Maryland, on the 11th of
December, 1774, and became a citizen of our State soon after
her admission to the Union. He was one of those hardy
pioneers of that day to whom is due the credit of giving the
first impulse to that improvement which has since spread
with such unexampled rapidity over the State, and elevated
it to so high a point in the scale of prosperity. When
Colonel Beatty first became a citizen of Ohio he
located himself at Steubenville, where he was for a
considerable period connected with the business of the land
office for that district. He was subsequently elected
as a member of the Legislature from the county of Jefferson.
He was also a member of the first town council in
Steubenville.
In the year 1807 he located himself at this place,
having previously, in connection with Mr. Jacob Gombar
(his brother-in-law), as joint proprietors, laid off into
town lots the present site of Cambridge.
Upon the organization of the county of Guernsey he
received the appointment of clerk of the county court, which
office he held until the year 1812, when he was elected as
the Representative of the county in the State Legislature.
He afterwards served as a member of the Senate from this
senatorial district. In these and in other capacities
in which he served the public from time to time, he
acquitted himself to the satisfaction of those who honored
him with their confidence.
Colonel Beatty was considered by those who knew
him during the earlier period of his life to have few
superiors in this part of the State as an active business
man. With a mind naturally strong and discriminating,
and well versed in the school of experience, he possessed
qualities which, in those days of hardihood and enterprise
that marked the character of the first emigrants in the
West, were well calculated to render him a useful citizen
among those with whom his lot was cast. Having lived
to see the rapid rise and steady progress of his adopted
State, from a condition of comparative insignificance to one
of commanding importance and influence among the States of
the Union, he has gone down to the grave, leaving a large
circle of friends and relatives to lament the loss of one
who, in his day and generation, has done the State some
service.
Colonel Beatty was married on the 15th of March,
1802, to Margary Metcalf, daughter of Allan and
Margaret Metcalf. His wife died many years before
he did. He left six children, three sons and three
daughters, all of whom are now dead, except two daughters.
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CYRUS PARKINSON BEATTY - 450
GEORGE METCALF - 451
CHARLES JEFFERSON ALBRIGHT - 451
CHARLES PERRY SIMONS - 453
[ C. P. SIMONS, M.D. ]
[ CAMBRIDGE FOUNDRY - Established 1855 - C. P. Simons &
Bros, Proprietors ] MELVILLE W. HUTCHINSON - 455
[ RESIDENCE OF COL. T. H. ANDERSON, CAMBRIDGE, OHIO ]
[ M. H. ANDERSON?? ] COLONEL THOMAS H. ANDERSON - 455
[ANDREW WALL, M.D. ]
- 456a JACOB C. STEELE - pg. 457
DAVID DANNER TAYLOR - pg. 457
MARLING
OLDHAM.
Isaac Oldham, the
great-grandfather of Marling Oldham, came from
Massachusetts to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in the
long ago. When his first wife died she left three
children, viz: John, who went to Lexington, Kentucky;
William, a colonel in the army, who was killed on the
Sandusky at the time of Crawford's defeat; and
Sarah, who married and died in eastern Ohio. By
his first and second wives Mr. Oldham had ten
children - five boys and five girls - all of whom lived to
raise children of their own. The oldest was
eighty-eight and the youngest eighty-six at the time of
their death. His son Isaac, grandfather of
Marling, was born and raised in Westmoreland county,
Pennsylvania, and moved to Ohio county, Virginia, twelve
miles east of Wheeling, in 1796.
Isaac Oldham, father of Marling, lived
the first seventeen years of his life at the forks of the
Yaw, where he was born Nov. 8, 1779. IN 1796 he went
with his father to Virginia, and in 1806 he made his home on
the present site of Cambridge and worked for Zaccheus
Beatty and Jacob Gomber who had just laid out the
town plat of the future little city. In the spring of
1806 he entered the land which his son Marling now
owns, built a cabin, and partially cleared the ground.
He then returned to Ohio county, Virginia, and married
Sarah Marling, who was born in Bedford, Maryland, in
17984, on the 4th of June. In February, 1807, this
couple made their home in the unbroken wilderness, and there
Mrs. Oldham proved a worthy helpmate and made the
little cabin in the wilderness as attractive as an oasis in
the desert, to her husband's eyes. They lived in the
chosen home of their youth until death called them.
Mr. Oldham died in September of 1851, aged seventy-two
years, his wife following June 9, 1869. Five of their
nine children are still living, viz.: Marling,
Samuel, John, Moses, and Sarah. Sarah is
the wife of John Baxter, and resides in Iowa.
Marling Oldham was born Aug. 22, 1819, and married
Isabella Marling, his cousin, Jan. 21, 1841.
Miss Isabella Marling was born in Ohio county, West
Virginia, on the 20th of April, 1820. Four children
were born of this union, viz: Elizabeth, now
Mrs. John S. Campbell; Ellen, wife of David
Linn of Westland township; and Isaac J., who
married Margaret E. Ford, and lives on the old farm
cleared by his grandfather Oldham.
 
Marling Oldham & Mrs. Isabella Oldham
Residence of Marling Oldham, Cambridge Twp., Guernsey Co.,
O.
JUDGE ZADOCK
DAVIS
Marmaduke Davis, father
of Zadock Davis, was born in York county,
Pennsylvania, on Mar. 11, 1760. He was a tailor by
trade, having served an apprenticeship in Baltimore,
Maryland. During the Revolutionary war he fought in
the ranks of his countrymen, and was wounded in the fighting
which preceded the surrender of Lord Cornwallis
at Yorktown. He was twice married. His first
wife's maiden name was Drusilla Forrest. By her
he had five children, of whom Zadock alone survives.
She died on Feb. 21, 1815, in her thirty-ninth year.
His second wife, Eleanor Wilson, was born in Fayette
county, Pennsylvania, Jan. 30, 1781. By their union on
Jan. 30, 1816, they had three children. She died July
7, 1865. In 1809 Mr. Davis moved from
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, to St. Clairsville, Belmont county,
Ohio, and died there on Mar. 13, 1855, in the ninety-sixth
year of his age. He was of Welsh descent. Of his
children Zadock, Davis M. and Mary Ann alone
survive. Zacock Davis, so well known as
Judge Davis, was born in Uniontown, Fayette county,
Pennsylvania, on the 24th of November, 1800, and accompanied
his parents to Oiho in 1809. He received a common
school education, and learned his father's trade. On
reaching manhood he located in Barnesville, Belmont county,
and began business for himself as merchant tailor. He
married Mary Moffett on Sept. 25, 1827. This lady was
born on Sept. 11, 1807, and died on Nov. 17, 1847.
Their nine children were named: John M., Hiram F.,
Nelson, Drusilla, Cyrus, Julia Ann, Elza Z., Edgar P.,
and Mary Jane. In 1828 he moved to Cambridge
township, and engaged in farming. In 1840 he was
elected by the Legislature to the office of associate Judge
Zadock Davis
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of Guernsey county, which office he filled for eleven years.
He was also fund commissioner for a number of years.
On June 14, 1854, he married Nancy Jane
Frame, who was born in Wills township, Guernsey county,
Dec. 5, 1815. Their only child, Rebecca
Agnes, died in infancy. Since 1861 Judge Davis'
home has been in this city.
PERSONAL SKETCHES:
ALEXANDER W. HALLIDAY
was born in this county in 1831. In 1855 he married
Sophia C. Williams, who was born in Guernsey county in
1833. Their three children were named David
Wallace (deceased,) Joseph Oliver
(deceased), and Mary J., born Nov. 14, 1865.
They went to housekeeping in Perry county, Ohio, but soon
made their permanent home here. His parents were
natives of Scotland, who came to this country in 1825.
They had five children, namely: George E.,
Joseph W., Joseph Alexander, and James
and Jane, who died in infancy. Their mother
died in 1833. Alexander W. Halliday is a
stone-cutter by trade. He and his wife are members of
the Baptist church here. - Pg. 459
THOMAS McILYER was born
in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1783. He married
Isabella Kern, who was born in Washington county,
in 1787. In 1811 they moved to Cincinnati, and in 1812
to this county. He died in 1846 and she in 1857.
Their children were named Isaiah, Thomas, William, Eliza
J., James J., Mary A., Elizabeth, and John.
William was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in
1809, and married Sarah Etnier, who was born in
Pennsylvania in 1819. After marriage they made their
permanent home in Cambridge, where they now live.
Their children were named William, Elizabeth,
Jennie, Mary A., Morris, Charles, and Etnier.
Mr. McIlyer carried on the shoemaking business thirty
years, but since 1867 he has been engaged in making brick,
and now employs twenty men. He served a number of
years as a member of the city council, and has been a
practical member of society. - Pg.
459
GEORGE NEWTON
BECKETT - 459
SIMEON RIGGS - 459
WILLIAM SHERRARD,
SR. - 459
ELIZA NELSON - 460
MOSES MORTON - 460
TURNER GOE BROWN -
460
ADAM LEPAGE - 460
SAMUEL McCONKEY -
461
JAMES BARR - 461
FRANCIS BARNES -
461
WILLIAM P. THOMAS -
461
WILLIAM BURT - 461
JOHN OGIER - 462
DAVID SARCHET - 462
JOHN W. TURNBAUGH -
462
ADAM MILLER - 462
JAMES HANNA - 462
ALEXANDER FRAZIER -
463
ROBERT FORD - 463
DAVID W. NICHOLSON
- 463
WILLIAM WALTERS -
463
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here. Of their children, Dora May, Harry Davis,
Stella D., and Alva Garfield are living;
Edward Irving has passed away. In 1874 Mr.
Walters was elected township clerk in Illinois.
JAMES JOHNSTON was born in
Carlisle, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, on Feb. 20, 1795.
He was a blacksmith and farmer. At an early period he
went to Washington county, Pennsylvania, and in 1825 from
there to a farm near the center of Adams township, this
county, where he died on Nov. 27, 1867. While in
Washington county he married Jane Mehaffey in 1818.
She was a daughter of Samuel and Margaret Bigham
their eight children were named: Margaret,
Alexander, Susan (who died in 1845), William, Jane
Young, James (who died in 1877), Sarah Ford
and Samuel. It will be noticed that the
males and females were born alternately. William,
fourth child of this couple, was born on Dec. 25, 1827, in
Adams township. On Feb. 22, 1854, he married Martha
Ann Gibson, daughter of John and Hannah Douglas.
Their nine children are living and are named:
Amanda, Hannah, Sarah Maggie, James Gibson, William Frame,
Annie, Jesse, Charles, and Jasper. Hannah
married James H. Dilley, formerly of this county.
Sarah is the wife of Charles Rech. The
other seven remain at home. Mr. Johnson has for
twenty-four years owned and managed a carriage factory in
West Cambridge.
ALEXANDER McCALL, farmer,
was born in York county, Pennsylvania, on October 19, 1769.
In 1813 he went to Union township, Belmont county, and died
there on Nov. 10, 133. His wife, Margaret, was
a daughter of Thomas and Sarah Ferrgus, and
was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on July 30,
1783. Their five children were: Jane, Thomas,
John, Sarah, and Mary. John McCall
was born at Chartier's Creek, Washington county,
Pennsylvania, May 25 1810. He married Margaret F.
Taggart, daughter of James and Martha Fergus, in
1837. She died May 7th, 1839. His second wife
was Mary Fulton of Belmont county. She was born
in December, 1820. By the first wife he had
Alexander David and Florence Tremaine, and by the
second he had Margaret Catharine, wife of Garrett
V. Riddle, of Cambridge. Mr. McCall was
raised on a farm but has been a physician since his
thirtieth year. He has always lived in Belmont county
or here.
JOHN McCASKEY McGILL,
sheriff of Guernsey county, is the son of Stewart McGill,
who was born in county Antrim, Ireland, Oct. 31, 1786.
The elder McGill emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1817,
but shortly located in Washington township, this county,
where he married Margaret Watt on Dec. 16, 1824.
She was born Nov. 15, 1800, and died Jan. 19, 1876. In
1853 they moved to Wheeling township, where he continued to
farm until he died, on Sept. 13, 1870. Four of their
six children yet live, viz: Mary Ann, widow of
William McCartney, of Cambridge; Jane, widow
of James Reed; Joseph; and John McCaskey McGill,
who was born July 6 1841. He married Rachel Ray
on Nov. 19, 1862. She was born May 30, 1837.
They lived on a farm in wheeling township until 1878,
October 1st, when they moved to Kimbolton, in liberty
township, and lived there until Jan. 3d, 1881, and kept a
general store. Since then he has been sheriff of the
county and a resident of Cambridge. They have had six
children, viz: Lydia May, Martha Margaret, Hugh
Clifton, Thomas Ray and Mary Elingham (twins),
and Jennie Maud, all at home.
THOMAS MOORE was born in
Harrison county, Ohio, in 1818. On Dec. 15, 1847, he
was joined in holy wedlock with Mary daughter of
Francis Dugan, of Harrison county, also. Miss
Dugan was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1827.
After a three years' residence on his father's farm they
moved to Monroe township, where they spent eighteen years of
happy wedded life, and then, in 1868, finally located in
this township where he died in 1869. The widow remains
here with their surviving children - Pierce, George W.,
and Mary A., wife of George Ruby.
Thomas lives in Liberty township with his wife, Mary
C. Barnes. Thompson died in May, 1877; Elsie
died June 1, 1857; and Annie J., died on May 23,
1866. The farm consists of one hundred and
twenty-seven acres.
THOMAS OGIER, a native of the
island of Guernsey, was born in 1776, and came here in 1810
and purchased the farm now owned and occupied by his son
John. Rachel Marquand, his excellent wife,
was a native of the same isle, and mother of his eight
children, three of whom
[ JOHN SCOTT ]
[ MRS. JOHN SCOTT ]
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are now living - Mary, wife of Thomas Lepage,
lives in Valley township; Elizabeth, wife of
George Marquand lives in Cambridge; and John Ogier,
who resides on the home farm, which contains three hundred
and sixty acres of land in section eight. He is a
farmer, and was born in 1826. He married Catherine
Neelands in 1847. This lady was born in 1818.
Their only child, Charles Edward, died in 1851.
DANIEL FERBRACHE -
465
JAMES SPENCE - 465
JESSE ORME - 465
WILLIAM HAMILTON
BELL, SR. - 465
THOMAS JONES - 465
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fant. Mr. Jones served with credit during the
one hundred days' service, and since then has kept a
furnishing store here, where he is doing well.
MARGARET McCRACKEN
ALEXANDER ADDISON
TAYLOR
ROSS W. ANDERSON
THOMAS C. MARSH, the most
extensive dealer in the wholesale and retail cigar and
tobacco line engaged in the business in Guernsey county, is
a native of Smithfield, Jefferson county, Ohio, where he was
born on the 26th of August, 1831. In 1845, when only a
lad of fourteen, he began to learn the rudiments of what has
proven to be his life-long business, at Wheeling, West
Virginia, in the store of Mifflin Marsh, and for the
next ten years worked there and in other States. In
1855 he was promoted to be foreman of John Ashleys
manufactory at Barnesville, and in 1860 entered upon his
career as a merchant at Cadiz, in Harrison county, and
having proven successful there he opened, in 1860, another
store in Uhrichsville, and one year later permanently
located at Cambridge at his present site,
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which is also the original location of the first store ever
opened in Cambridge. In 1875 he entered into
copartnership with J. W. Hoopman, who was succeeded
by W. E. Riggs, in 1877. In June, 1878, this
firm was overcome by reverses, but Mr. Marsh quickly
rallied and now conducts the busines alone and employs
twenty-five hands. Of his cigars Mark Twain
says in his book "A Tramp Abroad," that one thousand of
MArshs stogies formed part of his outfit. In 1873
Mr. MArsh manufactured one million fifty-seven
thousand two hundred cigars, and in 1881 his sales increased
to one billion five hundred and seventeen million five
hundred thousand, which makes his sales the largest in this
internal revenue district. On Mar. 30, 1856, Mr.
Marsh married Mary R. Maurer, who was born in
Youngstown, Pennsylvania, July 14, 1835, and died at Cadiz,
Ohio, Feb. 15, 1868. They had five children, of wom
Mifflin W. Marsh alone is living. Mr. Marsh
afterwards married Hannah J. Shaw, who was born Sept.
8, 1841. They had two children: Albert J, born
Oct. 10, 1869, and Mary B., born Mar. 8, 1871, both
living.
DAVID MAXWELL
ADAM KIMBLE
SAMUEL LINDSEY
HANNAH DUNLAP
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ISAAC WILLIS - 468
T. T. SIDDALL - 468
JOHN S. CAMPBELL -
468
GOTLIEB URBAN - 468
JOHN POLLOCK - 468
[ JOHN S.
CAMPBELL - MRS. JOHN S. CAMPBELL ]
[ RESIDENCE OF JOHN S. CAMPBELL, GUERNSEY
CO., OHIO ]
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SAMUEL BURGESS, SR.
- 469
THOMAS RUBY - 469
HENRY URBAN - 469
CORNELIA GILLETTE -
469
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ELZA
M. SCOTT was a man whose personal energy led him into
a variety of business pursuits. He successfully
managed an iron foundry, worked a coal mine and salt mine,
besides engaging in the stock business and keeping a dry
goods and grocery store. His success in these
respective callings may well be attributed to business
foresight and energy, made available by that conference in
the justness of his dealings with which he inspired the
community. He was born in Virginia on the 21st day of
March, 1819. He came to Ohio in 1840, and in 1845
espoused the daughter of one of Guernsey's oldest citizens,
has bride being Mary A. Moore, and only child of
William Moore the brother of James B. Moore, Esq.,
of Cambridge. She was born in Guernsey county, Ohio,
Jan. 22, 1825. Her parents came from Delaware at a
very early day and settled on the old Wheeling road, in this
county. They had a family of ten children of whom
seven are still living. The names of the dead are -
Margaret Ann, Eliza M., and Mary L.; and of the
living, Louisa A., Catharine M., Maria A., Lida D., Belle
P., William A., and Nellie F. Scott. At
first Mr. Scott engaged in the stock business, bu in
1846 he moved to Cadiz, Harrison county, Ohio, where he
owned and operated a large iron foundry. In 1851 he
returned to Cambridge, and in company with Messrs. Gaston
and Fordyce organized the "Coal bank company," and was
the first to engage largely in coal mining here. In
1856 he and Mr. Robbins opened a coal mine,
but from 1858 to 1866 Mr. Scott alone managed
what is known as the Scott Coal bank. In 1866
his brothers George and John were associated
with him. At this time he opened a salt mine. He
also owned about six hundred and fifty acres of land,
one-half of which is underlaid with coal, and employed in
his mines one hundred and twenty-five men. He also
kept a general store to supply his employes and others with
such groceries and goods as their wants and necessities
required. Mr. Scott being so largely engaged in
business was unable to accept the positions of trust that
were proffered him by his admiring fellow-citizens;
therefore his official life was represented by a two term
membership in the council. Elza M. Scott is now
dead, but the memory of his good deeds lives after him, and
his glory is that he is ever spoken of as the "poor man's
friend." His widow survives him, and in company with
his brother George is conducting the coal and salt
mining business. She is living at the home her husband
bought in 1872, at Cambridge, Ohio.
HON. THOMAS OLDHAM was born
in the old hewed log cabin built by his father, Thomas
Oldham, Sr., in 1812. This interesting relic of a
bygone era still stands near Mr. Oldhams new farm
dwelling. Thomas Oldham, Sr., had his birth on
the banks of the Alleghany river, near Pittsburgh, in 1777.
His two first years in the county were spent with his
cousins, but in 1810 he built the log cabin where Thomas,
Jr., was born, and which was then the best house in this
region, and resolutely faced the hardships and privations of
the wilderness. The mistress of this humble home was
Nancy Davis who was born near West Alexander,
Pennsylvania, in 1780. Their marriage rite was
solemnized in 1799, and was blest by the advent of fourteen
- See Page 471
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J. E. WILLIAMS
|
JOHN WILLIAMS
, father of J. E. Williams, was born in Westmoreland
county, Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio with his parents when
he was about eight years old, and settled in Richland
county. He lived there until married to Sarah Burns
and then settled in Richland county, now Crawford county,
until death called them; he in 1872, and she in 1878.
There were eleven children by this union, as follows:
Hugh H., living in Cincinnati; Nancy living in
Galion, widow of Cornelius Ruhl; Sarah, deceased;
Robert A., living in Galion; Mary deceased;
Elizabeth J., living in Cambridge; Joseph E.,
deceased, the subject of this sketch; Margaret,
deceased; Ebenezer, deceased; Urath living in
Galion; Ida, living in |
Cleveland.
Joseph E. Williams was born in Crawford
county in August, 1848. He remained in
Crawford county until he went to Hillsdale
college, where he graduated in 1875, carrying
off the honors of a class of thirty-three
members. He came back to Galion and taught
school for a time, and having married Miss
Ida Gouchinour, an intelligent young school
teacher, he moved to Cambridge in 1879, where he
was chosen as superintendent of the Union
schools. In this new position he overtaxed
his strength in efforts to please all, and died
Oct. 30, 1881. His widow moved back to
Galion. The professor took a trip to
Europe in 1877, and visited the most important
places in England and Germany. |
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children. Four of them are still living, namely:
Samuel, Joshua, Thomas and Richard.
Thomas Oldham, Jr., married Eliza Davis in 1837.
Miss Davis was born in West Alexandria, Virginia, in
1810. They had seven children. Jonathan
and Friend W. are married and live on the farm.
In 1853 Mr. Oldham was elected Representative of
Guernsey county in the Legislature, and proved a worthy
successor to Dr. Patterson He is the owner of a
beautiful farm, located in section four of Cambridge
township, and also, with his brother Samuel, owns the
old saw-mill property. A member of his household is
Miss Harriet Bayless who was born in 1853, and raised
from a child in this hospitable home of the Morrisons.
WILLIAM MILTON
SINES - 471
HENRY BEYMER - 471
SAMUEL MORRISON,
SR. - 471
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JOHN FERGUSON -
JOHN ARMSTRONG JOHNSON
is the son of John and Catharine (Johnson) Johnson,
who left Ireland, their native land, about the time the War
of 1812 began. After a long and tedious voyage they
landed, and settled in Madison township, where they made
their new home, and where they were married in 1830.
Their only child, John Armstrong Johnson, was born in
1832, and as was the custom among the early settlers,
married at an early day. In fact the pioneers could
not "keep house without a woman," there fore in 1854 the
wedding ceremony of John Armstrong Johnson and
Jane Braden Smith was witnessed by the villagers.
The bride was born in Monroe township in 1835, and bore nine
pledges of love to her husband, viz: John James,
Luticia Jane, with of William Colly, of
Tuscarawas county; Willard Beverage, Emma H., Cora Bell,
Charles B., Ida May, and Charles LeRoy.
WILLIAM P. THOMAS
JAMES TURNER
[ J. O. GRIMES ]
JAMES OSLER GRIMES
- 472a
[ RESIDENCE OF JOSEPH MILLAR, CAMBRIDGE
TWP., GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO ]
The following are
residents in Cambridge township who were seventy-six years
of age or upwards in 1876: John Burt, Mrs. J. Burt,
Elisha Blampied, Mrs. E. Blampied, Joseph Waller, Andrew
Moore, Nathan Evans, David Frazier, John McGiffin, Benjamin
Downer, Mrs. Benjamin Downer, James Messer, David Maxwell,
Samuel Oldham, John B. Ambler, Mrs. John B. Ambler, Thomas
Ferbrache, Alexander Cochrane, Mrs. Alexander Cochrane,
Malcolm Cameron, Mrs. S. Cameron, John Rainey, Abraham
Gaskell, Zadoc Davis, James R. Moss, Mrs. James R. Moss,
George Rose, Samuel Barber, Mrs. H. Harris, George Beam,
Joseph D. tingle, Mrs. McIlyar. Ebenezer McKitrick,
Mrs. W. Wagstaff, John Stage, David Hammond, James Ferbrache,
John Adams, Edward Simpson, - Dillon, Samuel Brown, Thomas
Arneal, Hiram Gibson, George Jones, Mrs. Judith Ogier,
Evaline Tingle, Rachel Beatty, Mrs. Ruckle, Sidney Maris,
Noah Hyatt, Mrs. E. Rankin, Robert Rankin, Mrs. D. Hammond,
Thomas Pool, William McManaway, James Needham, William
Wagstaff, Mrs. J. Sankey, Mrs. Maria Brown, Mrs. Charles
Moore, Henry Harry, J. Sankey, George Stevenson, William
Palmer, Francis Boyce, Rev. Williamson, Thomas Forsythe,
John Brown, Mrs. S. Potts, Stephen Potts, John Mchaffey,
James B. Moore, Henry Jackson, Mrs. J. McKitrick, James
McKitrick, David Sarchet, Moses Sarchet, Mrs. Sarchet, Jacob
Long, James Sawhill, Mrs. James Sawhill, Joseph Fordyce,
William Walters, Mrss. William Walters, Peter Ogier, William
Rainey, Robert McKeen, Alexander Cameron, Mrs. Alexander
Cameron.
JACOB GUMBER
was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1760. From
there he removed to Cambridge, Ohio, in 1805. He
married Miss Susannah Beatty in 1781, who was born in
the same county as her husband. They had born to
them thirteen children, all of whom are deceased.
Mr. Gumber was a brother-in-law of Zaccheus A Beatty,
and in company with Mr. Beatty laid out the present
site of Cambridge. - 473
MOSES SARCHET - 473
JOSEPH DANNER
TAYLOR - 474
[ J. D. TAYLOR ]
[ RESIDENCE OF COL. J. D. TAYLOR,
CAMBRIDGE, GUERNSEY CO., O. ]
[ RESIDENCE AND STORE OF THOMAS SARCHET,
CAMBRIDGE, OHIO. BUILT 1807 ]
THE SARCHET FAMILY
- 479
[ L. HIRSCHBERG ]
Among the young
business men of Cambridge no one has attained a more
substantial success or earned that success more honestly
than has LEVI HIRSCHBERG. With none of the
advantages of education or patronage that fall to the lot of
the fortunate few, starting with no better capital than
sound sense, good habits, perseverance, and industry, he has
won for himself a position well worthy the envy of many of
those who have begun the race of life with far more
flattering prospects.
Mr. Hirschberg is the son of James Hirschberg
and Eliza Steinfield Hirschberg. His father was
born near Hanover, an electorate of the Germanic
confederation, in 1798. The elder Hirschberg
emigrated to the United States in 1862 and is now living at
Zanesville, Ohio. Eliza Steinfield, his wife,
was born in Oberkirchen in the year 1811, and died Dec. 19,
1873.
The couple were the parents of ten children, five sons
and five daughters, named, in the order of their birth, as
follows: Herman, Solomon, Bertha (deceased),
Caroline, Emma, Julia, Levi (the subject of this
biography), Rudolph, Bernard and Amelia.
Levi was
born near Hanover, Germany, on the 26th day of April, 1846.
He accompanied his parents to this country in 1862, and
began his active life at New Brighton, Pennsylvania, selling
goods and for a time acting as clerk in the store of his
brother Solomon. In 1870 he removed to
Cambridge and opened a store for the sale of clothing and
gentlemen's furnishing goods. There were at that time
many difficulties for the merchant to contend with in
Cambridge, not the least of which was a habit of selling
without a fixed price, which had accustomed purchasers to
haggling over the cost of every article bought. Mr.
Hirschberg eventually overcame this and other
annoyances, and soon secured a virtual monopoly of the sale
of goods in his line. He also won the confidence and
respect of the buying class by selling goods not only
cheaply but honestly, and though he came to Cambridge with
no assurance of success, has worked up a trade that is a
credit to him and advantage to the town. He carries
the largest stock of ready made clothing in Guernsey county,
and also manufactures goods to order.
In 1869, at New Brighton, Pennsylvania, he married
Bertha Schonfield, a daughter of Moses and Amelia
Schonfield, of his native place. Mr. and Mrs.
Hirschberg have had the following children:
Herman born May 4, 1870; Amelia, born June 9,
1871, who died Sept. 4, 1871; Marcus, born July 4,
1872; Esther, born Aug. 3, 1873, and died July 31,
1874; Alexander, born May 16, 1876; Solomon,
Dec. 23, 1877, and Sabina, born Oct. 19, 1879. - 480a
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