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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of
Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio
Under the Editorial Supervision of
Judge H. H. Eckley, for Carroll County
and
Judge Wm. T. Perry, for Harrison County
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Assisted by a Board of Advisory Editors
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The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago and New York
1921
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CLARENCE A. BARGAR. As
one of the many enterprising men actively engaged in agricultural pursuits in
Harrison County, Clarence A. Bargar, of Stock Township, brought to his
calling excellent judgment and good business methods, and in the prosecution of
his chosen work he met with signal success. A native of Stock Township, he
was born July 22, 1883, a son of James C. Bargar, a grandson of Jacob
Bargar, and great-grandson of Peter Bargar, one of the very early
settlers of Cadiz Township, this county. Jacob Bargar married
Abigail Mary Campbell, whose parents were James and Lydia (Shrieve)
Campbell. James Campbell was a pioneer of Stock Township, Harrison
County. In recounting these genealogical facts it will be seen that
Clarence A. Bargar was a lineal descendant of at least two pioneer families
of this section of the state.
James C. Bargar, a prosperous farmer of Stock
Township, was born here Feb. 22, 1848, and has spent his entire life in this
township. He married, Nov. 212, 1877, Anna N. Rogers, and into
their home five children were born, namely: Louie A.; Violet; Clarence A.,
the subject of this sketch; Lanceolet H.; and Winifred E., wife of
R. Park Heavilin.
Completing his early education in the rural schools
of Stock Township, Clarence A. Bargar acquired a practical knowledge of
the art of farming under his father's tuition, and remained a member of the
parental household until establishing a home of his own by taking unto himself a
wife. Purchasing at that time his farm of ninety-seven acres, he brought
it under an excellent state of cultivation, and as a farmer and stock raiser met
with satisfactory results, year by year adding to his wealth, at the same time
establishing himself more firmly in the esteem and confidence of his neighbors,
and adding to his usefulness and value as a member of the community.
Mr. Bargar married, June 25, 1912, Lydia
Phillips, a daughter of William Phillips, a prosperous farmer of
Gilmore Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. William Phillips has
been twice married. By his first wife, whose maiden name was Mary Keefe,
he had eleven children, Elroy, Martha, Wesley, William, Jacob, Lillie,
Philip, Logan, George, Homer, and Lydia. Of this union with his
second wife, Mrs. Penina Darling, one child was born, Edwin Phillips.
To Mr. and Mrs. Bargar five children were born, namely: Mary Anna,
born Aug. 9, 1913; Ruth Phillips, born Sept. 10, 1914; Dora Esther,
born Nov. 23, 1915; and James William and Martha Elizabeth, twins,
born May 20, 1919.
Greatly interested in public affairs, Mr. Bargar
rendered excellent service as a trustee of Stock Township from 1918 until his
death. He was a conscientious member of the Pleasant Valley Methodist
Episcopal Church, of which he was a trustee, and his wife is also a member of
that church. Clarence A. Bargar died Feb. 24, 1920.
Source: History of
Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921~ Page 1020 |
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ELMER E. BARGAR. Among
the energetic, industrious and enterprising men who have ably assisted in
rendering Harrison County a rich and productive agricultural region special
mention should be made of Elmer E. Bargar, a prominent and successful
farmer of Moorefield Township, and one of its highly esteemed citizens. A
native of Harrison County, he was born, Feb. 6, 1862, in the village of
Tippecanoe, a son of the late Alexander Bargar. He came of sturdy
pioneer stock, his paternal grandfather. Valentine Bargar, having
been an early settler of Cadiz Township, where he owned a farm and a saw mill.
He married Jane Milliken, and among their children were John C.,
Betsey and Alexander.
Alexander Bargar was born on the parental homestead
in Cadiz Township, and as a boy assisted his father on the farm and in the mill.
Following the occupation to which he was reared, he carried on general farming
in both Harrison and Guernsey counties, continuing actively employed until his
death, which occurred in September, 1897. He was a man of firm
convictions, an excellent speaker, and thoroughly enjoyed a good debate.
Alexander Bargar was three times married. His first wife, whose
maiden name was Elizabeth Lafferty, died a few years after their
marriage, leaving no children. He subsequently married Mary Roberts,
who died in early womanhood, leaving two children, Emma and Mary
Jane. He married for his third wife Sophia Phillips, who was
born in Washington Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where her father, Joseph
Phillips married Jemima Johnson, and they became the parents of seven
children, John, Asa, Elihu, Joseph, Comfort, Sophia and Jemima.
By his third marriage Alexander Bargar became the father of five
children, as follows: Elmer E., with whom this sketch is chiefly
concerned; Maggie M.; Flora B.; Anna Laura; and Minnie J.
Attending first the rural schools of Washington
Township, in his native county, Elmer E. Bargar completed his early
studies in Newport, Tuscarawas County, where he afterward began farming on his
own account. Finding the occupation congenial to his tastes, and one for
which he was well adapted, both by knowledge and experience, he bought land in
Moorefield Township in the spring of 1898, and has since carried on general
farming and stock raising with unquestioned success. His farm of 140 acres
is well improved, his buildings being of a substantial character, and in its
equipments ranks with any in the vicinity.
Mr. Bargar married, Apr. 1, 1891, Cora M.
Varner, a daughter of John Varner, a prosperous farmer of Rush
Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. Mr. Varner married for his first
wife Delilah Harman, who bore him seven children, Benjamin, Joseph,
Mary Jane, Sarah, Agnes, Martin and Cora M. By his second wife,
whose maiden name was Mary Ann Gaudy there were three children, Amanda
and Andrew, twins, and Catherine.
Mr. and Mrs. Bargar have four children, namely:
Mary Margaret, Francis M., Clyde A., and Lillian Olive. During
the World war Francis M. Bargar, on Sept. 5, 1918, entered the service,
and after being stationed a short time at Camp Sherman was transferred to the
Eastern Coast, where, as a member of the Heavy Artillery, he served in several
different camps before receiving his discharge, Dec. 23, 1918, at Camp Sherman.
Source: History of
Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921~ Page 884 |
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JAMES C. BARGAR. For many
years actively and prominently associated with the development and advancement
of the agricultural interests and prosperity of Stock Township, James C.
Bargar is distinguished not only as a native born citizen, but for his
pioneer ancestry, both his paternal and his maternal grandfathers having been
among the earlier settlers of Harrison County. A son of Jacob Bargar,
he was born in Stock Township, Feb. 22, 1848, and has here spent his entire
life.
Peter Bargar, his paternal grandfather, a native
of Pennsylvania, came with four of his brothers, John Henry, Valentine (Feltie)
and Jacob, to Ohio, and all settled in Harrison County.
Peter Bargar became a pioneer of Cadiz Township, where he reclaimed a good
farm from its original wildness. He married Susan Keckler, and they
became the parents of seven children, as follows: Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, Julia, McIntosh, Peter and John. He was deeply
religious, and at the time of his death was serving as an elder in the
Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.
Jacob Bargar was born in 1823 on the parental
homestead in Cadiz Township, and there grew to man's estate. He learned
the carpenter's trade when young, and after his marriage located in Stock
Township, where he bought land, and was subsequently engage in farming and
carpentering until his death, July 29, 1891. He was a member of the
Christian Church at Minksville, to which his wife also belonged, and was ever
faithful to its teachings. He married Abigail Mary Campbell, who
was born in Stock Township, where her father, James Campbell, was a
prominent pioneer farmer. James Campbell, who moved from western
Pennsylvania to Stock Township, Harrison County, Ohio, in early days
married Lydia Shrieve, and they reared seven children, as follows:
Samuel, Hugh, Matilda, Valentine, Abigail Mary, James and Lydia E.
Of the union of Jacob and Abigail Mary (Campbell) Bargar three children
were born, as follows: James C., the special subject of this
sketch; Susan, who lived but eleven months; and Elmer P., of Stock
Township.
Acquiring his education in the district schools of
Stock and Nottingham townships, James C. Bargar learned the trade of
carpenter when young, and followed it successfully until twenty-nine years of
age. Desirous then of establishing himself permanently, he bought fifty
acres of his present farm, to which he soon added by purchase another tract.
Having that under cultivation and yielding profitable harvests, Mr. Bargar
was encouraged to buy more land, finally acquiring title to 276 acres of choice
land. He has deeded 100 acres of his farm to his sons his property now
including 176 acres, on which he has made practical and substantial
improvements. He carries on general farming, including the raising of some
stock, chiefly sheep, and formerly operated a saw mill during the winter months.
On Nov. 22, 1877, Mr. Bargar was united in
marriage with Anna M. Rogers, and they are the parents of five children,
namely; Louie A.; Violet; Clarence A., deceased; Lanceolet H., who
married Bess Fulton, and has one child, Robert F.; and
Winnifred E., who married R. Park Heavilin, and has two children,
Phyllis Jane, and Eugene Vincent. In 1913 Mr. and Mrs.
Bargar took into their home to rear to manhood a lad of nine years,
Francis Thomas Barchie, who graduated from the Deersville, Ohio, School with
honors and is now a student in high school. Active and influential in
public affairs, Mr. Bargar was for four years a trustee of Stock
Township, and served twelve years as a member of the local school board.
Religiously Mr. Bargar is a member of the Christian Church at Minksville,
while Mrs. Bargar belongs to the Bethel Methodist Church.
Source: History of
Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921~ Page 778 |
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CLYDE M. BARR claims Harrison
County as the place of his nativity, and for him can be claimed the honor of
achieving district success as one of the prosperous and progressive
representatives of mercantile enterprise in this County. He has been
engaged in the general merchandise business in the village of Tippecanoe since
1897, and is a citizen whose high standing in the community renders specially
consistent his recognition within the pages of this history.
Mr. Barr was born in North Township, Harrison
County, on the 2d of February, 1869, and is a son of James W. and Mary
(Pierson) Barr, the former of whom was born near Paris, Pennsylvania, and
the latter of whom was born at Jersey, Licking County, Ohio, a daughter of
Elijah Pierson was born in the state of New Jersey and was a young man when
he came to Ohio and established his home in Licking County, where he became a
representative merchant at Jersey, in which village he conducted a general store
for many years, he having there remained until the time of his death, and his
widow like wise having died at that place, their two children having been
Martha and Mary. The parents were earnest members of the Presbyterian
Church.
James W. Barr was a son of Mathew W. and
Margaret (Williamson) Barr, both natives of the old Keystone state. In
the '40s Matthew W. Barr came from Pennsylvania to Ohio and settled on
Bacon Ridge, Jefferson County, where he passed remainder of his life, he having
been drowned while endeavoring to swim one of his horses across the Ohio River.
His children were seven in number: Joseph, James W., Thomas W., Margaret
Jane, Eleanor, Elizabeth and Nancy Ann.
James W. Barr was young at the time the family came
to Ohio and established a home in Jefferson County. When the Civil war was
precipitated he did not long restrain his youthful patriotism, for records show
that on the 19th of August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company H, One
Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command to be
continued in service until he was incapacitated by an attack of typhoid fever,
his honorable discharge having been received on the 30th of May, 1865.
While afflicted with typhoid fever he was placed in a military hospital in the
city of Columbus, Ohio, and it was while in this institution that he formed the
acquaintance of the young woman who later became his wife. The disability
entailed by his illness resulted in his receiving his honorable discharge from
the army, and after recuperating he remained for a time on a farm near Conotton,
North Township, Harrison County. In the early '70s he engaged in the
retail hardware business at Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County, and shortly
afterward his place of business was destroyed by fire. By reason of the
impaired health of his wife they returned to the old home at Jersey, Licking
County, and there his death occurred on the 15th of November, 1877, his devoted
wife having passed away on the 4th of January, 1874. Both were earnest
members of the Presbyterian Church. Of their two children Clyde M.,
of this review, is the elder, and the younger, Bessie O., is the wife of
Rev. Charles M. Robb, a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church and at the
time of this writing pastor of the church of this denomination at Mount
Vernon, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Robb have five children - Dorothy,
Mary, Helen, Ruth and Gladys.
After the death of his parents Clyde M. Barr
was taken into the home of his widowed maternal grandmother, at Jersey, Licking
County, where he profited by the advantages of the public schools, as did he
later by those of the city of Columbus, where he continued his studies two
years. As a young man he was employed two years at farm work in Harrison
County, and thereafter he was similarly engaged in Licking County for a period
of six years.
In 1897 Mr. Barr formed a partnership with
Howard Auld and engaged in the general merchandise business at Tippecanoe,
Harrison County, where he has continued his active and successful connection
with this enterprise during the intervening yeas. In 1901 he purchased his
partner's interest and he has since maintained sole control of the substantial
business, with a store that is well stocked and gives the effective service that
assures appreciative supporting patronage. In Stock Township he is the
owner of an excellent farm of 171 acres, and he finds both satisfaction and
profit in giving to the same his personal supervision in a general way. He
and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home
village, and he has long given effective service as a trustee and the treasurer
of this church. In politics his support is accorded to the republican
party.
July 28, 1901, recorded the marriage of Mr. Barr
to Miss Addie B. McFadden, who was born and reared in Stock Township,
Harrison County, and who is a daughter of William W. and Margaret J.
(Johnson) McFadden. Mr. McFadden was born in Stock Township, and
passed his entire life in Harrison County, where his death occurred on the 1st
of January, 1885. His wife was born Jan. 11, 1849 and her death occurred
June 20, 1914. Mr. McFadden was one of the prosperous farmers of
the neighborhood in which he was born, and he passed the closing years of his
life on his farm in Stock Township, a short distance north of Laceyville.
He and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of
their children the first two, Ora Lee and Della, died in early
childhood; Shirley M. is the wife of Charles L. Miller of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Addie B., wife of the subject of this review,
was the next in order of birth; Robert E. met a tragic death while
employed in one of the great steel mills at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1907;
and Willis Estelle is the wife of Homer Bower, of Port Washington,
Tuscarawas County. Mr. and Mrs Barr have five children: Ansel
Lee, Robert Dale, Wayne W., Menzie Margaret and Shirley Estelle.
Source: History of
Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921~ Page 727 |
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HENRY S. BARRICKLOW Source: History of
Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 -
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T. S. BEATTY. For almost
twenty-five years T. S. Beatty has been a leading merchant at Piedmont,
Ohio, and is numbered with the substantial, representative men of Harrison
County. Mr. Beatty comes of fine old Ohio stock and was born in
Belmont County, July 29, 1864, the eldest child of William H. and Mary Jane
(Miller) Beatty.
William H. Beatty was born in Belmont County, Ohio,
about 1843 and spent many years there as a farmer. When the Civil war came
on, he entered the Union army, and served as a private in Company H, One Hundred
and Eighty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, participating in many hard fought
battles but lived to return home when the war ended. He resumed farming in
Belmont County and continued agricultural pursuits for many years. Later
in live ill health assailed him, possibly as a result of exposure during army
life, and finally, in hope of gaining relief he went to take the waters at
Magnetic Springs, Ohio. He was not benefited, however, his death occurring
four months later in March, 1893. He was well known and highly esteemed in
his neighborhood and in Grand Army circles. He had seven children, as
follows: T. S., A. W., Charles, deceased, John O., Dora,
deceased, Frank, and Birdie, wife of W. T. Elliott.
The mother of the above family died in 1877. She was born in
Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of William and Mary Jane (Bryan) Miller.
For many years William Miller was a farmer in Athens Township.
T. S. Beatty attended the district schools in
Belmont County and remained on the home farm until seventeen years of age,
although not entirely satisfied with farm life. Having a great desire to
see other sections of the country which extensive reading had made him familiar
with, about this time he left Ohio and went to Montana and for three years he
remained in the west, mainly in Iowa and Montana. He had many experiences
and not a few adventures for at that time there was a very rough element
in the Montana hills that it was often impossible to avoid. It was during
these three years that Mr. Beatty and a companion set out on ponies and
during a journey of 1,400 miles slept but two nights under shelter, every other
night resting on the ground wrapped in a blanket.
At the end of three years Mr. Beatty felt
satisfied to return to his native state and subsequently located at Piedmont,
Ohio, and has resided here ever since. For eleven and a half years he
worked as a blacksmith on the lot which is the site of his handsome store
building. He erected this commodious structure in 1897, and has been
engaged in the general mercantile business for twenty-three years. He
carries a well assorted stock of merchandise and does a very satisfactory
business, and is listed with the upright, honorable business men and progressive
citizens of Piedmont.
On Apr. 10, 1889, Mr. Beatty was married to
Miss Ida Thwaite. Mrs. Beatty is an unusually well educated
lady, having been a highly thought of teacher in Belmont and Guernsey counties
for five years prior to her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Beatty have had
three children, namely: Mary, who is the wife of Alvin Garner, and
they have two children, Paul and Evelyn; Margaretta, who died Sep.
14, 1918, was the wife of Ross Compher; and Maurine, who lives
with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Beatty are active members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Beatty taking a great deal of
interest in the Sunday school of which for the past seven years he has been
superintendent. He is not unduly active in political circles although
never neglectful of his duty as a watchful, conscientious citizen.
Source: History of
Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921~ Page 889 |
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HON. RUPERT
BEETHAM, president of the Fourth National Bank of
Cadiz, and representative from Harrison County, has been closely identified with
the business and civic affairs of Harrison County for twenty years, having
located in Cadiz in September of 1900. He was born at Greensburg, Trumbull
County, Ohio, on Aug. 29, 1877, and is the son of the Rev. John and Mary (Rennison)
Beetham, natives of northern England, who came to America in 1867.
REV.
JOHN BEETHAM, was a member
first of the Erie Conference and later the East Ohio, that finally merged
into the Northeast Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
He served many pastorates during his more than thirty years of active
ministry, namely, North Jackson, Windom, Talmadge, Bedford, Niles, Hopedale,
Gnadenhutten, West Lafayette, Leesville, Vienna, Jewett, Canton, Thompson
and Somerton. He was a strong and vigorous preacher and in the
majority of his appointments he served the time limit for pastors then in
vogue. He came of a family of musicians and was himself a noted singer
as well as being accompanied on the piano, pipe organ, violin, cello and
flute. His "ditties" like "Mary and Martha: and "The
Spider and the Fly" were great favorites wherever he resided. May
Rennison Beetham, though the mother of seven children, was
always active in church work, and was one of the district officials of the
Women's Foreign Missionary Society for many years. She was declared,
by one of the prominent Methodist ministers to be "a gifted woman, of keen
intellect, remarkable memory, and an eloquent speaker."
To Rev. John and Mary Beetham
were born the following children: Mrs. Mary W. Mohn,
Uhrichsville, Ohio; John S., supervisor of agents, Lake Shore
Railroad, Cleveland, Ohio; William H., superintendent of schools,
Wellsburg, West Virginia; Alfred C., a practicing physician of
Bellaire, Ohio; R. Emory, pastor of the Oakland Methodist Church,
Shelney Park, Pittsburg; Rupert Rennison, the subject;
Charles S., of Jewett, Ohio, traveling salesman for the Twin City
Grocery Company. Thus seven members of the family, all born in
different towns, chose different vocations, and located in different places.
Rev. Beetham died at Jewett in December, 1905, the mother
having died at the same place in October, 1890. Both are buried at
Gnadenhutten, Ohio.
Rupert Beetham as a boy attended the
various schools where his father was located in his ministry. He
completed his high school course at Canton after spending one year at Scio
College, and later completed his law course at the Ohio State University,
paying his own way from money earned in teaching school in Short Creek
Township, this county, during the winters of 1917-19. In school he was
ever an active member - always taking part in the literary societies, the
debating teams, the baseball, football and track teams. He played
football two years at Canton High School and one year at Ohio State, and was
never on the losing side of a contest in this sport. He received a
number of medals for track victories while in high school and there made
records of twenty feet for the broad jump and over forty feet for the hop,
step and jump. He played baseball for many years and was a member of
the Scio College team of 1895 that went through the season with seventeen
victories.
He was admitted to the bar in 1900 and immediately
entered upon the practice of the profession in Cadiz in partnership with
Judge W. T. Perry. In the same month - September - he was married to
Crete McLaughlin, of Short Creek Township. As a
candidate for prosecuting attorney in 1905 he was defeated by E. S.
McNamee. In December, 1905, he was appointed postmaster of Cadiz
by President Roosevelt upon the recommendation of
Congressman Weems, though the appointment was without
solicitation on the part of Mr. Beetham. He was re-appointed by
President Taft in 1910, and served until April 1, 19114. During
his term of office city delivery was established, the postoffice moved into
new quarters, and an additional rural route added to the office. In
August, 1914, he was nominated for representative by the republicans and
elected by a majority of about 600; two years later he was re-elected, and
in 1918, elected for a third term, he had a majority of over 1,000, while in
1920, elected for the fourth time, he had a majority of nearly 2,500, woman
suffrage increasing the county vote.
It is as a representative that Mr. Beetham is
most widely known. Always a hard worker in the Assembly, he became one
of the best posted members of that body and few measures were ever before it
that he could not give an inquiring member information thereon. In his
third term he was elected speaker pro tem and republican floor-leader.
The Ohio State Journal, commenting on the caucus, stated: "Mr.
Beetham became the almost unanimous choice of his colleagues for
speaker pro tem and majority floor-leader, though he was not a candidate for
the position. Many voted against him for speaker because they wanted
to see him in the other position. He is the logical man for floor
leader, having a good voice, command of language and being a ready debater."
His task as floor-leader was a difficult one by reason of the fact that the
governor and the Assembly were of different political parties. Many
times strife ran high when matters of great importance were before the
Assembly and the division of the tax schools added to the party division
making the task an unusually hard one. One paper in commenting on the
situation stated: "Beetham is a man of action. When the
time comes to move he is for going. He is aggressive." When the
ratification of the dry amendment of the Federal Constitution was before the
House the wet leaders sought to delay action, but the result is described
editorially by the Martins Ferry Times: "Obstructionists methods were
squelched under the able leadership of Representative Beetham of
Cadiz, floor leader of the Republican majority, and long before the sun
waned ratification had been formally recorded. Harrison County and the
state at large owes a debt of gratitude." The Legislative reporter at
the close of his stormy session commented upon Mr. Beetham's
work as follows: "Representative Beetham of Harrison County is
the recipient of unusual praise and favorable comment as the result of his
work as Republican floor leader of the House. * * * This season closes with
Beetham possessing the liking. confidence and esteem of the House,
every newspaper man and every employee. He is not a large man
physically, but otherwise he is large. He is quiet, courteous and
square. Beetham was a good floor leader. He would make a
good senator, or a good member of Congress." The Steubenville
Herald-Star stated: "Mr. Beetham was a republican floor leader
of the House during the last session and showed himself to be masterly in
that capacity."
At the republican party caucus held in Columbus on
December 15, 1920, Representative Beetham was, without opposition,
chosen the party candidate for speaker of the House, and on January 3d
following was elected to fill that selection. The Cleveland Leader
stated "that with his selection the party has started to carry out an
efficiency program." The Ohio State Journal commended some of the
Speaker's proposed innovations in the Assembly, among them being the
shifting committee to be established with a view of eliminating useless,
silly and duplicated bills, and editorially stated: "This committee
probably would do the state more actual service than any other standing
committee * * *. We are for it." The Cleveland Plaindealer stated
"that the new Speaker had given his doctrine that the way to be a good
republican is to be a good citizen.' and the way to 'play politics' is to
perform the task assigned us." The Uhrichsville Chronicle stated:
"He has become so well and favorably known throughout the state that he
stands in the front ranks of Ohio republicanism, and it is not all an
unreasonable prediction that within the next few years he is likely to be
governor of the Buckeye State."
Senator Harding had an early booster in Mr.
Beetham. It was while floor leader in January, 1920, that he
introduced the resolution inviting Senator Harding to address the
Assembly on Roosevelt's birthday. This address was widely
distributed. AT the early meeting of republicans in Steubenville
Mr. Beetham declared that "Harding will make a great president.
He will not attempt to do it all, but will gather about him one of the
greatest of cabinets." Three times during the campaign he was a
visitor at Marion.
Rupert Beetham has been a member of the Cadiz
Board of Education since his election in 1904, and has always taken a keen
interest in the school management. He has served as a director of the
Chautauqua Association sine its organization, and been the platform manager
since 1914. When the Red Cross was organized in 1917 he was elected
the chairman, and in 1919 was chairman of the drive for the Salvation Army.
:Methodist born and Methodist bred" Mr. Beetham
has been a member of the Official Board of the Cadiz Methodist Church since
coming to Cadiz. He has served as church treasurer, Sunday school
teacher and superintendent. In 1908 he was an alternate delegate
of the East Ohio Conference to the General Conference held in Baltimore, and
in 1912 attended the General Conference in Minneapolis as a delegate.
After serving several years as a director of the Fourth
National Bank he was in January, 1918, elected president of the institution
and has sine given his time to this bank, though he still owns and operates
his farm in Short Creek Township.
In September of 1900 Mr. Beetham was united in
marriage to Miss Crete H. McLaughlin, daughter of Hon. Samuel K.
and Belle (Snyder) McLaughlin, of Short Creek Township.
Mrs. Crete Beetham was educated in the country school near Hurford and
the Hopedale Normal College. She was a lady of admirable traits of
character, being known among her friends as one usually kind. She died
on August 28, 1918, leaving four children, namely; Mary Isabelle,
now a sophomore at Ohio Weslyan University; Samuel McLaughlin,
a senior in high school; Rupert Rennison, Jr., and
Charles John.
Source: History of
Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio -
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WILLIAM A. BETHEL has
from his youth been actively identified with farm enterprise in Moorefield
Township, Harrison County, and on his father's old home farm, in section 4,
this township, he was born and reared, the date of his nativity having been
May 9, 1877. He is now the owner of a well-improved farm of eighty
acres, and his energy and good management are manifest in the fine
appearance of the place, which is a center of productive enterprise in the
domain of agriculture and successful stock-growing, with special attention
given to dairy cattle.
Mr. Bethel is a son of James O. and Nancy M.
(Slater) Bethel, the former of whom was born in Flushing Township,
Belmont County, Ohio. Dec. 19, 1848, and the latter in Moorefield
Township, Harrison County, Oct. 1, 1846, their marriage having been
solemnized June 30, 1870. James O. Bethel was reared and
educated in his native county and his parents, Alfred and Margaret
(McCall) Bethel were born and reared in Ohio, where the respective
families settlers in the pioneer days. James O. Bethel came to
Harrison County in the spring of 1869, and after his marriage he settled on
a farm of 183 acres, in section 4, Moorefield Township. He developed
this into one of the fine farm properties of the township and among the
improvements which he made on the place was the commodious and attractive
house, which he erected in 1873. He continued as one of the successful
farmers and representative citizens of Moorefield Township until he was well
advanced in years, and he and his wife now reside in the city of Cleveland,
where he is living in well earned retirement. Mrs. Nancy M.
(Slater) Bethel is a daughter of the late James Wells Slater and
Margaret Jane (Dunlap) Slater, the former of whom was born April 13,
1816, and the latter on the 30th of November, 1818, their marriage having
been solemnized Apr. 23, 1840, and five children having been born of this
union - Emily L. (Mrs. Johnson Moore), William D., Nancy M. (Mrs. James
O. Bethel), James A., and Margaret R. (Mrs. Shriber). James
Wells Slater died on the 9th of August, 1875, and his widow passed away
on the 5th of December of the following year. Mr. Slater came
to Harrison County in 1845 and purchased 207 acres of land, in section 4,
Moorefield Township. Here he erected, in 1851, a substantial stone
residence of large size, and the same stands as one of the substantial and
enduring landmarks of the county. Mr. Slater was one of
the very successful farmers and influential citizens of the county and
served a number of years as trustee of Moorefield Township. Mr. and
Mrs. James O. Bethel became the parents of seven children, whose names
and respective dates of birth are here recorded: Alfred W., June 8,
1871; Charles E., Jan. 27, 1875; William A., May 9, 1877;
Harry F., Oct. 5, 1879; George S., July 7, 1882; Jesse M.,
Feb. 16, 1885; and Margaret M., Mar. 27, 1888. Alfred W.
married Miss Louella Fulton and they reside at Flushing, Belmont
County. Charles E. married Miss Emma Fisher, and their
home is in the city of Cleveland, this state. Harry F. died in
1919. George S. married Miss Mabel Kirkpatrick and
is a prosperous farmer in Moorefield Township. Jesse M. and
Margaret M. are with their parents in the city of Cleveland.
William A. Bethel is indebted to the public schools
of his native township for his early educational discipline, and he remained
at the parental home until the time of his marriage, when he was
twenty-three years of age, his wife, whose maiden name was Eva Dickerson,
being a representative of one of the old and honored families of Harrison
County and adequate data concerning her parents being given in the sketch of
the career of her brother, John Edward Dickerson, on other pages of
this volume. Since his marriage Mr. Bethel has been
successfully engaged in independent farm enterprise in Moorefield Township
and he is one of the progressive and substantial citizens of his native
township and county. His political support is given to the republican
party and his wife is an active member of the Nottingham Presbyterian
Church. They have four children - Doris, Blanche, Donald and
Harry.
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H.
WORTHINGTON BIRNEY has brought to bear both practical experience and
scientific methods in connection with farm industry, and is today numbered
among the progressive and representative agriculturists and stock-growers of
Monroe Township, Harrison Co., where he owns a well-improved farm of 160
acres, this place being adjacent to the old homestead farm on which he was
born and the date of his nativity having been Oct. 11, 1867. He is a
son of William Alexander Birney and Emma (Spiker) Birney, the former
of whom was born on the farm now occupied by his son, H. Worthington
Birney of this review, and the mother was born in Cadiz Township, a
sister of Marion W. Spiker, in whose personal sketch, on other pages
of this work, are given adequate data concerning the Spiker family.
Hugh and Anna (Reynolds) Birney, grandparents of the subject of this
sketch, were pioneers of Monroe Township, where the grandfather entered 180
acres of Government land, in the year 1826, and where he reclaimed a
productive farm from the forest wilds. The Government deed to this
property, signed by President John Quincy Adams, is still in the
possession of the family and is a valued heirloom. Hugh and Anna
Birney were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and were honored
and venerable pioneer citizens at the time of their deaths. They
became the parents of five children - William Alexander, Reynolds,
Robert, Jane and Joanna.
William A. Birney was reared to manhood on the
pioneer farm, received the advantages of the common schools of the locality
and period and continued his residence on the ancestral farmstead until
1894, when he removed to the state of Iowa, where his wife died in the
following year and where he continued his residence until his death, in
1915, when well advanced in years. Mr. and Mrs. Birney were
earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Concerning their
children the following brief data are available: H. Worthington, of
this sketch, is the eldest of the number; Marion Lafayette died in
young manhood; Frank Howard died in early youth; Earl J.
resides at Washington, Iowa; Robert N. died in childhood; Homer
Clare is a resident of Washington, Iowa; Anna Elizabeth is the
wife of Harvey Finney and they reside at Ainsworth, Iowa; and
Clyde resides at Washington, that state.
H. Worthington Birney supplemented the training
of the district schools by attending Scio College, one of the excellent
educational institutions of Harrison County, and thereafter he was for one
year a student in the agricultural department of the Ohio State University.
On the 21st of September, 1893, he was united in marriage to Miss Cora
Rosena Jobe, daughter of Richard Watson Jobe and Sarah Jane
(Pettis) Jobe. Mrs. Birney received her education at Scio
College and at Ohio Wesleyan University. Since their marriages Mr.
and Mrs. Birney have continued their residence on the old Birney
homestead farm, which he has made a center of vigorous and successful
agricultural and live-stock enterprise and which is one of the model farms
of Monroe Township. Mr. and Mrs. Birney have no children.
They are members of the Plum Run Methodist Episcopal Church, are popular
factors in the representative social life of their home community, and
Mrs. Birney is a member of the women's auxiliary of the Sons of
Veterans, her father having been a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil
war, in which his record was virtually that that marks the general history
of his regiment, the Fifty-Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he was a
member of Company G. Richard W. Jobe, father of Mrs. Birney,
was born near Kansas City, Missouri, and his wife was born at Deersville,
Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of Robert and Sarah (Hout) Pettis,
the former a native of the Isle of Wight, England, and the latter of the
state of Virginia. Richard W. Jobe became one of the
representative farmers of Franklin Township, Harrison County, where his
death occurred in 1912, and his widow still maintains her home in this
county. Mr. Jobe was a son of John and Catherine (Miser)
Jobe, members of families whose names early became identified with the
history of eastern Ohio. He was a zealous member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, as is also his widow. Of their two children Mrs.
Birney is the elder, and Mary Lenore is a successful teacher in
the city of New York.
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HARRY
M. BIRNEY. Adequate record concerning the honored pioneer
family of which Mr. Birney is a popular representative in his native
county is given on the other pages of this work, in the sketch of the career
of his brother James Earl Birney, while other personal reviews in the
volume likewise give interesting data concerning the family.
Harry M. Birney, a son of James N. and Anna
(McFadden) Birney, was born in Washington Township, Harrison County, on
the 19th of January, 1882, and in addition to availing himself of the
advantages of the public schools of his native township he completed a
course in the business or commercial department of Scio College, at Scio,
this county. He remained on the old home farm until his marriage, May
23, 1906, to Miss Ella L. McClintock, daughter of Thomas C. and
Rebecca (Easlick) McClintock, and he then engaged in independent farm
enterprise in his native township, where he continued his activities until
the autumn of 1947, when he purchased his present fine farm estate, of 268
acres, in Franklin township. Here he was since found ample scope for
his vigorous and progressive achievement in connection with agricultural and
live-stock enterprise, and he is one of the representative farmers of the
younger generation in his native county, where he and his wife have a circle
of friends that is limited only by that of their acquaintances. Both
hold membership in the Presbyterian Church, and in politics he gives his
allegiance to the republican party. Mr. and Mrs. Birney have
two children - Forrest E., who was born Dec. 7, 1907, and Anna
Rebecca, who was born Feb. 5, 1918.
Thomas C. McClintock, father of Mrs. Birney
was born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, Dec. 23, 1844, and was the
youngest member of a family of five children. He is a son of
Jonathan and Sarah (Carruthers) McClintick, who, in 1840, left their old
home in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and came to Harrison County,
Ohio, where the father purchased a farm in section 9, Franklin Township,
where he remained until his death, Feb. 6, 1889, his devoted wife having
passed away on the 4th of March, 1885, and both having been earnest and
influential members of the Presbyterian Church at Feed Springs, in which he
served more than thirty years as superintendent of the Sunday School,
besides holding other official positions in the church.
Thomas S. McClintick was reared and educated in
Harrison County and here he became the owner of a valuable farm of 300
acres, in Franklin Township. He was a staunch supporter of the cause
of the republican party and he and his wife held membership i the same
Presbyterian Church as did his parents. He died Nov. 27, 1920.
Dec. 24, 1888, marked the marriage of Thomas C. McClintick to Miss
Rebecca Easlick, daughter of Pasco Easlick, of Franklin township,
and of this union were born eight children - Etta (Mrs. James Downs),
Lillie Dale, John C., Jesse A., Eva M., Ella L. (Mrs. Harry M. Birney), Bert
E. and Edna Ferne.
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HUGH WESLEY BIRNEY,
who was born in Green Township, Harrison County, Ohio, Mar. 17, 1848, died
at Cadiz, judicial center of his native county on the 24th of November,
1916, known and honored for his fine personal attributes and also as a
representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of this section of
the Buckeye State. In connection with other personal sketches and
genealogical reviews appearing in this work is given adequate record
concerning the Birney family, so that in this present connection it
will not be necessary to enter again into these details.
Hugh Wesley Birney was a son of Asbury Birney,
who was born in Green Township, Harrison County, Mar. 15, 1815, a son of
Hugh and Elizabeth (Brown) Birney, natives of Ireland. In 1815
Hugh Birney and his wife became residents of Chester County,
Pennsylvania, their marriage having been solemnized in their native land, in
1800. After residing in Pennsylvania about four years the family came
to Ohio and Mr. Birney purchased wild land in Harrison County, where
he bent his energies to reclaiming and developing a farm in the midst of the
surrounding forests, and where he was one of the substantial men of the
county at the time of his death, in September, 1862, his children having
been nine in number.
Asbury Birney passed his entire life in Green
Township, Harrison County and was of venerable age at the time of his death.
He achieved distinctive success in connection with farm enterprise, and in
1875 he erected upon his farm what was at that time one of the finest houses
in the county. He and his wife, who survived him by a few years, were
zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On Apr. 23, 1840,
Asbury Birney married Miss Ellen McCollough, who was born May
29, 1821, in Jefferson County, Ohio, where her parents, Hugh and Isabella
(Cunningham) McCollough, natives of Ireland, settled in the year 1810.
Of the children of Asbury and Ellen Birney, the first born was
Isabella, who died May 22, 1863; Oliver
is individually mentioned on other pages of this volume; Almond
removed to Labette County, Kansas; Hugh W.,
of this memoir was the next in order of birth; John William; Elizabeth
became the wife of
Joseph McCollough; and Rebecca J. became the wife of Henry
K. Ford.
Hugh Wesley Birney gained his youthful education in
the schools of his native county, and with the passing years he achieved
marked success in connection with farm industry, he having purchased, in
1884, a part of his father's old home farm, and having improved the place
with a fine new house and other good buildings. He gave special
attention to the raising of livestock of excellent grades and was a leader
in sentiment and action in his native township. He remained on his
farm until the spring of 1903, when he removed to Cadiz, the county seat,
where he passed the remainder of his life and where his widow still
maintains her home. He was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and
was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he served
as a trustee and as recording steward for a long term of years.
Mr. Birney was thrice married, June 15, 1883, he
wedded Miss Estella Montgomery, whose death occurred in the following
year. February 9, 1886, recorded his marriage to Miss Hadassah
Jackman, who was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of
Andrew and Elizabeth (Gaddiz) Jackman, natives of Ireland.
Harry J., the only child of this union, died June 26, 1895, and the
devoted wife and mother passed to eternal rest Dec. 20, 1903, a zealous
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
On the 22d of November, 1911, was solemnized the
marriage of Mr. Birney to Miss Caroline Snyder, who, as before
stated, resides at Cadiz, she being an active member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church and holding membership also in the Order of the Eastern
Star. Her father, Jacob Snyder, was born July 5, 1814, and died
Oct. 21, 1896. Mr. Snyder remained on the old homestead on
which he was born, in Green Township, Harrison County, and was one of the
representative farmers and citizens of that section of the county at the
time of his death. His grandfather, Martin Snyder, was born in
Germany, in 1728, and came to America as a youth of eighteen years, his
marriage having occurred in Pennsylvania, whence, in 1802, he came to what
is now Harrison County, Ohio, where he obtained a large tract of forest land
in Green Township and where he remained until his death, in 1810. His
wife died in 1821, and their remains rest in the little family burying plot
on the old home farm. Of their children, the eldest was Martin, Jr.,
father of Jacob. Martin, Jr., was born in Adams County,
Pennsylvania, in 1775, and came to Ohio with his father. In 1803 he
here married Ruth, daughter of Samuel Tipton, who had settled
in this section of Ohio in 1801. Martin Snyder and his wife
remained on the old home farm in Green Township until their deaths, he
having died as a result of injuries received when he was struck by a falling
tree. He died Apr. 12, 1819, aged forty-four years, and his widow was
seventy-two years old at the time of her death. Both were earnest
communicants of the Lutheran Church.
Jacob Snyder was reared to manhood on the old
home farm and continued throughout his active career to be one of the
representative farmers of Green Township. He was influential in public
affairs in his community, held various offices of trust, including that of
township trustee and was a stalwart republican in politics, June 24, 1847,
he married Miss Elizabeth Bradford, daughter of
Thomas Bradford, of Green Township. Jacob Snyder
died Oct. 20, 1876, and his widow died Apr. 27, 1899. Of their
children the eldest, Martin, was born Mar. 7, 1848, and is still
living on the home farm. He first married Mary J. Carson, who
died in August, 1875, leaving one child, Clark W. For his
second wife Martin Snyder married Nancy Jane McGuire, and they
became the parents of six children - Lizzie (died in 1900), John
J., Walter Clyde, Mary (died in childhood), Caroline and
Amanda. Catherine, the second child of Jacob and Elizabeth
Snyder, resides at Minerva, Stark County. She is the widow of
Leander Bigger, who died Mar. 25, 1898. They had three children -
Walter (died in infancy), Mary E. and George B. Sarah,
the third child, never married, and her death occurred Apr. 15, 1899.
Caroline, widow of the subject of this memoir, was the next in order of
birth. Isabella is the wife of Finley Mattern of whom
mention is made on other pages of this work.
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JAMES E. BIRNEY
has the distinction of being one of the representative farmers of the
younger generation in Washington Township, Harrison County, where on his
excellent farm of eighty-three acres he is proving the value of his earlier
experience in connection with the basic industries of agriculture and
stock-growing. He was born on his father's old homestead farm in
Washington township, this county, June 5, 1896, and is a son of James N.
and Anna R. (McFadden) Birney, both representatives of sterling pioneer
families of the county. James N. Birney was born in Washington
Township Aug. 27, 1845, and was a son of John Birney, who was born
and reared in Green Township, this county, whence, soon after his marriage
to Miss Hannah McKee, daughter of Robert McKee he removed to
Washington Township, where he eventually accumulated a fine landed estate of
560 acres and where he remained until his death, Sept. 9, 1885. His
first wife died in 1872, and later he married Sarah Eaton. The
children of the first marriage were six in number: Rachel (Mrs.
Henry Pittis), Nelson, Robert M., James N., Rebecca J. (Mrs. Matthew
Simpson) and John T. John Birney was a leader in the local
council of the republican party, served several years as township trustee
and was called upon to serve also in other township offices. He was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and contributed loyally to its
support.
James N. Birney gave his entire active career to
farm industry, and continued to reside upon a part of the old home farm
until his death, Dec. 22, 1902, his farm estate at the time having comprised
373 acres. He was known and honored as a liberal and public-spirited
citizen, was specially successful in his enterprise as an agriculturist and
stock-raiser, was a Republican in political allegiance and was a zealous
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Tippecanoe, as is also his
widow.
The year 1869 recorded the marriage of James N.
Birney to Miss Anna R. McFadden, who likewise was born and reared
in Harrison County and who is a daughter of Robert and Sarah (Moore)
McFadden. Robert McFadden was born in Belmont County, Ohio, Sept.
4, 1813, and was a son of Robert and Mary (Morrison) McFadden, the
former of whom was born in Vermont Oct. 13, 1768, and the latter of whom
likewise was born in the old Green Mountain State, June 13, 1772, their
marriage having there been solemnized Oct. 13, 1795. Soon after their
marriage Robert McFadden, Sr., and his wife came to Ohio and became
numbered among the earliest settlers in Belmont County, where he began the
reclaiming of a farm in the midst of the forest wilderness. Eventually
he removed with his family to Stock Township, Harrison County, where he
continued his pioneer farm enterprise and where both he and his wife passed
the residue of their lives.
Robert McFadden, Jr., passed his earlier life in
Belmont County, whence he accompanied his parents to Harrison County, where
he took up wild land and improved the farm later owned by his son John S.
in Stock Township. He was one of the substantial and honored
citizens and representative farmers of this township at the time of his
death, Mar. 15, 1876, and here his widow's death occurred on the 21st of
June, 1879, both having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at Pleasant Valley, in which he served a number of years as class
leader. In politics he was a staunch democrat.
Nov. 6, 1837, recorded the marriage of Mr. McFadden
to Miss Sarah Moore, daughter of Robert Moore, another well
known pioneer of Harrison County, and of this union were born eight
children: Mary (Mrs. George S. Johnston), James M., Margaret (Mrs.
William A. Welch), Robert H., John S., William W., James and Anna
Rebecca (Mrs. James N. Birney).
Mr. and Mrs. James N. Birney became the parents of
five children: Robert Hopkins, who has the management of the
old home farm, and there remains with his widowed mother, who is a devoted
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Tippecanoe, as was also her
husband; John M. who owns and resides upon a farm of 119 acres in
Washington Township, was united in marriage Oct. 27, 1915, to Miss Eva
McClintock; Betha Viola is the wife of Charles W. Adams, or
Archer Township, and they have two children - Birney and Mabel
Virginia; Harry More, now engaged in farming in Franklin Township,
married Miss Ella McClintock, and they have two children - Forrest
Earl and Anna Rebecca; and James Earl is more specifically
mentioned in the following paragraph.
James Earl Birney was born on the old
homestead mentioned in the preceding context, and the date of his nativity,
as before noted, was June 5, 1896. In addition to profiting by the
advantages of the public schools of his native county he was for one term a
student in the business college at Urichsville, Tuscarawas County.
Thereafter he continued his association with the activities of the old home
farm until his marriage on the 7th of November, 1917, to Miss Bessie
Olive Auld, daughter of Allison P. and Mary Belle (Meeks) Auld.
After this important event in his career he established his home on his
present farm, which he has made a center of progressive enterprise in both
the agricultural and live-stock departments. Mr. Birney has
made no inroads into the arena of practical politics but gives his
allegiance to the republican party, and his wife holds membership in the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Tippecanoe. They have a fine little son,
James Allison.
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OLIVER BIRNEY.
Aside from the prestige that is his as one of the now venerable sons and
representative farmers of Harrison County, Mr. Birney has the further
distinction of being a scion of an honored pioneer family that was here
founded a century ago, when this section of the Buckeye State was little
more than a forest wilderness.
Hugh Birney, grandfather of him whose name
introduces this review, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1780, and he
was reared and educated in his native land. In 1801, at the age of
twenty-one years, he came to America in company with two of his brothers,
and he first established his residence in Chester County, Pennsylvania in
which commonwealth his marriage to Elizabeth Brown was solemnized in
1807. In 1819 Mr. Birney came to Ohio and purchased 121 acres
of wild land in the present Green Township, Harrison County. Later he
added 160 acres to his pioneer farm property, and he endured his full share
of the hardships that marked that period of the county's history. He
eventually reclaimed much of his land to cultivation, and on the old
homestead he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, his death
having occurred in September, 1862. The children of this sterling
pioneer couple were eight in number - William, Wesley, Rebecca, Martha
(Mrs. Samuel Hitchcock), Jane (Mrs. George Leas), Elizabeth (Mrs. Jacob
Hitchcock), Samuel and Asbury.
Asbury Burney was born on the
pioneer farm of his father in Green Township, Harrison County, and the date
of his nativity was Mar. 15, 1815. The primitive log schoolhouse was
the scene of his early application to study, and the curriculum was very
limited in scope, his broader education having been gained by
self-discipline and association with the practical affairs of life. He
continued to be engaged in farm enterprise in his native township during his
entire active career, and was the owner of a well improved farm of 126 acres
at the time of his death this having been the place on which he was born and
reared. ON the 23d of April, 1840, he was united in marriage with
Miss Eleanor McCullough, who was born May 29, 1821, a
daughter of Hugh and Isabella (Cunningham) McCullough, natives of
Ireland and early settlers in Jefferson County, Ohio, where they established
their home in the year 1810, the remainder of their lives having been passed
in that county. Their children were six in number - Alexander,
John, Isabella, Margaret, Catherine and Eleanor. Mr. and Mrs.
Asbury Birney continued until the close of their lives, were earnest
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and commanded the high regard of
all who knew them. Mr. Birney died Nov. 30, 1898, and his wife
died May 26, 1903. He was a man of marked energy and business ability,
and in 1875 he erected as a family home one of the finest farm houses of the
county at that time. Of the children the first born was Isabella,
who died May 22, 1863; Oliver, immediate subject of this review, was
the next in order of birth; Almond has long has been a resident of
Labette County, Kansas; Hugh W. remained on a part of the old
homestead in Green Township until he removed to Cadiz and was one of the
representative farmers of that section of his native county, his death
having occurred Nov. 24, 1916; John William a resident of German
Township; Elizabeth became the wife of Joseph McCullough, of
Archer Township; and Rebecca J., now deceased, was the wife of
Henry K. Ford, of Salem Township, Jefferson County.
Oliver Birney was born on the old home farm in
Green Township Apr. 5, 1843, and is indebted to the common schools of the
locality and period for his early education. As a young man he began
independent farm activities in his native township, where he remained until
1871, when he removed to his present farm of 125 acres in German Township.
Though he is now nearing the eightieth milestone on the journey of life, he
is hale and alert, of mental and physical powers and takes pleasure in
giving a general supervision to the affairs of his fine farm, besides which
he has for more than half a century owned and operated a threshing outfit in
his native county. He is a staunch democrat in politics, has served as
trustee of German Township, and he and his wife in the gracious twilight of
their long and worthy lives have the affectionate regard of the people of
their home community, both being earnest members of the Bethel Methodist
Episcopal Church in their home township.
On the 24th of August, 1871, was solemnized the
marriage of Mr. Birney to Miss Elizabeth Beatty, who was born
in Licking County, Ohio, a daughter of William and Charlotte (Law) Beatty,
who there remained until their deaths. Mr. Beatty having been a
prosperous farmer of that county. He was venerable in years at the
time of his death in 1902, his wife having passed away in 1894 and both
having been zealous members of Protestant Methodist Church. They
became the parents of a fine family of twelve children, namely:
Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Maria, John Wesley, Margaret Jane, Martha, Lucy,
Sarah, William Law, Wilbur, Olive and Etta. In the autumn
of 1860 eight of these children died within a single week, they having
succumbed when attacked by diphtheria, then commonly known as "black
tongue." At the time when this epidemic thus brought death in its wake
there were only nine children in the Beatty home, and of the number
Elizabeth, wife of the subject of this sketch, was the only one that
survived, the other children having been born subsequently to that fateful
year. In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the children of
Mr. and Mrs. Birney: Etta Belle is the wife of Wesley Mattern,
of Green Township; Elmer Emmett, now a resident of El Paso, Texas,
married Miss Martha Bush and they have one child, Arlene;
Charlotte Eleanor remains at the parental home; Jennie Olive is
the wife of Elmer Hall, of Green Township, Harrison County, and they
have one child, Lauress; Wilbur B. is individually mentioned on other
pages of this work; Clara married Ernest Morgan, deceased, of
German Township; and Mae is the wife of Rolla Henry, of
Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County.
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THOMAS
S. BIRNEY has had the circumspection and judgment that have enabled
him to appreciate the advantages offered for successful farm enterprise in
his native township and is here numbered among the representative
agriculturists and stock-growers of the younger generation of Washington
Township in Harrison County. Aside from his admirable personal
achievement he has the further distinction of being a representative of one
of the honored and influential pioneer families of this county.
Thomas Simpson Birney was born in Washington
Township, Harrison County, on the 17th of May 1883, and is a son of
Robert M. and Martha J. (Simpson) Birney. Robert M. Birney
was born in Washington Township, this County, on the 10th of January, 1849,
and was a son of John and Hannah (McKee) Birney. John
Birney was born and reared in Green Township, this county, where his
parents settled in the early pioneer days, and soon after his marriage he
removed to Washington Township, where he eventually accumulated and
developed a fine farm estate of 560 acres and where he remained until his
death. Sept. 9, 1885. His first wife died in 1872, their
children having been six in number - Rachel (Mrs. Henry Pittis), Nelson,
Robert M., James N., Rebecca J. (Mrs. Matthew Simpson), and John T.
For his second wife John Birney wedded Sarah Eaton, who
survived him by a number of years. He was prominent in the local
council's and activities of the republican party and was zealous in support
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was an active member for many
years prior to his death.
Robert M. Birney continued his successful
association with farm industry in Washington Township during his entire
active career, and also developed a prosperous business in the buying and
shipping of livestock. He was the owner of a valuable farm property in
his native township at the time of his death, Nov. 29, 1888, his wife having
passed away on the 17th of July, 1883, and both having been earnest members
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On the 28tgh of May, 1868 was
solemnized the marriage of Robert M. Birney to Miss Martha J.
Simpson, who was born in Stock Township, this county, in 1814, and was a
son of John and Mary (McElroy) Simpson, whose marriage was solemnized
in the state of Pennsylvania, the father having come from Ireland to America
in 1798. John Simpson, Sr., continued his residence in
Washington County, Pennsylvania, until about the opening of the nineteenth
century, when he came with his family to Harrison County, Ohio, where he
eventually developed a productive farm in the midst of the forest wilds and
where he continued his residence in Stock Township until his death, in
conditions and influences that marked the pioneer epoch in the history of
Harrison County and continued to be identified with farm industry in Stock
Township until his death, in 1877. He achieved substantial prosperity
through his own well directed endeavors and his character was shown in his
high sense of personal stewardship in all of the relations of live. He
was a stalwart republican and both he and his wife were zealous members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of seven
children - Mary Ann (Mrs. Joseph Patterson), Martha (Mrs. Robert M.
Birney), Margaret (Mrs. Frank Welch), Matthew, William, Frank, and
Ella. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Birney became the parents of three children,
of whom Thomas S. of this sketch is the youngest and the only
survivor. Etta L. was born May 16, 1869, and died on the 12th
of March, 1878; and Clarence M. died on the same day as did his only
sister, he having been eight years, seven months and twenty days of age at
the time of his demise.
Thomas Simpson Birney was but two months old at
the time of his mother's death and but five years old when his father died.
He was thereafter reared in the home of his father's sister, Mrs. Rachel
Pittis, of Deersville, Harrison County, where he was afforded the
advantages of the village schools. He has resided on his present farm
since he was twenty-one years of age, and under his ownership the place is
maintained at a high standard as a center of successful agricultural and
live-stock enterprise. The place comprises 197½
acres and is well improved. Mr. Birney is a republican in his
political proclivities and he and his wife are active members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Tippecanoe.
May 22, 1913, recorded the marriage of Mr. Birney
to Miss Mary Belle McCullough, who was born in Archer Township,
Harrison County, and who is a daughter of
Joseph M. and Elizabeth
(Birney) McCullough, her father being individually represented in a
personal sketch on other pages of this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Birney
have a winsome little daughter, Eva Elizabeth, whose advent in
their home came on the 16th of December, 1919.
Source:
History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921~ Page 920 |
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WILBUR B. BIRNEY
has found in his native county an excellent stage for his successful
activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower, and he is now one of the
progressive exponents of farm industry in Archer Township, where he owns a
well improved place of 163 acres of the splendid land of Harrison County.
He was born in German Township, this county, on the 26th of May, 1881, and
is a son of Oliver Birney, a sketch of whose career appears on other
pages of this volume. The district schools of his native township gave
to Wilbur B. Birney his early educational training, and from his
boyhood until his marriage he continued to be associated with the work of
his father's farm. In 1906 he bought one of the old Birney estate
farms - a tract of 124 acres in Green Township, and here he and his wife
maintained their residence ten years. In the spring of 1917 he sold
this property, and thereafter he passed one year on another farm in the same
township and the following year on a farm in Cadiz Township. In the
spring of 1919 he purchased and removed to his present farm, which is one of
the excellent places of archer Township and on which he gives his
attention to properly diversified agriculture and to the raising of live
stock of good types. He is loyal and liberal in citizenship, with deep
appreciation of the attractions and advantages of his native county; is a
democrat in political affiliation, and he and his wife hold membership in
Asbury Chapel, Methodist Episcopal, in Cadiz Township.
November 15, 1906, recorded the marriage of Mr.
Birney to Miss Phoebe A. Heavilin, daughter of
Henry Heavilin.
Mr. and Mrs. Birney have six children, whose names and respective dates
of birth are here noted: Dorothy Marie, June 27, 1908;
Beulah Elizabeth, Aug. 6, 1901; Elmer Wayne, Mar. 27, 1912;
Carl Henry, Nov. 20,1913; Irene Frances, May 4, 1916; and Roy
Wendell, Nov. 23, 1918.
Source:
History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921~ Page 1012 |
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WILBUR KARL BLACK Source:
History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921~ Page 632 |
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WILLIAM A. BLACK.
The life history of William Black, Cadiz Township farmer, reverts
back to Clarion County, Pennsylvania, where he was born Nov. 29, 1874, a son
of William and Lucinda (McKissick) Black. The mother was born
in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. She is a daughter of Henry and
Lucinda McKissick. Mr. Black bears the name of his
grandfather, William Black, who was a contractor in eastern
Pennsylvania.
As a young man William Black, Sr., entered the
army as a Civil war Soldier. He was out three years in the heavy
artillery a part of the time stationed at Fortress Monroe. After the
war he farmed in Clarion County and in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania.
HE died in Lawrence County, Mar. 17, 1876, and his wife died there July 26,
ten years later. Their children were George M., who died Mar.
2, 1903; John H., Samuel P., David H., Frank L., Marian and Edmond
R.
As a young man in Pennsylvania Mr. Black
attended public school in Lawrence and Fayette counties. When he
settled into business for himself it was as a driller and contractor in the
oil fields of Pennsylvania, and he continued operations there until 1917,
when he came to the farm in Cadiz Township, Harrison County, that he had
bought as an investment four years previously. There are 222 acres in
the farmstead and besides remodeling the farm building he built a modern
house for himself and family.
While Mr. Black had been a mechanic in the
Pennsylvania, oil fields, he has settled into the methods of a thrifty
farmer in Harrison County. The farm improvements are of the best, and
he is engaged in general farming and livestock production. He is a
breeder of thoroughbred Jersey cattle, and has plenty of pasture for them.
On Aug. 28, 1994, Mr. Black married
Lillian M. Hibbs, of Fairview, West Virginia. She is a daughter of
Thomas and Huldah (Husted) Hibbs, the father a native of Marion
County and the mother of Taylor County, West Virginia. The children
are: Faye, Glenn A., Edward H., Joseph J., Emma L., Benjamin F. and
Doris Louise Black.1 Mr. Black and his sons Glenn
and Edward are members of the Masonic Lodge, Mr. Black
belonging to Lodge No. 153, F. & A. M., Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, while
Glenn and Edward belong to Lodge No. 171, F. & A. M., Cadiz.
Mrs. Black and her daughter Faye belong to the order of the
Eastern Star.
Thomas Hibbs, of Martin County, West Virginia,
is a farmer and still lives there. He served through the Civil War.
His children are: Wilbert, Bertie, Lillian (Mrs. Black), and
Howard, who died in 1913, in California. The mother died in 1880,
and Mr. Hibbs later married Rhody King. They have a
daughter, Ethel. The family are Methodists, as are also the
Blacks.
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1. Source: Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003: Doris Louise Black, b.
Sep. 25, 1916, Harrison, Ohio - Female - Father: William A. Black - Mother:
Lillian Hibbs.Source:
History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921~ Page 570 |
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CHESTER A. BRANSON
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis
Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 733 |
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S.
SHERMAN BUCEY. Having when young acquired a practical knowledge
of the various branches of agriculture, S. Sherman Bucey selected the
independent occupation that has brought comfort, happiness and wealth to
unnumbered thousands of the world's industrious workers, and the results of
his years of labor prove conclusively that he made no mistake in the
choosing of the vocation, his home farm in Stock Township being under a good
state of cultivation and highly productive. He was born, March 18,
1867, in Wells Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, where he grew to manhood.
His father, Dallas Bucey, was born in
Jefferson County, Ohio, of pioneer ancestry. Selecting the occupation
in which he was reared, he was actively engaged in general farming in Wells
Township, his native county, for many years. Moving from there to
Jewett, Ohio, in 1914, he has since been an esteemed resident of that place.
He married Sarah Ellen Taylor a daughter of Hiram Taylor and into
their home ten children made their advent, as follows: S. Sherman;
Anna; William Albert; Clarence, deceased; Cora; Howard; Blanche;
Carl; and Louisa, deceased. Both parents are identified by
membership with the Methodist Church.
Educated in the district schools of Jefferson County,
S. Sherman Bucey grew to manhood on the parental homestead, as a boy
and youth assisting in the manual labors incidental to farm life.
Becoming thoroughly initiated into the intricacies of agriculture, he
settled in Stock Township, Harrison County, about 1894, where he began life
for himself as a farmer. Subsequently moving to Washington Township,
Harrison County, he continued there a farmer for fourteen years.
Returning to Stock Township, Mr. Bucey assumed possession of the farm
which he now owns and occupies and began adding to the improvements
previously inaugurated. Going to New Philadelphia, Ohio, in 1917, he
remained there two years, but since his return, in 1919, to Stock Township
has devoted his energies to the management of his valuable farm of 106
acres, and is meeting with most desirable results as a general farmer.
Mr. Bucey married, in 1888, Hattie Barkus,
a most estimable woman, and they became the parents of three children,
namely: Odessa, wife of Edward Selaway; Harry, who married
Laura Ervin, has one child, Lester; and Neona, who died in
childhood. Mrs. Hattie Bucey died in 1894. Mr. Bucey
subsequently married for his second wife Jennie Stevens, and of their
union one child has been born, Florice, who married Orville De
Witt, and has five children, Lucille, Richie, Clara, Grace
and Helen. Mr. and Mrs. Bucey are active and faithful members
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Source:
History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921~ Page 932 |
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JOHN BRICKER. One of the very
earliest families to settle in Harrison county in Green Township was that of
Bricker, which has been represented here by members of at least
four generations. Of the third generation was the late John
Bricker, who recently died at the age of nearly eighty-five, one of the
oldest native sons of the township. His great length of years was
accompanied by industrious and good management of his landed interests and a
stanch upholding of the best standards of citizenship.
The years of his old age were spent in the same house
where he was born Dec. 11, 1835. The Bricker family
originated in Pennsylvania, and his grandfather, Anthony Bricker,
came with his wife, Margaret, to Harrison County in 1804 and entered
a quarter section of Government land in Green township. Anthony
Bricker acquired other land holdings, and was a man of notable
business enterprise, operating one of the pioneer mills in the community.
He died Jan. 25, 1813, leaving over a section of land to his descendants.
His children were George, Henry, John and Elizabeth.
John Bricker, Sr., the third son, was born in
Pennsylvania May 9, 1793, and was about eleven years of age when his
environment was transferred to the wilds of Harrison County, Ohio.
After reaching manhood he took up the interests to which his early training
had qualified him, those of farmer and stock man, and at the time of his
death he owned 340 acres. He never neglected the duties of good
citizenship, and for many years was a trustee of Green Township. He
and other early members of the family were active in the Presbyterian Church
at Cadiz. On Saint Valentine's day in 1833 John Bricker, Sr.,
married Anna Busby, who was born in Harrison County February
27, 1812, daughter of John Bushy, another pioneer of the
county. John Busby, Sr., and wife had three children, David,
who never married, John and Elizabeth, the latter becoming the wife
of Dr. William Beadle.
The late John Bricker came to manhood at
a time when schools were largely of the subscription variety, and his early
advantages were chiefly confined to the fundamentals of learning. He
learned industry and the lessons of thrift, and self reliance on the home
farm with his father, and at the age of twenty-two he and his brother
David became managers of the old homestead. Except for a brief
residence at Laceyville John Bricker lived all his life at the
homestead where he was born. He is remembered as a good farmer, a
thoroughgoing man in everything he undertook. For a number of years he
had 230 acres in use for general farming purposes, and was always interested
in livestock and made livestock growing the source of his revenue. He
handled sheep and cattle, and at one time raised fast horses and was a lover
of good horses at all times. Mr. Bricker died on July 3,
1920, in the same house in which he was born.
Source:
History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921~ Page 628 |
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