BIOGRAPHIES

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	JOHN WALLACE GILLESPIE was born in Cadiz on Oct. 1, 1856, and died Oct. 11, 1905, having been a life-long resident of Cadiz.  He was a son of John W. and Nancy (Anderson) Gillespie, and he is survived by a son, John W. Gillespie, who is now at the head of the furniture and undertaking business established by the first John W. Gillespie in 1840.  For eighty years the name of J. W. Gillespie has been actively connected with it.  The J. W. Gillespie who founded the business in Cadiz in 1840 was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania.  He was a cabinetmaker, and immediately after coming to Cadiz he established the business that has been handed down to son of grandson, and is still conducted by John W. Gillespie.      The senior John Wallace Gillespie was a cousin to the late James Gillespie Blaine, who was once active in national republican affairs.  On Nov. 29, 1842, Mr. Gillespie married Nancy Anderson, of Cadiz, and seven children were born to them: Albert, James, Nettie, Elozia, Laura, John W. and Wayne.  The mother of these children died May 7, 1877.  His second marriage was with Mrs. Jane Dallas.       John W. Gillespie second was associated with his father in business form the time he was twenty-one years old, and in 1884 he became the proprietor and manager of the business until his death in 1905.  The business is still owned by the family and managed by the son John W. third.      In 1890 John W. Gillespie married Agnes, a daughter of A. N. and Mary Sheriff.  She died on Nov. 14, 1920, leaving the following children:  Mary, who married Francis W. Wright, of Warren, Pennsylvania, and is the mother of Francis W., John W. and David Gillespie Wright; Cornelia married L. D. Miller, who was a chaplain in the United States Regular Army  stationed at Fort Benning, Atlanta, Georgia; and John W. third.      John W. Gillespie entered the service in the World war May 27, 1918, and was assigned to the Thirty-ninth Infantry, Fourth Division.  On July 21st he sailed for France, landing Aug. 3d in Liverpool, and within a few days he was "somewhere in France," where he remained until after the signing of the armistice.  He went into action with the Third Battalion of Observation in the Thirty-ninth Infantry, Fourth Division, and he  was real warfare at Verdun, Saint Mihiel and in the Argonne Forest.  On October 10th he was wounded by a high explosive shell and was in Base Hospital at Vichy until November 7, when he was transferred to Base 8 and waited sixteen days for a boat.  On November 25th he sailed for the United States.  He received a hospital discharge from Park View Hospital in Pittsburgh and was sent to Camp Sherman, where on Feb. 5, 1919, he received his final discharge from the army.  Since his return to Cadiz he has resumed his position at the head of the John W. Gillespie Furniture and Undertaking business which has been identified with the history of Harrison County for four score years.  Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 ~ Page 722
	WILLIAM H. GILLESPIE, of Athens Township, has not always been a resident of Harrison County.  He was born Nov. 25, 1853, in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, Ohio, although all the others Gillespie children of his generation were born in Guernsey County.  His father, John Gillespie, was born in1810, in Pennsylvania.  He died in Lucas County, Iowa, in 1884.  The mother, Margaret Taylor, a daughter of John Taylor, was born in Knox County, and died in Belmont County.      While John Gillespie was born in Pennsylvania, his father, James Gillespie, was born in Ireland.  When he was eighteen years old he came to the United States.  While living in Pennsylvania he was a farmer and later he was a farmer in Guernsey County.  As a young man John Gillespie was a Guernsey County farmer and later he removed to Iowa.  The five older children of John were born in Guernsey County.      W. H. Gillespie was born after the family removed from Guernsey to Belmont, and he lived there until March, 1883, when he listened to the advice of Horace Greeley about the young man growing up with the western county, and he went to Iowa.  When his father died in Lucas County, Iowa, he returned to Belmont County, Ohio, and in November, 1904, he came to Harrison County.  He removed to the Village of New Athens in 1915, where he is now living.  The children of his father's family are: James, Mary, who died in young womanhood, Nancy Taylor, Thomas and William H. Gillespie.  The early Gillespies were members of the United Presbyterian church, and they were a Sabbath observing, God fearing people.      W. H. Gillespie had a common school education at Fairport in Belmont County.  As a young man he began farming in Wheeling Township, remaining there until 1904, when he moved to the farm in Athens Township, Harrison County.  He owned 137 acres in Belmont County, but in 1917 he sold it.  He is now a permanent citizen of Harrison County.      In 1875, Mr. Gillespie married Margaret Emaline Campabell, a daughter of William F. Campbell, a daughter of William F. Campbell, of Belmont County.  Their children are:  John C., who married Lilly Clark, and their children are Mary Frances and William Herbert, and William C., married Minnie Dunlap, who died in July, 1916.  The Gillespie family are members of the United Presbyterian Church in New Athens.  The sons are farmers. Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 ~ Page 595
	EDMOND S. GOODWIN.  After many years of hard work as a farmer, during which he prospered on account of his industry and thrift,  Edmond S. Goodwin, of Short Creek Township, is now living practically retired on his small farm of thirteen acres.  He was born in Short Creek Township June 30, 1850, a son of Kinsey and Alice (Shields) Goodwin.  The Goodwin family was brought to Harrison County many yeas ago by Jesse Goodwin, grandfather of Edmond S. Goodwin, who became one of the prosperous farmers of Short Creek Township.      Kinsey Goodwin was born in Pennsylvania, and came with his father to Short Creek Township, Harrison County, where he was engaged in farming for a time, and in 1863 moved to Morgan County, Ohio, and died therein 1865.  Following his demise his family returned to Harrison County. Kinsey Goodwin and his wife had the following children born to them: Edmond S., who was the eldest; Lydia, who was an invalid for thirty years and is now deceased; Sarah Emilie, who also was an invalid for thirty yeas and is now deceased; William and Oliver.  Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin were consistent members of the Presbyterian Church.      Left fatherless when still a lad, as the eldest in the family Edmond S. Goodwin early became self-supporting, and chose farming as his life work.  His farming ventures have taken him from Short Creek Township, where he began them, in Jefferson and Belmont counties, but he has since returned to his native township.      The first wife of Mr. Goodwin was Catherine Henderson, a daughter of Mathew Henderson, and they had the following children: Ola V., who married Charles Holmes; Sarah, who married J. A. Frazier; John H., who died in 1910.  Mrs. Goodwin died Feb. 14, 1819.  After the death Mr. Goodwin was married to Mattie Moffett, who was born near Beech Springs Church in Green Township, the daughter of John and Margaret (Moore) Moffett.  There are no children by his second marriage.  Both are no children by his second marriage.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin are members of  the Methodist Episcopal Church of Harrisville, Harrison County, Ohio.  They are held in the highest esteem not only in their immediate neighborhood but elsewhere, and deservedly so, for they are good friends of and always willing to render assistance to those with whom they are brought into contact. Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 ~ Page 780