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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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The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago and New York
1921
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ANDREW PALMER
was born in the State of New York on the 10th of Oct., 1850, and he was ten
years old when he was sent from the old Empire commonwealth to Tuscarawas
County, Ohio, where he was made the adopted son of David and Mary Magdaline
(Temper) Palmer, in whose home he was reared to manhood, the while he was
afforded the advantages of the public schools, his foster parents having in the
meanwhile established their home on a farm in Harrison County. He remained
with his foster father until his marriage, in the year 1872, and he then engaged
in independent farm enterprise in Nottingham Township, whence he later removed to
Washington Township, where he farmed two years. He then returned to
Nottingham Township, where he has since continued his activities as a
substantial agriculturist and stock-grower and where he owns an excellent farm
of eighty-three acres. He is loyal to all civic responsibilities, is a
republican in politics and he and his wife hold membership in Bethel Chapel
(Methodist Episcopal) in their home township.
On the 4th of July, 1872, was solemnized the marriage
of Mr. Palmer to Miss Rachel Yarnall who was born in Tuscarawas
County, Ohio, Sept. 16, 1851, a daughter of Aaron and Harriet (Poulson)
Yarnall. Aaron Yarnall was born Nov. 12, 1815, a son of
Aaron and Mary Ann (Bell) Yarnall, and Mrs. Harriet (Poulson) Yarnall
was born May 26, 1813, a daughter of James and Elizabeth Poulson.
Aaron Yarnall, father of Mrs. Palmer, came to Harrison County
about the year 1857, and engaged in farming in Nottingham Township. He and
his wife passed the residue of their lives in this county, and both were earnest
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The became the parents of ten
children, whose names and respective years of birth are here recorded:
Elizabeth, 1837; James, 1839; Ziba, 1841; John, 1843;
Eli, 1845; Sarah Jane, 1847; George, 1849; Rachel,
1851; Asbury, 1854; and William 1855 (died in infancy).
Aaron Yarnall, Sr., grandfather of Mrs. Palmer, was
born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1783, and in 181 he came with
his family to Harrison County, Ohio, where he purchased 160 acres of land in
Nottingham Township and became a pioneer farmer. Here he remained until
his death in 1851, and his widow passed away in 1857, both having been active
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They had nine children, namely:
Ziba, William, Aaron, Eli, Colver, John, Nelson, Lydia and Mary A.
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer became the parents of
eight children: John M. is a farmer in Nottingham Township; William T.
is individually mentioned o other pages of this work; Hattie died in
early childhood; Alice M. is the wife of James Walker; Bertha
R. is the wife of Joseph B. Rogers; Mary is the wife of Elmer
Tarbett; and Harry and Wesley are still members of the
parental home circle.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis
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JOHN M. PALMER
was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, on the 27th of May, 1873.
He gained his early education in the district schools of this township, and is
now numbered among its substantial and progressive exponents of farm industry.
He is a son of Andrew Palmer, of whom specific mentioned whom specific
mentioned is made on other pages, with due record concerning the family history.
At the age of Andrew Palmer, of whom specific mention is made on other
pages, with due record concerning the family history. At the age of
sixteen years John M. Palmer began his independent career by obtaining
employment as a farm hand, and he continued to be thus engaged for several
years. After his marriage he established himself upon his present farm,
which comprised 110 acres at the time when he purchased the property, in 1901,
but to which he has since added until he now has a well improved and valuable
farm property of 186 3/4 acres of which 160 acres constitute the home place, the
remaining acreage likewise being in Nottingham Township. Virorous work and
good management have brought cumulative success to Mr. Palmer in his
independent activities as an agriculturist and grower of live stock, and he is
one of the substantial and popular citizens of his native township, where he
served two years as township assessor. He hold membership in the Bethel
Chapel of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the home township.
On the 26th of October, 1904, was solemnized the
marriage of Mr. Palmer to Miss Cora E. Walker, daughter of L.
P. and Elizabeth (Adams) Walker, of Notthingham Township, and the supreme
bereavement in his life came when his devoted wife was summoned to eternal rest.
She was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and her death
occurred on the 19th of August 1919. She is survived by two children -
Denver Lewis, who was born Nov. 15, 1906, and Helen Elizabeth, who
was born Dec. 26, 1911.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis
Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 669 |
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ROBERT PENMAN
PALMER, son of Charles W. Palmer, of Monroe Township, Harrison
County, through a resident of Dennison deserves mention in this record as one of
the gallant soldiers of Harrison County in the World war. He was with the
Forty-second or Rainbow Division.
He was born at the home of his parents in Monroe
Township Sept. 8, 1897. He was not yet twenty years of age when he
volunteered and enlisted Apr. 17, 1917, at Dennison, Ohio. He received his
early training at Camp Perry, being assigned to Company K of the old Fourth Ohio
Regiment in the Thirty-seventh Division. Aug. 16, 1817, he was transferred
to Company H of the One Hundred Sixty-sixth Infantry of the Forty-second or
Rainbow Division. October 8, 1917, he left Hoboken, New York, on the
"Peoria" for France, landing at Brest, and after some intensive training with
the Rainbow Division he was placed on the Luneville sector from March 11 to 22,
1918; Bacarat sector March 25 to June 20th; on the Champagne-Marne defensive
from July 15th to July 18th; took part in the Aisne-Marne offensive from July
27th to August 3rd; was in the Saint Mihiel campaign from September 12th to
16th: in the Woevre sector from Sept. 25th to 30th; and in the Meuse-Argonne
battles from Oct. 10 to Nov. 7, 1918. June 18, 1918, he was gassed and hit
by shrapnel, and was in hospital recovering from these injuries three weeks.
During his service he was in France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, and was with
the Army of Occupation in Germany for six months.
In April, 1919, he left France on the Leviathan,
landing at New York April 29th, and received his honorable discharge at Camp
Sherman, May 16, 1919, more than two years after his enlistment.
June 3, 1919, Robert Penman Palmer married
Gladys Cable of Dennison, daughter of Lee and Callie Cable.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago:
Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 623 |
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THOMAS
A. PALMER has shown no indirection or lack of initiative energy in
his long and successful career as one of the representative farmers of his
native county, and though now advanced in years he still resides upon his
old home farm in North Township, Harrison County, the place having comprised
140 acres until the spring of 1919, when he relieved himself of the cares of
managing the entire place by selling ninety-two acres, so that he retains at
the present time a farm of forty-eight acres and is giving his attention
principally to growing apples. He is a man of marked mentality, is
genial and affable, ahs lived a life of uprightness and productive toil, and
no citizens more secure vantage-place in popular confidence and good will.
Mr. Palmer was born in Archer Township, this
county, on the 28th of October, 1849, and is a son of Adam and Catherine
(Shirey) Palmer, both natives of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania,
where the former was born in Dec., 1812, and the latter on the 11th of Jan.,
1816, she having been a daughter of John and Rachel Shirey. Adam
Palmer's parents, Jacob and Hannah (Archibald) Palmer, came from
the old Keystone State of Ohio in the early pioneer days and were numbered
among the first permanent settlers is Stock Township, Harrison County, where
they established their home in 1814 and where the father reclaimed a farm
from the forest wilds. Adam Palmer was about two years old when
the family came to Harrison County, where he was reared on the pioneer farm
and attended the primitive schools of the period. In his youth he
learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed in connection with farm
enterprise in Archer Township until 1860, when he removed to a farm in North
Township, this place having been improved and developed by him and having
continued his place of residence until his death, October 15, 1881.
His widow survived him by fifteen years and passed to the life eternal on
the 29th of Feb. 1896, both having been earnest members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. The names and respective dates of birth of
their children are here recorded: Jacob G., Oct. 18, 1838;
Mary E., Jul. 8, 1840; William, May 21, 1842; Israel A.,
Jun. 2, 1844; Thomas A., subject of this review, Oct. 28, 1849.
Thomas A. Palmer gained his youthful education
in the rural schools of Harrison County and as a youth he learned the
carpenter's trade, principally under the direction of his father.
After devoting a few years to work at his trade he engaged in farming, with
which great basic industry he has continued his connection during the long
intervening years, the wile he has owned and resided upon his present farm
since the time of his marriage, in 1875. He has always been ready to
give his support to measures and enterprises advanced for the general good
of the community, is a democrat in politics, and is an active member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Hanover, as was also his wife, whose
death, on the 3d of March, 1911, brought the supreme loss and bereavement of
his life.
April 29, 1875, marked the marriage of Mr. Palmer
to Miss Jennie E. Fowler, who was born and reared in Stock Township,
and who was a daughter of James W. and Elizabeth (Crawford) Fowler,
who passed the closing years of their lives on their farm in Stock Township,
near Scio. Mr. Fowler was born in Monroe Township, this county,
Oct. 12, 1929, and was a son of Benjamin and Jane (Whittaker) Fowler,
whose marriage was solemnized in this county. Benjamin Fowler
was born in Pennsylvania Oct. 31, 1802, and was a boy at the time of the
removal of the family to Harrison County, Ohio, where his father, John
Fowler became a pioneer farmer and where he himself passed the remainder
of his life, in Monroe Township. James W. Fowler married
Miss Elizabeth Crawford on the 7th of June, 1852, and in 1861 they
settled on the farm in Stock Township which continued to be their place of
residence during the remainder of their lives, both having been earnest
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer became the parents of two
children: Nellie I. is the wife of Loyd M. Nixon, of
North Township, and they have one son, Clyde; Mary E. is the
wife of Rev. Robert M. Albaugh, a clergyman
of the Baptist Church, and they reside in
Portsmouth, Ohio, their two children being Roberta
M. and William Carroll.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 635 |
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WILLIAM T.
PALMER is effectively showing his executive mettle and practical
resourcefulness in his independent operations as a farmer in his native
township, and is a son of Andrew Palmer,
who likewise is a prosperous exponent of farm enterprise in Nottingham
Township, Harrison County, and who is made the subject of a personal sketch
on the other pages of the volume, so that a repetition of the family record
is not demanded in the present article.
William T. Palmer was born in Nottingham
Township on the 28th of Nov. 1874, and his boyhood and youth found him not
neglectful of the advantages offered in the district schools of his native
township, where he was reared on his father's farm. As a young man he
found employment as a farm workman, and he continued his effective service
in this capacity until in 1901 he engaged in independent farm enterprise in
North Township. After having there rented a farm and given his
attention to its management for one year he rented a farm in Stock
Township, where he centered his vigorous farm enterprise for the ensuing
five years. Success attended his determined and well directed efforts,
and in February, 1907, he found himself so effectively reinforced as to
enable him to purchase his present farm, which comprises seventy-two acres
of the fertile and valuable land of Nottingham Township. Here he has
gained the real status of independence as a representative of the basic
industries of agriculture and stock-growing, and his success has been a
fitting reward for his earnest and faithful endeavors. Mr. Palmer
gives his political support to the republican party, and he served one
term as trustee of Nottingham Township. His wife is an active member
of the Christian Church.
On the 20th of March, 1900, Mr. Palmer wedded
Miss Celeste Merryman, who was born and reared in Nottingham Township,
and who is a daughter of Jeremiah C. Merryman. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer
have two children - Wilbur Carson and Frances Gayle.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 621 |
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JOHN T. PITTIS, one of the
prosperous farmers of Washington Township, is a man who deserves the
prosperity which has attended him, for he has earned it in a legitimate way
through his industry, thrift and business acumen. He was born at
Deersville, Ohio, Apr. 21, 1864, a son of Henry and Rachel (Birney)
Pittis, and grandson of John and Mary (Dore) Pittis. John
Pittis and his wife were both born in England, and came to the United
States with their large family, settling in Franklin Township, Harrison
County, Ohio. Their children were as follows: Edward, Robert,
Thomas, William, who died in infancy, William H. Henry, Mary, Anna,
Jane, Emma and Emeline, both of whom died young, and Julia.
John Pittis was a farmer and became a large landowner.
Henry Pittis was born in England, and came to
this country with his parents. He and several of his brothers remained
in New York City for a time, and there he learned the trade of stencil
cutting. Later on he came to Deersville, Ohio, and after coming to
this region alternated working at his trade with farming. His death
occurred in 1871, but his widow, who was a native of Washington Township,
Harrison County, Ohio, and his second wife, survive him until 1899.
Both were consistent members of the Methodist Church. The first wife
of Henry Pittis was Nancy Simpson, and she bore her husband
three children: Charles, who is deceased, Emma and
Clara. By his second marriage Henry Pittis had two
children, John T. and Mary. The maternal grandparents of
John T. Pittis were John and Hannah (McKee) Birney.
Attending the local schools of Deersville, John
T. Pettis grew up with a knowledge of farming, and as soon as he had
reached his majority he began farming for himself in Franklin Township,
Harrison County. In 1901 he moved to his present farm of 200 acres, a
portion of which is in Tuscarawas County and the remainder in Washington
Township, Harrison County, his residence being located in the latter.
He also owns seventy-five acres of land in another piece that is in
Tuscarawas County and seventy acres in Nottingham Township, Harrison County.
One of the best farmers in his locality, he is carrying on a general farming
and stockraising business and his methods are so successful that many are
adopting them as their own.
In October, 1890, John T. Pittis was married to
Ada Lukens, a daughter of William and Rosa (Clark) Lukens, and
they became the parents of the following children: Harry L. of
Phoenix, Arizona, died Sept. 8, 1920; Henry M., who married Fern
Baker, lives at Uhrichsville, Ohio; Mabel R., Walter, Dwight B.
and Helen, all of whom are at home. Mr. and Mrs. Pittis
are very active in the local Methodist Church, in which they are highly
esteemed, as they are in other circles, for they are fine people in every
way, and are numbered among the most representative citizens of Harrison
County.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 627 |
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ADAM D.
PORTER is a representative of the fourth
generation of the Porter family to be identified with farm industry
and to the exemplar of loyal and progressive citizenship in Harrison County,
his paternal grandfather having been one of the pioneer settlers of Cadiz
Township and he himself being one of the substantial farmers and
representative citizens of Athens Township. His birth occurred in
Cadiz Township, Aug. 12, 1857. In the same township his father,
John Porter, was born on the 31st of January, 1831, a son of Samuel
and Rebecca (Dickerson) Porter, the former of who was born in
Pennsylvania, Sept. 17, 1800, and the latter was born Aug. 23, 1802, their
marriage having been solemnized Apr. 5, 1827. Mrs. Porter was a
daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Dunlap) Dickerson, and her father
likewise was a sterling pioneer and successful farmer of Harrison County.
Joshua and Sarah Dickerson became the parents of nine
children. - Joshua, Jr., John, Adam, William, Rebecca, Susan, Sarah
(died in childhood), and Jane and Mary (twins).
Samuel Porter, grandfather of the subject of
this review, was a son of Samuel and Sarah (Burns) Porter, who were
born and reared in Pennsylvania, where the former learned the saddler's
trade and where he remained until 1802, when he came with his family to what
is now Harrison County, Ohio, where he became associated with his brother
James in the ownership of an entire section of heavily timbered land.
He reclaimed a farm in the midst of the forest, and as the only saddler in
the county he found much demand for his service at his trade in the early
days. He developed one of the best farms in the county, the land
having been purchased from the Government, and here he continued to reside
until his death, Aug. 2, 1869, at the patriarchal age of 105 years.
His wife was born Aug. 15, 1786, and died in 1830, both having been sincere
members of the Presbyterian Church, and his political allegiance having been
given to the democratic party. This honored pioneer couple became the
parents of eleven children - John, James, Smiley, David, Samuel, Jane,
Jolly, Elizabeth, Nancy (died in infancy), Irwin and Sarah,
the last two having never married and having remained on the old homestead
until their deaths. It should be noted in this connection that the
Porter family was founded in Pennsylvania in the early colonial epoch
and that representatives of the same were patriot soldiers in the war of the
Revolution, besides which the family contributed one or more soldiers to the
War of 1812.
Samuel Porter, Jr., grandfather of him whose
name initiates this review, was a small child at the time of the family
removal to Harrison County, where he was reared under the conditions of the
early pioneer period. He became one of the substantial farmers of
Cadiz Township and there remained on his old homestead farm of eight acres
until his death, Dec. 23, 1869, only a few months after the death of his
remarkably aged father. His widow long survived him and was summoned
to eternal rest on the 6th of February, 1892, both having been devout
members of the Presbyterian Church. The names and respective birth
dates of their children are here recorded: Joshua, May 20, 1828;
Sarah, Sept. 8, 1829; John, Jan. 31, 1831; Samuel, Nov.
17, 1832; Mary Jane, Oct. 7, 1834; William, Apr. 7, 1836;
Adam, Nov. 30, 1837; Rebecca, June 21, 1840; and Susanna,
July 10, 1842.
John Porter was reared on the old home farm and
acquired his early education in the pioneer schools of Cadiz Township.
In that township he initiated his independent career as a farmer, and there
he continued his residence on his farm until 1894, when he removed to Cadiz,
the county seat. In 1901, however, he located on a farm near Cadiz
Junction, and after remaining there six years he returned to the city of
Cadiz, where he has since lived retired. He is a democrat in politics
and is a member of United Presbyterian Church as was also his wife.
Nov. 13, 1856, recorded his marriage to Miss Sarah Dunlap, daughter
of Adam and Martha (Thompson) Dunlap, members of honored pioneer
families of Harrison County. Mrs. Porter passed away on the 2d
of October, 1901. Of their children the eldest is Adam D., Jr.,
immediate subject of this sketch, the names of the other five being as here
noted: Martha J., Mary E., Rebecca Amanda (deceased), Sarah Lydia
and Susan I.
Adam D. Porter, Jr., gained his youthful education
in the district school locally known as the Pike's Peak School in Cadiz
Township, and his initial experience of practical order was gained in
connection with the work of his father's farm. As a young man he
worked at the carpenter's trade at intervals, but the basic industry of
agriculture ahs claimed his allegiance during practically the entire period
of his independent career. He continued as a farmer in his present
excellent farm of eighty-four acres in Athens Township, where he stands as
an exponent of agricultural and live-stock enterprise. He is a
democrat in his political adherence and his wife holds membership in the
First Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.
On the 15th of September, 1886, Mr. Porter
married Miss Samantha Jane Thompson, who was born and reared in
Harrison County, a daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Shields) Thompson.
In the concluding paragraph of this sketch is entered brief record
concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Porter.
George married Miss Florence Coleman and is
engaged in farming in his native county. Mary is the wife of
Chester Busby, of this county. John Joseph was one of the
gallant young men contributed by Harrison County to the nation's service in
the late World war. On the 6th of October, 1917, he entered service at
Camp Sherman, Ohio, and in the following month he was sent to Camp Pike,
Arkansas, and in April, 1919, went to Camp Mills, New York. On the
10th of the following month he sailed for the state of war, arriving at
Dover, England, on the 24th of that month and in France on the 5th of June.
He forthwith entered active service with the American Expeditionary Forces,
and he took part in the famous Chateau Thierry campaign, in which he was
wounded in the left arm on the 18th day of July. His injury caused him
to be confined five weeks in Base Hospital No. 36, and on the 11th day of
September, 1918, he rejoined his command as a member of Company A,
Fifty-eighth Infantry, Fourth Division. He took part in the
Meuse-Argonne offensive movement of the allied Troops Sept. 25, to Oct. 19,
1918, and after the signing of the historic armistice he was with the army
of occupation in Germany until July on the 11th of which month he left
Coblenz for Brest, from which port he sailed for the United States on the
24th of that month. He arrived in the port of New York city on the 1st
of August, and received his honorable discharge on the 8th of that
month. He endured the full tension of the great conflict on the blood
stained fields of France, and made a record that shall ever reflect honor
upon his name. HE returned to the parental home after receiving his
discharge. Adam Craig Porter, the next younger son, entered
service at Camp Sherman Oct. 6, 1917, was later assigned to the remount
service, and with his command sailed for France Oct. 6, 1918. There he
continued in the remount service until the close of the war, and he arrived
in his native land in July, 1919, his honorable discharge having been
received on this 8th of that month, and he likewise having gladly returned
to his native county, as one of the honored young veterans of the World war.
The two younger sons, still at the parental home, are William H. and
Carl H.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio -
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JOSEPH H. PORTER.
Farm enterprise in Athens Township, Harrison County,
finds a resourceful and progressive representative in
the person of Mr. Porter, who was born in
Jefferson County, Ohio, Mar. 2, 1881, and who is a scion
of a pioneer family of the old Buckeye State. He
is a son of Nathan M. and Ellen R. (Herney) Porter,
both likewise natives of Jefferson County, the former a
son of Nathan and Nancy (Andrews) Porter, early
settlers of that county. The paternal grandfather
of Nancy (Andrews) Porter was an officer of the
Continental Line of the War of the Revolution.
Nathan M. Porter was reared and educated in
Jefferson County and there continued his activities as
one of the substantial farmers of Wayne Township until
1892, when he came with his family to Harrison County
and established his home on the farm now operated by his
elder son, the immediate subject of this review.
He made numerous improvements on the place after it came
into his possession, and here he remained, as one of the
highly esteemed citizens of the county, until his death,
which occurred June 14, 1914, when he was fifty-eight
years of age, his widow now maintaining her home in the
Village of New Athens, this county, where she is a
member of the United Presbyterian Church, as was also
her husband during the entire period of his residence in
the county. Of the three children Joseph H.,
of this review, is the eldest; Martha V. died
Feb. 2, 1911; and Nathan Audley now resides in
the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Joseph H. Porter acquired his rudimentary
education in the district schools of Wayne Township,
Jefferson County, and later continued his studies in the
district schools in Athens Township, Harrison County, he
having been eleven years of age at the time of the
family removal to the latter county. His higher
education was gained through two years' attendance in
Franklin College at New Athens and by his attending
Valparaiso University at Valparaiso, Indiana, for one
year. In the latter institution he completed a
course in telegraphy, and after thus becoming a skilled
operator he entered in 1904 the Signal Corps of the
United States Army, in which he served two years as a
telegraph operator in the Philippine Islands. He
received his honorable discharge from Government
service in 1907 at San Francisco, California, and
thereafter he was for the major part of the time in the telegraphic service
of the Pennsylvania Railroad until June, 1914. After the death of his
honored father he assumed active charge of the home farm, which comprises
103 acres and is one of the well improved and valuable places of Athens
Township. His youthful experience well equipped him for independent
activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower, and his governmental and
railway service have further fortified him in the successful handling of his
business affairs. He is one of the alert and progressive farmers of
Harrison County, and he and his wife have made their attractive home a
center of gracious hospitality. Mr. Porter is a republican in political
allegiance and is affiliated with the lodge of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows at Cadiz. His wife is a member of the United Presbyterian
Church at New Athens..
Mr. Porter is a scion of a family that was
founded in America in the colonial days and that has given soldiers not only
to the War of the Revolution but also to the various other wars in which the
nation has been involved.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 748 |
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SAMUEL B. PORTER. Just now and then a
man performs the sacred function of enrolling his
ancestry the second time in the annals of any given
community. The men of today owe it to the men of
yesterday to commemorate their deeds of privation and
endurance in bringing about the transformation form
savagery to civilization in any community. Now
that a Who's Who" of Harrison County is again in
prospect, Samuel B. Porter, of Cadiz, again waves
the family banner and keeps the memory green of his
immediate ancestry.
While Mr. Porter now lives in Cadiz, the
farmstead in Athens Township, where he was born, Oct. 8,
1843, has been in the Porter family name since it
was entered from the Government in territorial days in
Ohio, within a year or two from the beginning of the
nineteenth century. S. B. Porter is a son
of David and Theresa (Stone) Porter, who were
pioneer residents of Harrison County. In his days
of farm activity Mr. Porter was among the leading
agriculturists of Green Township, although he was born
in Athens Township.
The Porter family in Harrison County harks back
to Samuel Porter, who came from Pennsylvania.
He was a saddler and always worked at the trade.
He trained with the democrats from the organization of
the party. His son, David Porter, was born
Feb. 5, 1802, just before the family came from
Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Harrison County.
He married Theresa Stone, of Belmont County. She
died in 1859, and lies buried in Crab Apple Cemetery in
Belmont County. David Porter died Dec. 22,
1885, and he lies buried in the cemetery at Cadiz.
The Porters have been Presbyterians throughout
the family history. While David Porter
refused office in party affiliation, he was always
active in affairs of the democratic party. The
children born to David and Theresa (Stone)
Porter are: Sarah, John D., Mary, Samuel B.,
James, David S. and Theresa Elizabeth.
When he was twenty-one years old Samuel B.
Porter married Margaret, a daughter of
John and Eliza (McFadden) Dickerson. For ten
years they lived on a farm in Athens Township, when they
located in Green Township. Mrs. Porter died
there in 1900. He remained on the farm until May
in 1900. He remained on the farm until May, 1918,
when he moved to Cadiz. Mr. Porter
owns two farms, there being 242 acres in the Green and
160 acres in the Cadiz farm. The building site in
Green Township is one that commands a fine view of the
surrounding country.
On Oct. 31, 1906, Mr. Porter married
Josephine Thornberry. Their sons and daughters
are: Mary Belle, wife of Fry Shepler.
They have one daughter, Myrtle, and they live in
Chicago. David D. Porter married Harriet
Haverfield. Samuel Augustus arms the land in
Green Township, Eliza May is
the wife of William Corbley and lives in Cadiz.
While living in Green Township. S. B. Porter
served as trustee of the township four years.
The Porters were given common school advantages
as they were growing into manhood and womanhood, D.
D. Porter attending public school in Cadiz, Green
and Short Creek townships, and later he studied business
methods in the Buchanan Business College at Hopedale.
As a young man, however, he turned his attention to
agriculture. On April 6, 1898, he married
Harriet C. Haverfield. She is a
daughter of Nathan and Mary A. (Harper) Haverfield.
They located on a farm in Green Township, and in 1902
moved to their present home, the farm having been in the
Porter family name for more than one hundred
years. The deed from the Government was issued to
the ancestry in the Porter family. The
children born to D. D. Porter are:
Everett H., Dec. 8, 1901; David P., Aug. 16,
1906; and Mary Doris, June 13, 1910. As in
the past generations the Porter family are
members of the Presbyterian Church in Cadiz.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 516 |
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ALBERT C. POULSON.
The personal characteristics and broad experience of Mr. Poulson have
enabled him to achieve distinctive success in connection with farm
enterprise in his native county and township, and he is now one of the
venerable and influential citizens of the attractive rural community which
has represented his home form the time of his birth to the present, his farm
being a well improved tract of eighty acres in Nottingham Township. In
this township Mr. Paulson was born on the 8th of April, 1847,
and he is a scion of one of the county's sterling pioneer families.
His paternal grandparents John and Susanna (Knight) Poulson, were
natives of Maryland, where the former was born April 9, 1763, and the latter
on the 16th of November, 1781, they having become early settlers in
Nottingham Township, Harrison County, where Mr. Poulson reclaimed a
farm from the forest and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their
lives. Names and dates of birth of their children are here recorded:
Nelson, July 1, 1802; Matilda, December 5, 1805; Rachel
April 17, 1809; and Andrew, December 28, 1814. Andrew
Poulson was born in Maryland and was young at the time of the family
immigration to Ohio, where he was reared to manhood on the pioneer farm in
Nottingham Township, in which township, in which township he continued his
activities as a farmer during virtually his entire independent career.
He was an upright man, loyal in all of the relations of citizenship, and was
of venerable age at the time of his death, as was also his wife, both having
been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. As a young man
Andrew Poulson wedded Miss Susannah Garner who likewise was
native of the State of Maryland, and who was a daughter of Hezekiah and
Sophia (Trippett) Garner, her parents having come from Maryland to
Harrison County in the pioneer days and having passed the remainder of their
lives in Nottingham Township. They became the parents of eleven
children, namely: John, James, Julia, Mary, Elizabeth, Susannah, Amanda,
Sarah, Edward, Thomas and Nelson, the last named having died when
a young man. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Poulson became the parents of
five children: John, who died when about seventy-four years of age;
William, who died in August, 1920; Albert C., the immediate
subject of this sketch; Amanda, the wife of Jasper Irons, of
Moorefield Township, Harrison County; and Hezekiah resides in
Nottingham Township, more specific mention of him being offered in later
paragraphs.
The Hines District School in Nottingham Township gave
to Albert C. Poulson his early educational advantages, from his youth
to the present time he has maintained close association with agricultural
and live-stock industry in his native township. His political
alignment is in the ranks of the republican party, and his wife and daughter
hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Deersville.
On the 4th of June, 1891, was solemnized the marriage
of Mr. Poulson to Miss Bertha Granville, daughter of John
and Martha (Wheeler) Granville. John Granville, who was born in
Franklin Township, Harrison County, became a skilled stonemason, followed
his trade for a number of years at Scio, this county, and then removed to
the village of Tappan, likewise in Harrison County, where he and his wife
remained until their death, both having been members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. They became the parents of nine children: Clara
(deceased), Mary, Anna, Jennie, Nettie, Bertha, Wilbur (deceased),
Blanche and Perley. Mr. and Mrs. Poulson have two children,
both of whom remain at the parental home. Martha Blanche is the
wife of Joseph Griffith, who is associated in the work and management
of her father's farm, and they have one son, Joseph Cole. Harold,
son of the subject of this sketch, as already noted, is a member of the
parental home circle.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago:
Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 686 |
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GEORGE L. POULSON exemplifies a full measure of sponsorship for constructive
enterprise in connection with agricultural and dairy enterprise in North
township, Harrison County, where he is the owner of an excellent farm of 170
acres. He was born in Wayne township, Belmont County, Ohio, on the
28th of August, 1871, and is a son of John W. and Mary M. (Davis) Poulson,
the former of whom likewise was born in Belmont County, and the latter was
born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of George Davis, who
was a prosperous farmer in that county. John W. Poulson was
reared and educated in Belmont County and is a representative of an honored
pioneer family of that section of the Buckeye State. In that county
were born his parents, Mortimer and Olivia (McFadden) Poulson, who
there passed their entire lives, the father having devoted his active career
to farm industry and he and his wife having been earnest members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. they became the parents of five children -
George W., Franklin, John William, Margaret and Hannah.
John William Poulson was reared and educated in his
native county, as previously stated, and there he became not only a
successful farmer in Wayne Township but also gave effective service as a
local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church. About the year 1914
he and his wife removed to the State of Arkansas, where he is now engaged in
farming near Wheeling, besides continuing his earnest church service, and
both he and his wife being specially zealous in the activities of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of nine children:
Josephine is the wife of William F. Clark and they reside in
the State of Missouri; George L., of this review, was the next in
order of birth; Charles R. is a clergyman of the Methodist Church and
at the time of this writing holds a pastoral charge at West Salem, Wayne
County, Ohio; Emma M. is the widow of Dr. M. J. Skiff and
lives at Northeast, Ohio; Omar B. is a pastor of the Methodist Church
at Altoona, Pennsylvania; William Arthur resides at Canton, Ohio;
Jennie is the wife of Thomas Carpenter, of Bellville, Richland
County, Ohio; Herman remains at the parental home; and
Mary died in early childhood.
George L. Poulson gained his early education in
the district schools of his native county and supplemented this by attending
the high school at Somerton, that county. He remained at the parental
home in Belmont County until his marriage in 1895, and for two years
thereafter he found employment on the fine dairy farm of Dorsey Brothers in
Washington County, Pennsylvania. For a time thereafter he was
associated with the operation of a saw mill at Loydsville in Belmont County,
Ohio, and in 1901 he rented a farm near Scio, Harrison County, where he
conducted a successful diary business during the ensuing five years in
partnership with his brother-in-law, Thomas S. Wood, of whom individual
mention is made on other pages, their alliance in this field of enterprise
having continu8ed thirteen years. In 1906 Mr. Poulson purchased
and established his home upon his present form, which he has brought to a
high standard of productiveness and on which he continues his successful
dairy business, with the Village o Scio as the principal market for his
products. Mr. Poulson is a republican in his political
proclivities and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal
Church at Hanover, Ohio.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago:
Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 748 |
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HEZEKIAH G. POULSON,
younger brother of Albert C. Poulson,
subject of the preceding personal sketch, likewise was born of the old
homestead farm in Nottingham Township and is numbered among the prosperous
farmers of this township, the date of his nativity having been March 7,
1851, and his youthful education having been obtained in the district
schools. As a young man he assumed independent functions in connection
with the activities of the old home farm, in the management of which he
continued until 1901, when he removed to another farm not far distant.
There he continued his operations until 1912, when he removed to his present
farm, which adjoins his father's old home place and which comprises 101
acres.
The year 1900 recorded the marriage of Mr. Poulson
to Miss Anna B. Clark, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Locke),
and the one child of the union is a daughter, Vivian L., who was born
Sept. 25, 1904.
(See Albert C. Poulson for more details)
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago:
Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 687 |
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