BIOGRAPHIES
 Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio
Publ. Chicago: Inter-state
Publishing Co.
1884
GEORGE
W. HARBARGER was born in Clarion County, Pa.,
June 30, 1845, a son of John and Susannah (Hyskill)
Harbarger. His ancestors were among the early
settlers of the Shenandoah Valley, in Virginia.
His parents were married in 1842, and in 1859
removed to Hamden, Vinton Co., Ohio. His father
enlisted in 1861, in Company D, Second Virginia Cavalry,
and served four years. In 1868 he removed to
Columbus, Ohio, where he now resides. Our subject
is the second of nine children. His mother died in
1875, and his father afterward married Jennie
Partello. Mr. Harbarger is self educated, was
a teacher in the public schools of Jackson County from
1863 until the fall of 1879, when he was appointed
Superintendent of the Jackson County Infirmary, a
position he still occupies. He is Secretary of the
State Association of Infirmary Officials, which meets
annually at Columbus, Ohio, and was Secretary of the
County Agricultural Society for a number of years.
He is a member of the County Literary Society and is
prominently identified with the County Teacher's
Association, and is now serving his sixth year as a
member of the County Board of School Examiners.
Politically he is a Republican. He has been a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church since 1861, and
was licensed as a local preacher in 1871. He was
married in 1865 to Nannie A. (McKinnis) Haslet
and has two sons.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 557 |
JOSEPH
HUMPHRIES, of the Jackson Coal and Lumber
Company, was born in Wilkesville, Vinton Co., Ohio. in
1829, a son of Joseph and Nancy (Spencer) Humphries.
His parents were early settlers of Wilkesville and both
died in 1830, leaving five children - John W.,
Elizabeth, Sarah, Nancy and Joseph. The
latter was taken by James S. and Harmion Dixon,
of Jackson, by whom he was reared and educated. At
the age of seventeen he began farming for himself and
followed that occupation till twenty-five, after which
he was engaged in saw-milling and lumbering, and was for
a time in the flouring mill in Berlin, Ohio.
During the late war he was a member of the Home Guards
and was on duty at Johnson's Island. Since 1867 he
has been a resident of Jackson, and until 1882 was
engaged in farming and dealing in stock. Jan. 24,
of the latter year he was the prime mover in the
organization of the Jackson Coal and Lumber Company, and
has charge of the office at the west end of Main street.
They have stock valued at $10,000, consisting of all
kinds of building lumber and materials; also feed, baled
hay, corn, bran, etc. Mr. Humphries
was married in 1851 to Sarah Littrell, who died
in Aug., 1865, leaving eight children. In 1868 he
married Elizabeth Hurst. Mr. and Mrs.
Humphries are members of the Methodist church.
Politically he is a Republican and has always taken an
active part in political matters. In the spring of
1883 he was elected a Trustee of Lick Township.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 559 |
J. R. HUNTER,
ex-County Treasurer, Jackson, is a son of Archibald
Hunter, who was of Scotch extraction and born in
Eastern Pennsylvania in 1775, but died in Jackson
County, Ohio, in 1851. He was reared to farm life,
which, together with tanning, he followed mostly through
life. His wife was Margaret Harvey, who
settled with him and eight children in Carroll County,
Ohio, in 1837, and in 1849 in Jackson County. His
widow still survives, aged eighty-six years. Of
their nine children J. R. is the third, and was
born Dec. 12, 1825, in Washington County, Penn.
His parents reared him on the farm and gave him the
opportunities of acquiring a fair education, which was
completed at the Carrollton Academy in Carroll County,
Ohio. His perceptive faculties were keen, and his
attentiveness as a student, together with his stability
of principle, enabled him to acquire a thorough
education, which he utilized by becoming a teacher quite
young, a profession he followed about twenty years with
good success, both as a disciplinarian and instructor.
His method of governing was kind yet firm and he at all
times was held in high esteem by his pupils and patrons.
He came to Jackson County the same year that his father
moved here, commencing life for himself, and by
practicing economy and industry ere long became the
owner of a fine farm, partly in Franklin and partly in
Scioto townships. The cares of this in 1865 became
so great that he abandoned teaching. He had for
some time given considerable attention to stock, which
from 1865 increased very much and still receives due
attention. His political affiliations have always
been cast with the Republican party which, in the fall
of 1875, honored him with the office of Treasurer of
Jackson County, to which he was re-elected in the fall
of 1877, running in advance of his ticket. The
office was filled two terms with unquestioned integrity
and uprightness of principle. He then retired,
laying all duties aside save superintending his farm.
In religion he is an ardent supporter of the Methodist
Episcopal church, to which his wife also belongs.
He was first married in 1851 to Eliza Parks, a
native of Virginia, but mostly reared in Jackson County,
Ohio, where she died. They had born to them six
children, five of whom were living at the time of her
death and three now survive. In January, 1881, he
married for his second wife Miss Lizzie, the
widow of J. G. Norris, whose maiden name was
Buxton, a native of Pittsburg, Pa., but since about
1854 a resident of Ohio.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 560 |
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