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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Noble
County, Ohio
with portraits and biographical sketches of some of
its pioneers and prominent men.
Chicago: L. H. Watkins & Co.,
1887
For Reference: Noble County was formed in 1851
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Samuel Caldwell |
THE
CALDWELL FAMILY. The name of Caldwell
has been conspicuous in the annals of Duck Creek Valley from
the earliest history of that region, to the present day.
The progenitor of the Noble County Caldwells was
Robert Caldwell, a native of Chester County, Pa.
He was a man of much natural ability and of great force of
character, these traits being inherited from his
Scotch-Irish ancestors. He served as a teamster in the
Revolutionary War married and settled in Pennsylvania, and
in 1795 emigrated to the Northwest Territory, settling in
Washington County, Ohio, where were then the chief
settlements in the territory. He explored this section
of the county, and by the advice of General Putnam,
made a selection of the land on which he afterward located.
In the year 1808 he came up the west fork of Dick Creek with
his sons and began an improvement on the present Caldwell
farm. He was therefore among the earliest pioneers of
the valley, and the first to make a clearing where the town
of Caldwell now stands. Robert Caldwell died in
1831. His wife's maiden name was Jane Fulton,
who was also a native of Pennsylvania, and a niece of
Robert Fulton, the pioneer steam navigator. Their
children (several of whom were born in Pennsylvania), were
Robert, John, Joseph Samuel, Hiram, Jane, Polly,
Elizabeth, Rebecca, Matilda and Nancy.
The sons are all dead except Joseph. They were
all prominent farmers, and resided in Noble County. Of
the daughters, Jane married Rodney Severance,
and died in Morgan county. Polly married
James Logan, remained in Pennsylvania, and died there.
Elizabeth, the widow of David Archibald, is
still living in Noble County. Rebecca
(deceased) was the wife of John Noble.
Matilda, the wife of John Noble. Matilda
the wife of John Brownrigg, is still living
in Noble county. Nancy became the wife of
Samuel Price.
Joseph Caldwell, the oldest living resident of the
county, was born in Caywood, Washington County, Ohio, in the
year 1798, and came to what is now Noble County in 1809.
He has witnessed the transition of a wilderness to one of
the fertile and productive regions of this action of the
State, and in his person typifies many of the causes which
have produced this great change. Beneath his
observation, like a grand panorama, the forests have
disappeared and fertile fields have taken their place.
Villages and hamlets have sprang up as if by magic.
The iron horse rushes over the same route that he traveled
when a boy by blazed trees through an almost impenetrable
forest. Today he lives in the full possession of his
mental faculties, one of the last survivors of a race the
like of which will never been seen again.
His youth and early manhood were passed upon his
father's farm, where he shared the privations of a pioneer
family. At the age of twenty-six he married Miss
Margaret, daughter of David McKee, whose personal
history will be found in the chapter devoted to Noble
Township. Shortly after their marriage the young
couple commenced life upon the farm where he now resides,
which is a part of the tract entered by his father in 1808,
and which at the time was unimproved with the exception of a
small field where is now the Caldwell school building.
Like his brother Samuel, he identified himself with
nearly all the initial events in the history of this section
of the county. He was one of the pioneer salt-makers
of the Duck Creek Valley, and was one of the parties who
sank the second well bored in the valley; in this well
petroleum was discovered, and it can be said to have been
the first oil well in the United States. The life of
Joseph Caldwell has been comparatively uneventful.
His experiences have not been unlike those of most of the
pioneer farmers of his time. With him the desideratum
has been the welfare of his family and the acquisition of
that priceless agency, an unsullied reputation - and the
full fruition of his desires has been attained. His
aged helpmeet was born near Stanlyville, Washington County,
Ohio, in the year 1800. She has been to him a wife in
all that term implies, and the mother of four children:
Rhoda A. (Coffy), Milton, Ruth (Okey) and Joseph. The
latter resides on the farm where he was born in 1843.
He married Miss Melissa, daughter of Jefferson
Glidden, one of the pioneers of Olive Township.
Samuel Caldwell was in his lifetime one of the
most active, prominent and best-known citizens of the
county. He was born near Lower Salem, Washington
County, Ohio, in 1800 came to Olive Township, with his
parents, and passed the remainder of his days on the farm,
entered by his father. Brought up as a pioneer
farmer's son and subjected to the rigid discipline of that
life, he had few educational advantages, though, perhaps,
more than many of the youth of that day enjoyed. He
attended school for one term in Marietta, and soon afterward
finished his education in the pioneer schools of the
township. He was active as a young man, in all the
sports of the early days. He held some offices in the
State Militia, and was widely known as "Colonel,"
though he never attained to that rank. He followed
farming and stock-raising and was successful in those
pursuits. He was one of the leading citizens in
advocating the formation of Noble County and in securing the
county seat at Caldwell. For the latter purpose he
donated several acres of ground to the county. He may
justly be regarded as the founder of the town, which was
named after him. He was a prominent member of the
Democratic party, but never sought or held any important
office. He was once a candidate for representative to
the legislature from Morgan County, but his party was
defeated and he failed of an election, although he ran in
advance of his ticket. He was a member of no church,
but was a strictly honest, just, God-fearing man, who was
universally respected. He died in 1869. He was
married in 1827 to Sarah Brownrigg, who was born in
Westmoreland County, England, in 1801, and came to this
country with her parents about 1817. Of this union ten
children were born: William B., Jane (Ogle), Joseph
(deceased), Fulton, Mary, who died young;
Sarah (McKee) and Mary (Young), twins; Happy
(McKee), John W. and Hannah (Belford). All
live in Noble County, except William B. and John
W., who are located in western Dakota, and Hannah
(Belford) in Toledo.
William B. Caldwell, the oldest of the children of
Samuel Caldwell was born on the homestead and resided in
the county until about 1880. For twenty years he was
probably the most extensive dealer in live stock in the
county.
Fulton Caldwell, now a
prosperous farmer and a leading citizen, was born on the
Caldwell homestead in 1833. He was brought up a
farmer, and has followed that occupation principally.
His educational training was such as other youth of his day
obtained while attending at the old log school-house and its
successor, "the old red school-house." He was engaged
in mercantile business four or five years, and for about two
years was a stock-buyer and drover. With these exceptions he
has devoted his time and attention to farming, stock-raising
and dairying. For ten years he has been engaged in the
dairy business, keeping an average of fifty cows and raising
Jersey stock of high grad3e. He was married in 1860,to
Ruth E. daughter of Robert McKee. They have
but one child, Charles C. Mr. Caldwell is a
member of the Masonic order. He was among the first
oil operators in the Duck Creek field, and, as is elsewhere
shown, was the means of bringing this field to the attention
of oil men. He took a prominent part in securing the
two railroads of Noble County, probably doing as much to
forward those enterprises as any other man in the county.
He has also been identified with many other important
undertakings calculated to advance the interests of the town
and county. He is enterprising and public-spirited and
bears an honorable name in the community, where he has
always resided. In connection with his brother, J.
W. Caldwell, he has an interest in western land and in a
stock ranch. These brothers sent to the Black Hills in
1876 the first steam sawmill ever operated in that region.
This mill was set up at Deadwood, and it was but a brief
time before it had many competitors.
Source:
History of Noble County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: L. H.
Watkins & Co., 1887~ Page 311 |
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DR. JAMES F.
CAPELL was one of the brightest and best men of the
county. He not only succeeded admirably in his
profession, but he also edited a paper with conspicuous
ability, and was distinguished for the force and vigor of
his writings. Dr. Capell was one of the early
treasurers of Noble County, and in the removal of the county
seat from Sarahsville, he was always an active participant.
He was born and reared in Marion Township, and after
receiving both a common school and collegiate education, he
began the study of medicine under Dr. Waddell of
Belmont County. He located at Sarahsville early in the
history of that town, and was soon in successful practice.
For thirty years he was an untiring worker in the
professional field, and had the esteem and respect of all
who knew him. Probably his practice was larger than
that of any other physician of the county of his time.
He died in the vicinity of Caldwell, at the home of his
father-in-law, Dr. David McGarry. Preceding
Dr. Capell at Sarahsville, there were several physicians
who were brief residents - Dr. Welch, originally from
Belmont County; Dr. Connor, from the vicinity of
Cumberland, and others. Dr. J. Y. Hopkins was a
resident of Sarahsville in 1851. He remained several
years. The present physicians are: Dr. W. S.
Spriggs and Dr. J. D. Aldridge.
Source:
History of Noble County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: L. H. Watkins
& Co., 1887~ Page 189 |
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Noble
Twp. -
JAMES CARR, the subject of this
notice, was a leading farmer and a prominent and successful
business man. James Carr was born in Brooke
County, W. Va., in 1824. He was the second child and
the oldest son of a family of eight children. His
father's name was Joseph Carr and the children were
Mary (Wheeler) and Maria (Morgareidge).
The mother, whose maiden name was Eliza McCleary,
died in 1833, and Mr. Carr afterward married Nancy
Wheeler, by whom he had seven children:
Elizabeth, Lemuel N., Ellis C. (deceased), Julia A. (Koons),
Henrietta (Gallatin), Taylor and Ethelinda
(Balderson). Of the sons, Lemuel, who now
lives in Cumberland, Ohio, was a soldier in the One Hundred
and Twenty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was a
prisoner at Andersonville for eight months. Ellis
was also in the service and received a wound from a piece of
shell. Although he served through the war, he died
immediately after reaching home.
The Carr family came to Ohio in 1835, settling
in Bristol Township, Morgan County. The father was a
farmer, and died in 1878. His widow is still living
with two of her children, upon the homestead. James
passed his boyhood upon the farm until 1842, when he
started out to make his own way in the world. He went
first to Belmont County and thence to Allegheny City, Pa.
He remained in Pennsylvania two years, driving through the
country selling clocks and "Bee-palaces." In 1844 he
got the "western fever," and emigrated to Iowa and from
there to California. He located at Sigourney
where he was engaged in the mercantile business and the
loaning of money, doing a very successful business.
Here, in 1847, he married Miss Helen L. Pinkerton,
who bore three children, Inez, Iowa (deceased),
Charles S., who is married and resides in Nelsonville,
Athens County; and Helen S. (Boyd), Sharon Township.
Mr. Carr's first wife died in Jan. 20, 1856.
In 1857 Mr. Carr returned to Ohio, and bought
the farm now owned by Mr. Lovell, in Malta Township,
Morgan County. In the following year he married
Miss Martha J. Noble. They continued to reside in
Morgan County until 1868, and from that time until his
decease made their home with Mrs. Carr's father, the
venerable John Noble.
Mr. Carr was prospered
admirably in his business relations, his good judgment,
courage and tact serving him in good stead. Although
he was an invalid for several years before his death, he
maintained his native cheerfulness undisturbed.
Thankful for the favors which fortune granted him, he
rejoiced that he was no longer under the necessity of a
continual striving after the "almighty dollar." He was
one of the prime movers in organizing and securing a charter
for the Noble County Bank, and was identified with other
important home enterprises. He was a man of good
general information, a fluent conversationalist and of
agreeable social qualities. He died Jan. 31, 1887, and
was buried with Masonic honors.
Source:
History of Noble County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: L. H. Watkins
& Co., 1887~ Page 502 |
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TIMOTHY
CLEVELAND was born in Maine and settled in Beaver
Township
in 1819. He married Miss Sarah W. Pierce, who
was a native of the same State. They had a family of
seven children, three of whom, Mary T. (Gale),
Frank G., and Thaddeus S., are living.
The latter was born in Somerset County, Me., Aug. 31,
1818. He has been twice married. His first wife
was a Pennsylvania lady; his second wife was Miss Mary,
daughter of William Dement, a Virginian, who was one
of the pioneers of Wills Creek, Monroe County, where he
settled in 1806. He was prominent in the early affairs
of that region, and carried the first mails from Wheeling,
West Va., to Cincinnati, Ohio, in a canoe. He was
possessed of a good education, and for years was a prominent
magistrate and an influential citizen. By the last
marriage there were three children: Wellington,
Benjamin and Henry J. The latter was born
in Calais, Ohio, in 1853. He came to Noble
County in 1880, settling in Elk. In 1885 he was
elected sheriff, which position he now (1887) holds.
He married Miss Emma A., daughter of Thomas Foster,
of Summerfield.
Source:
History of Noble County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: L. H.
Watkins & Co., 1887 - Page 310 |
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LIEUT. HENRY CLINEDINST Source:
History of Noble County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: L. H.
Watkins & Co., 1887 - Page 291 |
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WALLACE H. COOLEY Source:
History of Noble County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: L. H.
Watkins & Co., 1887 -Page 208 |
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NATHAN P. COPE Source:
History of Noble County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: L. H.
Watkins & Co., 1887 - Page 521 |
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DR. JOSHUA CRAIG Source:
History of Noble County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: L. H.
Watkins & Co., 1887 - Page 192 |
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PETER CROW - See
Chapter XXVI - Elk Twp. Source:
History of Noble County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: L. H.
Watkins & Co., 1887 - Page 521 |
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