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Source:
History
of Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Combination atlas map of Tuscarawas
County, Ohio
Strasburg, Ohio: Gordon Print.,
1875
359 pgs. L. H. Everts
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HON. SIMPSON HARMOUNT.
The gentleman whose name we have placed at the head of this
biographical notice is a native of Franklin County,
Pennsylvania, born Apr. 3, 1828. His early history is
of a part with that of other poor boys whose educational
privileges and financial resources were exceedingly meagre,
and, like other self-made men who now occupy places of honor
and influence in Church and State, he has carved out his own
fortune. At an early age were developed the
characteristics of indomitable energy and untiring
perseverance, - the essential elements of success.
Very applicable would be the maxim of Horace, - "Viam,
aut inve iam, aut faciam."
His paternal ancestors were Huguenots, and were
driven by the religious persecution of the sixteenth century
from France into Holland, and thence followed the fortunes
of the Prince of Orange into Ireland. His mother's
ancestors were of Scotch origin; settled in the County of
Londonderry, Ireland, and were participants in the defense
of that city at the famous siege of 1689. Her father,
William Simpson, resided in the town of Coleraine,
where she, Elizabeth, was born. The name of her
maternal ancestors was Barr.
The father and mother of the subject of this sketch
- Robert Harmount and Elizabeth Simpson - were
married on the 15th of January, 1805, and in the following
year emigrated to America, landing in Philadelphia in
December, 1806. In 1835, they came with their family
to Tuscarawas County. The father died in March, 1842,
and his mother in January, 1870.
Mr. Simpson Harmount has held many
positions of public trust and responsibility, in the
discharge of the duties of which he exhibited an inflexible
integrity of character that early secured him the confidence
of his fellow-citizens. When he was but little past
twenty-one years of age (in 1849), he was appointed by the
Ohio State Board of Public Works Collector of Tolls on the
Ohio Canal, at Canal Dover, in which capacity he remained
four years of age (in 1849), he was appointed by the Ohio
State Board of Public Works Collector of Tolls on the Ohio
Canal, at Canal Dover, in which capacity he remained four
years. He ha also served the people of Tuscarawas
County in the office of Treasurer. He has likewise
represented the eighteenth Senatorial District - comprising
the counties of Coshocton and Tuscarawas - in the Ohio
Senate. In January, 1869, he was elected a member of
the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, which position he still
occupies, and during four years of this time held the office
of Treasurer. In 1842 he was admitted to the bar.
On the 17th of August, 1858, Mr. Harmount was
married to Miss Isabella Noble, daughter of Thomas
Noble, Esq., of Stark County, Ohio. Miss Noble
was born in Westmoreland County, England, Feb. 1, 1833, and
was brought by her parents to America in the same year.
Her father settled in Stark County, Ohio, on a farm which
still remains in the possession of the family. Mr.
Harmount has had a family of three daughters:
Elizabeth S., Isabella N., and Anna L. The
latter died in infancy. Mrs. Harmount
died Dec. 9, 1863. Mr. Harmount is
a gentleman of many refined sensibilities and polished
manners, and is the very soul of honor.
Source: Combination Atlas Map of Tuscarawas County,
Ohio by L. H. Everts & Co. – Philadelphia – 1875 ~ Page 19 |
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GEORGE F. HORNING
Source: Combination Atlas Map of Tuscarawas County,
Ohio by L. H. Everts & Co. – Philadelphia – 1875 ~ Page 10 |
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RALPH T. HORNING - George
F. Horning, born Apr. 9, 1823, at Musdorf, Kingdom of
Wurtemberg, Germany, came to America in 1840. His
emigration like many others was made in early youth to avoid
long and blighting service in the German army. He came
at once to Tuscarawas County, where he died Sept. 10, 1879.
He was married May 1, 1849, to Miss Harriet M. Perry,
who was born July 30, 1830, at West Falls, Erie County, New
York, and came to Ohio in 1848. She was a daughter of
Andrew and Alexia Paul Perry. The father of
Alexia and Daniel Paul, and the father of Andrew
was Seth Perry, who was of the family that has given
our history the famous Commodores of that name,
RALPH T. HORNING, the youngest
child of George F. and Harriet M. Perry Horning, was
born Oct. 6, 1859, on the Horning farm one and a half
miles east of New Philadelphia, with which his life has been
identified in both schools and business. In the fall
of 1876 he began mercantile life as a clerk in the dry goods
store of T. K. Williams, in the Williams Block on the
northeast corner of the Public Square where the Court House
now stands. A picture of that once notable block is
elsewhere given as an historic landmark. The
proprietor, Mr. Williams, is remembered by Mr.
Horning as an example for emulation to whom he owes
gratitude for much worthy instruction. In this store
he continued as a clerk until 1884, when he purchased a half
interest in the business, which was continued under the firm
name of Williams and Horning until Jan. 1888, when
the firm sold out to Urfer and Kinsey.
In the all of the same year he entered the iron business.
The Spicer Manufacturing Company. Later on, he was
made the general manager, and he has held these offices
without interruption to the present time. He is also
one of the incorporators of the Ohio Stovepipe and
Manufacturing Company, in which he is a stockholder.
He is an active citizen and has served several terms in the
government of the city whose welfare is a source of
satisfaction. He most earnest intentions are given to
the promotion of distant trade for home benefit. On
July 9, 1885, he was married to Eva M., daughter of
Benjamin P.
Scott.
Source: Page 10 - ALSO Photo of Residence of Ralph T.
Horning, New Philadelphia) |
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JOHN HOVER,
Ulrichsville. Few citizens of Tuscarawas County
will fail to recognize in the caption of this article the name of one of her
youngest, yet most energetic business men, whose history, through extending over
a period of but few years, has nevertheless been quite
eventful.
The biographer,
therefore, begs the privilege of speaking somewhat in detail of those
circumstances and transactions in which the more prominent traits in his
character have been especially developed.
He is the eldest
child of Henry Hover and Sarah Ann Roff,
and was born in Mercer County,
Pennsylvania, May 5, 1845.
His father was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, May 5, 1845. His father was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania,
Feb. 16, 1821; and his mother in same County, Dec. 29, 1824. They were married Jan. 18, 1844, and
have had five sons and four daughters:
John, James (died in infancy), Henry,
Jr., Sarah Ann,
Alice, Mary, Albert, Augustus, and Naomi.
The family came
to Ohio
in the latter part of 1852, and, after a short residence in
Mahoning County, removed to
New Philadelphia
in May, 1854.
Mr. Hover has been a wagon-maker by trade for the past twenty-five years.
In the boyhood of
Mr. John Hover were exhibited
elements of character that are particularly worthy of notice. He possessed a more than ordinarily
active nervous temperament, and his thirst for knowledge, as well as for
something to do, was literally insatiable.
When very young he would frequently ask his parents to get him a job of
work, so that he could be earning something.
As early as nine years of age he applied at the
Tuscarawas Advocate office for a
position to “fly” the papers. As he
was very small, it was feared he could not “fill the bill,” but a trial was
granted him. His small stature was
supplemented by a box upon which he was elevated, and the “infant” apprentice
soon proved himself fully equal to the emergency, and in this and other work,
including the “carrying” of the papers, found employment there for several
years. His desire for learning was
such that, after working busily all day, he would often pursue his studies after
night. His school privileges were
very limited, and after the age of twelve ceased entirely. This may be partially explained by
the fact that just previous to their coming to
New Philadelphia
his parents met with such financial reverses as reduced them to poverty, and
even distress, and John, being the
oldest boy, naturally had to shoulder the heaviest burden and endure the chief
privations. While upon one of his
trips in carrying papers one bitter cold day, he froze his feet, from the
annoyance of which misfortune he has never fully recovered.
When about twelve
years old, he went to work in the brick-yard of his uncle
John Robb, and for several summers
was employed in “off-bearing” the brick from the mill where they were moulded to
their “drying place,” which work, considering the fact that he possessed an
unusually delicate constitution (so delicate that, when younger, his parents
despaired of ever being able to raise him), was severely trying upon his fragile
frame. Every one knows that such
heavy labor demands the strength of robust manhood. Young
Hover performed this unequal task for
the small pittance of twenty-seven cents per day.
Upon other occasions he might have been found in the harvest field
binding his row of grain after the cradler.
Probably no young man in the County has performed a greater variety, nor,
for his strength, more of hard labor that he.
Upon the breaking
out of the war in 1861, a large club was formed for the daily
Ohio State Journal, and a responsible
manager being needed for the same, the enterprise was offered to young
Hover, then in his fifteenth year. He accepted, and soon became the
chief news-boy of the town. He set
up a regular news stand, and as his business increased he added to his stock of
papers sheet music, stationery, toilet articles, and notions of various kinds,
and ere long his store room, which was a model of neatness and order, became a
favorite resort for the elite of the
village.
At an early stage
in his newspaper trade, as an illustrations of his enterprise, shrewdness, and
business tact, it may be mentioned that at
times of special rush for the news, when the demand for papers was
greater than his supply, he would slip out in town and buy up some of the papers
from parties to whom he had sold them but a few hours before; and in this way he
met the extra demand.
He once had two
subscribers to the weekly New York Staats
Zeitung who lived a mile beyond Dover, to whom he carried the papers a
distance of four miles each way, and his profits upon them were
two and a half cents! When asked why he took that
long walk for so insignificant a pittance, he replied, with an air indicative of
remarkable business shrewdness, “It’s just so much profit; and more than that,
it’s an advertisement for me; it shows I’m doing something!”
As might be
expected, his business rapidly increased; and here it may appropriately be
stated, as complimentary to his filial regard, that in 1862-63, in connection
with his brother Henry, he assisted
to erect the house in which his parents now reside.
In 1864 Mr. Hover sold out his store goods, and enlisted in the 98th O. V. I. Was employed as clerk in the general
muster office at Columbus
for some three months, and could have remained longer, but, preferring to “go to
the front,” served under General Sherman
in his famous “march to the sea.” He
was mustered out at Louisville,
Kentucky, in 1865.
In the fall of
this year he entered the County
Recorder’s office, as Deputy, where he remained one year. In the fall of 1866 he engaged in the
grocery trade in Uhrichsville, which he carried on for nearly seven years, and
in the fall of 1873 he bought out the Dennison Store Company, tailoring and
gents’ furnishing establishment. For
size, convenience of arrangement, finish, and beauty, his store is second to
none in Tuscarawas
County.
The Post-Office Block, which he has erected, is a credit to the place, and
Mr.
Hover is the Postmaster.
Mr. Hover’s business tact is for his
age seldom equaled, and his energy far outruns his physical strength, while his
perseverance knows no such thing as letting up, and already he is spoken of as
the “Irrepressible Hover.” Said a gentleman to the writer, “You
may temporarily cripple him, but you can never financially kill him.”
His brother Albert, assistant Postmaster in the Dennison Post-Office is a “chip of the same block.” He possesses a remarkable versatility
of genius. Though only sixteen years
of age, he conducts, to the full satisfaction of the public, the whole business
of the office, and also runs a book, stationery, and news department. His future is full of promise.
May 2, 1867,
Mr. John Hover married Miss Mary Hay, daughter of
Henry Hay, an old merchant of
New Philadelphia.
Before closing,
the biographer would mention one thing more; and that is, that
Mr. Hover often alludes with special
pride and a deep sense of gratitude to the faithful moral and religious training
that he received from his parents in his tender years, and it is not a little
remarkable that he has never made use of tobacco in any form, nor of
intoxicating drinks. This noble
example is worthy of special attention on the part of all young people. It may also be set down as a rule
that the filial son will make the faithful husband.
Source: Combination Atlas Map of
Tuscarawas County,
Ohio
by L. H. Everts & Co. –
Philadelphia – 1875 ~ Page 16
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JOHN S. HULL. The
subject of this sketch was born in Washington County,
Pennsylvania, July 30, 1811. His mother died when he
was in his third year, and he was left fatherless at the age
of five. Through the kindness of an uncle he was
favored with such advantages at the schools of the day
afforded till he was sixteen years old. He then served
a five years' apprenticeship at the cabinet-maker's trade,
but was unable to follow it for any length of time, on
account of ill health, occasioned by the fumes in
varnish-making. From 1832 to 1839 he was employed as
clerk in a store in Cadiz, Ohio.
On the 23d of March, 1837, he was married to Miss
Clara, daughter of John Pritchard, of Cadiz,
Ohio, by whom he had one son, who died in infancy.
Mrs. Hull died December 13, 1837.
In October, 1839, he commenced mercantile business in
New Philadelphia, which he carried on till 1850. On
January 18,1 842, Mr. Hull married for his second
companion Miss Mary Ann McElroy, of St. Clairsville,
Ohio. This union has been blessed with one son and
three daughters, viz.: Daniel K., born February 8,
1843, died August 27, 1843; Mary E., born August 4,
1844; married Charles C. Welty. Has two
daughters and one son; Emma B., born April 1, 1848,
died November 18, 1861; Ida M., born July 24, 1852.
In 1852, Mr. Hull became connected with the New
Philadelphia Foundry, acting first as superintendent, and
subsequently as book-keeper and clerk. Here he
remained some nine years. For some two years, also, he
was book-keeper in the banking-house of P. & A. Vinton.
For something over a year, during the late civil war,
Mr. Hull was connected with the Quartermaster's
Department of the 80th O. V. I., although he was
beyond the age of military duty.
In October 1866, he was placed in the office of
Postmaster at New Philadelphia, the duties of which position
he has ever faithfully discharged. When he took the
office it contained two hundred and eighty-three call-boxes,
which were ample for the business at that time. In
1868 he added ninety-six call-boxes of the beautiful Yale
pattern, one hundred and eighty of them being call- and one
hundred and twenty lock-boxes. The former can be
easily changed to the latter whenever occasion may require.
A separate desk has also been established for the
transaction of money-order and registered-letter business.
A transient-delivery case, of a greatly improved pattern,
has also been introduced, labeled with a double row of the
letters of the alphabet, so arranged that, in many cases,
the clerk can tell at a glance- without touching a letter -
whether there is anything or not for the person calling.
So admirably does this work that ten letters can be
delivered to one under the old arrangement.
For neatness and convenience this office is second to none
in the country. Great credit is due to Mr. Hull
for his enterprise and efficient management. In the
conduct of the office he has been for some time materally
assisted by his accomplished daughter, Miss Ida M. Hull.
It is but justice to say that the late liberal
outfit of the New Philadelphia Post-office has been prompted
on the part of Mr. Hull by a sense of gratitude
towards the patrons of the same for having through their
influence, been appointed to a third term as Postmaster, and
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ALEXANDER HUSTON,
was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, March 10, 1794.
The twenty years of his life were spent upon his father's
farm. At the age of ten he came with his father's
family to Ohio, and after three years passed in the vicinity
of Wheeling, went to Moorefield Township, Harrison County.
When a young man he learned the carpenter's trade, and
worked at it at intervals for several years. At the
age of twenty-two, he married Miss Margaret Crabtree, and
subsequently went to farming on land which he improved for
the lease.
Some forty years since, he bought the farm upon which
he now resides. His chief occupation in live stock,
and the old gentleman has today as good an eye for a fine
horse as he ever had, and is probably as good a judge of the
qualities of this noble animal as any man in the County.
He has had two sons and two daughters, the latter deceased.
Mrs. Huston died June 9, 1861. When young,
Mr. Huston was a great hunter. He is now one of
the oldest citizens of the County. His residence is
beautifully located on a high eminence commanding a
delightful view of the Stillwater Valley, and overlooking
the villages of Dennison and Uhrichsville. Here, in
this delightful spot, this early settler proposes to spend
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