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1883 BIOGRAPHIES
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HENRY W. EARNHEART.
Of the worthy and successful exponents of the
agricultural interests of the Hanging Rock Iron
Region Mr. Earnheart is a
prominent and popular representative in Vinton
County, where his well improved farm of 120
acres is eligibly situated in section 20, Swan
Township, the place being devoted to diversified
agriculture and the raising of high-grade live
stock, and the general air of thrift and
prosperity giving evidence of the energy,
enterprise and progressiveness of the owner. The
farm buildings are of excellent order, including
an attractive residence of seven rooms, and all
of these permanent improvements have been made
by Mr. Earnheart himself.
On the old homestead which lie now owns and occupies
Mr. Earnheart was born on the 22d of
June, 1853, the place of his nativity having
been an humble log house of the early pioneer
type. Here he was reared to manhood, here
he early gained familiarity with and enduring
respect for honest toil and endeavor, and here
he has continued his well ordered activities as
a farmer and stock-grower since the initiation
of his independent career. Steadfast
rectitude has characterized his course in all of
the varied relations of life, and he has the
unqualified confidence and high regard of the
people of his native county.
Mr. Earnheart is a son of Jacob and Melinda (Bevington)
Earnheart. His father was born in
Pennsylvania, in 1790, a representative of one
of the staunch old German pioneer families of
the Keystone State, and there he was reared to
manhood. He had not yet attained to his
legal majority at the time of the war of 1812,
but he showed his youthful patriotism by prompt
enlistment in a Pennsylvania regiment, with
which he rendered effective service during this
second conflict with England. He became
one of the pioneer settlers of Vinton County,
Ohio, where he purchased a tract of wild land in
Swan Township and instituted the arduous task of
reclaiming it to cultivation. Later he
added to his landed estate, and the farm now
owned by his son Henry W., subject of
this review, was indebted to him for its
reclamation and early improvement. Here
this sterling pioneer continued to reside until
his death, which occurred in 1859. His
first wife, whose maiden name was
Elizabeth Kaylor, died when about
sixty years of age and left no children.
He later wedded Miss Melinda
Bevington, and she survived him by many
years, her death having occurred Oct. 10, 1888,
at which time she was seventy-five years of age.
Both were earnest and consistent members of the
United Brethren Church, and in politics he gave
his allegiance to the democratic party.
The only child of the second marriage of
Jacob Earnheart is he to whom this
sketch is dedicated.
Henry W. Earnheart was reared under the
conditions and influences of what may be termed
the middle-pioneer epoch in the history of
Vinton County, where his early educational
advantages were those afforded in the common
schools and where he began to assist in the work
of the home farm when he was a mere boy.
As the only child of his father he naturally
inherited the old homestead farm, and it may
well be understood that the same is endeared to
him by many gracious and hallowed memories and
associations. He takes a loyal interest in
all that concerns the welfare and progress of
his native county and is one of its substantial
and honored citizens. His political
support is given to the republican party and his
wife holds membership in the Methodist Church.
On the 29th of May, 1880, was solemnized the marriage
of Mr. Earnheart to Miss Elizabeth
Hass, who was born in Swan Township, Vinton
County, on the 20th of March, 1863, and who has
proved a devoted wife and mother, a true
helpmeet to her husband. She is a daughter
of Abraham and Lamson (Steele) Hass, the
former of whom likewise was born in Swan
Township, where his father, Jacob Hass,
was one of the first settlers. Jacob
Hass came to Vinton County when a young man
and here he wedded Miss Catharine Schriner,
both of these revered pioneer citizens passing
the remainder of their lives in this county and
both having been devout members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Abraham Hass and
his wife passed their entire lives in Vinton
County, where he was long one of the active
representatives of farm industry in Swan
Township. He died at the age of sixty-two
years and his widow passed away when the same
age. Mr. and Mrs. Earnheart became
the parents of three children: Nancy J.,
who was born in the year 1881, attended the
local schools and also developed her talent as a
musician. She is now the wife of Edward
Phillips, a prosperous farmer of Jackson
Township, Vinton County, and they have two
daughters - Mary E. and Edith Maude.
Jacob Blane Earnheart died on the 11th of
January, 1893, at the age of eight years.
Fletcher McKinley Earnheart, the younger
son was born Sept. 30, 1894, was afforded the
advantages of the public schools of his native
township and is associated with his father in
the work and management of the home farm.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock
Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated -
Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916
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WILLIAM U. ELLIOTT.
Residing in the attractive little City of
McArthur, the judicial center of Vinton County,
Mr. Elliott is one of the
substantial, progressive and highly esteemed
citizens of this county, where he is the owner
of a large landed estate, in Elk Township, and
where since 1904 he has been actively associated
with the agricultural and live stock industries.
He is acting as a member of the board of
education and also occupies his time largely in
serving as an engineer for the McArthur Brick
Company, a position which he has retained since
1908. Mr. Elliott is one of the
vigorous and public-spirited citizens of the
county that has represented his home for many
years and is a scion of the third generation of
the Elliott family in America.
Mr. Elliott's grandfather, Thomas
Elliott, was born in the Borough of
Cockermouth, Cumberland County, England, the
date of his nativity having been Oct. 10, 1786,
and he having been the youngest of the thirteen
children of Henry Elliott, his parents
having passed their entire lives in England and
he himself having been the only one of the
immediate family to come to the United States.
The grandfather of Mr. Elliott was reared
and educated in his native land, where he
learned the trade of weaver and where he
continued his residence until he was thirty
years of age, when, on the 24th of April, 1816,
he embarked on a sailing vessel and set forth to
seek his fortunes in America. The
protracted and weary voyage covered a period of
more than two months, and he landed at Halifax,
Nova Scotia, on the 12th of July, 1816.
From Canada he soon came into the United States
and after remaining for a time in Boston
employment at his trade, - in the Thistle Mills,
one of the pioneer manufacturing concerns of
that place. There he continued his
residence for many years and there was
solemnized his marriage to Miss Mary Biggert,
who was born in Ireland, on the 12th of July,
1794, and after the birth of their name children
they came with all of their children to Ohio, in
1840. Mr. Elliott purchased a farm
in Muskingum County, and there he had attained
to advanced age, when he removed to Zanesville,
the county seat, where he lived retired until
his death, which occurred Mar. 6, 1854.
His widow survived him by a decade and a half
and passed to eternal rest on her seventy-sixth
birthday anniversary, - July 12, 1870, both
having been devoted Calvanistic Presbyterians in
their religious faith and affiliation.
They became the parents of six sons and three
daughters, all but one of whom attained to
maturity and most of whom married and reared
children, the last of the number to pass away
having been John, who died recently, at
the venerable age of eighty-two years.
Joseph Elliott, father of the subject of this
review, was born in the City of Baltimore,
Maryland, on the 6th of December, 1836, and thus
was a child of about four years at the time of
the family removal to Ohio in 1840. Here
he was reared to manhood in Muskingum County,
and the major part of his boyhood and youth was
passed at Zanesville, where he gained his early
education and where also he served a thorough
apprenticeship to the trade of machinist.
In 1862 he went to Clarksville, Tennessee, where
he found employment at his trade. While
thus engaged he made a return trip to his old
home in Zanesville, where, on the 11th of April,
1864, he wedded Miss Mary Harris, who was
born in Wales, in the year 1839, and who was a
child when she accompanied he parents, Thomas
and Elizabeth Harris, on their immigration
to the United States, her father having followed
his trade of iron-worker and puddler, at
Zanesville, Ohio, until his death. His
wife, who lived for many years after her
husband's death, died in Pittsburg, Pa., at a
son's home, both having been zealous adherents
of the Baptist Church. Mrs. Mary
(Harris) Elliott survived her marriage by
only five years and her death occurred at
Clarksville, Tennessee, in May, 1869, the
subject of this sketch being her only surviving
child. For his second wife Joseph
Elliott, married Miss Jeanette
Watson, who was born at Woodstock,
Province of Ontario, Canada, but who was a
resident of Tennessee at the time of her
marriage. She died at Clarksville,
Tennessee, on the 18th of November, 1884, and is
survived by one child, Kate, who has
never married and who now resides in the home of
her aunt, a sister of her mother, at Embro, a
village in Oxford County, Province of Ontario,
Canada.
After the death of his second wife Joseph
Elliott returned to Ohio, and he became the
owner of a valuable farm property in Vinton
County, where he maintained his residence for a
number of years. While on a visit to the
City of Zanesville, Muskingum County, he died on
the 30th of May, 1903, honored by all who knew
him. He was a staunch supporter of the
cause of the republican party and was a
consistent member of the Presbyterian Church, as
were also both his first and his second wives.
William U. Elliott, whose name introduces this
article, was born at Clarksville, Montgomery
County, Tennessee, on the 10th of January, 1865.
He was about four years old at the time of his
mother's death and was soon afterward taken into
the home of his paternal uncle, John
Elliott, of Zanesville, Ohio, where he was
reared to adult age and where he acquired his
early education in the public schools, this
discipline having later been supplemented by a
course in the Ohio State University at Columbus,
Ohio. He then joined his father on the
latter's farm in Elk Township, Vinton County,
this property coming into his possession after
the death of his honored sire. Mr.
Elliott has retained possession of the
property and is giving to the same a general
supervision. Its value is notably
increased by the fact that the land is underlaid
with a deposit of excellent coal, and the
development of this deposit will eventually
yield large financial returns. In 1894
Mr. Elliott removed to Waterbury,
Connecticut, where he was superintendent of a
department in one of the large brass
manufactories of that section. In 1904 he
returned to McArthur and assumed personal
supervision of his farm and erected one of the
most modern and attractive residences in the
city the same containing nine rooms and being
equipped with the best of modern improvements
and appointments.
Mr. Elliott is liberal and progressive in
his civic attitude, is a staunch republican in
his political proclivities, has served with
characteristic loyalty and efficiency as a
member of the city council, and both he and his
wife are zealous members of the local
Presbyterian Church, in which he is an elder, -
an office in which he succeeded his father soon
after the time of the latter 's demise.
In the year 1889 Mr. Elliott wedded Miss Mary
A. Blackstone, who was born in Richland
Township, Vinton County, on the 28th of
November, 1868, and who is a daughter of
Jacob and Rebecca (Jordan) Blackstone.
Her parents were born and reared in Guernsey
County, this state, of English parentage, and
shortly after their marriage, in October, 1855,
they removed to Vinton County and established
their home on a farm in Richland Township, where
they remained until 1904, when they removed to
McArthur and laid aside the labors and
responsibilities that has so long been their
portion. Here Mr. Blackstone died
in January, 1913, at the age of eighty years,
and his widow, who celebrated her eighty-third
birthday anniversary in 1915, is more alert,
vigorous and vital than the average woman many
years her junior, as shown by the fact that she
not only gives her personal attention to the
domestic affairs of her attractive home in
McArthur but also accords a general supervision
to the business pertaining to her old homestead
farm, of 160 acres, in Richland Township.
She is a devout and specially active member of
the United Brethren Church, as was also her
husband, and he was a staunch republican in his
political affiliation. This sterling and
honored couple became the parents of seven
children, all of whom are living and all married
except one. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott
became the parents of one child, who was named
Joseph Blackstone, in honor of his
paternal and maternal grandfathers, but he died
in early infancy. The Elliott home
is known for its generous hospitality and Mrs.
Elliott is not only its popular chatelain
but is also otherwise prominent in the
representative social activities of the
community, both she and her husband having the
unequivocal esteem of all who know them.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock
Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated -
Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916
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