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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Guernsey County, Ohio
by Col. Cyrus P. B. Sarchet
- Illustrated -
Vols. I & 2.
B. F. Bowden & Company,
Indianapolis, Indiana -
1911
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GEORGE SALLADAY Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by
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JACOB W. SALLADAY Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio
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LEWIS F. SALLADAY Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio
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WARREN SALLADAY Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by
Col. Cyrus P. B. Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ:
B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 574 |
Cyrus C. P. Sarchet
Moses Sarchet
Mrs. Martha Sarchet
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THE SARCHET FAMILY were
among the first to settle in this county, being among the number
of families that emigrated from the island of Guernsey (France)
in 1806, and as the family have been prominent in the history of
this county, which was named for the island they came from, it
may be of interest to the reader of local history to know
something in detail of the ancestry as well as of the members of
the family who have left their impress on their adopted country.
The Sarchet family,
of the island of Guernsey, Europe, were descendants of the De
Souchets,
of the north of France. Thomas,
a son of that family (who were zealous Catholics), obtained,
during his majority, a French Bible, which he persisted in
reading, against the protest of his father and mother, as also
the parish priest, who threatened the anathemas of the church.
The Bible is still in the Sarchet family
as a precious relic. Through fear, he fled from his home to the
island of Jersey, from there to Guernsey, where he assumed the
name of Sarchet.
This was about the year 1670. He married and had one son. The
son married and had two sons, Thomas and Peter, who
became the heads of two families in Guernsey. Thomas,
John, Peter and Nicholas,
were the sons of Thomas, and Peter,
the only son of Peter,
and, these five sons having all emigrated to Guernsey county,
Ohio, the name is now extinct in the Island of Guernsey.
Thomas, the
elder son of Thomas,
succeeded to the patrimonial estate, the old "Sarchet
mansion," a
massive stone structure of the olden time, with fourteen acres
of land attached. HE was a cultivator of fruits and vegetables
for the market of St. Petersport, and also a carter or drayman
of the city. John was
a ship's blacksmith, a maker of chain cables and anchors; a man
of more than ordinary ability, shrewd and cunning; he was an
advocate of free trade, and represented the Iron-master's Union
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania before the ways and means
committee of the House of Representatives of the United States,
in a report advocating free-trade in iron. His report was
bitterly assailed by Henry
Clay,
as coming from a dirty-handed smuggler of the island of
Guernsey; the report was sustained by Albert
Galliten,
in an able speech, wherein he pronounced that, though John
Sarchet's
hands were dirty, it was from honest toil, and that his argument
was unanswerable.
Peter
Sarchet was
a carpenter, and Nicholas was
a blacksmith, each of whom were quiet, frugal, industrious men,
filling their places in society with credit to themselves and
families.
Peter,
son of Peter,
was a gentleman of leisure and means, with the title of Sire
Peter.
THOMAS
SARCHET, SR., the
pioneer of the Guernsey families of Guernsey county, Ohio, was
born in the parish of Saint Samson, island of Guernsey, in
Europe, June 29, 1770, and was married to Anne,
or Nancy
Birchard, a
daughter of James
Birchard and Esther Gallienne, of
the parish of La Quartie, in the year 1789, to whom were born
four sons and two daughters,
Thomas, David, Peter B., Moses, Nancy and Rachel,
all of whom were born in the island of Guernsey.
In the year 1806, when all Europe was under arms and the
eagles of the first Napoleon were spreading from kingdom to
kingdom, and kings and crowns were at his disposal, the island
of Guernsey, in the English channel, between the two great
contending powers, was made the rendezvous for the troops of
England and her allies. The inhabitants were compelled to
supply the troops with provisions, and "press-gangs" were
over-running the island, pressing all able bodied men into the
English service. Thomas
Sarchet,
a philanthropist and Christian, opposed to war, resolved to seek
a home in the New World of the West. The old ancestral home,
the home of Victor
Hugo,
the French republican, who would not follow the lead of the "man
of December" during his exile, was disposed of, and in May,
1806, Thomas,
John and Peter
Sarchet and Daniel
Ferbrache,
a brother-in-law, with their families, boarded a fishing smack
at Saint Petersport, bound for a Jersey port, where they were to
take passage in an English emigrant ship bound for Norfolk,
Virginia. On the voyage to Jersey the smack was boarded by a
"press-gang" and two young men named Simmons,
who were passengers bound for America, were taken from the
boat. On arriving at Jersey, Thomas
Sarchet appeared
before the governor of the island and demanded the immediate
release of the two young men, which he succeeded in obtaining.
This is mentioned to show a distinguished trait of his character
- a heart that went out after the distressed and oppressed..
The English ship, commanded by Captain
McCrandal,
a son-in-law of Sire
Peter Sarchet,
was convoyed by an English man-of-war out of the English channel
into the ocean until it was thought the ship was safe from the
French cruisers, when the farewell and lucky journey was
extended and the ship and escort parted. After being a few days
out, a French cruiser was sighted in full pursuit. A canvas had
been prepared for such an emergency, and soon the name of the
ship was covered by "The Eliza of Boston" and the American Jack
proudly floated to the breeze. The French cruiser not being
aware of the ruse, and the United States and France being on
good terms, gave up the chase. The ocean voyage was calm and
pleasant, without any unusual occurrence, excepting the death of
a child of the Ferbrach
family,
the body being wrapped in a sheet and consigned to the ocean,
after the impressive burial service of the Episcopal church had
been read by the captain, to await the day when "the sea shall
give up its dead."
The landing was made at Norfolk, June 3, 1806, and shipping
taken for Baltimore, Maryland. At that city, wagons, horses and
equipments for the overland journey were procured, and they
passed out of Baltimore June 16th, the sun then being in total
eclipse. The point of destination in the west was Cincinnati,
Ohio. The journey over the mountains was a long and tiresome
one, beneath the hot, sultry sun of July and August. Arriving
at Cambridge, August 14, 1806, the town being just laid out and
the underbrush cut off Main street a consultation was had with
the proprietors of the town, Jacob
Gomber and Zaccheus
A. Beatty,
which resulted in a determination to stop and settle. A brush
tent was hastily built near the spring, on land in what is now
known as Lofland addition
to Cambridge, here "their wanderings were o'er."
Thomas
Sarchet purchased
lot number 58, corner of Main and Vine streets, as then known,
and at once began the erection of a hewed log house, which was
completed in the summer of 1807, and is still standing (October,
1910). It is the oldest landmark of the pioneer settlement in
Cambridge, it having been weather boarded, however, which
greatly preserved it intact all these years - one hundred and
three. There pioneer Sarchet lived
the remainder of his days, dying April 21, 1837, aged
sixty-seven years, and there also his good wife resided until
her death, April 2, 1849, aged eighty-three years.
A number of years before his death Mr.
Sarchet lost
almost entirely the use of his limbs and had to be carried to
his church, a duty that was cheerfully performed by his
religious brethren, as a tribute to his worth and their esteem
for the old father of the church whose great delight was in
communion with the saints. He sang with rapturous delight one
of the old Methodist hymns:
"My latest sun is sinking fast,
My race is nearly run."
The funeral services of Thomas Sarchet and Anne
Sarchet were conducted by Rev. Cornelius Springer,
with whom they had fellowshipped, both in the "Old Side" and
"Radical" church. He died early in life; his children all lived
to be three score and ten.
Thomas Sarchet was not a man of leisure; he was a
busy man - a man before whose strong arm the "wilderness was
made an habitation, and the desert to rejoice and blossom as the
rose." He began to take hold of such enterprises as the
necessities of a new country required. He made a journey to
Pittsburg with pack horses to procure salt. He made a journey
to Philadelphia, for store goods, and opened out the first store
in Cambridge in the spring of 1808. Prior to this he had leased
the "saline lands," at Chandlersville, Muskingum county, from
the state of Ohio, and there began the manufacture of salt.
These saline springs had been used by the Indians, with their
rude implements, for salt making, which led to the reservation
by the state. He continued to make salt from these springs
until about the close of the war of 1815, when he bored the old Sarchet well,
where he owned a section and a half of land, and continued to
manufacture salt until the fuel gave out and the works were
abandoned. This was an artesian well. The water was forced
twenty feet above the surface by gas and flowed many years.
While engaged at the salt works at Chandlersville a nephew,
Daniel Ferbrache, fell into the "cat-hole," and was so badly
burned that his death followed in a few days. An account of his
sufferings, Christian resignation and triumphant death,
published in the Methodist Magazine, from the pen of Thomas
Sarchet, entitled "Passing Through the Fire," was read with
interest and largely copied into the secular papers of the day,
as showing how well Christians could die.
Strength and agility were traits prided in by the pioneer
settlers, and it was not unusual for reputed "bullies" to engage
in the then manly (now brutal) sport of the prize ring; but no
bully ever bantered Thomas Sarchet. He was known as the
"strong man," and was said to have carried on a wager, upon his
back, one thousand pounds, from his dray into a mill at Saint
Petersport, Guernsey. At house-raisings and log-raisings, when
the weight seemed too heavy for the force applied, his brave
"Ho, boys, heave." meant the log must move.
A member of the Wesleyan connection of the church in
Guernsey, and a Licensed exhorter, he brought with him and his
family the nucleus of the Methodist Episcopal church of
Cambridge, organized from the "French Class," of which he was
the leader, by the Rev. James Watts, in 1808. His house
became the place for preaching, and his home and hospitality was
open and free to the horseback itinerant of the early church.
Many of the great men of the church, of sacred memory, partook
of his bounty, and reposed in quiet and security beneath his
hospitable roof. Among the number may be named Bishops
McKendree, Hedding, Soule, Waugh, Hamline, Morris and J.
B. Finley, John P. Durbin, Charles Elliott, James Quinn, David
Young and others whose names have been forgotten.
When "mutual rights," the rock that split in twain the
Methodist Episcopal church, began to be agitated, opposed as he
had been to the kingly prerogative in the old country, he became
an advocate of lay delegation and against the tenure for life of
the office of bishops, and when the final split came he went
into the new organization, and, in a large measure, built the
first Methodist Protestant church, at his own expense, in
Cambridge, in the year 1832, and continued in it, as he had been
in the old church, a leader and a pillar. His reason for
leaving the "Old side" church, as it was called during those
heated days of controversy, and connection with the "Radicals,"
as the new organization was styled, he had published by John
Hersh, then editor of the Guernsey Times, and
circulated throughout the places where the disturbing question
was most agitated. His reasons were based on the republican
idea of equality and fraternity, with no privileged sect. But,
like all reformers, he lived in advance of his days, and as all
that was demanded then has become a part of the polity of the
Methodist Episcopal church of today, except the life tenure of
bishops, his reasons, which he bequeathed as a legacy to his
children may be accepted as not coming from a fanatic without
reason.
The fruit trees planted in Cambridge were carried on
horseback by him from the Putnam nursery at Marietta, where he
procured seed and planted a nursery, from which the older
orchards of Guernsey county were derived.
He held no civil office higher than road supervisor. He
lived and died enjoying the fullest confidence of the people in
his honesty and integrity of character, and it came to be a
saying, "If Thomas Sarchet says so, it must be true." He
had no blot upon his character, unless the necessities of the
pioneers in converting their surplus grain into alcoholic
liquors in order to secure a market, might be called a blot, -
when ministers and laymen drank from the same bowl, - for he was
a brewer of beer and a distiller of whiskey.
As the pioneer, he was followed in 1807 by James
Birchard, William Ogier, Thomas Naftal, Thomas Lenfesty, Daniel
Hubert, Sire Peter Sarchet and John Marquand, with
their families, and John Robin, Peter, John and Nicholas
Toroade, Nicholas Poedwin, Peter Corbet, Nicholas Sarchet,
and Peter Langley, young men.
The following is a roster of the family of Pioneer Thomas
Sarchet:
Thomas, born July 2, 1790; married Catherine
Marquand; sons, Solomon, Thomas Y., Charles M.; daughters, Nancy,
Anne, Martha Matilda, Maria, Lucinda.
Nancy, or Anne, born December 5, 1793; married Capt.
Cyrus P. Beatty; sons, John A., Thomas Zaccheus; daughters, Nancy
B., Ellen, Rachel.
David, born November 14, 1797; married Mary Hill,
Margaret Britton, Jemima De Hart, Mary Toroade; sons, Simon
P., Fletcher B., David T., Alpheus T., Elmer G.; daughters, Nancy,
Margaret, Elizabeth and Rachel.
Peter B., born May 6, 1800; married Catherine Holler, Martha
McCully, Mary Mitchell; sons, Thomas H., Joseph H., John
M., Cyrus T. B., George M.; daughters, Harriet, Lorette.
Moses, born April 17, 1803; married Martha Bichard; sons, Cyrus
P. B., Thomas, James B., Charles J., John H.; daughters,
Nancy B., Rachel M., Harriet J.
Rachel M., born April 14, 1805; married John P.
Beatty; son, Zaccheus A.,; daughters, Anne M.,
Margery L., Sarah K., Ellen A., Harriet A., Margaret M. and Cecelia
F.
MOSES
SARCHET, son of Thomas and Ann Sarchet, natives of the
island of Guernsey, was born on that island April 17, 1803. His
parents emigrated to this country in the autumn of 1806,
locating at Cambridge. Moses Sarchet married, on March
23, 1826, Martha Bichard, daughter of James and Rachel
Bichard, who were also from the isle of Guernsey, coming
here with Thomas Sarchet and his little colony. Mrs.
Moses Sarchet was born in 1805. The children born to Moses
and Martha (Bichard) Sarchet were as follows: Nancy B.,
Cyrus P. B., Rachel M., Harriet Josephine, Thomas, James
B., Charles J., and John H., eight in all.
At the death of Cyrus P. Beatty, Mr. Sarchet was
appointed clerk of the court of common pleas, which office he
held for fifteen years. He was twice mayor of the city of
Cambridge, and for many years a justice of the peace and
superintendent of the National pike a number of years. Was
twice nominated for representative of Guernsey county and in
each campaign was defeated by the Democratic party, he always
voting the Republican ticket. He was a busy man and yet always
found time to entertain his friends in a hospitable manner. He
had hosts of friends, who mourned his death, which occurred
September 9, 1890. He was buried in the cemetery at Cambridge,
September 11th. His wife died March 1, 1887. At the date of
her death there were twenty-eight grandchildren and eleven
great-grandchildren. She was sixty-four years in acceptable
member of the Methodist Episcopal church. As a mother she
ordered her household well. As a neighbor, she [PICTURE OF
MOSES SARCHET] [MRS. MARTHA SARCHET] was kind, obliging and
charitable. At her request, she was buried beside her four
sons, and now the husband rests beside her. She sleeps the
sleep of the just.
CYRUS PARKINSON BEATTY SARCHET was born in the house
formerly owned by his grandfather, Thomas, this structure
having been built the third one in Cambridge, and, with the
exception of three years in his early manhood, his entire life
has been spent in this vicinity. He is the eldest son of Moses
and Martha (Bichard) Sarchet, and was born November 17,
1828. His ancestors were French Huguenots, who at an early day
took up their residence on the island of Guernsey. The original
spelling of the name, it is supposed, was Sarchet, the
French form of which would be De Sarcha, and some of the
family have taken that name.
About 1670 one Thomas Sarchet, a zealous Catholic,
obtained a French Bible, which he persisted in reading against
the desires of his parents and the parish priest, and at length
was obliged to flee from his country, going to Guernsey, having
stopped for some time in the isle of Jersey. This Bible is
mentioned elsewhere in detail in this work, and is still in the
hands of the family here. Thomas married and had two
sons, as shown in the accompanying genealogy. Upon arriving in
America in 1806, and at Cambridge, Ohio, August 14th of that
year, they found the hamlet just platted. The father brought a
lot at the corner of Wheeling avenue and Seventh street and
erected a log cabin, a part of which was still standing in the
eighties ,in a good state of preservation. Within this log
house here grandfather, Thomas Sarchet, lived until his
death, April 21, 1837, and his wife had died there a dozen years
later. His children all lived to be four score years of age.
Moses Sarchet, the father of the subject of this
memoir, was born April 17, 1803, and died in Cambridge September
10, 1890. At the age of sixteen years he entered the office of
his brother-in-law, C. P. Beatty, as assistant clerk of
the court of Guernsey county, holding such office until his
marriage in March, 1827, when he removed to his farm four miles
north of Cambridge. For along period he was engaged in the
manufacture of salt, at the old Sarchet Salt Works north
of this place. This salt well was in this county, it being
constructed early - about 1815 - and kept in active use until
1840. After the death of Mr. Beatty, Moses returned to
fill out his unexpired term, and from September, 1828, to
September, 1842, was clerk of the common pleas court of Guernsey
county, during which time he was also township clerk, county
school examiner, and overseer of the township poor. In 1847 he
was the Whig candidate for representative, but was defeated.
In 1848 he was appointed resident engineer of the National
road, and held the office for three years. In 1851, when the
Central Ohio railroad was being projected, he was an active in
the movement to have it pass through Cambridge, being the
largest local stockholder in the road and the contractor in its
construction. This contract was completed, but a failure of the
company crippled him financially during the remainder of his
life. When the war of the Rebellion came on, he was appointed a
member of the military commission of Guernsey county, and was
also a draft commissioner during the war. He served for twelve
years as justice of the peace, during this period was also
township trustee; was two terms the mayor of Cambridge, and
master commissioner of his county. In his religious faith he
was a devout Methodist. To himself and wife were born five sons
and three daughters. Of this family, only the following four
survive. Col. C. P. B. Sarchet, James B. Sarchet, John H.
Sarchet, all three living at Cambridge, Ohio, at this
writing: Harriet Joseph, now widow of James M.
Carson, of Zanesville.
Of C. P. B. Sarchet it may be said that the earlier
years of his title were spent in an uneventful manner, his time
being given to farming and the attendance at the district
schools of that period. For a short time he also went to what
was known as the Cambridge Academy. For a number of years he
clerked in the local stores of his native city. In 1855, in
company with his father, he commenced the publication of the Guernsey
Times, with which he was connected for several years. About
forty years of his industrious life were given to the tilling of
the soil and general management of the farm. During this time
he held a number of local official positions, in which he gave
time and labor for the public good, without reward or hope
thereof. Perhaps no man in Guernsey county has given as much
time to the history of men and events connected with the growth
and development of the same, or has given more in answer to
enquiries relative to the statistics of the county and state
affairs. During the Civil war Mr. Sarchet performed much
provost duty, looking after soldiers who were away on furlough,
and was also appointed enrolling officer. In 1863, Governor
Tod commissioned him captain and instructed him to organize
the militia of this county into three regiments. After he
effected this, he was elected colonel of the First Regiment, a
title by which he has since been known. He took an active part
in the John Morgan raid, was at Chillicothe, and later
at Eaglesport, where he crossed the Muskingum river and followed
the enemy until the latter were captured near Salineville,
Ohio. For many years Mr. Sarchet was connected with the
Guernsey County Agricultural Society, and was president of the
Farmers' Institute of the county, and in the nineties was
secretary of the soldiers' relief committee. Politically, he
has been allied with the Whig, Republican and Democratic
parties.
He resides just to the east of the city proper, on Wheeling
avenue, and with his almost daily trips to the city has covered
about a thousand miles each year upon an average, making in the
last thirty-five years thirty-five thousand miles - a distance
which exceeds going around the globe and half way aback, on
foot!
Mr. Sarchet is a ready writer and has contributed
much to the literature of his county and state. Many years ago
he wrote the "Cambridge of Fifty Years Ago." This was published
in the Jeffersonian in serial articles, of great
interest. Along political lines he wrote of the 1840 Whig
campaign, including the history of the thirty-three Whigs of the
county central committee. His articles on the Morgan raid give
a detailed account of the same, covering his personal
recollections of his eight days' ride in the saddle going
through Noble, Morgan, Guernsey, Harrison, Belmont, Jefferson
and Columbiana counties. By reason of his special ability as a
collector of historic data and biographical knowledge of his
fellow citizens of Guernsey county, he was selected to supervise
the writing of the 1910 history of the county, which the reader
now holds, and no better man could possibly have been selected
by the publishers to superintend his task.
Concerning Colonel Sarchet's domestic relations, let
it be stated that he married, on April 24, 1855, Margaret
M., daughter of Andrew Moore. The children born of
this union were: Frank M., deceased; Andrew M.; Inez
L., wife of Cyrus F. Wilson; Martha Blanche.
In his religious faith, the Colonel is a faithful
member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which for many
years he was the treasurer. In perusing the various newspaper
files of this county, the writer of this memoir has found scores
and hundreds of valuable historic items from Colonel Sarchet's
ready pen. His knowledge of men and events in this portion of
Ohio is indeed wonderful. In this month (November, 1910) this
venerable old gentleman attains his eighty-second birthday. He
ranks high among the plain, unassuming, practical and generous
hearted men of his day and generation, and of whom the world has
none too many.
Source: History of Guernsey County,
Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B. Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. -
B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page
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SCHICK BROTHERS Source:
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FRANK L. SCHICK, JR. Source:
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FRANK L. SCHICK, SR. Source:
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JOHN B. SCHICK Source:
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HON. NATHAN BAY SCOTT.
What of the man and what of his work? This is the dual
query which represents the interrogation, at least nominally
entertained whenever that discrimination factor, the public,
would pronounce on the true worth of the individual. And
sooner or later, indeed, it may be frequently, that these
questions will be asked of everyone, high or low, whether public
or private citizen, for our reputations are, in a way, the
property of the public, but our character is quite another
thing. The biographer is pleased to write of the man who
has both a good character and a good reputation - they do not
always go hand in hand. The career of Hon. Nathan Bay
Scott, the present honored and prominent United States
senator from West Virginia, who is too well known to the readers
of this history to need any formal introduction in these pages,
indicates the clear-cut, sane and distinct character, and in
reviewing the same from an unbiased and unprejudiced standpoint
interpretation follows fact in a straight line of derivation.
It is consonant that such a review be entered in this
publication, and that without the adulation which is so
intrinsically repugnant to the man as he stands among his
fellows. The county of Guernsey naturally takes pride in
the life and work of this distinguished citizen and consistency
demands that he be given specific mention in a work which
purports to deal with the representative families, past and
present, of this county, of which he is a native.
Nathan B. Scott was reared under the parental
roof and secured his education mainly in the common schools of
his home neighborhood. At the outbreak of the war of the
Rebellion Mr. Scott’s patriotic impulses were
aroused and in 1862 he enlisted as a private for service in a
regiment of Ohio volunteer infantry with which he served his
country faithfully until 1865, when he was honorably discharged
from the service, after a creditable military record.
At the close of his military service, Mr.
Scott located in Wheeling, West Virginia, of which city he
has since been a resident and in the growth and development of
which he has been an important factor. He early became
identified with the manufacture of glass, with which industry he
has remained connected, being now. and for a number of years,
president of the Central Class Works, one of the largest glass
manufacturers in that thriving city, he is a stockholder also in
other concerns in that city and is vice-president of the Dollar
Savings Bank of Wheeling, one of the solid and influential
monetary institutions of that section of the state. In
many ways Mr. Scott has exhibited a keen interest
and salutary influence in commercial and industrial affairs and
his support has always been given without reserve to every
movement looking to the upbuilding of his home city. His
business career has been characterized by soundness of judgment,
sagacity in foreseeing the outcome of a transaction, and a
healthy progressiveness, tempered by a wise conservatism which
has always enabled him to confine his operations within safe
bounds. He stands high in the estimation of his business
associates among whom his advice and counsel is valued highly.
A Republican in his political views. Mr.
Scott has always taken an active interest in public
affairs and has long occupied a high place among the leading men
of his party in West Virginia. His first official
preferment was as a member of the city council of Wheeling, to
which he was elected in 1880, serving for two years as president
of the second branch. In 1882 he was elected to the State
Senate, served four years, and gave such eminent satisfaction
that in 1886 he was elected to succeed himself. In 1888
Mr. Scott was selected as a member of the Republican
national committee and has served continuously since as a member
of that body, and in this capacity he has rendered valuable
assistance in the management and direction of the campaigns of
the party, having served as a member of the executive committees
during the greater part of this period. Mr.
Scott was appointed commissioner of internal revenue by
President McKinley, assuming the duties of that
office on the 1st of January, 1898. However, his tenure of
that office was of comparatively short duration, as on Jan. 25,
1899, he was the choice of the West Virginia Legislature for
United States senator. In this august body Mr. Scott's
abilities were quickly recognized and he served on several of
the most important committees of that body, where he rendered
effective and appreciated service. So satisfactory a
representative of his state did he prove that in 1905 the
Legislature again elected him to the Senate, his second term
expiring on Mar. 3, 1911. Mr. Scott’s
services in the United States Senate have been characterized by
fidelity to his official duties and faithfulness to the
interests of the state which he represents which has given him a
strong hold on his fellow citizens of that great commonwealth,
and few men enjoy a wider popularity or more devoted following
than he. Keen and sagacious in business affairs, he has
exhibited in public life the same commendable qualities which
have characterized him in his personal affairs, and among his
colleagues in the Senate he enjoys the highest standing.
Source: History of Guernsey County,
Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B. Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. -
B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page
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ROBERT T. SCOTT.
Under the teachings of an intelligent father and mother,
Robert T. Scott, the well known and popular attorney of
Cambridge, Ohio, early acquired those habits of industry and
self-reliance which, linked with upright principles, have
uniformly characterized his manhood life. He commands the
unqualified confidence of the community, and deserves it, for
his life has been led along a plane of high endeavor and he has
done much for the betterment of local conditions in many lines.
Mr. Scott was born Dec. 3, 1858, in
Cambridge township, one mile east of Cambridge on the old
National pike, and he is the son of George and Caroline (Black)
Scott. The mother’s parents, Joseph and
Eliza (Hutchison) Black, grandparents of
the subject, came from Culpeper Court House, Virginia, in the
year 1804, when this was all a dense forest and people by
Indians and wild game. The Scotts came from
Washington county, Pennsylvania, to Guernsey county in 1838.
Great-grandfather Charles Scott was a Presbyterian
minister in the north of Ireland and he came to America,
settling in Ohio county, Virginia (now West Virginia), near
Wheeling. From there he moved to Washington county,
Pennsylvania, where he built and established a pioneer church,
the old log building which still stands. The grandfather,
also named Alexander, was the only child of the family
born in America, and was of that sturdy Scotch ancestry that
stands for good; he was a farmer, but died while yet a young
man. The son, George, father of the subject of this
sketch, was one of six sons, he being the second in the family
that was left with their widowed mother, and he was thus
compelled to assume responsibilities early in life. When
only eighteen years of age he drove a six-horse wagon team over
the old National road from Cambridge to Baltimore, Maryland,
hauling produce east and merchandise back west. He
continued this for several years.
The Hutchisons were Revolutionary soldiers, and
grandfather Joseph Black was a soldier in the war of 1812
and the gun he carried during the war is now in the possession
of the subject of this sketch. George Scott,
the father of Robert T. of this review, was a soldier in
the Mexican war and one brother, James Scott, served
through the Civil war. George Scott, the father,
was a farmer and later became a coal operator in the Guernsey
county coal field, being one of the pioneer operators, and was
successful. He died Jan. 9, 1892, and his wife died in
August, 1891.
Robert T. Scott was educated in the public
schools of Cambridge, graduating from the high school in 1876,
and he graduated also from Muskingum College at New Concord,
Ohio, in 1879, degree of Bachelor of Science. He then
taught school in Guernsey county, Ohio, for some time, and
worked at the coal mines of his father as a weigher to obtain
money for a law course in the law department of Michigan
University at Ann Arbor, Michigan, graduating from that
department in 1882, and he was admitted to
the bar on the recommendation of Hon. Thomas M. Cooley
of Michigan. He went into the office of Taylor &
Anderson as a law clerk immediately afterwards, and in 1884
he opened an office for himself in the Taylor block,
Cambridge, and has been in the same location ever since.
He is a most successful
practitioner. He is a brilliant lawyer, persistent,
careful and studious, and commands big cases and big fees.
He ranks high in the county and state courts, being eligible to
practice in all the state courts and all the United States
courts and he enjoys a rapidly growing practice. He has a
very extensive law library and fine appointed offices, and he
holds a very high rank in the legal circles of the state.
He is a Democrat in politics and a big man in the party councils
of the state and even in the nation. He was mayor of
Cambridge from 1888 to 1890, when the first big industry was
secured and built in Cambridge by act of legislation, the bill
being drawn by Mr. Scott; established a board of
health; introduced telephones and numbered the houses in the
city and thus started Cambridge on its boom. Never an
office seeker, yet
he has always been active and interested in public matters.
He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention which
met in Kansas City and nominated William J. Bryan, and
has been a delegate to many of the state conventions and active
in the deliberations. Mr. Scott is a charter member
of the Cambridge Country Club, and sometimes plays golf.
He is particularly fond of fishing and hunting and every summer
spends several weeks in the Georgian bay fishing grounds, with a
company of friends. He is also fond of hunting and owns a
brace of fine bird dogs.
Mr. Scott was married on
Oct. 28, 1886, to Jennie L. McCartney, daughter of
Henry and Harriet (McMillan)
McCartney, of Cambridge. Both parents are dead.
To this union five children have been born, only three of whom
are living. Mary died in infancy; Robert E.,
a junior in the University of Wooster; Robert Byron died
at ten years of age; Gerlienda is at home; Harlan
McCartney.
The family home is on North Seventh street and is a
fine modern dwelling, with all modern conveniences and
furnishings. A most inspiring and delightful home
atmosphere permeates the entire place, and Mr. Scott and
wife are prominent in the social life of the city. Mrs.
Scott is devoted to her husband and her home and family.
He and his family are members of the First United Presbyterian
church and are active workers in church and Sunday school.
Mr. Scott is recognized as one of the
leading public benefactors of this locality, always ready to do
his full share in fostering any worthy movement, and he is in
every respect deserving of the large success that has come to
him and of the confidence and esteem that are reposed in him by
all classes, irrespective of party or creed, for he is
essentially a man of the people in the broadest sense of the
term.
Source: History of Guernsey County,
Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B. Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. -
B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page
866 |
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GEORGE McCLELLAND SECREST.
Success has attended the efforts of George McClelland
Secrest, one of the best known agriculturists of Valley
township, Guernsey county, because he has worked persistently
for at along legitimate lines and has never depended upon anyone
else to do either his work or his planning. He comes from
one of the old and excellent families of this county, and he was
born on his father's farm, just east of the town of Hartford, in
1864, and there he grew to maturity, assisting with the general
work about the place as soon as he was old enough, attending the
neighboring schools during the winter months, and he has made
farming his chief life work, being very successful in all its
phases. He is the son of William and Mary C. (Buckley)
Secrest, a record of whose lives is to be found in this
work.
On Dec. 9, 1887, George M. Secrest was married
to Maggie Laughlin, daughter of James and Mary
(Secrest) Laughlin, of Pleasant City, this county, whose
sketches also appear in this volume. She was born near
Chaswith, Noble county, of an excellent family, well known and
highly respected there. She remained at her parental
fireside during her girlhood days and attended the neighboring
schools.
After his marriage George M. Secrest lived on
his father's farm, east of Hartford, in fact he has made it his
place of abode ever since, and has kept the old place well
improved and under a high state of cultivation, tilling the soil
in a manner that has caused it to retain its original fertility.
He has kept the dwelling, outbuildings, and fences in good
repair and has one of the choice farms of the township, having
been very successful not only as a general farmer, but also as a
raiser of stock. He has complete management of the farm
since his father became advanced in age. In connection
with farming, he ran a saw-mill very successfully a few years.
Mr. Secrest has ever taken an abiding interest
in county affairs, being a loyal Democrat, and he has very
acceptably served his township as trustee for two terms.
He and his wife belong to the Lutheran Church in Hartford.
Their union has been blessed by the birth of three children,
Waite L., Guy William and Ralph James.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 792 |
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HARRISON SECREST
- See James Madison Secrest.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 851 |
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JACOB F. SECREST is
remembered as a man of fine characteristics and a citizen of a
high standard. He was born in Buffalo township, Noble
county, Ohio, in July, 1831, and was the son of Isaac
and Mary (Slater) Secrest, the latter being the
daughter of John Slater, a Welshman who came to
America in an early day and delighted in hunting deer with the
Indians. Isaac Secrest was the son of
Jacob Secrest, a German, who came from Virginia
to Buffalo township, Noble county, Ohio, in an early day and
located there from fifteen to twenty years. About 1875
Mrs. Secrest inherited a part of a farm west of
Pleasant City and Mr. Secrest bought out the
other heirs and there they made their home the balance of their
lives. They became the parents of seventeen children, four
of whom died in early childhood; thirteen of them are now
living, nine sons and four daughters, namely: Charles W.
is living on the old home place; Andrew J.
lives near the old home; Mary Rosella, wife of
Doctor Kackley, of Pleasant City; Ida
M., widow of S. A. Bird, lives in
Cambridge; William Boone lives near the old
home west of Pleasant City; Rebecca J., wife of
Pulaski Cubbison, living in the west part of
Valley township; Oleetha, wife of
Charles S. Messer, lives in Fairview; Curtis
lives near the old home; Levi E. lives
west of Blue Bell in the edge of Spencer township;
Francis M., also lives near the old home; Other
B., Noah Homer and John J. A.
also live near the old home.
Politically, Jacob P. Secrest was a Republican
and for a number of years ably served as trustee of Valley
township. He was a Mason fraternally, and took an active
interest in lodge work, for many years being master of the
Pleasant City Lodge. He also belonged to the chapter of
Royal Arch Masons at Caldwell. He was a member of the
Methodist church and was class leader in the same for many
years. The death of this excellent citizen occurred on
Mar. 20, 1901. His widow, now seventy years of age, still
lives on the old home place, strong and active for one of her
years. She, too, is a faithful member of the Methodist
church.
Mr. Secrest
was the owner of an excellent and well-kept farm of two hundred
and sixty acres west of Pleasant City. About thirty acres
of this land has been laid off in town lots and comprises part
of the Fairview addition to Pleasant City.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 591 |
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JAMES MADISON SECREST. a
man who deserves the great credit which is given him for his
success is James Madison Secrest, one of
Guernsey county's most prominent and influential citizens, for
not a dishonest dollar ever passed through his hands, and his
large competence and valuable property have all been accumulated
by his own efforts, for he started in life under none to
favorable auspices but being a man of indomitable courage and
always his own exponent, doing his own thinking and depending
upon no one to direct his affairs, he has forged to the front
rank of our citizenship despite obstacles ,and has played well
his part in the work of upbuilding the locality honored by his
citizenship and whose interests he has always had a heart,
therefore is eminently deserving of the high esteem in which he
is held by all who know him.
Mr. Secrest was born in Noble county, Ohio, in
1848, and he is the only son of Harrison and Hulda (Thompson)
Secrest and the grandson of Isaac and Mary (Slater)
Secrest, all prominent in the pioneer life of the Buckeye
state. Harrison Secrest was born in 1822 in what is
now the north part of Noble county, Ohio, and there he grew up
on a farm which he worked when old enough. His wife,
Hulda Thompson, was the daughter of Abraham and Rachael
(McCreary) Thompson, the father born Sep. 3, 1796, and the
son of James and Mary (Jackson) Thompson. James
Thompson was born Feb. 20, 1758, and he was the son of
Jacob and Annie (Downard) Thompson. Abraham Thompson
came from Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and in his young manhood
and settled in the southeast part of what is now Valley
township, Guernsey county. His father came and entered a
large quantity of excellent land from the government - in fact,
he secured all the most available farming land in that
community, and, like the other members of this thrifty family,
became well-to-do.
After the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Secrest
he and she lived in Noble county until the death of the wife,
Mrs. Hulda Secrest, on Oct. 14, 1849. As stated above,
their only child was James Madison, the subject.
After the death of his first wife, Harrison Secrest moved
to Pleasant City, then called Point Pleasant, and married
Elizabeth Allison, daughter of J. B. and Matilda Allison,
who came from Greene County, Ohio, and developed a good home
here and were highly respected. The following children
were born to Harrison and Elizabeth (Allison) Secrest;
Joseph; Nancy Caroline, wife of Noah Larrick; Sarah;
Belle, wife of Mr. Kackley of Columbus, Ohio;
John; Mary, wife of John Stranathan; William; Martha,
wife of Fred Campbell.
Harrison Secrest kept a hotel, ran a woolen mill,
built a number of houses in Pleasant City, conducted a store
awhile - in fact, was one of the most prominent business men of
the place for many years and did more, perhaps, for the
upbuilding of the town than any other man. He was an
excellent manager, exercised splendid judgment in all his
transactions and was always ready to assist in furthering any
enterprise making for the general good. Although he was a
loyal Republican, he never aspired to public offices. He
was a member and liberal supporter of the Methodist Episcopal
church. The death of this excellent and highly honored
citizen occurred on February 5, 1894.
James Madison Secrest, of this review, grew to
maturity at Pleasant City where he received a fairly good common
school education. He began work in the woolen mill there as
a spinner when a young man and he acquired a thorough knowledge
of the woolen mill business. He also conducted a grist
mill and saw-mill, and dealt extensively in the lumber business;
he built a number of houses in Pleasant City and has been very
successful in whatever he has undertaken there. He also
became the owner of over three hundred acres of valuable farming
land, a part of which is now laid off in town lots and he is now
(1910) selling the fourth addition that he has laid out, these
lots having been in great demand from the first owing to their
desirable location and the reasonable price asked for them.
Mr. Secrest has also dealt in livestock and has engaged
in the butchering of pork, etc. He is a man of keen
discernment and can foresee with remarkable accuracy the out
come of a present transaction. He is a persistent worker
and an able manager, and, being honest and straight forward in
all the relations of life, he has ever had the confidence and
good will of his fellow men.
Mr. Secrest was married in 1870 to Elizabeth
Dyson, daughter of Thomas and Christena Dyson, to
which union one son was born, Abraham Thompson Secrest,
whose birth occurred on Sept. 14, 1870; he is living Okesa,
Oklahoma, where he is engaged in educational work and is at
present the Republican candidate for clerk of Osage county,
Oklahoma. This wife and mother was called to her rest on
June 5, 1872, and on Dec. 20 1873, Mr. Secrest married
Sarah Cochran, of Pleasant City. Of this union, one
child, Blanche, survives. She has been employed in
the Pleasant City post-office for the post fourteen years.
This second wife and mother passed away on Nov. 22, 1878, and on
July 2, 1879. Mr. Secrest was married to Rebecca
Frances Young, who was born at Sharon, Noble county, the
daughter of James William and Sarah (Robinson) Young.
This union has resulted in the birth of six children, namely:
Nellie Ethel married Homer Gander, whose sketch
appears herein, and they have four children; Hulda, born
Aug. 21, 1881, married Harry Gander and has four children
and lies in Pleasant City; Martha Forrest, born Oct. 19,
1883, married Harry Rainey and lives in Newark, Ohio;
Arthur Ernest, born Aug. 28, 1886, married Helen Johnson
and lives on a farm in Noble county, and they have two children;
Mildred Madison, born Dec. 9, 1890, is attending school
at Newark; Harvey Raymond, born Jan. 11, 1893, is at
home; Huldah belongs to the Daughters of Rebekah and
Nellie is a member of the Rebekahs and the Order of the
Eastern Star.
Politically, Mr. Secrest is a Republican and he
and his wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal church, and
Mrs. Secrest is a member of the Pythian Sisters.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 850 |
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JAMES W. SECREST. Among
Valley township's worthy families are the Secrests,
mention of whom is made elsewhere in this work, so for the
present the biographer confines his remarks to one of the best
known of this old and honored household, James W. Secrest,
who was born near Hartford, Guernsey county, in 1867. He
is the son of William Secrest and wife, of the same
locality, whose sketch appears herein.
Their son, James W., grew to maturity on the
home farm, on which he worked when old enough, remaining under
his parental roof until he married, having alternated farm work
with schooling in the district schools. In 1894 he led to
the altar Lizzie Mary Laughlin, daughter of James and
Mary (Secrest) Laughlin. See sketch of James
Laughlin. She was born near Pleasant Grove, in the
east part of Noble county, and when she was about seven years
old her parents moved to Pleasant City, later moving to one mile
east of that town, where she attended school and lived until her
marriage.
Since his marriage Mr. Secrest has followed coal
mining for the most part. He has also had a farm in
partnership with his brother, George M. Secrest, the
place consisting of two hundred and twenty-eight acres of
excellent land, which they kept in a high state of cultivation
and did well with.
Mr. Secrest built his present cozy home, just
east of Hartford, in 1895. It is a substantial and
pleasant place, and he and his wife are known to be people of
hospitality to their wide circle of friends who delight to
gather at their home and pass many sunny ours of pleasure.
Their union has been blessed by three children, namely: Clyde
died when six months old; Hattie was born Nov. 30, 1899;
the youngest was a boy who died in early infancy.
Fraternally, Mr. Secrest is a member of the
knights of Pythias at Pleasant City, this county, and he and his
wife belong to the Lutheran Church at Hartford, standing high in
the congregation there and being faithful in their support of
the same.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 808 |
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NOAH ELWOOD SECREST. A
well known and highly respected member of the Secrest
family, one of the most prominent in Guernsey county
since the pioneer days, is Noah Elwood Secrest,
of Hartford, Valley township, who was born about one and
one-half miles east of that town on Dec. 9, 1836. He is
the son of John and Elizabeth (Clark) Secrest,
the father born in Hampshire county, Virginia, the son of
Henry and Elizabeth (Spaid) Secrest. The
family emigrated to Guernsey county when John
was eleven months old in December, 1811, his birth having
occurred on January 3d of that year. Henry Secrest
also had a brother named John.
The father of Henry and John Secrest
came here and secured two farms for his sons Henry
and John, then went back to Virginia, after
locating his sons. About the end of the war of 1812,
Henry enlisted for service, but peace was
declared by the time he reached Zanesville. Henry
was the father of William Secrest mentioned in
a separate sketch. He was also the father of John
the subject's grandfather, John Secrest
grew up on the home farm, southeast of where Hartford
now stands. There were no roads in this locality when the
family first came, only the Marietta trail, a "blazed" road
through the woods. They settled here in typical pioneer
fashion, clearing a little space on which to build their cabin,
John remained on the home place until he was
married, on Jan. 3, 1833, to Elizabeth Clark,
on his twenty-first birthday, and on that day he wore the first
"store bought" shirt in his life, having always worn those woven
and made by his mother. Elizabeth Clark
was born in Pennsylvania and was the daughter of
Benjamin Clark, the maiden name of her mother having
been Gregory. The Clark
and Secrest families came to this county about
the same time, having met enroute while stopping over night
between Wheeling and Barnesville, and on that night the two
babies, John Secrest and Elizabeth
Clark, were put to sleep in the same bed; about twenty
years afterwards they were married.
After his marriage John Secrest located one and
one-half miles east of Hartford on a part of the original
Secrest farm and there made his home the rest of his
life. The subject was one of nine children, namely:
Henry G., Benjamin C., Noah E., Mary Elizabeth, Michael Spaid,
Samuel Frederick, Ebenezer Finley, Margaret Casaline, John
died in early infancy.
The father of
these children was a man of influence in his community and the
possessor of commendable traits, so that he was highly honored
by all who knew him. He was trustee of his township even
while Noble county was a part of Guernsey county. After
the county line was established as it is today, he was
trustee or assessor of Valley township nearly all his life.
He was always a Democrat, and was active in party affairs,
having attended the conventions, taking a general interest in
public affairs of the community, and was well known all over the
county. His death occurred on Jan. 29, 1882, his wife
having preceded him in Sept., 1877. They both belonged to
the Evangelical Lutheran church, in which he was an active
member and an officer for many years. His father was a
charter member of the church.
Noah
E. Secrest grew up on the farm where he was born and
lived there until 1907; he still owns the place, which consists
of about one hundred and fifty acres. He was first married
on Dec. 29, 1860, to Eliza Jane Spriggs.
Her parents, Morris D. and Catharine (Poole) Spriggs,
came from Pennsylvania to Belmont county, Ohio, where
Mrs. Secrest was born, then moved to near Mt. Ephraim,
Noble county, thence to Valley township, this county, where
Mrs. Secrest grew to maturity. Her father
was a tailor in early life. The first union resulted in
the birth of four children: Mary Rosetta died
in her fourteenth year; Ernest P., who lives on
the father's farm east of Hartford, married and lives at Lima,
Allen county, Ohio, where he is engaged in the practice of law;
he is a member of the Democratic state central committee, and
clerk of the board that is building the new insane asylum in
Allen county, at Lima; he and his wife have one little daughter.
Martha Olive is the youngest of four children
born of Mr. Secrest's first union. She
married E. W. Matthews, Jr., of Cambridge,
whose record appears herein. Mr. Secrest's
first wife was called to her rest on Oct. 24, 1877, and on Jan.
13, 1881, he married Mrs. Adeline (Bryan) Rose.
She was the daughter of David N. and Amelia (Patterson)
Bryan, and she was born and reared in Cambridge, Ohio,
in which city her parents were also born and reared.
David N. Bryan was the son of Thomas
and Joan Bryan, his parents having come from
Washington county, Pennsylvania in the early days and settled at
Cambridge. Mrs. Secrest's father was a
soldier in the Civil War, being a member of Company B,
Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; he was in Sherman's
march through Georgia and died from the effects of his service
in the army. Four children were born to Mr.
Secrest's second marriage, namely: Arthur
Clark, who is in the superintendent's office of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Marietta, married Marie
Faris and they have one son: Donald G. and
Carroll Eugene are twins; the former is in New Mexico
in the superintendent's roll of a coal company; the latter died
in 1903 in his eightieth year; Raymond B., who
lives in Hartford, married Linnae Spaid; he
runs a motor at the Hartford mine.
In 1907 Mr. Secrest bought a beautiful and cozy
home in Hartford and retired from active work. He and his
wife belong to the Lutheran church in Hartford and are prominent
in church and social circles.
Source: History of Guernsey
County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B. Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I
& 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana -
1911 - Page 739 |
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NOAH ELWOOD SECREST.
Much is to be found within the covers of this volume regarding
the Secrest family, but too much could not well
be said, owning to the fact that its members have been prominent
in Guernsey County in various walks of life from the early
pioneer days and they have borne reputations of high grade
citizens, unassailable and irreproachable, and have played well
their parts in the drama of civilization. A worthy
representative of this old and influential family is
Noah Elwood Secrest, of Valley township, of whom the
following paragraphs deal. He was born on his father's old
home farm a short distance east of Hartford, this township, on
June 9, 1855. He is the son of
William and Mary (Buckley) Secrest,
highly esteemed old residents of Valley township, who are
mentioned in a separate sketch in this work.
Noah E. Secrest grew to maturity on the home
farm on which he worked during his boyhood and youth and
attended the district schools. He followed farming most of
the time, but also did some teaming, remaining with his father
until he was thirty-four years of age. He was married in
1879 to Mary R. Jackson, who was born and
reared at Pleasant City, this township, the daughter of
Samuel and Virginia (Trott) Jackson, a well known and
highly respected family here. This union has resulted in
the birth of four children, namely: Carl Dwight,
who lives at Belle Valley, this county, working as a foreman for
a construction gang at the mines; Ella Violet
and William Jackson are at home; Melba Virginia
at attending school at Pleasant City.
In 1888 Mr. Secrest brought a farm of one
hundred and four acres one mile south of Hartford, where he has
since made his home. The house, a cosy, substantial and
attractive one, stands on top of a ridge, overlooking the
valley, commanding a view of several towns and a most inspiring
panorama of field and farm as well. From it the lights of
Cambridge may be seen at night and in another direction one can
see at a distance of eighteen miles. He has a most
excellent farm which he has brought up to a high state of
improvement and cultivation and which is one of the choice
places of the township. He carries on general farming and
stock raising in a most successful manner and is regarded as one
of the leading agriculturists of his community.
Mr. Secrest is a loyal Democrat and he is more
or less active in local party affairs, having served his
township as trustee in a most acceptable manner. He is a
member of the Knights of Pythias at Pleasant City, and in his
religious relations he holds membership with the Lutheran
congregation, while Mrs. Secrest belongs to the
Methodist Episcopal church.
Source: History of Guernsey
County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B. Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I
& 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana -
1911 - Page 713 |
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WILLIAM
SECREST. One of the grand old men of Valley
township is William Secrest, whose long and
useful life has been spent in his home community, where he has
labored to goodly ends, not only for himself and family, but
also for his neighbors and the general public, and now that the
twilight of his age has begun to envelop him he can look
backward over a well spent life and forward to a glorious
inheritance.
Mr. Secrest
was born a short distance east of Hartford, this
township, Feb. 6, 1828, and he is the seventh child of a family
of nine children born to Henry and Elizabeth (Spaid)
Secrest. Henry Secrest was born Aug. 18, 1785, in
southern Pennsylvania and he moved into Virginia early in life,
where he married Elizabeth Spaid. She was
the daughter of George Spaid and wife and was
born in Virginia on July 22, 1790. Her father had been a
Hessian soldier, brought to this country by the British during
the Revolutionary war to fight in the Continental army. He
was captured at the battle of Trenton and was taken to Virginia,
where he and a number of his comrades were colonized, and he
remained there and married. Three children were born to
Henry Secrest and wife while living in Virginia,
John, Abram and George W.
This sterling family emigrated to Guernsey county, Ohio,
probably as early as 1820, and Henry Secrest
entered a tract of land south of where the town of Hartford now
stands, becoming the owner of two hundred and twenty-eight
acres, which he brought up to a high state of improvement,
having begun life in typical pioneer fashion, when the country
was covered with vast native woods through which roamed wild
beasts, and even the foot prints of the red men had not been
obliterated from the soil. He became prosperous and owned
considerable land in addition to his home farm, and he played an
important role in the early development of this section of the
country. After coming here six other children were born
into his family, namely: Michael, Frederick, Martha,
William, of this review; Elizabeth and
Valentine.
William Secrest grew to maturity on his father's farm,
which he helped develop, and he has lived to see this vicinity
grow from the wilderness to its present thriving condition,
having taken a prominent part in the same, and it is, indeed,
interesting to hear him recount reminiscences of the early days
here.
On Sept. 6, 1854, Mr.
Secrest was married to Mary C. Buckley,
a native of Noble county, Ohio, and the daughter of John
Buckley and wife. Seven children were born to
Mr. and Mrs. Secrest, namely: Noah
E. is mentioned elsewhere in this work;
Abram lives in Senecaville; Violet L.
married O. F. Hawes, and died in February,
1909; Otis D. lived in Newark until his death,
Oct. 15, 1904; Emma L. married Charles
Scott and lives between Hartford and Byesville in the
north edge of Valley township; George McClelland,
who is mentioned elsewhere in this work, lives on the home place
near Hartford; James W. lives northeast of
Hartford, where he has a small farm.
The death of the mother of these children occurred on Dec. 13,
1904. She was an excellent woman, a member of the Lutheran
church at Hartford, of which her husband is still a faithful
member.
William Secrest
still lives on his fine farm of two hundred and
twenty-eight acres, east of Hartford, which is one of the most
desirable places in the township. He has kept it in
splendid condition and has been very successful as a farmer and
stockman. This place has been in the Secrest
family ever since it was secured from the government
only one deed having been made to it.
William Secrest has very ably served his
township in various public capacities, such as assessor for
several years and as trustee several terms. He is a loyal
Democrat. When a young man he taught school three winters,
two terms in Valley township and one in Buffalo township, Noble
county. With that exception he has been a tiller of the
soil all his life. He is a man whom to know is to accord
the highest respect owing to his many splendid characteristics.
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GEORGE R. SHAW Source:
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ROBERT I SHEPLER Source:
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BENJAMIN F. SHEPPARD.
To the average individual so-called success is the reward of
persistent striving and grim determination. It is
sometimes gained through rivalry and competition, and frequently
is attained by the aid of preference and influence. So
powerful and necessary seem these aids that the one who does not
command them is often disheartened at his prospects of success.
Benjamin F. Sheppard, president of the Cambridge Bank,
and one of the leading men of Guernsey county in financial
circles, seems to have acquired the knowledge of how to achieve
true success in the various walks. He holds worthy
prestige in business circles, and has always been distinctively
a man of affairs and wields a wide influence among those with
whom is lot has been cast, having won definite in whatever he
has turned his attention to and at the same time has shown what
a man with lofty principles, honesty of purpose and
determination can accomplish when actuated with high motives and
unselfish ideals.
Mr. Sheppard was born Nov. 1, 1864, in Kirkwood
township, Belmont county, Ohio. He is the son of
Dr. I. H. and Harriet (Grimes) Sheppard, an old and influential
family, these parents still living in the vicinity mentioned
above, the father being one of the best known practitioners in
that county, having practiced for many years, but he is now
living retired and has accumulated a very comfortable
competency, becoming the owner of large land interests in
Guernsey county. He was the promoter of the Union
Telephone Company of Fairview, which connects Fairview,
Barnesville, Wheeling, West Virginia, Freeport and St.
Clairsville and he was manager of the company for a period of
nine years, his judicious management resulting in an extensive
enterprise being built up. The company then sold out to a
telephone company of Wheeling. Then Mr. Sheppard turned
his attention to his large estate and to banking interests.
He was one of the prime promoters of Cambridge Bank, organized
under the banking laws of Ohio, in April, 1905. He was the
first president of this institution and has held this position
to the present time, managing its affairs in a manner entirely
satisfactory to all concerned and building up one of the safest
and most popular banking houses in eastern Ohio. He is
essentially an organizer and promoter by nature, is a man of
keen business acumen and discernment and makes few mistakes in
his deductions and inductions. He is broad-minded, liberal
and far-seeing, being a conservative banker, conducting his bank
along safe yet liberal lines at all times. In addition to
his banking interests he has large real estate interests and
other financial interests of a private nature.
Politically, Mr. Sheppard is a Republican and he
has long taken an abiding interest in public matters, but has
never been an office seeker. He and his wife
are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and he has been a
steward in the local church for many years, serving as trustee
prior to that. They are active church workers and liberal
in their support of the church.
Mr. Sheppard was married on Nov. 20, 1895, to
Leanna Giffee, daughter of Benjamin and Lida (Kannon)
Giffee. Her father was a prominent farmer of Guernsey
county, whose death occurred in 1902. Mrs. Giffee
is still living. Mr. Giffee was eighty-two years of
age at the time of his death; he was active in business and a
man of sterling character and worth. He was a devout
member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs. Sheppard
is a lady of culture and refinement and is devoted to her home.
Like her husband, she enjoys the friendship of a wide circle of
acquaintances. This union has been graced by the birth of
one son, Josiah B. G. Sheppard, now eleven years of age.
Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard became residents of
Cambridge in November, 1902. They have a modern,
attractive and commodious home on the corner of South Eleventh
street and Wheeling avenue. It is one of the most
pretentious residences in the city and is known as a place where
old-time hospitality and good cheer ever prevail. The
Sheppard family is prominent in commercial, social, church
and educational circles in Cambridge and Guernsey county.
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CHARLES SHEPPARD Source:
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WILLIAM S. SHEPPARD Source:
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MICHAEL SHERBY Source:
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JOHN W. SHRIVER Source:
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MARK GORDON SHRIVER Source:
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MICHAEL E. SHRIVER Source:
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JACOB B. SIEGFRIED Source:
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SIENS, MILTON H. Source:
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WILLIAM L. SIMPSON.
The gentleman whose name heads this review is one of the leading
farmers in his community in Guernsey county, having long
maintained his home in Adams township; he is also known as a
public official of high character. Tireless energy and
honesty of purpose are the chief characteristics of the man.
William L. Simpson was born on June 8, 1835, in
Brooke county, West Virginia, and he is the son of Robert and
Margaret (Lyons) Simpson. The father was also born in
Brooke county, West Virginia, of Scotch parentage; the mother
was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. these parents
came to Tuscarawas county, Ohio, in 1837 and engaged in farming,
and in 1851 they moved to Guernsey county to a farm where their
son, William L., of this review, now resides, and where
he has since lived. The father owned one hundred and sixty
acres. He was a member of the United Presbyterian church,
which was organized in 1858 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, between
the a old Associate church and Associate Reformed, he being an
elder in the Associate Reformed church, and a lay delegate to
the general assembly in 1858 when the two churches united.
He was a devout churchman and a citizen of high character.
The death of the elder Simpson occurred in March, 1894,
and that of his wife on February 17, 1874. They are buried
in the Lebanon cemetery. They were the parents of two
children, a son and a daughter, the latter, Elizabeth,
dying in her twenty-fifth year; the son, William L., of
this review, is now the only survivor.
William L. Simpson grew to maturity on the home
farm, on which he worked during the summer and attended the
neighboring schools in the winter time. He later attended
Madison College at Antrim, Guernsey county, after which he
engaged in farming, which he has made his life work and at which
he has been very successful. He was married on June 2,
1864, to Mary McGonagle, daughter of James and
Margaret (Turner) McGonagle, who lived on a farm in the same
neighborhood in Adams township, this county. He parents
were good people, members of the Untied Presbyterian church;
they are both now deceased and are buried in the Lebanon
cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson have no children.
After his marriage Mr. Simpson continued to live
on the old home place and engaged in farming, him farm of well
improved and well tilled land now consisting of one hundred and
sixty acres, on which he carries on general farming and stock
raising. He has a very comfortable and well located home.
Mr. Simpson is a Democrat in politics, and
although the county gave George H. Nash, Republican
candidate for governor in 1899, a large majority, Mr. Simpson,
who was a candidate for the Legislature on the Democratic
ticket, was elected by a majority of over six hundred, which was
certainly evidence of his universal good standing and a high
compliment to his popularity with all classes, irrespective of
party alignment. He made such this office in 1901, thus
serving four years as a member of the seventy-fourth and of his
constituents and proved to be a well informed man on current
issues of the day and one deeply interested in the welfare of
the public. He has also served as treasurer of Adams
township, and he has been a member of the township school board
for a period of thirty-five years, having always been deeply
interested in educational matters and he has done much to
promote local educational standards. He and his wife, who
is a woman of many estimable traits, are members and faithful
supporters of the Lebanon congregation of the United
Presbyterian church, the church of his fathers, and, like them,
he, too, is an elder and has frequently been a lay delegate to
the general assemblies of his church. He is a man of fine
mind and splendid attainments, and is always influence for good
in the church. Sunday school and in fact everything that
pertains to the general good of his community, county and state,
and is deserving of hte high rank he holds as a leading citizen
of Guernsey county.
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ERNEST W. SMITH. It is
safe to say that no one is more familiar with the mining region
of Guernsey county than Ernest W. Smith, the present able
and well known assistant general superintendent of the Imperial
Mining Company's mines and those of the Vivian Collieries
Company. He is popular with a large acquaintance, being a
man of kindly disposition, pleasant, and honest and thoroughly
trustworthy, admired for his uprightness and business integrity.
Mr. Smith was born near Elba, Noble County,
Ohio, July 27, 1871, and is the son of Jerry R. Smith and
wife, records of whose lives are to be found on another page
of this work. Suffice it to say here that they were of
representative pioneer families and highly respected. When
the son was about fourteen years of age he began working in the
coal mines about Byesville and has been here ever since, making
himself familiar with the various phases of the work in this
field. While working at the old Central mine he proved of
such value to the company that he was made foreman, which
position he held with credit to himself for about four years,
beginning about 1895. During the next six or seven years
he was hoisting engineer at the mines, after which he was made
superintendent of the Ohio No. 2 mine, west of Byesville.
About two years later he was made assistant general
superintendent of all mines owned by the Imperial Mining Company
and the Vivian Collieries Company, which responsible position he
still holds, giving entire satisfaction in every detail of the
work. He has charge of four large mines and about six
hundred men, which position he has held about four years.
He understands thoroughly every phase of mining work and he is
very faithful in the discharge of his duties. He
understands well how to handle men, keeps everything under an
excellent system, and is a very important factor in the vast
interests of the above mentioned companies.
Mr. Smith was married in 1896 to Nora
Linkhorn, daughter of Joseph Linkhorn and wife and
the sister of L. S. Linkhorn, county treasurer to
Guernsey county, to whose sketch the reader is respectfully
referred to the complete ancestry of the Linkhorn family.
One winsome daughter, Helen, has been born to Mrs. and
Mrs. Smith.
Fraternally, Mr. Smith
belongs to the Masonic order, having attained the Knight Templar
degree, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church and faithful in their attendance and support of
the same. Mr. Smith has served four years in the
village council and three years as mayor. He and his wife
have a wide circle of friends here and stand high in the social
life about Byesville.
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FRANK ROSEMOND SMITH.
Improvement and progress may well be said to form the keynote of
the character of Frank R. Smith, one of the
representative citizens of Cambridge, Guernsey county, and he
has not only been interested in the work of advancement of
individual affairs, but his influence is felt in building up the
community. He has been a very industrious man all his
life, striving to keep abreast of the times in every respect and
as a result every mile-post of the years he has passed has found
him farther advanced, more prosperous, more sedate and with a
larger number of friends than the preceding.
Mr. Smith was born in Cambridge, Ohio,
July 10, 1860, and he is the son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth
(Taylor) Smith, Ebenezer Smith, Sr.,
came from near West Middletown, Washington county, Pennsylvania,
and located near Washington, Guernsey county, not later than
1810. He was prominent among the pioneers and a man of
sterling worth. He took an interest in public affairs and
was treasurer of this county, being appointed by the county
commissioners. Elizabeth Taylor was the
daughter of Thomas Jefferson Taylor, who
was a minister of the gospel in the early days and did a great
amount of good as a preacher among the first settlers.
Mrs. Ebenezer Smith was born at Senecaville,
this county, and her husband was born at Cambridge in 1831 and
was the son of Ebenezer, Sr., and Sarah Smith,
who were among the early settlers of Cambridge, and people of
much prominence here. Ebenezer Smith, Jr., died in
1886.
Frank R. Smith of this review lived in Cambridge
during his boyhood until he was sixteen years old, then for
seventeen years he traveled as a salesman for shoes and
clothing. In 1893 he organized the Cambridge Grocery
Company, first in the jobbing business for five years, then
changed to the retail business which he has continued with very
gratifying results ever since—in fact he has been eminently
successful and does more business than any other mercantile
house in Guernsey county. He has a large, modern,
attractive, neat and well stocked store, with a large and
carefully selected assorted stock of fancy and staple groceries,
etc. Everything is up-to-date and the store is managed
under a superb system. It is always a very busy place and
is the favorite mecca for traders from the rural districts when
in the city. The company was incorporated in 1893 and
Mr. Smith has been president of the same since that
time and under his judicious management its prestige has
constantly grown until this store takes a place in the front
rank of its kind in eastern Ohio. The authorized capital
stock is twenty-five thousand dollars. Their trade extends
all over the county, and much goods are shipped by this firm to
adjoining towns, and a large out-of-town retail trade is carried
on, all cash. No soliciting is done except through
advertising. Mr. Smith is a man of unusual
business acumen, alert, farseeing and a man who believes in
operating under a perfect system. He is straightforward
and honest in all his dealings with his fellow men and his
thousands of customers are given every consideration and uniform
courteous treatment, and they have nothing but praise and good
will for Mr. Smith and his model store.
In 1888 Mr. Smith was married to
Elizabeth Whitaker, daughter of ’Squire
William and Margaret (Rourk)
Whitaker, an excellent old family of this county, the mother
being a native of Antrim, Guernsey county. Mr.
Whitaker was a justice of the peace at Birmingham, this
county, for a period of thirty-eight years, although he was a
Democrat in a Republican district, but he was regarded by all as
a man of ability and was always popular with all classes,
irrespective of politics, very highly esteemed for his
integrity, and he was a man who always tried to help people out
of trouble rather than endeavoring to get them in trouble.
He was a successful stock feeder and did a large business in
that line. 'Squire William Whitaker died in
1892; he was born in 1S06. Mrs. Smith grew
to maturity in this county and received a good education and she
is a woman of many estimable traits and has a wide circle of
friends here.
In 1900 Mr. Smith built a modern,
attractive and commodious home in Cambridge in which he now
resides and which is regarded as a place of hospitality and good
cheer to the numerous warm friends of the family. Besides
his mercantile business, Mr. Smith has laid off
and sold four additions to the city of Cambridge; the first was
the addition on which the Children’s Home now stands and it was
all sold in three months. He also bought the old Sankey
homestead which he laid off and sold; another addition
was near the steel mills; the fourth was the Lofland
farm in the same neighborhood. Mr. Smith
reserved five acres of the last section which is used to raise
fresh vegetables for his grocery business. It is tended by
an able English gardener, an expert in his line. The store
also has its own bakery and a large meat department,
handling only the finest meats obtainable. Seventeen salesmen
are kept busy from morning till night in this large
establishment. Although the present business is very
extensive, much larger extensions are being planned.
Mr. Smith is a man who would win in any
locality or environment in which fate might place him, for he
has sound judgment, coupled with great energy and business tact,
together with upright principles, all of which make for success
wherever and whenever they are rightly and persistently applied.
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GEORGE MARTIN SMITH.
The representative of an old, well established and highly
honored family and one of the public spirited citizens of the
city of Cambridge is George Martin Smith, who occupies a
conspicuous place among the business men of Guernsey county and
he enjoys the confidence and esteem of all who know him.
His record demonstrates the lesson contained in the old fable
that where there is a will there is a way and that obstacles to
success may be overcome by courage and self-reliance.
Mr. Smith was born in New Concord, Ohio,
Jan. 6, 1879, and he is the son of James Oscar and
Margaret Elizabeth (Long) Smith.
The father was born in Guernsey county, near New Concord, Ohio,
Sept. 19, 1849, and is the son of Thomas Smith, Jr., and
Georgianna (Gill) Smith; both horn in the same part of this
county. The mother’s parents came from Baltimore to
Guernsey county. Her father, George Gill,
was a soldier in the war of 1812, and he lived to the remarkable
age of one hundred and two years, dying July 21, 1892, and was
buried in the old cemetery on South Eighth street in Cambridge.
Thomas Smith, Jr., was the son of Thomas Smith, Sr.,
who was of German ancestry. The wife of George
Gill was Elizabeth Mullen before her marriage.
James O. Smith lived on the farm near New Concord
until he was twenty-six years old. He went to Concord and
was married, on Apr. 1, 1875, to Margaret Elizabeth
Long, who was born in Noble county, hut was brought to
Guernsey county by her parents, David and Isabella (Wilson)
Long, and was reared near Mantua. After their marriage
Mr. and Mrs. Smith lived in New Concord several
years, then spent nineteen years on a farm three miles west of
Cambridge. In March, 1897, they moved to Cambridge and
have lived there ever since. They are the parents of seven
children, namely: Mrs. Jennie May Kelley, George
Martin Smith, Mrs. Sadie Belle Pyles. Harry
Jackson Smith James Morse Smith,
Freda Alice and Helen Amanda
Smith.
George Martin Smith lived at New Concord until
he was sixteen years old, when the family moved to this county
and located at Cambridge, where they have since resided.
Mr. Smith began life for himself as a driver for the
United States Express Company, which position he held for a
period of six years. He next became a clerk in the offices
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, remaining as such for
six years and giving his usual high grade service. About
1907 he became the joint ticket agent of both the Pennsylvania
and the Baltimore & Ohio railroad companies, which position he
still holds to the entire satisfaction of his employers.
He is a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge and the Methodist
Episcopal church.
Mr. Smith was married in 1901 to Sarah
Jones, daughter of John A. and Hannah (Evans) Jones.
She was born at Niles, Trumbull county, Ohio, and when a child
her parents moved to New Philadelphia, where she grew to
maturity. Her family moved to Cambridge about 1899, where
they still reside. Her father, John A. Jones, was
born in Douglass, Wales, about 1845, and he is the son of
John and Elizabeth Jones. When he was twenty-one years
of age he came to America and located at Niles, Ohio, where he
remained about tell years, then moved to New Philadelphia, where
they lived until about 1897, then moved to Cambridge, this
county, where they still reside. He has been engaged in
the rolling mills and is now in the sheet mill at Cambridge.
In April, 1863, he married Hannah Evans, who was
also born in Douglass, Wales, and was married there. She
is the daughter of Evan and Elizabeth (Evans) Evans.
There were six children in the family of John A. Jones
and wife; James, John, Evan, Mrs.
Anna Parr, Mrs. Hannah Winters,
and Mrs. Sarah Smith, wife of George M.
Smith, of this review, John A. Jones and wife are
members of the Methodist Episcopal church and he is also a
Mason. To Mr. and Mrs. George
M. Smith one son, George, Jr., has been born, his
date of birth being Sept. 8, 1907.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith both
belong to the Methodist Episcopal church. They own a very
cozy and well arranged home at No. 621 Foster Avenue, Cambridge.
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JEREMIAH R. SMITH.
The life of Jeremiah R. Smith, of Byesville, Guernsey
county, has not been devoid of obstacles by any means, and its
rose has held many a thorn; but with indomitable courage he has
pressed onward, width his face set in determination toward the
distant goal which he has so grandly won; a life of sunshine and
shadow, of victory and defeat, but nobly lived and worthily
rewarded, as such lives always are by the “giver of all good and
precious gifts.” His record is one that the young man
might study with profit.
Mr. Smith was born at Watertown,
Washington county, Ohio, Dec. 11, 1848, and he is the son of
William and Rachel (Hupp) Smith. William Smith was
also a native of Washington county, Ohio, but the mother’s
family came from Pennsylvania. The subject’s boyhood was
spent on the farm until he was twenty-one years old. He
went to high school at Middleburg and received a good education.
He remained on the home farm after leaving school until he
married Matilda Devoll, on Sept. 17, 1868, when he
was twenty years old. She was born in Noble county, near
South Olive, and is the daughter of Levi and Elizabeth
(Young) Devoll. After she grew up her parents moved
nearer to Mr. Smith’s home. After their
marriage they lived about a year on the home farm. The
next year he started work, helping grade on the building of the
Marietta railroad. He worked for them about four years as
a hand, grading on track work, and was then made a section
foreman.
He remained section foreman about four years and from that he
was employed to test coal territory for the Manufacturers Coal
Company of Cleveland, Ohio. His work took him down the
Guernsey valley into Guernsey and Noble counties. After
finding coal in good shape he was employed in mines,
superintending the sinking of shafts, putting in slopes, tracks,
etc., and general supervision
of opening the mine. He then went back as section foreman
for one year, and then came to the Central mine to open a slope
and from there went to the Wilson farm near
Byesville, tested coal and sunk a shaft and laid the track.
From there he drifted back into the railroad work again for
about
two years, then returned to coal mining for about three years.
After this he again returned to the railroad and became foreman
of what is known as the “floating gang” and remained at this for
about twelve years more. This work took him all over the
road and he had from ten to thirty men under his direction.
He was then made supervisor of the railroad, his duties being to
see to and superintend the section foremen and see that the
entire road is kept up. He held that for three years, then
resigned and was made general superintendent of the mines of the
Wills Creek Coal company and remained there a year.
In politics Mr. Smith is a Republican.
In November, 1900, he was elected county commissioner of
Guernsey county and held office from September, 1901, for six
years, two terms of three years each, having been re-elected in
1903. On Dec. 6, 1876, he located at Byesville, and has
made his home there ever since, except for one year when he
lived at Cambridge. There were only fourteen houses in
Byesville when he came, and he can name all the residents of the
town at that time. The town was just a cross-roads hamlet.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith had a family of ten children,
namely: Rose, the wife of John Trott, has
four children and lives in Byesville. Mr. Trott is
a brother of Elza Trott, a sketch of whom appears
elsewhere. Ernest Walter Smith lives on Main street
in Byesville and is assistant superintendent of the Imperial
Mining Company. He had one daughter, Helen. Arthur C.
is assistant statistician of the United Mine Workers
Association, with headquarters at Indianapolis. He has had
five children. Frank R., who died June 6, 1895, had
been qualified as a teacher and was to teach at Kimbolton in the
fall of 1895. Charles L. is in Byesville and is
operator of electric machinery in the coal mines. Harry
lives in Byesville and resides with his father, since the death
of his wife Feb. 16, 1910. He has one little daughter.
He is employed as check-weighman for the miners. John
is at home with his father and is hoisting engineer at the
mines. Emmett lives at Akron, Ohio, and is employed
in the rubber works. He was a good baker, but quit that
because it was impairing his health. He is married and has
one son. Flo F. is at home with her parents and is
clerk in one of the Byesville stores.
Mr. Smith is a member of the Odd Fellows
and Knights of Pythias. He and his wife both belong to the
Methodist Episcopal church of Byesville. He is the oldest
class leader in the church and is a steward, and is also
district leader in the church. When he came to Byesville
there was not a church nor school house in the town. Now
churches and schools are adequate to the size of the town and
are of a high grade of excellence. The church of which he
is a member is the largest in Byesville, with a membership of
four hundred, and a church edifice costing twenty thousand
dollars. In the growth of the church Mr. Smith
has performed a creditable part. Starting as a poor boy.
with no means, working as a section hand, Mr. Smith
has made his own way, and he and his wife have reared a family
to be proud of and accumulated a good property and several town
lots, and have money in the bank. His life is an
encouraging example to young men who have nothing but industry
and character to start with, but who are determined to make
something of themselves. Mrs. Smith, too,
has done her part and the lives of her children are ample proof
that she has done her work well.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B. Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ:
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CHAISE J. SPAID.
Energetic and progressive, Chaise J. Spaid holds a high
rank among the business men of Cambridge, Ohio, and he comes of
one of the best old families of Guernsey county. His birth
occurred at Hartford, Valley township, July 31, 1871. He
is the son of J. E. Spaid, of Hartford, a complete record
of whose life is to be found on another page of this work.
The gentleman whose name heads this review grew to maturity at
Hartford and attended the local schools. When he was about
thirteen years of age he began work in the mines, assisting in
opening Spaid's mine at Buffalo, said to be the fifth
mine opened in Guernsey county. For thirteen years he
worked at mining and carpenter work, having done every kind of
work about a mine and was mine boss for some time, working a
great deal in a mine at Cumberland. In 1897 he entered the saw
mill and lumber business at Hartford and continued successfully
in the same for about five years. Then he bought a planing
mill at Seneca, which he still owns in connection with a lumber
yard there. About 1908 he purchased a planing mill and
lumber yard at Derwent and he still operates it, being very
successful in this line of endeavor. Early in 1909 he
started a mercantile business at Buffalo, which he still
maintains, having bought out C. W. Corbett. On Sept. 3,
1909. he bought out the McCoy Store at Derwent, which he
continues to operate with his usual success. In the spring
of 1910 he started a new store at Walhonding No. 2 mine, in
Valley township, and he still runs it, having built up an
excellent trade with the surrounding country. Mr.
Spaid is also the owner of several valuable properties at
Columbus, Ohio, and he has eight rental properties at Walhonding
No. 2 mine, he has been most successful as a business man, being
energetic, far-seeing and possessing rare tact and
discrimination. Owing to his reputation for fair dealing
and scrupulous honesty among his fellow men in all the relations
of life, he has the good will and confidence of all who know him
or have had dealings with him. He has done much in a material
way toward the progress of Guernsey county. In view of the fact
that he was compelled to start out in life under rather
discouraging circumstances and that he has accepted help from no
one, Mr. Spaid is deserving of the highest credit
for what he has accomplished. He has never been subdued by
obstacles or discouraged by any of the adverse circumstances
that often thwart men in their struggle for success. He has
succeeded in mining operations, the lumber, planing mill and
mercantile business. To start with nothing and at the
early age of thirty-nine to he the owner of two planing mills,
two lumber yards, three general stores, besides numerous rental
properties, is certainly not a bad record, and yet, with all his
success, Mr. Spaid is a straightforward,
unassuming practical man of affairs whom to know is to respect
and admire. Fraternally he belongs to the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.
On Aug. 25, 1895, Mr. Spaid was married
to Frances V. Marquis, of Sharon, Noble county, Ohio,
where she was born and reared and where she received a good
education. She is a lady of refinement and a favorite with
a wide circle of friends. Her parents were Nelson and
Elizabeth S. Marquis, both of whom are now deceased.
They were both natives of Noble county and were prominent among
the earlier residents. Their parents were also reared
there, the family on both sides being influential in pioneer
days.
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JAMES E. SPAID.
From an excellent old Virginia family is descended James E.
Spaid, a successful and prominent contractor and builder of
Valley township, Guernsey county. He was born in the Old
Dominion, but most of his life has been spent in the Buckeye
state; however, he has many of the commendable traits of the
people of that historic southern country, which have resulted in
his winning a host of friends and the good will and confidence
of all whom he has met. He first saw the light of day in
Hampshire county, Virginia, Oct. 20, 1840, and he is the son of
Enos and Rosanna (Stipe) Spaid, and the grandson of
John and Mary (Anderson) Spaid. Frederick Spaid,
brother of the subject's grandfather, was also a resident of
Virginia. William and Michael, two other brothers
of John Spaid. came to Guernsey county in an early
day and died here, being the ancestors of most of the Spaids
in this county.
James E. Spaid grew to maturity in Virginia and
he began business life very early, having clerked in a store
until he was fifteen years of age, then learned the carpenter’s
trade which he followed until 1870, being a very skillful
workman and meeting with success. When he was nineteen
years old he went to Rumney, the county seat of Hampshire
county, during the war between the states, and enlisted in
Company K, Hampshire Guards, Thirteenth Virginia Regiment, to
fight for the South, and he participated in the first battle of
Bull Run, which resulted in a Southern victory. Leaving
the service, he came to Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1862 and was
elected captain of the militia of Valley township by vote,
having left the Confederate army on a furlough. On July
20. 1863, Governor David Tod, of Ohio, commissioned
him captain of militia, which commission he still retains with
the Governor’s signature thereto.
Mr. Spaid was a Democrat in his young
manhood and he was active in the party, being elected justice of
the peace, which position he held in a very satisfactory manner
for a period of twenty-one years, and the fact that he never had
a case appealed from his court is proof that he was fair,
unbiased and faithful in the discharge of his official duties.
It was his custom to induce litigants to compromise their
troubles amicably, when possible, and many of the members of the
Guernsey county bar used to call him “The Peacemaker.” He
has been notary public for fully thirty years, and he has been
called upon to settle up various estates in this locality,
giving eminent satisfaction to all parties concerned in this
line. He has in his possession several old documents of
historic interest. One is a deed from the United States
government, signed by President John Quincy Adams, in
1826, deeding land along the county line, just south of
Hartford, Ohio. No names of counties are contained in the
deed, and it was assigned from the land office at Zanesville.
He also has a deed signed by President Martin Van Buren.
Mr. Spaid has lived at Hartford ever since he came
to Ohio and is one of the best known men in this locality.
On Dec. 24, 1863, Mr. Spaid married Jane
Dickerson, the daughter of Asa and Catherine (Secrest)
Dickerson, and a sister of George W. Dickerson,
mentioned elsewhere in this work. Six children have been
born to Mr. and Mrs. Spaid, namely: Sarah
Catherine married Samuel Trott and lives in
Ann Arbor, Michigan; they have one daughter who is attending the
university at Ann Arbor. Oscar M. lives in
Hartford, married Emma Frye and has three
children; he is superintending the erection of the
superstructure and machinery of various coal mines. Etta
married P. M. Albin, lives near Hartford and has four
children. C. J. is in the planing mill and lumber
business, having a mill at Derwent, also one at Senecaville; he
also has three general stores, one each at Derwent, Hartford and
Walhonding mine No. 2; he married Frances Marcus
and lives in Cambridge. Walter A. Spaid, a carpenter,
lives at Columbus, Ohio, married Sophia Vickers
and they have one son, Oblenis. Blanche married James
Nossinger, a railroad agent and telegraph operator at
Folsom, West Virginia, where they now reside. James E.
Spaid is a member of the Lutheran church and is a man of
high ideals and sentiments.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B. Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ:
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THOMAS AQUILA SPAID.
A prosperous and well known business man of Pleasant City, of
which place he is a native, and a descendant of a family long
resident in this region is Thomas Aquila Spaid, who was
born at Pleasant City, Guernsey county, Ohio, on August 28,
1864, the son of John Wesley and Elizabeth (Dyson) Spaid.
The Dyson family were among the first
settlers in Valley township and the postoffice at Pleasant City
was formerly called Dyson. The family was well
known and some of their descendants are still living in Valley
township and are of high standing in their community. Of
the Spaid family, it is said that they are descended from
a Hessian soldier who located in Virginia after the Revolution.
George Spaid was the first of the family to come to
Guernsey county. He was a farmer and large landowner in
Hampshire county, Virginia, near Winchester, and in 1819 came by
wagon and located here, and owned a large amount of land in
Valley township. He had a son, William, who was
nineteen years old when the family came here from Virginia, and
who married Elizabeth Secrest, the daughter of Jacob
Secrest, also of Hampshire county, Virginia, near
Winchester. She came here with her parents about the same
time the Spaid family came, when the county was still
wild and mainly unsettled. Jacob Secrest was a
large landowner, and both the Secrest and Spaid
families were prominent in the public, business and social life
of the community.
William Spaid was also a farmer in Valley
township, owning many acres, and a successful man during the
years of his activity. He took much interest in fine
horses. John Wesley Spaid was one of the ten
children of William Spaid. He married Elizabeth
Dyson, and was a tanner, owning and operating a large
tannery on the south side of Main street in Pleasant City, half
a square east of the railroad, on the present site of
Grossman's department store. He also ran a shoe shop,
and made shoes, saddles and harness.
Thomas Aquila Spaid was one of
twelve children, four of whom died in childhood. The
others who are deceased are Mrs. Eliza Jane Waller, who
left four children: Olive, who died unmarried, James,
who died at about twenty-six years of age, leaving a son and
daughter. The living are: William Joseph, of
Morristown, Belmont county, Ohio; John Wesley, of Jasper
county, Missouri; Charles L., of Joplin, Missouri;
Thomas A., and Elverson Luther, a Lutheran minister
at Carey, Wyandot county, Ohio. John W. Spaid died
on March 3, 1877, and his wife survived until June, 1900, both
being much respected in the community. Thomas grew
up in Pleasant City, and worked at various occupations, in coal
mines, on the railroad, etc. He and his brother in law for
five years were in the general mercantile business in Pleasant
City. Since he has added a good line of hardware and has
continued in this business, and has prospered and increased his
trade greatly.
Mr. Spaid was married in 1890 to Sonora L.
Secrest, the daughter of David and Sarah Jane (Miller)
Secrest. David Secrest was a son of John and Sallie
Secrest, who came from Virginia, and is of the same branch
of the family as are Noah E. Secrest, Sr., and William
Secrest, of Hartford. Mrs. Spaid was one of
thirteen children, and was born and reared near Hartford, Valley
township, Guernsey county. To Mr. and Mrs. Spaid
has been born one daughter, Olive Ruth.
Mr. Spaid is a member of the Knights of Pythias.
He, his wife and his daughter are members of the Lutheran
Church, and all are active. Mr. Spaid has served as
Sunday school superintendent, and has been a deacon in the
church since the second year of his membership, and began to
teach in the Sunday school when only fifteen years old. He
is a thorough Christian, a man of sterling character and
spotless integrity, successful in business, and prominent and
influential in his community.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 702 |
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WILLIAM M. STAGE
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WILLIAM S. STAGE.
Among the well known residents of Byesville is the gentleman
whose name heads this sketch, who has always taken his full
share in the activities of the neighborhood, and who is the
descendant of a family of pioneers and soldiers long identified
with the interests of Guernsey county, in which some of the
members were among the early settlers, and whose share in its
history has been such that this volume would be incomplete
without their mention.
William S. Stage was born in Center township,
Guernsey county, Ohio, on Mar. 10, 1865, the son of
William M. and Isabel (Arbuckle) Stage.
William M. Stage was born in Center township, and was the
son of John and Elizabeth Stage. His parents came
from New York state, in the early part of the last century, and
settled in Center township. Among their children were
John, who died young, and five daughters. William
M. was the only son who lived to maturity. After the
death of his first wife, he married Elizabeth Foy, by
whom he was the father of six children, Cornelius,
Jacob, George, James, Samuel and
Phoebe.
WILLIAM M. STAGE
grew up in Center township. During the Civil war he was a
soldier in Company G, Seventy-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
and was in the service over two years, taking part, among other
campaigns, in Sherman's march to the sea. He
married Isabel Arbuckle, a daughter of James A.
Arbuckle and a sister of Alexander Arbuckle, whose
sketch see. Some time after their marriage Mr. and Mrs.
Stage moved to Jackson township and lived there the rest of
their lives, until his death, on Mar. 26. 1882, and hers on Apr.
4, 1908. Their children were Joseph, Freeman,
Lucy, Cephas, William S., Thomas and
Marion. Mr. Stage was a farmer during
the greater part of his life, and successful. In politics
he was a Republican, and in religion a Baptist, a member of Mt.
Zion church. He was a man esteemed and respected by his
neighbors.
William S. Stage grew up on his father's farm,
and farmed during the early portion of his life. He was married
on Nov. 19, 1881, to Mary E. Galbraith, who was born and
reared in Spencer township, near Cumberland, and is the daughter
of Henry P. and Frances E. (Evans) Galbraith. After
marriage, William S. Stage lived on a Jackson township
farm for some time, and also worked in the mines. Then he
moved to a farm in Spencer township, where he lived for about a
year. Selling this, he removed to Byesville, and for three
years carried mail on a rural route. In 1906 he went into
the livery business in Byesville, and has since continued this
very successfully and profitably. Mr, Stage was
born and bred a Republican, and has been active in township and
county politics. He served one term as trustee of Jackson
township, and is now serving as a member of the school board of
the Byesville school district, and takes his share in the work
of the party organization, being one of the workers on whom his
party can always rely.
Mr. and Mrs. Stage are the parents of three
children, Hazel, Emma, Herschel Marion
and Frances Isabel, all at borne. Both are
members of the Mt. Zion Baptist church. Mr.
Stage is known to many people in his region of the county,
has many friends, gained by his geniality and agreeability of
nature, and has never been known to refuse to a friend anything
in reason.
H. P. Galbraith, father of Mrs. Stage,
was born on a farm in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and was
the son of William and Margaret Galbraith. In his
boyhood, his parents moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania,
near Pittsburgh, where he grew to manhood, his occupation being
that of a farmer. On Feb. 21, 1859, he was married to
Frances E. Evans, of Guernsey county, Ohio. They lived
in Pennsylvania a year, then came to Guernsey county, where they
spent the remainder of their lives, Frances E. Evans was
born in Loudoun county, Virginia, and when a small child she
came with her parents to Guernsey county, Ohio. Her
parents purchased a farm near Claysville, Westland township,
where she grew to womanhood. She was for some years a
teacher in the country schools. She was the daughter of
A. and Frances E. Evans, whose six children were Alcinda,
Elizabeth, Frances, John, William
and Mortimore. Her paternal grandparents came from
Wales, and her mother’s people were slave-holders at the time of
the Civil war. To H. P. and Frances Galbraith were
born seven children, namely: William, Ellsworth,
Idella, Mary, Charles, Viola and
Calvin. Mr. and Mrs. Galbraith were members of
the Bethel Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs.
Galbraith died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Stage, in Byesville, Sept. 20, 1907, and was buried at the
old Zion cemetery, near Claysville. Mr. Galbraith,
who now makes his home with Mr. and Mrs. Stage, is of
Scotch-Irish descent. He was drafted during the latter
part of the Civil war and served one hundred days at Gallipolis
under Captain Coleman. He was eighty-six
years old on Nov. 22, 1910.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B. Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ:
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ALPHEUS L. STEVENS. A
well known attorney of Cambridge, and the representatives of one
of the old and influential families of Guernsey county is
Alpheus L. Stevens, whose birth occurred on July 25, 1864,
in Londonderry township, this county. He is the son of
James and Ann (Morrow) Stevens, the father a native of
Germany and the mother of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania.
The Stevens family were pioneers here and influential in
the affairs of their locality for several generations, James
Stevens devoted his life to agricultural pursuits and the
very successful in the same, establishing a good home and
developing an excellent farm. Politically, he was a
Republican, and while he kept well informed on political and
current topics, he was never active in party affairs.
After lives of usefulness and honor, he and his good life
companion are sleeping the sleep of the just in the Antrim
cemetery.
Alpheus L. Stevens spent his youth on his
father's farm and was found in the fields assisting with the
crops at a very early age. He attended the public schools
during the winter months. Being an ambitious lad, he
studied hard and prepared himself for a career at the bar, being
duly admitted to practice law in June, 1895. He opened an
office in Cambridge and has been very successful, having built
up a very satisfactory clientele.
Politically, Mr. Stevens is a Republican and he
has always been a party worker. Recognizing his ability as a
persistent, painstaking attorney and as a public spirited man of
affairs, his friends urged his nomination for prosecuting
attorney in 1899 and he was duly elected to this office, the
duties of which he very faithfully discharged, serving Guernsey
county in this capacity for two terms, or a period of six years,
in a manner that reflected credit upon himself and to the
satisfaction of all concerned.
On Jan. 24, 1910, Mr. Stevens was appointed
postmaster of Cambridge by President Taft, and he assumed
the duties of this office on February 4th following. His
selection to this important post has met with general approval.
Mr. Stevens is a Mason and a member of the Presbyterian
church. He is deeply interested in the welfare of his
community and county, but is conservative and unassuming in all
walks of life.
Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vols. I & 2. - Publ: B. F. Bowden &
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911 - Page 472 |
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ELIAS D. STONE
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GEORGE H. STOUT
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JAMES STRAUCH
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ISAAC E. STUBBS
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WILLIAM C. SUITE
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