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(Source: History of Guernsey County, Ohio by Col. Cyrus P. B.
Sarchet - Illustrated - Vol. I. B. F. Bowden & Company,
Indianapolis, Indiana - 1911
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JOHN W. CALE. One of the
honored veterans of the great war of the Rebellion who
efficiently served his country during its dark days in the
sixties is John W. Cale, of Lore City, Guernsey
county, a man who has served his country well, both in times of
war and times of peace, and who has long ranked among the
leading business men and influential citizens of the locality.
Mr. Cale was born on April 17, 1843, in Jackson
township, Guernsey county, Ohio, the son of George and
Margaret (Wilson) Cale. The father was born in
Loudoun county, Virginia, and came to Guernsey county with his
parents, George and Rachel (Cross) Cale, when
the son, George, father of the subject of this
sketch, was only eight years old, in 1824, and entered
government land and began the work of clearing the lands and
erecting a home in the forests, with but little other company
than Indians and wild game. They were of the hardy pioneer
stock and became prominent in the affairs of the times.
George Cale, the father, grew into sturdy
manhood, and followed the vocation of his father, a farmer.
He prospered and became a large land owner and sheep raiser, one
of the first extensive sheep raisers in the county. When
he began sheep raising and for yeas afterward, the sheep pens
and sheds were adjacent to the home, so that the wolves might be
kept away from the sheep at night. He was always a
Republican, different from all his ancestry, and was strong in
the faith of the doctrines of the party, being of an old
Virginia family. He was prominent in the affairs of the
community and foremost in all movements calculated to advance
the best interests of all the people. He was a man of
little education, and realizing the lack of it, he was careful
in the education of the children of his family. He had but
two children, a son, John W., the subject of
this sketch, and Margaret, now Mrs.
John R. Secrest, a farmer of Johnson county, Kansas,
and a member of a prominent pioneer family of Guernsey county,
Ohio.
The father, George
Cale, in addition to general farming and sheep-raising,
was also an extensive tobacco grower, his farm products being
hauled to Zanesville for market. He was a prosperous man
along all lines, his large land holdings developed fine veins of
coal underneath, and his coal royalties made him a prosperous
man. His wife, Margaret Wilson, was of
Scotch-Irish descent and was born in few months after her
parents, James and Margaret Wilson, came to
America and settled in Guernsey county, Ohio, where they ever
after resided.
The Cales
are of Revolutionary stock. The great-grandfather, who was
also George Cale, was a Revolutionary soldier,
and his son, John, grandfather of the subject
of this sketch, was a soldier in the war of 1812.
George Cale, the father of the subject, died on
June 16, 1907, at the age of ninety-four years, his wife having
preceded him by almost twenty-five years, her death occurring in
July, 1887, and both are buried in the Senecaville cemetery.
At the time of the father's death he had held to his lands
longer than any person then living in Guernsey county.
John W. Cale spent the years of his childhood
and youth on his father's farm and attended the district
schools. He early manifested a fondness for trading and
commercial pursuits. He attended the Cambridge high school
for two years, preparing himself for teaching, and at the age of
twenty-one he began teaching school in the home district school.
When the Civil war broke out he enlisted in the Union army as a
member of Company D, One Hundred and Seventy-second Regiment
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in 1863. The regiment was later
consolidated with the Forty-seventy Ohio Volunteer Infantry and
served in the Army of the Cumberland and saw hard service
covering a period of fourteen months.
Mr. Cale was married Dec. 28, 1865, to
Harriet J. Rose, daughter of Abraham and Eliza
(Wells) Rose. To this union were born five
children, all sons: George Wilson,
deceased; Abraham F., deceased; Ralph
A., deceased; Charles H., a physician
in Belmont county, Ohio, and an infant son who
died when only four days old. When married Mr.
Cale was teaching school and during his teaching period
taught in all one hundred and twenty months and all of this in
three districts, his home district, Byesville and Hartford.
During his time of teaching he attended the summer terms of
Muskingum College, of New Concord, Ohio, and graduated in 1871
in the classical course. While teaching he studied
theology and was admitted to the ministry in the Methodist
Episcopal church. For four years he gave his entire time
to the ministry and was connected with Stafford circuit in
Monroe county, Ohio. He was later connected with the
Methodist Protestant church and from 1889 for several years he
occupied the pulpit at Stockport and Zanesville, Ohio. He
has always been a very busy an, as his little son once explained
by saying: "Father teaches school five days in the week, coon
hunts at night, buys wool and sheep on Saturday and preaches on
Sunday."
On Oct. 1, 1876,
Mr. Cale was made the Baltimore & Ohio railroad agent
at Campbell station, now Lore City, and in this position he
served the company for twenty-nine years. His son,
George William, was connected with him in this duty and
died in the service of the company. In addition to all
these duties, Mr. Cale was extensively engaged
in shipping sheep. He shipped sheep from Vermont and Ohio
into the Western states as far west as Oregon. He has been
a raiser and breeder of fine stock of all kinds, cattle, horses
and sheep, and a breeder of thoroughbred stock. He has
been an extensive buyer and shipper of stock, from thirty-to
fifty cars annually, and buys wool every season extensively and
ships sometimes as much as two hundred thousand pounds a year.
His stock has always been prize winners at the county, district
and state fairs, where exhibited.
Mr. Cale is a Republican in politics and always
has been active in affairs, never holding any office, but always
working in the party ranks. He is a member of the Knights
of Pythias. He has been for years active in all wool
Growers' Association. He is now president of the Tri-State
Wool Growers' Association, and no man has been more active in
the work of the these associations. He has become the
owner of land amounting to about three hundred acres in Wills,
Center and Jackson townships, and a modern home in Lore City,
where he lives. He is a man of positive convictions and
always a man of his word. His broad views and charitable
disposition, as well as his liberality, make him beloved by all
who know him. A man of wide acquaintance and business
activities and wherever known he has a reputation for integrity
and square dealing in all of his transactions.
Mrs. Cale is a woman of fine instinct and
broad, charitable character, active in all good works in which
the community in which she lives is interested. Always
devoted to her family and her home, she has also found time to
minister to the needs and wants of those less fortunate.
The Cale home in Lore City has always been
prominent in the social life of the community and well known for
its genuine, yet unostentatious hospitality.
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JUDGE
JAMES W. CAMPBELL. In placing the name of James W.
Campbell in the front rank of Guernsey county citizens, simple
justice is done to a biographical fact, universally recognized
throughtout this and adjoining counties by men at all familiar
with his history. A man of judgment, sound discretion and
public spirit, he has so impressed his individuality upon the
community as to gain the highest esteem of all classes.
Judge Campbell was born Sept. 20, 1847, in
Middleton, Guernsey county, Ohio, the son of Dr. James and
Susan (Brown) Campbell, the former being a prominent
practitioner here for many years, a man of influence, high
character and intelligence.
Born in this locality, which was settled by people from
the island bearing the name of Guernsey, off the north coast of
France, Judge James W. Campbell has, unaided, fought his
way, step by step, to a position of eminence. At the age of
fifteen years he, after repeated attempts, enlisted in the army
and became a member of the regiment which Whitelaw Reid, in his
"Ohio in the War," credits with suffering the greatest hardships
of any regiment at that time in the field. After coming out of
the army the young soldier prepared for college and entered
Williams with a personal letter from President Garfield
to Mark Hopkins. He worked his way through college,
cleansing recitation rooms, kindling fires and doing odd jobs to
pay his way.
After leaving college, Mr. Campbell worked as a
printer, as editor, and read law, all at the same time, and in
so doing laid the foundation for the high legal and business
reputation that he has since acquired. He was specially
admitted to practice by the supreme court before that body took
general charge of admissions, and practiced in Cambridge, also
in eastern Ohio, rising to a position of eminence in his chosen
profession. No man in Ohio has ranked higher in law than
Judge Campbell, and is legal attainments are equaled by few
in this or any state. After nine years of practice he was
elected to the bench, the youngest man ever elected to the
judiciary in Ohio, and made a record which has not been
surpassed both for amount and quality of work. Judge
Campbell has been successful not only in legal circles, but
also in a business way. He was vice-president and is still a
director in the oldest national bank of Cambridge, among the
first of national banks organized in the United States. He was
special counsel for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad and the United
States Steel Company; he was receiver and general manager of the
Eastern Ohio railroad, and is still director in the Marietta &
Lake and the Eastern Ohio railroads, and has been organizer,
officer, director and attorney for various important eastern
corporations. He takes great interest in educational and
literary movements and is familiar with the world's best
literature and a writer of no mean order of ability himself He
is a member of the board of directors of the Cambridge public
library.
Recently the Judge has invested extensively in California
orange and oil properties, making his headquarters at Los
Angeles. He is president of the Bankers and Merchants Oil
Company and of the California Investment Company, vice-president
of the Consolidated Midway Oil Company of California, which owns
the largest well in the world, flowing three thousand measured
barrels per hour; vice-president of the France-Wellman Oil
Company, and treasurer of the Kern Westside Oil Company;
treasurer of the Elk Hills Midway Oil Company.
Judge Campbell was married Feb. 13, 1873, to
Martha White, daughter of Hon. Joseph W. and Nancy (Sarchet)
White, of Cambridge, a prominent and influential family
here. Mr. White, having, for a number of years,
represented the Cambridge district in Congress. To Judge and
Mrs. Campbell one son has been born, Joseph W. Campbell,
who after graduation from the University of Chicago, entered the
legal profession, having for a preceptor none other than his
able father, consequently he made rapid progress in his studies,
went through the Cincinnati Law School with high honors, and was
duly admitted to the bar. He is now engaged very successfully
in the practice at Joliet, Illinois, and he is also dealing
extensively in real estate. He is a thoroughly competent and
successful young man, to whom the future holds much of promise.
The Campbell home is at the corner of Wheeling
avenue and Ninth street, Cambridge, and is a commodious, modern
brick house, thoroughly equipped and furnished with modern
utilities and comforts, and is known as a place of old-time
hospitality and good cheer.
Throughout his entire professional and business career
Judge Campbell has been animated by lofty motives, and made
every personal consideration subordinate to the higher claims of
duty. Broad and liberal in his views, with the greatest good of
his fellow men ever before him, his conduct has been that of the
lover of his kind and the true and loyal citizen, who is ready
at all times to make any reasonable sacrifice for the cause in
which his interests are enlisted. He is, withal, a man of the
people, proud of his distinction as a citizen of a state and
national for whose laws and institutions he has the most
profound admiration and respect, while his strong mentality,
ripe judgment and unimpeachable integrity demonstrate to the
satisfaction of all his ability to fill honorably important
official positions and to discharge worthily the duties of his
trusts.
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JOHN BARGAR CLARK.
Whatever of success has attended the efforts of John Bargar
Clark, one of the popular councilmen of Cambridge,
Guernsey county, has been entirely owing to his own endeavors,
his energy, industry and natural ability. From small
beginnings he has attained a prominence in teh county which
entitles him to be regarded as one of its representative
citizens. He has maintained the reputation of his
ancestors, long well established in this locality, for honesty
and industry. He was born at Tippecanoe, Harrison county,
Ohio, in 1859, and he is the son of John Miller and Elizabeth
(Smith) Clark. The father devoted his life to farming
and country blacksmithing and his death occurred on his farm in
Jefferson township, Guernsey county, in January, 1901. His
widow is still living on the old home place there, having
attained the advanced age of eighty-two years. Her oldest
son, George W. Clark, makes his home with her and manages
the farm.
John B. Clark grew to maturity
on the home farm and he went to work in the fields when quite
small and when twelve years of age he began working in his
father's blacksmith shop and worked there for about fifteen
eyras, becoming a very skilled workman, enjoying a wide
reputation in his locality in this line of endeavor. He
then came to Cambridge and for seventeen years ran a barber shop
here, which was one of the most popular in the city. He
next engaged in teh restaurant business on Wheeling avenue, near
Seventh street, and he maintained the same with very
satisfactory results for about two years and a half. On
Aug. 1, 1909, he opened the Princess theater, in teh same block
on Wheeling avenue, which he has managed very successfully to
the present time and which was a popular gathering place for
those seeking wholesome amusement from the start, and he has
continued to be well patronized and popular with the masses.
Politically, Mr. Clark has always been a
Republican and active in public affairs. While living in
Jefferson township, he was acceptably served as township clerk
soon after reaching his majority. In teh fall of 1909, he
was elected to the city council of Cambridge and he is making a
splendid record in this capacity. He is a member of the
Modern Woodmen and the United Presbyterian church.
Mr. Clark was married in October, 1887, to
Mary Catherine Taylor, who was born near Winterset, Madison
township, this county, the daughter of James and Elizabeth
(Smith) Taylor, old residents of that part of the county,
where they were well known and highly respected. They are
both now deceased. Mrs. Clark grew to maturity in her
native community and was educated in teh public schools.
She is the mother of one son, Raymond Smith Clark a lad
of promise.
Temperamentally, Mr. Clarkis a genial, obliging
and sociable gentleman who has made many friends since coming to
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JAMES G. COMBS.
From small beginnings, James G. Combs, well known citizen
of Byesville, Guernsey county, has gradually attained a
prominence in this locality which entitles him to be regarded as
one of our progressive citizens and therefore worthy of rank
among them in a biographical compendium of the nature of the one
at hand.
Mr. Combs was born near Winterset, Guernsey
county, Ohio, in June 1855, and he is the son of Williaml and
Delilah (Kimble) Combs. The father was born in Fayette
county, Pennsylvania, and in 1820 he grew there to maturity and
received his education, coming to Guernsey county, Ohio, in
1838. He followed farming and here he was married to
Delilah Kimble, a native of Jefferson township, this county.
She was the daughter of Adam and Mary (Huffman) Kimble,
the father a pioneer here, having taken up land from the
government. Their family consisted of four children:
George W., who lives near Winterset; Martin,
deceased; James G., of his review, and Mary Catherine,
wife of George Lanning, who is engineer of the rolling
mills at Cambridge. William Combs and wife lived
near Winterset, until about 1900, then moved to Cambridge and
lived with the daughter, Mrs. Lanning. The death of
William Combs occurred in March, 1910, and he was buried
on Easter Sunday. He would have been ninety years of age
the 16th of the following May. He was a grand old man whom
everyone respected and admired, becoming a man of good standing
in his community. He was for many years school director
and trustee of his township two or three terms. He was a
deacon in the Baptist church for many years, holding this office
at the time of his death. He was a good and useful man in
his community. The death of Mrs. William Combs
occured in August, 1906. She was a woman of many
praiseworthy characteristics, like her husband.
James G. Combs grew to maturity on the farm near
Winterset, and he devoted his attention to farming, also worked
a great deal at the carpenter's trade. He was married on
April 4, 1878, to Allie J. McColley, daughter of
William and Sarah (Saviers) McColley. She was born and
reared near Antrim, this county. Her father was born in
Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1825, and there he grew to
maturity, locating in Antrim about 1841; her mother was
born in Madison township, this county. Her grandfather,
John Saviers, came here at an early date and took up
government land and figured prominently in the early history of
this locality.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Combs
continued to live on the farm in their neighborhood until
November, 1908, when they moved to Byesville, where they still
reside, but still retain their farm near Winterset, where he
farms and keeps stock. Like his honored father before him,
he has taken the part of the broad-minded citizen in local
affairs. Politically, he is a Democrat, and is a member of
the Baptist church, while his wife belongs to the Presbyterian
church. They have three sons and two daughters: William
Delno is a dentist and is located at Kenton, Ohio; Harry
L. is in the Adams Express office at Columbus; John
is in the drug business with his father in Byesville; Kittie
May and Pearl are both in Byesville and assist in the
drug store, which is a neat and model one and where a large
trade is carried on at all times. Fraternally, Mr.
Combs is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.
When Adam Kimble and John Saviers came to
this county they both located near where the town of Winterset
is now. It was a virgin forest, through which Indians and
wild beasts roamed. These gentlemen located on adjoining
farms, which they purchased direct from the government.
They were great hunters and found deer and other game abundant.
They found a white deer which they protected from other hunters,
making a pet of it. Like their fellow pioneers, they built
log cabins in the woods, and they were molested by the wolves,
which kept up their howlings in the night. They spun flax
and made their own clothing, some of, which the subject still
remembers. Grandmother Kimble had a loom and did
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