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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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L. S. LINKHORN. Owing to
his loyalty to his county, his scrupulously honest dealings with
his fellow men and his genial disposition, L. S. Linkhorn,
the present efficient and popular county treasurer of Guernsey
county, has won the undivided respect and esteem of all who know
him, and he is regarded by everyone as being among the most
enterprising and representative citizens of Cambridge.
Mr. Linkhorn was born on August 30, 1870, in
Jackson township, this county, and is the son of Joseph and
Temperance (Selby) Linkhorn. Both parents were born in
Guernsey county, Ohio, and both are still living, the father
being a successful stock dealer, having been a shipper of
livestock for forty years. He is well and favorably known
throughout this and adjoining counties. Politically he is
a Republican, and has always been active in party affairs.
L. S. Linkhorn was educated in the schools of
his native community, the Byesville schools, and later at the
Northwestern University at Ada, Ohio. During his boyhood
he also assisted his father in his business. At the
Northwestern University he specialized in the commercial course.
Prior to going to Ada he worked in a tobacco warehouse as a
packer and there earned his first dollar. He also clerked
in a general merchandise store in Byesville. After leaving
the university he went to Kansas and engaged in farm work for
one year. He then returned to Guernsey county, and soon
after was appointed a deputy sheriff under Sheriff James
Mason and he served eighteen months in this capacity.
He then entered the employ of the Morton Tin Plate Company,
whose mill was just starting operations in 1893. He was
employed in this mill and its various changes of ownership for
about fifteen years, learning the trade of ownership for about
fifteen years, learning the trade of sheet roller, which he
followed for the last eight years of that time.
Politically, Mr. Linkhorn is a Republican and he
has always been active in party matters, an interested advocate
of the issues he espouses and always prepared to ably defend
them. In the summer of 1908 he was nominated by his party
for the important office of county treasurer and was elected the
same fall, assuming his official duties in September, 1909, and
is now serving his first term, and he made such a splendid
record that he was re-nominated for a second term in 1910,
without opposition. He is a careful, obliging, competent
public official, and stands very high with all classes and
parties. He has served his party as a member of the county
central and executive committees and is a frequent delegate to
party conventions.
Mr. Linkhorn was married on March 24, 1897, to
Mary E. Chambers, daughter of John A. and Lucinda (Stoffer)
Chambers, of Kirnbolton, Ohio. To this union three
children have been born, Adrian T., Walter L., and
Audry.
Mr. Linkhorn is a member of Pleasant City Lodge,
Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of America and the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Cambridge.
Mrs. Linkhorn is a member of the First United
Presbyterian church, where the family all attend and are active
in church and Sunday school work. For recreation Mr.
Linkhorn enjoys hunting and fishing and is a lover of
outdoor life. The family home, a comfortable and
hospitable one, is at the corner of Gomber and Highland avenues,
Cambridge.
Jesse Linkhorn, grandfather of the subject, was
one of the early pioneers of Guernsey county. He was a
farmer and carpenter. He married Sarah Wilson.
Jesse Linkhorn was born in Guernsey county. Lloyd
Selby, grandfather, and Thomas Wilson,
great-grandfather of the subject, were among the earliest
pioneers of Guernsey county. The latter entered government
land in Jackson township at an early date, and was an
influential man, and both were largely instrumental in the
subsequent development and progress of Byesville and Jackson
township.
The Linkhorn family and progenitors have been
identified with Guernsey county from its organization, taking an
active and influential part in its history and development.
Lloyd Selby was the first railroad station agent at
Byesville, and was one of the early merchants of that town. |
COL. GORDON LOFLAND.
Among the residents of Guernsey county in pioneer days none is
more deserving of having his name perpetuated on the pages of
history than Col. Gordon Lofland, who has long been
sleeping the sleep of the just. His life was fraught with
so much good and his example so worthy of imitation that he is
yet spoken of with reverence by the older inhabitants of the
county. He performed his work well, whatever he had to do,
never shirked his duty or quailed at dangers or obstacles.
Colonel Lofland was born in Loudoun county,
Virginia, on September 19, 1794, and his death occurred on
December 17, 1869, at his home in Cambridge, Ohio, at the
age of seventy-six years. He was the son of Dorman and
Mary H. Lofland. In the year 1800 his parents moved
from Virginia to Fairfield county, Ohio, and took up their
residence near Lancaster, Ohio. In 1816 Colonel Lofland
came to Cambridge, where he resided until his death. There
was little connected with the growth and prosperity of the town
and vicinity with which he was not familiar and actively
connected. He was a public spirited man and stood in the
front rank of progress and endeavored to keep pace with
advancing civilization. He was a very patriotic and was
one of the most useful citizens in the state during the Civil
war, devoting much of his time and private means to the cause of
the Union, which he held to be insoluble. He raised
recruits and endeavoring to keep alive the spirit of patriotism
among the people he embraced every opportunity, and his services
along these lines were incalculable.
His patriotism was recognized by Governor Tod,
of Ohio, who seldom, if ever, disregarded his counsels. He
was appointed by the Governor as Ohio's commissioner for the
Gettysburg cemetery in 1863 and in 1867 he was appointed
commissioner for the Antietam cemetery. He was always
prompt in the discharge of his duties connected with the several
positions he was called upon to occupy, and the people were
always pleased to delegate their interests to his hands, he
being frequently called upon to represent them in different ways
and upon different occasions during most of his life.
During the years of his activity he was seldom absent from
public assemblies, political and patriotic, and even during the
last year of his life he attended a meeting of the veterans of
the war of 1812 and a political meeting addressed by Governor
Hayes on September _d preceding his death. He was a
most worthy character and held a conspicuous position in the
estimation of all the people.
In 1824, Colonel Lofland married Mrs. Sarah
P. Metcalf, widow of Thomas Metcalf and a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Gomber, who came to Cambridge from
Frederick City, Maryland, in 1808. Her father's name is
intimately associated with the history of Cambridge, he being
one of the original projectors of the city. Mrs.
Lofland's death occurred on November 5, 1870, in the
seventy-sixth year of her age. She was a most worthy
woman, and in every way a fit life companion for her
distinguished husband. She is kind and quiet in her
disposition, and as a wife and mother looked well to the wants
of her household. She enjoyed, as she well deserved, the
love of her entire family and the respect and confidence of her
acquaintances and all who knew her were her friends.
The representatives of the family yet living and
residing in Cambridge are a son, Col. Gordon C. Lofland,
and a daughter, Mrs. Caroline Hutcheson. The
deceased children are, Thomas A., Mary, Jacob G., Susan,
and Sarah P. The parents and members of the family
are all buried side by side in the first cemetery dedicated to
burial purposes in the cit of Cambridge, which is now nar the
center of the business section of the city. |
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ORLANDO F. LOWRY, M. D.
One of the best known physicians of
Cambridge, of recognized high
standing in his profession and popular and influential outside of it, is
Orlando F. Lowry, who was born on
Mar. 15, 1856, on a farm near Lore City, Guernsey Co., Oh. He is the son of
William and Nancy (St. Clair) Lowry, both of whom are natives of Ohio, the father of Guernsey county, the mother of Belmont county.
William Lowry was a farmer and
an upright, useful citizen. Both
parents are dead, the father dying when his son
Orlando was a small boy. Their family consisted of seven
children, two of whom died in infancy, deceased;
John W., deceased; Emma C., now
Mrs. John C. Rose, of Senecaville, Ohio;
and Orlando F.
Orlando F. Lowry
was reared on a farm and his early education was obtained at the country
schools. He then taught in the
schools of Guernsey and
Belmont counties, and while attending the Ohio University
at Athens
taught in the meantime. In all he
taught one hundred months, and was a popular and progressive educator. From boyhood he had had a desire to
become a physician, and after giving up teaching entered
Starling
Medical College
at Columbus,
getting his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1889, and in a class of twenty-seven
he stood second. He first located at
Lore City, where his mother lived, and there began the practice of his
profession. In 1899 he came to
Cambridge
and opened an office, where he has since been, and has built up a large and
profitable practice, and stands high in the estimation of other members of his
profession. He is a progressive man
and is a member of the county, state and national medical associations and ever
since coming to Cambridge
has been one of the board of pension examining surgeons, and secretary of the
board. During his term as a member
of this board they have examined more than four thousand applicants for
pensions.
Doctor Lowry has been a member of the Cambridge board of education for four years, and is president of that
board. During his term the new Brown
high school was erected at a cost of seventy-five thousand dollars, one of the
finest in the state in a city the size of Cambridge, and a finely designed and splendidly
equipped building, the erection of which is due largely to the efforts of
Doctor Lowry.
The Doctor is a Republican in politics,
has been active in public matters, and has often served on county and local
central committees, and as a delegate to county, district and state conventions. He keeps thoroughly in touch with
public matters.
Doctor Lowry was married in December,
1884, to Mary A. Doyle, the daughter of John and Sarah
(Willialms) Doyle, of Millwood township, Guernsey
county. The
Doyles were a Philadelphia family, who came to
Guernsey county in early days.
Mr. Doyle at one time owning the land on which the Centennial Exposition buildings of 1876
were built. Both
Mr. and Mrs. Doyle died some years
ago, and are buried near Quaker
City, in Millwood township. To
Doctor and Mrs. Lowry have been born two sons and two daughters:
Maude, now Mrs. Willard Hood, her husband and
auditor of Cambridge
City; Ray, an electrical engineer
of Cambridge, who is a graduate of the
International Correspondence School, of Scranton,
Pennsylvania; Haven, of Cambridge; and
Hazel, a student in the
Cambridge high school.
Doctor Lowry and his family are
members of the Methodist church, and
Doctor Lowry is superintendent of the Sunday school, which is the largest
Methodist Sunday school in the state of Ohio.
He is active in all church work, and is also president of the Cambridge
Chautauqua Association, which was organized five years ago, at which time he was
chosen president, and has since continued in that position, while he is one of
the most active workers for the organization.
Fraternally he is a member of the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, the
Elks, the Loyal Americans, and the American Insurance Union. He is also medical examiner for
several old-line and fraternal insurance companies. The
Lowry home is situated at
No. 241 Highland avenue
in a choice residence district, and the family is prominent in the social life
of the community.
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