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Source: 
History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio
Under the Editorial Supervision of
Judge H. H. Eckley, for Carroll County
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Judge Wm. T. Perry, for Harrison County
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1921

A B C D E F G H I J K L M
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  ANDREW PALMER was born in the State of New York on the 10th of Oct., 1850, and he was ten years old when he was sent from the old Empire commonwealth to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he was made the adopted son of David and Mary Magdaline (Temper) Palmer, in whose home he was reared to manhood, the while he was afforded the advantages of the public schools, his foster parents having in the meanwhile established their home on a farm in Harrison County.  He remained with his foster father until his marriage, in the year 1872, and he then engaged in independent farm enterprise in Nottingham Township, whence he later removed to Washington Township, where he farmed two years.  He then returned to Nottingham Township, where he has since continued his activities as a substantial agriculturist and stock-grower and where he owns an excellent farm of eighty-three acres.  He is loyal to all civic responsibilities, is a republican in politics and he and his wife hold membership in Bethel Chapel (Methodist Episcopal) in their home township.
     On the 4th of July, 1872, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Palmer to Miss Rachel Yarnall who was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, Sept. 16, 1851, a daughter of Aaron and Harriet (Poulson) YarnallAaron Yarnall was born Nov. 12, 1815, a son of Aaron and Mary Ann (Bell) Yarnall, and Mrs. Harriet (Poulson) Yarnall was born May 26, 1813, a daughter of James and Elizabeth PoulsonAaron Yarnall, father of Mrs. Palmer, came to Harrison County about the year 1857, and engaged in farming in Nottingham Township.  He and his wife passed the residue of their lives in this county, and both were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  The became the parents of ten children, whose names and respective years of birth are here recorded:  Elizabeth, 1837; James, 1839; Ziba, 1841; John, 1843; Eli, 1845; Sarah Jane, 1847; George, 1849; Rachel, 1851; Asbury, 1854; and William 1855 (died in infancy).  Aaron Yarnall, Sr.,  grandfather of Mrs. Palmer, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1783, and in 181 he came with his family to Harrison County, Ohio, where he purchased 160 acres of land in Nottingham Township and became a pioneer farmer.  Here he remained until his death in 1851, and his widow passed away in 1857, both having been active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  They had nine children, namely: Ziba, William, Aaron, Eli, Colver, John, Nelson, Lydia and Mary A.
     Mr. and Mrs. Palmer
became the parents of  eight children: John M. is a farmer in Nottingham Township; William T. is individually mentioned o other pages of this work; Hattie died in early childhood; Alice M. is the wife of James Walker; Bertha R. is the wife of Joseph B. Rogers; Mary is the wife of Elmer Tarbett; and Harry and Wesley are still members of the parental home circle.
 Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 689
  JOHN M. PALMER was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, on the 27th of May, 1873.  He gained his early education in the district schools of this township, and is now numbered among its substantial and progressive exponents of farm industry.  He is a son of Andrew Palmer, of whom specific mentioned whom specific mentioned is made on other pages, with due record concerning the family history.  At the age of Andrew Palmer, of whom specific mention is made on other pages, with due record concerning the family history.  At the age of sixteen years John M. Palmer began his independent career by obtaining employment as a farm hand, and he continued to be thus engaged for several years.  After his marriage he established himself upon his present farm, which comprised 110 acres at the time when he purchased the property, in 1901, but to which he has since added until he now has a well improved and valuable farm property of 186 3/4 acres of which 160 acres constitute the home place, the remaining acreage likewise being in Nottingham Township.  Virorous work and good management have brought cumulative success to Mr. Palmer in his independent activities as an agriculturist and grower of live stock, and he is one of the substantial and popular citizens of his native township, where he served two years as township assessor.  He hold membership in the Bethel Chapel of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the home township.
     On the 26th of October, 1904, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Palmer to Miss Cora E. Walker, daughter of L. P. and Elizabeth (Adams) Walker, of Notthingham Township, and the supreme bereavement in his life came when his devoted wife was summoned to eternal rest.  She was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and her death occurred on the 19th of August 1919.  She is survived by two children - Denver Lewis, who was born Nov. 15, 1906, and Helen Elizabeth, who was born Dec. 26, 1911.
 Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 669
  ROBERT PENMAN PALMER, son of Charles W. Palmer, of Monroe Township, Harrison County, through a resident of Dennison deserves mention in this record as one of the gallant soldiers of Harrison County in the World war.  He was with the Forty-second or Rainbow Division. 
     He was born at the home of his parents in Monroe Township Sept. 8, 1897.  He was not yet twenty years of age when he volunteered and enlisted Apr. 17, 1917, at Dennison, Ohio.  He received his early training at Camp Perry, being assigned to Company K of the old Fourth Ohio Regiment in the Thirty-seventh Division.  Aug. 16, 1817, he was transferred to Company H of the One Hundred Sixty-sixth Infantry of the Forty-second or Rainbow Division.  October 8, 1917, he left Hoboken, New York, on the "Peoria" for France, landing at Brest, and after some intensive training with the Rainbow Division he was placed on the Luneville sector from March 11 to 22, 1918; Bacarat sector March 25 to June 20th; on the Champagne-Marne defensive from July 15th to July 18th; took part in the Aisne-Marne offensive from July 27th to August 3rd; was in the Saint Mihiel campaign from September 12th to 16th: in the Woevre sector from Sept. 25th to 30th; and in the Meuse-Argonne battles from Oct. 10 to Nov. 7, 1918.  June 18, 1918, he was gassed and hit by shrapnel, and was in hospital recovering from these injuries three weeks.  During his service he was in France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, and was with the Army of Occupation in Germany for six months.
     In April, 1919, he left France on the Leviathan, landing at New York April 29th, and received his honorable discharge at Camp Sherman, May 16, 1919, more than two years after his enlistment. 
     June 3, 1919, Robert Penman Palmer married Gladys Cable of Dennison, daughter of Lee and Callie Cable.
 Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 623
  THOMAS A. PALMER has shown no indirection or lack of initiative energy in his long and successful career as one of the representative farmers of his native county, and though now advanced in years he still resides upon his old home farm in North Township, Harrison County, the place having comprised 140 acres until the spring of 1919, when he relieved himself of the cares of managing the entire place by selling ninety-two acres, so that he retains at the present time a farm of forty-eight acres and is giving his attention principally to growing apples.  He is a man of marked mentality, is genial and affable, ahs lived a life of uprightness and productive toil, and no citizens more secure vantage-place in popular confidence and good will.
     Mr. Palmer was born in Archer Township, this county, on the 28th of October, 1849, and is a son of Adam and Catherine (Shirey) Palmer, both natives of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where the former was born in Dec., 1812, and the latter on the 11th of Jan., 1816, she having been a daughter of John and Rachel Shirey.  Adam Palmer's parents, Jacob and Hannah (Archibald) Palmer, came from the old Keystone State of Ohio in the early pioneer days and were numbered among the first permanent settlers is Stock Township, Harrison County, where they established their home in 1814 and where the father reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds.  Adam Palmer was about two years old when the family came to Harrison County, where he was reared on the pioneer farm and attended the primitive schools of the period.  In his youth he learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed in connection with farm enterprise in Archer Township until 1860, when he removed to a farm in North Township, this place having been improved and developed by him and having continued his place of residence until his death, October 15, 1881.  His widow survived him by fifteen years and passed to the life eternal on the 29th of Feb. 1896, both  having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  The names and respective dates of birth of their children are here recorded:  Jacob G., Oct. 18, 1838; Mary E., Jul. 8, 1840; William, May 21, 1842; Israel A., Jun. 2, 1844; Thomas A., subject of this review, Oct. 28, 1849.
     Thomas A. Palmer gained his youthful education in the rural schools of Harrison County and as a youth he learned the carpenter's trade, principally under the direction of his father.  After devoting a few years to work at his trade he engaged in farming, with which great basic industry he has continued his connection during the long intervening years, the wile he has owned and resided upon his present farm since the time of his marriage, in 1875.  He has always been ready to give his support to measures and enterprises advanced for the general good of the community, is a democrat in politics, and is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Hanover, as was  also his wife, whose death, on the 3d of March, 1911, brought the supreme loss and bereavement of his life.
     April 29, 1875, marked the marriage of Mr. Palmer to Miss Jennie E. Fowler, who was born and reared in Stock Township, and who was a daughter of James W. and Elizabeth (Crawford) Fowler, who passed the closing years of their lives on their farm in Stock Township, near Scio.  Mr. Fowler was born in Monroe Township, this county, Oct. 12, 1929, and was a son of Benjamin and Jane (Whittaker) Fowler, whose marriage was solemnized in this county.  Benjamin Fowler was born in Pennsylvania Oct. 31, 1802, and was a boy at the time of the removal of the family to Harrison County, Ohio, where his father, John Fowler became a pioneer farmer and where he himself passed the remainder of his life, in Monroe Township.  James W. Fowler married Miss Elizabeth Crawford on the 7th of June, 1852, and in 1861 they settled on the farm in Stock Township which continued to be their place of residence during the remainder of their lives, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
     Mr. and Mrs. Palmer became the parents of two children:  Nellie I. is the wife of Loyd M. Nixon, of North Township, and they have one son, Clyde; Mary E. is the wife of Rev. Robert M. Albaugh,  a clergyman of the Baptist Church, and they reside in Portsmouth, Ohio, their two children being Roberta M. and William Carroll.
 Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 635
  WILLIAM T. PALMER is effectively showing his executive mettle and practical resourcefulness in his independent operations as a farmer in his native township, and is a son of Andrew Palmer, who likewise is a prosperous exponent of farm enterprise in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, and who is made the subject of a personal sketch on the other pages of the volume, so that a repetition of the family record is not demanded in the present article. 
     William T. Palmer was born in Nottingham Township on the 28th of Nov. 1874, and his boyhood and youth found him not neglectful of the advantages offered in the district schools of his native township, where he was reared on his father's farm.  As a young man he found employment as a farm workman, and he continued his effective service in this capacity until in 1901 he engaged in independent farm enterprise in North Township.  After having there rented a farm and given his attention to its management for one year he rented a  farm in Stock Township, where he centered his vigorous farm enterprise for the ensuing five years.  Success attended his determined and well directed efforts, and in February, 1907, he found himself so effectively reinforced as to enable him to purchase his present farm, which comprises seventy-two acres of the fertile and valuable land of Nottingham Township.  Here he has gained the real status of independence as a representative of the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, and his success has been a fitting reward for his earnest and faithful endeavors.  Mr. Palmer gives his political support to the republican party, and he served one term as trustee of Nottingham Township.  His wife is an active member of the Christian Church.
     On the 20th of March, 1900, Mr. Palmer wedded Miss Celeste Merryman, who was born and reared in Nottingham Township, and who is a daughter of Jeremiah C. Merryman.  Mr. and Mrs. Palmer have two children - Wilbur Carson and Frances Gayle.
 Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 621
  JOHN T. PITTIS, one of the prosperous farmers of Washington Township, is a man who deserves the prosperity which has attended him, for he has earned it in a legitimate way through his industry, thrift and business acumen.  He was born at Deersville, Ohio, Apr. 21, 1864, a son of Henry and Rachel (Birney) Pittis, and grandson of John and Mary (Dore) Pittis.  John Pittis and his wife were both born in England, and came to the United States with their large family, settling in Franklin Township, Harrison County, Ohio.  Their children were as follows:  Edward, Robert, Thomas, William, who died in infancy, William H. Henry, Mary, Anna, Jane, Emma and Emeline, both of whom died young, and Julia.  John Pittis was a farmer and became a large landowner.
     Henry Pittis was born in England, and came to this country with his parents.  He and several of his brothers remained in New York City for a time, and there he learned the trade of stencil cutting.  Later on he came to Deersville, Ohio, and after coming to this region alternated working at his trade with farming.  His death occurred in 1871, but his widow, who was a native of Washington Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and his second wife, survive him until 1899.  Both were consistent members of the Methodist Church.  The first wife of Henry Pittis was Nancy Simpson, and she bore her husband three children: Charles,  who is deceased, Emma and Clara.  By his second marriage Henry Pittis had two children, John T. and Mary.  The maternal grandparents of John T. Pittis were John and Hannah (McKee) Birney.
    
Attending the local schools of Deersville, John T. Pettis grew up with a knowledge of farming, and as soon as he had reached his majority he began farming for himself in Franklin Township, Harrison County.  In 1901 he moved to his present farm of 200 acres, a portion of which is in Tuscarawas County and the remainder in Washington Township, Harrison County, his residence being located in the latter.  He also owns seventy-five acres of land in another piece that is in Tuscarawas County and seventy acres in Nottingham Township, Harrison County.  One of the best farmers in his locality, he is carrying on a general farming and stockraising business and his methods are so successful that many are adopting them as their own.
     In October, 1890, John T. Pittis was married to Ada Lukens, a daughter of William and Rosa (Clark) Lukens, and they became the parents of the following children:  Harry L. of Phoenix, Arizona, died Sept. 8, 1920; Henry M., who married Fern Baker, lives at Uhrichsville, Ohio; Mabel R., Walter, Dwight B. and Helen, all of whom are at home.  Mr. and Mrs. Pittis are very active in the local Methodist Church, in which they are highly esteemed, as they are in other circles, for they are fine people in every way, and are numbered among the most representative citizens of Harrison County.
 Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 627
  ADAM D. PORTER is a representative of the fourth generation of the Porter family to be identified with farm industry and to the exemplar of loyal and progressive citizenship in Harrison County, his paternal grandfather having been one of the pioneer settlers of Cadiz Township and he himself being one of the substantial farmers and representative citizens of Athens Township.  His birth occurred in Cadiz Township, Aug. 12, 1857.  In the same township his father, John Porter, was born on the 31st of January, 1831, a son of Samuel and Rebecca (Dickerson) Porter, the former of who was born in Pennsylvania, Sept. 17, 1800, and the latter was born Aug. 23, 1802, their marriage having been solemnized Apr. 5, 1827.  Mrs. Porter was a daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Dunlap) Dickerson, and her father likewise was a sterling pioneer and successful farmer of Harrison County.  Joshua and Sarah Dickerson became the parents of nine children. - Joshua, Jr., John, Adam, William, Rebecca, Susan, Sarah (died in childhood), and Jane and Mary (twins).
     Samuel Porter, grandfather of the subject of this review, was a son of Samuel and Sarah (Burns) Porter, who were born and reared in Pennsylvania, where the former learned the saddler's trade and where he remained until 1802, when he came with his family to what is now Harrison County, Ohio, where he became associated with his brother James in the ownership of an entire section of heavily timbered land.  He reclaimed a farm in the midst of the forest, and as the only saddler in the county he found much demand for his service at his trade in the early days.  He developed one of the best farms in the county, the land having been purchased from the Government, and here he continued to reside until his death, Aug. 2, 1869, at the patriarchal age of 105 years.  His wife was born Aug. 15, 1786, and died in 1830, both having been sincere members of the Presbyterian Church, and his political allegiance having been given to the democratic party.  This honored pioneer couple became the parents of eleven children - John, James, Smiley, David, Samuel, Jane, Jolly, Elizabeth, Nancy (died in infancy), Irwin and Sarah, the last two having never married and having remained on the old homestead until their deaths.  It should be noted in this connection that the Porter family was founded in Pennsylvania in the early colonial epoch and that representatives of the same were patriot soldiers in the war of the Revolution, besides which the family contributed one or more soldiers to the War of 1812.
     Samuel Porter, Jr., grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was a small child at the time of the family removal to Harrison County, where he was reared under the conditions of the early pioneer period.  He became one of the substantial farmers of Cadiz Township and there remained on his old homestead farm of eight acres until his death, Dec. 23, 1869, only a few months after the death of his remarkably aged father.  His widow long survived him and was summoned to eternal rest on the 6th of February, 1892, both having been devout members of the Presbyterian Church.  The names and respective birth dates of their children are here recorded: Joshua, May 20, 1828; Sarah, Sept. 8, 1829; John, Jan. 31, 1831; Samuel, Nov. 17, 1832; Mary Jane, Oct. 7, 1834; William, Apr. 7, 1836; Adam, Nov. 30, 1837; Rebecca, June 21, 1840; and Susanna, July 10, 1842.
     John Porter was reared on the old home farm and acquired his early education in the pioneer schools of Cadiz Township.  In that township he initiated his independent career as a farmer, and there he continued his residence on his farm until 1894, when he removed to Cadiz, the county seat.  In 1901, however, he located on a farm near Cadiz Junction, and after remaining there six years he returned to the city of Cadiz, where he has since lived retired.  He is a democrat in politics and is a member of United Presbyterian Church as was also his wife.  Nov. 13, 1856, recorded his marriage to Miss Sarah Dunlap, daughter of Adam and Martha (Thompson) Dunlap, members of honored pioneer families of Harrison County.  Mrs. Porter passed away on the 2d of October, 1901.  Of their children the eldest is Adam D., Jr., immediate subject of this sketch, the names of the other five being as here noted: Martha J., Mary E., Rebecca Amanda (deceased), Sarah Lydia and Susan I.
     Adam D. Porter, Jr.
, gained his youthful education in the district school locally known as the Pike's Peak School in Cadiz Township, and his initial experience of practical order was gained in connection with the work of his father's farm.  As a young man he worked at the carpenter's trade at intervals, but the basic industry of agriculture ahs claimed his allegiance during practically the entire period of his independent career.  He continued as a farmer in his present excellent farm of eighty-four acres in Athens Township, where he stands as an exponent of agricultural and live-stock enterprise.  He is a democrat in his political adherence and his wife holds membership in the First Presbyterian Church at Cadiz.
     On the 15th of September, 1886, Mr. Porter married Miss Samantha Jane Thompson, who was born and reared in Harrison County, a daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Shields) Thompson.  In the concluding paragraph of this sketch is entered brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Porter.
     George
married Miss Florence Coleman and is engaged in farming in his native county.  Mary is the wife of Chester Busby, of this county.  John Joseph was one of the gallant young men contributed by Harrison County to the nation's service in the late World war.  On the 6th of October, 1917, he entered service at Camp Sherman, Ohio, and in the following month he was sent to Camp Pike, Arkansas, and in April, 1919, went to Camp Mills, New York.  On the 10th of the following month he sailed for the state of war, arriving at Dover, England, on the 24th of that month and in France on the 5th of June.  He forthwith entered active service with the American Expeditionary Forces, and he took part in the famous Chateau Thierry campaign, in which he was wounded in the left arm on the 18th day of July.  His injury caused him to be confined five weeks in Base Hospital No. 36, and on the 11th day of September, 1918, he rejoined his command as a member of Company A, Fifty-eighth Infantry, Fourth Division.  He took part in the Meuse-Argonne offensive movement of the allied Troops Sept. 25, to Oct. 19, 1918, and after the signing of the historic armistice he was with the army of occupation in Germany until July on the 11th of which month he left Coblenz for Brest, from which port he sailed for the United States on the 24th of that month.  He arrived in the port of New York city on the 1st of  August, and received his honorable discharge on the 8th of that month.  He endured the full tension of the great conflict on the blood stained fields of France, and made a record that shall ever reflect honor upon his name.  HE returned to the parental home after receiving his discharge.  Adam Craig Porter, the next younger son, entered service at Camp Sherman Oct. 6, 1917, was later assigned to the remount service, and with his command sailed for France Oct. 6, 1918.  There he continued in the remount service until the close of the war, and he arrived in his native land in July, 1919, his honorable discharge having been received on this 8th of that month, and he likewise having gladly returned to his native county, as one of the honored young veterans of the World war.  The two younger sons, still at the parental home, are William H. and Carl H.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 759
  JOSEPH H. PORTER.  Farm enterprise in Athens Township, Harrison County, finds a resourceful and progressive representative in the person of Mr. Porter, who was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, Mar. 2, 1881, and who is a scion of a pioneer family of the old Buckeye State.  He is a son of Nathan M. and Ellen R. (Herney) Porter, both likewise natives of Jefferson County, the former a son of Nathan and Nancy (Andrews) Porter, early settlers of that county.  The paternal grandfather of Nancy (Andrews) Porter was an officer of the Continental Line of the War of the Revolution.
     Nathan M. Porter was reared and educated in Jefferson County and there continued his activities as one of the substantial farmers of Wayne Township until 1892, when he came with his family to Harrison County and established his home on the farm now operated by his elder son, the immediate subject of this review.  He made numerous improvements on the place after it came into his possession, and here he remained, as one of the highly esteemed citizens of the county, until his death, which occurred June 14, 1914, when he was fifty-eight years of age, his widow now maintaining her home in the Village  of New Athens, this county, where she is a member of the United Presbyterian Church, as was also her husband during the entire period of his residence in the county.  Of the three children Joseph H., of this review, is the eldest; Martha V. died Feb. 2, 1911; and Nathan Audley now resides in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
     Joseph H. Porter acquired his rudimentary education in the district schools of Wayne Township, Jefferson County, and later continued his studies in the district schools in Athens Township, Harrison County, he having been eleven years of age at the time of the family removal to the latter county.  His higher education was gained through two years' attendance in Franklin College at New Athens and by his attending Valparaiso University at Valparaiso, Indiana, for one year.  In the latter institution he completed a course in telegraphy, and after thus becoming a skilled operator he entered in 1904 the Signal Corps of the United States Army, in which he served two years as a telegraph operator in the Philippine Islands.  He received his honorable discharge from Government service in 1907 at San Francisco, California, and thereafter he was for the major part of the time in the telegraphic service of the Pennsylvania Railroad until June, 1914.  After the death of his honored father he assumed active charge of the home farm, which comprises 103 acres and is one of the well improved and valuable places of Athens Township.  His youthful experience well equipped him for independent activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower, and his governmental and railway service have further fortified him in the successful handling of his business affairs.  He is one of the alert and progressive farmers of Harrison County, and he and his wife have made their attractive home a center of gracious hospitality. Mr. Porter is a republican in political allegiance and is affiliated with the lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Cadiz.  His wife is a member of the United Presbyterian Church at New Athens..
     Mr. Porter is a scion of a family that was founded in America in the colonial days and that has given soldiers not only to the War of the Revolution but also to the various other wars in which the nation has been involved.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 748
  SAMUEL B. PORTER.  Just now and then a man performs the sacred function of enrolling his ancestry the second time in the annals of any given community.  The men of today owe it to the men of yesterday to commemorate their deeds of privation and endurance in bringing about the transformation form savagery to civilization in any community.  Now that a Who's Who" of Harrison County is again in prospect, Samuel B. Porter, of Cadiz, again waves the family banner and keeps the memory green of his immediate ancestry.
     While Mr. Porter now lives in Cadiz, the farmstead in Athens Township, where he was born, Oct. 8, 1843, has been in the Porter family name since it was entered from the Government in territorial days in Ohio, within a year or two from the beginning of the nineteenth century.  S. B. Porter is a son of David and Theresa (Stone) Porter, who were pioneer residents of Harrison County.  In his days of farm activity Mr. Porter was among the leading agriculturists of Green Township, although he was born in Athens Township.
     The Porter family in Harrison County harks back to Samuel Porter, who came from Pennsylvania.  He was a saddler and always worked at the trade.  He trained with the democrats from the organization of the party.  His son, David Porter, was born Feb. 5, 1802, just before the family came from Washington County, Pennsylvania, to Harrison County.  He married Theresa Stone, of Belmont County. She died in 1859, and lies buried in Crab Apple Cemetery in Belmont County.  David Porter died Dec. 22, 1885, and he lies buried in the cemetery at Cadiz.  The Porters have been Presbyterians throughout the family history.  While David Porter refused office in party affiliation, he was always active in affairs of the democratic party.  The children born to David and Theresa (Stone) Porter are: Sarah, John D., Mary, Samuel B., James, David S. and Theresa Elizabeth.
    
When he was twenty-one years old  Samuel B. Porter married Margaret, a daughter of John and Eliza (McFadden) Dickerson.  For ten years they lived on a farm in Athens Township, when they located in Green Township.  Mrs. Porter died there in 1900.  He remained on the farm until May in 1900.  He remained on the farm until May, 1918, when  he moved to Cadiz.  Mr. Porter owns two farms, there being 242 acres in the Green and 160 acres in the Cadiz farm.  The building site in Green Township is one that commands a fine view of the surrounding country.
     On Oct. 31, 1906, Mr. Porter married Josephine Thornberry.  Their sons and daughters are: Mary Belle, wife of Fry Shepler.  They have one daughter, Myrtle, and they live in Chicago.  David D. Porter married Harriet Haverfield.  Samuel Augustus arms the land in Green Township,   Eliza May is the wife of William Corbley and lives in Cadiz.  While living in Green Township.  S. B. Porter served as trustee of the township four years.
     The Porters were given common school advantages as they were growing into manhood and womanhood, D. D. Porter attending public school in Cadiz, Green and Short Creek townships, and later he studied business methods in the Buchanan Business College at Hopedale.  As a young man, however, he turned his attention to agriculture.  On April 6, 1898, he married Harriet C. Haverfield.  She is a daughter of Nathan and Mary A. (Harper) Haverfield.  They located on a farm in Green Township, and in 1902 moved to their present home, the farm having been in the Porter family name for more than one hundred years.  The deed from the Government was issued to the ancestry in the Porter family.  The children born to D. D. Porter are: Everett H., Dec. 8, 1901; David P., Aug. 16, 1906; and Mary Doris, June 13, 1910.  As in the past generations the Porter family are members of the Presbyterian Church in Cadiz.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 516
  ALBERT  C. POULSON.  The personal characteristics and broad experience of Mr. Poulson have enabled him to achieve distinctive success in connection with farm enterprise in his native county and township, and he is now one of the venerable and influential citizens of the attractive rural community which has represented his home form the time of his birth to the present, his farm being a well improved tract of eighty acres in Nottingham Township.  In this township Mr. Paulson was born on the 8th of April, 1847, and he is a scion of one of the county's sterling pioneer families.  His paternal grandparents John and Susanna (Knight) Poulson, were natives of Maryland, where the former was born April 9, 1763, and the latter on the 16th of November, 1781, they having become early settlers in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, where Mr. Poulson reclaimed a farm from the forest and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives.  Names and dates of birth of their children are here recorded: Nelson, July 1, 1802; Matilda, December 5, 1805; Rachel April 17, 1809; and Andrew, December 28, 1814.  Andrew Poulson was born in Maryland and was young at the time of the family immigration to Ohio, where he was reared to manhood on the pioneer farm in Nottingham Township, in which township, in which township he continued his activities as a farmer during virtually his entire independent career.  He was an upright man, loyal in all of the relations of citizenship, and was of venerable age at the time of his death, as was also his wife, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  As a young man Andrew Poulson wedded Miss Susannah Garner who likewise was native of the State of Maryland, and who was a daughter of Hezekiah and Sophia (Trippett) Garner, her parents having come from Maryland to Harrison County in the pioneer days and having passed the remainder of their lives in Nottingham Township.  They became the parents of eleven children, namely: John, James, Julia, Mary, Elizabeth, Susannah, Amanda, Sarah, Edward, Thomas and Nelson, the last named having died when a young man.  Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Poulson became the parents of five children: John, who died when about seventy-four years of age; William, who died in August, 1920; Albert C., the immediate subject of this sketch; Amanda, the wife of Jasper Irons, of Moorefield Township, Harrison County; and Hezekiah resides in Nottingham Township, more specific mention of him being offered in later paragraphs.
     The Hines District School in Nottingham Township gave to Albert C. Poulson his early educational advantages, from his youth to the present time he has maintained close association with agricultural and live-stock industry in his native township.  His political alignment is in the ranks of the republican party, and his wife and daughter hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Deersville.
     On the 4th of June, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Poulson to Miss Bertha Granville, daughter of John and Martha (Wheeler) Granville.  John Granville, who was born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, became a skilled stonemason, followed his trade for a number of years at Scio, this county, and then removed to the village of Tappan, likewise in Harrison County, where he and his wife remained until their death, both having been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  They became the parents of nine children: Clara (deceased), Mary, Anna, Jennie, Nettie, Bertha, Wilbur (deceased), Blanche and Perley.  Mr. and Mrs. Poulson have two children, both of whom remain at the parental home.  Martha Blanche is the wife of Joseph Griffith, who is associated in the work and management of her father's farm, and they have one son, Joseph Cole.  Harold, son of the subject of this sketch, as already noted, is a member of the parental home circle.
 Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 686
  GEORGE L. POULSON exemplifies a full measure of sponsorship for constructive enterprise in connection with agricultural and dairy enterprise in North township, Harrison County, where he is the owner of an excellent farm of 170 acres.  He was born in Wayne township, Belmont County, Ohio, on the 28th of August, 1871, and is a son of John W. and Mary M. (Davis) Poulson, the former of whom likewise was born in Belmont County, and the latter was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of George Davis, who was a prosperous farmer in that county.  John W. Poulson was reared and educated in Belmont County and is a representative of an honored pioneer family of that section of the Buckeye State.  In that county were born his parents, Mortimer and Olivia (McFadden) Poulson, who there passed their entire lives, the father having devoted his active career to farm industry and he and his wife having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  they became the parents of five children - George W., Franklin, John William, Margaret and Hannah.
     John William Poulson
was reared and educated in his native county, as previously stated, and there he became not only a successful farmer in Wayne Township but also gave effective service as a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  About the year 1914 he and his wife removed to the State of Arkansas, where he is now engaged in farming near Wheeling, besides continuing his earnest church service, and both he and his wife being specially zealous in the activities of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  They became the parents of nine children: Josephine is the wife of William F. Clark and they reside in the State of Missouri; George L., of this review, was the next in order of birth; Charles R. is a clergyman of the Methodist Church and at the time of this writing holds a pastoral charge at West Salem, Wayne County, Ohio; Emma M. is the widow of Dr. M. J. Skiff and lives at Northeast, Ohio; Omar B. is a pastor of the Methodist Church at Altoona, Pennsylvania; William Arthur resides at Canton, Ohio; Jennie is the wife of Thomas Carpenter, of Bellville, Richland County, Ohio;  Herman remains at the parental home; and Mary died in early childhood.
     George L. Poulson gained his early education in the district schools of his native county and supplemented this by attending the high school at Somerton, that county.  He remained at the parental home in Belmont County until his marriage in 1895, and for two years thereafter he found employment on the fine dairy farm of Dorsey Brothers in Washington County, Pennsylvania.  For a time thereafter he was associated with the operation of a saw mill at Loydsville in Belmont County, Ohio, and in 1901 he rented a farm near Scio, Harrison County, where he conducted a successful diary business during the ensuing five years in partnership with his brother-in-law, Thomas S. Wood, of whom individual mention is made on other pages, their alliance in this field of enterprise having continu8ed thirteen years.  In 1906 Mr. Poulson purchased and established his home upon his present form, which he has brought to a high standard of productiveness and on which he continues his successful dairy business, with the Village o Scio as the principal market for his products.  Mr. Poulson is a republican in his political proclivities and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Hanover, Ohio.
 Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 748
  HEZEKIAH G. POULSON, younger brother of Albert C. Poulson, subject of the preceding personal sketch, likewise was born of the old homestead farm in Nottingham Township and is numbered among the prosperous farmers of this township, the date of his nativity having been March 7, 1851, and his youthful education having been obtained in the district schools.  As a young man he assumed independent functions in connection with the activities of the old home farm, in the management of which he continued until 1901, when he removed to another farm not far distant.  There he continued his operations until 1912, when he removed to his present farm, which adjoins his father's old home place and which comprises 101 acres.
     The year 1900 recorded the marriage of Mr. Poulson to Miss Anna B. Clark, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Locke), and the one child of the union is a daughter, Vivian L., who was born Sept. 25, 1904.
(See Albert C. Poulson for more details)
 Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio - Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1921 - Page 687

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