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DAVID COLLIER, is a native of Ripley Township, Holmes Co.,
Ohio, born in 1849, the eldest son of H. J. and Letitia (Wells)
Collier. His early life was spent with his father, and he
was given good education advantages, attending first the common
schools, and later the Hayesville Academy. He began working on
the railroad in his youth, became a practical engineer, and for a
time was employed on the Mississippi & Tennessee Railroad.
Returning to Holmes County in 1868 he engaged in buying and shipping
grain, which he has since carried on successfully. He has been
prominently identified with the various interests of Plimpton, and
is one of the most highly respected citizens of the town. He
is a member of the Plimpton Guards, of which for two and a half
years he was lieutenant, and for the past two years has been
captain. He has held a number of the township offices, and has
ever been a faithful public servant. He is member of the Royal
Arcanum. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, also Master of
Hanover Lodge, No. 115, F. & A. M., Loudonville, Ohio; in politics
he is a Democrat. Mr. Collier was married in 1874 to
Sophia Tope, of Knox Township, Holmes County, and they
have had eight children, five of whom are living: Clyde,
Wayne, Calvert, Vernon and Charles. Mr. and Mrs.
Collier are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. |
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THOMAS
BEER CUNNINGHAM, of the firm of White & Cunningham,
editors and proprietors of the Holmes County Republican, was
born in Chester Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, November 11, 1837, a son
of Thomas and Mary Cunningham. His grandparents,
David and Mary Cunningham, were natives of Ireland, of
Scotch-Irish descent, both born in Strabane in 1762 and were married
April 18, 1786. They came to the United States in 1800, and
entered land in Chester Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, in 1816, being
among the early settlers; having previously lived ten yeas in
Pennsylvania, and six near Canton, Ohio. They had a family of
seven children: Margaret, Elizabeth, Martha, Thomas, David,
Mary and Hugh, all of whom married and had families, and
all are now deceased, Elizabeth having died recently, at the
age of ninety-four years. The family were all long lived, none
dying in early life. Thomas Cunningham was born in
Ireland, Nov. 2, 1798, and was married Apr. 9, 1829, to Mary
Ayers, whose parents came to Wayne County in 1811, from
Cumberland County, Md., where she was born Oct. 19, 1810.
Thomas Cunningham and wife settled on the old Cunningham
homestead, where they brought up a family of ten children, five of
whom are living: David A., Thomas B., Hugh Milton, Lizzie S.
and Melvin O.
Thomas B. Cunningham received his academic
education at Vermillion Institute, Hayesville, and in 1861 entered
Jefferson College, Cannonsburgh, Penn., where he graduated in 1863.
He taught school in Philadelphia, Penn., Wooster, Ohio, and
elsewhere for several years, both before and after his graduation.
While living in Wooster, he married in 1868, Miss Maria Louisa
Mitchell, of Beaver, Beaver Co., Penn. In 1870 he moved to
Millersburgh, where he has since lived engaged in the newspaper
business. He was postmaster at Millersburgh four years, and since
1870, with three years' exception, has been chairman of the
Republican County Central and Executive Committees. He was an
Alternate delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1876,
and also in 1880. In 1882 he was the Republican candidate for
State Senator for the Seventeenth and Twenty-eighth districts, and
cut down the Democratic majority from 2,200 to 1,200. He has
been an elder in the Presbyterian Church for several years, and in
1880 was a delegate to the General Assembly of that body, at
Madison, Wis. He has paid considerable attention to music; has
published several pieces of sheet music, and also a couple of
Sunday-school music books, entitled "Song Buds, Nos. 1, and 2."
He was the organizer and leader of the Philharmonic Club, of
Millersburgh, which is one of the favorite organizations of the
town, and which has quite a reputation in this part of the State.
Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham have no children. |
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