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(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co.,
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JOHN
J. GAULT, whose farm of 125 acres lies in Cross
Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, was born in this
township, September 7, 1872, and is one of the
successful agriculturists and leading citizens of this
section. His parents were David S. and Nancy
Emma (Stark) Gault, and his maternal grandparents
were James and Mary (Todd) Stark.
The late David S. Gault was a well known
farmer in Cross Creek Township, and his parents were
John and Mary (Davidson) Gault, early settlers here.
The widow of Mr. Gault survives and still resides
on the old homestead with some of her children. To
David S. Gault and wife these children were born:
John J., Adda M., William W., Mary B., Thomas C.,
Charles, Ushur, Margaret, Frank and Alma.
Of the above Adda M. is deceased, and
Mary B. is the wife of Samuel Crawford.
John J. Gault obtained his education in the common
schools and before settling on his present farm engaged
in teaming for several years for A. W. McConald.
Mr. Gault carries on a general agricultural line and
raises stock for his own use and also does a large
outside business in dealing in feed and grain.
This farm is locally known as the old W. A. Elliott
farm, Mrs. Gault being an Elliott
heir.
In February, 1905, Mr.
Gault was married to Miss Laura Elliott, a
daughter of William A. and Belle S. (Elliott) Elliott,
who were cousins. Mrs. Gault was the only
child. Her father is deceased but her mother
survives and resides with Mr. and Mrs. Gault.
They have four children: Helen E., William
D., Elmer T. and Esther J. They are
members of the Presbyterian Church. In politics,
Mr. Gault is a Democrat and is now serving as a
member of the township school board. He is a
wide-awake, progressive farmer and is identified with
the local Grange.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co.,
Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - 773) |
FORD DEMELVIN GEORGE,
who was one of the representative citizens and
substantial farmers of Cross Creek Township, Jefferson
County, Ohio, where he owned 220 acres of fertile land,
was born in this township Dec. 24, 1841, and died at
Massillon, O., in 1904.
The parents of Mr. George were Nathan C. and
Mellicent (George) George, cousins. They
reared the following children: They reared the
following children: Elmyra, Ford Demelvin, Rosanna,
Anna Myria, Louisa, Clara, Stephen and William.
Ford Demelvin George obtained his education in the
common schools in Cross Creek Township. In early
manhood he enlisted for service in the Civil War,
serving through a first enlistment in the 104th O. Vol.
Cav., and re-enlisted in Co. H, 157th O. Vol. Inf., and
served three years as a veteran. After he returned
from the army he settled down to farming and made that
his life work. He was a man of substantial
character and was valued as a citizen. In his
political views he was a Republican and he was elected
to the office of township treasurer and performed the
duties of the same with honesty and efficiency.
On Mar. 5, 1865, Mr. George was married to
Miss Eleanor Adams, who is a daughter of Lemuel
and Nancy (McBane) Adams, and a granddaughter of
Baldwin and Eleanor (Brock) Adams and of John
McBane. The father of Mrs. George died
on his farm in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. Her mother
later married Edwin Mosher and they went to Iowa,
where both died. To Mr. and Mrs. George the
following children were born: Larena, who married
S. M. Floyd and has three children - John,
Eleanor and William; James H., who
married Jessie Welday, is a teacher in the
schools of Winterville, and has four children -
Estella, Mary, Harold and Myron; Ross,
who is deceased; Emma who is the wife of
Charles Deselms; Carrie, who married William
Flinn and has three children - Lewis, Elizabeth
and Alan; and Nannie and Earl,
the latter of whom operates the farm for his mother, who
is the owner of the property. Mrs. George
is a member of the Presbyterian church. The family
is one that stands very high socially in Cross Creek
Township.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co.,
Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ.
Co. - Chicago - 1910 - 668) |
JAMES GEORGE, mayor of
Bergholz, O., and for many years a leading citizen in
Brush Creek and Ross Townships, Jefferson County, was
born on his father's farm at Mooretown, three miles east
of this borough, Dec. 19, 1836, and is a son of
Robert and Martha (McLaughlin) George.
Hon. Thomas George, the grandfather of Mayor
George, who was born in Pennsylvania, and came to
Ohio in 1775, became a prominent man in Jefferson County
and was elected a common pleas judge in 1816. His
children were: Robert, David, John, Thomas H.,
Alexander, Christiana, Anna, Esther and Sarah.
After retiring from public life he resided in an old
stone mansion which he built in Ross Township in 1818,
and there he died when aged eighty-eight years.
The old tone house was one of the most important
stations on the Underground Railroad, and Robert
George and our subject were important cogs in this
system of freeing the slaves. Thomas George
was a member of the Covenanter Church in early manhood
and later of the Presbyterian bodies.
Robert George, father of Mayor George
attended the early schools as opportunity afforded and
followed farming until his marriage, when he embarked in
a store business at Mooretown. Some years later he
bought a farm and later the old homestead and lived on
it until his death, June 12, 1887, his burial being in
the cemetery attached to the United Presbyterian Church
at Mooretown. He was affiliated with the
Republican party, but never cared for office. He
married Martha McLaughlin, a daughter of James
McLaughlin, of Carroll County, Ohio, and they had
the following children: Thomas, who was killed in
the Civil War, being a member of Company K, Second Ohio
Volunteer Infantry; James, subject of this
sketch, and John, who is deceased. The
mother died in 1890. Both parents were members of
the United Presbyterian Church.
James George obtained his education in the
country schools and then turned his attention to helping
his father on the farm. After his marriage he
lived on a farm in Brush Creek Township, but this he
later sold, buying one in Ross Township, on which he
lived for five years, then removed to the old homestead
in Ross Township. This place he improved and here
he accumulated about 600 acres of land. In 1890 he
moved from the old place and retired to Bergholz and the
value placed on him by his fellow citizens was very
clearly shown by their electing him to the highest
office in their gift, in 1908. He formerly had
served as a notary public and justice of the peace and
for several years was postmaster at Mooretown.
On Sept. 25, 1857, Mr. George was married to
Miss Mary J. Kirk, a daughter of John Kirk of
Circle Green, Jefferson County, and they have had seven
children, as follows: Martha, who died in
early womanhood; Mary Luella, deceased, who was
the wife of Samuel Dorrance (had two children,
Marie and William Eugene); Thomas, who owns
the old homestead in Ross Township, married Anna
Dorrance, a daughter of William Dorrance, and
has four sons and one daughter - Robert, Jesse K.,
Martha, James and William; John E., who
married Frances Crabb, a daughter of Mitchell
Crabb, and has one daughter, Mary F.; Robert
William, who married Juanita Walker, and has
two daughters and one son, namely, Erma, Meryl
and James Walker; D. Bert, who lives in Alliance;
and Mitchell, who died when aged four years.
Mayor George and faimly are members of the United
Presbyterian Church.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co.,
Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ.
Co. - Chicago - 1910 - 720) |
JESSE
R. GILCREST, a proprietor of the Toronto Machine
Company, and vice-president and a director of the
National Bank of Toronto, O., has been a resident of
this city since 1897 and has been actively identified
with the affairs of the community.
Mr. Gilcrest was born in Wheeling, W. Va., Aug.
4, 1864, and is a son of John B. and Laura Gilcrest.
He was four years old when his parents moved to what
then was LaGrange, now Brilliant, Jefferson County,
Ohio, and there he was reared and educated. He
learned the trade of machinist at that point, and
subsequently followed it in various parts of the
country, also setting up machinery, and gaining an
experience which can be acquired only through working in
many shops and at a variety of work. He was for a
time foreman of the machine shops at Mingo Junction, O.,
from which place he came to Toronto in 1897, here
establishing the Toronto Machine Company, of which he is
treasurer and has charge of the mechanical department.
He is largely interested in the Means Engineering and
Foundry Company. He has had a successful career in
business here and is numbered with the leading and
progressive citizens.
Mr. Gilcrest was married to Miss Tuckie
Wildpret of Belmont County, Ohio, and they have four
children: Donald, Lawrence, Tuckie and
Dorothy.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co.,
Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - 754) |
JAMES H. GILL, youngest son of
Joseph Gill, was born in
Mt. Pleasant, in 1813, and resided
there most of his life. He was a large
land owner in Jefferson
County and also in the West. He was connected with the
Mt. Pleasant
branch of the State Bank of Ohio,
served as a director and was its president for many years. Later he was president of the First
National Bank of Mt.
Pleasant. He was also a
gentleman farmer and engaged extensively in stock raising.
Mr. Gill was esteemed and beloved by
all who knew him. He was generous to a
fault, always ready to assist the poor and needy, and was widely known as their
friend and protector. He died in
Topeka, Kansas, in 1889, at the age of
seventy-six.
Mt.
Pleasant has produced many strong men and women, and the
Gills were amongst the most energetic
and enterprising families of Jefferson County. During their residence in
Mt. Pleasant, it was a
very important place in affairs of both Church and State.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co.,
Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - 984) |
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JOHN W. GILL,
oldest son of Joseph Gill, started
and operated the first silk factory in the United States where figured silk, ribbons, velvet and hat plush
were made. Later he moved his
factory to Wheeling W.
Va., where he was recognized as a man of business training and
large means, which enabled him to take a prominent part in promoting many large
manufacturing enterprises, and also banking institutions. He died in Springfield, Ill., in
1873.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co.,
Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - 984)
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JOHN C.
GRAHAM, a prominent retired farmer of
Richmond, Ohio, and owner of a farm of eighty acres
in Salem Township, Jefferson County, was born
December 8, 1833 in Deersville, Harrison County,
Ohio, a son of Harrison and Ruth (Hague) Graham.
The parents of our subject were both natives of
Maryland and continued their residence there a few
years after their marriage. They then moved to
Harrison County, Ohio, where the father died, after
which the mother removed to East Springfield, where
she spent the remainder of her life. The
mother of our subject was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church of East Springfield. She was
the mother of the following children: F. E.,
Lucinda, Maria Ann, John C. and James.
John C. Graham was reared and educated in Harrison
County, Ohio, and learned the blacksmith trade at
which he worked for years at Richmond and Mooretown.
He subsequently located on a farm of eighty acres in
Section 22, Salem Township, where he followed
general farming until 1902, when he removed to East
Springfield, Ohio. One year later he removed
to Richmond, where he has since lived in retirement,
but still continues the management of his farm.
Mr. Graham was first united in marriage May 3,
1852, with Rebecca Richardson, who was a
daughter of Samuel Richardson of Carroll
County, Ohio, and of their union were born the
following children: Isaiah, deceased;
Samuel; Emma A.; James H., deceased; George
E.; McCullough, deceased; William R.; David
"N.; and Maggie B., deceased. The
entire family was stricken with small pox and
Mrs. Graham died of that dread disease, Dec. 2,
1871. She and a son were buried at Mt. Hope
Cemetery, Mr. Graham, with the assistance of
his brother-in-law and nephews being obliged to
conduct the entire burial service, owing to the
nature of the disease. Mr. Graham's
second marriage occurred Sept. 3, 1872, with Ruth
Walton, a daughter of William Stewart Walton,
and of this union were born three children:
Nannie M., Charles and Eugene R. Mrs.
Graham died Sept. 10, 1884, and is also buried
at Mt. Hope Cemetery. Mr. Graham formed
a third union May 27, 1886, with Emma Morrow.
Mr. Graham is a charter member of the United
Brethren Church of East Springfield, Ohio, and was
for some time an exhorter, and is now a class
leader. In politics he is identified with the
Democratic party, but in no sense of the word is a
politician.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co.,
Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 -
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JAMES A.
GROVES, proprietor of the Unionport Flour
Mills, at Unionport, Ohio, and a trustee of Wayne
Township, Ohio, and a trustee of Wayne Township,
Jefferson County, was born in Salem Township, Jan.
19, 1854, and is a son of John and Ellen (Clomen)
Groves.
John Groves was born in Franklin County, Ohio,
where his father had settled after the close of his
service as a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
In early manhood John Groves came to
Jefferson County and settled in Salem Township where
he learned the blacksmith trade with a brother, and
he followed the same during his active yeas, later
engaging also in farming. He died in Harrison
County when aged about eighty years. He
married Ellen Clomen who was a native of
Pennsylvania.
James A. Groves attended the Salem Township
schools and gave assistance to his father until his
marriage. He worked at carpentry and odd jobs
until 1880, when he came to Unionport, where he has
become a leading citizen. During the first two
years here he worked as journeyman carpenter, and
then until 1903 as a bridge builder on the Panhandle
Railroad, for about twelve years of this time being
foreman. He was enraged in this work in 1884
when the Ohio river reached the greatest height of
which there is any record, and Mr. Groves was
on continuous duty from a Thursday morning until the
following Saturday at midnight, without rest.
He upon one occasion, at a later period, was working
on the bridge at New Comerstown, when he was knocked
into the turbulent water below. He swam
against the stream and got within reach of two of
his fellow workmen, who hauled him out. In
1903 he became connected with the flour mill
business and is now proprietor of the Unionport
Flour Mills, a very important business enterprise of
this section. He manufactures high grade
winter wheat flour and corn meal and feed. In
large measure he is a self made man, having been
independent as far as financial assistance is
concerned, from early youth.
In August, 1874, Mr. Groves was married to
Miss Flora B. Krider, who was born in Salem
Township, Jefferson County, and two children were
born to them: Maggie B., who is the wife of
Jesse A. Polen, and they have three children
- Harold D., Ella Marie, and Carles A.,
and they live in Unionport, Ohio; and Ora E.,
who is deceased. Mr. Groves is a member
of the Christian Church at Unionport. He is a
Republican in his political views and has served in
township offices at times, having been assessor of
Unionport Precinct, Wayne Township, and in the fall
of 1909 was elected township trustee for a term of
two years.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co.,
Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ.
Co. - Chicago - 1910 - 1026) |
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