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COLUMBIANA COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 08:42:14, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: PRICE K. CRAIG - COLUMBIANA COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Co., 1887 Page 684-685 PRICE K. CRAIG, trustee of Jefferson Township, resides in the village of New Mount Pleasant. He was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, August 27, 1842, a son of Wesley and Sarah A. (Jones) Craig, natives of Pennsylvania, but married in Columbiana County, Ohio, where they lived many years. Later they moved to Stark County, Ohio, where they both died. Price K. Craig left home Christmas week of 1860, and came to Jay County, Indiana, to the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Finch, in Jefferson Township, with whom he remained until the following June, when in response to the call of President Lincoln for volunteers he enlisted for three months, in the Fifty-sixth Indiana Infantry, his service being in Kentucky. He participated in the battle at Richmond, that State. After his discharge he returned to the home of his parents in Ohio, and enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Fifteenth Ohio Infantry, hoping to thus procure the discharge of his father, who although over age had volun teered. He partially failed in this however, but served eighteen months, his father completing his term. After his service in the One Hundred and Fifteenth he returned to Ohio, and in the spring of 1864 visited the State of Illinois, and there enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Illinois Infantry, for 100 days, the most of his service being guard duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Soon after his last discharge he came again to Jay County and for fifteen years he engaged in teaching school during the winter, spending the summer in working on farms, or clerking in stores. From 1874 to 1876 he was deputy treasurer of Jay County, and while thus employed lived at Portland. He then taught a few terms of school, and then until 1885 was in the general mercantile business at New Mount Pleasant. In 1884 he was elected trustee of Jefferson Township, and was re-elected in 1886. He is an active public spirited citizen and has the confidence and esteem of a large circle of friends and acquaintances. He is a prominent man in the councils of the democratic party, always upholding its principles with a firm hand. Mr. Craig was married October 15, 1870, to Miss Amelia Jane Graves, a native of Union County, Indiana, born April 27, 1847, a daughter of Layton I. Graves. To them have been born six children, but three of whom are living -Alverda, Arthur and Russell. Harrison died in infancy; Priscilla, aged four years and eight days, and Anna aged sixteen months. Mr. and Mrs. Craig are members of the Christian church. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 08:42:11, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: ELI Q. DAVIS - COLUMBIANA COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 Page 682-683 ELI Q. DAVIS, deceased, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, February 10, 1810, and died in Jay County, Indiana, August 9, 1885. His father, Elias Davis, was a native of Virginia, of Welsh parentage. He was reared in his native county, and in 1839 came to Indiana and located first in Fort Wayne, coming the next year to Jay County, whither he was followed by his father, who entered land on section 22, Penn Township, where he passed the rest of his life. Eli Q. Davis learned the carpenter's trade in his youth and followed it for some time after coming to Jay County. He settled on a farm after his marriage, but a year later went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and worked at his trade several years, when he returned to Jay County, and engaged in farming in connection with working at his trade until failing health obliged him to retire from active life. Mr. Davis was married May 7, 1842, to Maria Hiatt, a daughter of John Hiatt. To them were born seven children, all of whom grew to maturity, and six are still living Esther Ann, wife of Charles Somers, of Republic, Kansas; Humphrey died while a soldier during the war of the Rebellion, aged nineteen years; Theodore, of Gold Hill, Oregon; Marcellus, of Jefferson County, Nebraska; Shradrach E.; Mary, wife of Melvin Horn; Llewellyn, of Gold Hill, Oregon. Mrs. Davis died May 2, 1863. In politics Mr. Davis was a Republican. He and his wife are members of the Society of Friends. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 08:42:17, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: I.G. BARRICK -COLUMBIANA COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 Page 303-304 I.G. BARRICK, one of the active and enterprising citizens of Wayne Township, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, February 20, 1829. His father, Isaac Barrick, was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, and was of German ancestry. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. He married Mary Glass, a native of Columbiana County, Ohio, and to them were born twelve children. The mother of our subject is still living in Rice County, Minnesota, aged eighty years. I.G. Barrick, the subject of this sketch, was reared to the avocation of a farmer, and received his education in the subscription schools of that early day. He was united in marriage January 23, 1850, to Miss Sarah Rish, who was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, April 7, 1831, a daughter of Simeon and Ann (Badger) Rish, her father being of German and her mother of Irish ancestry. They were also the parents of twelve children. To Mr. and Mrs. Barrick have been born six children -Ann Eliza, William B., John C., Charles R., Martha Jane and George M. Mr. Barrick remained in his native State until 1858, when he came with his family to Jay County, Indiana, and for a time lived on rented land. He subsequently bought forty acres of heavily timbered land in Wayne Township, which he cleared and improved. In 1878 he settled on his present farm, which had been improved before he located there. In politics Mr. Barrick is a Democrat. He is a worthy and consistent member of the German Baptist church, in which he has served as minister in the second degree for many years, and has been an active worker in the cause of his Master. He is a man of strict integrity, honorable in all his dealings, and is respected by all who know him. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:12:26, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: COLUMBIANA COUNTY - PART 11 HISTORICAL COLLECTION OF OHIO, by Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 EAST LIVERPOOL is on the Ohio river and a railway through the valley, the Cleveland & Pittsburg river division, 48 miles west of Pittsburg and about 100 miles southeast of Cleveland. It is very pleasantly located in the midst of the bold, picturesque scenery of the upper Ohio. It was first settled by Thomas Fawcett, who came from Pennsylvania about 1799. The name of St. Clair was given to the village after the township in which it was then situated, but it was called Fawcettstown for many years. In 1830 a post-office was established with the name of East Liverpool, to distinguish it from Liverpool in Medina county. From this time on the town gradually grew, and in 1834 the village of East Liverpool was incorporated. East Liverpool has 4 newspapers: Crisis, Dem., J.C. Deibrick, publisher; Evening and Weekly Review, Rep., W.B. McCord, publisher; Potter's Gazette, Rep., Frank Scrawl, publisher; Tribune, Rep., J.N. Simms, editor. Churches: Episcopal, Catholic, Presbyterian, United Presbyterian, Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Protestant, Evangelical Lutheran and St. John's German Lutheran. Banks: First National, Josiah Thompson, president, F.D. Kitchel, cashier. MANUFACTURES AND EMPLOYEES. -McNicol, Burton & Co., pottery ware, 113 hands; Burford Brothers, pottery ware, 59; Dresden Co-operative Co., pottery 222; S. & W. Baggot, pottery ware, 48; H. Brunt & Sons Co., flint and spar, 8; C.C. Thompson & Co., pottery ware, 205; Cartwright Brothers, pottery ware, 84; Croxall & Cartwright, pottery ware, 47; Knowles, Taylor & Knowles, pottery ware, 613; A.J. Bover, machine work, 14; Monroe Patterson, pottery machinery, 5; George Morely & Sons, pottery ware, 49; J. Wyllie & Son, pottery are, 66; Vodrey Brothers, pottery ware, 64; William Brunt, Son & Co., pottery are, 190; Homer Laughlin, pottery ware, 137; George Harker, pottery ware, 105; Friederick, Shenkle, Allen & Co., pottery ware, 50; Burgess & Co., pottery material, 22; East Liverpool Spindling Works, door-knob spindles, 13; R. Thomas & Sons, knob tops, 46; Wallace & Chetwynd, pottery ware, 101. -State Report for 1887. Population in 1880, 5,568. School census in 1886, 2,582; A.J. Surface, superintendent. The great feature of East Liverpool is its pottery industry. Being in the heart of a country rich in mineral and chemical deposits, it has grown to be the centre of the pottery interests of the United States. Although in the immediate vicinity of East Liverpool are valuable coal beds, most of its factories use natural gas. The first pottery was established in 1840 by James Bennett for the manufacture of yellow ware from clay discovered in the vicinity of the town. Mr. bennett was financially aided in this enterprise by Nathan Kearns and Benj. Harker. Almost immediately after Harker established the present works of Geo. S. Harker & Co., but it was not until 1862 that any great progress was made, when Congress imposed a tariff of 40 per cent, on imported earthenware, which resulted in giving a new impetus to the industry. Up to 1873 none but yellow ware had been produced. In that year Messrs. Knowles, Taylor & Knowles turned their attention to the production of white granite ware, meeting with success. Others followed their example, among them being Homer and S.M. Laughlin, who in the autumn of the same year built a large factory for the production of white ware. Since then considerable attention has been given to the manufacture of C.C., or cream-colored ware and to decorative pottery. At the present time over fifty kilns are devoted to the manufacture of white ware, twelve or more to cream-colored ware and over thirty to yellow ware. The value of the yearly production of a white ware kiln is from $30,000 to $35,000, a C.C. kiln about $25,000 and a yellow ware kiln $15,000 to $18,000, while the annual output of all the potteries is more than $2,000,000. Senator John Sherman, in an address at Liverpool, June 23, 1887, gave a very interesting account, from the standpoint of a protectionist, of the growth and causes that led to the development of this great industry. Said he: Several years ago I came among you, but I was not then as familiar with the great industry that has given you wealth and a name throughout the land as well as abroad as I am now. I believe that the manufacturing of pottery or chinaware first assumed large proportions here in 1861 or 1862, but at that time it met with discouragements and did not prosper. At that time all, or nearly all, the white china used in this country was imported from England. The English manufacturers, hearing of your efforts and your success through their representatives, made strenuous efforts to keep off a duty on their goods. You came to Congress and asked that a reasonable duty be placed upon imported white ware and decorated china that you might carry on successfully and profitably your industry. It was there that I first learned of the great industry you were pursuing. At the time this business was scarcely known in the United States. We had here in this locality all the clay and all the materials for manufacturing their goods, and you had the money and the pluck and ability to utilize them. But with English competition and cheap labor in that country you could not succeed. All the people in the West used common brown pottery because they could not afford to pay the high price asked for imported ware. I have eaten my meals many a time from the brown plates or from the tin ware in the homes of good and honest men who could not afford to buy the English china. Owing to the encouragement given to the tariff after the war, this industry grew and you prospered. I then visited your town and your potteries and found you had been going ahead and were manufacturing superior ware, and in 1883, when an attempt was made to break down the tariff on these goods, with your true friend, Major McKinley, and others, we stood by you and the tariff was continued. A gentleman said to me East Liverpool cannot compete with England, and the attempts of the potteries in that place will be futile, and argued that it was better to break down the tariff and depend upon England......The result of the protection given you has driven English goods from our market, and it has brought English labor in your midst, skilled workmen who are making finer and better goods than England can make and selling them cheaper. I was astonished to-day when I saw the kind and class of goods you are making, and have never seen any decorated ware more beautiful or more delicate in Europe. The time is not far distant when the works of art in china from East Liverpool will sell as high and be in as great demand as the finest goods from Europe. Your country here, fellow-citizens, is beautiful; your hills are grand, and buried under you by the magic wand of the enchanter is that marvelous discovery, natural gas, which by the light of a friction-match is even now illumining the world, and will work revolutions in your potteries and in all the industries in the United States. You have coal or gas, railroad, a river and protection. Go on in good work, and East liverpool will soon rival the Old Liverpool of England. TRAVELING NOTES ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:30:26, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: OOPS! COLUMBIANA COUNTY I accidentally sent part 11 for Columbiana County. Before you ask, I have not sent part 9 or part 10 and was working on 11 and it was sent before I meant to do so. For part 11 TRAVELING NOTES will be continued in part 12 and part 9 and 10 will be coming. I am using Prodigy mail manager and it is doing funny things, I correct mistakes on the screen before I send and everything looks fine but after it is sent the mistakes still appear (words being cut off in one line and continuing on the next line). No matter how many times I correct it on the screen it still happens. Any ideas as to why or how to correct? Gina -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #190 *******************************************