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DANIEL J. LITTLE, one of the substantial farmers of Carroll
County, owns a fine farm of 160 acres in Rose Township, which
he has brought into a high state of cultivation. He is a son of
Daniel and Rosanna (Mowe) Little, and a grandson of Mathias
Little, who came to America from Switzerland in 1809 with his
wife, Barbara, and four children, and first located on a small
farm near Carrollton, Ohio. Later he moved to Morges, Rose
Township, and was engaged in farming and working at his
trade as a tinker. Still later he owned a small farm near
Lindentree, Rose Township, and there he died in 1840, and is
buried at Morges. His wife died in 1856.
Daniel Little was the youngest of his parents' children, and one
of his brothers is Frank Little, of Stark County, Ohio. Another
brother is Christian little, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. One sister,
Barbara, now Mrs. John Wagner, lives in Carroll County, Ohio
and the other, Susan Newport, of Owen County, Indiana.
Growing up on his father's farm, Daniel Little attended the
public schools of Carrollton and Morges during the winter
months, and adopted farming as his life work. He and his wife
had six children, namely: Rebecca, who is Mrs. Hoobler, has
three sons and two daughters; Mrs. Sarah Davy, who lived in
Rose Township where she died in 1919, has three daughters
and one son; James Harvey, who died in 1891 at the age of
forty; Marion, who died at the age of thirty-six years; I. Wilkes,
who lives in Stark County; and Daniel J., whose name heads
this review. The father of this family died in Rose Township,
where he had always resided, in 1905, the mother having
passed away in 1889.
Daniel J. Little attended District School No. 2, in Rose
Township, during the winter months until he was twenty years
old, and in the summertime assisted his father with the work on
the farm. On September 2, 1886, he was married to Molly E.
Finefrock, a daughter of Emanuel and Rebecca Jane
(Robertson) Finefrock, of Rose Township. Following his
marriage Mr. Little rented a farm of eighty acres in Rose
Townshipfor eighteen months, and then moved to another
eighty acre farm one mile north of the first one. In 1888 he
bought his latter farm, and lived on it until 1910, when he
bought his present one, on which he has since lived. On
September 22, 1920, he sold his first farm at a fair profit. All
the time he has been farming he has raised a general line of
crops, and has been very successful. he is a democrat, and
very staunch in his support of his party. The Lutheran Church
of Rose Township holds his membership.
Mr. and Mrs. Little became the parents of the following
children: Walter Curtis, who married Sarah jones of Harrison
Township, has one child, Irvin Daniel; Verna May, who is Mrs.
George Borland of Harrison township, has one child, Ralph
Howard; Ralph Forest, who married Nannie Dunlap, of
magnolia, Ohio, has one son, Roy Donald; and Donald Wilbur,
who is now at home. Forest was drafted into the United States
Army in September, 1918, at Carrollton, Ohio, and went to
Camp Sherman, later to Camp Cole, at Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, and three weeks later was transferred to Camp
Dix, New Jersey. After three weeks in the last named camp, he
was returned to Camp Sherman, and honorably discharged.
"History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio," The Lewis
Publishing Company, 1921, Volume II, pages 927 & 928.

WILLIAM C. McCARTNEY is owner of one of the well
improved farms of Rose Township, near Dellroy. His life
for thirty years has been spent in Carroll County as a
practical farmer.
Mr. McCartney was born in Warren Township,
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, September 21, 1865, oldest
of the four children of Alfred and Mary (Bartholomew)
McCartney. He is of Scotch-Irish and German ancestry.
His grand-father was Robert McCartney, who brought his
family from Pennsylvania in early days and settled in
jefferson County, Ohio. The family came over the
mountains with wagon and a four horse team to Ohio.
Robert McCartney subsequently moved to Tuscarawas
County, where he enjoyed a high place in local
citizenship and where he died in 1900. Of his eleven
children Alfred McCartney was born in Jefferson County,
but the greater part of his life has been spent in
Tuscarawas County, where he is still living. His wife died
in 1916.
In the rural community of Warren Township of his native
county, William C. McCartney grew to manhood, taking
advantage of the winter terms of the district schools, and
working at farm labor the rest of the year. For three
years he conducted a general store at Sherrodsville, but
in 1891, when he married, he resumed farming on the
place of his wife's father in Rose Township. Since 1907
he has owned and cultivated his present place of 137
acres, and has shared in the general prosperity of this
rich agricultural community. He is member of the Grange
of Dellroy, and casts his vote as an independent
democrat.
In 1891 Mr. McCartney married Regina German,
daughter of J. T. and Abbie (Hayden) German, of Rose
Township. They have two children. Harvey Edison, the
son, lives at Dellroy, and by his marriage to Erma Snively
has three children, named Kenneth A., Irene and Doris.
The daughter, Ethel, is the wife of Elmer Linder, of
Monroe Township, Carroll County, and has a son, William
Edward, born in 1917.
"History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio," The
Lewis Publishing Company, 1921, Volume II, Page 952.

EVAN JONES established his home in Carroll County, Ohio,
in the year 1880, and for seven years thereafter was employed
in connection with the coal-mining industry in this county, a line
of service with which he had become more or less familiar in
his native land. A man of energy, ambition and resolute
purpose, he has made the best of the opportunities that have
presented themselves, and through his own efforts, fostered
by the devoted co-operation of his wife, has gained place as
one of the substantial citizens of the county. The well
improved farm which he owned comprised eighty acres, being
situated in Harrison Township, on rural mail route No. 1 from
the village of Dellroy. In March, 1921, he sold his farm and
removed to Dellroy where he is now living retired.
The north of Wales figures as the place of birth of Evan Jones,
who was there born April 25, 1853, a son of John and Mary
Jones, representatives of families long established in that part
of Wales. There the Jones family had been tenant farmers for
many generations, the large landed estates being held by
wealthy proprietors, under the old English tenant system, and
the tenant farmers having no opportunity cultivated. Evan
Jones was reared to manhood in his native land, received a
common-school education and early began to work on the
farm, besides gaining experience in the coal mines for which
the north of Wales has long been noted. In 1876, a few years
after his marriage, Mr. Jones left his family in Wales and came
to the United States for the purpose of making investigations
and formulating definite plans for establishing a home in this
country. He made his way to Plymouth, Pennsylvania, and
there worked in coal mines one year, at the expiration of which
he returned to Wales. Three years later, in company with his
wife and their four children, he came again to the United
States, and it was at this time that he made Carroll County,
ohio, his destination. He established the family home at
Sherrodsville, and for the ensuing seven years was engaged
as a workman in the coal mines of this locality. He and his wife
practiced the utmost frugality and economy, and finally his
savings justified him in the purchase of a farm, to the
management of which he gave his attention, until recently, the
while definite independence and prosperity attended his
earnest and vigorous activities as an agriculturist and
stock-raiser. He made numerous improvements on his farm
and became one of the substantial and honored
representatives of farm enterprise in Carroll County. In politics
he maintains an independent attitude and votes for men and
measures meeting the approval of his judgment, irrespective of
strict partisan lines. He and his wife are earnest members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in Dellroy.
Mr. Jones was twenty-three years of age at the time of his
marriage to Miss Mary Emanuel, who was born January 11,
1855, daughter of Jarmidan and Sarah Emanuel, of North
Wales. Of the ten children of this unionall are living except
one, who died in early infancy: John Francis, who resides at
Dellroy, married Miss Bertha Kelley, of Leesville, this cfounty,
and they have six children -- Mary elizabeth, John Kenneth,
Floyd, Pauline, Florence and Irene. Edward Emanuel, the
second son, is now a resident of the city of Chicago, Illinois.
The maiden name of his wife was Grace Schusler, and their
two surviving children are Ruth and Donald, a third child,
Dwight, having died in 1906, aged one year. Evan, Jr., the
third son, resides at Magnolia, Carroll County, He married
Miss Ada Shearer and they have two children -- Richard and
Mary Evaline. David Thomas, the fourth son, is a resident of
Canton, Ohio. He married Miss Eva Chester, and they have
three children -- Earl, Mary and Hellen. William married Miss
Pearl Unkerfer and they reside in Canton, their two children
being William and Howard David. Mary, the eldest daughter, is
the wife of Oren West, of Dellroy, and they have one child,
Clayton Oren. Sarah Ann is the wife of Walter Little, formerly
of Dellroy. They have one son, Irvin Daniel. Margaret is the
wife of Clare Close, of that village. Emma is the wife of leslie
Holmes, of Harrison Township.
"History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio," The Lewis
Publishing Company, 1921, Volume II, page 955.

VICTOR S. COUTS is one of the representative
farmers of the Sherrodsville district of monroe Township,
Carroll County, where he owns an excellent farm of 188
acres on rural mail route No. 1 from the village mentioned.
Victor Shaw Couts was born in Washington Township,
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, on the 5th of February, 1875,
and is a son of Gershom Kilgore and Mary Elizabeth
(Little) Couts, of whose nine children he was the first
born. The father still resides in Tuscarawas County,
where he has been long and successfully engaged in
farm enterprise, and the mother died when her son Victor
S., of this review, was nineteen years of age.
As a boy and youth Victor S. Couts gave effective
assistance in the work of the home farm, and during the
winter terms he attended the Peoli district school until he
was seventeen years of age. Thereafter he continued
his association with the activities of his father's farm until
1893, and he then passed one winter in the state of
idaho, on the farm of Hon. Frank Moos, near Payette.
There he had charge of the large stock farm of Mr. Moos,
who was then a member of the State Senate of Idaho,
and after giving effective service in this capacity for a
period of seven months he returned to his father's farm,
but the following winter found him identified with farm
enterprise in Wayne County, Nebraska. He then
returned to the paternal home, where he continued his
alliance with the work and management of the farm wntil
1899, when he purchased a farm of 163 acres in Perry
Township, Tuscarawas County. This property he sold
three and one-half years later, and after selling the
property he staged his activities on a farm of forty acres
in Washington Township, of the same county for the
ensuing ten years. He then sold this property, and for
the following decade worked at the carpenter's trade in
the city of Akron, his natural mechanical ability and
previous experience having made him a skillful workman.
In 1920 he purchased his present farm and resumed the
independent life which most appeals to him. His
experience in the west, as well as in Ohio, has fortified
him well for successful achievement as an agriculturist
and stock-grower, and he is a distinct acquisition to the
circle of progressive farmers in Carroll County. He is a
vigorous advocate and supporter of the good-roads
movement and always ready to give co-operation in the
furtherance of measures advanced for the general good
of the community. He is a democrat in politics, is
affiliated with the Knights of Pythias at Akron, and he and
his wife are members of the Reformed Church. Mr.
Couts is a representative of a family that was early
founded in the state of New Jersey, when came the first
representatives of the name in Ohio many years ago.
In 1897 was solemnized the marriage of mr. Couts to
Miss linnie Taylor, daughter of John Taylor, a well known
farmer of Washington Township, Tuscarawas County,
and the three children of this union are: Adella May, Earl
Taylor and Victor Shaw, jr. The only daughter now
resides in the city of Akron, where she holds a
responsible position as a stenographer.
"History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio," The
Lewis Publishing Company, 1921, Volume II, page 955.

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