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The following articles were taken from "History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio,"
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1921, Volume II.

WILLIAM TOBIAS THORLEY. One of Carroll County's most enterprising and best known citizens
is William Tobias Thorley, of Dellroy, Monroe Township. Mr. Thorley during an active career of
thirty years or more has figured as a business man, merchant, farmer and public official. He
owns one of the large and well improved farms of Monroe Township, and has also developed
some of the important coal deposits of this section and is president of the Dellroy Coal Mining
Company.
"Mr. Thorley was born in Monroe Township June 29, 1868, a son of John and Phoebe (Barrick)
Thorley. The father, born in Pennsylvania, came to Ohio as a young farmer in Monroe
Township, where he died when seventy-four years of age. He was a democrat and an active
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife died on the homestead at the age of
eighty-four years. She was also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They had two
children, William and Laura J. The daughter married Beldon Davis, and of whom mention is
found elsewhere in this works.
"William T. Thorley is a member of one of the old families of eastern Ohio. He grew up on a
farm, attended public school at Atwood to the age of eighteen, and then began an apprenticeship
at the carpenter's trade. After completing his apprenticeship, he worked as a journeyman and
also as a contractor and builder altogether for ten years. For seven years he was a hardware
merchant at Dellroy and has enjoyed marked prosperity through his agricultural enterprise. All of
his land is underlaid by coal, and for the purpose of developing this and marketing it he
incorporated the Dellroy Coal Mining Company, of which he is president. Mr. Thorley is also a
stockholder in the First National Bank at Carrollton, and is a charter member of the Dellroy unit of
the National Grange.
"He is a democrat in politics, and among various public officers, has served as township clerk, as
a member of the School Board of Monroe Township, and as a member of the City Council of
Dellroy. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Dellroy.
"In June, 1894, he married Miss Dora E. Hoobler, daughter of Adam and Rebecca(Little) Hoobler,
of Rose Township. They have three children, Olin Forrest, born in 1895; John Adam, born in
1898; and Laura Jeanette, born in 1910. Olin Thorley was called to service during the World war
at Carrollton March 4, 1918, and was first assigned to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. For three
months he served as medical private. From New York he went overseas to Liverpool and to
London and landed in France at Havre. At Nevres he was transferred to the Ninety-fifth Motor
Transport corps as an ambulance driver, and was on duty as such until the armistice, and
continued with that branch of the army practically a year, returning home in June, 1919, as a first
class private.