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JOHN CROSS is one of the sterling citizens of Monroe
Township, Carroll County, where he resides upon his well
improved farm on rural mail route No. 1 from Sherrodsville. He
was born and reared in this township, the year of his birth
having been 1852, and of the honored family of which he is a
popular representative adequate record is made on other
pages, in the personal sketch of his brother James J.
Mr. Cross gained through early experience a deep and
enduring appreciation of the dignity and value of honest toil and
endeavor, for he was but a boy when he began to lend his
quota to the work of the home farm. He has never severed his
allegiance to the basic industry of agriculture, but during much
of his active career he has given his attention primarily to the
manufacturing of lumber, as the owner and operator of a saw
mill. In his varied activities he has contributed to the civic and
material advancement of his native county, and here his circle
of friends is coincident with that of his acquaintances. He is
affiliated with the Patrons of Husbandry, as a member of the
Grange at Atwood, is a democrat in his political proclivities, and
he and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian
Church at New Cumberland, in Tuscarawas County, he being a
member of the board of trustees of this church.
The year 1878 recorded the marriage of Mr. Cross to Miss
Nancy J. Latimer, of Tuscarawas County, and of this union have
been born three children: Myrta Alice is the wife of Lewis
Waldman, of Mineral City, Tuscarawas County; Margaret Ann
was the wife of James Gordon, of Lawrence Township,
Tuscarawas County. She died August 10, 1913. She had two
children -- Donovan Paul and Margaret Mable; Edson L., the
youngest of the children, is the subject of an individual sketch
on other pages of this work.
"History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio," The Lewis
Publishing Company, 1921, Volume II, pages 839-40.

OKEY L. GERMAN is another of the native sons of
Carroll County who is here making an excellent record in
connection with progressive farm industry, and the stage of
his operations in the old homestead farm, in Monroe
Township, on which his birth occurred, the date of his
nativity having been March 16, 1894, and he being a son
of J. R. and Martha C. (Anderson) German, both
representatives of well known pioneer families of this
section of the Buckeye State. J. R. German likewise is a
native of Carroll County, and has been continuously
identified with farm enterprise in this county from the time of
his youth, the founders of the German family in this county
having come to Ohio from Virginia about the year 1826.
Okey Leroy German continued his studies in the public
schools of Carroll County until he was graduated, with
honors of his class, in the Dellroy High School, in 1914.
Thereafter he continued his alliance with farm enterprise
until his marriage, in 1917, and since that important event
in his career he has gained standing as one of the most
progressive agriculturists and stock-growers of the younger
generation in his native county, where he owns his well
improved farm, of 105 acres. Mr. German makes a
specialty of raising registered Duroc-Jersey swine, and is
giving much study and experimentation to this feature of
farm industry, his progressive policies being such as to
insure to him cumulative success, and he being a careful
and appreciative reader of the leading farm papers. He is
an active member of the Farmers Exchange at Carrollton,
is a republican in his political proclivities, and both he and
his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal
Church in Rose Township, which is on rural mail route No.
1 from the Village of Dellroy.
The 1917 recorded the marriage of Mr. German to Miss
Mary A. Shotwell, daughter of John W. and Rose (McCourt)
Shotwell, of Union Township, and the two children of this
union are Evelyn Fay and John A.
"History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio," The Lewis
Publishing Company, 1921, Volume II, pages 931 - 32.

CHESTER REDMAN WORLEY. It is not given to every man to own his birthplace, but such is the good luck of Chester
Redman Worley, one of the energetic young farmers of Carroll County, whose fine farm of 140 acres is located in Rose
Township. Here he was born in 1892, a son of Owen E. and Florence (Redman) Worley. The family is an old one in this
region, the great-grandfather having conducted a hotel at Morges, Rose Township, after he came to Carroll County from
Pennsylvania. John V. Worley, the grandfather, lived in Brown Township, this county, where he died in 1901, having been a
farmer all of his life. He married Abigail Snyder, and they had four sons and four daughters, of whom Owen E. was the fifth in
order of birth. He developed into a farmer, bought the 140-acre farm now owned by his son, and operated it until he retired,
locating then at Magnolia, where he and his wife are now enjoying the comforts of Life. Chester R. Worley is their only child.
Politically he is a republican, and has held a number of the township offices, having been a member of the School Board of
Rose Township. They are both very popular, and the success of the elder man is being reflected in the life and work of the
younger.
Chester R. Worley attended the schools of Districts Nos. 6 and 3 until he was seventeen years old, and then in 1912 he took
a short course in the agricultural department of the Ohio State University, and returning home, has been engaged in farming
ever since. He married Emma Wetzell, a daughter of Christopher and Caroline (Warner) Wetzell, of Rose Township, in 1914,
and they have one son, Roscoe Ellsworth. Mr. Worley finds it expedient to belong to the national Grange at Magnolia, and
benefits from his association with his fellow members. The Lutheran Church at Magnolia has his earnest support, and he has
been a member of it for some time.
If more of the young men of the rural districts could be induced to do as Mr. Worley, devote themselves to an agricultural life,
a wonderful advancement would be seen in this industry. The man who has been born and bred on a farm has the love of the
soil ingrained in his being. Having spent his life in a neighborhood he understands its need and possibilities and can advocate
and support those measures which will be most beneficial to it, and at the same time gain a competency of fair proportions.
Carroll County has a number of these young men interested in farming, and this is one of the reasons for its present prestige.