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ROBERT MERRICK. By scientific methods, strict business
policies and progressive measurer Mr. Merrick has achieved
the maximum success in connection with farm industry in
Carroll County, where his model farm, "Grand View," of 172
acres, is situated in Monroe Township, half a mile east of
the village of Dellroy, which is his post office address. He is
known as one of the most progressive students and
exemplars of agriculture and horticulture in Carroll County,
and the results have been shown in his reclaiming a
run-down farm into one of the most productive in the county.
He has conducted careful experimentations in fertilizing and
in restoring the integrity of the soil throughout the medium
of legume crops of diversified order. He was the first man in
the county to mark practical appreciation of the value of
powdered lime in restoring so called "sour" land to fertility,
and he was also the first to plant sweet clover as a means of
soil regeneration in this county. Mr. Merrick is a regular
correspondent of the national Department of Agriculture,
which has manifested marked interest in his various
experiments and shown a desire to have complete record of
results achieved. He has recourse to the leading
periodicals representative of farm industry, and has
contributed valuable articles to a number of these farm
journals. Mr. Merrick has the largest and finest orchard of
Baldwin apple trees in the county, and from the same he
shipped fully 2,200 bushels from his crop of the season of
1920. By careful spraying, etc., he produces prize-winning
Baldwin apples of the finest type, the same commanding the
maximum market prices. He is an enthusiast in the
reclaiming of sour land by means of lime and in the
enriching of the soil by means of leguminous crops. With
all his success and broad and scientific knowledge gained in
these connections Mr. Merrick has been characteristically
modest in working out his methods and plans, and has
accepted both mistakes and successes with philosophic
calm. His example has led to much emulation in Carroll
County, and many who at first ridiculed his work are now
copying his methods. One familiar with his indefatigable
labors and earnest study and experimentation has
pronounced him the most valuable citizen of Carroll County
in the matter of instituting progressive measures in
connection with the various departments of farm industry.

Mr. Merrick was born at Dellroy, this county, in the year
1879, and is a son of Robert and Mary Jane (Smith)
Merrick. He is of Scotch-Irish lineage, and his paternal
grandfather, Israel Merrick, came from Maryland and
established his home in Harrison Township, Carroll
County, where he became an extensive landholder and
representative farmer.
Robert Merrick, Jr., subject of this review, acquired his
youthful education in the public schools of his native
county, and his broader education has been gained
through self-discipline, well directed study and active
association with the practical affairs of life. At the age of
eighteen he took the position of engineer at the Dellroy
coal mines, and he continued his service in this capacity
for a period of fifteen years. With the money which he
had saved he then purchased sixty-four acres of his
present farm, to which he subsequently added an
adjoining tract of 108 acres. Here he has achieved
remarkable results in general agriculture, besides
developing one of the finest apple orchards in this
section of the state. He operates a coal mine on his
farm, the product of the same being used largely in this
and adjoining counties. Mr. Merrick has been
emphatically one of the world's constructive workers,
and his success and prestige have been worthily won.
He is a stockholder in the First National Bank of
Carrollton and has other financial interests. Though
never a seeker of political preferment, he accords a
loyal allegiance to the republican party, and he and his
wife hold member ship in the Presbyterian Church at
Dellroy.
In 1901 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. merrick to
Miss Mary E. Booth, daughter of Jeremiah and Matilda
(Parker) Booth, of Harrison Township, she being the
youngest in a family of six children and the original
representatives of the Booth family in Americahaving
come from the north of Ireland. Jeremiah Booth was the
owner of a farm of sixty acres in Harrison Township and
for many years worked to a greater or less extent at the
trade of blacksmith. His death occurred in 1913, and
his wife has also passed to eternal rest. The children of
Mr. and Mrs. Merrick are: Harry, Doyle and Earl, aged
respectively fifteen, eleven and nine years, in 1920.
The attractive family home is known for its generous
and refined hospitality.

FRANK WOODS FISHEL has spent all his life in
Harrison Township of Carroll County, and his friends and
neighbors recognize in him a man of substantial industry
and thrift, one who has improved his opportunities and
achieved a comfortable home and farm, and altogether
proved worthy of his American citizenship.
Mr. Fishel was born on the homestead where he now lived
November 14, 1881, son of James and Mary (Woods)
Fishel. His father was four years old when the grandfather
died in Washington Township of Carroll County, James
Fishel lived as a farmer in Washington and Harrison
Townships, and died in 1907, one of the highly respected
citizens of his community. His widow is still living. Frank W.
Fishel is the youngest of their children. His brothers are
Lawrence of Chicago and Charles of Tuscarawas County,
Ohio, and his only sister is Mrs. Maud Hudson of Dellroy,
who is the mother of two children, Mary and Charles.
Frank W. Fishel grew up at home, attended country school
at Mount Nebo, and graduated from the Dellroy High
School in 1901. He took two summer normal courses in the
Ohio Northern University at Ada, and before getting down
to farming as a permanent vocation he taught in his home
school of Mount Nebo and also in District No. 1 of Rose
Township. Since his marriage his tasks and duties have
been on the old homestead, where he has 140 acres
devoted to general farming and dairying. Mr. Fishel is a
good business man, and besides his farm interests is a
stockholder in the First National Bank of Carrollton. He is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Dellroy.
His first wife was Ella Benedum, daughter of Frank and
Mary Elizabeth (Hough) Benedem. She died in July, 1918,
leaving two children, James David born in 1908, and Myrta
May, born in 1911. Only July 31, 1919, Mr. Fishel married
Sylvia Gamble, daughter of William Melville and Olive
Jeannette (Long) Gamble of Rose Township.
History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio," The Lewis
Publishing Company, 1921, Volume II, page 826.

MARTIN WASHINGTON BORLAND. Nothing has
interfered with the continuous play of Mr. Borland's
interests, industry and activities as a farmer since he
started life for himself in Carroll County. He is one of the
leading farmers of Harrison Township, where he is
proprietor of two farms aggregating 198 acres. His home
is on rural route No. 1 out of Dellroy.
Mr. Borland was born in Monroe Township of Carroll
County in 1860, son of Washington and Magdalene
(Easterday) Borland, He is of Irish and Pensylvania
Dutch ancestry. His grandfather, Samuel Borland, was
married in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and at
an early day came to Harrison County, Ohio, where both
of them lived out their lives. Washington Borland was
the oldest of a family of two sons and one daughter, his
brother being William, and his sister, Lyda, who became
the wife of James Waddington. Washington Borland was
one of the highly esteemed residents and prosperous
farm owners of Monroe Township, where he died in
September, 1904. His wife died in February, 1895, and
of their ten children Martin W. is the seventh.
Mr. Borland, as he grew to manhood, acquired his
education in the country schools of Nebo, Glendale and
Dellroy, going to school in winter and working at home on
the farm in other seasons of the year. He continued
assisting his father until he was twenty-three, and then
for four years was a share farmer on his father's place of
115 acres. After his marriage he continued on the old
homestead, raising crops and live-stock on the shares.
Eventually he bought fifty acres in Harrison Township,
and his continued progress has brought him the
ownership of the larger property noted above. He has
lived in Harrison township since 1917. Mr. Borland
takes an active part in local affairs, is a member of the
Farmers Exchange Elevator Company of Carrollton, a
member of the National Grange at Dellroy, and was
elected and served two years, 1916-17, as township
trustee. He is a democrat and a member of the
Presbyterian Church.
"History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio," The
Lewis Publishing Company, 1921, Volume II, page 865.

GEORGE G. MAGEE is a native son of Carroll County
and has here found ample opportunity for the exercising of
his energies through association with industrial and
business affairs. He is now one of the representative
merchants of the village of Dellroy in Monroe Township,
where he owns and conducts a well equipped hardware
store and also handles agricultural implements and
machinery.
George Grant Magee was born in Harrison Township, this
county, on the 14th of August, 1808, and is a scion of
Scotch-irish ancestry. His paternal grandfather, William
Magee, was born and reared in the north of Ireland and was
a young man when he came to America and settled in
Washington County, Pennsylvania. In 1850 he came from
the old Keystone State to Carroll County, Ohio, and settled
on a farm in Washington Township, where he became the
owner of 160 acres of land and where he and his wife
passed the remainder of their lives. In Pennsylvania was
solemnized his marriage to Miss Anna Scott, whose
ancestors, according to family tradition, were of the nobility
in Scotland, there being also a strain of royal blood in the
family. William and Anna (Scott) Magee became the
parents of three sons, John, James and George, and of the
number James was the father of him to whom this review is
dedicated.
James Magee became a successful farmer in Harrison
Township, where he continued his active association with
agricultural industry until 1880, when he came to Dellroy
and retired. He lived retired during the closing period of his
life, and passed away on the 12th of August, 1916, as one
of the sterling and highly esteemed citizens of the county.
His wife did not long survive him, as her death occurred on
the 6th of January, 1917, both having been earnest
members of the Methodist Protestant Church. They
became the parents of six sons and one daughter, and of
the number George G. was the fourth in order of birth.
George G. Magee gained his early education in the public
schools of his native county. In 1893 he became the owner
of a barber shop at Dellroy, and this he successfully
conducted eleven years. He then formed a partnership with
his father-in-law, the late Crawford Barnes Scott, and
engaged in the hardware business at Dellroy. For the
ensuing fifteen years the enterprise was successfully
conducted under the firm name of Scott & Magee, and since
the death of Mr. Scott, on the 1st of April, 1900, Mr. Magee
has individually continued the prosperous business. He is a
stockholder in the First National Bank of Carrollton.
Mr. Magee has proved himself most loyal and progressive
as a citizen and has inviolable place in the esteem and
confidence of his home community. He has served three
terms as township clerk of Monroe Township, and in 1912
became town treasurer, of which office he continued the
incumbent one term of two years, besides which he has
been several times selected a member of the village council
of Dellroy. He is a staunch supporter of the cause of the
republican party, and he and his wife are active members of
the Protestant Methodist Church in their home village, in
which he has served as class leader and steward and also
as superintendent of the Sunday school. He is now a
member of the Board of Trustees of the church and also a
trustee of its parsonage.
In 1898 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Magee to Miss
Elsie May Scott, daughter of the late Crawford B. and
Margaret (Dunlap) Scott, and the two children of this union
are Gladys Margaret and Dwight Scott. The daughter is
now the wife of Fred Newell, of Leavittsville, this county, and
the son is not yet two years of age at the time of this writing,
(1920), his birth having occurred on the 6th of May, 1919.
"History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio," The Lewis
Publishing company, 1921, Volume II, pages 866 & 867.

HERBERT R. DAVY. The attractive Village of Dellroy
in Monroe Township, Carroll County, has its full
complement of well ordered business establishments,
and prominent among the number is the furniture and
undertaking store owned and conducted by Herbert Roy
Davy, who is not only one of the representative business
men of the village but also one of its progressive and
enterprising citizens. He was born in Rose Township, this
county, on the 5th of August, 1881, and is a son of
Abraham Gordon Davy and Sarah (Little) Davy, of
Scotch-irish lineage, came from maryland to Carroll
County, Ohio, and became a prosperous farmer in Rose
Township, besides which he here successfully practiced
his profession, that of veterinary surgeon, and also
developed a substantial business in the buying of horses
and shipping them to the eastern markets. His death
occurred in 1888, and his wife, whose family name was
Gordon, passed to eternal rest in 1893. It is a tradition,
practically authentic, that the Davy family of Carroll
County can trace lineal descent from Sir Humphrey Davy,
and representatives of the name came to America on the
historic ship "Mayflower." From New England members of
the family removed to Maryland, where they became
owners of large landed estates and also held slaves.
The slavery question caused a division of family
sentiment in Maryland long prior to the Civil war, and it
was largely owing to his opposition to the institution of
human slavery that Dr. Dorsey Davy left his native state
and established his home in Ohio, as already noted in
this paragraph. Of his three children who attained to
years of maturity Abraham G. is the youngest. The latter
long held prestige as one of the representative farmers
of Rose Township, where he still resides on his fine farm
of 200 acres, though he is now virtually retired from the
active labors and responsibilities that long engaged his
time and attention. His wife died in October, 1918, and is
survived by one son and three daughters, the subject of
this sketch, the only son, having been the third in order
of birth.
Herbert R. Davy attended the public schools of Dellroy,
later attended Scio College in Harrison County, and
thereafter was for two years a student in the preparatory
department of Wooster University, where he completed a
normal course. For thirteen years thereafter he was a
successful and popular teacher in the public schools of
Carroll County and for two years in Columbiana County,
his pedagogic service having been in both rural and
village schools. For five years he was mail carrier on one
of the rural free-delivery routes from the Dellroy
postoffice, and in 1918 he established his present
furniture and undertaking business, his establishment
being modern in equipment and service in all
departments and the enterprise being one of important
and successful order. He is a stockholder in the First
National Bank of Carrollton, and has been appointed as
depositor for the bank for the town and community.
With secure place in popular confidence and esteem in
his native county, and with well fortified convictions that
place him in the ranks of the democratic party, Mr. Davy
has been called upon to serve in various local offices of
public trust, including those of trustees of Monroe
Township, township clerk, and village clerk and trustee of
Dellroy. He served one term as a member of the village
council and two terms as a member of the Board of
Education of Dellroy.
The year of 1908 recorded the marriage of Mr. Davy to
Miss Hazel Herrold, daughter of Hemming Herrold, a
representative citizen of Dellroy, and the one child of this
union is a daughter, Mildred.
"History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio," The
Lewis Publishing Company, 1921, Volume II, page 873.

JOHN F. LEYDA. A prosperous stock man and farmer
illustrates by his experience the ups and downs of his line
of business, its fascinating promises of fortune as well as
its equally abundant opportunities for failure. One of the
men of Carroll County who has had some of these
vicissitudes of fortune, who has made several changes in
location and business, but each one dictated by good
judgment, and by determination has overcome obstacles
and is now enjoying a well earned prosperity is John F.
Leyda of Harrison Township.
Mr. Leyda was born in Harrison Township in December
17, 1867, son of David and Samantha (Putoff) Leyda.
His father was also a native of Harrison Township and a
well known farmer there. Oldest of nine children, John F.
Leyda had his early education limited to terms of winter
school until he was seventeen. He learned farming by
work at home, but had practically no capital when he
married Miss Nettie A. Wright, daughter of W. S. and
Elizabeth Wright, of Monroe Township.
The first year of their married life they lived on the Wright
farm of a hundred acres. He then rented a hundred acre
farm in Rose Township, spent a year there, another year
on a hundred fifty acres in Brown Township, farmed a
hundred sixty acres at Magnolia for a year, and then
returned to the Wright farm in Monroe Township, where
he continued his varied efforts at agriculture for seven
years. After a public sale of his stock and equipment Dr.
Leyda located at Dellroy, and employed his labor and a
teaming outfit as his principal business for five years.
In 1914 he bought his present place of a hundred five
acres. This is now a well equipped farm, and he has
made it the source of a steady income for the past six
years.
Mr. Leyda is an independent democrat and member of
the Presbyterian Church at Dellroy. Two children were
born to their marriage. Gladys was born in 1906. Marie
died in 1898, at the age of two years and one day.
"History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio," The
Lewis Publishing Company, 1921, Volume II, Page 786.

HARVEY SYLVESTER ULMAN. Some of the most
energetic and successful farmers in Carroll County live around
Dellroy, one of whom is Harvey Sylvester Ulman, whose farm of
ninety-five acres is in Rose Township. Mr. Ulman has not only
made an excellent living as a farmer, but has been a citizen of
value in his community.
He was born in Brown Township of Carroll County January 17,
1879, son of Adam W. and Mary Jane Hazlett) Ulman. His
grandparents were John and Matilda (Fishel) Ulman, who were
also identified with Carroll County, owning a farm in Augusta
Township. He died at Malvern. Of their family of six sons and
two daughters the second in age is Adam W., who gave part of
his active years to farming in Carroll County and is now a mail
carrier in Canton, Stark County, where he and his second wife
reside. His children are John Hazelett and Harvey Sylvester.
Harvey S. Ulman attended country school at Willow Run in
Harrison Township until he was seventeen. His schooling was
limited to the winter terms, and the rest of the year he did work
in proportion to his strength and abilities on the home farm. He
continued to assist his grandparents after school days were
ended, and his career throughout has been one of
commendable industry.
In September, 1900, Mr. Ulman married Mary Jane Haynam,
daughter of David and Lydia (Teegarden) Haynam, of New
Franklin, Stark County. The Haynams are an old English family
who settled at Youngstown and also in Stark County, Ohio.
After his marriage Mr. Ulman bought forty acres near Alliance,
Ohio, and during the four years he lived there raised a large
amount of vegetable truck which he sold in Alliance and other
nearby markets. In 1905 returning to Carroll County he bought
his present farm of ninety-five acres in Rose Township. He
does general farming, but has also specialized to an important
degree in breeding Berkshire hogs and Rhode Island Red
chickens.
Mr. and Mrs. Ulman's only child Ray Teegarden died January 7,
1912, at the age of nine months nine days. Mr. Ulman is an
independent republican and is a member of the Baxter's Ridge
Methodist Church. He is also a member of the Subordinate
Grange at Dellroy.
"History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio," The Lewis
Publishing Company, 1921, Volume II, pages 827 & 828.

THOMAS I. TOPE. Carroll County claims a specially fine contingent of native sons who are here actively identified with farm
industry and stand exponent of loyal and progressive citizenship. Of this number is Thomas I Tope, whose well improved farm
of eighty acres is situated in Monroe Township, on rural mail route No. 4 from Carrollton, the county seat. He was born on the
old home farm in this township, near Leavittsville, September 16, 1868, and is a son of Gabriel and Elizabeth (McCue) Tope,
the former of whom still resides on and has general supervision of his farm, though he is now venerable in years. Gabriel Tope
was born and reared in Carroll County and is a son of Jacob and katherine (Kale) Tope, Jacob Tope having come from
Pennsylvania and numbered himself among the pioneer farmers of Carroll County, where he secured land near Petersburg
and where he and his wife remained until their deaths. Their children were eleven in number. Gabriel Tope has devoted his
entire active career to agricultural and live-stock industry, and is one of the venerable and honored native sons of Carroll
County. His wife likewise is of advanced age, and both are devout members of the Presbyterian Church. Their son, Homer D.,
is general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League for the district of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one of its organizers
and has gained fame as a reformer and eloquent public speaker. He was the oldest in order of birth of the family of four
children, and Thomas I. was the fourth child.
Thomas I. Tope is indebted to the public schools of his native county for his early educational discipline, and he continued to
be actively associated with the work and management of the home farm until he had attained to his legal majority. After his
marriage, which occurred in the spring of 1896, he established his residence on a farm of eighty acres in Monroe Township,
and here he continued his successful enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-raiser fourteen years. He then sold the property
and purchased another farm of 160 acres in the same township, and in the spring of 1920 he sold this place, upon
advantageous terms, and purchased his present farm, which likewise he is making the stage of progressive and successful
agricultural and live-stock industry. He is a staunch republican, has been active in local affairs of a public order and served as
city committeeman. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Church.
February 15, 1896, recorded the marriage of Mr. Tope to Miss Hattie Rainsberger, daughter of Thomas Rainsberger, of whom
individual record is given on other pages of this work. The one child of this union is John Clayton Tope, who was born in the
year 1897 and who is now employed in the city of Canton, Stark County. John C. Tope was one of the sterling young men who
represented Carroll County in the nation's military service in the late World War. He entered service in September, 1918,
passed three months in the training camp at Toledo, and was then transferred to Camp Oglethorpe, at Atlanta, Georgia. Two
months later he was sent to Baltimore, Maryland, as a private of the first class, and after the signing of the historic armistice he
continued in service until April, 1919, when he mustered out and received his honorable discharge.
"History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio," The Lewis Publishing Company, 1921, Volume II, pages 785 & 786.

John Clayton Tope served as a rural mail carrier for many years and he and his wife Hildred (German) lived at the corner of
Cactus and Royal Road a few miles out of Dellroy where he also farmed. They had one son, George.