Excerpted from the "History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Vol. I, The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1921.
ALBERT Q. ARBAUGH, was born in Rumley Township, Harrison County, on the 24th of December, 1859, the son of Levi and Elizabeth (Reid) Arbaugh. He was reared on the old home farm and gained his early education in the district schools of Rumley Township. Later he completed a course in the Duff Business College in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and on the 1st of January, 1885, he purchased the general merchandise stock and store of B.N. Winnings, of Jewett, and became postmaster, serving five years. In 1889 he received his second appointment, serving over four years. In 1887 he erected a substantial building for the accommodation of this large and prosperous mercantile business, and about the year 1894 he sold the stock and business and turned his attention to the Insurance business. In 1913 he was appointed county superintendent of taxes, in which office he served sixteen months, with characteristic and efficiency and acceptability. He owned a 100-acre farm adjoining the village on the south and qualified as a farmer and fruit grower. His political allegiance was given to the Democratic Party, and both he and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian Church in their home village.
On Christmas day of the year 1883 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Arbaugh to Miss Margaret a Spence, who was born at Germano, this county, in July, 1862, a daughter of Henry and Martha (Aiken) Spence. Mr. and Mrs. Arbaugh's children: Clara E., the wife of Frank B. Groves, an attorney of Cadiz, Ohio; Margaret E.; Albert Byron an attorney in the well-known law firm of Herbruck and Black of Canton, Ohio; and Arthur H. with the Labell Iron Company of Steubenville, Ohio.
ALBERT Q. ARBAUGH, was born in Rumley Township, Harrison County, on the 24th of December, 1859, the son of Levi and Elizabeth (Reid) Arbaugh. He was reared on the old home farm and gained his early education in the district schools of Rumley Township. Later he completed a course in the Duff Business College in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and on the 1st of January, 1885, he purchased the general merchandise stock and store of B.N. Winnings, of Jewett, and became postmaster, serving five years. In 1889 he received his second appointment, serving over four years. In 1887 he erected a substantial building for the accommodation of this large and prosperous mercantile business, and about the year 1894 he sold the stock and business and turned his attention to the Insurance business. In 1913 he was appointed county superintendent of taxes, in which office he served sixteen months, with characteristic and efficiency and acceptability. He owned a 100-acre farm adjoining the village on the south and qualified as a farmer and fruit grower. His political allegiance was given to the Democratic Party, and both he and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian Church in their home village.
On Christmas day of the year 1883 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Arbaugh to Miss Margaret a Spence, who was born at Germano, this county, in July, 1862, a daughter of Henry and Martha (Aiken) Spence. Mr. and Mrs. Arbaugh's children: Clara E., the wife of Frank B. Groves, an attorney of Cadiz, Ohio; Margaret E.; Albert Byron an attorney in the well-known law firm of Herbruck and Black of Canton, Ohio; and Arthur H. with the Labell Iron Company of Steubenville, Ohio.
Excerpted from the "History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Vol. I, The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1921.
ALBERT Q. ARBAUGH, was born in Rumley Township, Harrison County, on the 24th of December, 1859, the son of Levi and Elizabeth (Reid) Arbaugh. He was reared on the old home farm and gained his early education in the district schools of Rumley Township. Later he completed a course in the Duff Business College in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and on the 1st of January, 1885, he purchased the general merchandise stock and store of B.N. Winnings, of Jewett, and became postmaster, serving five years. In 1889 he received his second appointment, serving over four years. In 1887 he erected a substantial building for the accommodation of this large and prosperous mercantile business, and about the year 1894 he sold the stock and business and turned his attention to the Insurance business. In 1913 he was appointed county superintendent of taxes, in which office he served sixteen months, with characteristic and efficiency and acceptability. He owned a 100-acre farm adjoining the village on the south and qualified as a farmer and fruit grower. His political allegiance was given to the Democratic Party, and both he and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian Church in their home village.
On Christmas day of the year 1883 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Arbaugh to Miss Margaret a Spence, who was born at Germano, this county, in July, 1862, a daughter of Henry and Martha (Aiken) Spence. Mr. and Mrs. Arbaugh's children: Clara E., the wife of Frank B. Groves, an attorney of Cadiz, Ohio; Margaret E.; Albert Byron an attorney in the well-known law firm of Herbruck and Black of Canton, Ohio; and Arthur H. with the Labell Iron Company of Steubenville, Ohio.
ALBERT Q. ARBAUGH, was born in Rumley Township, Harrison County, on the 24th of December, 1859, the son of Levi and Elizabeth (Reid) Arbaugh. He was reared on the old home farm and gained his early education in the district schools of Rumley Township. Later he completed a course in the Duff Business College in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and on the 1st of January, 1885, he purchased the general merchandise stock and store of B.N. Winnings, of Jewett, and became postmaster, serving five years. In 1889 he received his second appointment, serving over four years. In 1887 he erected a substantial building for the accommodation of this large and prosperous mercantile business, and about the year 1894 he sold the stock and business and turned his attention to the Insurance business. In 1913 he was appointed county superintendent of taxes, in which office he served sixteen months, with characteristic and efficiency and acceptability. He owned a 100-acre farm adjoining the village on the south and qualified as a farmer and fruit grower. His political allegiance was given to the Democratic Party, and both he and his wife held membership in the Presbyterian Church in their home village.
On Christmas day of the year 1883 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Arbaugh to Miss Margaret a Spence, who was born at Germano, this county, in July, 1862, a daughter of Henry and Martha (Aiken) Spence. Mr. and Mrs. Arbaugh's children: Clara E., the wife of Frank B. Groves, an attorney of Cadiz, Ohio; Margaret E.; Albert Byron an attorney in the well-known law firm of Herbruck and Black of Canton, Ohio; and Arthur H. with the Labell Iron Company of Steubenville, Ohio.
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