HOLMES COUNTY OHIO 
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File contributed to the Ohio Biographies Project by
Jeanne Yoakam 
yoak@on-ramp.net 
February 26, 2001
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Biographical Record of Holmes County, 1889.


JOHN ANDERSON

John Anderson, one of the early settlers of Holmes County, was born in
Allegheny County, Penn., in 1797, and died in 1880. He came to Holmes
County in 1840, and settled in Monroe Township on the farm now owned by
his son Franklin P. He first bought about 150 acres, for which he paid
$3 an acre, and added to this tract from time to time, until he owned at
the time of his death over 400 acres.  Mr. Anderson was twice married,
his first wife being Emma Allison, who born him four children.  In 1835
he married Isabel, a daughter of the late Col. Joseph McCabe, of
Pennsylvania, and the fifth in a family of seven children. Mr. and Mrs.
Anderson had a family of six children: Margaret,  William McCabe, Amy,
Caroline, Joseph and Franklin.  Of these Joseph married Miss Mary Brink,
and died in 1884, leaving two children: Guy and Benard F.; William
McCabe served in the war of the Rebellion, enlisting in 1861. The family
are members of the Christian Church, and in politics are Democratic.

THOMPSON F. MCCABE is a native of Allegheny County, Penn., born in 1823,
of Scotch-Irish descent.  William, the pioneer of this family, a farmer,
came to America about 1775, but later moved to Allegheny County, where
he purchased 200 acres in what is now Collier and Robinson Townships.
William had born to him nine children, of whom Joseph E. was among the
youngest, and in early life learned the carpenter's trade, but later
became a farmer.  He married Margaret, daughter of John Fife, and sister
of Maj. Fife.  Seven children, five of whom are now living, were born to
Mr. and Mrs. McCabe. Joseph E. died in 1870, aged eighty years, his wife
in 1832, aged about forty years. Among the youngest of their children is
Thompson F., who was educated at the public schools and reared on the
farm where he was born, and which he now owns.  He married in 1853, Mary
Jane, daughter of James Richardson, and has five children: Howard L.,
Maggie, Jennie (Mrs. Harrison), Lizzie (a teacher in the high school at
Pittsburgh) and Joseph E. (at home). The mother of these children died
in 1872, aged thirty-nine years. Mr. McCabe has retired from active
business life; takes a deep interest in politics, and like his father
before him is a stanch supporter of the principles of the Democratic
party. He has held many positions of trust, and is a member of the
Presbyterian Church at Mansfield.
Howard L. McCabe was born in 1855, the eldest son born to Thompson F.
and Mary Jane (Richardson) McCabe. He was educated in the public
schools, and in 1879 engaged in the lumber business under the firm name
of Cubbedge & McCabe, dealers in lumber and planing-mill supplies.  Mr.
McCabe married, in 1881, Alice, daughter of D.C. Hultz, of Allegheny
City, Penn., and three children, two of whom are living, are the result
of this union.  Mr. McCabe has been a resident of Mansfield since 1881.
He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Presbyterian Church;
politically he is a Democrat.

submitted by Jeanne Casner Yoakam