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History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Volume II. p. 851

SIDNEY SHEPPARD GALLATIN

Though he had to fight life's battles alone from the age of fourteen, Sidney Sheppard Gallatin early took his place as a man among men in Carroll County, where he is known as an upright and industrious character, and his successful operations as a farmer and horticulturist. His valuable farm of 206 acres is in Rose Township, on rural route No. 1 out of Sherrodsville. He was born in East Huntington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1866, a son of Albert W. and Anne (Sheppard) Gallatin, and is descended from Albert Gallatin, who came from Geneva, Switzerland, was an officer in General Washington's army during the Revolution, and was an engineer by profession. He laid out the City of Geneva, Ohio, and surveyed many extensive tracts of land in northern Ohio. His son, Abraham Alphonse Gallatin, was for many years a Mississippi River pilot. His son, Daniel Gallatin, the next in line of descent, and grandfather of Sidney S. Gallatin, spent his life as a farmer in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1852. His second wife was Jane Montgomery, of Pittsburgh, who became the mother of nine children, including Albert W. Albert W. Gallatin was a soldier in the Civil War, being company clerk of Company B of the One Hundred Forty-second Pennsylvania Infantry, and was with General McClellan's army in the Richmond campaign. After the war he farmed, was also a teamster, and died September 28, 1918. His wife died in May, 1913.

Oldest of a family of five sons and three daughters, Sidney Sheppard Gallatin acquired most of his education in Rose Township of Carroll County. At the age of fourteen, he began to earn his own living, and his subsequent education was paid for out of his own efforts, and he continued to attend school in winter sessions until he was twenty-one. When he was eighteen years of age, he hired out to George Jameson, of Rose Township, as a farm hand at an agreed upon wage of a hundred dollars a year. Two years later he took the hand of his employer's daughter in marriage, Minerva Jameson, and she is a daughter of George and Emma (Williams) Jameson. Mr. and Mrs. Gallatin have four children: Oliver Bowman, born in 1888, married Elna Scarlott, of Rose Township, and their three children are Lester Sheppard, Iva Irene and Pearl. George Albert Gallatin, born in 1890, married Lucy Gilmore, of Atwood Ohio. Charles R. Gallatin, born in 1895, married Mary B. Price, of Canton. The fourth and youngest child is Miss Effie Pearl, still at home with her parents.

Mr. Gallatin's extensive farm of over 200 acres is part of the old Jameson homestead, where members of that family have lived since 1815. Originally the estate comprised 320 acres, and the title to it rests upon a Government deed written on parchment, and now more than a hundred years old. Mr. Gallatin has done general and diversified farming and has also been one of the leading apple growers of the county and still has a large orchard of fine trees. He is independent in politics. At one time he was candidate for country commissioner, and he was elected and served two terms as township treasurer. He is a charter member of the National Grange at Atwood and is a member of the Methodist Church.

History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Volume II. (The Lewis Publishing Company, 1921).