Joseph Harper POLLOCK
Note: an insurance man of Mt. Gilead moved to Summit Co., nr. Akron with his parents when young where they farmed abt 5 yrs. then to the neighborhood of Saville, Wayne Co. J. H. tended store there abt 4 yrs when he then returned to the farm after a season of Cleveland Medical College he returned to farming until 1870, conducting the insurance business in connection with farming. in 1866 he came to Morrow Co. and in 1870 he sold out his farming interests and moved to his present rsidence; also formed a partnership in the drug business as Briggs & Pollock, Mt. Gilead, OHio. chosen President of the Board of a railroad from Gilead Station to Mt. Gilead (the Short Line Railroad part of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad) Source: History of Morrow County Ohio, Illustrated 1880
He married Olive Orlinda Taylor 21 Nov 1861 at Morrow, Ohio . Olive Orlinda Taylor was born at Bennington, Licking, Ohio 10 Aug 1838 daughter of Edmund Taylor and Sarah Warner .
They were the parents of 5
children:
Ernest Harper Pollock
born 15 Oct 1862.
Walter Samuel Pollock
born 11 Sep 1864.
Edwin Taylor Pollock
born 25 Oct 1870.
Annis Joy Pollock
born 28 Jul 1873.
Pollock
Joseph Harper Pollock died 16 Feb 1901 at Mt Gilead, Morrow, Ohio .
Olive Orlinda Taylor died 13 Mar 1924 at Mt Gilead, Morrow, Ohio .