CARY A. GAMBLE. Carroll County has profited by the stable citizenship and faithful industry of the Gamble family since the beginning of the '60s. Practically all bearing the name have been interested in agriculture, but their services have been extended also to politics, education, religion and society. Cary A. Gamble, a resident of East Township, where he is successfully engaged in farming and stock raising, is a worthy representative of this family and a valued citizen of his community. He was born in East Township, June 19, 1868, and is a son of Jacob M. and Margaret Jane (McMillin) Gamble, the former a native of Pennsylvania, and his maternal grandfather being John McMillin. All were early settlers of this part of Ohio.

Jacob M. Gamble was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, where he was educated, and after growing to manhood married Miss McMillin, who was born in East Township. Following their union, they settled on a farm in Hanover Township, Columbiana County, but after a short residence there Mr. Gamble bought the Joseph Cox farm in East Township, which had been entered by Mr. Fox from the United States Government. Here the parents rounded out long, useful and honorable careers in the pursuits of agriculture, the father passing away December 18, 1892, and the mother surviving about nine years and dying December 9, 1901. They were the parents of the following children: John A., of Alliance, Ohio; Jane J., the wife of Nathan Rakestraw, of Berlin Center, Ohio; Mary Ann, the wife of Jesse McBride, of East Rochester, Ohio; George W., of Salem, this state; Cary A., of Carroll County; Delbert H., of Salem, Columbiana County.

Cary A. Gamble received his educational training at the Oak Dale district school, taught school for one term, and was reared to farming under the instruction of his father. On March 10, 1892, he married Maggie Stenger, of Loudon Township, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Ann (Wier) Stenger, the latter born in Washington Township, Carroll County. Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Gamble spent the first summer on the farm of Mr. Gamble's father, then going to Mechanicstown, where for four years Mr. Gamble divided his time between farming and conducting a charcoal kiln. At the end of that period Mr. and Mrs. Gamble returned to the home farm, and in 1898 Mr. Gamble bought eighty acres of that property. This was partly improved, but he added new improvements and more substantial buildings, and in 1913 increased the extent of his holdings by the purchase of an additional twenty-five acres of land. He has continued in the work of clearing the brush and timber, and of building good structures and adding equipment, and at the present time has a valuable and attractive farm, on which he is making a decided success in his general farming operations, as well as in the raising of Holstein cattle. Among his associates and acquaintances he is known as a man of the strictest integrity and the worth and sincerity of his citizenship has never been doubted. He has rendered efficient and valued service to the community in the capacity of township clerk, an office of which he was the incumbent seven years and four months, and likewise acted capably in the position of township trustee, holding that office two terms, and holds the office of assessor at the present time. In politics he is a republican. His fraternal connection is with the Knights of the Maccabees at Augusta, and he also holds membership in the Kensington Grange. Mr. and Mrs. Gamble belong to the Still Fork Presbyterian Church, in which Mr. Gamble is an elder.

Mr. and Mrs. Gamble are the parents of two daughters: Flo Ina, the wife of Ralph Manfull, an agriculturist of Augusta Township, Carroll County; and Eulah Jane, the wife of Earl Long, also farming in that township.