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PIONEER SKETCHES - 1255 CHAPTER III. BIOGRAPHIES OF SOME OF THE PIONEERS OF SOUTHERN OHIO. Cornelius Willbank Bailey was born in the state of Delaware, June 14, 1807 and resided there till he was five years of age. His father was Nathaniel Bailey. His mother's maiden name was Comfort (Prettyman) Bailey, daughter of Shepherd Prettyman. His parents were married in 1798. They had six children of whom our subject was the fourth. He resided in Delaware until the year 1812, when his father came to Scioto county and died there in the year 1815. His mother survived until March 8, 1852 when she died at the age of seventy-three. The first location made by Nathaniel Bailey was two miles north of Portsmouth, near the toll gate. The family traveled from Delaware in a covered wagon to Brownsville, Pa., where they took passage on a flat boat and came down the Monongahela and Ohio rivers to Portsmouth. His father was a carpenter. While in Scioto county, he built houses for Philip Noel, Martin Funk, Charles T. Mastin and Joseph Micklethwait. As Cornelius grew up, he followed farming and worked for his uncle John Beauchamp until he arrived at the age of sixteen, when he went to farming on his own account. He attended the schools of the vicinity until he was seventeen years of age. He was the main support of his mother and her family after the death of his father. It was after his father's death that he went to his uncle, John Beauchamp, and he resided with him for about ten years. In 1825, he returned to Scioto county where he resided until 1873, when he went back to Pike county, and spent the remainder of his life. February 3, 1831, he was married to Eliza Guthrey, a granddaughter of Col. John Guthrey, who came from Pennsylvania, and located on a tract of land now partially covered by Piketon, and lying south of it, extending more than a mile, and including what is known as the Vanmeter farm. Mr. Bailey had born to him seven children. His eldest son, John 0. married Minerva Jones, daughter of George Jones, of Clinton, Ohio. They had tive children: Sarah Frances, James, Anna, Cornelius W. and John. Mary Jane married Benjamin H. Johnson, of Piketon. They have two children, William and Eliza. Cynthia Ellen married Rev. Wilder H. Middleton, who now resides on the old Bailey homestead, in the out-skirts of Piketon. They have two children, William Howard and Arthur Bailey. William Howard is Common Pleas Judge in Pike county. Frances D. is living in a Pleasant home in Piketon. Louisa married Presley T. Talbott, and died December 3, 1871, leaving four children, Charles Clifton, Delbert Warwick, Cornelius Bailey and Louisa. Mr. Bailey was a member of the Methodist church for fifty years of his life and lived up to it and to all that is taught and believed in that body of Christian people. Mr. Bailey always enjoyed the confidence of his fellow citizens, and was Treasurer of his township for four years. He accumulated quite a fortune. By his own industry and right living, he became owner of over 1,300 acres of land. In 1875, he gave an auto-biography of himself. In it he made these remarks: "I have honestly endeavored all my life, to live as a good citizen, and now, in my old age, can truthfully say that my lines are cast in pleasant places. I have enough of this world's goods to enable me and mine to live comfortably, which we desire to do without abusing. I have never been ambitious for political preferment, but have kept on in the even tenor of a farmer's life, enjoying what I could, and loved peace rather than turmoil." (1255) 1256 - PIONEER RECORD OP SOUTHERN OHIO. He states that the first year after he was married, he lived on the Cunningham farm, now known as the Davis farm, in Scioto county. In 1833, he entered into partnership with Lloyd Howard, one of the pioneers of Pike county, and who reared Mr. Bailey's wife. Mr. Howard was his wife's uncle. Mr. Bailey made the first purchase of land, 280 acres near the mill in Pike county. He attributed much of his success to Mr. Lloyd Howard, from whom he learned many valuable lessons, and who contributed very much to his success and prosperity. Mr. Bailey's home on his home farm was built in 1852, and in 1872, he built the comfortable home in Piketon, in which he resided thereafter until his death in 1891. He stated in concluding the subject of himself and wife, "though feeling affliction at times, in the loss of children and near and dear relatives, we have reason to praise God for his goodness to us and ours. We are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and are looking forward to a blissful immortality, when it shall please God to call us to himself." God did call Mr. Bailey Dec. 10, 1891 and his wife Feb. 1, 1894. His life and character in the community were a tower of strength. His counsel was sought by all his friends and it was always valuable. He was a man and a Christian to be looked up to and was looked up to. The life of one like him was better than a sermon every day in the week. It was a sermon which every one who knew him could understand. It was a sermon and benediction combined, and one that a child could appreciate. Christian Blaser, M. D., was born at Langnau, Canton Berne, Switzerland, February 4, 1823. He left Switzerland at the age of thirteen, and went to Winesburg, Holmes county, Ohio. From there he went to Ross county, where he read medicine with Dr. Jonathan Miesse. He attended Medical College at Philadelphia. He was graduated as a physician in 1846. He located first in Greenfield and then at Sinking Springs. He located at Piketon in 1848, and practiced there and did a banking business till 1860, when he moved to Wilmington, Ohio, and conducted a bank there till 1866. Then he returned to Piketon and remained one year. In 1867, he went to Waverly and engaged in the drug business and the practice of medicine which he continued till 1874, when he gave up the drug business entirely. He continued to practice medicine at Waverly till 1882, when he moved to Columbus, where he retired from all business. He was married in 1850, to Jane E. Turner, daughter of James B. Turner, a merchant and pork-packer in Piketon, Ohio. James B. Turnerls second wife, mother of Mrs. Blaser, was Sarah N. Millar, daughter of John W. Millar. The children of Dr. Blaser were: James Turner Blaser, born January 20, 1852; Anna Maria, born Feb. 24, 1854, wife of Charles E. Bonebrake, of 865 Franklin Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. The wife of our subject was born November 7, 1830, and died March 31, 1891, at Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Blaser was not a member of any church. He was a democrat, and was prominent in Masonry. He died July 23, 1888. He was a first class business man in every respect. As a physician he was wonderfully successful. He seemed to know what to do in any case presented to him, and had the entire confidence of the community, as a business man, to an extent beyond his contemporaries and no man deserved it more. Luther Martin, Beaman was born in Hartland, Connecticut, December 2, 1827. His father was Thomas Beaman. He obtained such education as the schools of his vicinity afforded, and at the age of twenty years, started out to make his own fortune. He came to Ohio, and began by peddling clocks, brass kettles, and other articles much in demand. He was first employed to conduct a country store, at Waterloo, in Lawrence county. He mastered the business at once, and soon afterwards established a like business for himself at Ridgway, in Gallia county. In 1856, he removed his business to Centerville, in Gallia county. He remained there in business until his death. He began in Centerville with a stock of only a few hundred dollars and died worth $300,000. He dealt in farm products and stock. No opportunity to make money ever escaped him. He was naturally adapted to the business of banking, and in 1874, he established a National Bank at Centerville, but this was merely an adjunct to his outside business. The bank had PIONEER SKETCHES - 1257 a capital of $50,000 and he held the greater part of its stock. He became a dealer in government and municipal bonds and made extensive purchases and sales. Mr. Beaman was always conservative and safe. The people of his community and county had unlimited confidence in him. He served as County Commissioner for a time. He represented Gallia county in the Legislature from January 4, 1880, to April 19, 1883. As an evidence of the confidence of his fellow-citizens, it is mentioned that he held the office of Treasurer of his township for a period of about twenty-five years. He was a loyal man during the war. On September 18, 1864, he was made Quartermaster of the 173d Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with the rank of First Lieutenant and served until June 26, 1865. He had the talent and ability to have filled the same position for the entire army of the United States. Mr. Beaman had the faculty of doing everything well, which he undertook, and it never had to be done over again. If he had a humble duty before him, he performed it just as well as though it was the most important. No details of business, or duty, were ever neglected by him. His motto might well have been, "Whatever is worth doing, is worth doing well." Mr. Beaman was never a member of any fraternity or lodge, out managed to be on good terms with every one. He was not a member of any church, but aided those about him. He had the faculty of being a valuable aid and assistant to any body or organization with which he was connected. He was a strong and ardent republican. His counsel, advice, and assistance was always of great value to his party. His services to his county, as Commissioner aud as a legislator were most valuable to it. He could suggest needed reforms, changes, and improvements, and they would be adopted. When adopted, if it fell to him to carry them out, he did so, most successfully and without friction or opposition. His judgment on all subjects was most valuable. He did his own investigating and reasoning, most quietly, but when he reached a conclusion on a subject there was no better and no other. His judgment would be accepted at once as the best. His knowledge on subjects he investigated was most accurate and thorough. He never made any boasts of it, but acted on that intuitive instinct he possessed, by nature, and the facts he had acquired by observation and study. He was of the very best type of the sturdy New England Yankee, possessing all those qualities which have made the citizen of the United States known and respected in every part of the world. He would never undertake what he could not do and whatever he did undertake, succeeded, because he would undertake only what he could do. Of course he had a wonderful knowledge of human nature. He not only had it, but utilized his knowledge with the very best results. To have accomplished what he did in a county community where everybody is supposed to know his neighbors affairs, was most remarkable. There are but few instances of this kind. He was married soon after he came to Ohio to Margaret Kellar, daughter of Abram Kellar and Susan his wife. She survived until August, 1896. They had six children: Fred, the youngest died in infancy; Jessie, the wife of James F. Morgan, died in August, 1884; Parnie, the wife of Dr. Jehu Eakins, died in June, 1897, without issue; Ida B., the wife of Rees W. Thomas, of Jackson, died November 14, 1900. She left six children, Mrs. David Armstrong, Jr., of Jackson; Madge, Helen, Luther Beaman, Stanley, and George. Mr. Beaman left one son, Matere, who resides at Centerville. He married Margaret, the daughter of David D. Morgan, of Centerville, and has one son, David, aged fifteen years. Mr. Beaman died sudenly March 12, 1901, of cancer of the bowels. Since his death, his bank has closed its business. All deposits were paid and the charter surrendered. His career was beneficial to the community in which he dwelt and he aided many worthy men to success. William Biggs, Senior. was born October 19, 1800, at Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, the son of Andrew and Judith (Robertson) Biggs. Andrew Biggs was engaged in business there, keeping a tavern, but failing when his son William, was thirteen years of age, he removed to Greenup county, Kentucky. The son was early thrown upon his own resources, and when quite young carried the mail from the mouth of Big Sandy to Greenup and from Mt. Sterling to the mouth of Big Sandy and return, 1258 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO and by good management soon became a land holder. His farm being heavily timbered, he kept a woodyard on the bank of the Ohio river and also in a line of keel boats on the Ohio and Big Sandy rivers. He could relate many thrilling incidents of early days. He was a shrewd business man of sterling character, being noted for his keen sense of justice to all men. He became identified with the business interests of Portsmouth about 1850, when he bought a hotel, since called the "Biggs House." Mr. Biggs was a large slave holder until 1862. He was a kind and indulgent master. In the thirties, his slaves would cross the Ohio river, and work in the state of Ohio, but they did not attempt to run away. He as a whig during the existence of the Whig party and afterwards became a democrat and remained such the remainder of his life. In the last twenty years of his life, he was a member of the Presbyterian church. His wife was Lucy Bragg Davis, daughter of Captain George Naylor Davis, a soldier of the war of 1812. She was also a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Biggs enjoyed good health all of his life. He never had a spell of sickness except in 1868. He was exact in his business methods, and was always prompt about his obligations and arranged his business to pay cash, but at the same time, was lenient and indulgent to those who owed him. He extended the utmost confidence to those in his employ, and they never abused it. His family consisted of the following children: Andrew, William and Robinson, twirls; Thomas; James Davis, of Wurtland, Greenup county, Kentucky; Anna Eliza, who married James Hockaday, both deceased; Susan, who died at the age of eighteen: Romulus, a physician in Greenup, Kentucky; George Nicholas,. engaged in business in Huntington, West Virginia; Lucy, wife of Doctor Andrew Beardsley, of Huntington, West Virginia; Samuel, deceased; Lola, deceased wife of Judge William Thompson. Mr. Biggs began with nothing and left a colossal fortune at his death. His wife died June 13, 1889, and he survived until July 24, 1897. Francis Campbell was born at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1792. He was a descendant of Duncan Campbell, of the lineage of the noble branch of Breadalbane, born in Scotland, but removed to Ireland after his marriage in 1612. His son, John Taylor Campbell, lived and died in Ireland, but his son, also named John, emigrated from that country to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, bringing with him his family. Among them was Francis Campbell's grandfather, born in 1692, and -also called John. This John was educated in England. He was married and had four children, the youngest of whom, John, was the father of the subject of our sketch. He was born in 1740, and married to Miss Ellen Parker. The eldest brother of our subject was the Rev. John Campbell, so there were five generations in which the same name of John appeared. Francis Campbell, our subject, obtained but slight schooling in his home, but left there and branched out in the world, determined to be the architect of his own fortune, confident in his success. He went to Baltimore and associated himself with John T. Barr, a prominent merchant there, and remained with him about two years, during which time he developed such attention to business and so much capacity in that direction, that Mr. Barr, who had arranged to establish a general merchandise store at Chillicothe, did so, and gave Mr. Campbell a partnership. The business was conducted under the name of Barr & Campbell, and the latter had sole management and control of the establishment. Their store was opened in 1814, and ultimately Mr. Campbell became one of the most prominent merchants in that part of the state. The business was continued until 1832, when Mr. Barr, who resided in Baltimore, became financially involved. Mr. Campbell had endorsed for him to a large extent and was a great sufferer. He lost all the money he had accumulated to that date. Mr. Barr then retired from the firm, and two of the brothers of Mr. Campbell, James and Samuel, who had been connected with the business some time previous, were taken into partnership, and the style of the new firm was James P. Campbell & Co. The same business was continued with increased success for seven or eight years when James retired and the firm was then changed to F. & S. D. Campbell, (Francis and Samuel D.), and was continued Until 1852, when Francis Campbell retired from active work, although the firm PIONEER SKETCHES - 1259 remained in existence for several years after. Mr. Campbell also identified himself with the business enterprises of Chillicothe. He was ever ready to promote the interests of his town. He was a director of the old Chillicothe Bank and the old Valley Bank, subsequently changed to the First National Bank, of which he was one of the projectors and original charterers. He was actively engaged in the organization and construction of the Marietta & Cincinnati railroad and other projects of a public nature. He was a very large land owner in the city of Portsmouth, and sold fifteen acres just east of Campbell avenue, running from Gallia street to Jackson. He also owned various portions of additions in the city of Portsmouth and did a great deal of business in Portsmouth. He was a member of the First Presbyterian church of Chillicothe. He was a man of great integrity of character and purity of purpose. He was noted for his kindness of heart and affection. He was never married, but resided with his brother, Samuel D., where he died on the 17th of June, 1873. Franklin Carel was born in Paris, France, December 16, 1795, the son of Rene and Madelaine (La Roux) Carel. He came with his parents to Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1803. He was named for Benjamin Franklin and had a good education in both English and French, as he was the eldest son. He succeeded his father in the mercantile business, which he successfully pursued for many years. He often walked td Philadelphia to purchase goods for his store, which were brought across the Allegheny Mountains, in big covered wagons, drawn by four or six horses, to Pittsburg, and then loaded on keel boats, or batteaus, and floated to their destination. He and his brother, Virgil, erected the first steam salt mill in Gallia county, also the tirst iron foundry, which was managed by them for many years. He was also interested in the first saw mill operated in Gallipolis. He was Justice of the Peace for twenty years and Notary Public for fifteen years, a long time city recorder, township clerk, etc. He was trustee of Gallia Academy for nearly tifty years and treasurer of the Board for thirty years. He was Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Gallia county, from February, 1850, to September 1, 1851. He was a charter member of the Morning Dawn Lodge, F. and A. M. of Gallipolis. He was a man of much ability, and held many important offices. He was noted for his honesty and integrity of character and was widely and prominently known. He was married in December, 1819, to Miss Rosina Devacht, daughter of Joseph W. Devacht. They had two daughters: Madelaine, the wife of Captain James Newton, a steamboat captain, and Rosina, the wife of David Y. Smithers, also a steamboat captain. He was married a second time to Sallie Whitney, by whom he had six children: Franklin and Charles, both photographers; Mary, the wife of H. Felix Woods, who was engaged as clerk in a large dry goods store; Henry; Josephine, the wife of L. Z. Cadot, who has a separate sketch herein; and Frederick, a printer. Franklin died at the age of thirty-three years and Henry at the age of two years. His third wife was Susan Berthelot. There were no children of this marriage. After a long, useful and busy life, he died on the 13th of April, 1883. Rene Carel was born in the province of Normandy, in the north of France. He went from there to Paris, where he established a bock store and also owned a mill for the manufacture of silk. He was married about the year 1793, to Madelaine La Roux, who came from the south of France. In the year 1803, owing to the disturbed state of France, caused by the Napoleonic wars, he emigrated to the United States. He disposed of his business interests and in the spring of 1803, set sail from Havre for the United States, with his wife and two sons, Franklin and Virgil. They landed at Baltimore, Maryland, after a voyage of fifty- nine days. From there they came overland to Pittsburg. He had letters of introduction to a French family residing there, but being unable to speak English, could not find the family. He had intended to buy property and settle in Pittsburg, but determined to locate either in Cincinnati, Ohio, or St. Louis, Missouri, which at that time 1260 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO. was a French town. He had a tlat boat built and he and his family embarked and started down the Ohio. After a voyage of several days, they landed at Gallipolis to buy provisions, but finding the village was a French settlement and everybody speaking the French language, he gave up the idea of going on to Cincinnati, and decided to locate in Gallipolis. He engaged in the mercantile business and carried that on for some years, or until his son, Franklin, became old enough to manage the business, when he retired. Being a man of means, he purchased a large amount of real estate in and about Gallipolis. He had three sons, Franklin and Virgil, born in France, and Aristides, born in this country. His wife died in 1833, and he died March 27, 1843. Charles Peter Clough was born March 10, 1849, in Waverly, Ohio. His father was Dr. George Washington Alexander Clough, of Chillicothe, and his mother's maiden name was Sarah M. Steenbergen, one of the Pioneers of Pike county. He was the eldest of the two children of his father's first marriage. Dr. Clough's second wife was Mary McNeal. They had six children. Charles P. received a common school education at Waverly. At the age of nineteen, he became a farmer and lived a mile and a half above Waverly. In 1874, he moved on the Steenbergen farm, just north of Waverly. He was married to Mary Elizabeth Overman, February 19, 1895, the daughter of Henry W. Overman, of near Hillsboro. Her mother was Mary Warne. The children of this marriage are: Sarah, aged seven and Charles Edwin, aged five. Mr. Clough died November 3, 1900, of heart disease. He was a republican and a Knight of Pythias. He was a man of generous build and strong sympathies. He was a man who endeared himself to all who knew him, and was a good neighbor, and a true citizen. Daniel Lot Davis was born May 30, 1815, in Cardiganshire, Wales, and came to America 1838. His father was John Lot Davis. His mother died at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on the way from Wales. The family came to this country in 1841. He learned the blacksmith's trade and worked at Ohio, Mt. Vernon and Buckhorn furnaces, in Ohio, and Hopewell and Hunnewell, in Kentucky. In 1850, he locted on a farm, in Gallia county, Ohio. He resided there until 1863, when he removed to a farm at Waterloo, Gallia county, Ohio, and resided on it until 1890, when he removed to Cincinnati, and died there in April, 1900. He was married in 1850, in Gallia county, to Elizabeth Morgan, a native of Wales. His children were: David Davis, late Judge of the Hamilton county Court of Common Pleas; Mary A., wife of Charles A. Passmore, of Cincinnati; Richard, died at the age of twenty-seven; Lot born November 8, 1856; Hannah, wife of Fred G. Leimann, of Norwood, Ohio. He had two children to die in infancy. His wife died in 1898. . He was a republican and a member of the Welch Congregational church. Francis D'Hebecourt was born in Epernay, Province of Champagne, July 28, 1768. When old enough he was placed in a military school in Paris, to fit him for a command in the army. While at school he formed the acquaintance of Napoleon Bonaparte, who was a fellow-student. So close was their intimacy that, when both had graduated with honor and received their grade, Bonaparte as sub-lieutenant of artillery, and D'Hebecourt sub-lieutenant of infantry, they both determined to go to America, and to found a colony. When the two young men were ready to go, the family of Bonaparte persuaded him to remain in Paris, but D'Hebecourt came on, landing in Gallipolis, October 21, 1790, and for several years after, his life was one of constant hardship, and often great danger. He was appointed Captain of a Company, May 6, 1791. He was also appointed the first postmaster of Gallipolis, October 1, 1794, which he held until July 1, 1798. He was married on September 16, 1795, to Felicite Marret. In 1799, our subject was in business in Marietta, but not being successful, removed to New Orleans, in 1802, where he opened a school for young men. He remained here until his death, which occurred on November 22, 1832. PIONEER SKETCHES - 1261 Edward Deletombe was born in Barboursville, Virginia, (now West Virginia) January 14, 1821. His parents were Francis Tuissant Deletombe and Natalie Loyn Deletombe, natives of Lille, France, the former born in 1778 and the latter in 1784. They came to America in 1820, two years after their marriage, accompanied by Marie Pelagie Loyn and Auguste Loyn, sister and brother of Madame Natalie Loyn Deletombe, sailing from Havre for New Orleans, reaching there after a voyage of ninety days. On board ship was one C. W. J. Jerome who was in charge of a party of colonists from France who were to settle in the "French Grant." Discovering that Mons. Deletombe and his brother-in-law were possessed of means, Jerome induced them to join his colony in the El Dorado. On reaching the promised land they found that they had been deceived in the titles of land they had purchased, Mons. Deletombe moved on to Barboursville, Va. where his only child, Edward, subject of this sketch, was born.   In 1823, hearing from the French settlement in Gallipolis, the family moved there, where Mons. Deletombe laid the foundation of a substantial fortune for his son, in the face of many hardships and difficulties in the early years of that settlement, in great contrast to the condition of affluence they had enjoyed in France. Mons. Deletombe was engaged in mercantile business in Gallipolis, and died January 2, 1857 at the age of 73. His wife died July 18, 1856, aged 72. Edward Deletombe was married to Laura M. Steinmann of Lancaster, Ohio, May 14, 1850, and was the father of six children, three sons and three daughters, namely: Clara, Alice,. Frank, Charles, Edward and Laura. The sons are deceased; Edward having died in 1870, Frank in 1884 and Charles in. 1886. Besides his wife and three daughters who survived him, he also left a grandson, Edward, the only child of his eldest son Frank, who is now the only male representative of the family name.   He continued in the mercantile business established by his father until 1863, when he became President of the First National Bank of Gallipolis, at its organization, which position he held until his death, September 5, 1891. This bank had much to do with the interests and prosperity of the town and through its President became widely known. It was he who first suggested what is now known as the Hocking Valley railroad and through his enterprising efforts which met the interest and co-operation of his friend, Mr. William H. Langley, the road was built. Mr. Deletombe was a man of strong character with a marked individuality that left its impress on all he met. He was distinguished for his sterling qualities of mind and heart and was particularly noted for his friendships which were lasting. Once a friend, always a friend, was an inviolable principle with him and his generous manifestations of sympathy and interest in the welfare of his fellowmen, was through the abundant means he possessed, a source of grateful remembrance in which his name will ever be held. Yet he never did anything for display, and was in every way unostentatious, but was ever ready with open purse and willing heart to aid the needy and unfortunate and further every worthy enterprise.   During the Civil War, he rendered the Government valuable services through the means at his command, having furnished the money to equip the troops for what was known as "Hunter's Raid' in 1863, and at all times proving himself a friend to the soldiers and to his country. His life was in jeopardy in his own town, through upholding fearlessly the principles of a true Union man and a citizen of the Republic, and unarmed, he walked forth in his path of duty as much a hero as if on the battlefield. A friend once said of him, "Once he saw the truth and right, nothing could prevent him from declaring and doing it." His whole character was laid on the foundation of Christian principle. His charities were many, practical and effective. Those who knew him most intimately, loved and revered him most. He was a man of great reserve with strangers, yet with intense feeling and always had the strength and courage of his own convictions.   His memory was simply wonderful. Of dates, events and interesting anecdotes of the early days of Gallipolis, he was an encyclopedia of knowledge. He could enumerate upwards of 600 steam boats which had plied the waters of the Ohio from his childhood, the first one he remembered being the "Mechanic," when he joined the crowd that greeted Lafayette as the boat landed a moment   1262 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO.   at the wharf with her distinguished passenger in 1825( ?). Through his energy ability and constant attention to business, he became wealthy and was at one time the largest tax-payer in Gallia county, owning through inheritance valuable property that was in the family over three-quarters of a century; among it a piece on which stood a log-cabin where the exiled king, Louis Philippe lodged during his brief sojourn there. It is to be regretted that the last years years of this remarkable citizen was marked by great suffering from asthmatic troubles and in addition to the loss of his three sons, two of whom having died in early manhood but a few years preceding him, the fortune he had earned should be entirely and suddenly swept away through misplaced confidence in others. He left a wife and three daughters and one grandchild, son of the eldest son, Frank, to bear tribute to his memory, which will live as the memory of all that is noble and just will live, when stone and mortar have crumbled to dust.   Joseph Guilliame Devacht   was born at Inpres, Flanders, in 1763. After he obtained his education, he was employed as a scribe, and at the age of twenty-two he left Flanders and came to Paris, where, during the seven years which intervened between his leaving Flanders and his embarkation for America, he became a very ingenious silversmith. With the other French emigrants, he embarked in one of the ships which sailed for America, February 8, 1790, arriving at Alexandria, May 3, They remained there some time, and he formed such strong attachments to some of the people, and they to him, that he came very near staying there; he did not, however, but came to Gallipolis with the French colony in October. 1790. He opened a silversmith shop there, and his reputation soon became so great he had work from all parts of the country, receiving much delicate work from all the cities. So great was his skill in fixing watches, the people had a saying that in order to make a watch run well, it was only necessary for Devacht to look at it.   In March, 1798, Monster Devacht married a widow lady of fine education, whose name was Madam Jean Frances Parmentier. She was born in Paris, January 15, 1775. Her first husband died September 15, 1797, and she and our subject were married five months after, Robert Safford, Esquire, of Gallipolis, officiating. They had the following children: Joseph W., an old bachelor; Emile; William D.; Eliza, the wife of Doctor Felix Regnier; Rosina, the wife of Franklin Carel; Virginia, the wife of Julius Regnier; Josephine, the wife of Albert S. Oakes, and mother of the late Mrs. Josephine F. Buskirk of Portsmouth; Fanny, the wife of Captain Jefferson Donnally. Our subject died May 12, 1845, respected by all who knew him. His wife survived him a number of years, dying on January 17, 1856.   Joseph Drouillard   was born at Wellsburg, Virginia, September 1, 1796. He was the son of Pierre Drouillard, a pioneer and Indian trader. His father was a Frenchman and his mother a Kentuckian. There were three children older than Joseph, Drusilla, Hannah, and Simon. When our subject was four years of age, the family moved and settled on the Ohio side of the river, twenty-five miles below Gallipolis, where Millersport now stands, deriving its name from Miller, his grandfather. Here he lived on a farm until the War of 1812, when he went out as Fife Major of a regiment. He volunteered when sixteen years of age at Gallipolis under General Edward Tupper. He afterward received a pension for his service in the War of 1812. He came to Gallipolis after the War of 1812 and was employed in the Clerk's office of Gallia county in 1817. In 1835, he was appointed Clerk of the Common Pleas and Supreme Courts, in place of Francis LeClercq, re- signed. He held that office by appointment and election until 1858. He was elected Treasurer of the county in 1827 and served until 1844. He was Treasurer, Auditor and Recorder of the county, at a time when they were embodied in one office. He was Postmaster of Gallipolis from July 1, 1861 to December, 1865.   September 1, 1820 he was married to Sarah Bowen, daughter of Joel Bowen, at Marietta, Ohio. They had nine children: Anthony Wayne, deceased; Susan Miller married James Harper; Harriet married D. S. Ford, and deceased;   PIONEER SKETCHES - 1263   Simon Kenton; Christopher Columbus; Emily, widow of Doctor A. L. Norton; Joseph Jr.; James Pierre a graduate of West Point in 1861, who served as aid-de-camp to General Sykes in the first battle of the Rebellion at Bull's Run and afterwards with General Rosecrans in the Army of the Cumberland till the close of the war; and Marie. Our subject saw Daniel Boone at Millersport and remembered Simon Kenton, at Urbana, in 1834. He was a great fisherman and hunter. He was accustomed for years to make an annual deer hunt in Virginia. He used tobacco from 1840 and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a Mason for seventy years and a charter member of Morning Dawn Lodge of Gallipolis, Ohio. He died March 10, 1895. He was honored and esteemed by all who knew him.   Major Joseph L. Finley   There is an old brown head-stone in the center of the little village cemetery at West Union, which recites—"Joseph L. Finley was born February 20, 1753, and died May 23, 1839." Most of the people of West Union and of those who have visited the cemetery or passed by have observed the stone, but do not know the story of him who reposes beneath, but we propose now to tell it so that hereafter, so long as this History is preserved, the headstone will suggest its own history. Major Joseph L. Finley was born on the date already given, near Greensburg, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. He was a graduate of Princeton College in the class of 1775. He entered the Revolutionary War on the first day of April. 1776, as a Second Lieutenant in Captain Moore- head's Company. of Miles' Pennsylvania Ritle Regiment, organized under a resoplution of Congress on July 15, 1776. He was made a Captain on the 20th day of October, 1777, and his regiment was designated as the 13th Pennsylvania. He was transferred to the 8th Pennsylvania, July 1, 1778, and was made a Major July 20, 1780.   He served until November, 1783, more than two years after the surrender of Cornwallis, and he was seven years and seven months in service in defense of his country. He was in the battle of Long Island on the twenty-seventh of August, 1776, and that of White Plains the September following. He was at the battle of Brandywine in September, 1777; at Germantown, in October of the same year, and he was in the battle of Monmouth on that memorable hot Sunday, June 28, 1778. After that, he was sent with General Broadhead to the western part of Pennsylvania in his expedition against the Indians. He subsequently saw much hard fighting. He lost his left eye in the service and was otherwise much disabled. He emigrated to Adams county in 1815 and settled on Gift Ridge.   His wife was a daughter of Rev. Samuel Blair a noted Presbyterian minister in the early part of the history of that church in this country. She was a woman of much beauty of person and nobility of character, and their daughters were likewise well educated and handsome. She was an aunt of Francis P. Blair, the famous editor of the Globe of Washington, D. C. She was a sprightly woman, full of energy, and while small was considered very handsome. She had. the blackest of black eyes; she wrote poetry for the newspapers, and wrote several touching tributes to the memory of deceased friends. Major Finley and his wife Were both members of the Presbyterian church of West Union. He was a man of small stature, and in his old age his hair was silvery white. When he and his wife attended church at West Union, during the sermon he always sat on the pulpit steps, as he was somewhat deaf.   He had three daughters and two sons. His daughter, Hannah Finley. was the second wife of Colonel John Lodwick, and the mother of a numerous family. Among her sons were Captain John N., Joseph, Pressley and Lyle Lodwick, and among her daughters were Mrs. Nancy McCabe, Mrs. Eli Kinney and Mrs. J. Scott Peebles. She died in 1827, twelve years before her father. Another daughter, Mary Finley, married John Patterson, once United States Marshal of Ohio, and the father of Mrs. Benjamin F. Coates of Portsmouth, Ohio. She was the mother of seven children. She was married in 1818 and died in 1831. The Hon. Joseph P. Smith, late Secretary of the American Bureau of Republics, was her grandson and Mrs. Chandler J. Moulton of Lucasville her granddaughter.   1264 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN   Major Finley was pensioned under the law of 1818 and stricken from the rolls by the alarm act of 1820, because he had some little property. This action was disgraceful to the Country. He was restored about 1823, on the application of numerous friends. The testimonials in favor of his restoration would make the angels weep. All the commissions he held for his Revolutionary offices are on tile among his papers in the Pension office. He was one of the truest of patriots and the best of men, a model for all who should come after him.   Job Foster   was born in Westmoreland county, Virginia May 3, 1756. At the age of 19 he was married to Nancy Craycraft. There were six children of this marriage: John, William, Samuel, Mary, Margaret and Nancy.   On the 6th day of October, 1780, he enlisted for 18 months under Captain Simeon Carpenter in the 9th Va. Reg. commanded by Col. Richard Campbell. The regiment assembled and passed the winter at Winchester, Virginia. In March 1781, it proceeded to Fredericksburg; then to Petersburg, Chesterfield Court-house and then to Guilford county, North Carolina to join the army commanded by Gen. Green, two days after the battle of Guilford N. C. March 15, 1781, and was in pursuit of the enemy under Lord Cornwallis as far as Deepwater. At Camden, South Carolina, he was in the battle of Fort Hales April 15, 1781. His regiment was ordered to the high hills of the Santee in South Carolina where it remained three months. Then it was sent to Fort Thompson for a short time; then to Fort Ninety-six in South Carolina where it was engaged in a number of skirmishes. The regiment was discharged at Saulsbury, North Carolina, January 1, 1782.   Our subject removed to Kentucky a few years after it became a state and settled in Greenup county near old Enterprise furnace. Here his daughter Margaret married Benjamin Barklow. She died in 1827, leaving three sons, William Foster, Stout and Benjamin.   Benjamin Barklow removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, and engaged in the grocery business, located'on West Second street where the Second street school building now stands. He died in 1863. At that time he was conducting a grocery on the corner opposite the Second street school building.   Job Foster removed to Jackson county and bought a small farm on which he lived for many years with his son. He applied for a pension in 1819 and gave his age as 64 years. He died about 1856. His widow, Sarah Jane Jeffords, resides in Portsmouth. He was the ancestor of Mrs. Agnes Roe of the same city.   Robert Hamilton   was born November 28, 1795, at Connellsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. He was trained to the strictest belief and observances of the Westminster Confession, and it remained with him as the best part of himself all his life. He came to Adams county in 1817, in a flatboat. He landed at the mouth of Ohio Brush creek and walked up the creek to Brush creek furnace, where he engaged as clerk under Archibald Paul, who was then running the furnace. At that time the furnace only run on Sundays. On week days the forge ran to make hollow ware, riots, kettles, stoves, andirons and all kinds of castings. Then a ton of iron was 2,268 pounds and twenty-eight pounds allowed for sandage. The furnace at that time was run by water alone. When the water was low, they had to tramp a wheel to blow off, and the best they could do was to make two or three tons of iron a day.   On the twentieth of July, 1825, Mr. Hamilton was married to Nancy Ellison, daughter of John Ellison. She was a sister of the late William Ellison of Manchester. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. William Williamsbn, who signed his name to the certificate, V. D. M., (Verbi Dei Minister), which was the fashion at that time, which translated is "Of the Word of God, Minister." Robert Hamilton was a resident of Adams county until 1828. In that time he laid the foundation of a successful business career. He was diligent in business and of the highest integrity. At that time it was thought a furnace must run on Sundays or the entire charge would be ruined but Mr. Hamilton induced Mr. Paul to try the experiment of a change. It was found   OHIO PIONEER SKETCHES - 1265   the iron produced was just as good. Mr. Hamilton was the first furnaceman in the country who stopped his furnace on Sunday. The old Brush creek furnace was owned by the Ellisons and the Meanses.   In 1828, Robert Hamilton and Andrew Ellison, son of the Andrew Ellison who was captured by the Indians in 1793, under the name of Ellison & Hamilton, built Pine Grove furnace in Lawrence county. Robert Hamilton fired it on January 1, 1829. Four tons a day was its capacity at starting. After he located at Pine Grove Furnace, he became one of the founders of the church at Hanging Rock, and was a ruling elder hi it from its organization until his death. His first wife died June 23, 1838, and on February 20, 1839, he was married to Miss Rachel R. Peebles, a daughter of John Peebles and a sister of John G. Peebles of Portsmouth. Our subject's judgment was excellent and he was wonderfully, successful in business. He amassed a large fortune of which his widow was largely the almoner. He was respected and esteemed by all who knew him as a man who lived right up to his standard, both in business and in religion. He died September 11, 1856, in his sixty-first year, of a dysentery. His death was a great loss to the business community and to the church. It was almost a calamity, as his influence and methods were of incalculable benefit to those about him. His ashes repose in the beautiful Greenlawn Cemetery, at Portsmouth, Ohio.   His widow, Mrs. Rachel Hamilton, survived until August 27, 1883, when she died, aged eighty-seven years and one month. She was noted for her pious life and good deeds. Her gifts to charities were many, large and continuous, during her whole life, but her gifts by will were also many, large and praiseworthy. She stated in her will, she feared she had not given enough to charitable purposes and therefore she gave her executor, her brother, John G. Peebles, $10,000 for charitable objects to be bestowed in his discretion. Her memory is revered in the entire circle of her acquaintance. The Peebles-Hamilton Reading Rooms at Portsmouth, Ohio, are a monument to her memory.   Captain. James Harper   was born November 7, 1819 at Chillicothe, Ohio. His father was James Harper, a Philadelphia Quaker, and his mother was Julia Ann (Wilcox) Harper. She was the daughter of Robert Wilcox, a surgeon in the Revolutionary War and a native of Delaware. James Harper, Senior, came to Gallipolis, in 1825, to take charge of the Gallipolis Free Press, which he published there until 1831. Our subject worked for the Cincinnati Gazette, as a printer, four years. He then went to Louisville, Kentucky, and was there for twelve years on the Louisville Journal with George D. Prentice. On November 27, 1847, at Gallipolls, he was married to Miss Susan N. Drouillard, daughter of Joseph Drouillard, of Gallipolis. Mr. and Mrs. Harper made their home in Louisville, Kentucky, until 1849. 1n that year, he returned to Gallipolis and bought a half interest in the Gallipolis Journal, and thereafter resided in the town of Gallipolls until his death.   In June, 1850, he became sole owner of the Journal and continued it until December 23, 1863, when he sold out to R. L. Stewart. In November, 1871, he bought one-half interest and held it until 1873, when he sold out to William H. Nash, but after this sale to Mr. Nash, Mr. Harper remained connected with the Journal until 1889, when he retired from all business. During the war, when he was in control of the Journal, the paper was a straight out loyal Union paper. Mr. Harper was a member of the Military Committee of Gallia county, during the -entire war and was its chairman. He devoted his entire time to the public good in that period and to the furtherance of the Union cause. He organized a military company and became Captain and served about three months.   Mr. Harper was a whig while the Whig party lasted and then became a republican and never wavered in his allegiance to the party. He was honest and honorable to a fault and an agreeable companion. He had the most pleasing manners. He was a gentleman who stood on his dignity at all times, at the same time he knew how to make himself agreeable to all around him. He was a charter member of the Odd Fellow Lodge of Gallipolis and was burled by that Lodge. He died September 16, 1891. His widow survives.   1266 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO.   Captain Samuel Booth Hempstead   was born June 18, 1823, in Portsmouth, Ohio, the son of Dr. Giles S. B. Hempstead and Elizabeth Peebles, his wife. He grew up in the city of Portsmouth, and attended its school. He also attended school at Marietta, Ohio, and Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania. He became a steamboat clerk and master and followed that occupation for several years. He was one of the jolliest masters on the Ohio river, and was well acquainted with every one along the river from the mouth of the Kanawha to Cincinnati.   He was married March 12, 1846, to Mary Ann Hamilton, daughter of Robert Hamilton and Nancy Ellison, his wife. The following are his children: Anna Moore, born February 6, 1847; married Isaac Newton Hempstead, March 12, 1867; Margaret Jane, born October 9, 1851 married William P. Walker, November 22, 1877, died April 4, 1899; Elizabeth W., born November 30, 1853 died March 20, 1854. Mary Allen, born March 16, 1855; married Henry Ritter, December 29, 1877, died May 31, 1897. Giles Hamilton. born June 19, 1856; died September 8, 1856. Rosalie Hamilton, born August 3, 1859; married September 11, 1885, to J. P. Gill a. Harriet Hamilton, born October 13, 1861; married May 13, 1885, to A. Tupper Nye.   In the year 1870, Captain Hempstead retired from the river and engaged in the foundry business at Hanging Rock until the time of his death. He was not a member of any church. He was a republican in his politics. He was liked by all who knew him. He was a most pleasing conversationalist and companion and was the life and soul of any circle in which he was associated He died at Hanging Rock, December 12, 1873. His wife who was born September 6, 1826, died July 6, 1901.   Charles Henking   was born in the city and Canton of St. Gall, Switzerland, in 1808. His father was Charles Henking, a dry goods merchant in St. Gall and Verona, Italy. His mother's maiden name was Henrietta Hettenbach, daughter of Johann Hettenbach, an old merchant of St. Gall. Our subject received a complete academical education in Switzerland, and learned English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. He spent his early life in Switzerland and in 1taly. He was eighteen years of age when he came to the United States. He started for Mexico to establish an agency for the sale of cotton goods for his uncle Henry Henking. When he got to New York, he found that his first cargo was lost at sea enroute for Mexico. This discouraged him, he gave up the enterprise and sold his second cargo of manufactured cotton goods which had been made in Switzerland. In New York, he became an agent for a European Syndicate which owned a large body of Virginia land. He went to Union, Monroe county, Virginia, and was there several years. He remained there until the lands were sold. He spent two years in Virginia. He then spent some years after in Philadelphia and Cincinnati, as a book-keeper in different mercantile houses.   He went to New Orleans and while there became acquainted with C. A. M. Damarin. As a result of such acquaintance he went to Portsmouth, and into the house of C. A. M. Damarin as book-keeper. While so employed he became a partner and the firm was Damarin & Henking. On June 4, 1845, he attended the wedding of Abe Buskirk, to Miss Josephine Oakes at the old Devacht home in Gallipolis. He was Buskirk's groomsman and Miss Emily Creuzet was bridesmaid. They met for the first time at the wedding. It was a case of "love at first sight," and they were married the following 3rd of September, 1845. They went to housekeeping in Portsmouth on Second street in the brick residence lately owned by Dr. Lottridge, No. 80 West Second street. Up to this time Mr. Henking had beer, a gentleman of pleasure. He liked to make money, but spent it for the pleasures it empowered him to enjoy. After his marriage, he settled down securely to business, and was making money in Portsmouth, but his wife was dissatisfied and wanted to live at her former home.   In 1849, he moved to Gallipolis and formed a partnership in the banking business with Col. Peter Kinney, under the firm name of Charles Henking & Co. That continued for about two years, and in 1850, he went to Louisville and was in the banking business there about one year. In 1851, he returned to Gallipolis, engaged in the banking business there and continued it until 1862,   PIONEER SKETCHES - 1267   when he closed out, and the First National Bank of Gallipolis was formed. 1n 1852, he formed the firm of Henking, Cadot & Co., wholesale and retail grocery. The tirm was Charles Henking, Alfred Henking, a cousin, and John Julius Cadot. They carried on the business until 1857, when Mr. Cadot sold out to his partners who continued under the firm name of C. & A. Henking. In 1867, they sold out to Henking, Allemong & Co., Charles Henking retiring. Our subject then took a tour to Europe and was gone for two years. From his return until his death on March 8, 1875, he was a resident of Gallipolis, but spent a great deal of his time in Europe, Italy and Switzerland, and made numerous journeys there.   His wife died in 1861, and he never re-married. They had the following children: Charles, died in infancy; Florence Adile, born January 31, 1848; Charles William, born August 30, 1851; Henrietta Louise, born November 12, 1855; Joseph Louis., born August 25, 1858; Emily, born June 4, 1861, died in infancy; Florence, married Dr. W. C. H. Needham, October 4, 1870, he died January 12, 1882, and she resides in Gallipolis. His son, Charles W., is the cashier of the Ohio Valley Bank in Gallipolis, and one of the most energetic and enterprising of its citizens.   Mr. Henking was a whig and afterwards a republican. He was a social and affable gentleman of the old school. He was very energetic, had much executive ability and was always successful in business. As a young man he was of a lively disposition and fond of society. His principal business training was received from the late C. A. M. Damarin. He was a good liver, liberal in his views and expenditures. He was of great public spirit, always in favor of public improvements and encouraged them to the extent of his ability. He was one of those peculiar dispositions that whenever he made an acquaintance he made a friend.   William Ingalls.   William Ingalls was born in Glascow, Scotland. He was honorably connected; his mother's brother was titled Lord Lowe. He was a cabinet maker and when a young man he came to Edinburg and set up in business, in which he was successful. Here he became acquainted with Grizzel Davidson, whom he married and by whom he had twelve children. Five of them died before they left Scotland. Those who lived and came to maturity were Marion, born in Edinburg, John, born in Philadelphia, William and Grace, born in Bellview, Wood county, Virginia, and James, in Gallipolis, Ohio. They were Presbyterians and raised their family in that faith. They left Scotland about 1784, or 1785. They with a few other families settled in Bellville, Wood county, Virginia. Marion, the eldest child was nine years old when they left Scotland. In March 1792, she married Thomas Gilruth. The marriage was celebrated in Marietta. by old Esquire Tupper, father of General Tupper, who sustained a siege at Fort Meigs during the war of 1812. They had tive children, two of whom died in infancy. James, was born January 29, 1793, Mary, born January, 1797, and William, May 24, 1799, in the French Grant, Scioto county, Ohio.   Colonel Henry L. Kline   was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, on the 25th of October, 1813. His ancestors came from Strasburg, Germany, in 1673, and settled at Baltimore, Maryland. When he was ten years of age, his father's family consisted of his mother, five sons and two daughters. They settled in Ross county, Ohio, not far from Frankfort. They made their journey in wagons. In the following year, his father, who was a miller by trade, took charge of the mill near Chillicothe, and afterward bought the Swearingen place in Buckskin township, Ross county.   Henry L. was at one time Lieutenant Colonel of one of the Ohio Militia companies, hence his title.   In 1833, April 2, he was married to Mary E. McCreary, near Chillicothe, Ohio, granddaughter of Gen. James H. Menary. He died October 9, 1879.   He was a strong Presbyterian and an exemplary Christian. He was a whig when that party was in existence and afterwards a republican. His only son, Peter J. Kline, is a physician of Portsmouth, Ohio. He had one daughter, Rosa M. Kline, who lives at the old homestead.   1268 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO.   Francis Le Clercq   was born in the city of La Rochelle on the west coast of France, January 8, 1773. He received a fine education, and was an excellent penman. While at Gallipolis, Ohio, before he was married, he taught school. He made one or more trips to New Orleans. While he was teaching he had as pupils, two girls whom he afterwards married. In 1806, he married Eulalie Columbe Marrel in her 20th year. She died January 12, 1809, at the age of 23 years and 9 days. Nine months later, he married Marie Louise Cadot. After the death of his first wife, he was employed by M. Gervais to survey and lay out Burrsburg, near Haverhill. While surveying there he courted Mlle. Cadot. By his first wife, he had two children, by his second wife, one. For more than 25 years. he was Clerk of the Courts of Gallia county, and was postmaster at Gallipolis, nearly the same length of time. He carried on the business of merchandising and accumulated much money. In politics, he was a whig. In religion, he was nothing; but he was a Freemason. He died November 17, 1837, in his 64th year. He was buried beside his first wife, in the old cemetery at Gallipolis. When she died a willow switch was planted on her grave. In 1855, it was a tree four feet in circumference. He drew lot 91 in the French Grant, but never resided on it.   Adele Susanna Magnet   was born in Havre, France, March 26, 1787: was five years old when she arrived in Gallipolis, with her mother, after a tedious sea voyage of six months, made memorable to her by the fact that she lost her doll which she had dropped in the ocean. Her father had preceded them by coming with the first colonists. Mrs. Magnet was the eldest of a family of ten daughters, and survived all, being the last survivor of the early colonists. She was married in 1806, to Antoine Rene Magnet, and was the mother of five children, two sons and three daughters, the only one living being Mrs. Louisa Halliday, now in her eighty- third year. Mrs. Magnet was a remarkably well preserved woman, retaining all of her faculties with the exception of hearing, up to the time of her death, March 8, 1887, when within eighteen days of her one hundredth birthday. Possessed of excellent health, and up to her latest years occupying herself chiefly with patch-work, she displayed that perseverance, industry and cheerfulness so characteristic of the French nature and was always an important and tenderly cherished member of the family circle in which she lived, surrounded by several generations of her descendants, which now number eleven grandchildren, sixty-seven great-grandchildren, and forty-seven great-great-grandchildren. 1t is a notable fact that when she died Mrs. Magnet still had her full set of 32 teeth in perfect state of preservation, being proof of her strong constitution and excellent health. She was a woman most highly respected, of integrity and worth, qualities that have been inherited by her many descendants.   Claudius Romain Menager   was born in 1757. He came from Normandy to this country with the French emigrants, landing at Gallipolis, October 19, 1790. He was married on the 18th of November. 1790, to Mary Bobine, a French lady, who came over with distant relatives in the same boat with him. This was probably the first marriage at Gallipolis. His wife has a picture herein. Mr. Menager was fully six feet high, well developed, with power and capacity for enduring toil and labor far above his associates. He started the business of merchandising at Gallipolis, with a stock which he had brought with him, but having a very meager supply he began looking around for some source from which to replenish it. He soon learned that Benjamin 1ves Gilman, of Marietta, was wholesaling merchandise. He made the trip to Marietta, and purchased a stock on six months' credit, contracting to pay for the same in salt at three dollars per bushel, that being then the lowest wholesale price of that article.   His was at this time the only store in the settlement, and was looked upon as quite a mammoth affair and a great convenience. He lost no time in making up a pack to be taken to the Scioto Salt Works, thirty-seven miles distant, to exchange for salt. His goods were considered better than salt, and he found he could trade to good advantage. He took two pack-horses with him to pack the salt to Gallipolis, as in that day there was no other than a hunter's path. After the salt was thus packed to Gallipolis, it was put in a pirogue   PIONEER SKETCHES - 1269   and two hands pushed it to Marietta,. and paid his debt, then purchased again on the same terms. 1n this way, he kept up his store some years, and as emigrants came into the country a circulating medium of silver enabled the farmers and others to buy his goods and pay for them in cash. During his temporary absences, his wife attended to the store in a very efficient manner, and also to the house and other duties, and to their united efforts their after good fortune may, in a great measure, be attributed.   In addition to the store he entertained travelers and accommodated river men, and he opened a bake shop. In this manner by the joint industry of himself and wife, they soon became wealthy, and were considered by their neighbors as the "richest people in town." He was never known to stoop to a mean act, and -was considered by merchants in Philadelphia, and other places where he had commercial intercourse, as a man of sterling integrity, punctual to an hour in the fulfillment of his contracts. It might, in truth, be said he was one of nature's noblemen. He had five children: Mary G. Menager, born in Gallipolis, June 9, 1792, died June 30, 1868; Peter Menager, born in Gallipolis in 1793, and died in Kansas October 20, 1868; Edward S. Menager, born in Gallipolis, September, 1797, and died September 17, 1870; Lewis B. Menager, born in Gallipolis April, 1801, and died at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, June 16, 1875; Roman Menager, born in Gallipolis July 20, 1799, and died January 19, 1888.   Very few men encountered greater difficulties in preparing their families for future usefulness than Mr. C. R. Menager. He gave the main support to a teacher, by which his daughter was qualified for a clerkship in his store, and sent his boys away to school, where each received a good education. He died in Gallipolis, surrounded by his family, on January 17, 1835. His wife survived him a number of years, she being the last but three of the original French emigrants. She died at her daughters, Mrs. Newsom's, in Gallipolis, December 10, 1854.   General James H. Menary   was born near Mifflin, Pennsylvania, June 9, 1760. His ancestors were English, his father being in the city of London at the time of the great earthquake. In 1784, he was married to Miss Mary Blair, a native of Mifflin, Pennsylvania. She was born October 30, 1765 and died at the age of ninety-six years. He was in the Revolutionary War and his record will be found among the Revolutionary Soldiers under that title in this book. After the War of Independence, he with his family, went to Bourbon county, Kentucky. He disliked slavery very much, and in company with General Massie, and twelve other men, he came north, crossing the Ohio river near Manchester. They went to the north fork of Paint Creek, at the place now known as Frankfort, Ross county. This was in the winter of 1792 and 1793. While there, a three day's snow storm came upon them and the snow fell to the depth of eighteen inches. They were compelled to return to their homes after suffering much from cold, hunger and fatigue. One year later, they returned to the Ohio river and had a skirmish with the Indians and one of their number, Mr. Robinson, was fatally wounded and died a few hours afterwards. A Mr. Gilfillian was also wounded.   In the summer of 1796, Mr. Menary located land near the present city of Chillicothe. In December of that year, he brought his wife and children and settled on the bank of the Scioto, three miles below Chillicothe. He afterwards removed to Slate Mills and spent the remainder of his days there. He was a member of the Legislature and represented Ross county in the House in 1810, 1816 and 1817. In 1812, he erected a block-house. It was known as the "Menary Block-house" and was on the present site of the city of Bellefontaine. He died November 29, 1839.   He had a family of seven children: James born in Pennsylvania, December 15, 1786; Alexander born in Pennsylvania, June 20, 1789; Jane born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, August 14, 1792; Richard born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, March 14, 1795; Betsy born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, November 20, 1796.   Jane Menary in her nineteenth year united with the Presbyterian church in Chillicothe. She was married in her twentieth year, in 1812, to James H. McCreary, of Lancaster, Pa. They settled in Ross county, Ohio, on a tract of land adjoining that of her father. They had three children Rebecca born March   1270 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO.   30, 1813; James M. born November 11, 1814 and Mary E. born September 1, 1817. Jane McCreary died in her eightieth year, March 15, 1852, at the residence of her son-in-law, Henry L. Kline. Mary E. McCreary is the only one of her children now surviving. She is in her eighty-fourth year. She was married April 2, 1839 to Henry L. Kline of Pennsylvania. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in one of the Ohio Militia regiments. Their eldest son is P. J. Kline, M. D., a resident of Portsmouth.   Governor George Kilbon Nash,   Governor of Ohio, was born on August 14, 1842. His parents were Asa Nash and Electa Nash, nee Branch, both of whom came from Massachusetts, of old New England stock. The family consisted of three sons and two daughters, all of whom are deceased with the the exception of the subject of this sketch. Both his parents attained more than three score and ten.   Mr. Nash's early education was given full attention. He took a preparatory course at Hudson, Summit, Ohio and then entered Oberlin College. He enlisted in Company K, 150th 0. V. I., May 2, 1864 and served till August 23, 1864. The regiment garrisoned the forts about Washington D. C. during its service. He had typhoid fever in the service but recovered and during the winter of 1864 and spring of 1865, was employed as a school teacher. In April, 1865, he begun the reading of law, and in 1867 passed a successful examination and was admitted to the bar in Franklin county, Ohio. His progress in the legal profession was marked and many honors were achieved by him. In 1870, Mr. Nash was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Franklin county by a handsome majority, and filled that office for four years. So pronounced was the legal acumen and ability displayed by him, that in 1880 he was elected Attorney General of the State, a position to which he was re-elected and near the expiration of the second term he resigned to accept the appointment tendered by Governor Foster, the Judge of the Supreme Court Commission, in the spring of 1883. He served on the Commission until April, 1885. From the latter date he was for over a dozen years in practical retirement.   In November, 1899, he was elected Governor of Ohio by a large plurality of 49,000, and was re-elected in 1901. Governor Nash was married to Mrs. Deshler in 1882. His wife died in October, 1886. There was one daughter of this marriage but she died in childhood, in February, 1897. His two step-children now form his immediate family. Governor Nash is active in fraternal circles, being a member of the Masons, the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and in both public and private life he commands the confidence and warmest regards of all his fellow-men. He has made one of the ablest and most efficient of the long line of distinguished Governors of Ohio.   General Lewis Newsom   was born October 28, 1785, in Lewisburgh, Greenbrier county, Virginia. His father's name was William Newsom, who died December 27, 1812, at the age of fifty-two years. His mother was Margaret (Speece) Newsom, who died September 8, 1833, at the age of sixty-eight years. From 1803 to 1807, he served as an apprentice to the tanner's trade, in Lewisburgh, Va. On June 17, 1807, he located in Gallipolis, Ohio, and started on $500 capital, which he had borrowed from his master, James Withrow. He bought lots at the lower end of Second street, in Gallipolis and built a tannery. He married Gabrielle Menager on January 3, 1810. She was born June 9, 1792, the daughter of Claudius R. Menager and Mary Bobine, his wife. There is a picture of his wife's mother, Mary Bobine Menager in this work. She died June 30, 1868, and her father died January 17, 1835 and her mother died December 10, 1854, at the age of fifty-two. His children were: Junius Lewis, b. December 23, 1810, m. Elizabeth M. Gibbs, July 3, 1833, d. April 2, 1886; Mary, b. June 29, 1813, m. Darius Maxon, March 10, 1831, d. May 1, 1886. She was the mother of Mrs. W. H. Nash, widow of Gen. William- H. Nash; Rosina, b. December 1, 1815, m. Augustus LeClercq, November 3, 1831, d. December 18, 1876, in Jacksonville, Florida. She was the mother of Mrs. H. N. Ford, of Gallipolis; James Withrow, b. March 5, 1820, m. Margaret Johnson, November 12, 1844, d. August 6, 1852; Caroline, b. December 11, 1823, m. W. C. Miller, August 15, 1844, d. Februry 23, 1881;     PIONEER SKETCHES - 1271   Claudius Romaine, b. February 10, 1838, m. Augustus Hale, December 2, 1845, d. June 20, 1849.   Gen. Newsom lacked the advantages of an early education but he appreciated the opportunities about him more than most of his fellow citizens. He was closely identified with all enterprises for the good of the town of Gallipolis. He was one of the promoters of the Gallipolis Academy and a trustee from the time it was organized until his death. He occupied the office of Justice of the Peace many years. He was a man of most excellent judgment. Gen. Lafayette visited Gallipolis in 1825 and he was the principal one of the reception committee and escorted Lafayette about the village of Gallipolis. He owes his title to the State Militia in which organization he took a great interest. He was noted for his abstinence from the use of tobacco and liquors in any form. In his political affiliations, he was first a whig and then a republican. In his religious views he was inclined to the doctrine of the Presbyterian church. While not a member, he attended its services every Sunday. He died March 17, 1876, in his eighty-sixth year, and his death at that advanced age was a great loss to the community in which he dwelt.   Colonel Robert Safford,   a son of Dr. Chellis Safford and Lydia Warner, his wife, of Harwich, Mass., was born July 7, 1768, at Harwich, Mass. He married Catharine Cameron of Gallipolis in 1793. They had four sons and three daughters: John, Jonas, Polly, Lydia, Robert, Nancy and Chellis. In the spring of 1797, he rode horseback to Vermont and visited his mother, whom he had left twelve years before. In 1796 he was Justice of the Peace, and held that office until 1803. He was one of the first trustees of Gallipolis township. He was also one of the first Associated Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county under the constitution of 1802, and as such in the absence of Judge Thompson, of Chillicothe he pronounced the sentence of death on the first and only man ever, hanged in the county, Jim Lane.   He was appointed Associate Ridge of Gallia county on April 6, 1803, reappointed for a second term on February 15, 1810; on February 18, 1816, he was re-appointed for another term. He was appointed to the fourth term, January 22, 1823. He was a member of the Ninth General Assembly, which met December 3, 1810, adjourned January 3, 1811, at Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio. He was in the State Senate representing Gallia and Meigs counties in the Twenty-First General Assembly, which sat from December 1, 1828 until February 12, 1829. He also represented the same counties in the Twenty- Ninth General Assembly, which sat from December 6, 1830 to March 14, 1831. He also sat in the Thirtieth General Assembly as Senator from the same counties. He was a Colonel in the War of 1812. He was Recorder of Gallia county, Ohio. He surveyed the line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.   It was related that when the party first landed at Gallipolis in October, 1790, to secure the grounds for the expected French, Col. Safford seized a tomahawk and rushed up the bank and cut down a sapling, in order that in after years he might have the reputation and honor of having felled the first tree on the site of Gallipolis. He was a companion of Daniel Boone, and had a tomahawk and axes presented to him by Boone. Daniel Boone at one time visited Gallia county and trapped two years on Raccoon creek with Col. Safford. He had two traps, a large one and a smaller one. The large trap, a wolf or bear trap, was called "Old Isaac," and was presented to Col. Safford, and is now in. the possession of his descendants. Col. Robert Safford was, in form, an Apollo, in strength a Hercules. Firm without stubbornness, brave without boast, his deportment insured confidence and was a source of safety to all who trusted him. His step was light, lithe, and elastic; his stride lengthy; his powers of endurance were wonderful in their speed and almost incredible in their endurance. He died July 26, 1863, and was buried in the cemetery at Cemetery Church, about two miles on the Portsmouth Road from Gallipolis.   Thornton William Sargent   was born in Pike county, Ohio, March 19, 1806. His father was Eli Sargent. His mother was Elizabeth Wood, whose father was a native of Kentucky.   1272 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO   Eli Sargent had four sons and four daughters: Lydia, married Conrad Newsom; Mary, married Jacob Sears; Harriet, married Jacob Sears, a cousin to the other Jacob Sears; Elizabeth, married Andrew Guinn; Henry Wood Sargent married Elizabeth Berry; Snowden, married Catharine Berry, and one son died in infancy. Eli Sargent built the first mill in Pike county, the remains of the dam of which can be seen to this day from the N. & W. trains in passing the bend of the Scioto river, near Gregg's Hill. The dam was made of stone. The mill was built prior to 1816, and was a heavy frame structure. The father, Eli Sargent, sold the mill to his son, Thornton, and the latter sold it to Newton Moore. After the sale of the mill to Moore, Thornton W. Sargent bought a farm four miles below Piketon.   He married Elizabeth Mustard, daughter of Samuel Mustard, in 1830. They had six children: Samuel Mustard, the eldest, became a physician in Cleveland, Ohio; Elizabeth Catharine, married George' C. Rittenour, of Richmonddale, Ross county, Ohio, September 1, 1857, where she now resides; Lydia Ann married James Sargent. Mary Jane died unmarried at the age of fifty- eight, Harriet E. is single and resides on the old homestead, Henry Wood Sargent died unmarried in 1893, at the age of fifty-one years.   Thornton W. Sargent was a farmer from 1836 until his death. His wife died October 9, 1867. He was a whig during the time of the Whig party, and afterwards a republican. He died September 24, 1893. At that date, he owned about 2,250 acres of land, all in the Scioto Valley. He was very liberal to his family and to others. He was one of the public spirited citizens of Pike county, and a tower of strength in the community in which he lived. He subscribed five thousand dollars to the building of the Scioto Valley railroad, now the Norfolk & Western.   Dr. Antoine Francois Saugrain   was born in Paris. He was highly educated, active and courageous. He loved adventure and disregarded hardship. He made one trip to Spanish America prior to 1788. At the latter date he came to America, .went from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, started down the river, and was captured by the Indians, but escaped and reached where is now Louisville, Ky. He went up the Ohio river to Pittsburg on an open boat and thence rode to Philadelphia on horseback. He came back with the French Emigrants and landed at Gallipolis. He there married Mlle. Rosalie G. Michau, one of the party who came over with him in the same ship. He made barometers, aerometers and phosphorus lights. He only remained a short time at Gallipolis, and then went to Lexington, Ky., where he resided six years. Then he went to St. Louis, Mo., where he remained the remainder of his life. Mrs. Elise Marie Kennerly was his daughter.   Joseph Prentiss Shaw   was born in New York city. July 1, 1818. His father William Shaw was a native of Massachusetts and his mother Eliza Dewolf of Novia Scotia. They were Joined in marriage at Rye, New York, March 29, 1808. From this marriage there were seven children, Joseph P. being the third. His paternal grandfather Stephen Shaw was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His mother's people were sea captains. Most of his boyhood was passed in New York city, but he was sent as a student to Mr. Fairchild's school in New Jersey. During the Civil War he was engaged in the Provost Marshal's office. He was always an ardent republican, always a Presbyterian and for many years an Elder in the First Presbyterian church of Ironton, Ohio. He came to Ohio when quite a young man and was engaged In a bank in Columbus, afterwards holding the same position in a Cleveland bank. He came to Ironton, Ohio, in 1850, where for many years he owned a drug store, afterwards holding the position of United States Commissioner.   He married Mary D. Perkins, at Marietta, in 1849. Of this marriage there was one son, Douglas, now living in Philadelphia. His wife died in 1853 at Marietta. He married Rebecca Hibbard at her home in New Hampshire in May 1856. Of this marriage there were five children, four of whom am still living: Mary A., wife of J. C. Adair of Columbus, Ohio, and Nellie of the same place, Lila and Frank H. of Ironton, Ohio, He died peacefully   PIONEER SKETCHES - 1273   at is home on the evening of May 14, 1900 after a short and sudden illness, at the age of eighty-one years, ten months and thirteen days. So ended a long, honorable, upright Chirstian life. He is buried at Woodlawn cemetery of Ironton, Ohio.   Abel Sherman   was a pioneer of Ohio. In 1794 with a party of adventurers, he had located near the mouth of Olive creek near Marietta. There were seven or eight men and boys in the garrison and they called it Fort Fry. Abel Sherman had with him his wife and two sons. Early in June, 1794, a party of three Indians visited the settlement for the purpose of depredation. One way of bringing the whites into their power was to take possession of their cows, which, during the summer ranged in the woods and found an abundant supply of food from the pea-vine and buffalo clover. The Indians would secure the cows, knowing that their owners would come after them and then they would attempt to waylay them and kill or capture them without danger to themselves. One of the cows taken by this party of Indians belonged to Abel Sherman, then a stout man of nearly 60 years. Against the advice of the other seven of the garrison he determined to go alone and search for his cow.   With his gun on his shoulder he went along the margin of the river about four miles above the neighboring garrison of Waterford thinking they might have fallen in company with the cattle of that settlement. When he reached Waterford he could learn nothing of them. It was now nearing the close of day and his friends urged him to stay all night, thinking it was more than probable that the Indians were watching the path and were the cause of the absence of the cows. Sherman would not listen to this advice but insisted on going home on that evening. He had approached within a quarter of a mile of his home when he found near the mouth of the run, since called Sherman's Run, a patch of ripe May apples. The sight of the fruit tempted him to stop and gather a quantity for the women and children. He had nearly filled the bosom of his hunting shirt when rising up from his stooping posture he saw an 1ndian within a few steps of him. Instantly he seized his gun, which lie had rested beside a tree, raised it to his shoulder, and fired at the Indian in nearly the same instant in which the Indian tired at him. Sherman fell dead with a bullet through his heart, while his own shot broke his adversary's arm near the shoulder. The report of the two discharges was distinctly heard at the little garrison, and his eldest son, Ezra, a man grown, and a tine woodsman instantly said that one of those shots was from his father's gun, a large musket. He at once seized his arms and rushed out in search of his father, although strongly opposed by the men in the garrison, who were aware of the danger. knowing that the Indians never ventured into the settlements alone. Fearless of consequences, in a few minutes, Ezra was on the ground where his father fell and found him dead and his scalp taken off. The Indians had immediately fled, knowing or fearing that pursuit would be made from the garrison.   Some of the particulars of this story were ascertained after the treaty of Greenville, from an Indian who was in the party at the time and came in to trade with the whites. He said the Indians had determined not to tire on a single man, but to make him a prisoner, or else to wait until more than one came out after their cows, but their discovery by Sherman and his prompt action led them to kill him in their own defense. The next day a party of men from the fort at Waterford went up and buried Sherman where he fell. A tombstone was erected with a scalped head rudely carved on it, and that marks the spot where he fell.   Abel Sherman's daughter, Phebe married John Jeffords. He had a son, Ezra Jeffords who married Elizabeth Van Bibber. His daughter Sarah Jane Jeffords married Stout Barklow of Portsmouth.   Charles William Simmons   was born January 18, 1811, in Virginia, and was the third child and only son of John Simmons of Virginia, Captain of Virginia Volunteers in the war of 1812, wounded under General Jackson at New Orleans, and who died at Guyandotte, Virginia, enroute home, His wife, Sarah McCoy, who was born in Ire-   1274 - PIONEER RFCORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO.   land and came to Virginia when seventeen, brought her three children to meet her husband at Guyandotte. After his death and burial there she traded her Virginia possessions for three or four hundred acres of Ohio river bottom land above South Point in Lawrence county afterward known as the Judge Ben Johnson farm, and settled there near three brothers she had not seen since they separated in Ireland. She died at the homestead at the age of eighty-four, in August, 1863, while her grandson, John, was absent in the army, and sleeps alongside of her only boy "Charley," as Mr. Simmons was called by everybody, but his wife and mother. He spent most of his early manhood on the river, making many trips to New Orleans.   At the age of twenty-six he married Phoebe Shattuck, sixteen, who mothered his fourteen children of whom tive boys and two girls are still living, John being the eldest. At the age of eighty-two, she is a well preserved, well informed and beautiful old grandmother. She makes her home with her youngest child, Alice, the wife of Honorable Robert M. Switzer, of Gallipolis, Ohio. She was the daughter of Simeon Shattuck born at Windham, Vermont, in 1788. who was the son of Nathaniel Shattuck and Mary Burns, who were married while residents of Massachusetts but began their married life at Windham. Her mother's maiden name was Martha (Patsy) Hull also born at Windham, Conn., September 25, 1788, the third daughter and tenth child of John and Martha Hull, who were relatives of General and Commodore Hull.   Simeon Shattuck and Martha Hull were married at Windham, Conn., where four children were born. Having to sacritice his farm to pay a debt incurred by indorsing a friend, he brought his family to Ohio. Phoebe, the wife of Charles W. Simmons was the first Ohio child born to them, March 26, 1820, at the Forks of Indian Guyan in Lawrence county, just above what is now the village of Scott Town.   Charles W. Simmons, when not satisfactorily and popularly filling the office of Sheriff, or Treasurer of his county, was township Trustee or Treasurer, and always a school director, and for many years kept the postoffice at his house, which his son Jack named "Willow Wood." It was a neighborhood convenience, and gave his house full of children the advantage of endless reading matter sent to the office as samples in pursuit of subscribers. There were no emoluments attached to this small office, but he was a cherished and trusted neighborhood father, and the people came to him not only for advice about business and trading and sowing and reaping, but the helpless for employment or charity, the ignorant to learn how to vote, and the mothers to know what to name their children, when the vocabulary of names had outrun their biblical list as was not infrequently the case on Symmes' creek in those strenuous days. Mr. Simmons died October 14, 1874, of paralysis, at the homestead, and was buried in the quaint old graveyard near Marion.   Elizabeth Grey Smith,   daughter of Thomas and Mary Bonifield Grey, was born in Maryland, east of Washington, February 2, 1790, and was one of a family of nine children, five sons and four daughters. During President Jefferson's administration, she and her brother Elias were accustomed to carry flowers and strawberries from their home to the Executive Mansion to Mrs. Jefferson. Some time after this, her parents moved to Pennsylvania, where she married Jacob Smith, and they, with their parents, moved to Kentucky, where the three families all lived near each other. Mr. and Mrs. Grey died in Greenup county, Kentucky, Mrs. Grey being one hundred and fourteen years of age at the time of her death, in November, 1886. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Smith continued to live on Tygart creek, in the neighborhood where their parents had lived, until the death of Jacob Smith, August 24, 1835. Two sons and eight daughters were born to them, of whom Mrs. Cynthia Smith Littlejohn was born April 22, 1824 near Liberty, Greenup county. Mrs. Smith died in Jackson county, Ohio, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Serrot, in the year 1880, at the age of ninety years.   General Samuel Russell Thomas   was born at South Point, Lawrence county, Ohio, April 27, 1840. His father was James Thomas, born in Ireland, April 21, 1795. He married Nancy Callahan   GENERAL SAMUEL R. THOMAS   PIONEER SKETCHES - 1275   December 25, 1838 and died February 21, 1843. Nancy Callahan was born near Romeney, Virginia, July 11, 1812 and died September, 1871. Our subject attended the schools in his vicinity and was educated at Marietta. At the age of seventeen, he went into the employment of the Keystone Iron Company as a junior clerk and was there until he was twenty-one.   He was made 1st Lieutenant of Company E, 27th 0. V. I. August 6, 1861 and was promoted to Captain of Company H, of the same regiment, March 31, 1862 and was made Lieutenant Colonel of the 63d United States Colored troops, October.2, 1863. He was promoted to Colonel of the 64th regiment, U. S. C. Infantry, November 21, 1863 and he was brevetted Brigadier General, to rank from March 13, 1865, "for faithful and meritorious services." His muster out as Colonel of the 64th U. S. C. Infantry, January 25, 1866 (when the regiment was mustered out) was suspended until January 8, 1867. He was appointed Assistant Commissioner of Bnreau of Refugees Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands for the state of Mississippi, May 31, 1865 and relieved April 10, 1866. He was appointed Chief Inspector and A. A. Adjutant-General on the staff of Major General 0. 0. Howard, May 23, 1866, and remained in this position until mustered out of service January 8, 1867. He served five and a half years continuously and was always ready for duty.   After the war, he went into the employment of General Mendall Churchill, Captain of his Company, in the 27th 0. V. I., and who was afterwards made Colonel of the same regiment. In 1872, he removed to Columbus, and was connected with the rolling mills and blast furnaces there. As a resident of Columbus, he was a member of the City Council, and was a banker and manufacturer. He became the leading spirit in developing the coal and iron properties of the Hocking Valley. He was one of the originators and constructors of the Nickel Plate road He held the same relation to the Ohio Central Railroad from To to Charleston, West Virginia the roads from Columbus to Toledo and from Gallipolis, Springfield and Pomeroy, the Lake Erie & Western, and several other lines. At one time, he accepted the presidency of the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia, the Knoxville & Ohio and the Memphis & Charleston railroads. He afterwards became president of the Cincinnati Southern, and was elected a director in the Richmond & Danville, the Georgia Central and the Richmond & West Point terminal.   While connected with these, he became the leading contractor in building the Croton aqueduct for New York City. Later he was a director in the Northern Pacific railway, and in connection with this company he built the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic railway and became its president. He was also president of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railway, the American Straw Board Company, the United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Company and the Columbus Gas Light and Heating Company, and was a director in the following: Texas Pacific railway, Knoxville & Ohio railway, New York & New England railway, Southern railway, Pacitic Mail Steamship Company, National Linseed Oil Company, the Chase National Bank and in the Manhattan and Metropolitan Trust Company. He was a member of the New York Stock Exchange. He located in New York city in 1881, and engaged in banking there. He was a member of the Union League, Lotus, New York Yacht, New York Athletic, Riding, and the Adirondack League Clubs, the Southern Society, the Loyal Legion, the G. A. R., the Ohio Society and the Ardsley Casino. In May, 1901, his health, previously excellent, gave way and since then he has been contined to his residence at Ardsley-on-the-Hudson. He has traveled over all his own country and has been in Europe many times. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, and formerly attended Dr. Hall's church on Fifth Avenue, New York city.   He was married September 18, 1872, to Miss Ann Augusta Porter. She was born May 2, 1847, at Zanesville, Ohio. His children are: Edward R., a resident of New York and president of the Seventh National Bank; Harold E., of Chicago, and Eleanor N., at home with her parents. He was a gentleman of wonderful ability in organizing and carrying on business and of limitless energy. He overtaxed his strength and had to quit. In Southern Ohio, no citizen was more highly esteemed and particularly among the former comrades of the Civil War. Since the above was written, General Thomas died at his home near New York, January 11, 1903.   1276 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO.   Christian Yingling   was born in West Pennsylvania, April 24, 1788, and came to Ohio with his father and settled below Hanging Rock, in 1798 on what is known as the Yingling homestead. He was the son of Andrew Yingling, a Revolutionary soldier, whose record will be found under that head. He was married October 18. 1804, to Martha Lee, born in Patrick county, Virginia, August 2, 1795. She was the daughter of Rev. John Lee, the first pastor of Storm's Creek Baptist church, the first Baptist church in that vicinity. Rev. Lee belonged to the famiy of which General Robert E Lee was a member. She died May 8, 1877. By this marriage twelve children were born: Levina, Peninah, John L., Lucinda, William L., Harriet, Andrew, Daniel, James H., (a sketch of whom is found herein) Martha Christian and Robert H. One of these children has been dead over ninety-six years.   Mr. Yingling was a Sergeant in the War of 1812, in Captain John Kelley's Company, 1st Regiment Ohio Militia and served from July 28, to August 11, 1813. His brother John was a Sergeant in John Russell's Company, Independent Regiment, Ohio Militia, War of 1812, from July 28th, to September 19, 1813. Our subject was a farmer all his life and lived and died on the farm originally owned by him. He died September 12, 1856. Mr. Yingling was industrious, frugal and economical and managed to pay for a quarter section of land which he had located by raising stock and with other products of the farm. He made a few trips to Fredericksburg, Virginia, with droves of hogs. He never had a desire for public office, but preferred the privacy of home to public honors. He was one of the foremost men in establishing schools, good roads and church edifices and was always ready to help in any commendable enterprise that would be for the benefit of the community. He was honest, upright and respected. He was a special friend to boys and old men and had many altercations in his defense of them.   THE GOV. LUCAS MANSION.—FRONT OR SOUTH VIEW. (See Page 1216.)