1000 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION Milstead attended the rural schools and assisted his father on the farm until sixteen years and six months old. Then, fired with patriotic enthusiasm, he enlisted in Company E, Fifth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the First Brigade, Second Division, Eighth Army Corps of West Virginia, which was under command of Gen. Rutherford B. Hayes.. With his regiment he took part in many of the engagements of the Civil war, including among others those .at Lynchburg, Virginia; Fallston ; Kernstown ; Berryville; Winchester ; Fisher's Hill; and Cedar Creek. He continued with his regiment in all of its marches and campaigns until the close of the conflict, receiving his honorable discharge at Wheeling, Virginia, July 25, 1865. Returning home, Mr. Milstead continued his studies, which had been so rudely interrupted, attending first a select school, and later Marshall. College, in Huntington, West Virginia. Going then to New Orleans, he was at first pilot on the Mississippi and Red rivers, and later, having command of the steamers Clifford and Hamilton in the Red River trade. Returning north in 1874, Mr. Milstead accepted a position with the Eastern Kentucky Railroad as station agent at Willard, Kentucky, where he ,also served as the first postmaster of the place. Five years later, in 1879, he came to Portsmouth, and the following twenty-three years was employed as a traveling salesman. He was afterwards paymaster for the Portsmouth Brick Company for a year, but since 1908 has been actively and successfully engaged in the insurance business. Captain Milstead married, September 22, 1872, Ruhama Irwin, who was born, July 21, 1847, at Mount Vernon Furnace, Lawrence County, Ohio, where she acquired her elementary- education, which was completed in the city schools of Portsmouth, while she was boarding at the home of Mr. W. S. McColm. Mrs. Milstead's father, James C. Irwin, was born at Chillicothe, Ohio,, May 20, 1817, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. In early manhood he began working at. Mount Vernon Furnace, where he was employed as' storekeeper a number of years. Going then, to the, Howard' Furnace, in which he had purchased an interest, he was manager' of the plant for some time. Selling- out his interests, Mr. Irwin purchased a farm near Burlington, Ohio, and afterliving upon it for awhile sold out, and purchased an interest in the Buffalo Furnace, in Kentucky, thinking it solvent. It proved' otherwise, however, and his entire wealth was 'swept away. Mr. Irwin then accepted a position with the, Eastern Kentucky Railway Company as station agent at Hopewell, where he also served as postmaster, and in addition had charge of the company's store. On April 11, 1896, he resigned his position, and thereafter lived retired until his death, in ROCK IRON REGION - 1001 Grayson„ Kentucky„ June 29, 1908. His body was buried beside that of his "wife in the rural cemetery at Hopewell, Kentucky. Mr; Irwin married, March 29, 1846, Sarah Wilson, daughter of John Wilson. She died April 11, 1896, the mother of eleven children, as follows: Ruhama B., Sarah,E., (who died in infancy at Mt. Vernon Furnace, Ohio), William; Thomas O., Demar, Alexander, James C., John W., Ban C., Henry F., and Harry C. Mr. Irwin was a member of the Presbyterian Church, but there being no church of that denomination in Hopewell he attended the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Mrs. Irwin was a devoted member. He was a republican in politics, and while living in Mount Vernon was there postmaster. Captain and Mrs. Milstead are the parents of six children, namely Charles Curtis, Sadie, James, Clara, Pearl, and Jessie. One Child; Cread Fulton, died in infancy. Charles C. Milstead married Luella Smalley, and they have five children, Ruth, Aletha, Lucille, Charles and James. Sadie, wife of R. J. Williams, has four children, Ruhama, John, Cread and Dorothy. James died at the age of thirty-three years. Clara married John S. Hughes, and they have one son, Cread Hughes. Captain and Mrs. Milstead are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as are all' of their children with the exception of their son Charles, who-, with his family, belongs to All Saints Episcopal Church. Politically the captain is a staunch republican, and has served as a member of the 'election board. He was elected mayor of Portsmouth in 1901, and filled the position so efficiently that he was re-elected to the same high office in 1903, his service in that capacity covering a period of four years and eight months. He is commander of Bailey Post No. 164, Grand Army of the Republic, and served as department inspector under Generals A. M. Warner and I. F. Mack. WILLIAM TIPTON. One of the farms which contribute to the well ordered prosperity of Nile Township, Scioto County, is the place of William. Tipton, situated on the Buena Vista road, ten miles from Portsmouth. Mr. Tipton is well known and stands high in the citizenship of this locality,. Where he was formerly a merchant and sawmill man; and in whatever direction his enterprise has turned he has been prospered: William Tipton was born on the Big Sandy River, near Louisa, Kentucky, and represents the sturdy stock of the Carolina mountain people, with whom liberty has been a keynote of their existence. His grandfather, Jackson Tipton, was, according to all accounts, a native of. Yancey County, North Carolina, where he owned a farm. Subsequently he 'moved to Wise County, Virginia, but three years later re-. 1002 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION turned to his native county. During the struggle between the states he remained loyal to the Union, and met his death at the hands of guerrillas, largely because of his stand in favor of the North. His widow survived several years, and spent her last days in Vance County, North Carolina. Among her children were Wiley, John, Sally, Iby, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Alfred and Samuel. Wiley C. Tipton, father of William, was born in Yancey County, North Carolina, August 7, 1835, and spent his early life on the home farm. After the death of his father he came over into Kentucky, and after about six months spent on Big Mud Creek, continued on to Ohio. He soon returned to Kentucky and enlisted in Company B of the Thirty-ninth Kentucky Mounted Infantry, with which command he went to the front, and was with it in all its marches, campaigns and battles until hostilities ceased. He served until after the war, and received his honorable discharge in September, 1865. He had married, February 17, 1856, Nancy Vance, who was born in Yancey County, North Carolina, July 22, 1840. Both her father, David Vance, and her grandfather, Robert Vance, were natives of the same county. Robert Vance, who spent his last years ;in Wise County, Virginia, married Mary Googe, who as a widow returned to North Carolina and died there. David Vance was reared on a farm, and subsequently moved to Wise County, Virginia, where he bought a farm in a valley between the mountains, far away from any railway or town and five miles, from his nearest neighbor. He had the instincts of the real pioneers and frontiersman, and was an expert hunter and fisherman and supplied his table with the wild game which was everywhere in great abundance. He also kept a flock of sheep and raised flax, so that the item of clothing was well provided for. His wife had unusual skill in the entire range of housewifely duties, and especially in the carding, spinning and weaving of wool and flax, and dressed her family in homespun. Her daughter, the mother of William Tipton, became, proficient in the same arts, and during her early married life made and cut the cloth for the garments of all her household. During the war, while her husband was in the army, she and her children lived near Louisa, Kentucky.. After the war Wiley Tipton brought his, family to Nile Township in Moto County, where he rented a arm and made his home until his death on December 3, 1892. His widow is still living, with home in Portsmouth. Her, eight children that grew up were Sarah, David, John, William, Bettie, Frances, Carmelia and Alfred. William Tipton acquired his education in the rural schools and was trained both for farming and for business largely by practice. In 1893 he engaged in the mercantile business at Pond Run,' where-he kept a HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1003 stock of general merchandise, and also put up a steam sawmill and carried on the 'manufacture of lumber for ten years. On leaving this business, which gave him the foundation of his success, he bought the firm he now owns and occupies, and has since been numbered among the prosperous farmers of Nile Township. He has his acres well cultivated, and improved with excellent buildings. On October 8, 1893, Mr. Tipton. married Wilhelmina Weghorst. She was born in Scioto County, a daughter of Charles and Sarah (Patton) :Weghorst, her father being, a native of Germany and her mother of Scotch-Irish stock. Mr. Tipton and wife have seven children : Alvina, Wiley, Oscar, Henry, David, John and Ada. Mr. and Mrs. Tipton are both members of the Methodist Episcopal. Church, though she was reared a. Presbyterian. JOHN T. SULLIVAN. In his attractive home in the Village of Buena Vista, Scioto County, Mr. Sullivan is now living retired, after many years .of earnest and productive service as one of the world's workers. Though he has been a resident of the United States from childhood and has here had a varied and somewhat eventful career, he claims the fair old Emerald Isle as the place of his nativity and on both the paternal and maternal sides is a scion of fine old Irish lineage, the history of the respective families in Ireland tracing back fdr many generations and to the time when "the memory of man runneth not to the contrary." County Waterford, Ireland, figures as the birthplace not only of John T. Sullivan, but also as that of his parents, John and Julia (Whalen') Sullivan, Whose marriage was there solemnized. He whose name initiates this paragraph was born in the Town of Dungarvan, situated near the mouth of the Colliga River, in. Waterford, Ireland, and he was five. years of age at. the time of the family immigration to America, about the year 1847. The father and his brother Edward were the only representatives of their generation to perpetuate the family name in' the United States, Edward having lived in the New England States for a number of years and thereafter having been engaged in the coal-mining business in West Virginia and finally having come to Portsmouth, Ohio, where the passed the remainder of his life. He left two sons, one of whom likewise bore the name of Edward. John Sullivan was reared and educated in his native county and about: the year 1847 he immigrated with his wife and their two children to the United States, the voyage having been made in a sailing vessel and the family having landed in the City -of Boston, Massachusetts. After having been employed for a time in connection with railroad operations in New England, he went to White Sulphur Springs, 1004 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION the. historic old resort in Greenbriar County, West Virginia, where at that time extensive improvements were being made upon the .property. He was there employed until after the outbreak of the Civil war, and he gained much enmity: and persecution because he refused to enter the Confederate service. He was arrested and made the object of other indignities, including even threats against his life, but with his family he finally contrived to escape and make his way to Portsmouth, Ohio, some of the members of his family having been unable to make provision for personal comfort, as most of, their effects had to be abandoned in their flight and the refugees having appeared in Ohio with one or more of their number barefooted. The entire resources of the head of the family were represented in $3,000, all in Confederate money, the value of which was but little if anything, after he had brought it to the North. Mr.' Sullivan entered the employ of the Buena Vista Freestone Company, and with this corporation he continued .for a number of years. Late in life he went to the City of Pittsburgh, Penn-: sylvania, to make his home with one Of his daughters, and there .he died at the patriarchal age of ninety-four years, his cherished and devoted wife having passed away in middle life. Of the five children, John T., of, this review, was the. firstborn ; James is a successful real-estate dealer in New York City ; Edward is a resident of the City of Cincinnati; and William has been :for, more than thirty years in the employ of a leading wholesale drygoods house in the City' of New York; the other two children were daughters. John T. Sullivan attended school in a somewhat irregular way in the earlier years after the immigration of the family to America, and in 1857, when about fifteen years of age he entered the employ of Howard Daniels, a skilled landscape gardener who was at the time engaged in laying out the grounds of the White Sulphur Springs resort in West Virginia. After this, work was' Completed Mr. Sullivan accompanied his employer to the City of Baltimore, Maryland, where Mr. Daniels had obtained the contract for the laying out of the Druid Hill Park. On this enterprise he was engaged at the inception of the Civil war, and Mr. Sullivan well recalls the turbulence and excitement that was in evidence in that city- when the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment fought its way through the- city. Within a short time thereafter both he and his employer entered the government service, in the building of. forts. They constructed the fort on Federal Hill, Baltimore, and also assisted in the erection of the fort built by the United States ;Government on the estate of General Stewart, a distinguished Confederate officer. They were thus in the employ of the Government until 'the close of the war, and Mr. Sullivan then came to Scioto County to HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1005 join his parents, who had established their home at Buena Vista. He soon entered the employ of William J. Flagg, who was the owner of 10,000 acres of land in this section of the state, and he continued as a valued .employe of Mr. Flagg until the latter's death, after which he remained in the service of the heirs to the estate, and when Ernest Flagg became the sole owner of the valuable property Mr. Sullivan was retained as one of his trusted and valued assistants in the work and management of the properties for. a period of thirty-four years. He then met, with an accident that incapacitated him for further duty and in recognition of his faithful and effective services and sterling character Mr. Flag, provided him with a generous pension or annuity, and he has since lived retired in his attractive home at Buena Vista, where he 'is surrounded by a host of loyal and valued friends, his genial and buoyant nature making him a delightful companion and his home being a center of generous hospitality, with naught of conventionality or ostentation. Mr. Sullivan is a. democrat in his political allegiance, and he and his wife are earnest communicants of the Catholic Church, in which they hold membership in the parish of St. Ann's Church, at Buena Vista. In the year 1867 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Sullivan to Miss Mary E. Young, daughter of William and Minerva Young, of Scioto County, and she was summoned to the life eternal in 1.900, being survived by six children, namely : Edward L., Morris, John J., William, Annie G., and Millie T. For his second wife Mr. Sullivan wedded Mrs. Sarah Dunn, a widow who was born in Scioto County and who presides most graciously over their pleasant home. JOHN EDWARDS WILLIAMS. Vice president and general manager the Shoe Company, John Edwards -Williams is prominently identified with one of the more important business enterprises of Portsmouth, and as a manufacturer materially assists in advancing the industrial interests of Scioto County. A son of Evan D. Williams, lie was born, June 9, 1863, in the City of Portsmouth, of Welsh ancestry. His paternal grandfather, David Williams was born in 1790 in Wales, and there grew to ,manhood. Following the ancestral occupation, he was there engaged in tilling the soil until 1837, when, accompanied by his family, he came to America, being six weeks crossing the ocean in a sailing vessel, landing in New York the evening of July 3d. From that city he proceeded by rail to Harrisburg, then the railway terminus, thence with teams across the mountains to Pittsburgh, and then down. the Ohio to Galliopolis, Ohio. After farming for ten years in Gallia County, lie moved to Madison Township, Jackson County, 1006 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION where he made partial payment on a tract of land. There were no railroads in that locality for many years, and money was scarce, all kinds of farm produce selling at a minimum price. With the assistance of his sons he cleared the land, placing it under a good state of cultivation, and was there a resident until his death, in 1874, at the age of four score and four years. His wife also lived to a ripe old age. Their means were limited when they came to this country, but thrift, indoors and out, brought good results, and they acquired a sufficient amount of this world's goods to enable them to spend the later years of their lives in comfort. The eldest son in a family of six children, Evan D. Williams was a lad of ten years when he left his native land, his birth having occurred in Wales, February 12, 1827. Landing in New York City with his parents the very night before the glorious Fourth of July, just at the commencement of the celebration of the nation's birthday, he was much impressed by the inspiring music and the fireworks, and thought America a great country, indeed. Reared to habits of industry, he assisted in the work of the farm as a boy, remaining at home until seventeen years old. Going then to Pittsburgh, he secured work in a rolling mill, and his earnings, though scant, helped to pay for his father's farm. Coming from there to Portsmouth, Ohio, he Was for a quarter of a century a roller in the. Gaylord Rolling Mill, but was subsequently engaged in the grocery business at the corner of Third and Waller streets until his death, February 27, 1890. He married Catherine Edwards, who was born in Wales. Her father, Rev. John Edwards, was born and reared in Wales, and as a young man was employed in the iron works, becoming a roller in a rolling mill. Coming to America in 1835, he worked for several years in the mills at Pittsburgh, from there coming to Portsmouth, Ohio, where he found work in a rolling mill. Converted in his youth, he united with the Calvinistic Presbyterian Church, and after coming to this country was ordained as a minister of that denomination. He died in Portsmouth, as did his wife. Evan D. Williams and his wife reared three children, namely : John Edwards, William Grant, and Charles. They were both brought up in the- religious faith of the Calvinistic Presbyterians, and after coming to Portsmouth he joined the Second Presbyterian Church, in which he became an active worker. At the age of fifteen years, having completed the course of study in the public schools, John Edwards Williams entered the employ of W. S. Pattin, with whom he remained until 1882, when he became 'a laster in the factory of the Drew-Selby Company. Leaving that position in 1888, Mr. Williams, forming a partnership With twenty-five HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1007 other expert shoe workers, began manufacturing baby shoes to sell to the local trade. At the end of a year he bought out the interests of his associates, and in 1889, with his two brothers, organized the Excelsior Shoe Company, with a capital of $10,000, and started in business with twenty-five employes. The venture proved successful from the start, the business having had a steady and healthful growth from the first, the capitalization of the company at the present writing, in 1914, being $900,000. Mr. Williams is likewise connected with many other enterprises of note, being a director of the First National Bank ; president of the Mitchell Manufacturing Company ; a director of the Standard Supply Company ; and has an interest in the iron business at Ironton. He has served as president of the .Board of Education of Portsmouth, having held that position when the beautiful modern high school building was erected, and he was likewise one of the committee of the board of directors that erected the First National Bank Building. Mr. Williams married, May 8, 1890, Sarah M. Davies, who was born in Ironton, Ohio, a daughter of James J. and Ann Davies. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Williams, namely : Evan Charles, James Davies, John Ellsworth, David Charles, and Thomas Edwards. :Mr. and Mrs. Williams are members of the Second Presbyterian Church, and for fifteen years Mr. Williams has had charge of the Bible class,- consisting of from seventy-five to one hundred pupils each. Sunday. Fraternally Mr. Williams is a member of Aurora Lodge No. 48, Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons ; of Mount Vernon Chapter No. 23, Royal Arch Masons ; of Solomon Council No. 79, Royal and Select Masters ; of Cavalry Commandery No. 13, Knights Templar ; and of Valley of Cincinnati Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Scottish Rite. In 1900 Mr. Williams bought from Thomas S. Gaylord, his father's former employer, the palatial home which he and his family now occupy, it being one of the most attractive residences in Portsmouth. DAVID L. CORIELL. This is a name that has been identified with Scioto County for the greater part of a century, and it has become honored and respected through long years of successive industry, business integrity and Christian: and moral character. Few families have been longer established and none have borne their part in community affairs with greater credit to themselves and with more practical usefulness to the community than the Coriells. David L. Coriell represents the third generation, and lives on a farm that was the birthplace of his father before him, and was first occupied by his grandfather   1008 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION many years ago. It is a splendid estate of two hundred acres, situated five miles north of Sciotoville on rural free delivery route No. 1. David L. Coriell was born on that farm December 29, 1887, a son of Alfred and Mary (Lemon)• Coriell. Both parents now live in New Boston, Ohio. Alfred Coriell was born on the farm, and was a son of Ira Coriell, who was born in New York State in 1812, and on coming to Ohio located the land now occupied by his descendants. Ira Coriell married Rena White, who was born in Harrison Township of Scioto County, of an even older family than the Coriells. Alfred Coriell and wife were the parents of. six children : Serena is the wife of Zenas C. Hayward, of Harrison Township ; Hayes, who lives in Harrison Township, first married Ethel Haskins, who died eight months later, and then married Anna Endicott ; Walter S. married Virginia Mansfield, and has two sons; Harman H. is deceased; Laura is the wife of Vinton Merwine, of Harrison Township. David L. Coriell grew up on the home farm, was educated in the common schools, and entered farming as a life vocation. He has gone into, agriculture as other men take up merchandising, or the professions, and his success is already secure, and with promise of a long and useful career before him. Mr. Coriell is a republican in politics, and he and his family are members of the Church of Christ. On December 25, 1910, he married Ruby Barrett, daughter of George Barrett. They have two children : Lulu, born October 9, 1911; and Estel, born January 9, 1914. WILLIAM S. EAKMAN, M. D. Lawrence County claims as one of its able and popular physicians and surgeons and representative citizens Doctor Eakman, who is engaged in the practice of his 'profession in the City of Ironton, his prestige being the result of long and faithful service in his exacting vocation, of which he is a prominent representative in Lawrence County, besides which interest attaches to his career by reason of his being a native son of the. Buckeye State and a scion of families founded within the borders of this commonwealth many years ago. Doctor Eakman was born on the old homestead farm of his father, in Walnut Township, Gallia County, Ohio, on the 14th of March, 1853, the place of his birth having been not far distant from the Village of Waterloo, in the adjoining county of Lawrence. The doctor is a son of Seth and Sarah J. (McPeck) Eakman, the former of whom died in 1855 and the latter in 1868, so that the doctor was doubly orphaned when he was a lad of but fifteen years. Seth Eakman came to Gallia County from Zanesville, Muskingum County, and he obtained a tract of land and initiated the development and cultivation of the farm which HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1009 continued to be his home until his death, his lineage having been traced back to sterling Scotch-Irish stock. Mrs. Sarah J. Eakman was born near Zanesville, this state, in 1813, a representative of one of the honored pioneer families, of that section of Ohio, and she passed the closing years of her life in Gallia County, having survived her husband by more than a decade. They became the parents of eight children, whose names are here entered in respective order of birth : David, Hiram, Susan J., Joseph, Uriah, Cyrus, William S. and Elizabeth. Doctor Eakman attended the public schools of Gallia County until he was about sixteen years of age, and, he continued to reside on the old homestead farm with his mother until her death, after which he found a home with his brother Hiram until 1872. He attended the village school of Waterloo, Lawrence County, for one year and for six months was a student in a select school in that village. That he made good use of his educational advantages is shown by the fact that for the ensuing five years he was a successful and popular teacher, principally in the. district schools in this section of the state. In preparation for the work of his chosen profession Doctor Eakman entered Miami Medical College, in the City of Cincinnati, and in this excellent institution he was graduated on the 11th of March, 1881, with the well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. His initial service in the practice of his profession was at Pedro, Lawrence County, where he remained six years and built up a substantial practice. In 1887 he removed to. the City of Ironton, where he has long controlled a large and representative practice, of general order, his success having .been specially notable in the treatment of those afflicted with typhoid fever. The doctor has continued a close student along professional lines and has thus kept in touch with the advances made in both medical and surgical science. He is actively identified with the Lawrence County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. The doctor served five years as city physician of Ironton and for an equal period as county physician, besides which he has given effective service as a member of the Board of United States Pension Examiners for Lawrence County. He is a Knight Templar Mason, besides being affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, his political allegiance is given to the democratic party and both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Fully a quarter of a century ago Doctor Eakman gave valuable service as a member of the Ironton Board of Education, and within recent years he has been again called to this important office, of which he is the incumbent at the present time. Doctor Eakman is known and. honored as one of the liberal and 1010 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION progressive citizens of Ironton, where he is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and president of the Star Building & Loan Association, which has done much to further the development and upbuilding of the city. He is the owner of three city lots and two houses in Ironton, including his own attractive residence, on Hepler Street, near the corner of Third Street. The doctor also has a well improved farm of seventy acres, in Fayette Township, Lawrence County. On the 12th of March, 1882, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Eakman to Miss Nannie S. Davis, daughter of William Davis, of Walton, Cass County, Indiana. No children have been born of this union. CARY A. WALDEN. A native son of Scioto County, Mr. Walden has here found ample opportunity for successful endeavor along normal lines of enterprise, and is now a prosperous and progressive merchant of Sciotoville, the while there is definite voucher for his secure hold upon the confidence and esteem of the local public in the fact that he is serving as township clerk of Porter Township. Mr. Walden was born on the homestead farm of his parents, in Harrison Township, this county, and the date of his nativity was August 18, 1873. He is a son of Charles H. and Harriet (Colgrove) Walden, the former of whom is still a resident of Porter Township, and the latter of whom is deceased. He whose name introduces this review acquired his early education in the public schools of his native county and as a mere boy he began to learn the lesson of personal responsibility and practical application. He has been a resident of Sciotoville since 1884 and from a clerical position in a local mercantile establishment he has won advancement to the status of a representative business man and loyal and progressive citizen of his native county. He is conducting a well-appointed grocery store at Sciotoville and controls a substantial trade, based alike upon fair and effective service and upon his personal popularity in the community. In politics Mr. Walden may be designated as a progressive republican, and he has been influential in public affairs of a local order. He served as township clerk of Porter Township from 1901 to 1911 and after a brief interregnum was again called to this office in 1913, his continued incumbency being virtually a matter that will be regulated by his own desires, for there is no lack of popular appreciation of his efficient services. Mr. Walden is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, and both he and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village, he being a trustee and formerly assistant superintendent of its Sunday school. In the year 1901 Mr. Walden wedded Miss Ella Ellesser, and they HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1011 have four children : Pauline, Ruth, Louis and Harriet, the eldest daughter being in first year of high school.. THEODORE Q. SHUMP. Prominently identified with the real-estate business in his native county, Mr. Shump has developed a large and important enterprise in this important field of business and is one of the representative citizens of the thriving little City of Sciotoville, Scioto County. Mr. Shump was born on the fine old homestead farm near Harrison Mills, in Harrison Township, Scioto County, on the 13th of May, 1856, a date that indicates that the family name has been identified with the history of this county for more than half a century. Mr. Shump is a scion of staunch German lineage and is a son of John C. and Isabelle (Marting) Shump, both of whom were born and reared in the same district of the great Empire of Germany, where their marriage was solemnized. Soon after this important event in their lives the parents severed the ties that bound them to home and fatherland and set forth for America, where they felt assured of wider opportunities for the achieving of success and independence through personal endeavor. They passed the first eight years in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then came to Ohio and numbered themselves among the early settlers of Harrison Township, Scioto County, where they passed the residue of their long and earnest lives,. which were filled with industry and kindly deeds so that at all times they held inviolable place in popular esteem. In immigrating with his young wife to the United States John C. Shump was not fortified by financial resources or fortuitous influences, but he had a splendid endowment of energy and ambition and by his industry and good management accumulated a substantial competency. In Harrison Township he developed a valuable farm of 220 acres and he was one of the most honored and influential citizens of that section of Scioto County at the time of his death, his devoted wife surviving him only several hours and they were both buried on the same day. Of the eight children five are living : William served four years as a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war and remained at the post of duty until the close of the great conflict, his home now being in Sciotoville, where he is living virtually retired ; Henry, who resides on his farm, near Cincinnati, likewise was a soldier in the Civil war, in which he held the office of first lietitenant in an Ohio regiment ; Lewis is a retired farmer and resides in the City of Portsmouth, the county seat of Scioto County ; Mary is the wife of James Weeks, a farmer of Harrison Township, this county; and Theodore Q. is the youngest of the number. Vol. II-24 1012 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION Under the invigorating discipline of the home farm Theodore Q. Shump passed the days of his childhood and youth, and he duly availed himself of the advantages of the public schools of the locality and period. He continued to be associated in the work and management of the home farm until he had attained to his legal majority, when he engaged in the mercantile business in the City of Portsmouth, giving special attention to the retail grocery trade. Through his well ordered efforts in this field of enterprise he gained substantial success and after a period of ten years he made a radical change in his vocation by assuming a clerical position in the offices of the Clair Iron Works, of Portsmouth. He was thus engaged four years, at the expiration of which he established himself in the retail furniture business in the same city. He built up a substantial and prosperous business and at the end of twelve years sold the same under advantageous conditions, in 1906, the year that marked his removal to the attractive and progressive little City of Sciotoville, where he has since given his attention to the real-estate business, in the handling of both village and farm property. His wide and varied experience has made him especially alert and enterprising in all that he undertakes and he is one of the successful and representative exponents of the real-estate business in his native county, where his course has been so ordered as to give him unqualified popular confidence and esteem. Mr. Shump is the owner of a number of desirable lots in the Farney Addition to Sciotoville and he has also other important realty interests, including the building in which his office is maintained. His success represents the result of his own ability and efforts and he has well upheld the prestige of a name long honored in Scioto County. On the 8th of June, 1882, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Shump to Miss Serena F. Farney, who was born and reared in Sciotoville, and they have two children—Winifred, who is the wife of William Bunette, of Sciotoville ; and Florence, who is the wife of Dr. John W. Hutchins, of this place. GEORGE RUSS. The radical change in the political administration of national affairs, incidental to the election of 1912, brought about in the spring of the year 1914 the induction of Mr. Russ into the office of postmaster of Sciotoville, Scioto County, his appointment to this position having been made on the 24th of April, 1914, and his handling of the affairs of the office having fully justified his preferment and also his firm entrenchment in popular confidence and good will of the people of the county in which he was born and reared. Mr. Russ was born on a farm near Sciotoville, and is a son of Burk- HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1013 hardt and Philomena (Hurth) Russ, both of whom were born and reared in Germany, but the marriage of whom was solemnized after they came to the United States. The father became a substantial farmer and sterling citizen of Scioto County and here both he and his wife continued to reside until their death. Of their six children five are living—Joseph, Margaret, William, John and George. The boyhood and youth of the present postmaster of Sciotoville were compassed by the benignant influences of the home farm and he made good use of the advantages afforded him in the public schools of his native county. Mr. Russ continued to be closely and effectively identified with the work and management of the old homestead farm until he had attained to the age of thirty-three years, and in 1910 he engaged in the livery business in Sciotoville, where he built up the prosperous enterprise which he still owns and conducts, with an excellent equipment and effective service. He gives a general supervision to his livery business since assuming the office of postmaster, his candidacy for this position having received a representative support on the part of the citizens of the village. As a citizen Mr. Russ is thoroughly loyal and public-spirited, but he is unostentatious in all things and has the sterling worth that begets objective good will and confidence. He is the owner of his livery stable property and interested in other real estate in his home village, where, it is needless to say, he is a stalwart in the camp of the democratic party. He is a communicant of the Catholic Church, in which he holds membership in a parish in the City of Portsmouth, there being no church of this denomination in Sciotoville. At Niagara Falls, New York, on the 7th of September, 1910, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Russ to Miss Lena Geist, and they have three children—Phyllis, Marion and Gretchen. HON. J. W. NIXON. The chief executive of the thriving and prosperous City of Wellston, Hon. J. W. Nixon, since his election in the fall of 1911 has given the people of his community a business-like administration which has been featured and characterized by numerous municipal reforms and civic innovations. He had been a resident of Wellston since 1901, and had become well known to the people as an energetic and enterprising young man, firm and self-reliant in supporting what he believed to be the right. This was the kind of blood needed in the mayoralty chair, and his services during his administration have fully vindicated the trust and confidence reposed in him by his fellow-citizens. Mayor Nixon was born September 19, 1878, in Athens County, Ohio, a son of Richard and Matilda (Daugherty) Nixon. There were three children in the family : William, Edith and John W., of whom the 1014 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION last named is the only one now living. Mayor Nixon's father was a farmer and the youth was brought up in an agricultural atmosphere, securing his education in the district schools of Athens County. He had no desire for a career as a tiller of the soil, however, and perfected himself in a business course, so that October 1, 1901, he came to Wellston, Ohio, to accept a position as bookkeeper for the Wellston Steel and Iron Company. His rise, both in the business world and in the field of civic activity has been rapid, and few men enjoy in greater degree the respect and esteem of their fellowmen. Fraternally, Mayor Nixon is affiliated with the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and the Royal Arcanum. Mrs. Nixon was formerly Miss Ethel Leach, and is a daughter of John P. and Jane Leach, who have been residents of Jackson County for many years. Mayor and Mrs. Nixon have two children: Helen E., born October 8, 1907 ; and Winifred E., born August 9, 1909. J. C. H. COBB. One of the old and honored residents of Jackson County, who, at the age of eighty-two years, was carrying on the management of his extensive agricultural and coal mining interests with the clear mind and active step of a man of many years his junior, was John C. H. Cobb, of Wellston, who before and after the Civil war was engaged in various mining and other ventures in the Hanging Rock Iron Region. Mr. Cobb was a native of the Buckeye State, born January 26, 1830, a son of Nathan and Lucy (Haskell) Cobb. He was reared on the home farm and received his early education in the public school, following which he enrolled as a student at the Ohio State University. Being duly graduated therefrom, he entered upon his career as a farmer and mine operator, and in 1859 founded A family of his own when he was married to Miss Lucy J. Bundy, daughter of Hon. H. S. Bundy. Three years later, in 1862, Mr. Cobb joined the Union Army in the defense of his country, becoming a member of Company C, One Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of which company he was subsequently elected lieutenant. During his term of service, he was three times captured by the enemy, as was also his wife, but on each occasion both managed to escape. After a brave, capable and faithful service, Mr. Cobb received his honorable discharge at Richmond, Virginia, in July, 1865. His military career completed, Mr. Cobb returned to his home and resumed his activities which had been interrupted by the demands of war. For many years he was associated as a partner with Hon. H. S. Bundy in various business enterprises, particularly in the operation of HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1015 the Latrobe Furnace. He was also importantly interested in various other furnaces in Jackson County, and was carrying on agricultural pursuits in this county and operated the Meadow Run Coal Mine, with his headquarters at Wellston for many years. Mr. Cobb did much toward building up this thriving Jackson County city and was a leading factor in some of the most beneficial movements the city has known. He was a Master Mason, and a member of Orphans' Friend Lodge No. 275, Free and Accepted Masons, at Wilkesville, Ohio, but later transferred his membership to Wellston, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Cobb were the parents of eight children : L. Jennie, Caroline M., Edward H., Lena C., Nellie B. and Howard B., all of whom survive ; Minnie, who died in November, 1864; and John, who died in March, 1875. Mr. Cobb was a strong temperance worker and devoted time and money to that cause, and was always public spirited in all movements tending to the advancement of his county's interest and welfare. Mr. Cobb died July 14, 1915, at his old home in Wellston, his wife having passed away on January 14, 1908. JOSEPH HENRY BROWNE. To those activities which constitute a special claim of this region of Ohio to the name Hanging Rock Iron Region, probably no one group of men Has contributed more than that comprising Joseph Henry Browne of Wellston and his forebears and relatives. Some of the most important iron and coal interests in this locality are under the control and management of Mr. Browne. A native of the Hanging Rock Iron Region he was born at Ironton, Ohio, June 23, 1875. His father is Henry Richardson Browne, who was born May 3, 1845, at Birmingham, Pennsylvania, but when quite young moved with the family to Catlettsburg, Kentucky. Henry R. Browne was the son of Joseph R. and Margaret (Richardson) Browne. Joseph R. Browne was born October 24, 1814, at Ballymagawn, County Derry, Ireland. In 1838 he was initiated into the Masonic Order. In 1841 he came to America, settling at Pittsburg and becoming interested in the iron industry. He was interested in military affairs, and was mustered in as lieutenant colonel of the Fourteenth Kentucky Infantry in 1861, at the time the regiment was organized. His death occurred May 9, 1862. His wife, Margaret Richardson, was born November 20, 1815, at Magherafelt, County Derry, Ireland!, and died July 26, 18.48. Both she and her husband were members of the Presbyterian Church. At Catlettsburg, Kentucky, Henry Richardson Browne entered school and was still in the midst of his education when the Civil war 1016 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION broke out. At the age of sixteen he entered the army, joining Company El of the Tenth Kentucky Cavalry, but subsequently joined the infantry and was commissioned captain of Company A, Thirty-ninth Kentucky Infantry, at the age of nineteen. He was mustered out after the close of the war September 15, 1865. Then locating at Ironton, Ohio, he was subsequently for almost half a century closely identified with the industrial and civic affairs of this community. He became associated with various furnace interests and retained those interests in the Hanging Rock Iron Region for many years. For three terms, altogether nine years, he served as county auditor of Lawrence County. On leaving that office he became associated with The Bird Iron Company, and later as receiver for the company wound up its affairs. He finally retired from business in 1914. He is a member of the Episcopal Church and a republican. On July 26, 1869, he married Isabelle Peters. The Peters family has likewise had .a long and honorable record in Southern Ohio. Isabelle Peters, who was the oldest daughter of Isaac and Adaline (Duduit) Peters, was born March 5, 1847, in the French Grant of Scioto County; Ohio. She spent her earlier school years at Ironton, attending the public schools there, and finished her education in the Ohio Wesleyan College at Delaware. She is an active member of the Congregational Church. Her father, Isaac Peters, who was also interested in the iron business, was born in the French Grant of Scioto County, Ohio, October 23, 1824. His wife, Adaline Duduit, came from Uniontown, Pennsylvania. It was in Ironton that Joseph Henry Browne spent the years of his early youth and gained his education in the. public schools. At the age of seventeen he left school and his first regular employment was as clerk in the Ironton Hotel. Less than a year later he became associated with the Eagle Iron & Steel -Company as bookkeeper, and remained' with that corporation until March, 1898. At that date he identified himself with Wellston, representing the interests which Col. H. A.. Marting at that time hod in the furnaces at this place. A little later Colonel Marting sold his interests in the furnaces to Joseph C. Clutts and Henry S. Willard and Mr. Browne was continued as auditor of the reorganized company until 1905. In that year he engaged in the contracting and supply business for himself, and took a number of contracts for paving streets and constructing sewers at Xenia and Wellston, Ohio. This was his primary business for four years, at the end of which time he sold his interests in the contracting 'company and became associated with the Spring Valley Iron Company in the mining and shipping of Lake Superior Iron Ore. He took the position of secretary-treasurer in this HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1017 organization. At the same time he formed and incorporated the Browne Coal Company of which he became secretary-treasurer and general manager. His extensive business interests now include the Spring Valley Iron Company, the Browne Coal Company, and the furniture store conducted by Hotchkiss Company, and he is a director in both the former organizations. When the City of 'Wellston changed its form of city government in 1902, creating a new post of city auditor, Mr. Browne was offered the office, and as it was a position which he could administer competently in connection with his other interests, he accepted, and designed and put in force the various forms of accounting employed by the local city government. In 1908 he resigned this municipal office. Such had been his record that the state auditor's office requested him to become associated with that department, but on account of his extensive local business affairs he was unable to accept the honor. Mr. Browne is an active republican. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic Order, being a member of the Blue Lodge and Commandery at Ironton, the Syrian Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cincinnati, of the Royal Arch Chapter at Wellston, having withdrawn from the chapter at Ironton in order to become one of the charter members of the Wellston Chapter. He also belongs to the Wellston Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in which he was one of the charter members. His membership also includes the Masonic Club and the Elks Club. His church is the Presbyterian. On June 18, 1902, at. Wellston Mr. Browne married Susan McGhee, daughter of James M. and Susan (Phillips) McGhee. Her great-grandfather, John McGhee, came from old Virginia and was among the first settlers of Ohio. .His oldest son, William McGhee, started in business as a merchant, but in 1854 he and three others built the Latrobe Furnace in Jackson County. He sold his interest in this furnace in 1861, and bought the Iron Valley Furnace in the same county, changing the name from Iron Valley to Lincoln. He continued to operate this furnace until his death in 1871. During the Civil war the Iron Valley or Lincoln Furnace made a special grade of charcoal pig iron for Charles Kapp & Company of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, for use in making cannons. James M. McGhee, the oldest son of William McGhee, after completing his education became assistant to his father in the management of the Lincoln Furnace, and after the older McGhee's death continued its operation until 1884, when the furnace was abandoned and wrecked. Mrs. Browne's maternal great-grandfather was Thomas Phillips, who came to Ohio from. Maryland, and was also a pioneer. His son, 1018 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION Henry Phillips, was born in Maryland, and became interested in the old Iron Valley Furnace in Jackson County and the Cincinnati Furnace in Vinton County. In the early history of Jackson County Mr. Phillips dealt extensively in cattle, raising and buying large herds, and driving them through to Pittsburg and Baltimore in the absence of any better means of transportation, since there were no railroads at the time. ELIJAH T. DANDO, M. D. Among the professional men of Jackson County one who has already acquired a large degree of success and a substantial reputation as a physician and surgeon is Doctor Dando, of Wellston. Doctor Dando has spent most of his life in. Jackson County, and largely through his own efforts has raised himself to a position among the professional men of the county. Born in the County of Durham, England, August 7, 1876, he was ten years of age when he came to the United States with his parents, who located in the vicinity of Coalton, Jackson County, Ohio. His parents were born and reared in England and his father was a coal miner. Doctor Dando had restricted opportunities as a boy, and out of the energies of his own mind and ambition created his present successful career. He completed his literary education in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and then for three years taught school in Jackson County before securing the means necessary for his medical education. Doctor Dando is a graduate of one of the oldest and best known medical schools in America, the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Since getting his diploma as a doctor of medicine he has practiced in Jackson County, where he is one of the most popular and 'best esteemed citizens. At the present time Doctor Dando gives much of his attention to the postoffice at Wellston, having been appointed postmaster July 5, 1914, by President Wilson. On Christmas Day of 1905, he married Miss Oma Handley, of Wellston. Her parents were A. M. and Flora (Oney) Handley. Doctor Dando and wife have four children : Joseph, Betty, Catherine and George. ALBERT E. JACOBS. While Mr. Jacobs first became known to the community of Wellston as an educator, .he has now for more than twenty years successfully practiced law in that city, and his record as an attorney and citizen gives him a position of unusual prominence not only in Jackson but in the other counties of the Hanging Rock Iron Region. Born in Gallia County, Ohio, February 13, 1868, Albert E. Jacobs is a son of Joseph F. and Elizabeth (Turner) Jacobs. His father was HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1019 born also in Gallia County, and the mother was the daughter of Samuel J. Turner.- Mr. Albert E. Jacobs gained, partly through his own efforts, a. liberal education. He attended the Rio Grande College at Gallia and the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and for a number of years engaged in teaching. He came to Wellston to become principal of the public schools, and filled that office four years. In the meantime he took up the study of law, and on October 5, 1892, was admitted to the bar, and since that date has been in continuous practice at Wellston. From 1898 to 1904 Mr. Jacobs served as prosecuting attorney of Jackson County: His was a fearless and vigorous administration, and added not a little to his prestige as a lawyer and sterling citizen: On October 30, 1889, Mr. Jacobs married Anna Morgan, daughter of John and Margaret (Thomas) Morgan. The other children in the Morgan family were Clara, Thomas E. and Charles L. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs have had four children. Elizabeth, who was born October 6, 1890, died February 22, 1893. Joseph M., born January 26, 1892, graduated from Oberlin College, and is now principal of the high school at Elk Point in South Dakota. Albert E., Jr., born February 18, 1899, died March 3, 1899. Edwin Burk, the youngest, was born July 10, 1903. JOSHUA E. FERREE. Jackson County has profited by the stable citizenship and faithful industry of the Ferree family since 1860, and one who has represented the name with honor in agriculture, business and public life is Joshua E. Ferree, who is now living retired at his home at Wellston. During his career Mr. Ferree has had more than ordinary obstacles to overcome, but each difficulty has been met courageously, and now, in the evening of life, he may fully enjoy the fruits of his labors, knowing them to be honorably gained and well merited. Mr. Ferree was born in Ross County, Ohio, May 31, 1830, and is a son of John and Margaret (Inglish) Ferree, natives of Pennsylvania and early settlers of Ross County, Ohio, where they passed their lives in 'agricultural pursuits. They were the parents of the following children James; John, who died in young manhood; Joshua E.; William; Rachel E.; Mary J.; Francis; Elizabeth; Olivia, who married Richard Talbot and now lives at Chillicothe, Ohio ; Lucy; and Julia. Joshua E. Ferree received his: education in the public schools and grew up amid pioneer surroundings; his earliest experiences being connected with the clearing of the home farm from the heavy 'virgin timber. He ,was but twelve years of age' when he put aside his school books and began to give his whole time to the work of the homestead, and continued as his father's assistant until he was eighteen. At that time he began to learn the trade of plasterer, vocation which he subsequently followed 1020 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION for six years, when he met with a serious accident which crippled him so that he was unable to continue at his trade. Nothing daunted, he looked around for another occupation in which. he might engage, but found himself handicapped by lack of an education and in order to remedy this condition attended school for a time and learned bookkeeping. This he followed until 1860; when he was elected clerk of the courts of Jackson County, and continued in that office for six years, then returning to his work as a bookkeeper. In August, 1873, he came to Wellston and established himself in the furnace business in a small way, and this he developed into important proportions. In 1889 Mr. Ferree disposed of his property, the Milton Furnace, to F. E. Hinkley, of Chicago, and went to work for the Superior Coal Company, a concern with which he was connected for seventeen years and ten months, and since that time has lived retired. He is one of his community's well known and highly respected citizens, a man who has always contributed his full share of effort toward the upbuilding of the city and has shown an interest in the advancement of its institutions. Mr. Ferree was married to Miss Eliza Dungan, who was born August 16, 1832, in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in 1844 with her parents, Levi and Margaret Dungan, who had eight other children. To Mr. and. Mrs. Ferree there have been born two children: Elmer E., born July 1, 1861, married Ada. Pasch, and lives at Buffalo, Ohio; and Alvah A., born March 4, 1866, married Alice Hoop, and lives at Wellston. THOMAS W. DOTY. A capable and thoroughly experienced railroad man; Thomas W. Doty' is an engineer on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, with home at Franklin Furnace, Ohio. He represents a family which has long been identified, with the iron industry in Southern Ohio, and his father was manager of the old Ohio Furnace, in Scioto County, and met his death as the result of an accident while engaged in the performance of his duties. Thomas W. Doty was born May 30, 1885, at Ohio Furnace in Greene Township of Scioto County, and is the youngest of the living children of Thomas W. and Julia (Shepard) Doty. His mother was a daughter of former Sheriff Lewis Shepard of Lawrence County, Ohio. Thomas W. Doty, Jr., grew up in Scioto County, attended the common schools, and his first regular employment was with the Ohio Furnace Company. After 1 1/2 years with that company in Greene Township, they sent him to Hanging Rock, and he later, went into the railroad service, for a short time working in the roundhouse of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad. He then became fireman for the Chesapeake & Ohio, HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1021 and held that position from 1905 till 1908. After an examination he was promoted to the post of locomotive engineer, and has since had an important run on the Huntington, West Virginia, division. Mr. Doty was married in 1912 to May Goings. Their only child is deceased. Mr. Doty is a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers and in politics is a republican. WILLIAM EGBERT. For more than half a century the Egbert family have been identified with Scioto County and always with the activities of farming and country life. William Egbert was born and has spent practically all his life in this county, has witnessed its many changes since his boyhood and has borne his individual share of the labors and responsibilities of community growth. William Egbert was born in Valley Township of Scioto County, May 20, 1850, a son of Daniel and Louise (Appel) Egbert. Both parents were natives of Germany, but came to the United States before their marriage. The father located at Center Furnace in Scioto County, was employed there for several years, married, and about 1858 moved to Valley Township, where he bought 126 acres of land. That farm has long been known as Miller's Run Farm. Daniel Egbert and wife became the parents of eight children, three of whom are living: William, Daniel, and Louise, wife of John M. Johnson of Columbus, Ohio. William Egbert grew up in Scioto County, had a farm training, supplemented by his education in the country schools, and since early manhood has followed quietly but successfully the routine of farm life. He owns a good estate, has improved it according to the modern standards, and is successful. Mr. Egbert is one of the trustees and superintendent of the Miller's Run Road, .which passes his farm. Mr. Egbert first married Mary S. Raymer. Their four children are : John; William, Dora and Lucy. After the death of his first wife Mr. Egbert married Caroline Winkler of Portsmouth, Ohio. Their living children are : Fred, Frank, Kate, Mamie and Daniel. The family are members of the Lutheran Church and in politics Mr. Egbert is a democrat. LOUIS J. SNYDER. With an establishment of the most approved appointments and service, Mr. Snyder is engaged in the undertaking business in the -Village off Wheelersburg, Scioto County, and is known as one of the progressive and popular citizens of his native county, as well as a young man of ambition and sterling worth of character. In the City of Portsmouth, judicial center of Scioto County, Mr. Snyder was born on the 19th of January, 1881, and is a son of Charles 1022 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION and Caroline (Wabert) Snyder, the former of whom died in 1885 and the latter of whom still maintains her home at Portsmouth. Of the three children the eldest is Clara, who is the wife of Albert Patten, of Portsmouth ; Charles is now a resident of the State of New York ; and Louis J., of this review, is the youngest, he having been a child of four years at the time of his father's death. Reared to adult age in his native city, Mr. Snyder was there afforded the advantages of the public schools, and as a youth he found employment in a mercantile establishment and later in a shoe factory in Portsmouth. Later he was employed in Wheelersburg, where he finally engaged in the undertaking business, besides which he handles wall paper, paints and other supplies, for the accommodation of which he has made ample provision in his place of business. To fortify himself fully for his service as an undertaker and funeral director he completed the prescribed course and was graduated in the Cincinnati Embalming College, besides which. he was for some time identified with the undertaking business in Columbus, the capital city of the state. He has achieved success through his own efforts and has so ordered his course as to merit and receive the high regard of those with whom he has come in contact in the various relations of life. In politics Mr. Snyder is aligned as a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party, but he has not as yet shown any aspiration for public office of any kind. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home village. In the year 1913 Mr. Snyder wedded Miss Ola Finney, and they had a daughter, Alice C., who departed this life April 23, 1915: MRS. ELIZA D. BRUSHART. Residing on her attractive and well improved homestead farm, situated in Valley Township, Scioto County, at a point one mile east of Lucasville, Mrs. Brushart has shown marked executive ability in the managing of her dairy farm since the death of her husband, the late Peter Brushart, who was a representative busi ness man and progressive citizen of Scioto County at the time of his death, which occurred July 26, 1897. Mrs. Brushart was born at Stockdale, Pike County, Ohio, and is a daughter of Samuel and Phoebe (Clutts) Anderson, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania and the latter in Ohio. The parents resided for a number of years in Pike County, this state, and later in Martin County, Indiana, and the major part of the active career of the father was one of close identification with agricultural pursuits. Mr. Anderson's death occurred. in 1889 and his widow now resides in Franklin County. Of the five children all are living except one,—Eliza D. is the HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1023 immediate subject of this review ; Jeremiah, Floyd and Irving all .reside in Franklin County, Ohio. Mrs. Brushart acquired a good common-school education at Stock-dale, her native place, and on the 6th of May, 1883, was solemnized her marriage to Peter Brushart, who was born and reared in Jackson County, Ohio, and who became a business man of distinctive enterprise and progressiveness.. For some time he was engaged in 'the wholesale grocery business at Portsmouth, the judicial center of Scioto County and metropolis of the Hanging Rock Iron Region, and later he gave his attention .to the wholesale and retail lumber business, in Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. His success was distinctive and among his acquisitions was the fine farm on which his widow now resides. Mr. Brushart was a democrat in politics and was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The homestead farm is now devoted specially to the dairy business, which is carried forward with the best of modern facilities and with scrupulous regard for sanitary conditions. Mr. and Mr's. Brushart became the parents of four children : Bertha is the wife of Harry Moore and they reside in the City of Chicago ; Dea is the wife of Frank Wick and they maintain their home in the State of California; Floyd remains with his widowed mother and has practical charge of the home farm ; and Henry was killed in an automobile accident near Portsmouth, November 20, 1915. Mrs. Brushart has a wide circle of friends in Scioto County and her pleasant home is known as a place of generous and unostentatious hospitality. J. F. B. SCHLEINHEGE. One mile east of Lucasville, Scioto, County, in. Jefferson Township, is situated the fine homestead farm of the sterling citizen' whose name initiates this paragraph and whose success and independent status stand as the direct result of his own industry, integrity of purpose and careful management. Thrift and prosperity are shown in the fine condition of his farm, upon which he has made excellent improvements, and he is known and honored as one of the progressive and substantial agriculturists and stock-growers of Scioto County, his farm comprising 120 acres of fertile and highly productive land. Mr. Schleinhege was born in the Kingdom of Hanover, Germany, on the 23d of December, 1835, and is a son of Barnhardt and Adolfena (Hermler) Schleinhege, who passed their entire lives in the German Fatherland. Under the unfortunate conditions of warfare that now prevail in Europe it is specially interesting to the subject of this review to recall that in his youth he traveled extensively over the European 1024 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION continent, including France, Holland and also the British Isles. He was afforded the advantages of Hanover College, in the City of Meppen, in which institution he was graduated, and, like many of the inhabitants of his native province he became, proficient in the use of both the high and low German. Soon after the close of the Civil war Mr. Schleinhege arrived in the United States and after landing in the City of New York he made his way forthwith to the City of Cincinnati, Ohio. Thence he went to Milford, in the same county, where he found employment in a brewery. Later he assumed a clerical position in the wholesale dry-goods house of T. L. McDonald, in Cincinnati. Finally he established his residence at Portsmouth, the judicial center of Scioto County, where he was employed in the distillery of George Davis, holding the position. of weighing clerk and receiving a salary of $75 a month. With this concern he continued two years, and after his marriage he removed to Ashland, whence within a short time he removed to Ironton, Lawrence County, where he found employment in an iron furnace. Later he was manager of a livery business in that city, for two years, and for some time he. was associated with the work and management of the farms of Charles Pixley, in Lawrence and Scioto counties. He finally returned to Portsmouth, to afford his children better educational advantages and there he conducted a retail mercantile establishment of his own for a period of about three years. He then purchased the Spriggs farm, in Jefferson Township, and on this place he has continued to reside during the intervening years, within which he had developed the place into one of the model farms of Scioto County. Though never having any desire to enter the arena of practical politics, Mr. Schleinhege has been a loyal and liberal citizen and has—given unremitting allegiance to the republican party, both he and his wife being devout communicants of the Catholic Church. At Portsmouth, while he was still a young man, Mr. Schleinhege wedded Miss Elizabeth Classing, who has been a true companion and helpmeet and a devoted mother. They have three sons and three daughters: Anna is the wife of John Shay, of Lucasville, Scioto County ; Charles is identified with business interests in the City of Portsmouth; Frances is the wife of George Hill, of Rushtown, Scioto County ; Frank married Lillian Henderson, of Portsmouth; and Emma 'and Glenn remain at the parental home. WILLIAM BENNETT. Scioto County is noted for its fine farmsteads, many of which have been under cultivation since pioneer days. In Madison Township, about sixteen miles northeast of Portsmouth, is located one of the most attractive and valuable, the home place of Wil-