HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1275 RICHARD DOTY. A young business man of assured position in the City of Wellston is Richard Doty, who now operates a prosperous dray and transfer line there. Born in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio, September 14, 1876, he is a grandson of John Doty and a son of Atwell and Elizabeth (Adams) Doty. His mother had brothers and sisters named Fannie, Henry, ,Arthur, Smith, and Eliza. The children of Atwell Doty and wife were Arthur, William, Walter and Richard. Richard Doty gained his early education in the Ross High School in Butler County, and after starting out for himself was a horse dealer for some years. In 1907 he was made assistant superintendent of the Elk Fork Farm at Elk Fork, Ohio, and from there came to Wellston in 1911 and engaged in the draying business, which he has since continued with increasing success: In 1911 Mr. Doty married Ella Rhodes. They have a comfortable home at Wellston and their one child, Martha E., is now four years of age. JOHN L. BECKLEY. The popular and representative citizen whose names introduces this review is one of the resourceful, alert and progressive men to whom success comes as a natural prerogative, and he is one to whom is satisfactory in business activities none but the highest possible standard. The verity of the foregoing statement is demonstrated effectively in the appointments, service and metropolitan facilities of his fine clothing and furnishing goods establishment in the thriving little City of McArthur, the judicial center and metropolis of Vinton County, and in this special field of business enterprise he stands as one of the most progressive and prominent representatives in the Hanging Rock Iron Region, to which this publication is given. The clothing store and haberdashery of Mr. Beckley is eligibly situated on Main Street, McArthur, and occupies a room 37 by 92 feet in dimensions. The establishment is virtually divided into two well arranged general departments—one for men's clothing and furnishing goods and the other for men's and boys' shoes, boys' clothing, hats, etc. Few towns of the same comparative population as McArthur can show an establishment of the kind that is so complete in scope and selection of stock in all lines or that is maintained at a standard so clearly of metropolitan order. The mercantile establishment of Mr. Beckley may consistently be designated as one of the pioneer business houses or McArthur, since it dates its inception back to the year 1866, when it was founded by the late A. H. Dowd, who continued in the. ownership of the business until the same was purchased by Mr. Beckley, in 1904. Mr. Beckley became   1276 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION a clerk in the Dowd establishment in 1893, and he thus continued his effective services until 1899, when he was admitted to partnership in the business. He continued as co-partner of Mr. Dowd until 1904, when he became sole proprietor. He has shown the best of judgment and marked progressiveness in the development and upbuilding of the extensive business which his establishment now controls, and holds precedence: as one of the leading business men and most enterprising and public- spirited citizens of the fine little city that is the judicial center of Vin- ton County. He is also the senior member of the firm of J. L. Beckley & Son, .which conducts a similar business at Athens, Athens County, Ohio, and of the latter store his son Harry C., junior member of the firm, has the active management, the lines handled in the Athens store being the same as in the McArthur establishment, save that the former has no shoe department. The establishment in the county seat of Athens County was opened by the firm in 1913 and the business there has become one of most successful order. Prior to identifying himself with the mercantile business Mr. Beckley had been for ten years a successful and popular teacher in the public schools of Vinton County, and he is specially well known throughout the county, where it may consistently be said that his circle of friends is co-extensive with that of his acquaintances. Mr. Beckley was born in Columbia Township, Meigs County, Ohio, and the date of his nativity was October 3, 1867. He continued his studies in the schools of his native county until he had completed the curriculum of the high school, and after his graduation he engaged in teaching in the district schools, his association with the pedagogic profession having been initiated when he was sixteen years of age and having continued ten years, as previously ,stated. He then, at the age of twenty-six years, in 1884, became associated with the mercantile business in McArthur, where he continued his services in a clerical capacity until he became a partner of Mr. Dowd, as previously noted. His advancement has been the result of his own ability, fidelity and well ordered endeavors, and he fully merits the unqualified esteem in which he is held. A scion of a family that was founded in New England in the colonial period of our national history, Mr. Beckley is a grandson of Walter Beckley, who was born and reared in the State of Connecticut, whence he came to Ohio when a young man. He established his residence in Athens County, where his marriage was solemnized, and he passed the remainder of his long and useful life near Albany, that county, where he achieved due success in his vocation as a carpenter and general mechanic of more than ordinary skill. Both he and his wife were well HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1277 advanced in years at the time of their death and their names merit enduring place on the roll of the sterling pioneers of Athens County. Herbert Beckley, father of him whose name initiates this article, was born at the old homestead near Albany, Athens County, on the 4th of July, 1846, and in that county he was reared and educated under the conditions and influences of what may be termed the middle pioneer era. For many years he has continued an industrious and effective representative of the basic industry of agriculture, and upon coming to Vinton County he first engaged in farming in Knox Township, whence, in 1884, he removed to Elk Township, where he still resides on his wiell improved and valuable farm and where he commands the unqualified esteem of all who know him and have appreciation of his sterling character and worthy achievement. He is aligned as a staunch supporter of the cause of the republican party and is a zealous member of the United Brethren Church, as was also his wife, whose death occurred on the 6th of August, 1896. In Athens County occurred the marriage of Herbert Beckley to Miss Margaret Hamrick, who was born in 1847, at Zanesville, Ohio, where she was reared and educated and whence, after the death of her mother, she removed to Athens County with her father. She was a devoted wife and mother and ever held the affectionate regard of all who came within the compass of her gentle and gracious influence, her death having occurred in 1896, as previously stated. Of the two surviving children John L., of this review, is the elder. Samuel F. received excellent educational advantages and was formerly one of the representative teachers in the schools of Vinton County. On the 1st of January, 1913, he assumed the office of judge of the Probate Court of Vinton County, to which position he was elected for the regular term of four years and in which he is giving a most able administration. Judge Beckley wedded Miss Clara Timms, and they have one son and one daughter. John L. Beckley has not hedged himself in with merely personal interests, but has proved a loyal and public-spirited citizen and has given his influence and co-operation in the furtherance of measures projected for the general good of the community. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and his wife holds membership in the Methodist Church at McArthur, Ohio. In Vinton County, Ohio, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Beckley to Miss Flora M. Metcalfe, who was born near the Village of Carpenter, that county, on the 9th of February, 1870, and who is a daughter of Asa and Rhoda (Skelley) Metcalfe. The father of Mrs. Beckley died when she was but three weeks old and her mother later became the wife of Hamilton Van Bibber, both being now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Beckley have five children, concerning 1278 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION whom the following brief record is given : Harry C., who is his father's partner in the mercantile business at Athens, as junior member of the firm of J. L. Beckley & Son, was graduated in the McArthur. High School and in the business or commercial department of Ohio University, at Athens, and later he pursued a higher course of study in the University of New York. Ethel, who was graduated in Ohio University, at Athens, still resides in that attractive little city, where she has the supervision of the home of her brother, Harry C. Everett resides with his brother and sister at Athens, where he is a student in Ohio University, having previously attended the well known military academy at Staunton, Virginia. Earl and Paul remain at the parental home and are attending the public schools of McArthur, the former being a student in the high school and the latter having celebrated his seventh birthday anniversary in 1915. Mr. Beckley is affiliated with the McArthur blue. lodge and chapter of the Masonic fraternity and has passed various official chairs in each. He has twice served as chancellor of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and holds membership also in the lodge of the .Benevolent & Protective Order of. Elks at Logan, Hocking County. WILLIAM B. CHERINGTON. One of the most numerous, prominent and influential families of Jackson and Gallia counties is that which bears the name of Cherington ; in fact, they are so married and intermarried and related to so many people here that it is a common saying that' any one who wants the favor of. Jackson and Gallia counties must never say anything against the Cheringtons, lest he may be talking to some of their relatives." Those who bear this name are, almost without exception, thrifty, industrious, enterprising citizens, on the side of law, order and morality. In polities they are almost all republicans, amid in religion. are, as a rule, either members or attendants of the Methodist Episcopal Church, A worthy representative of this family, whose career has been one worthy of the race from which he springs and whose character includes the traits aforementioned, is Williamri B. Cherington of Wellston. The records of the Cherington family are preserved since 1702, and show the family to be of English origin, the first. name on the record being that of Clement Cherington, who was born in England in the year mentioned, was educated for the ministry of the Church of England: hut sailed for. America on the day set for his trial sermon. He was married in England and had sons and daughters, and it was not until after his first wife's death that he sailed for this country. About 1750 he landed in America., and was here married to Mrs. Mary (Coles) Mathews, who HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1279 was born on Long Island, New York, February 2, 1713, and by her first marriage had several children. Three children were born to this union : Thomas, Rachel and William (1). William (I) was born in Pennsylvania, April 19, 1755, and was married February 18, 1779, to Margaret Hank, who was born April 10, 1755, daughter of John and Margaret Hank, and sister of Abraham Lincoln's mother. The children of this union were : Thomas, born December 5, 1779 ; John, born December 17, 1781 ; Rachel Knapp, born April 28, 1784 ; William (II), born March 6, 1.787 ; Susannah Buck, born August 1, 1789 ; Clement (II), born December 8, 1791 ; Eleanor, born September 25, 1794; and Josiah; born June 1, 1797. The mother of the foregoing children died September 22, 1797, and November 28, 1797, William Cherington (I) was married to Mrs. Lettice McClung, a widow with five children. To this union there were horn children as follows : Charles, born in August, 1798, and died in infancy ; James, born November 9, 1799 ; Bruce, born March 15, 1801; Pennell, born November 18, 1802 ; Betsy Johnson, born April 14, 1804 ; Jefferson, born February 26, 1806 ; Anna McNeal, born December 6, 1807 ; and Josephus, born June 28, 1810. The father of these children died April 28, 1833. Without undertaking to trace out the different branches of the family, it will be enough to say that the Cheringtons who have settled in Jackson County are for the most part descendants of Thomas, the eldest son or William (I), which we give as follows : William H., the first Cherington to settle in Jackson County, and his children—Leander and Mary Kinnison ; Thomas (II), whose children were eleven in number ; Jeptha and his children—Columbus, Virginia French, Wilson, Almira Garvin, Cicero and Panthara; Lorenzo and his children—DeWitt, Whitcomb, Thomas, Asbury and Margaret ; Margaret Stevenson ; Clinton and his children—Nancy McClure and Stewart ; Polly Evans and her children—Baldwin (the former auditor of Jackson County), Clinton, Wellington, Timothy, Simeon, Susannah, Mary and Thomas; Betsey Jones and her children—Sarah Cunningham, Anna Lackey, Elizabeth Williams and Matilda Lackey ; Finley and his children—Ozias, Harriet, Morris, Laura, Viola, Belle, Emerson and Allery ; Nancy Mannering, whose six children located in Missouri and Texas ; Anna ; Sarah Evans and her daughter Minnie; Welling ; Rachel Prose and her children— Catherine Hughes, Flora Rickards, Benton, Matilda Hughes, Adaline Rickards, Josiah, Halleek, Emma and Laura. In addition to these, several other families of Cheringtons reside in Jackson County : William, son of William (II), and his children- Elizabeth Johnson, Evaline Buckley and Emma Arthur; Lettice Sims, daughter of William (II) ; Mary Ewing and William B., children of 1280 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION Levi and grandchildren of William (II) ; Rebecca Evans and Margaret Evans, daughters of Clement (II) ; William D., pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church. at Jackson, Ohio, son of William .W. and grandson of Clement (II) ; William and Alice, children of Solomon and grandchildren . of Clement (II) ; and several younger generations. William B. Cherington was born on the home farm in Gallia County, Ohio, December 5, 1845, and is a son of Levi and Permelia (Manring) Cherington. His father was born in 1816, in Gallia County, and followed agricultural pursuits throughout his life, dying in his native county in 1880. His wife was one of the nineteen children, who all grew to maturity, of Jordon and Elizabeth (Knox) Manring, natives of Gallia. Her father was a farmer by occupation, and served as a captain during the War of 1812. There were four children in the Cherington family. all of whom received academic educational advantages: Mary, Sarah E., William B. and C. W. William B. Cherington attended the district schools and worked on the home farm until he was fifteen years of age, following which he was engaged as an engineer, and continued to serve in that capacity until 1862, when he enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Seventy-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which lie participated in a number of hard-fought battles, including the engagement at Nashville, and continued as a soldier in the Union army until the Civil war was closed. He then completed his education at Ewington Academy, and worked at the molder's trade at Kansas City, :Missouri, for four years, but in 1869 returned to Ohio and engaged in molding at the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad shops at Zaleski, Ohio, where he was employed for three years. In 1872 Mr. Cherington was united in marriage with Miss Margaret E. Nutt of Pike County, Ohio, and to this union there has been born one son—Erie W. Mrs. Cherington died September 13, 1915. In the year of his marriage Mr. Cherington went to Jackson, where he became superintendent of the foundry and machine works of Pickrel Company, in. which company he was a stockholder, and in the fall of 1880 was elected sheriff of Jackson County, an office to which he was re-elected in 1882. Mr. Cherington is one of the prominent and influential citizens of the county and has taken an active and helpful interest in its affairs. He is a Royal Arch Mason, follows family traditions by affiliating with the republican party, and has also the family religious belief, having been a class leader in the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years. On March 14, 1916, Mr. Cherington was united in marriage to Airs. Caroline M. Wells, widow of Frank Z. Wells of Wellston, and a granddaughter of the Hon. H. S. Bundy of Wellston. Mr. and Mrs. Chering- HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1281 ton reside on West. Wellston. Heights, the highest point in Jackson County. . JONAS MARSHALL. Although not now a resident of the Hanging Rock Region, having retired from active labor and moved to Columbus, Jonas Marshall is known as one of the pioneers of this section, where for many years he was identified with a number of the leading industries as a blacksmith and wagonmaker. He was born at Etna Furnace, Lawrence County, Ohio, August 15, 1849, and is a son of Richard J. and Kathryn (Clutts) Marshall. His father, a native of Hagerstown, Maryland, where he was born in 1828, was a wagonmaker and blacksmith by trade, and came to Ohio about 1845, settling at Franklin Furnace. He became one of the prominent and influential men of his community, served as a justice of the peace of Decatur Township for nine years, was assessor six terms and for a number of years occupied a place on the school board. He died in 1895, while Mrs. Marshall, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1823; died in 1862. They were the parents of five children : Mary A., Harriet, Josephine, John and Elizabeth. The district schools of Decatur Township, Lawrence County, furnished Jonas Marshall with his primary education, and at the age of eighteen years he laid aside his books temporarily and took the. position of stable foreman at the Buckhorn Furnace, there remaining five years. Realizing the need of further education, he again entered school, remaining two years, and this training enabled him to secure the position of store manager for the Buckhorn Furnace, a capacity in which he also had charge of the wood business. After eighteen years he went to the Gallia Furnace, in Gallia County, but after four years as clerk returned to Lawrence County and entered the employ of the Lawrence Furnace. Here for thirteen years he worked as blacksmith and' wagonmaker, and then Went to the Hecla Furnace as the incumbent of the same positions and remained three years. Mr. Marshall then came to Ironton to accept the position of blacksmith for the Ironton Fire Brick Company, and one year later became identified with the Ironton Portland Cement Company as clerk and timekeeper, but after seven years, in 1913,. went to Columbus with the Ralston Steel Company as a member of the draughting depart, meet. In 19141e retired from active life, and has since been living with his son, at East Columbus. An industrious and energetic workman, ever faithful to the duties devolving upon him, Mr. Marshall has labored so well that he is able to spend the evening of life in the enjoyment of a handsome competency. His life has covered one of the greatest periods of development in this part of Ohio, and he can well remember early incidents, when the native timber covered this section ; When ironmaking 1282 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION here was in its infancy and in its prime ; when the father of Ironton, Mr. J. Campbell; gave him employment for weeks at a stretch ; when the old Iron Railroad was built, and when Mr. J. Steen erected the first, or one of the first, charcoal iron furnaces in Lawrence County, the old Mount Vernon Furnace.. Through it all he has known some of the leading men of this region, and has been held in high esteem and respect by all with whom he has come into contact. He still retains his love for his vocation, and is able to hold his own in labor or workmanship with any of the present day blacksmiths. Mr. Marshall is a member of the Methodist Church. On April 7, 1889, Mr. Marshall was married at Buckhorn Furnace to Miss Sarah R. Dennison, daughter of John Dennison of Scioto Furnace, Scioto County, Ohio, a farmer. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Marshall, namely : George W., a plumber of East Columbus, Ohio, married Mary McConnell, and has one child ; Nellie, who married Joseph Taylor, a machinist of Kalamazoo, Michigan, has one. child ; Herman, a cement worker of Bloomington, Indiana; Hattie, who married George Barber, a lawyer of Bloomington, Indiana, has no children; Nannie, who married Ross Faulks, an electrician of Huntington, West Virginia, has two children ; and John F., who is single and a laborer. AARON B. KIRKENDALL. A scholar whose attainments are well known throughout Vinton County, and who has acquired a generous wealth of knowledge by his own efforts and in the university of experience, a leader in business and in church and all community affairs, Aaron B. Kirkendall is one of the remarkable men of the Hanging Rock Iron Region. For one who was never in college or university, it seems rather remarkable that a plain hard-working man should take the trouble to master and acquire a working knowledge of the German and Greek languages and various other branches of higher education, such as are required for a degree in the colleges. Mr. Kirkendall's voice has been heard many times from the rostrum and pulpit, with advantage to his auditors. One only needs to address him t6 know that he is an educated gentleman and has a mind stored with rich knowledge of matters general and particular. He was the son of high-minded but poor parents, and was well endowed with intellect and talent and needed only the spur of an ambition to serve well in whatever station he was placed in order to make the most of his opportunities. He gives much credit for his advancement to his worthy wife: His parents were both members of the Reorganized Latter Day Saints religious organization, and Mr. Kirkendall helped to organize a congregation of these people and has been a leader of the HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1283 society and has been largely responsible for the neat church which is a credit to the community at Creola, in Swan Township. Its membership is now nearly 100, and since the church was started more than a quarter of a century ago Mr. Kirkendall has filled the pulpit as pastor and eider. He has done all these things besides performing a varied set of business duties as a merchant and as railway station agent for the Hocking Valley at Creola. For seven years he also filled the office of probate judge of Vinton County, and was treasurer of his township and held various other local places for a number of years. Since the Village of Creola was started he has almost continuously been the postmaster. He is a man of strong and active physique, with a face that shows the breadth of his intelligence, with an eye keen and a persistent gaze, and when under the influence of the enthusiasm on subjects nearest to his heart his eye flashes with a peculiar brilliance. In 1882, more than thirty years ago, Mr. Kirkendall became connected with the Hocking Valley Railway at Creola, a station having been opened for traffic at that point in October, 1880. He became the regular agent for the company in August, 1884, having spent the previous two years in mastering telegraphy and in performing various other duties around the office. ,He has always been regarded as a very capable manager of the railroad company's business at this point. He has been postmaster since 1884, having held the Office through all the various administrations. From 1884 until about a dozen years ago a star route was operated from Creola to Vigo on the Baltimore & Ohio, but the star route has been abandoned and the place taken by the regular rural mail service. Since 1893 Mr. Kirkendall has conducted a general merchandise store at Creola, and has a stock of all the staple goods required by the country trade. Aaron B. Kirkendall was born at the old Lincoln Furnace, in Jackson County, Ohio, July 18, 1863. On that day John Morgan, the noted Confederate raider, was. at Berlin, Ohio, and three days later one of Morgan's lieutenants, Basil Duke, and Seventeen of his men took dinner with Mr. Kirkendall's mother. The lieutenant made much of the young infant and insisted that he be called John Morgan. The lieutenant and all his followers treated the young mother with great courtesy and consideration, though five of her brothers and two of her husband's brothers were at that time in the Union service in the South. Mr. Kirkendall was reared and educated in Jackson County, attended the common schools, and lived at home until he became of age. At every Opportunity he has applied himself to study and has accomplished a thorough education by diligence such as few college men exercise. His father, Richard Kirkendall, was born in Jackson County, Ohio, Vol. II-41 1284 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION in 1828 and belonged to old New York Dutch stock. The immigrant spelled his name Kuykendaal and for generations this family has furnished industrious and noble-minded men and women. The first of the family to come into Ohio was John Kirkendall, who saw some service in a Pennsylvania regiment during the War of 1812 and about that period moved into Ohio and located in Jackson County, where he spent the rest of his days. His son Daniel, grandfather of Aaron B., was' born in Pennsylvania in 1805, was reared in Jackson County and married Lydia IV. Price. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in April, 1808, a daughter of Richard Price. Richard Price was quite prominent in Baltimore and was of Welsh ancestry. He brought his wife and family to Jackson County, Ohio. All these older ancestors are now lying in the Pattonsville Cemetery in Jackson County. Richard Kirkendall, father of Aaron, became quite extensively interested with William Price in the Iron Valley Furnace. The management and the control of this industry was vested in other parties, and through their mismanagement Mr. Kirkendall and his friend lost all they had, while he himself was left with less than nothing, though his honesty showed itself in his subsequent redemption of every dollar of indebtedness. In 1882 he moved to Creola and died there February 23, 1894. He was reared as a democrat, but during the Civil. war became a republican until 1878' and then voted the prohibition ticket. He was, of the highest type of manhood and character. About 1880 he joined the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints. Richard Kirkendall was married in Jackson County to Rachel A. Allen. She was born in Hampshire County. Virginia, March 28, 1826, and when a small child went with her parents to Guernsey County, Ohio, and at the age of seventeen came to Jackson County with her parents, Samuel and Ruth (Barrett) Allen, who were of Virginia Quaker stock. The Allens lived on a farm in Jackson County until they passed away and to the last they were loyal to their Quaker belief. Through the Barrett ancestor just mentioned Aaron B. Kirkendall is connected in an interesting manner with the early revolutionary days. His great-grandfather, Thomas Barrett, was a tailor who lived at Brandywine, near Philadelphia, when the battle of that name was fought in the course of the Revolutionary war. Thomas Barrett gave his daughter, who married Samuel Allen, a pair of fine shears, and those shears have been handed down through the different generations and are now in Mr. Kirkendall's family and are in good repair and highly cherished along with other relics. Rachel A. Kirkendall died at her home in Creola in 1902. She was also active as a member of the Latter Day Saints. Aaron B. Kirkendall was married at Creola to Miss Mattie E. Thoma- HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1285 son. She was born in Jackson County, August 29, 1869, was reared and educated there, and is a daughter of Charles and Virginia (Potts) Thomason, both natives of Jackson County, where the mother died, and.. the father, who was a furnace man, died in Vinton. County. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Kirkendall are given brief record as follows : Prof. Rothbe. H., who attended the McArthur High School and graduated from the Rio Grande College, now holds the chair of English and history in that college ; he married Mary J. Burkett of McArthur, who was a teacher in the city schools and a graduate of normal school. Gard H., the second child, graduated from the McArthur High School and is now engaged in the automobile business at Ashland, Kentucky, and married Ethel Cross of Portsmouth, Ohio. Merl, the third, was fatally burned at the age of six and a half years. Maggie M. is a graduate of the McArthur High School and the Rio Grande College, is a teacher in public schools and still lives at home. Mamie V. is a graduate of the McArthur High School and is connected with her father's store as deputy postmaster. Melba G. is a graduate of the McArthur High School and is now attending the Rio Grande College. Marjorie Pearl is six years of age and in the second grade of the public schools. Aaron B., Jr., is five years old and M. Ruth is aged two. It was in 1905 that Mr. Kirkendall was elected probate judge of Vinton County on the republican ticket and he filled that office for two terms, altogether for seven years. He was a capable judge, attended the duties of the court with the greatest care and did all he could to promote peaceable settlement of differences among litigants. For twenty years he filled the office of township treasurer of Swan Township. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Blue Lodge and Royal Arch Chapter of Masons at McArthur and with the Council at Logan. He and all his family are members of .the Latter Day. Saints organization, and his prominent leadership in the Creola church has already been mentioned. JAMES M. McGHEE. One of the oldest and best known residents of the Hanging Rock Iron Region is James Miller McGhee, who through his. family relations belongs .among the pioneer stock of Southern Ohio, and who in his personal and individual career has been identified with the iron industry and with other activities of importance in this section. Born in Jackson County, October 18, 1837, he is a son of William McGhee, who was also reared. in Jackson County, spent his life as a storekeeper and in the iron industry, and is a grandson of John McGhee, who came from old Virginia. William McGhee married Electa R. Poor, who was a granddaughter of Judge Poor, one of the first judges in Jackson! 1286 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION County, and holding that office for many years. William McGhee and wife reared four children : James M. ; Langley ; Cornelia ; and Ripley. Mr. James M. McGhee secured a liberal education as a young man, attending the Ohio University at Athens and completing a business education in the City of Columbus. For several years he was employed in a store in Jackson County with his father, and they then entered the iron industry, and for more than thirty years conducted two of the well-known furnaces in the Hanging Rock Region. For five years Mr. James M. McGhee also filled the post of revenue agent at the distillery in Portsmouth. He married Miss Susan Phillips of Jackson County. Her. parents were Henry and Phoebe (Westfall) Phillips. Mr. and Mrs. McGhee have four children : Edward, Frances, James M., Jr., and Susan. JAMES W. DARBY. A member of the Vinton County bar for thirty years, James W. Darby is not alone prominent because of his strong and forceful talents as an attorney and his stirring activities as a citizen, but as a representative of one of the oldest and most honored families of the county. It is a tradition of this family that it is descended from the old house of Derby of England, but the first of whom we have record is William Darby, who was born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1760. William Darby was a drummer and soldier in the Revolutionary war, his service lasting from 1777 until 1783, as a member of Captain Car--berry's Company, and Col. Patton Hubley's Regiment. He participated in the battles of Germantown, Princeton, Monmouth and Brandywine. About the year 1809 he hearkened to the alluring call of the new country to the West, and came to what is now the vicinity of Allensville, in Vinton County, Ohio, where he took up his residence among the few adventurous souls whose courage and fortitude made possible the settlement of this region. Here his. death occurred April 30, 1836, interment being made on the bank of the middle fork of Salt Creek, but later his remains were removed to the Bell Cemetery, at Allensville, where a beautiful granite monument, properly inscribed, and unveiled October 2, 1915, marks the last resting place of this doughty old revolutionary hero and pioneer farmer. He was twice married and had by his first wife two sons, John and Samuel, and two daughters, Barbara and one who died without issue, but many of Barbara's descendants still survive. John Darby married and had a family, and his great-great-great-granddaughter, Miss Ida Darby of Northboro, Iowa, unveiled the monument above described. Samuel Darby, son of the pioneer, and grandfather of James W. Darby, was born July 7, 1782, in Pennsylvania, and as a young man went HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1287 to the State of North Carolina, where he was married to Charity Redyard, the daughter of one who leaned to the tory cause and whose senti ments were changed by Marion's Regiment. Soon after his marriage Samuel Darby came to Vinton County, Ohio, about the time of the arrival of his father, and settled in a cabin on the middle fork of Salt Creek. There he passed his life as a farmer and died January 23, 1856, his wife surviving until August 5, 1875, and being over eighty-eight years of age at the time of her demise. In his youth Samuel Darby had been a soldier, fighting in 1812 and 1813, in the .War of 1812 in Daniel McCreery 's Company, Key's Regiment. He was in Vinton County in 1811, when the earthquake shook up the entire Mississippi Valley, but did not learn until six weeks later what it was that had disturbed nature's forces. He was widely known as a hunter, a real Daniel Boone of this section, killing much wild game both large and small, and enjoying a wide reputation as an unerring Nimrod. He was likewise one of the early pioneers of Campbell's restoration church movement, known today as the Church of Christ (Disciples). For many years his home was used as the meeting-place of the local congregation, to which Samuel Darby preached for years. Of the children of Samuel Darby, six sons and five daughters grew to maturity, were married and had children, as follows : Isaiah, William, John, Britain, Stephen, Samuel R., Tacy, Cytha, Lydia, Asenath and Lovina. Stephen Darby, son of Samuel, and father of James W. Darby, was born, like his brothers and sisters, on the old farm near Allensville, Vinton County, Ohio, November 1, 1818. He grew up as a farmer in the western part of Vinton County, passed his entire life in the pursuits of the soil, and died December 20, 1893. Mr. Darby was well and favorably known in Jackson Township and County, and through his industry and good management became the owner of a large and valuable property. A lifelong democrat, he was at times elected to public office, serving one term as county commissioner and many years as trustee of Jackson Township. He was an active worker and devout member of the Christian Church, in which he was for years an elder, and a great student of the Bible, as well as a well informed man generally and a teacher for some years. Mr. Darby was married in Jackson (now Vinton) County, Ohio, to Margaret Graves, who was born in what is now Richland Township, Vinton County, and died on the old homestead of 240 acres, December 12, 1878. Mrs. Darby was a devout Christian woman and a faithful member of the Christian Church. She and her husband were the parents of five sons and three daughters : Dr. Franklin H., who was for a time a practicing physician and at present superintendent of the Ohio Children's Home Society, 34 West First Avenue, Columbus, Ohio ; Louisa, 1288 - RANGING ROCK IRON REGION who is the wife of John Clay, a farmer of Vinton County ; Samuel G., a retired farmer and overseer of property at Columbus, Ohio, is married ; Bathsheba D., who first married a Mr. Hutt and after his death Marion P. Robinette, also deceased, and now makes her home in Michigan, being the mother of several sons and daughters ; Charity J., who is the wife of John W. Turner of Columbus, Ohio, a real estate dealer, and has children ; James W., of this notice ; Mathew H., postmaster at Deshler, Henry County, Ohio, is married and has a family ; and Sanford S., a farmer in the western part of Vinton County, is married and has children. James W. Darby was born on the old homestead place, August 26, 1858. In early boyhood he showed himself a hard student, became a voluminous reader, and acquired an extensive knowledge both of school books and literature. When he was but sixteen years of age he was certified to teach, and from seventeen until twenty-seven, he taught in the public schools, in the meantime pursuing a course in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, from which he was graduated in a scientific course with the class of 1882. He was county examiner of teachers one term. Previous to this time he had decided upon a career in the law, his early information on that subject being secured from a copy of Walker's American Law. Having thoroughly digested this volume, in 1882 he entered the office of James M. McGillivray, .but not long after- ward found it necessary to resume teaching in order to replenish his depleted finance. However, he returned to Mr. McGillivray's office as soon as possible, and in 1885 was admitted to the bar, beginning his professional labors at McArthur. On January 1, 1886, he became a partner with Hon. William J. Rannells, with whom he remained for four years, and at the end of that time Mr. Rannells was made an appointee in the office of the United States attorney general at Washington, District of Columbia, as an assistant, and this partnership was dissolved. Mr. Darby has since carried on a general practice of a very important character, and his marked ability has been recognized by the public and the profession. He has served four terms as prosecuting attorney of Vinton County, the first term in the early '80s and the last three in succession, ending January 1, 1913. Politically Mr. Darby is a democrat. He is a member of the board of trustees of the County Children's Home, and has taken a helpful part in every movement that has made for progress and advance. Fraternally he is a member of the subordinate lodge of Odd Fellowship, with which he became connected in 1880, at Byer; the Knights of Pythias, the blue lodge of Masons, and the Modern Woodmen of America, and formerly of the Order of Good Templars of Vinton County. Mr. Darby was married September 19, 1889, at McArthur to Miss HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1289 Minnie Pearce, who was born and reared here, a daughter of Capt. Alexander Pearce, captain of Company D, Eighteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil war. In that struggle he saw much active service, proved himself a gallant officer, and returned in safety to his family, living to the age of seventy-two years. His widow, who was formerly Miss Amanda Ward, still lives at an advanced age at McArthur, and has been a member of. the Christian Church here for many years, Mr. and Mrs. Darby have two children : Anna E., a graduate of McArthur High School, and a classical graduate of Hiram College, taking an A. B. degree, taught school for three years at Marion, Ohio, and is now a student at Ohio State University, at Athens, where she is a senior in a four years' course, and will soon take the B. S. E. degree ; and Stephen P., who is attending McArthur High School. Mr. and Mrs. Darby are foster parents to a niece; Miss Lois G. Pearce, a graduate of McArthur High School, who held a scholarship in a Lexington (Kentucky) college for a time. She attended and graduated from Ohio State University, and is now a teacher in the schools of Marion. Mr. and Mrs. Darby and their children are members of the Christian Church, in which he has been an elder for many years. ELMORE C. WORTMAN. Starting with about forty acres of land, Elmore C. Wortman during the past thirty-five years has become one of the largest land holders and farmers and stock raisers in Vinton County. His energy and intelligent management have enabled him to accumulate rapidly and direct. his enterprise toward a sure prosperity. None can begrudge his prosperity, since it has been won by honorable effort and his high standing as a citizen is unquestioned. His ancestors have lived in Southern Ohio since pioneer days. His grandfather, Joseph Wortman, came from Pennsylvania, and located in Muskingum County, Ohio, when most of that section was a wilderness and when the chief thoroughfare was the old Mackinaw Road. He located on what was known as a "drove" road, not more than five miles from Zanesville. Besides improving a tract of wild land, he also conducted a cooper shop, having learned the trade back in his native state. He was a man of much enterprise and took part in the unique commerce of that day, having made seven trips to New Orleans down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, conveying rafts of flour and other products. Arriving at New Orleans, he sold his cargo and the material of his raft, and then made his way the best he could back home, frequently walking most of the distance, and at one time he walked and rode alternately a mule from the southern city to his Ohio home. On one of his trips to New Orleans he had a wreck near Guion Dodge, and was forced to dispose of his cargo 1290 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION of flour to the various river towns and return home. He was a very successful man. He married Almeda Patterson of Pennsylvania, and they spent the rest of their days in Muskingum County, where they were quite old when they passed away. They belonged to the Baptist Church, and in politics he was a democrat. Of their large family four, three sons and one daughter, are still living, and all the children married.. Harrison Wortman, father of Elmore C., was born in Muskingum County about eighty years ago, and he died at his home in Richland Township of Vinton County in 1900. While growing up at his father's place he. learned the trade of cooper, though he never followed it to any. extent. In Muskingum County he married Mary Cain, who was born and reared and educated there. She was an infant when her mother died, and afterwards her father went to Iowa and she grew up in the home of an uncle. After their marriage Harrison Wortman and his young wife moved to Vinton County, joining his brother Jackson, who had settled here some years before and had secured a tract of land in Richland Township. Harrison Wortman lived on his brother's farm for several years and afterwards bought forty acres of his own, a place :which he increased to 120 acres. His land was in section 1 of Richland Township, and though he found it entirely covered by timber and brush, he cleared it up and had it all under cultivation before he retired from his labors: He and his wife died there and both were highly respected and Christian people, and he was a democrat throughout his voting life. Elmore was the oldest of the children. His brother Silas is a rural mail carrier, living in Jackson County, Ohio, and has a family of three sons. Etha, who lives on a part of the old homestead, is the widow of Henry Snook and has a son and a daughter, the latter being a teacher. Joseph lives in Prestonburg, Kentucky, being a coal miner by occupation, and has, one son. Euphema is the wife of George Henderson, and they live on the old Wortman homestead in Vinton County. Elmore C. Wortman was born in Richland Township not far from where he now lives August 28, 1860. While growing up on the farm he acquired an education in the local schools, and very soon after his marriage he bought forty acres of land, trading a span of mules for it. With that as a beginning his enterprise rapidly expanded. In 1888 he bought a portable sawmill, and continued in the sawmilling business in various sections of Vinton County for more than twenty years. In the meantime he bought the ninety acres which comprises his present rural estate, and has owned and occupied it for twenty-two years. There he erected an eight-room house, large barns and other buildings, and has nearly all the land under cultivation. While this is his homestead, he has also accumulated land to the extent of about 624 acres. His home is in sec- HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1291 tion 18 of Clinton Township. He has a good farm in Richland Township and ninety-three acres in Jackson County, most of the land being in an improved condition. Mr. Wortman is a master in the growing of all crops and the raising of live stock, and keeps fine grades of horses, cattle, hogs and about 130 head of wool-growing sheep. He has seventy-five head of cattle on his farm, from twenty-five to thirty milch cows for dairy purposes, and about fifteen horses and a dozen head of mules. All of this indicates how successful he has been and is in the line of agriculture and stock husbandry. Mr. Wortman was married in Vinton County to Josephine Turvy. She was born in Jackson County, Ohio, and was quite young when her parents died. She received her education in the common schools of Jackson and Vinton counties. Mr. and Mrs. Wortman have a fine family of children. Carl, who is a graduate of the American Correspondence School, is an excellent machinist, for the past ten years has been in the threshing business, and was also associated with his father in sawmilling, and during the past two years he constructed under contract two miles of macadam pike ; he married Ella Davis, and their children are named Everett, Joseph, Raymond, Genevieve, Edwin and Margaret. Milton, who lives on his father's home farm, married Lillie Griffith of Richland Township, and their children are Dorothy B., Ralph and Randolph. Lee, who graduated from the business college at Jackson, Ohio, and is in the plumbing business at Wellston, married Nellie May, a native of Lawrence County, Ohio, and their two children are Donald and Darleen. The daughter Mary died at the age of eighteen after finishing her education. Clara, who lives at home unmarried, was educated in the grade schools. Bertha L., who finished the common school course, is the wife of Everett Hutt, who manages the eighty-acre farm of Mr. Wortman in Richland Township. Delbert A. is twelve years of age and is still attending school. Mrs. Wortman is an active member of the Christian Church, and Mr. Wortman is a republican. ELMER E. ROSSER. From his childhood Elmer E. Rosser has been a resident of Swan Township, Vinton County, and here he is proving a worthy successor of his honored father as one of the progressive and representative agriculturists of this favored section of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio. The fine homestead farm on which he resides with his widowed mother is situated near the Village of Creola and on the west side of the excellent turnpike road that traverses this part of the county, the farm being four miles north of McArthur, the county seat. Mr. Rosser was born in Hocking County, Ohio, on the 29th of August, 1861, and is a son of James and Sarah (Dennis) Rosser, both likewise 1292 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION natives of the old Buckeye State. The parents of James Rosser were natives of Virginia and became pioneer settlers in the Hocking Valley of Ohio, where they passed the residue of their lives, the father, George Rosser, having become a substantial pioneer farmer and his parents having passed their entire lives in the Old Dominion commonwealth, where the father had been a successful planter and slaveholder prior to the Civil war. Mrs. Sarah (Dennis) Rosser was born in Athens County, Ohio, on the 10th of December, 1834, and is a daughter of Jonas and Rachel (Black) Dennis, the former of whom was born in Ontario, Canada, and the latter in Perry County, Ohio, where their marriage was solemnized. Jonas Dennis was a lad of twelve years at the time of his parents' removal to Ohio, and the family home was established in Perry County, where the parents passed the residue of their lives—sterling pioneers who did well their part in furthering the civic and material development of that section of the state. After their marriage James and Sarah (Dennis) Rosser continued their residence on a farm in Wood Township, Hocking County, Ohio, until 1872, when they came to Vinton County and established their residence on the homestead farm now occupied by their son .Elmer E., of this review: Later the parents of Mrs. Rosser came to this county, and in her home they passed the remaining years of their lives, Jonas Dennis having been nearly eighty years of age at the time of his demise and his widow having been more than ninety years of age when she was summoned to the life eternal, both having been most zealous and devout members of the Bible Christian Church, and Mr. Dennis was one of the pioneer preachers of this religious denomination in Ohio, all of his children having become active members of this church. Thomas, Joseph and Zacharias Black, maternal great-uncles of Mrs. Sarah (Dennis) Rosser, were all soldiers in the French and Indian war and it is probable that they were also soldiers in the War of 1812. Upon coining to Vinton County James Rosser purchased 150 acres of land in Swan Township, and he developed the same into one of the productive and well-improved farms of the county. He erected the present attractive house of eight rooms and also provided other excellent farm buildings. He devoted his attention to diversified agriculture and stock-growing and became one of the successful and .influential representativeso of these basic industries in Vinton County a "Man of steadfast integrity and one who commanded unqualified esteem as a loyal and worthy citizen. He was born on the 30th of July, 1830, and was called from the stage of life's mortal endeavors on the 17th of February, 1891. His father was a resident of Perry. County, this state, at the time of his death, which occurred after the close of the Civil war, the family lineage HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1293 tracing back to staunch Scotch origin and the first representatives in America having settled in Virginia in the colonial era of our national history. His wife, whose maiden name was Winifred Simms, was of French ancestry, and she preceded him to eternal rest when a woman in middle life. Since the death of her honored husband Mrs. Sarah Rosser has continued to reside on the old homestead, which is endeared to her by many hallowed memories and associations, and the active control and management of the fine farm is vested in her youngest son, whose name introduces this article. She is a devoted member of the Bible Christian Church at Creola, is a woman of much mental and physical vigor and has the unqualified esteem of the community in which she. has so long maintained her home. James Rosser was a public-spirited citizen and always ready to aid in the support of measures advanced for the general good of the community, though he had no ambition for public office. His political allegiance was given to the democratic party. Of the children the eldest is Lewis, who maintains his residence at McArthur and who is one of the prosperous farmers and fruit-growers of Vinton County. He has been twice married and has children by each union. Charles, who owns and operates a farm of forty acres near the .old homestead in Swan Township, married Miss Nancy Ulam, and they have one daughter. Elmer E., of this review, is the youngest of the three boys. Emma Rose, the only daughter, married David. Fri, of whom separate mention is made on other pages of this work. Elmer E. Rosser acquired his rudimentary education in the district schools' of Hocking County and was about twelve years of age at the time of the family removal to Vinton County, where he has since continued his residence on the old home farm which his father purchased upon coming to the county. He duly availed himself of the advantages of the public schools of this county, gave effective aid in the work of the home farm and has here continued a vigorous and enterprising exponent of the agricultural and live-stock industries of this section of the state. He is a loyal supporter of the cause of the democratic party and while he takes lively interest in all that concerns the welfare and progress of his home county he has manifested no predilection for public office of any kind. He and his wife and their two sons are enrolled as members of the Bible Christian Church at Creola, and the family is one of prominence and popularity in the social activities of the community. On the 6th of June, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Rosser to Miss Elizabeth Hull, who was born in Meigs County, this state, where she was reared and educated. She is a daughter of Robert and Susan (Calhoon) Hull, the former of whom was a native of Ireland and the latter of whom was born and reared in Meigs County, Ohio, her parents 1294 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION having been representatives of sterling old southern families and having passed the closing years of their lives in Gallia County, Ohio. Robert; Hull was a child of twelve years at the time of the family immigration . from the Emerald Isle to America, and he was reared to manhood in Gallia County, Ohio, his parents, Thomas and Mary (White) Hull, having there passed the remainder of their lives : Thomas Hull was comparatively a young man at the time of his death and his widow lived to attain to the age of seventy-six years. Robert Hull was an industrious farmer in Gallia County and finally removed thence to Meigs County, where his children were reared to adult age. He finally came to Vinton County and settled on a farm in Swan Township, where he continued his activities as an agriculturist until his death, which occurred in 1908. He was seventy years old at the time of his death, his widow, who resides on the old home farm with her youngest son, Sampson, having celebrated her seventy-seventh birthday anniversary in 1915. Mrs. Hull is a devout Member of the Christian Church, as was also her husband, and the latter gave his political allegiance to the republican party. Of the two surviving children Mrs. Rosser is the .elder, and her brother, Sampson Hull, is a prosperous farmer of Swan Township. He is married and has one daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Rosser became the parents or three children, of whom two are living, Susan, the youngest, having died when about two years of age ; James R. and George Dewey both remain at the parental home and are associated with their father in the work and management of the farm, both being members of the class of 1.91.6 in the high school at McArthur, so that much of their time of late has been given to their studies. JAMES W. BANNON. Through a systematic application of his abilities to the profession of his choice, James W. Bannon, who died March 7, 1916, at Los Angeles; California, attained prominence as an attorney of Portsmouth, where he achieved success as a lawyer, and gained a position of note among the leading men of his home city. A native of Ohio, he was born in Portsmouth, September 22, 1841. His father, Edward Bannon, was born, in 1797, in County Westmeath, Ireland, and was there brought up and educated. In February, 1.837, accompanied by his bride, he came to America in a sailing vessel,- after a long and tedious voyage landing in New York. Going from there by way of the Hudson River to Albany, he then .proceeded westward to Buffalo via the Erie Canal, thence by the lakes to Cleveland, from there by canal to Portsmouth where he found work at the car- penter's trade. In 1847, homesick for a sight of his old home and. friends, he stated for Ireland. At New York he net a former ac- HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1295 quaintance who had just left the Emerald Isle, and from him learned of the failure of the potato crop, and of the consequent famine in the old country. _Returning therefore to Portsmouth, he resumed work as a carpenter and builder, and remained a resident of the city until his death, in 1863. His wife, whose maiden name was Bridget Dervin, was born in Dublin, and died in Portsmouth in 1845, leaving two children, namely : James W., the subject of this brief sketch ; and Mary, widow of Edward Mulligan, of Portsmouth. James W. Bannon attended school quite regularly until fourteen years old, when he became a clerk in the mercantile establishment o f Emanuel Miller, with whom he remained seven years. In the meantime, being studious and ambitious, Mr. Bannon devoted all of his leisure time to the acquiring of knowledge, for thirteen months studying law under the supervision of Judge Peck, and later being under the instruction of Judge H. A. Towne. On March 15, 1864, he was admitted to the bar, his certificate being signed by his former preceptors, William V. Peck and H. A. Towne. On May 2, 1864, Mr. Bannon enlisted for 100 days in Company E, One Hundred and Fortieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was appointed first- sergeant of his company. Going with his command to Virginia, he remained on duty in that state until honorably discharged at the expiration of his term of enlistment. Returning from the war, Mr. Bannon was engaged in the practice of law with Judge Henry A. Towne until February, 1869. He then formed a partnership with T. C. Anderson, under the firm name of Bannon & Anderson, and was associated with him until 1878. In 189.1 Mr. Bannon admitted his sons, Henry T. and Arthur H., to partnership, and the firm of Bannon & Bannon thus established has since carried on an extensive and highly remunerative legal business. One of the best known and most skilful lawyers of Scioto County, Judge Bannon always kept particularly busy with his legal business, and served as counsel for various corporations. He was president of the First National Bank from 1893 until 1907, and at his death was one of the directorate ; he also served as a director in numerous enterprises of importance ; and from 1884 until 1887 was judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Mr. Evans, editor and publisher of the Scioto County History, and long a resident of Portsmouth, said of Judge Bannon, "He stands at the -head of his profession as a lawyer, and has been equally as successful in business enterprises. He is generous and liberal in every worthy cause. Socially he is a most charming companion, and his delineations of Irish character and nature are true to life." Judge Bannon married, April 29, 1866, Mary E. Smith. She was 1296 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION born in Scioto County, June 1, 1843, a daughter of Joseph Mills Glidden and Charlotte Maria (Hurd) Smith. Judge and Mrs. Bannon are the parents of four children, namely : Henry Towne, Arthur Hurd, Charlotte, and James W., Jr. After his graduation from the Portsmouth schools, Henry Towne Bannon attended the Ohio State University a year, and hi 1886 entered the literary department of the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated with the class of 1889. Subsequently studying law with his father, he was admitted to the bar in 1891, and has since been in partnership with his father and brother. He served in the fifty-ninth and sixtieth Congresses. He married Jessie Damarin, and they have two children, Elizabeth and Louis D. Arthur Hurd Bannon attended the schools of Portsmouth until sixteen years old, and then studied for two years under Prof. J. A. I. Lowes. Entering the University of Michigan in 1886, he was graduated in 1890, and since his admission to the bar in 1892 has been engaged in the practice of law with his father and brother, under the firm name of Bannon & Bannon. He married Edith Leeds, and has two children, Katherine and Edith. JAMES HENRY FERGUSON. The extensive mineral and industrial resources of the Hanging Rock Iron Region have naturally developed a number of finished experts in mining, manufacturing and all the allied industries that depend upon coal and iron ore. Of these men perhaps none has had a broader field of experience and a reputation more generally recognized throughout the country than James Henry Ferguson, who for forty years has been connected with almost every phase of coal mining, iron mining, blast furnaces, iron manufacture and has been ,an individual workman, an expert investigator, and a manager of large plants and of large forces of employes. James Henry Ferguson was born at South Point, in Lawrence County, Ohio, January 29, 1852. His parents were John and Elizabeth (Thomas) Ferguson, both of whom represented some of the earliest families of Lawrence County and were both natives of South Point. The father was born in 1818 and the mother in 1828, and the former died in 1898 and the latter in 1906. John Ferguson was a farmer and boatman. Their seven children were Vincent, James Henry,' Samuel, Theodore, Mary, Addie and Cynthia. James Henry Ferguson grew up in the atmosphere of coal and ore industries, but was also equipped with a liberal education in preparation for his life work. After leaving the public schools of South Point he entered what is now the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and was a student there until 1873. In the meantime he had HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1297 assisted his father on the farm, was for two years a merchant at South Point, and finally sold out and went west to Colorado, where 2 1/2 years were spent as a laborer in and around mines and furnaces and this ex, perience gave him an intimate and practical knowledge of mining activities. On his return to Ohio, he was manager of the store conducted by the Crafts Iron Company at Greendale in the Hocking Valley for three . years, then for three years was superintendent of coal mines with the Star. Consolidated Coal Company of Colorado, again returned to Ohio and was superintendent of mines and blast furnaces from 1878 to 1889, and from that year until 1902 was superintendent of mines and coke ovens at Carperton, Fayette County, West Virginia. The following two years were spent as superintendent of coal mines at Congo in Perry County, Ohio, and from 1904 until 1905 he Was superintendent of coal mines and coke ovens at Raton, New Mexico. From 1905 to 1907 Mr. Ferguson was superintendent of blast furnace and coal and ore mines at Rockbridge, Virginia, and then entered the service of the Tennessee Coal & Iron Railway Company, first as superintendent of coal mines and coke ovens at Ensley, Alabama, from 1907 to 1908, then at Tray -City, Tennessee, as superintendent of coal mines and coke ovens from the spring of 1908 to the fall of the same year, and finally six months as superintendent of mines and coke ovens at Birmingham, Alabama. The Lookout Mountain Iron Company then employed him as superintendent of their ore, coal mines and coke ovens and blast furnace during 1908-09, and up to the spring Of 1911. he was superintendent of furnaces for the Columbus Ohio Iron & Steel Company. His next field of work was again in West Virginia as superintendent of mines and coke ovens until 1912, up to 1913 was connected with the Union Iron & Steel Company of Ironton, Ohio, and after that with the Lawrence Iron Company in the Lawrence Furnace from 1913 to 1914, at which time the works shut down. As this list indicates, Mr. Ferguson has for nearly forty years, since 1.876, held prominent positions with many large corporations, and it is a Significant. fact that he has never asked for a position from any company, his services having always been in demand and several time different corporations have vied with each other in competition for his ability as an administrator and expert on all phases of mining and ore manufacture.  On October 25, 1887, Mr. Ferguson married Mary Barton, daughter of William Barton, a steamboat man at South Point in Lawrence County. They have two children, Margaret Kyle and James Barton. Mr. Ferguson is affiliated with the Masonic Order, belongs to the First Presbyterian Church of Ironton, and is a republican in politics. He is the 1298 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION owner of eighty acres of improved land on section 32 of Perry Township in Lawrence County and has a comfortable residence in Ironton. THOMAS C. ANDERSON. A well-known and highly respected member of the Scioto County bar, Thomas C. Anderson, of Portsmouth, takes an active interest in local affairs, and as a landholder is identified with the advancement of the agricultural prosperity of this part of the state. A son of Thomas Anderson, Jr., he was born in Chauncey, Athens County, Ohio, of pioneer ancestry. Thomas Anderson, Sr., his paternal grandfather, a native of Pennsylvania, was an early settler of Fairfield County, Ohio. Buying a tract of land near the present site of Lancaster, he cleared an opening, and in the log house which he built subsequently lived until his death. He married Magdalene Mechlen, whose parents were also pioneers of Fairfield County, the original Meallen farm, near Lancaster, joining the Anderson homestead. Thomas Anderson, Jr., was born on the parental homestead, near Lancaster, Ohio, in 1829, and in the pioneer schools of his day acquired a practical education. Preferring some other occupation than that of a farmer, he went to Chauncey on leaving school, and was there for a time employed as clerk at the salt works. In 1852, lured westward by the call of gold, he started with his brothers for California, sailing from New York. When but a short distance from •land, he was accidentally shot, receiving a serious wound. There being no surgeon on board, the ship landed, and he was taken to a hospital in Philadelphia, where his death occurred when he was but twenty-three years of age. The maiden name of the wife of Thomas Anderson, Jr., was Louisa Cutler. She was born in Amesville, Athens County, Ohio, a daughter of Charles Cutler, and granddaughter of Ephraim and Leah (Atwood) Cutler, while her great-grandfather, Manasseh Cutler, the New England statesman and patriot, who took a very active part in the early settlement of Ohio, and was largely instrumental in successfully carrying through the famous Ordinance of 1787, which dedicated the whole territory of which the settlement at Marietta was a part to freedom, education and religion. Manasseh Cutler belonged to a prominent New England family, whose history has been published in two volumes. Ephraim Cutler, son of Manasseh Cutler, came to Ohio in 1795 as agent for the Ohio Company, of which he was a stockholder, and, with his family, lived at the garrjson in Waterford until 1799, when he moved to Ames. Very prominent in public affairs, he served as a member of the Territorial Legislature, and also of the first constitutional convention. An HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1299 extended account. This life appears in the "History of Athens County," published in 1869, C. M. Walker being the editor. Mrs. Louisa (Cutler) Anderson being left a widow when young, with one child, Thomas C. Anderson, married for her second husband Dr. Lorenzo Fuller, of Amesville. She did not live many years thereafter, dying at the age of thirty-seven years. By her second marriage she had two sons, William Fuller and Louis Fuller. Doctor Fuller was very kind to his step-son, Thomas C. Anderson, and not only offered to educate him, but would willingly have had him share equally with his own sons in his estate. Mr. Anderson, however, decided to live with his uncle, Samuel H. Anderson, who occupied the old Anderson homestead. He had previously laid a good foundation for his future education in the Amesville schools, and at a seminary. He therefore entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, where he was graduated with the class of 1871. Turning his attention then to the study of law, Mr. Anderson read elementary text books until 1872, when he entered the law office of Moore, Jackson & Newman, in Portsmouth. Admitted to the bar by the district court during the same year, he immediately began the practice of his profession in Portsmouth, where he has since continued most successfully, from 1875 until 1880 having been in 'partnership with J. W; Bannon, and later with Judge George M. Osborn. Mr. Anderson is interested in agriculture, and devotes a part of his time to the management of his farm, which lies two miles out from the city, and though he does not specialize in stock raising he takes great pride in his fine herd of Jersey cattle. Mr. Anderson married, in 1876, Ida Frances Cole, daughter of Capt. Amos B. Cole, and granddaughter of Silas W. Cole, a pioneer of Portsmouth. Silas W. Cole was born in Chenango County, New York; August 2, 1797, and there learned the trade of a wagon mater. Going to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1819, he taught English in a German school for a short time, and then, with two companies, came in a skiff to Portsmouth, Ohio. Locating in Washington Township, he followed his trade until 1825, when he took up his residence in Portsmouth. Becoming prominent in public affairs, he served as clerk, overseer of the poor, health officer of Wayne Township, president of the town council, street commissioner, and was also county commissioner and infirmary director. His death, which occurred January 6, 1867, was mourned as a public loss. Silas W. Cole was twice married. His first wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Huston, was a daughter of William Huston, and the grandmother of Mr. Anderson. She died in 1861, and he married for his second wife Antoinette Squires. Amos B. Cole was born in Portsmouth, Ohio; December 13, 1827, and Vol. II-4 2