800 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION ley, and great-granddaughter of Benjamin and Mary (Baldwin) Bentley. By his second marriage Mr. Peebles has two children, Miriam. and Joseph Bentley. Martha Steele Peebles married. Elmer Dover, and has one daughter, Mary Elizabeth Dover. Miriam, his youngest daughter, is the wife of Jay Lee Cross, and they have one child, Jay Lee Cross, Jr. Joseph Bentley Peebles married Ellen Vandervoert, and they have one child, Martha Bentley Peebles. Mr. and Mrs. Peebles are members of the Second. Presbyterian Church, and have reared their children in the same religious faith. Fraternally Mr. Peebles 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 ; of the Ohio Consistory ; of Syrian Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; and is ,a thirty-third degree Mason, and an honorary member of Trinity Consistory No. 2, of Nashville, Tennessee. GEORGE OTT NEWMAN. Noteworthy among the more highly esteemed and respected citizens of Portsmouth is George Ott Newman, who has for many years been actively engaged in the practice of law. He was born November 9, 1836, in Staunton, Virginia, a son of Hon. William and Catherine (Ott) Newman. An extended account of his. ancestors may be found elsewhere in this volume, in connection with the sketch of his brother-in-law, the late Joseph G. Reed. Hon. William. Newman Was born in Salem, Roanoke County, Virginia, January 19, 1807, and was there bred and educated. Coining to Ohio at the age of twenty years, he located at Newark; and there, in 1828, cast his first presidential vote for Andrew. Jackson. Returning. to Virginia, he lived for a time in Woodstock, Shenandoah County, from there moving to Staunton, where he engaged in mercantile business. In 1838 he again came to Ohio, this time bringing with him his wife and two children. He .journeyed with horse and carriage to Wheeling, and from there to Portsmouth, Ohio, by boat. At the death of his father, in 1840, he went to Highland County to Settle the parental estate. Returning to Portsmouth at the end of one year, he established himself as a contractor and builder, and in that capacity erected many of the finer brick buildings of the city, including residences, business blocks; churches and school building's. Very successful in his operations, he. continued the business until his death, July 23, 1874. He was a member of the Ohio Senate in 1860 and 1861. Hon. William Newman married, in 1834, at Woodstock, Virginia, Mrs Catherine. (Ott) Williams, whose death occurred July 8, 1856.. Six HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 801 children were born of their union, as follows: Anna M., widow of Joseph G. Reed; George Ott; William H.; James W. ; Rigdon; and Charles H. William H. Newman served as captain of Company A, Thirty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil war, and later was for a number of years clerk in the treasury department at Washington, D. C. He spent his last years in California, dying in Los Angeles. Charles Newman, who became an Episcopalian minister, held pastorates in various places, and died in Florida. Rigdon Newman learned the printer's trade, and subsequently located in Louisville, Kentucky, where his death occurred. Acquiring his elementary education in the public schools of Portsmouth, George Ott Newman subsequently entered the. Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, and was there graduated with the- class of 1858. Beginning then the study of law in the office of Moore & Johnson, he was admitted to the bar by the District Court of Morrow. County on August 1, 1860, and at once began the practice of his profession in Portsmouth. In 1860 Mr. Newman joined the state militia and was commissioned first sergeant of Company A, Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Militia. The company responded to Lincoln's first call for troops in April, 1861, and became Company G, First Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was mustered into the United States service at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, April 29, 1861. Mr. Newman was with his regiment until August 1, 1861, when he was honorably discharged with his regiment, his term of enlistment having expired. Upon his return to Portsmouth his many friends insisted that he should be a candidate for prosecuting attorney of Scioto County, and he was elected to that office on the democratic ticket for one term. Mr. Newman subsequently engaged in the practice of his chosen profession, and through his legal skill and ability built up a large and lucrative patronage. Mr. Newman married, September 12, 1866, to Miss Clay B. Moore, a daughter of Oscar F. and Martha B. (Scott) Moore. Four children have been born of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Newman, namely : Oscar W., Kate, wife of Edwin N. Alger, has one daughter, Clay Alger; Russell C., who married Mary Bayrd, and has one child, Oscar Newman ; and Fannie C.; wife of Edward H. Shaw, of Atlanta, Georgia, who has three children, George N., Oscar M. and Helen M. Shaw. Mr. Newman served as a member of the board of city electors until the board was abolished, has been president of the board -of trustees of the public library since its organization in 1879, and president of the Portsmouth Bar Associa- tion since its organization in 1901. He belongs to two college fraternities, the Sigma Chi and the Phi Beta Kappa. 802 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION H. S. WILLARD. One of the men most prominent in the coal and iron development of Jackson County and elsewhere, and for many years president of the First National Bank of Wellston. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, August 31, 1849. It was only the accident of birth that made him a native of Cincinnati, since his parents were at that time living at Buckhorn Furnace in Lawrence County, Ohio. Four months after his birth his father, Henry S. Willard, died at Buckhorn Furnace. When he was a boy of ten years his mother married O. B. Gould of Franklin Furnace, Scioto County. Mr. Willard, after the public schools, completed his education in the School of Technology at Boston, and then went to Kansas. From there he returned to Ohio and in March, 1873, went to Jackson County, where Wellston was subsequently founded. He became superintendent of the Milton Furnace & Coal Company, and inaugurated the development of the Wellston coal fields by sinking the Milton shaft and building the Milton furnace. This furnace was first blown in June, 1874. During the past forty years Mr. Willard has been actively engaged in the mining of coal and the manufacture of pig iron, and incidentally has become connected with many other enterprises in various places, extending as far west as the Pacific coast. He has been president of the First National Bank of Wellston since its organization' in 1886. Mr. Willard was married at Emporia, Kansas, September 4, 1872, to Miss Kate L. Robinson, daughter of Newton L; Robinson of Portsmouth, Ohio. They have three children : Kate Robinson, Pauline and Henry S., Jr. JUDGE JOHN DAVISSON. Some important history of early Lawrence County, and of the beginnings of Ironton, is illustrated by the career of Judge John Davisson, one of the most prominent pioneers of the Hanging Rock Iron Region, and a man whose memory is gratefully cherished by his many descendants in this section and whose work and influence should not pass unmentioned in any history of 'the locality. Judge John Davisson was born in Maryland. in 1777, came to Ohio and about 1801 settled on a tract of land beginning with the south bank of Storms Creek, following the Ohio River south to a point near where the D. T. & I. depot now stands, thence by a due east line out over the "Chronacher Hill" near the tunnel on Park Avenue. He was one of the pioneers who cleared away the timber and farmed the land on which the lower portion of Ironton now stands. He built his first log cabin about where the "old mill" used' to stand, and set out fruit trees. around it. Each year saw more land cleared and brought under cultivation until in 1812 he built a modern hewn log house, which, stood about where HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 803 Buckhorn Street crosses Fourth Street. Being one of the most prosperous farmers in this neighborhood, in 1822 he built the first brick house ever erected in this part of the country. For that purpose he brought brickmakers from Columbus, and they made and burned the brick on his own land and laid them in the walls. This was a two-story residence and marked a new era in home building for the surrounding neighborhood, and attracted. no little attention. It stood just back of the present New Excelsior shoe factory, fronting the river. It was occupied by his widow and family after his death until 1848, when the farm was sold for a townsite for Ironton, and the first lots were sold in June, 1849. This old house stood as a landmark long after the .town started, but was torn down in 1892 to make way, for improvements. Judge. Davisson was one of the most influential men in the public life of the county, serving as squire for many years before Lawrence County was organized, in what was then Upper Township of Scioto County, taking its name, from its position as the upper township in that county. Portsmouth, then \vas the metropolis of this section. When Lawrence County was organized in. 1817, Judge Davisson with two other gentlemen—Miller and Kerr - were made associate judges for the new county, Mr. Davisson being chosen presiding judge. He held court at Burlington, the new county seat, for a number of years. Between 1821 and 1826 he served three terms in the State Legislature, first at Chillicothe and last at Columbus: Tie made the trips to the capital on horseback, and stayed there all winter or throughout the session. The year he died 1831 —he was to have stood for the state senatorship, but a malignant disease cut short his useful life in its prime. In early life Judge Davisson was a splendid marksman and a great wolf hunter. His wife was Susanah Lambert; born in New Jersey just twenty days after the Declaration of Independence. She died in 1848. They reared a splendid family of twelve. children, nine sons and three daughters, who in turn have founded some of the :best families of this region and in western states. REV. CHARLES BOARDMAN TAYLOR, PH. D. One of the oldest and best known ministers and school men in southern Ohio is. Charles Boardman Taylor. He has some notable ancestors. His great-grandfather, Eliphalet Taylor, was a private in the Revolutionary army. His grandfather, Theodore Taylor, volunteered in 1799 and joined the army collected under the venerable Washington, for the defense of this country in the threatened war with France. Doctor Taylor himself and his father, Rev. Warren Taylor, were both members of Ohio regiments in the Civil Vol. II-11 804 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION war. Thus few families have a record of more service in the wars of the nation. Doctor Taylor's father was a member of Company E of the 140th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served a hundred days and received an honorable discharge. In 1862 Charles B. Taylor enlisted in Company G of the Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and in 1863 was transferred to the First Ohio Heavy Artillery. His service as a soldier continued from 1862 until after the close of the war in 1865. Most of his service was in the mountain regions of West Virginia; East Tennessee and East Kentucky, in the zone between the major operations of the contending armies of the East and West. Doctor Taylor is now a member of Sergeant Reed Post No. 253 of the Grand Army of the Republic, and is chaplain of the Post. Charles Boardman Taylor was born February 6, 1846, a son of Reverend Warren and Margaret (Walton) Taylor. Forty-six years ago he was ordained as a minister of the Presbyterian church. Since then he has preached in Vinton and Athens counties, Ohio, and for upwards of half a century his work has been either as a minister or as a practical educator. For two years he spent most of his time preaching to deaf mutes throughout the state. As a churchman Doctor Taylor has officiated at 280 weddings, about 1,300 funerals and has received into his church 640 persons. It is said that he has married and buried more people in Vinton County than any other minister. He founded and built the church at Guysville in Athens County, and assisted key. J. P. A. Dickey in reorganizing the church at McArthur twenty-five years ago, and since March 1, 1895, his home and work have been identified with this town of Vinton County. He has also filled pastorates at Deerfield, Guysville, Brownsville, Wilkesville and McArthur, filling the same pastorate at Wilkesville which had been honored' by his father before him. Doctor Taylor's son, Warren L., has also preached in Wilkesville, so that members of three successive generations have filled that pulpit. He is president of. the Vinton County Civic League, which is a local supplement to the Ohio anti-saloon organization. He also served eight years as a member of the Board of School examiners of Vinton County, but retired from that office in 1907. Doctor Taylor is the author of two school books : Lessons in Psychology and Lessons in Law. His name also appears as the author of two historical works : Wilkesville and Salem, and The Presbytery of Athens. By ancestry he is of old New England stock. His father, Rev. Warren Taylor, was born in New Hampshire. October 6, 1814: The grandfather, Theodore Taylor, was a native of Rhode Island, but lived for many years in New, Hampshire, and finally came out to Michigan, where he died at the age of sixty-three. Warren Taylor grew up and was HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 805 educated in the East, attended the Union College at Schenectady, New York, and later became a prominent educator and Presbyterian Minister. He was ordained at Warren in Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1844, and as a preacher and teacher he spent an active career of forty-six years. He died in Ross County, Ohio, April 21, 1890. It was. while filling the pastorate at Wilkesville in Vinton County that he established a private school known as the Wilkesville Normal Academy.. He was prominently known and esteemed over several counties of Ohio. Rev. Warren Taylor was married April 24, 1840, at Freehold, New Jersey, to Miss Margaret Walton.. She was born and reared in New Jersey and she died in the arms of her son, Doctor Taylor, at his home May 6, 1892. She was born in 1820, and throughout her life was a devout Presbyterian. She became the mother of four sons: One of these, Rev. V. E. Taylor, who died at the home of his. brother, Dr. Charles B., in 1912, was for thirty-four years an active minister of the Presbyterian Church and never, married. Rev. Park W. Taylor, another brother, is now a home missionary and serving in. a jurisdiction on the west side of the Appalachian range of mountains in Tennessee, and is also unmarried. B. G. Taylor, the :other brother, is a. 'carpenter by trade, lives in Dayton, Ohio, and is married and has a family of children. At Wilkesville, Ohio, February 15, 1866, Dr. Charles B. Taylor married Miss Bettie Ruth Davis. She was born near Wilkesville, but in Meigs County, Ohio, January 28, 1848. She was a student with her husband under the direction of Rev. Warren Taylor. Her grandfather, John Davis, came from Eastern New York, and was a pioneer in the Wilkesville community of Ohio, having located there. in 1818, and the land which he acquired 'from the Government and which was improved by his labors is still in the family, being owned by a great-grandson, John Williams. Mrs. Taylor's father, Erastus Davis, was born in New York in 1815, and was two and a half years of age when the family located in Vinton County. He. grew to manhood in that locality, and subsequently became a flour and sawmill man. He married Phoebe B. Brown of the old Brown family of Amesville, Ohio. They lived happily together for more than forty years, and were active members of the Presbyterian Church at Wilkesville. To Dr. and Mrs. Taylor have been born the following children : Phebe, wife of H. M. Lee of Bailey, Michigan, owner of a fine mill at that town, and they have :five sons and one daughter, one son being in the United States .Army, and one in the United States Navy; Cornelia V. is a missionary worker, and for the past three years has been located at Beaumont, Texas; Margaret W. is the wife of John McGathey, who is connected with the National Cash Register Company at Dayton, Ohio; 806 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION Rev. Warren Lincoln Taylor is a Presbyterian home missionary and his work is on the east side of the Appalachian Mountains at Eskota, North Carolina, and is married and has one daughter ; Adaline is the wife or Albert G. Poston, and they live at Pliny, West Virginia, and have a family of several children ; Eunice L. is supervisor of primary teaching at Rio Grande College, Ohio; Rev. Arthur Hamilton Taylor is now finishing his course in the Lane Seminary at Cincinnati ; Esther M. is a teacher in the public schools of Covington, Kentucky, where she has been located for the past three years; E. Scott, the youngest, is making his home at McArthur, where he is connected with a feed store, and he married Miss Norma Trainer of McArthur. CORYDON E. NOURSE. As a building contractor Corydon E. Nourse has been identified with Portsmouth and Scioto County for many years, and his work is exemplified in hundreds of structures, including business blocks and private residences, and his reputation for responsible management and systematic execution of every contract is thoroughly established. Corydon E. Nourse was born at Friendship, in Nile. Township, Scioto County, June 26, 1872. He comes of pioneer stock in this section of Ohio. His father was Oliver Nourse, who was born at Cary Run, in Scioto County; while Grandfather Joshua Nourse was one of the pioneers in this section. Joshua bought land at Cary Run, and put up a frame house which is still standing and in a good state of repair. The work of carpentry has been almost a family profession, and the grandfather was an excellent workman at the trade and did building for many of the early residents of Scioto County, where he lived as a resident until his death. His remains now rest in the Vaughter Cemetery. Joshua Nourse married Elizabeth Noland, and their five children were Oliver, Corydon, Elliott, Elizabeth and Lucy. Oliver Nourse, the father, also learned the trade of carpentry, and in early, manhood, in 1861, volunteered for service in Company A of the Ohio Infantry. He saw some active service as a soldier and made a good record. After his honorable discharge he returned home, and continued working at his trade until his death at the age of fifty-six. Oliver married Sarah Walker. She was born at Turkey Creek, in Nile Township, a daughter of John Walker. She survived her husband only a short time and was of the same age at the time of her death. Her six children who grew up were Lucy, Corydon E., William J., Pryor, Edith and Edna. Corydon E. Nourse attended the public schools as a boy and early began assisting his father as a carpenter and thus has been a practical HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 807 man of the trade for almost a quarter of a century. By 1893, when he reached his majority, he began taking contracts for his own execution. In .1.898 Mr. Nourse left Ohio and spent a year in San Antonio, Texas, and from there moved to St. Louis, and during the five years spent in that city continued working at his trade, and a part of the time was employed in the construction of the World's Fair buildings. Since returning to Scioto County Mr. Nourse has continued his business as a contractor, and has successfully carried out contracts for many private houses and business blocks. June 26,. 1895, he married Bertha M. Cook, who was born in Nile Township, a daughter of John H. and Lulu (Early) Cook. The four children of Mr. and Mrs. Nourse are Audry, Guy, Lulu and Ronald. Mr. Nourse and wife are members of the Manley Methodist Episcopal Church, in politics he is a republican and is now serving on the city school board, while his fraternal affiliations are with Massie Lodge No. 115 of the Knights of Pythias. WILLIAM B. ANDERSON. This name of a prominent Portsmouth merchant bespeaks an extensive relationship with pioneer families in Southern Ohio, including the Warwicks, the Russells, the Hibbs, Lucas and others. The Andersons have been active in local business affairs for many years, and William B. Anderson is president of the Anderson Brothers Company and president of the Portsmouth Board of Trade. He was born at Howards Mills, Kentucky. His father, the late George Washington Anderson, was born in Bath County, Kentucky, January 18, 1830. Grandfather William Anderson, a native of Virginia, left that state for Kentucky, and spent the rest of his days on a farm in Bath County. He married Fanny Graham, whose father was Judge Graham, of Virginia. George W. Anderson began his business career at the age of sixteen, as clerk in his uncle's store in Mercer County, Kentucky, and two years later became clerk on the steamboat Blue Wing, running between Frankfort and Louisville. Six months of that and he returned to Mercer County, and in 1856 went to Cincinnati to take a course of training in Bartlett's Commercial College, and remained for a time as one of the teachers. From 1857 until the winter of 1859-60 he had a store at Howards Mills, Kentucky, following which he was successively engaged in merchandising at Camargo for two years and then. at Mt. Sterling. The war was in progress, and Mt. Sterling was raided by John Morgan's band. Being apprised of the enemy's approach, Mr. Anderson secreted his most valuable goods in some coffins owned by an undertaker who, while a southern sympathizer, was a true friend of 'the merchant. By this 808 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION little strategy the goods were saved, but on a second raid by the same band his store iv cleaned out and he determined to remove to the north side of the Ohio River. Accordingly, in October, 1864, he moved to Portsmouth and with Peter Helms `opened a store on Market Street. When peace came a few months later, he returned to Mt. Sterling, but in February, 1867, began a more permanent connection with. Portsmouth. as a business man. His store this time was on Second Street at the corner of .Court, but in the fall it was removed to a building erected for him by Dan McFarland in the same block. The only other interruption to his career as a Portsmouth merchant came. in 1872, when he sold out and went. to Kansas and tried both merchandising and farming in the Sunflower State, being member of the firm of J. F. Warwick & Company. Having disposed of his Kansas interests in 1.874 and returned to Portsmouth, George W. Anderson bought the shoe store of R. M. Lloyd & Company on Chillicothe Street. The stock was later moved to Second Street, occupying the west half of the building later the home of the Hibbs Hardware Company, on the north side of Second between Court and Market.. While in that location W. B. Anderson became associated with his father under the firm name of G. W. Anderson & Son, and the subsequent admission of Eugene G. Anderson. changed the title to G. W. Anderson & Sons. A stock of dry goods was, added in 1886, and. a change made to more commodious quarters in the Huston Stone Front, opposite, but after nine years the store was moved to near the Washington Hotel. That remained the place of business until after' the death of George W. Anderson, 'which ,occurred October 8, 1895. On October 22, 1.857, George W. Anderson married Annie Warwick. Her father, Dr. .Beverly G. Warwick, was born in Nelson County, Virginia, December 25, 1805, a son of Nelson Warwick, and was liberally educated for the time. In 1825 he taught in Nelson. County at Bethel Church, moved to Augusta County in 1827, teaching three years near Waynesboro, and for. four years followed the same work at Staunton. In the meantime he had studied medicine under Dr. T. Reynolds, and in 1,837. attended lectures in - the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati. Beginning in 1838, he practiced a year at Deerfield in Augusta County of his home state, and then at Middlebrook, Virginia, until 1856. In 1857 he was graduated from the Miami Medical College and the following winter attended Ohio Medical College, which also gave him a diploma. Doctor Warwick was also a minister of the gospel, having been licensed as a local preacher of the Methodist Church in 1850 and in 1857 was ordained a deacon by Bishop. Morris. Doctor Warwick came to Portsmouth in 1858, but the following year HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 809 removed to Lucasville, where he kept a general store and drug store, besides other professional activities, and lived there until his death on June 14, 1880. Doctor Warwick married, September 19, 1833, Mary Fisher, a daughter of Anthony Fisher, of Churchville, Virginia. She died February 1, 1902, the mother of seven children. George W. Anderson and wife had thirteen children, and those who grew up were : William Beverly; Maggie M., wife of Dr. J. N. W. Crawford; Sallie J., who died at Cincinnati October 13, 1901, the wife of Dr. F. H. Williams, of Portsmouth; George. B., who died at Cincinnati January 13, 1902 ; John Frank; Charles N., president of the Anderson-Newcomb Company, of Huntington, West Virginia; Eugene G., president of the fl Western Dry Goods Company, Seattle; Preston H., in the department store of Hale Bros., San Francisco; Warwick W.; secretary and treasurer of the Anderson Bros.. Company, Portsmouth, Ohio; Nelson R., -an attorney, of Seattle; and Crawford, secretary of the Western Dry Goods Company, Seattle. William. B. Anderson was a pupil in public schools until sixteen; and then began a practical business experience which has covered forty-one years. His first work was in his lather's store, and in 1878 he was made a, partner. In March, 1900, the store was removed to its present location on Chillicothe Street, the building having been erected for the company by Doctor Crawford. In 1903 Mr. Anderson acquired title to the adjoining building, and now the extensive stocks of the various departments occupy four floors in the two buildings. In 1904 the firm was, incorporated as Anderson Brothers Company, with Mr. Anderson president, Charles N. Anderson, vice president and Warwick W. Anderson secretary and treasurer. Since then Russell W. Anderson has come into the company as second vice president. Besides being executive head of one of the chief mercantile houses, of the Hanging Rock region, Mr. Anderson is vice president and director of the Security Savings & Trust Company, a director of the Breece Manufacturing Company, vice president of the Anderson-Newcomb Company, of Huntington; West Virginia. He is president of the Portsmouth Board .of Trade, and for many years has been public spiritedly identified with both the commercial and civic welfare of this city. In 1886 Mr. Anderson married Miss Ida Russell, who was born near Lucasville, in Scioto County, a daughter of William B. and Rebecca (Hibbs) Russell, a family with some early and prominent relations with, at the age of fourteen, learned the trade of hatter in Philadelphia, and the affairs of this section of Ohio. William B. Russell was born at West Union, in Adams County, Ohio, in 1810. His father, Hon. William Russell, a native of Ireland and left an orphan, came to America 810 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION at the age of fourteen, learned the trade of hatter. in Philadelphia; and followed it at Maysville, Kentucky, until 1802. In that year he established his home at West .Union, in Adams County, Ohio, and for many years was a merchant and prominent in early state politics. He represented Adams County in the first Legislature, which net at Chillicothe, and when Scioto County was organized in 1803 was appointed the first clerk of courts, an office he resigned in 1804. In 1809 he Was again elected to represent Adams County in the Legislature, and in February, 1810, was appointed associate judge for Scioto County, resigning in 1812. In 1811 he represented Adams County in the Legislature which met in Zanesville, and the same county in 1819 sent him to the State Senate, and he was re-elected in 1820. His political career was a notable one, and in the fall of 1826 he was elected on the democratic ticket to Congress, and was twice re-elected from the same district. In 1833 he removed to Scioto County- to engage in the iron business, and in 1841 was again sent to Congress, this time as a whig. At the end of his term he located on his farm on Brush Creek, where he spent the rest of his days. Says Evans, the local historian : "He filled each and every office with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents." By his marriage in 1802 to Nancy Wood were born six sons and one daughter: William B. Russell, father of Mrs. Anderson, was educated in early life for the profession of physician, but did not .complete his course in medical college, .and turned his attention to agriculture and horticulture on his farm in Brush Creek Township. Later he came to Portsmouth to give his children school advantages and became accountant in the hardware store of his brother-in-law, J. L. Hibbs. He died at Portsmouth at the age of seventy-five. His first wife was Rhoda Hered, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Kendal) Hered. Her five children were named George, John; Joseph, Carrie and Ellen. The second :wife, and the mother of Mrs. Anderson, was Rebecca Lucas Hibbs. She was born in Union Township of Scioto County, August 3, 1825. Her father, Jacob Hibbs, Sr., was born in Pennsylvania. November 5, 1793. Jacob's father was Aaron, one of the first settlers in Adams County, Ohio, having located near the present site of Locust Grove about 1800. Aaron married Catherine Humphreys, and he died in 1852 and she in. 1846. Jacob Hibbs assisted in clearing a farm from the wilderness and after his marriage removed to Union Township, in Scioto County, where he died in 1852. His marriage to Rebecca Lucas introduce's another interesting family into this record. Her father, Judge Joseph Lucas, was born in Virginia in 1771. His father, William Lucas, was born in Virginia in 1742, and February 13, 1777, enlisted for three, HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 811 years in the Second Virginia Regiment and served with the rank of captain. In Virginia he was a large planter, operating with slave labor. In 1800, having sold his Virginia estate, he moved into the Northwest Territory to join his sons; who had preceded him as pioneers. He located at Lucasville and died there in 1814, being buried in the Lucasville Cemetery with military honors appropriate to his service as a Revolutionary soldier. Judge Joseph Lucas had come into Ohio in 1797, accompanied .by his brother William, for the purpose of locating their father's land warrants, and settled at the mouth of Pond Creek, in what is now Rush Township, Adams County, then. Joseph Lucas was well educated and took a prominent part in affairs, being one of the three who represented Adams County in the first session of the State Legislature. At the session beginning in March, 1803, at Chillicothe, Scioto County was organized, and he was one of the men appointed associate judge of the new county,, an office he held until his death in 1808. Joseph Lucas married Hannah Humphreys, and they reared three sons and three daughters. Mrs. Anderson was one of six children, namely: Charles F., William L., Edward W., Mary G., Ida and Mabel Russell. Mr. W. B. Anderson and wife have reared seven children, named Maud, Russell W., Ann E., Margaret, William B., Jr., Richard L. and John L. Maud is the wife of Arthur N. Horr, and has two children, Beverly David and Arthur N. Russell. W. Anderson married Ruth C. Pontius. Ann E. is the wife of Oliver Morton Shumway. Mr. Anderson and wife are members of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is president of the board of trustees and has been superintendent of the Sunday. School twenty-five years. His fraternal membership is in Aurora Lodge No. 48, A. F. & A. M., Mount Vernon Chapter No. 23, R. A. M., Solomon Council. No. 79, R. & S. M and Calvary Commandery No. 13, K. T. JOSEPH EDWARD SHUMP: The special success of Joseph Edward Shump in Scioto County has been in the field of real estate operations. Mr. Shump is a resident of Sciotoville, and has been known since early manhood to this community as a successful teacher, a worker for others in various lines, and as a shrewd and foresighted investor in real estate. He has done much to develop Sciotoville and has large interests in the South. Joseph Edward Shump was born at Sciotoville, a son of William Shump, and a grandson of Conrad Shump. The last named was born in Germany, where his name was spelled Schumppe. He was the only member of his immediate. family to come to America, arrived in this country when a young man .and lived in Pennsylvania several years, 812 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION and from there came in the early days to Scioto County, buying a tract of timbered land in Harrison Township. A number of years were devoted to the heavy task of clearing off this forest and tilling the soil, and in that: community he died at the age of eighty-eight years. Aiming his children were William, Henry, Theodore, Louis, John and Mrs. Sarah Weeks. . William Shump, the father, was born in Pennsylvania in 1838, was brought to Ohio when a child, and grew up on the old farm in Harrison Township. When still a young man, in 1862, he: enlisted for service in the Union army, joining the Seventh Ohio Cavalry. Few Scioto County volunteers had a more active service than William Shump. His regiment participated in the Kentucky.. during 1862, then in the operations through Tennessee, was with Sherman's army on its advance from Chickamauga to Atlanta, and then returned to Tennessee with the troops in pursuit of Hood's army, participating in those sharp and sanguinary conflicts at Franklin and: Nashville. During the Kentucky campaign he fought at Mount Sterling, Dutton Hill, Monticello, Rocky Gap, in Tennessee was at Cumberland Gap, Blue Springs, the siege of Knoxville, Bains Crossroads and Newmarket. At the close of the war he was discharged with .his regiment and returned home and for several years was connected with the Harrison Furnace. He then removed to Sciotoville, and is now living retired in that village. William Shump married Maria Cornell. Hers is one of the old families of the Hanging Rock region. She was born in Porter Township of Scioto County, a daughter of Sela Cornell. Her grandfather was 'a native of New Jersey, and from that state emigrated to Ohio about 1825 and bought a , tract of land in Harrison Township, where he improved. a farm and lived until his death. Sela Cornell, who was born in New Jersey about 1807, was a young man. when he accompanied his parents to Ohio, and subsequently bought a tract of Government land bordering the Seloto River. His first improvement was a log house, to which subsequently was placed an addition of frame, and after several years he sold out And. removed to Portsmouth and was a resident there at the time of his death, at the age of eighty years. Mr. Cornell married Mary Welch, who was also born in New Jersey, and died it the age of seventy-two. The nine: children reared by Mr. and. Mrs. Cornell are named Thomas; Abraham, Maria,' Izora, Herbert L., Raymond, Rosa,' Warren and John. Mr. and Mrs. William Shump had five children.: Henry; Thomas; Mary, who married George Royal ; Isabella, who married Robert Leithner; and Joseph Edward. Mr. Joseph E. Shump grew up in. Sciotoville, where his education came from the local schools, and having qualified himself for that voca-   HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 813 Lion, he began teaching at the age of nineteen. His first term of school was in the McCullough District in Union Township, and he taught in several different districts, and his final teaching was in the high school at Rarden. Following that he was for four years a clerk in the office of the N. W. Railroad, and in 1907 opened an office for the real estate business at Portsmouth. That has been his home office from which he has conducted his operations, which, however, have chiefly centered in Sciotoville. Having foreseen, the growth and development of this town, he invested all- his capital in local real estate, and has improved several pieces of property. Mr. Shump is also largely interested in real estate development in Florida, being one of the interested parties in the development of the tract of 118;000 acres around Felsmere. Mr. Shump was married December 21, 1898, to Estella B. Mathiot. She was born at Lyra, Scioto County, a daughter of Samuel S. and Louisa (McCurdy) Mathiot. Mr. and Mrs. Shump have one son, Edwin Leroy. They are members of the First Baptist Church of Portsmouth. Fraternally Mr. Shump has affiliations with Aurora Lodge No. 48, A. F. & A. M., Solomon Council No. 79, R. & S. M., Mount Vernon Chapter No. 23, R. A. M., and Calvary Commandery No. 13, K. T. also with Massie Lodge No. 115, Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen of America Camp No. 3993, and Lodge No. 154 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He* is a member of the Sons of Veterans. Mr. Shump has taken much interest in local affairs at Portsmouth, was elected a member of the city, council in 1908 and again chosen to the same position in 1913, ROBERT ORM RICHARDSON. One of the large and valuable estates of Scioto County belongs to the ,Richardson family., and Robert O. Richardson's chief business activity at Portsmouth is the care and management of, these various properties. The Richardsons have lived in Scioto County for many years, and Mr. Richardson's mother's family, the Ormes, were among the very early settlers in this region. Robert Orm Richardson is, a native of Portsmouth and a son of the late John Richardson, who was born in County Monaghan, Ireland. The grandfather was born in the same locality, and the great-grandparents were Robert and Martha (McDonald) Richardson. Robert Richardson was a farmer, probably lived in Ireland all his life, and his wife was a native of Scotland. the family were Presbyterians. in religion and reared their children -in the same faith. The late John Richardson left home when a youth, came to America, landed in New York City, worked in various lines there for a time, and then came to Portsmouth, where he was employed by an uncle. Ills only capital at 814 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION that time was good health. and willing hands.. By attending strictly to business, and by:his thrift he was eventually able to enter the grocery business at the corner of Chillicothe and Fifth streets.. He was a man of unusual business capacity, and had a large and prosperous business as a merchant His surplus capital was invested in city and farm property, and he finally retired from the grocery trade and devoted his attention to his real estate and other private affairs. His death occurred November 22, 1909. The. late. John Richardson married Phylara Orme. She was, born in Clay Township of Scioto County: Her father was John Orme, a native of Maryland, and her grandfather, John Orme, Sr., was born near Hagerstown, Maryland, of English parents. The senior Orme was reared. and married in Maryland, came to Ohio with his family about 1812, having made the journey by wagons over bad roads and in some parts through the unbroken forests. They bought a flatboat .on reaching the Ohio River, and. made the rest of the journey by water to Portsmouth. Arriving in Scioto County, Grandfather Orme rented the Ofner farm, lived in a log house, and that land is now included within the city limits of Portsmouth. For a number of years he farmed successfully, and then bought, land about five miles north of the courthouse, and cleared a farm from the midst of the woods. John Orme, Sr., and family endured all the hardships of pioneer life. The women of the .household worked at the spinning-wheel and even gave their assist ance in the farm work proper. At that time Portsmouth was the market town for the settlements many miles around, and the Orme children often walked. into town, carrying chickens, eggs and other produce to market. As a matter of interest it should be noted that they sold the eggs for three cents a dozen. The children were educated in a small log schoolhouse, with only one window, covered with greased paper, the school term lasting for about three months each year. John Orme, Sr., lived on the farm north of Portsinouth until his death, March 25, 1844, at the age of seventy-six. He married in 1798 at Hagerstown, Maryland, Elizabeth Graham, and they reared a family of eight children. Their son, John Orme, Jr., was very young when brought to Ohio; grew up in this new country, and after reaching manhood bought some Scioto bottom :lands in Clay Township. In that vicinity he continued his home until: his death. John Orme, Jr., married Philma Hayward, daughter of Moses Hayward, an old family which is sketched on other pages of this work. The late John Richardson and wife were the parents of two children: Essie, who married. George F. Thomas, and lives in Portsmouth, and Robert O. Robert O. Richardson acquired his early education in the city HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 815 schools of Portsmouth, and his first business experience was in his father's store. After that he went on the road as salesman for the National Biscuit Company, and continued to represent that well-known corporation for fifteen years. Since leaving the biscuit company, Mr. Richardson has devoted his time to the management of his father's estate. In 1912 he married Catherine Strayer, daughter of J. Frank and Elizabeth Strayer. Mr. and .Mrs. Richardson are members of the Second Presbyterian. Church of Portsmouth and he is affiliated with Portsmouth, Lodge No. 154, B. P. O. E., and with the United Commercial Travelers. MAURICE J. CALDWELL. In November, 1912, the people of Scioto County chose for the office of treasurer a citizen whose fitness for such responsibility and honor is unquestioned and exceptional. Maurice J. Caldwell has been a resident of. Scioto County most of his life, has been a practical and successful farmer, has some of the finest bred cattle and hogs in the state, and has always been noted for his honesty and efficiency in every undertaking with which his name has been connected. Mr. Caldwell, who was 'born on a farm in Valley Township of Scioto County, March 29, 1876, represents two prominent old families in this county and in Ohio, both the Caldwells and the Claypools, being people of more than ordinary prominence. His great-grandfather, Smiley Caldwell, was left an orphan at an early age, was reared among strangers, and in early manhood came to Ohio and became identified with the early settlement of the state, living for a time in Jackson County, and moving thence to Ross County, where he purchased land near Richmond Dale, and devoted many years to clearing the farm and cultivating it. Successful to a more than ordinary degree, he acquired other lands, and continued to live on the old homestead until his death. He married a widow, Mrs: Eve (Ridenour) McNeil, who had four children by her first husband. .By her marriage to Mr. Caldwell there were four children, Jacob, Edwin., Sarah J. and George. Captain Jacob Caldwell, grandfather of the Scioto County treasurer, was born near Richmond Dale, in Ross County, Ohio, acquired his early education in that vicinity, and for a time was a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. Following his marriage he located in Valley Township of Scioto County, and he and his brother Edwin bought land there and were partners in' general farming and stock-raising enterprise. Captain Jacob Caldwell :in 1862 enlisted in the Ninety-first Regiment of Ohio. Volunteer Infantry and was commissioned a captain of Company I. He went to the front with his regiment, and gave up his 816 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION life during his service, his death occurring at Frederick, Maryland, August 9, 1864. His remains were brought home and buried on his father's farm. Captain Caldwell married Huldah Hurd, who was born in Ohio, her parents being natives of Connecticut and early settlers. in the Ohio Western Reserve. After the death of her soldier husband she married Lewis Reese, lived a few years in Oregon, and then returned to Ohio; and spent her last days with, her children. She reared three children:: Smiley Anson, Huldah J. and Robert Brooks. Smiley. Anson Caldwell, father of Maurice J., was born on the old farm in Valley Township; where his son was also born. The birth of the father occurred March 15, 1853. His education was acquired by attendance at the district schools of .Valley Township, and following the death of his father he made his home with his grandparents in Pike County and was also a student in the Ohio College at Athens. At the age of twenty he returned to the homestead .and later succeeded to its ownership, and for many years was actively and successfully identified with farming and stock raising. In 1905 he removed to Chillicothe; and now lives in that city retired. In 1874 Smiley. A. Caldwell :married Nancy Jane Claypool, who was born in Fairfield County. The Claypools are a family. now well known in different states of America, where they have lived for many generations, and originally their home was in Waldrum Park, Northamptonshire, England. James Claypool, one of the ancestors, was granted a coat of arms on June 17, 1583: One John Claypool married Elizabeth, a daughter of Oliver Cromwell a brother of John, James, witnessed the signature of William Penn to the charter of Pennsylvania. The family was founded in America by James Claypool, who was born February 16, 1701, and died October 9, 1789. On coming to America he settled near Moorefield in Hardy. County; on the south branch of the PotomacRiver, in Virginia. Hardy, County was a: part of Western Virginia, which many years later. was established as the State of West Virginia. James Claypool, a son of the emigrant, was born December 1, 1730, in Hardy County, and died August 11, 1811. The Maiden, name of his wife was Margaret Dunbar. They had nine daughters and three sons. Of these, Jacob Claypool, who was the great-great-grandfather of. Maurice J. Caldwell, was born in: Hardy County, Virginia, March 17, 1775, acquired a good education, and became a long surveyor. He came to the new State of Ohio in 1805, bought land in the locality known as Yankeetown in Fairfield County, and in 1808 moved his family to that locality. They were among the earliest of the permanent settlers in the county. In the. midst of the wilderness was erected a substantial hewed-log house, and the family at once took a prominent HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 817 part in the development of the country and as influential factors in social life. During the first twenty years Jacob Claypool spent much of his time in surveying. His superior education and fine mind soon gave him a leading position in ;the county, and he was identified with some of the larger business activities of that locality. On the organization of ths Lancaster Bank in 1816 he was elected a director. In the same year he was elected a representative to the State Legislature and re-elected in 1818 and held office until 1822, and in 1824 was chosen a member of the Ohio 'State Senate. He was one of Fairfield County's first, citizens to drive cattle to eastern markets, and continued in that business, until a short time before his death. He was a man of unusual business capacity, honest and correct in all his dealings, and left a name which will always be esteemed by his descendants. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Judge Claypool married Margaret Baker, and they had three daughters and six sons. The father of Nancy J. Claypool was Isaac Claypool, a son of the Jacob Claypool just mentioned. Isaac was born January 29, 1821, succeeded to the ownership of the old home farm in Fairfield County, and possessing the same business integrity and enterprise of his father, continued to increase his possessions until his, land holdings comprised upwards of six hundred acres,-thoroughly equipped, with improvements that made the farm one of the best in the entire county. That was his home until his death at a good old age. Isaac Claypool married Nancy Mason, who was the mother of Nancy Jane Claypool. She was born January 22, 1821, a daughter of John Mason, and died October 16, 1855. For his second wife Isaac Claypool married Sarah A. Pierce, of Dover, New Hampshire, and also had a third wife, Annie E. Cosgrove, Maurice J. Caldwell was one of four children, the other three being Earl Claypool, Beatrice and Annie M. When he was twelve years of age his mother died, and after that he lived in Denver with an aunt and attended. the city schools. Graduating from the high school, he took a course in the Central Business College of Denver, and with that preparation returned home and became associated with his father in farming and raisin. After the removal of his father to Chillicothe, about ten years ago, he became sole manager of the estate and has continued it until the present time, branching alit into new activities and becoming known all over Southern Ohio for his advanced enterprise as a stockman. The ..profitable features of his business are the raising of thoroughbred cattle, hogs and horses. His favorite breed of cattle is the Aberdeen Angus, of which he has the largest herd of thoroughbreds in Scioto County. He also has a number of Duroc Jersey 818 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION Mr. Caldwell ,Was. married in 1904 to Beatrice Cenci Tatje. She was born in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, a daughter of Oliver and Mollie (Downey) Tatje, both natives of Ohio, while her father was of early French stock. Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell have two sons: Herbert T. and J. Maurice. Mr. Caldwell cast his first presidential vote for William McKinley, and has been one of the steady supporters of the party up to the present time. As a capable business man he has naturally been prominent in his home locality, served as trustee of Valley Township, and in 1912 was accorded the important honor of election to the office of county treasurer. Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell are members of the Methodist. Church, and he is affiliated with Lucasville Lodge of the Masons and with River City Camp No. 129, Woodmen of the World. EPHRAIM W. SMITH, Elected sheriff of Scioto County in November, 1914, by the largest majority ever given for a candidate for this office in the history of the county, Mr. Smith needs no further voucher for the confidence and esteem here reposed in him, and his administration throughout is certain to justify the popular choice which brought to him this important official preferment. Mr. Smith was born at Oak Hill, Jackson County, Ohio, on the 27th of June, 1868, and is a son of William E. and Eliza Ellen (Allen) Smith, the former of whom was born in Kenton County, Kentucky, on the 20th of June, 1833, and the latter of whom was born. in Jackson County, Ohio, in 1846, her death having occurred at the old home in Oak Hill, on the 27th of May, 1901, and her husband having there passed away on the 28th of March, 1901. They became the parents of seventeen children, of whom ten sons and two daughters are living, namely: Mary C., Joseph R., Ephraim W., Loren O., James C., Rutherford A., Ottie Warren, Thomas G., Louden E., Ceola E., Austin L. and Cassius O. William E. Smith was a son of Ephraim. W. Smith, who was born in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and who was there reared and educated. From the old Keystone State Ephraim W. Smith removed to Kenton County, Kentucky, where he was engaged in farming until 1851, when he removed with his family to Scioto County, Ohio, and established his residence in Portsmouth. He was soon afterward appointed a member of the police force of the city and he held this position until his death, a few years later. William E. Smith was indebted to the public schools of Kenton County, Kentucky, for his early educational discipline and was about eighteen years of age at the time of the family, removal to Scioto County, Ohio. Here he found HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 819 employment as a boatman on the Ohio Canal and he continued to be thus engaged, until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he laid aside the labors of peace to tender his services in defense of the Union. On the 11th of November, 1861, he enlisted in Battery L, First Ohio Light Artillery, and the history of this gallant command is virtually the record of his military career, for he participated in the various campaigns and battles in which his regiment was involved and made a record that will give lasting, honor to his memory. Among the more important engagements in which he took part may be mentioned the following: Front Royal, Port Republic, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Rapahannock Ford, New Hope Church, Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek. He continued with his command until victory had crowned the Union arms and received his honorable discharge on the 11th of July, 1865, at Columbus, Ohio. In later years his abiding 'interest in his former comrades was shown by his active affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic, and in politics he was an ardent supporter of the cause of the republican party. Sheriff Smith, whose popularity, is attested by the fact that he is familiarly known as "Pete" Smith, made good use of the advantages afforded in the public schools of his native village, but while still a mere boy he gained experience in practical affairs, through being employed in a brickyard in his home' county. He acquired a thorough knowledge of all details of this line of; industry and in April, 1896, he came to Portsmouth, where he was employed for a few months in a brickyard. He then engaged with the Portsmouth Stove & Range Company, with which he remained eight. years. He was then appointed a member of the city's police force, a position in which his grandfather had previously served in this city when it was little more than a village, and he continued a valued member of the department for a period of four and one-half years. For one year. thereafter he was in the employ of the local telephone company and thereafter he gave one year to service with the street railway and electric light company. In January, 1911, largely as a result of his excellent service on the police force, he was appointed deputy sheriff of the county, and of this office he continued the incumbent until January, 1915, when he entered upon the discharge of his duties as county sheriff, a position to which he had been elected in the preceding November, as already noted in this context. Sheriff Smith has ever been a loyal and unwavering advocate of the principles and .policies for which the republican party stands sponsor; and his first presidential vote was cast for Benjamin Harrison. He and his wife hold membership in the United Brethren Church, as did also his parents, and in the time-honored Masonic fraternity his Vol. II-12 820 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION affiliations are with Aurora Lodge No. 48, Free and Accepted Masons. At Portsmouth he is identified also with River City Camp No. 3993, Modern Woodmen of America ; River City Aerie No. 57, Fraternal Order of Eagles; Portsmouth Chapter No. 11, American insurance Union ; and with the organization of the Order of Owls and the Loyal Order of Moose. On the 13th of May, 1888, Mr. Smith Wedded Miss Priscilla J. Leonard, who was born and .reared in Jackson County, and who was a daughter of John and Sarah Leonard. She was summoned to the life eternal on the 13th of September, 1907, and is survived by five children, Elmer E., Earl L., Ottie Floyd, and Martha M. and Margaret M., who are twins. On the 16th of November, 1910, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Smith to Mrs. Mary Shackelford, who was born in Wolfe County, Kentucky, and who is .a daughter of Noah and 'Elizabeth (Hobbs) Williams. No children have been born of this marriage. ROY C. LYNN. Occupying a position of prominence among the rising young business men of Scioto County is Roy C. Lynn, of Portsmouth, who has made a thorough study of sanitary science and embalming, and as an undertaker has won an extended reputation throughout this section of Ohio. A native of Scioto County, he was born September 27, 1886, on a farm lying one mile from Clifford, that having been likewise the birthplace of his father, William J. McAuley. His paternal grandparents, James and Mary (Cockerel) McAuley, were pioneer settlers of Scioto County, where they bought a tract of heavily timbered land, from, which they cleared and improved a farm. Inheriting the parental homestead, William McAuley continued in the free and independent occupation of an agriculturist until 1907, when he sold the old home farm and removed to Heber, Wasatch County, Utah, where he now owns and operates a flour mill. He married first Minnie Cutlip, a daughter of George Cutlip, a Scioto County farmer, who lived to the venerable age of ninety-one years. She died in 1888, leaving two children, namely : Una May, wife of Wesley Stem shorn, of Sciotoville; and Roy C., the special subject of this sketch. But eighteen months old When his mother died, Roy C. McAuley was legally adopted by Trustom and Susan (McAuley) Lynn, who gave him their name and carefully reared him. Acquiring his preliminary education in the city :schools, Mr. Lynn was graduated from Clarke's. College of Embalming, at Cincinnati, on May 28, 1905. Deeply interested in his chosen work, and anxious to add in every possible way to his professional knowledge and efficiency, lie subsequently took a course HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 821 of study, at the Barnes* School of Anatomy, Sanitary Science and Embalming, from which he was graduated March 9, 1908. On May 20, 1908, Mr. Lynn was granted a license as undertaker and embalmer by the State of Ohio, and on December 9, 1912, received a similar license from the State of Kentucky. He has a well-appointed office in Portsmouth, a showroom, a morgue, and a mortuary chapel, and also an auto ambulance, his undertaking establishment being the best and most thoroughly equipped of any to be found in Southern Ohio. Mr. Lynn married, July 5, 1906, Mary Ann Reinhardt, who was born in Portsmouth, a daughter of John N. Reinhardt, and they had one child, Janet Marie Lynn, who died September 9, 1915. Religiously, both Mr. and Mrs. Lynn belong to the Presbyterian Church. Fraternally Mr. Lynn is a member of Portsmouth Camp No. 3993, Modern Woodmen of America; of Portsmouth Court No. 109, Tribe of Ben Hur; of River City Camp No. 29, Woodmen of the World; of the Order of Owls; and of the Loyal Order of Moose. HON.. ALBERT CLIFTON THOMPSON. In the annals of Scioto County no name shines with brighter luster than that of the late Hon. Albert Clifton Thompson, of Portsmouth, who, during the Civil war, won distinction as a brave soldier, later becoming prominent in legal circles, and as a member of Congress.proving himself an able and .influential legislator, ever. faithful to the interests not only of his constituents, but to those of county, state and nation. A son of John J. Y. Thompson, he was born January 23, 1842, at Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. John J. Y. Thompson learned the trade of a civil engineer when young, and after following that 'profession for a while, embarked in the lumber business. A man of much intelligence and ability, he was active in public affairs, and for several years was associate judge of Jefferson County. In the spring of 1865. he came to Portsmouth, Ohio, and the following August his death occurred in. that city. His wife, whose maiden name was Agnes. Kennedey, was a daughter of Rev. William Kennedey, a Presbyterian clergyman. She survived him a number of years, passing away at an advanced age. They were the parents of eight children; as follows: William Kennedey ; John J.; Angeline ; Albert Clifton, the subject of this .brief .biographical sketch ; Clarence was killed at the battle of. Manassas, in Virginia, when but seventeen years old; Robert M.; Ella ,A.; and Edith. Albert C. Thompson received excellent educational advantages when young, after leaving the public schools continuing his studies for two years at Jefferson College, in Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, and at the 822 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION breaking out of the Civil war was reading law. On April 23, 1861, inspired by true patriotism, he enlisted in Company I, Eighth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, for three months, and being commissioned second sergeant of his company, served under command of General Patterson in Maryland and Virginia. On August 27, 1861, Mr. Thompson re-enlisted for a term of three years in Company B, One Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was made orderly sergeant of his company. On October 11, 1.861, he was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant, and on November 28, 1861, was transferred to Company K, and commissioned captain of the company. On of 21, 1862, Captain Thompson was severely wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks, and at the second battle of Bull Run, on August 29, 1862, he was again wounded, a musket ball entering his right breast, fracturing his second and third ribs, and lodging in his lungs, where it remained. He suffered much, and for ten months was confined to his bed. In June, 1863, he entered the invalid corps, from which he resigned in 1864 to resume the study of law, and in the latter part of that year was admitted to the Pennsylvania. bar. Coming to Ohio in 1865, Mr. Thompson began the practice of his profession at Portsmouth, where his abilities were soon recognized. In 1869 he was elected probate judge, and served for three years. Elected one of the Common Pleas judges of the second subdivision of the Seventh Judicial District of Ohio in the fall. of 1881, he remained in that position until September, 1884, when he resigned to accept the nomination of his party as a candidate for Congress, to which he was elected, and served so efficiently that he was re-elected to the same high office in the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first. During his first term as a congressman Mr. Thompson was a member of the committee on land claims. In the Fiftieth Congress he served upon the invalid pension committee. It was during the Fifty-first Congress that the McKinley tariff bill was formed, and in the construction of that important measure Judge Thompson took no inconsiderable part, being frequently called upon by the party for counsel and advice. It was through the efforts of the Judge that the Federal Building was erected in Portsmouth. The bill as passed by the Fiftieth Congress was vetoed by President Cleveland, but became a law by the president's sufferance in the Fifty-first Congress. A dike, known as the Bonana Dike, built in the Ohio River about that time, was provided for through the instrumentality of Judge Thompson, at a cost of $75,000, and in addition three ice piers were built just, below, each one costing $7,500. The City of. Portsmouth also received the boon of free delivery service through the same source. HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 823 After his retirement from Congress the Judge was appointed by Governor McKinley chairman of the Ohio Tax Commission, which made its report in 1893, in the month of December. Active and prominent in republican ranks, Judge Thompson was chosen as a delegate to the Republican National Convention that met in St. Louis in 1896, and in January, 1897, he was appointed chairman of a commission created by Congress to revise and codify the criminal and penal laws of the United States. He served ably in that capacity until appointed by President McKinley United States district judge for the. Southern District of Ohio. Assuming the duties of that office on September 22, 1898, he continued as United States district judge until his death, January 26, 1910. Judge Thompson married, December 25, 1867, Ella. A. Turley, a daughter of John A. and Charlotte (Robinson) Turley. Of the union of Judge and Mrs. Thompson six children were born and reared, namely : Charlotte, Albert Clifton, Sara Gibbs, Amy, Guy Vansant and Ruth. Charlotte Thompson married Hon. Oscar W. Newman, and has one daughter, Katherine Newman. Albert Clifton Thompson, Jr., enlisted, in 1898, for service in the Spanish-American war in the Thirty-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and at the close of the war took a post graduate course at West Point, and is now a captain of coast artillery in the United States regular army. He married Gladys Ferguson, of New York. Sara Gibbs Thompson married Eustace Wheeler, of Baltimore, who is now engaged in the practice of law at St. Louis, and had one child, Carlotta Thompson Wheeler. Amy Thompson married Raymond D. 'York, and they have three children, Levi Dee York, Albert Thompson York and Ruth A. York. Guy Vansant Thompson married Rose Smith, of St. Louis, and their only child, a son, is named Albert Clifton Thompson. Ruth Thompson, the youngest child, is at home with her mother. Judge Thompson was for many years a member of the Loyal Legion of Ohio, and served as its commander. JOSHUA VANSANT ROBINSON, SR. For nearly four decades in the early history of Portsmouth Joshua Vansant Robinson, Sr., was actively identified with the development and advancement of the material interests of the city, and he will ever be gratefully remembered as one who contributed in no small measure toward the progress and growing prosperity of this section of Scioto county. Of Quaker parentage, he was born October 18, 1790, in. Belvidere, New Jersey, where he was bred and educated. In early manhood, being impressed with the many resources of the great Northwest, Mr. Robinson came to Ohio, and after living for a 824 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION time in Evansville, located in Cincinnati. In 1829 he took up his residence in Portsmouth, then a town with neither railroad nor canal. Opening a wholesale dry goods store on Second Street, he was successfully engaged in business until his death, January 8, 1865. Unusually energetic and progressive, Mr. Robinson was ever among the foremost in. the establishment of enterprises conducive to the welfare of the city, and was not only active in business, but held a place of prominence among the more influential citizens. He was president of the old Commercial Bank when it was located on Second Street, below Market Street, and, in 1845, when the bank ceased, Mr. Robinson, Samuel M. Tracy and Charles A. M. Damarin were appointed trustees to wind up the affairs of the defunct institution. The Bank of Portsmouth, a branch of the State Bank, was its successor, with Mr. Robinson as its first president. He was one of the prime movers in securing the building of the Hocking & Scioto Valley Railroad, now the Portsmouth branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway. He negotiated the loans in the eastern cities, and did much else to further the enterprise, proving himself so eminently capable and efficient that on the completion of the road, in 1849, he was made president of the company. Mr. Robinson was a pioneer in the iron industry, which for many years stood pre-eminent in the state, having been at the head of the enterprising firm of Robinson & Glidden, proprietors of the old Scioto Furnace. In his later years his sons were associated with him in business, and in addition. to owning and operating the Union Mills, they operated a distillery, for many years buying the entire corn crop of the Scioto Valley. Mr. Robinson and his sons likewise operated a foundry and a mammoth tannery at Springville, Kentucky, and during the '40s and early '50s were engaged in steamboating on the Ohio River, building for the river trade several large steamboats. While operating the Union Mills property they built the suspension bridge that crossed the Scioto at Second Street, and also the towpath pike leading from the bridge to the mill, having received permission to do so from the State Legislature. Mr. Robinson married Hannah Cooper, who was born in Philadelphia, on Chestnut' Street, of Quaker parents, and who was a cousin of James Fenimore Cooper, the celebrated author and novelist. She died one year before her husband. They reared eight children, namely : Lucien Newton ; Joshua V., Jr.; Lewis Cooper; Cornelia, who married Wells A. Hutchins ; Charlotte, who ,became the wife Of Col. John A. Turley ; Mary Ellen, who married Daniel A. Glidden ; Camelia; and Charles Henry.