850 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION. Green S. Neary had the usual experiences, of, the farmer boy in the decade prior to the war, and gained an education in the rural schools. In July, 1862, at the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the Ninety-first Regiment of Ohio Infantry, and was with the regiment in all its battles, campaigns and marches until the latter part of July, 1864. On July 24th he was captured when near Winchester, and as a prisoner of war was confined first at Danville, Virginia, and later became an inmate of the notorious Libby Prison. At the end of eight .months, and when the war was drawing to a close, he was paroled with the understanding that he was to be exchanged at the. end of thirty days. Returning home and awaiting the, stated time, he then rejoined his regiment at Winchester, and continued in the service until his honorable discharge in June, 1865, having been in the army and prison almost three years. Returning home, he helped his father a time and then .began contracting for the building of bridges, roads, etc. In 1889 Mr. Neary bought a farm in Harrison Township, and later acquired the home place of 160 acres at Harrison Furnace. After living there until 1893 he sold, and bought the Judge. Crull farm in the same township. That was the scene of his active labors until 1911, at which date he came to Portsmouth and has since lived -retired, enjoying the fruits of a long and well-spent career. Mr. Neary first married Hester A. Tibbs, who was born in West Virginia, daughter of Samuel and Sarah. Tibbs. She died in 1869, having lost her daughter Florence in her third year. Mr. Neary married for his second wife Miss Lizzie E. Humphrey. She was born in Morgan County, Ohio, May 18, 1852. Her father, Benjamin Humphrey, was born in West Virginia September 19, 1827, a son of John Humphrey, a native of the same state, who came to Ohio in 1829, living for a time in Morgan County and, later in Pike County, where he died in middle life. John Humphrey married Elizabeth Van Pelt, who was of Pennsylvania stock. Brought to Ohio at the age of two years, Benjamin Humphrey in 1854 came to Scioto County, and for twenty years was employed in the Bloom furnace, afterward at the Webster and Buckhorn furnaces, and finally :became manager of the Howard furnace, where his last years were spent. Benjamin Humphrey married Lavinia Elliot, who was born in Morgan County, daughter of Simeon and Ellen (Mahew) Elliot. Mr. and Mrs. Neary have a daughter, Edna L., who married Benjamin F. Stewart, and has a son named Benjamin. Donald. .Mr. Neary has been an active republican. Always a good citizen, he has given official service as trustee and overseer of Harrison Township and for three terms was one of the county commissioners. With his wife he HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 851 is a member of the Manly Methodist Episcopal Church and belongs to Bailey Post No. 164, G. A. R. HON. GEORGE DRAKE SCUDDER. Prominent among the highly respected men and representative citizens of Scioto County is Hon. George Drake. Scudder, of Portsmouth, who came to this city. upwards of a score of years ago, and has since occupied a place of note in the community. He was born January 17, 1856, in Trenton, New Jersey, of English lineage. His father, Hon. Edward Wallace Scudder, was born in 1822 in Mercer County, New Jersey, which was likewise the birthplace of his father, Jasper Smith Scudder. The immigrant ancestor of Mr. Scudder came from England to America, and settled in Massachusetts soon after the arrival of the Mayflower at Plymouth with its little band of pilgrims. One of his descendants, Richard Scudder, thought to have been born on Long Island, removed to New Jersey in colonial days, becoming the founder of the Scudder family of that state. He was the owner of a large estate on the Delaware. River, and there spent his last days. Jasper Smith Scudder was an apt scholar, and while young prepared for college,. but his father died, and he then devoted his time to the supervision of the parental estate. After occupying the old home farm a "number of years, he moved to Trenton, and was there associated with. the Trenton Banking Company until his death, at the age of fourscore years. His wile, whose maiden name was Mary Stillwell Reeder, was born in New Jersey, of English ancestry, and there spent her entire life, dying in the City of Trenton. She was the mother of two children, as follows: Edward Wallace ; and Christiana, who married William R. Mcllvaine. Edward Wallace Scudder received superior educational advantages, being fitted for College when quite young, and was graduated from Princeton University with the class of 1841. He subsequently studied law with Hon. William L. Dayton, who, in 1856, was candidate for vice president, running with John C. Fremont. Admitted to the bar, he met with eminent success as an attorney, and in 1869 was appointed by Governor Randolph as judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, a position which he ably filled until his death, twenty-four years later, on February 3, 1893. He married Mary Louisa Drake, a daughter of Judge George K. Drake, a lifelong resident of New Jersey. Mr. Drake was graduated from Princeton University, and after practicing law successfully at Morristown, served for seven years as a judge in the Superior Court. Mr. Drake married Mary Halsey, who was of English ancestry, and belonged to a family of note, one of her rela- Vol. II -14 852 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION tives, Thomas Halsey, having served several years as a member of Parliament. Mrs. Mary Louisa (Drake) Scudder died in 1890. She reared six children, as follows : Edmund Drake Scudder ; Henry Darcy Scudder ; Wallace Mcllvane ,Scudder ; George Drake Scudder ; Mary Scudder, who married Prof. Alexander Jamison, of, the Lawrenceville Preparatory School; and Louisa, who became the wife of Capt. Henry Pratt Perrin, of the United States army. Laying a substantial foundation for his future education in the State Model School of Trenton, New Jersey, George Drake Scudder entered Princeton University in 1872, and was there graduated in 1876. Following in the footsteps of his ancestors, he studied law, and after his admission to the bar was engaged in the practice of his profession in Trenton for a number of years, until his removal to Ohio. In 1893 he came to Portsmouth, Ohio, which has since been his home, and is now devoting his time and energies to his private interests and his official duties. While living in Chambersburg, a suburb of Trenton, New Jersey, Mr. Scudder served as a member of the council of that borough. In 1886 he was elected to the New Jersey Legislature, and in the long-drawn contest for the election of a senator cast his vote for Hon. Leon. Abbett. .Since coming to Portsmouth, he has served in various official capacities, and is now a member of the Portsmouth Board of Education, and secretary and treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the Portsmouth Public Library ; also trustee of the County Children's and of the Portsmouth Bar Association. Mr. Scudder married, November 20, 1879, Harriet Helen Damarin, who was born in Portsmouth, a daughter of Charles. A. M. and Harriet Caroline Damarin, o£ whom a sketch may be found on another page of this work. Mr. and Mrs. Scudder have one child, Charles Damarin Scudder. He was born, in Portsmouth, Ohio, and was graduated from Princeton University in 1907. He is now engaged in the insurance business in Portsmouth. He married Katherine Waite, and they have one son, Charles Damarin Scudder, Jr. Fraternally Mr:. Scudder joined Column Lodge No. 120, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, in Trenton, New Jersey, of which he served one year as master, and is now a member of Aurora Lodge No. 48, Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons,, of Portsmouth; he also belongs to Calvary Commandery No. 13, Knights Templar ; and to Solomon Council No. 79, Royal and Select Masters. Mr. and Mrs. Scudder are members of the Presbyterian Church, which he is serving as an elder. For sixteen years Mr. Scudder has been superintendent of the Sunday school connected with that church. He has twice, been a representative to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 853 and from 1910 until 1913 was a member of the Executive Committee of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America. GEORGE DYAR SELBY. Beginning life in the valley of limited circumstances rather than on the plane of affluence, George Dyar Selby, of Portsmouth, president of the Selby Shoe Company, has achieved marked success in the business world, and for many years has been conspicuously identified with the growth of his home city; and the advancement of its material interests. A native of Ohio, he was born on a farm in Berne Township, Athens County, of good old New England stock. He is a direct descendant in the. sixth generation from Jeremiah Selby, the lineage being thus traced : Jeremiah, William, Jeremiah, Dyar, Hines Cone and George Dyar. Jeremiah Selby was barn and educated in England. Emigrating to America in early manhood, he located at East Haddam, Connecticut, where he married Susanna Dutton, and thereafter spent his remaining years,. being actively engaged in the practice of medicine. William Selby was born in East Haddam, Connecticut, June 5, 1716, and was a lifelong resident of that 'place, as was his wife, whose maiden name was Hannah Brainard. Jeremiah 'Selby, whose birth occurred in East Haddam, December 9, 1745, there married Sarah Cone, a daughter of Daniel or Jared Cone, there seeming to be some conflicting evidence on this point. In 1807 he migrated to New York State, making the removal with teams, it having been long before the day of railroads, and settled in Wayne County, at Sodus Bay,. where both he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. Dyar Selby was barn in East Haddam, Connecticut, July 4, 1784, and in 1807 accompanied his parents to Wayne County, New York. Dyar Selby married, February 17, 1811, in Wayne County, Tabitha Calhoun, who was born March 15, 1791, at Petersham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, a daughter of James Calhoun, who served with the Massachusetts troops in the Revolutionary war. In 1807 Mr. Calhoun started westward with his family from Petersham, his daughter Tabitha driving one of the teams the entire distance to Wayne County, New York, where he was a pioneer settler. In 1819, eight years after his marriage to Miss Calhoun, Dyar Selby came to Ohio, accompanied by his wife and their four children, landing in Marietta. He lived for a time in one end of a double log house, which he rented, it being a few miles from the village; and later moved to Rainbow Bend, where he lived until 1827. Going then to Wesley Township, Washington County, he lived for five years on a farm lying two miles north of Bartlett. In 1832 he located in Berne Township, two and one-half miles west of 854 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION Bartlett, and there lived in a log house until his death, in 1873. He filled various public offices, including those of township trustee and justice of the peace. His 'wife died in 1853. They reared ten children, as follows: Jeremiah, Dyar, Hines Cone, Sarah, Susan, Warren, Jared, Fanny, Elizabeth and Francis Marion. Hines Cone Selby was born in Wayne County, New York, October 9, 1815, and at the age of four was brought by his parents to Ohio. Reared to agricultural pursuits, he began life for himself as a farmer on rented land. Being successful in his undertakings, he, a few years later, bought land in Berne Township, and in the substantial hewed log house that he erected spent the remainder of his life, passing away in 1889. He married Sarah Ann Rardin, who was born in Berne Township, Washington County, Ohio, December 15, 1820, a daughter of William Rardin, and granddaughter of Henry Rardin, a pioneer settler of Ohio. Her great-grandfather, Dennis Rardin, with a brother, John Rardin, emigrated from Ireland to America about 1750, and settled in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where his death occurred in 1789. Born and reared in Pennsylvania, Henry Rardin came by way of the Ohio River to Marietta, Ohio, in 1807. He subsequently became one of the earlier settlers of Washington County, where he bought land, and on the farm which he cleared from the forest resided until his death, in 1856, at the advanced age of ninety-nine years. The maiden name of his wife was Elizabeth Hull. The birth of William Rardin occurred April 29, 1797, in. Pennsylvania. He grew to man's estate in Washington County, Ohio, and ,when ready to begin life for himself purchased land in Berne Township, and was there engaged in farming until his death, in 1876. He married Elizabeth Anders, who was born at Red Stone Fort, Pennsylvania, and as a small child was brought by her widowed mother to Ohio, where the remainder of her years were spent, her death occurring on the home farm in 1890, at the age of ninety-one years. Of the union of Hines Cone and Sarah Ann (Rardin). Selby twelve children were born, namely : Oliver O., Mary E., John W., George Dyar, Mehitabel T., David H., Sarah J., Sanford P., James O., Prudence A., Samuel V. and Roena R. Educated. in the rural schools of his. native township, and taught to work on the home farm, George Dyar Selby learned in his boyhood thaw lessons of industry and thrift that have since proved such valuable assets in his career. In February, 1865, he offered his services to his country, enlisting in Company H, One Hundred and Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland, and was on duty in Southern 'Tennessee and Northern Georgia until the close of the conflict, when he was honorably discharged. HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 855 Returning to his home, he continued his studies at a seminary in Athens County, after which he taught school one term. In 1867 Mr. Selby came to Portsmouth; Scioto .County, as agent for the Singer Manufacturing Company, and canvassed throughout this section of the state for the sale of its machines. In 1880, becoming interested in the manufacture of shoes; he formed a partnership with Irving Drew, of whom a sketch appears elsewhere in this volume, and Bernard Damon, and established himself in business on his own account. The venture proved eminently successful and in 1902 was incorporated as The Drew-Selby Company. In 1906, Mr. Selby having obtained control of all of Mrs. Drew's holdings, the company name was changed to. The Selby Shoe Company, with George D. Selby as president, Pearl E. Selby, vice president and general superintendent, Mark W. Selby, vice president and secretary, and J. J. Rardin, treasurer. This firm, which is one of the leading ones of the kind in this part of Ohio, is carrying on an extensive and profitable business, the products of its factory being widely and favorably known, and ever in demand in the leading markets of the United States, as well as a number of foreign countries. Mr. Selby is a man of rare discrimination and of great administrative ability, and is officially connected with various enterprises, of which we will mention but two, The Security Savings Bank and Trust Company, of which he is president, and. The First National Bank of Portsmouth, of which he is a director. Mr. Selby married, September 26, 1867, Lydia V. Webster, who was born in Chester Township, Meigs County, Ohio, a daughter of Isaac A. and Lydia (Ashton) Webster, natives of New York State and Logan, Ohio, respectively. Isaac A. Webster was born in New York State April 9, 1801, and came with his parents to Meigs County, Ohio, at the age of nine years, where he resided till his death, March 7, 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Selby are the parents of five children, namely : Pearl E., Cora W., Mark W., Homer C. and Roger A. Pearl E. Selby married Blanche E. Smith, and they have two children, Harold Rea and Gladys. Cora W. Selby married Benjamin H. Dillon, and at her death, which occurred February 26, 1908, left one son, Edmund Selby Dillon. Mark W. Selby has been twice married. He married first Maude Grimes, who died in 1905, leaving, one child, Alice Christine Selby. He married for his second wife Adelaide Hare. Homer C. Selby married for his first wife Laura Moody, who died in 1906, leaving one child, Mary Louise Selby. He married second Lola Davis. Religiously Mr. and Mrs. Selby are members of the Bigelow Methodist Episcopal Church, Mr. Selby being also a member of its official board. Fraternally Mr. Selby belongs to Aurora Lodge No. 48, Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons; 856 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION to Mount Vernon Chapter No. 23, Royal Arch Masons; to Solomon Council No. 79, Royal and Select Masters ; to Calvary Commandery No. 13, Knights Templar ; and he is also a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. He likewise belongs to Bailey. Post No. 164, Grand Army of the Republic. JUDGE ALBION ZELOPHEAD BLAIR. Conspicuous among the foremost lawyers .of 'Scioto County. is. Judge Albion Z. Blair, of Portsmouth, a man of vigorous mentality and scholarly attainments,. who has acquired distinction in his chosen profession, and a .place of honor among his fellow-townsmen. A son of George W. Blair, he was born Friday, December 13,.1861, on. a Jackson Township farm, in Highland County, Ohio, and there grew to man's estate. His paternal grandfather, John Blair, was a native; it is thought, of one of the Carolinas. He was of .early colonial ancestry, and a member of that branch of the Blair family that has figured prominently in the history of the United States. He spent a few of the earlier years of his life in Kentucky, later becoming a pioneer of Adams County, Ohio. Securing a tract of timbered land in Winchester Township, he hewed a farm from the wilderness, and there spent his remaining years. He married Martha Bramble, who was also of colonial ancestry, and both lived to a good old age. They reared eight children, as follows: Greer, George W., William, John, Joseph, Rebecca, Sarah and Polly Ann. Born on the home farm in Winchester Township, Adams County, Ohio, February 7, 1832, George W: Blair grew to manhood amid pioneer scenes. He assisted his father in the arduous task of clearing A farm as soon as old enough to be of use, and as a young man made occasional trips to Ripley. and Cincinnati, the nearest market points, carrying the surplus produce of the farm with a six-horse team to those places, and bringing back on his return merchandise and household supplies. At the time of his marriage he located on a farm in Winchester Township, beginning married life in a small log cabin, with a stick and earth chimney, lighted by two small window's, each containing four little panes of glass. Having no stoves in those days, his wife did all of her cooking by the fireplace, and in addition to her other household duties spun and wove all of the clog from which she fashioned the clothes for her household. Subsequently moving to Jackson Township, he lived for a while on the farm of his father-in-law, James Frazier. He was very successful as an agriculturist, and subsequently bought two farms adjoining the old Frazier homestead, erected substantial frame buildings, and was there, prosperously engaged in tilling the soil until his death. HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 857 The maiden name of the wife of George W. Blair was Nancy Miller Frazier. She was born March 5, 1833, in Highland County, Ohio, on the present site of -the. Town of .Greenfield, a daughter of James Frazier. Her grandfather, William Frazier, the Judge's great-grandfather, was wounded. in the forehead while serving as a soldier in the Revolutionary army, and carried the scar until the. day of his death. He was twice married, and reared a family of twenty-three children. James Frazier, maternal grandfather of Judge Blair, was born September 17, 1799, in Campbell County, Virginia, where his parents were lifelong residents. Migrating to Ohio after his marriage, he made the removal with teams, locating in Highland County. He contracted for a piece of land in the Paint Creek bottom. The land was good, but malaria being prevalent, he sold his interest in that; and moved to Jackson Township, where he took up land, and on the farm which he redeemed from the wilderness resided until his death. James Frazier married Charlotte Boatright, who was also a native of Virginia, her birth occurring February 11, 1801, and she died at the age of: eighty years. During his residence in Ohio, Mr. Frazier visited his old Virginia home eleven times, making the trips to and fro on horseback. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Blair were the parents of three children, as follows : Albion Zelophead, the special subject of this brief biographical sketch; Lametta I., wife of James Caplinger, of Jackson Township.; and George A. Acquiring an excellent education in the public schools, Albion Z. Blair, in his eighteenth year, began his career as a teacher in Bratton Township, Adams County, and taught school for twelve years thereafter. While thus employed he devoted all of his leisure time in advancing his education, studying civil engineering and law, and in 1890 was admitted to the bar. Immediately forming a partnership with Frank Bayless, he began the practice of his profession at West Union, being junior member of the firm of Bayless & Blair. Very soon after he was appointed superintendent of roads and bridges for Adams County, and served satisfactorily for five years, when he resigned . in order that he might give his entire time and attention to his legal work. In April, 1904, Judge Blair was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the Seventh Judicial District. In 1907 he was confirmed in the office by election, and has continued in the position by re-election ever since. In 1907 the Judge removed to Portsmouth, which he now proudly claims as his home. On February 21, 1889, Judge Blair was united in Marriage with Alberta M. Armacost, who was born in Clement County, Ohio, a daughter of Levi B. and Rebecca (Welch) Armacost. Judge and Mrs. Blair have six .children, namely : Guy M., Gladys M., George B., Albion, 858 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION Donald and Edgar. Politically the Judge cast his first presidential vote for Grover Cleveland. While a resident of Jackson Township he served as township, clerk, and while in West Union he was a member of the school board. Religiously he and his family attend the Second Presbyterian Church, of which Mrs. Blair is a member, and in the Sunday School of which the Judge is a teacher. Fraternally Judge Blair is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. JOHN J. MCCALL. Nearly a quarter of a century ago John J. McCall became identified with merchandising at Portsmouth, and is now proprietor of one of the best establishments in the city, located at 719 Campbell Avenue. Since he sold his first goods many, of his competitors have come and gone, but his own enterprise has continued, with increasing proportions and represents a success gained by hard battle with the world, particularly during his early years. Mr. McCall represents one of the old families of Southern Ohio, and was born in Gallia County March 13, 1844. The McCall family was established in America during the eighteenth century, first locating in Pennsylvania. His great-grandfather was Michael McCall, who was born either in Scotland. or in Ireland of Scotch ancestry. He was a child when his Parents came to America and settled in Pennsylvania. Mr. McCall's grandfather was one of the earlier settlers in Adams County, Ohio, secured a tract of timbered land and made a home in the midst of the forests. He reared four sons, with names John, Michael, Alexander and Hugh, and also three daughters. Hugh McCall, father of the Portsmouth merchant, when a young man began working as a collier in Adams County, later ,was employed at furnaces in Jackson, Gallia and Scioto counties, and his last work was at South Webster, in Scioto County, where he died at the age of fifty-six years. Hugh McCall married Margaret Bennett, who was born in Bloom Township. Her father. Gilbert Bennett, was born in the same township, while his parents were Virginians who became pioneer settlers of Scioto County. Gilbert Bennett moved to Gallia County during young manhood, was engaged in merchandising at Sims Creek for a few years, then returned to Bloom Township, and as a farmer spent the rest of his days in that vicinity. Mrs. Hugh McCall survived her husband a few years and died at the age of sixty-five. Of the twelve children, nine. grew to maturity, named as follows : Elizabeth, Asaph, John J., Mary, Sarah, Margaret, Alexander, Dr. Edgar O. and Stella. When John J. McCall was ten years of age his parents moved to Jefferson Furnace, lived one year there, and then came to South Web- HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 859 ster, in Scioto County. In the meantime his opportunities for acquiring an education had been somewhat limited and most of his training for life was of a very practical nature. In the fall of 1864, when twenty years of age, he found a place as storekeeper at the Clinton Furnace, and was later employed at the Washington Furnace in Lawrence County, first as storekeeper and later as bookkeeper. Mr. McCall remained at the Washington Furnace six and a half years, and was bookkeeper of the Center Furnace a year and a half. With this accumulated experience and with a small amount of capital, he gave up clerical work and began independent merchandising for a year and a half at Center Furnace, subsequently moved to South Webster, and for eleven years traveled on the road as a commercial salesman. In 1890 Mr. McCall left the road, came to Portsmouth, and opened a stock of goods on Campbell Avenue near Eighth Street. That was the beginning of his career as a merchant, which has continued without interruption down to the present time, and with the general growth and development of the surrounding city his own enterprise has enjoyed a similar expansion. Mr. McCall was first married in 1872 to Susan Paul Cole. She was born in Harrisville, daughter of James M. and Nancy Cole. Mrs. McCall died in 1883, and the present Mrs. McCall was before her marriage Miss Augusta Ann Griffith. She was born in Pine Grove Furnace, Lawrence County, daughter of David and Martha Griffith, who were likewise natives of Lawrence County. Mr. McCall by his first marriage had four children : Nellie, Harriet, Stella and Ada. There are also four children by his present wife: Edith, Augusta, Martha J. and Dudley. Mr. and Mrs. McCall are members of the Bigelow Methodist Episcopal Church, while in fraternal matters le is affiliated with Aurora Lodge No. 48, A. F. & A. M., and with Portsmouth Camp No. 3993, Modern Woodmen of America. ADAM PFAU. To feed the people has always been a task requiring all that man possesses of ability, industry and business enterprise. It is in the line of furnishing high-class articles of food to the people of Portsmouth that Mr. Pfau's 'business activities have been directed for the larger part of his career. Sanitary, wholesome and pure foods have been the object of his endeavor, and as proprietor of the Model Bakery he has conferred a service probably greater in value than that conferred through many other lines of enterprise. Adam Pfau was born in Portsmouth April 26, 1871; and his father before him was a prosperous and well-remembered baker. John Adam Pfau was born in the Town of Schopfloch, in Wuertemberg, Germany, February 28, 1839. His father was Johann Pfau, a farmer and life- 860 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION long resident of Wuertemberg. John Adam Pfau attended school steadily until fourteen years of age, and then was apprenticed to learn the baker's trade. Four years gave him standing as a master baker, and at the .age of eighteen he ventured across the ocean and found a new home in the United. States. In different cities he plied his trade for several years, and finally reached Portsmouth. He worked as a baker in this city until October, 1861, and then volunteered for service as a soldier. He enlisted in Company B of the Fifty-sixth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, went to the front and later when his health failed he received an honorable discharge on account of disability, September 30, 1862. Returning to Portsmouth, he remained only a short time and then started back to his old home in Germany., At Bissingen, Wuertemberg, he established a bakery and made bread for the people of that locality until 1868. Having in the meantime married, he returned to the United States with his wife and family, and again, located at Portsmouth and resumed acquaintance with friends whom he had made prior to the war. With the assistance of some friends he started a bakery on Front. Street. It was a very small and modest enterprise, and after baking all the bread that his ovens would hold, he delivered the loaves to his customers in a basket which he carried about the streets. That was the beginning of an enterprise which vigorously prosecuted and with a wholesome product gradually expanded and in the course of years he became one of Portsmouth's successful business men. In 1889 he bought property on Second Street and continued business there until his death in 1896. John Adam Pfau was married in Bissingen, Germany, to Johanna Schott, who was born in Bissingen, and is still living a resident of Portsmouth. he reared nine of her ten children; namely : Mary, wife of Charles Crane; John; Adam; Jacob ; Lizzie ; Rosa, wife of. Arthur De Voss,; Charles; Will; and Laura. Adam Pfau attended the public schools at Portsmouth and when quite young began. following his father about the shop and learning the details of the baker's trade. For several years, however, he was employed by Paden Brothers in their shoe factory, but eventually went to Dayton and was employed by a baker there and then worked in several different cities. His knowledge of the baking trade is based upon a thorough and ample experience, and in 1898 Mr. Pfau established a shop on Chillicothe Street in Portsmouth and remained there four years, and finally purchased property on Eleventh Street, where he now is proprietor of an establshment well named The Model Bakery. Mr. Pfau was married November 30, 1893, to. Rosalie Lauffer. She was born. in Portsmouth, a daughter of Frederick Lauffer, who was born in the Village of Loenburg, Wuertemberg, March 10, 1832, and HANGING. ROCK IRON REGION - 861 was reared and educated in his native land. About the time he reached his majority he emigrated to America, and for several years operated a hotel located on the present site of the postoffice in Portsmouth. He lived in Portsmouth until his death. Frederick Lauffer married and was the father of several children, including Mrs. Pfau: Mr. and Mrs. Pfau have two daughters: Mildred and Hazel, both of whom are students in the Inter Mount College at Bristol, Virginia. Mr. Pfau was reared in the faith of. the German Evangelical Church and now attends the Central Presbyterian, in which his wife has membership. Fraternally he is affiliated with Aurora Lodge No. 48, A. F. & A. M., with Calvary Commandery No. 13, Knights Templar, and with Seneca, Tribe No. 17 of the Improved Order of Red Men. Mr. Pfau is well known among the master bakers of Ohio, and was one of the seven bakers who met at Columbus some years ago and organized the Master Bakers' .Association of Ohio. On the organization he was made a member of the. executive committee, served in that capacity several years, and was also for several years treasurer of the organization. JAMES WILLIAM FITCH, M. D. Identified with one of the most exacting professions to which a man may devote his time and energies, James William Fitch, M. D., holds a noteworthy position among the active and successful physicians and surgeons of Portsmouth, Scioto County. He was born near Ashland, in Boyd County, Kentucky, which was also the birthplace of his father, George Fitch, and the part of Kentucky in which his grandfather, James Fitch, located as a pioneer. Nehemiah Fitch, the Doctor's great-grandfather, was a native of Pennsylvania, and a direct descendant, according to tradition, of one of two brothers named Fitch who came to America in early colonial times, and ..settled in New England, where one remained, the other removing to Pennsylvania,' and there founding the branch of the Fitch family to which Doctor Fitch belongs. A native of Pennsylvania, James Fitch followed the tide of emigration to Kentucky, and having bought land in Boyd County, was there engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death. He married Minerva Davidson, who belonged to' a family of much prominence, her ancestors having been extensive landholders, owning large plantations which they operated with slave labor. Born on the home farm, in Boyd County, Kentucky, in 1840, George Fitch was early initiated into the mysteries of farming, and in his earlier life owned and operated a farm lying about ten miles south of Ashland. .Subsequently disposing of that property, he bought a 862 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION farm in Greenup County, Kentucky, and was there prosperously engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, in 1885. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Martin, was born in Boyd County, Kentucky, in 1842, a daughter of John Peebles and Sarah (Farmer) Martin, both of whom were born and reared in Pennsylvania, and died on the home farm in Boyd County, Kentucky, not far from Ashland. Mrs. George Fitch died at the age of sixty-eight years, leaving six children, as follows : James William, with whom this sketch is chiefly concerned ; Virginia ; Edward, a physician in Russell, Kentucky ; Sarah ; Effie ; and Samuel, who is engaged in the mercantile business at Ashland, Kentucky. Obtaining his preliminary education in the public schools of Greenup County, Kentucky, James William Fitch subsequently taught school five years in his native state, during which time he studied medicine with Dr. H. H. Warnock, of Greenupsburg. He then entered the School of Medicine at Louisville, and was there graduated with the class of 1893. Beginning the practice of his profession at Wurtland, Greenup County, he continued there a year, and then settled at Russell, Kentucky, where he remained in successful practice for seven years. In 1901, desirous of enlarging his scope of action, Doctor Fitch came to Scioto County, Ohio, locating in Portsmouth, where he has since won an enviable reputation for medical skill and ability, and has built up an extensive and remunerative patronage. He is an intelligent student, keeping up to the times in regard to the treatment of diseases, and in the practice of surgery, in 1903 having taken a postgraduate course in surgery in New York City. Doctor Fitch married, October 18, 1893, Ellen D. McCarty, who was born in Haverhill, Scioto County, Ohio, a daughter of Samuel and Minerva (Brown) McCarty, and into their home two children have been born, Clyde Marvin and Ruth. The Doctor is an active member and ex-president of the Hempstead Academy of Medicine ; a fellow of the American College of Surgeons ; a member of the Ohio State Medical Society ; of the Ohio Clinical Association ; and of the American Medical Association. Fraternally he belongs to the Knights of Pythias. Politically he is a republican, and religiously he is a member of the Bigelow Methodist Episcopal Church. JOHN MILTON STOCKHAM. As president of the Stockham Ice and Cold Storage Company, and of the Scioto Sand Company, John Milton Stockham, of Portsmouth, is actively identified with two of the important industries of Scioto County, and is widely known as a representative business man. A son of the late Joseph Harvey Stockham, he was HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 863 born January 1, 1857, on a farm in Madison Township, Scioto County, a descendant of one of the brave Portsmouth pioneers who assisted in clearing the forests to make room for agriculture and civilization. His grandfather, Joseph Stockham, was a son of William Stockham, the founder of the Stockham family of Ohio. Born in Wales, William Stockham immigrated to America in 1777, settling in New Jersey; near Trenton, where he married Susanna Payne. In 1798, desirous of investing in land, he came westward. to Ohio, journeying with his family overland with teams to Pittsburgh, thence down the Ohio River on flatboats to the mouth of the Scioto River. All of Ohio was then, a dense wilderness, the happy hunting ground of the Indians. Landing on the present site of Portsmouth, he selected as a building spot the place now occupied by the residence of Judge Bannon. The log cabin which he erected in the forest as the first home of the Stockham family in Ohio was one of the very first log houses .built in the county. He selected in the Scioto Valley a tract of land which later became known as the Marsh farm, and which is now owned by Judge Bannon. The land at that time was very fertile, but the drainage was extremely poor, and in consequence the region roundabout was quite unhealthy. Therefore, in 1803, William Stockham removed with his family to Madison Township, secured land and was there .a resident until his death, in 1815.. His Wife survived him. They reared several children, and their numerous descendants are represented in many different states. Joseph Stockham was born in New Jersey, June 25, 1784, and as a boy of fourteen years came with his parents to Scioto County. He subsequently assisted in clearing a. homestead, and , having obtained possession of a tract of land in Madison Township, spent the best years of his useful life in redeeming from the wilderness a portion of this beautiful country, being engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, in 1833, from cholera. His wife, whose maiden name was Hannah Bennett, was born April 16, 1786, and died June 13, 1863. Of the children born of their union, all are dead save one son, Samuel Stockham, who is now, in July, 1914, living in Texas, a venerable man of more than ninety years of age. Joseph Harvey Stockham was born March 17, 1817, on the home farm in Madison Township, and was reared to agricultural pursuits. When, in 1837-38; the courthouse was in process of construction at Portsmouth, he drove the oxen employed in drawing the pillars and the stone for the steps to the courthouse. When he was young, charcoal was the fuel used at the furnaces, and in early manhood he took contracts to cut the wood and bup the charcoal. Very successful in his 864 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION operations, he accumulated considerable money while thus, employed, and wisely invested it in land, buying a partly improved farm lying 1 1/2 miles north of Harrisonville, in Madison township. There he was afterwards prosperously engaged in general farming until his death, July 29, 1890. Joseph Harvey Stockham married Catherine Dewey, who was born February 13, 1823, a daughter of Joseph Dewey, and a descendant in the fifth generation from the immigrant ancestor, Thomas Dewey, the line of descent being as follows: Thomas (1) Israel (2), Israel (3), Joseph (4) and Catherine (5). Admiral George Dewey is also a descendant in the seventh generation from Thomas (1) Dewey. Thomas (1) Dewey settled in Westfield, Connecticut, about 1639. Israel (2) Dewey married Abigail Drake, and both he and his son, Israel (3) Dewey, who married Abigail Ingraham, were as far as known lifelong residents of Connecticut. Joseph (4) Dewey was born in Stonington, Connecticut, July 4, 1781, and as 'a young' man migrated to. Ohio, becoming a pioneer of Scioto County. He spent the later years of his life in Harrisonville, Ohio, dying June 3, 1839. His wife, whose maiden name was Roxana P. Tenner, was born near Baltimore, Maryland, August 7, 1794, and in .1800 was brought to Ohio by her parents, who were among the original settlers of Adams County. She survived her husband many years, dying January 17, 1877. Catherine (5) Dewey was well trained by her mother in all the domestic arts, becoming not only a superior cook and housekeeper, but learning to spin and weave and until her children were all well grown spun and wove the cloth "from which she fashioned their garments. She died February 2, 1847 leaving eleven children, namely : Joseph. Dewey, Caroline M., Ann Eliza, George Washington, Roxana E., John Milton, Maria E., Mary Catherine,, David Harvey, Samuel Taylor and Sarah Ella. All of these children mere living in July, 1914, the youngest child being then forty seven years of age. Beginning when young to assist his father on the farm, John Milton Stockham remained an inmate of the parental household until twenty years old, when he "entered the employ of M. B. Gilbert, a wholesale grocer, with whom he remained a year. Marrying then, Mr. Stockham farmed with his father for twelve months, and then moved to Texas, where, a year later, his wife died, leaving an infant two and one-half months old. Returning to his home, Mr. Stockham again entered the employ of Mr. Gilbert, with whom he remained seven years. Resigning his position at that time, he embarked in the coal business, which he carried on successfully until 1913. In the meantime Mr. Stockham had become associated with the ice business, and in 1903 had incorpo- HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 865 rated it under the name of the Stockham Ice and Cold Storage Company, of which he has since been the president. This company has an extensive cold storage plant, and deals extensively in fruit and produce, having a large and lucrative patronage. Mr. Stockham is likewise president of the Scioto Sand Company, which owns the Larkins estate, and is much interested in the culture of fruit, having, in Union Township, a fine orchard of 6,000 trees, all of them young trees, but some of them quite productive. Mr. Stockham married first, at the age of twenty-one years, Augusta Frowein, who died two years later, and their only child lived but five months. Mr. Stockham married second, . October 13, 1883, Helen McAleer, a daughter of John and Helen Jane (Edwards) McAleer, the former of whom was born in Ireland, of Scotch ancestry, and the latter in Virginia, of Scotch descent. Mr. and Mrs. Stockham have five children, namely : Vesta, Russell, Katherine, Paul and Violet. Russell married Mary Powell, and they have one child, John Russell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stockham are members of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. JOHN W. HALL. The efficient and popular clerk of the courts of Scioto County is a scion of an old and honored pioneer family of Southern Ohio, both his paternal and maternal ancestors having settled in the Buckeye State at an early period of its history. John Wikoff Hall was born on the old Wikoff homestead, on the banks of the Ohio River, in Green Township, Adams County, Ohio, and the date of his nativity was June 30, 1861. In the same township his father, Charles N. Hall, was born in the year 1840, a son of James H. Hall, who was born at Logan's Gap, Brown County, this state, the latter's father, Benjamin Hall, having been a native of Wales and having come to America when a young man. For a short interval after his arrival in this country Benjamin Hall was a resident of Pennsylvania, and finally he turned his attention to the building of flat and keel boats for transportation service on the. Ohio River, down which stream he came to establish his home at Logan's Gap, where he became one of the first settlers of Brown County, Ohio. For many years after, his arrival in this state there were no canal or railroad systems in operation in Ohio and the only available markets for the products of the pioneer settlers were the southern cities that' could be reached by means of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Benjamin Hall himself built many flatboats which he personally used in the transportation of produce down the two rivers, and he usually made New Orleans his destination and market. There he also sold his boats, which could not feasibly be taken 866 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION back up the rivers, and his return trips were customarily made on foot. On one of these return journeys through a virtual wilderness he disappeared and his family thereafter found no trace of him, the supposition being that he was robbed and murdered en route. His wife, whose maiden name was survived him by a few years and left three sons and two daughters, James H., Harry, Benjamin and the daughters, who eventually became respectively Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Wilson Case. James H. Hall was reared to adult age in Brown County and finally removed thence to Adams County, where he purchased a tract of heavily timbered land about one and one-half miles north of the present Village of Rome. On this pioneer and embryonic farmstead he erected a log house of the primitive type common to the locality and period, and after clearing an appreciable portion of his land he sold the property at a profit and purchased .another wild tract, in Jefferson Township, that county. There he erected and placed in operation a sawmill, and he successfully engaged in the manufacturing of lumber, in addition to giving due attention to the reclamation and cultivation of his farm. After the death S of his wife he sold this homestead and removed to Rarden Township, Scioto County, where he became associated with his son, James H., Jr., in the purchase of 1,000 acres of land that had been set aside to aid in the founding and support of the state university. The father and son gave themselves vigorously to the reclamation of this land, a large part of which they cleared and improved, and after there maintaining their home for a number of years they removed to Atchison County, Missouri, and purchased land. Five years later they extended their pioneer activities into Nemaha County, Nebraska, where they bought a large tract of land and where James H. Hall, Sr., grandfather of the subject of this review, died in 1899, in his ninetieth year. He retained his mental and physical powers to a wonderful extent and was hale and active until within a very short time before his demise. His wife, whose maiden name was Angeline Shelton, was born in Huntington Township, Brown County, Ohio, and there her death occurred in 1869, their children having been Charles N., William S., Elisha P., James H., George X., Phoebe, Susan and Mary. Phoebe first married Willis Robinson, who sacrificed his life while serving as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war, and his widow later became the wife of Benjamin Johnson. Susan likewise was twice wedded, and her first husband, named Robinson, also lost his life in the Civil war, after. which she became the wife of George Shively. Mary married Newton Robinson. Charles N. Hall was reared and educated in Adams County and there continued to be identified with agricultural pursuits until the Civil war was precipitated and gave to him the call of higher duty. HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 867 On the 9th of August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company I, Ninety-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he was chosen first sergeant of his company. In 1864 he was promoted second lieutenant and later in the same year attained to the rank of first lieutenant. He was with his gallant regiment in all of its marches, campaigns and battles up to the time he was incapacitated by wounds, and among the more important engagements in which he took part may be mentioned the following : Buffalo, West Virginia; Fayetteville, Blake's Farm, Cloydy's Mountain, New River Bridge, Cow Pasture. River, Lynchburg, Winchester, Virginia; and Martinsburg and Opequan Creek, West Virginia. In the last named conflict he was severely wounded and was incapacitated for further service in the field. He received his honorable discharge on the 21st of March, 1865, on account of disability. After his return to Adams County the valiant young soldier was elected. county clerk, of which office he continued the efficient incumbent for six years, and thereafter he served one term as county sheriff. He then assumed a clerkship in the office of the secretary of state, at Columbus, and later he had the distinction of serving as librarian of the state law library. This position he resigned in 1877, in which year he returned to his farm. in Adams County, where he continued to reside until his death, on the 28th of January, 1909. As a young man Charles N. gall *wedded -Miss Calista Wikoff, who was born on the Wikoff homestead farm, in Green Township, Adams County, and who was a daughter of John W, and Nancy (Jones) Wikoff, both of wham were born and reared in Shelby County, Kentucky, where their marriage was solemnized. John W. Wikoff was a son of Peter Wikoff, who was a native of Wales and who carne to America when a young man, his home having soon afterward been established in Shelby County, Kentucky, where he resided for a term of years. He then came to Adams County, Ohio, and purchased land near' Cedar Mills, this homestead continuing to be his place of abode until his death. Upon coming to Adams County,' Ohio, John W. Wikoff purchased a tract of land in Green Township, his fine old farmstead being picturesquely situated on the banks of the. Ohio River, and there he continued to be successfully engaged in farming until his death, in 1861, as the result of an accident. His widow long survived him and was summoned to the life eternal in 1887, the four children of their union who attained to maturity having been Allen T., Milton, Owen R. and Calista. Allen T. Wikoff became a prominent member of the Ohio bar and was influential in public affairs. He served as secretary of state and also as adjutant-general of Ohio, besides having been a valued member of the Ohio Canal Commission for several years. Mrs. Calista (Wikoff) Hall, Vol. II-15 868 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION a woman of most gentle and gracious personality, died on the 28th of January, 1909, after having reared six children—John W. ; Eldora; Mary, who died at the age of nineteen years ; Margaret, who died in 1889 ; William A., who died in 1891; and Charles N. John W. Hall acquired his early education in the public schools of West Union, Adams County, and after his father assumed a state office and removed to Columbus, he entered the high school in the capital city, being, there graduated as a member of the class of 1876, He then entered the Ohio Agricultural & Mechanical College, which is now a part of the University of Ohio, and in this institution he was graduated in 1879. Mr. Hall then put his scholastic attainments to practical test and utilization by enrolling himself as an active member of the pedagogic profession. His first term of service as a teacher was in Liberty District, Jefferson Township, Adams County ; and his second term found him master of the school in District No. 9, of the same township. He then assumed a clerical position in the pension office at Columbus, and after serving two years he was for eighteen months a clerk in the Columbus offices of the Hocking Valley Railroad. After the death of his mother he remained one year on the old homestead farm, and during the following three years he was in the West, principally in Missouri and Kansas. In 1888 Mr. Hall purchased a farm in Nile. Township, Scioto County, Ohio, and there he was actively and successfully engaged in diversified farming and stock-growing until 1910, when he rented the farm and accepted the office of superintendent of the county infirmary, in Washington Township. There he remained, as 'an efficient, considerate and valued executive, until May, 1914, when he resigned his office, after having served four years and three months. He then became the republican candidate for the office of clerk of the courts of this county, a position to which, he was elected in November of that year, by a large and gratifying majority that attested his staunch hold upon the confidence and esteem of the voters of the county. He has since maintained his residence at Portsmouth, the judicial center of the county, though he still retains possession of his well improved and valuable farm, in Green Township.. Mr. Hall's first presidential vote was cast in support of Hon. James G. Blaine, and since that time he has continued a stalwart and effective advocate of the principles of the republican party. Both he and his wife are members of the First Christian Church of Portsmouth, and he is affiliated with the following named fraternal. organizations : Rome Lodge, No. 535, Free & Accepted Masons; Buena Vista Lodge,. No. 842, and Oriental Encampment, No. 26, of the Independent Order of HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 869 Odd Fellows; Portsmouth Court, No. 109, Tribe of Ben Hur ; and Peerless Lodge, Loyal Order. of Moose. In 1885 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hall to Miss Elizabeth Kuntz, who was born and reared in Brown County, a daughter of John J. and Elizabeth. (Glass) Kuntz; representatives of staunch Pennsylvania German stock. Mr. and. Mrs. Hall have five children, Horace L., Grace, Bessie, Susan and Lulu. Horace, the only son, married Miss Elizabeth Doyle and they now reside in the State of California. WILLIAM E. COOK. For eight years a member of the Portsmouth city council, for the past two decades successfully engaged in business in that city, William E. Cook has spent all his life in the Hanging Rock Iron Region and represents a family of sterling, thrifty and influential German-American citizens in this section of the state. William E. Cook was born near Hanging Rock, in Lawrence County, a son of the last William Cook, who was born in Hanover, Germany, where the name was spelled Kuch. The grandparents spent all their lives in Hanover and William E. and a brother, who settled at Mount Carmel, Illinois, were the only members of the family who came to America. William Cook was reared on a farm in Germany, attended school steadily as a boy, and when about nineteen years of age left his fatherland, took passage on a sailing vessel, and eleven weeks later, after a somewhat stormy and tedious voyage, was landed at Baltimore. His arrival was in the year 1847. Times were very hard at that time, money scarce, and as a stranger in a strange land with a knowledge only of the German tongue, had many difficulties. He made his way gradually to Pittsburg and finding no employment there started on afoot and walked the entire distance to Cincinnati. On a farm nea that city he found employment, and a fey years later went to Hanging Rock, and was one of the first Germans to locate in that community. He gradually acquired a serviceable knowledge of the English language, and became very helpful to the Germans who afterwards came to this community and usually made their headquarters at his home. For a number of years William Cook was in the employ of John Peebles and Robert Hamilton and lived in Lawrence County until his death at the age of seventy-four. William Cook married Elizabeth Harmeyer, who was also born in Hanover, Germany. Her parents came to America, bringing several children, and were fourteen weeks on a sailing vessel. They located at Cincinnati and soon afterwards the cholera scourge took away Mrs.. Cook's mother, father and brother. She, was left alone and found a home with an English family. Three years later she went to Hanging Rock where she met and married a Mr. Mentor, who lived only 870 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION a few years. Her second husband was William Cook. She survived him and died at the age of eighty years. By her first marriage she had a daughter named Elizabeth, and by her, marriage to William Cook she became the Mother of two daughters and one son, named Minnie, Maggie and. William E.William E. Cook grew up in the vicinity of his father's home, attended public school and at the age of .fifteen began working in a coal mine, operated by his father. In a short time he left mining to learn the moulder's trade.. In 1879 Mr. Cook moved to Portsmouth, and followed his trade in that city until 1893, at which time he opened business as a provision dealer, and has been successfully engaged along that line for more than twenty years. In 1880 Mr. Cook married Louise Droege, a daughter of John F. and Dorothy (Feidler) Droege. John F. Droege was born in Hanover, Germany, February 13, 1813, and was the only member of his father's family to come to America. He was reared and educated in his native land, and in 1836 landed at Baltimore, and from there came west by way of Wheeling to Cincinnati. In 1842 he returned to Germany, but after four years in the old country came back to America in 1846 and set up in the jewelry business in Cincinnati. In 1853 he moved to Portsmouth, bought a farm of sixteen acres all of which is now included within the city, and combined farming with the jewelry business and died at Portsmouth. in 1894 at the age of eighty years: His wife died at the age of eighty-five and they reared five of their children. Mr. and Mrs. Cook have three children.: Nora, Bertha and Walter. Mr. and Mrs. Cook are.. members of the. German Evangelical Church and have reared their family .in that faith. WILLIAM C. HAZLEBECK. Energetic, enterprising, and 1eminently capable, William C. Hazlebeck is actively associated with the financial interests .of Portsmouth, his home city, as attorney for the Royal Loan and Savings Company, and treasurer and manager of the Hazlebeck Company. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 10, 1883. William. Hazlebeck, the father of William C., was born in Toledo, and was left an orphan at tan early age, his father dying while he was yet an infant, and his mother when he was nine years of age. Becoming self-supporting from the time of his mother's death, he worked at various employments for a time, and later served an apprenticeship at the moulder's trade. Soon after the breaking out of the Civil war he enlisted as bugler in the Eleventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry.: At that time all of the country west of the Missouri River, and north of the Red River, to . California was under territorial government, and inhab- HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 871 ited by bands of hostile Indians. His regiment was sent West, and he was with his command in all the engagements with the savages until the expiration of his term of enlistment, a period of three years, taking part in many a bloody warfare. Returning to Ohio, he subsequently Worked at his trade in various places until his death, which occurred at Portsmouth in 1901. The maiden name of his wife was Caroline Eppler. She was' a daughter of .Casper Eppler, who was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, and as a young man emigrated to. America, locating first in Cincinnati, and later settling permanently in Portsmouth, where his death occurred, in 1901, at the age of seventy-three years. Mr. Eppler married Frederica Barbara Doerr, who was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, and came to Cincinnati when a girl, and there living until her marriage. She died in 1881, at the age of fifty-nine years, leaving four children, Louisa, Charles, Katherine and Caroline. After his graduation from the Portsmouth high school, in 1901, William C. .Hazlebeck was for two years in the employ of the Selby Shoe Company. A man of his mental calibre, however, naturally turns to a professional career, his choice leading him to take up the study of law. Entering, therefore, the law department of the Ohio State University, Mr. Hazlebeck, was there graduated with the class of 1906, and during the same year was admitted to the bar. He subsequently spent three months in the office of. T. C. Beatty and became associated with Mr. Frank B. Finney as assistant secretary of the Royal Loan & Savings Company. On the death of Mr. Finney he became secretary and attorney of that company, and likewise manager of the Frank B. Finney Company. This company has. been since changed to the Hazlebeck Company, and is successfully . carrying on a general real estate and insurance business. Mr. Hazlebeck married, in 1908, .Miss Sadie Louise Knost, who was born in Bloom Township, Scioto County, a daughter of Louis and Charlotte (Gulker) Knost. Mr. and Mrs. Hazlebeck have three children, Caroline Charlotte, .Mary Louise, and William C., Jr. Politically Mr. Hazlebeck is affiliated with the republican party, and for seven years has served as clerk of the local school board. True to the religious faith in which they were reared Mr. and Mrs. Hazlebeck .are active members of the German Evangelical Church. Mr. Hazlebeck has served for four years as president of the. Ohio Evangelical League, connected with his church, and is secretary of the Ohio Federation of Brotherhood of the same church, and also national treasurer of the National Brotherhood. Fraternally he is a member of Magnolia Lodge, No 390, Knights of Pythias and of Aurora Lodge, No. 48, F. & A. M. 872 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION HENRY J. WENDELKEN. By reason of his long and successful-career as a. merchant, Henry J. Wendelken has a place firmly established in the confidence and esteem of the people of Portsmouth, and his name has for years been associated with mercantile effort on an advanced and large scale, either through his own activities or through that of other members of his family. Henry J. Wendelken was .born in Marietta, Ohio, a son of Martin and Adaline Wendelken, a family, whose career is further sketched in the biography of John M. Wendelken, found on other pages of this publication. Henry J. Wendelken was reared and educated in his native city, and when a young boy began assisting his father in the store, and thus learned the details of merchandising. Having acquired a practical vocation and a training that would stand him in good stead when he left home, in 1877, he came to Portsmouth and engaged in the grocery business with John Maule. Their place of business was out towards the edge of the city at that time, at the corner of Ninth and Chillicothe streets. Portsmouth thirty-five years 'ago, when they began this business, was a comparatively small place, and nearly all the business and manufacturing were concentrated along Front and Second streets. After a year Mr. Wendelken sold his interests to his partner and opened another store, at the corner of Eighth and. Gay streets. In 1883 he bought a store at the' corner of Gay and Gallia streets, and moved the stock of his former store on Eighth Street to the new location. Two years of considerable prosperity followed him in his new location and he then engaged in business with his brother John M. at the lower end of Second Street. This was a partnership of about two years, and his retirement was the result of ill health. On recuperating he bought the grocery business of his father-in-law at the corner of Ninth and Chilli. cothe streets, and was proprietor of that establishment until 1903. In that year Mr. Wendelken sold out to Mr. L. C. Cook, was retired until 1905, and then in company with George Carroll opened a new enterprise as a shoe repair shop, and was in that business for two years. In 1907 Mr. Wendelken bought the grocery store of Fred Gabler at 1702 Gallia Street, and has continued successfully in that line to the present time. His son. Earl is now associated with him and carries considerable burden of the store management. On September 3, 1877, Mr. Wendelken married Emma O. Maule. She was born in Chillicothe, Ohio; a daughter of John Maule, who was a native of Germany and on coming to America located in Chillicothe, spent a few years there and then moved to Portsmouth and engaged in the grocery trade until the end of his life. John Maule married Ottilla Washco, who was also a native of Germany. Mr. and Mr. Wen- HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 873 delken have reared five children : Bertha, now deceased ; Sadie, who Married Herbert Steinb6ch and lives in Norwood, Ohio, and has a son named Harold Earl, who is associated with his father in business and by his marriage to Effie Worley has three children—Frances, Herbert and Esther May. Martin J., `who is engaged in the insurance business and married Carrie Nickel and has a daughter Ruth; Leroy, who is in the jewelry business in 'Portsmouth and by his marriage to Irene Racy has two Children, Helen and Robert. Mr. and Mrs. Wendelken and children are all *members of the Fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, excepting Earl Wendelken, who has his membership in the Bigelow Methodist. 'The family are well known for their activities as business men and citizens and the name is associated with true worth and public spirit. WILLIAM HARRISON WAGNER. A veteran of three wars, Capt. William H. Wagner, of Portsmouth, Scioto County, met with many a .thrilling experience during his varied career, and a recital of the scenes through which. he passed would furnish sufficient material for an exciting and interesting tale of romance. A son of Jacob Wagner, he was born, April 6, 1830, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which was also the birthplace of his father. Peter Wagner, grandfather; was born in Alsace, Prance, and on coming to the United States settled in Philadelphia, where he was engaged in the ice business until his death. He married, Elizabeth Cook, who was born and reared in Alsace, Germany, and to them four sons and five daughters were born. During his earlier life Jacob Wagner was engaged in the ice business in his native city, at first being associated with his father. Leaving Philadelphia in 1842 he crossed the Mississippi, and for three or four years resided in the Territory of Iowa. Returning then to Philadelphia, he remained there until the breaking out. .of the Mexican war, when he enlisted in the Logan Guards, and with his command went to Mexico, where he did his duty as a brave soldier until the close of the war. Receiving his honorable discharge, he returned to Philadelphia, but shortly afterwards bought land in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and was there engaged in agricultural pursuits for many years, living on his farm until his death, in 1880, at the venerable age of ninety-six years. His wife, whose maiden name was Hannah Kane, was born in Pennsylvania. She died at the early age of thirty-eight years, leaving eight children. Leaving school at the age of eleven years, William H. Wagner secured work at the Baldwin Locomotive Works, in Philadelphia, and was there 874 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION employed until war with Mexico was declared. Entering then the Logan Guar& as a drummer boy, he marched with his command to Pittsburgh, from there going by boat down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans, and thence via the Gulf of Vera Cruz, from there marching with his comrades to the City of Mexico, a distance of two hundred and sixty miles. Continuing with his command in all of its marches, campaigns and battles until the close. of the conflict, he then returned to Philadelphia, And was honorably discharged. Resuming his former position in the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Mr. Wagner, still a beardless youth, remained with that company until 1851, when he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as fireman. He was soon promoted to engineer, and given a run between Columbia and Philadelphia. Going westward to Independence, Missouri, in 1855, Mr. Wagner there enlisted in the Second United States Cavalry, and went into camp for the winter in the Northwest Territory. In the spring of 1856 he was one of a band of forty soldiers that went out on a buffalo hunt. This little company of hunters was subsequently surprised by .a band of one thousand or more redskins, who gave battle. Although the brave soldiers killed many: of the Indians, twenty-eight of the. forty soldiers lost their lives, and the remaining twelve were taken prisoners by the savages, who tortured and burned eight of their captives, the remaining four soldiers witnessing the brutal treatment given their comrades. Mr. Wagner was one of the four saved, and he was held in captivity for two and one-half years, during which time he became familiar with the Indian language, and learned the art of making Indian medicines. Escaping from his captors, Mr. Wagner waded a stream for several miles in other to avoid the dogs. He was without food, but finally killed a. wolf with his sword, and sucked its blood. Skinning the wolf, he kept a quarter of the carcass for future use, and ate some of the meat raw. Running across a mountain lion, he threw away the wolf meat, and escaped by swimming a stream. Subsequently catching a fish, he built a fire with some punk, and having covered the fish with mud baked it in the coals, and had one of the best meals he ever enjoyed. At the end of thirteen days, he rejoined his regiment, with which he remained until 1860. Receiving his honorable discharge froth the service in January of that year, he returned to Philadelphia, and resumed work as an engineer. In April, 1861, Mr. Wagner enlisted for three months in Company B, First Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and took part in the battle of Bull Run. His term of enlistment expiring while he was still in the field, Mr: Wagner enlisted in Company A, First Pennsylvania Cavalry, under Captain Robinson, and with his comrades was at the -