HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 975 carried him into his country's service, and on September 11, 1861, he was commissioned colonel of the Fifty-Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served in that capacity until April 8, 1863. Having command of the troops at Portsmouth during the Morgan raid, he declared martial law, and every man who could carry a gun was forced to, while those who did not were compelled to work on the entrenchments. When the law regarding the organization of national banks was passed he organized the Portsmouth National Bank, and was made its first president. Selling his interests in the institution in 1867, Colonel Kinney made a trip abroad, being one of the party written up by Mark Twain in his famous book "Innocents Abroad." On his return to Portsmouth the Colonel organized the Bank of Portsmouth, which, in 1872, he changed to the Kinney National Bank, of which he became president. Active and influential in municipal affairs, Colonel Kinney served for upwards of thirty years as a member of the city council, from 1852 until 1854 being president of the board. In 1849 he had the honor of being delegated to welcome Zachary Taylor to Portsmouth when he passed through the place on his way to Washington to be inaugurated as president of the United States. During the same year he was elected a school trustee. After his return from Europe the Colonel built a fine residence in Kinney Lane, it being pleasantly located, and commanding a fine view. He named the place Mount Taber. This place is owned by his daughter. Mrs. Theodore Funk, and here she now lives. There he subsequently resided until his death, August 13, 1877. Colonel Kinney married, in 1832, Elizabeth Reded, who was born in Penrith, England, and came to this country with her parents when but five years old, being seven weeks on the ocean. She survived him, passing away March 5, 1887. Colonel and Mrs. Kinney were the parents, or two children, namely : John Wesley Kinney, of Chicago, Illinois; and Emma Dora, wife of Theodore K. Funk, of whom a brief sketch appears on another page of this work. Colonel Kinney was a member of the Episcopal Church, and he built a church at Third and Bond streets, known as Christ's Church. In politics he was a very strong republican. THEODORE K. FUNK. Scholarly in his attainments, and possessing an extensive and comprehensive knowledge of law and of precedents, Theodore K. Funk, of Portsmouth, has a natural aptitude for his profession, and holds high rank among the successful lawyers of Scioto County. A son of Jacob Funk, Jr., he was horn, January 30, 1848, in Salem Township, Champaign County, Ohio. Joel Funk, Sr., his paternal grandfather, was born in Pennsylvania, 976 - ROCK IRON REGION of early German ancestry. Going to Maryland in early manhood, he lived a few years in the vicinity of Frederick, from there coming to. Ohio, and locating in Champaign County as a pioneer. Purchasing a tract of wild land in Salem Township, he at once began the arduous task of hewing a farm from the Wilderness. Deer, turkeys and Other wild game were then plentiful, and helped furnish the family larder. There were no railways for many years after his arrival, and no convenient markets, and in order to dispose of the surplus products of his farm he had to take them in a crooked sill wagon drawn by four or six horses to Baltimore, where he exchanged his commodities for sugar, salt, and other needed supplies for the household. He cleared a good farm, and was there a resident until his death, in 1860, at the age of sixty-two years. He married Elizabeth Kenaga, who was born in Pennsylvania, of German lineage. She survived him many years, living to welcome into this world a great-grandchild. She reared five children, as follows: Jacob ; Aaron Benson ; Emily, who married Jacob Myers ; Caroline, wife of Peter Share; and Augusta, who died at the age of twenty-three years. Jacob Funk, Jr., was born in Salem Township, Champaign County, and was reared amid pioneer scenes, and educated in pioneer schools. He assisted his father in clearing a part of the old homestead, felling in piles huge- oak and walnut trees that would now be very valuable, and burning them. When he was ready to begin life for himself his father gave him forty acres of land, and to this he added by purchase from time to time, and in course of years became an extensive and successful farmer. He attained the venerable age of eighty-two years. He married Sarah Long, who was born in Champaign County, Ohio, a daughter of James Long, a pioneer settler, coming from Scotch-Irish ancestry. She lived to the advanced age of eighty-seven years. Five children were born of their union, namely : Lee Wellington Funk, who for many years has been employed in the United States Treasury Department at Washington, D. C.; Theodore K. Funk ; Rovella Augusta Funk, living on the old homestead in Salem Township ; Eugene Funk, superintendent of the county infirmary at Valparaiso, Indiana ; and James L. Funk, engaged in the grain business at West Liberty, Logan County, three miles from his old home. Theodore K. Funk received his rudimentary education in a small log schoolhouse, in which the slab seats had wooden pins for legs, and were so high that his feet could not touch the floor. He subsequently attended the .Collegiate Institute in Urbana, and in 1866 entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, from the classical department of which he was graduated with the class of 1871. Beginning then the HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 977 study of law with Judge William Lawrence, of Bellefontaine, Mr. Funk was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Ohio in 1873, and immediately opened an office in Portsmouth, where he has since been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his chosen profession. Making a specialty of criminal law, Mr. Funk has been the attorney for the defendant in the more important cases of this part of the state, and the fact that in all the cases he has tried but one client has been executed is proof of his ability and success as a lawyer. Mr. Funk cast his first presidential vote for Gen. U. S. Grant, and has since been actively identified with the republican party. Being an eloquent and fluent speaker, he has been prominent in many political campaigns, having been his county's choice for Congress, and having been twice elected prosecuting attorney of the county. In 1892 he was chosen as presidential elector. Prior to a fire which destroyed his residence a few years ago, he had one of the most extensive and valuable libraries in the state, and even now he has a very complete library on criminal law, and a small but select library containing the works of the best authors. On October 27, 1874, at St. Louis, Mr. Funk married Miss Emma Kinney, who was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, a daughter of Col. Peter and Elizabeth (Reded) Kinney, of whom a brief account may be found on another page of this work. Six- children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Funk, namely : Peter Kinney, Elizabeth Augusta, Sarah Imogene, Ada Bell, Laura Blaine, and James Wesley. Peter Kinney Funk, the oldest child, enlisted during the Spanish war in Company H, Fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, and going with his command to Porto Rico served until the close of the conflict, being honorably discharged as first lieutenant of his company. Returning home, he resumed work in the shoe factory which he had previously entered without any knowledge of the work required. Applying himself diligently, however, he mastered the details of the trade, and was first promoted to the position of foreman, and is now superintendent of the Excelsior factory at Ironton. He married May Williams. Elizabeth A. Funk, the oldest daughter, married Charles O. Lemen, general inspector in the Morgan-Wright Rubber Company's factory in Detroit, and has two children. Ada Bell Funk married James Porter, of Detroit, but now of Calumet, Michigan, with a manufacturing company and has one son, Donald Kinney Porter. Laura Blaine Funk married Harold Wendelken, a civil engineer, of Portsmouth. James W. Funk was graduated from the Portsmouth High School with the class of 1914, now in Detroit, Michigan, engaged in the coal business. Sarah Imogene, the third child born to Mr. and Mrs. Funk, died at the age of two years and four 978 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION months. The beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Funk, located on the out-skirts of the town, is known as Mount Tabor, having. been named by Col. Peter Kinney. Fraternally Mr. Funk is a member, and past exalted ruler, of Elks Lodge No. 154, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. HENRY RICHIE KINNEY. A life-long resident of Portsmouth, Scioto County, and for many years actively identified with its mercantile and horticultural interests, Henry Richie Kinney was born July 21, 1815, and died November 8, 1904, in the ninetieth year of his age. His parents, Aaron and Mary (Clingman) Kinney, were among the earlier settlers of Portsmouth, as is told in a brief sketch of their lives on another page of this volume. Obtaining the rudiments of his education in the pioneer schools of his native district, Henry Richie Kinney completed his studies at the Woodward High School, in Cincinnati. As a young man he assisted his father on the home farm, and made several trips on flat boats to New Orleans, where he sold both produce and boats, making the return trip on a steamer. With the restless spirit characteristic of the true American even in those early days, he started in early manhood on horseback for Chicago, Illinois, which was then on the frontier. Before reaching his point- of destination he met a man just returning from there who told him that Chicago was located in a swamp, and assured him that it would never become a city. Changing his plans, therefore, Mr. Kinney went to St. Louis, Missouri, where for two years he was employed in the hardware business. Returning then to Portsmouth, he was here similarly engaged until 1856, by earnest effort and good management building up a substantial trade in hardware. From that time until 1870 lie was not connected with any mercantile trade, but for a few years thereafter he was again engaged in the hardware business, being in company with his sons. Upon the division of his father's estate, in 1856, the parental homestead fell to his share, and for many years he was successfully engaged in the culture of fruit and vegetables. Mr. Kinney was strong and active, both physically and mentally to the end of his long life, and enjoyed himself to the fullest extent. His first recollections of Portsmouth was as a wilderness, with a few houses scattered here and there. Communication with the outside world was by way of the rivers, or overland with teams, until the completion of the canal. He witnessed wonderful changes in the face of the country, and lived to see Portsmouth develop into a flourishing city, equipped with all modern conveniences. HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 979 Mr. Kinney married, November 7, 1843, Mary MacNairn. She was born at Newton Stewart; Wigtonshire, Scotland, May 11, 1824, a daughter of Joseph and Jane (McKean) MacNairn. Her mother spent her entire life in Scotland, but her father, in 1839, immigrated to America, and. after living for a while in Indiana came to Portsmouth, Ohio, where he was engaged in the hardware business until his death. Mrs. Kinney died August 30, 1886. Ten children were born of their union: Wellington, Harry Elwell; Janet, Josephine, Isabelle and five who died when young. Wellington Kinney, the oldest child, was for some years engaged in the hardware busines with his father. In 1905 he took up his residence in the State of Washington, where for a time he was engaged in the lumber busines at Newport, but is now a real estate dealer in Spokane. He married Louise Epworth Briggs, and they have one son, Briggs Riehie Kinney. Harry Elwell Kinney began life for himself as a hardware merchant, being in company with his father and brother, and was afterwards engaged in the tan bark business until his death, at the early age of twenty-nine years. Janet Kinney was brought up and educated in Portsmouth. In 1875 she married Samuel T. Williams, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, a son of William Williams, who was a native of Wales. On coming with his family to the 'United States William Williams lived first in Cleveland, Ohio, and later in Sharon, Pennsylvania. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Fair, was born in England. Samuel T. Williams found employment when quite young in the iron works, and while yet a resident of. Pennsylvania learned the details of the business. He came to Portsmouth in early manhood, and later became general manager of a steel mill located near Steubenville, and there lived until his death, in March, 1900, at the age of forty-seven years. After the death of her husband Mrs. Janet (Kinney) Williams returned to the parental homestead in Portsmouth, where she and her sisters, Josephine Kinney and Isabelle Kinney, are living, being owners of the property. Mrs. Williams has one son, Howard Kinney Williams. He was educated in the high school of Portsmouth, and is now living in Steubenville, where he is superintendent of a steel mill. Mrs. Williams and her sisters are members, and active workers, of All Saints Church, while Mr. Williams was reared in the Presbyterian faith. Mrs. Williams and Miss Isabelle Kinney are members of the Joseph Spencer Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and of the New Century Club. FRANK MCCURDY. A progressive and public-spirited citizen of his native county, Mr. McCurdy is engaged in business at Wheelers- Vol. II-22 980 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION burg as an undertaker and funeral director and is a member of a family whose name has been identified with the history of Scioto County for nearly half a century. Mr. McCurdy was born at Harrisonville, Scioto County, on the 6th of April, 1870, and is a son of William H. arid Amanda (Wheeler) McCurdy, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania and the latter in Scioto County, Ohio, a representative of a sterling pioneer family of this section of the state. William H. McCurdy- was reared and educated in his native state, whence he came to Ohio when a young man, his marriage being solemnized in Scioto County. He be-value a successful road contractor and merchant and served three terms as a Member of the board of county commissioners of Scioto County. He built many of the excellent turnpike roads in Scioto and adjoining counties, and he achieved success ;through his energy and well ordered industry. He died December 3, 1914, in the City of Wheelersburg, his devoted wife having passed to the life eternal in 1901. He was a stalwart republican in his political proclivities and was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. Of the five children four are living : William II. is a merchant at Wheelersburg; Harry E., maintaining his home at Portsmouth, is a traveling salesman for the C. P. Tracy Company ; Frank is the immediate subject of this review ; and Minnie is the widow of Dr. Claude B. Maddox, her home being in the City of Seattle, Washington. The other child, Ida, died at the age of four years. Frank McCurdy acquired his rudimentary education in the schools of Harrisonville, and was ten years of age at the time of the family removal' to Wheelersburg, where he continued his studies in the graded schools until he 'had attained to the age of eighteen years. Thereafter he worked on his father's farm until he reached his legal majority, when he assumed the position of fireman in the service of the Norfolk & Western Railroad Company, in the employ of which he continued three years, the following three years being given to the supervision of the work of a railway construction gang in the South. Thereafter he was associated for three years with the work and management of his father's farm,. near Wheelersburg, and in December, 1907, he established his present undertaking business, with appointments and service of the best order. In politics, though never imbued with ambition for office, Mr. McCurdy is a staunch republican, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is affiliated with Western Sun Lodge No. 91, Free and Accepted Masons, and with Wheelersburg Lodge No. 406, Knights of Pythias, of which he is past HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 981 chancellor, also a charter member of the Tribe of Ben Hur, Wheelersburg Court 230. In October, 1905, Mr. McCurdy wedded Miss Helen Frances Cadot, who was born and reared in Scioto County and who is a popular figure in the social activities of her home village. Mr. and Mrs. McCurdy have no children. MERMAN O. ORTHMEYER. For more than sixty years a resident of the Hanging Rock Iron Region, Mr. Orthmeyer is a citizen whose name and a brief record of whose career should be permanently recorded in -the history of this community. He represents a family which. had its part in the early development of the Hanging Rock Iron Region, and since reaching manhood has been a progressive farmer and has made a reputation for integrity and success in all his relations with his fellow men. Herman O. Orthmeyer was born in Elizabeth Township of Lawrence County, Ohio, February 29, 1848, a son of Frank and Catherine (Hacker) Orthmeyer. Both parents were born and reared in Germany, came to America and were married at Pine Grove Furnace in Southern Ohio, February, 1847. The father died in 1878 and the mother in 1894, and of their five children three are living: Herman ; Frederick, who lives on the home farm ; and Frank, a farmer in North Dakota and the owner of a section of land in that state. Herman Orthmeyer was reared in Lawrence County, attended the public schools of that section, and as a young man learned the trade of wagon maker. He worked in Ironton until 1876, and since then, for another forty years, has devoted his energy and time to agriculture. Mr. Orthmeyer at one time owned 360 acres of land at Kelley Mills, .but sold that and is now proprietor of the Clint Furst farm in Green Township of Scioto County, situated in the French Grant near Franklin Furnace. Mr. Orthmeyer has always been known in his community as an industrious worker, a shrewd manager and has been thoroughly progressive. In 1875 Mr. Orthmeyer married Mary L. Newman, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, but was educated in the public schools at Pine Grove Furnace. To their marriage have been born eight children, three sons and five daughters, mentioned briefly as follows: Catherine lives at home; Frank J., who is employed in the steam shovel works at Marion, Ohio ; Fred W., a barber, who lives in Cincinnati ; Joseph H., who. is the owner of a bakery at Sciotoville ; Mary is in St. Francis Convent, Dubuque, Iowa ; Anna married August Craft, a farmer near Botkins, Shelby County, Ohio ; Sophia is the wife of James Murphy, 982 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION of Marion, Ohio ; and Emma married Andy Boll and lives at Pine Grove Furnace, Ohio. The family are members of St. Peter's Catholic Church of Wheelersburg. Mr. Orthmeyer is a republican. As a citizen he has always been willing to perform his share of the obligations that rest upon members of the community, and while working for his own welfare has not been negligent as to matters that concern society as a whole. FRED L. PREDIGER. Since his retirement from the regular army a few years ago, Mr. Prediger has lived at Wheelersburg in Scioto County, and is spending his declining years in the same region where he was born. Mr. Prediger was in the regular United States army for about twenty-five years, and retired with the rank of sergeant of engineers. Fred L. Prediger was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, July 17, 1862, a son of Fred and Elizabeth (Lesser) Prediger. His father was a native of Germany and his mother of Switzerland, they came to the United States separately and were married in Ohio, after which they located in Portsmouth. The father was a capable and expert boot and shoe maker, and manufactured goods in a time when the best boots nd shoes were custom made. He died in Portsmouth in 1868, while ids widow passed away at Wheelersburg in May, 1913. Six of their eleven children are still living : William H., a shoe worker at Trenton, New Jersey ; Cornelia, unmarried ; Frances A., widow of Ferdinand Burke ; Frederick L.; Oliver L., a shoe worker at Portsmouth, Ohio; and Charles A., also a shoe worker. Frederick L. Prediger was reared to manhood at Portsmouth, attended the public schools, and when about fourteen years of age started out to make his own way. His first employment was in the old hub and spoke factory at Portsmouth. Subsequently he, was employed as a shoe worker and by these occupations supported himself until nineteen. He then went East and at the age of twenty joined the regular army. Mr. Prediger served continuously in the army until his retirement in 1906. During the .Spanish-American war he saw service in Cuba, and for six years was in the Philippine Islands. Since leaving the army he has lived in a comfortable rural home on Dogwood Ridge. On April 8, 1908,. he married Cornelia Hunsinger, who was born and reared in Scioto County. In politics Mr. Prediger is a republican. FREDERICK GENHEIMER. For many years one of the most highly respected and substantial residents of Scioto County, owning a fine farm in Porter Township, Frederick Genheimer was a youth when the HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 983 Civil war was fought and served several years in that great conflict between the states as a member of the Union army. Since its close he has been occupied with farming and with the duties of good citizenship in Southern Ohio. Frederick Genheimer was born in Bavaria, Germany, September 27, 1839, a son of Wendell and Sophia (Huffman) Genheimer. The family emigrated to the United States in 1845, locating at Vernon Furnace in Lawrence County, Ohio, where the father was employed as a furnace worker until 1865. In August of that year lie bought a farm on Dogwood Ridge in Scioto County, and there spent the rest of his days. There were four children : Frederick, Elizabeth, Catherine and Frances, all of whom are deceased. Frederick Genheimer was past seven years of age when he arrived in this section of Ohio, and was educated in the English language in the schools of Lawrence County. He was brought up on a farm, and remained at 'home until twenty-one. In September, 1861, he volunteered for service in the Union army in Company B of the Second West Virginia Cavalry, and was in the army under General Crook and afterwards under General Sheridan, and remained until the close of the war. With the close of hostilities he returned to Lawrence County, and afterwards moved to Dogwood Ridge, where he now resides. Mr. Genheimer was married in April 28, 1866, to Mrs. Sarah Cottle. She was born in Porter township of Scioto County. They are the parents of five children : Thomas, who graduated from the State University of Ohio and is superintendent of schools at Waco, Texas ; Sophia A., who is unmarried and lives at home ; Will F., a graduate of the Ohio State University and now a resident of Roanoke, West Virginia ; Nora, living at home ; and John, a graduate of the high school at Wheelersburg, and still at home. Mr. Genheimer is conceded to have one of the finest farms on Dogwood Ridge. He has prospered in all departments of farming and has made a specialty of Jersey cattle. His farm comprises 123 acres, situated 2 1/2 miles southeast of Wheelersburg. Mr. Genheimer and family are members of the Free Will Baptist Church. In politics he is a republican and served six years as one of the trustees of Porter Township. ANDREW J. HYLAND. A native son of Scioto County who holds distinct prestige as a successful farmer and merchant of the county, who maintains his residence in the Village of Franklin Furnace, where he is serving as postmaster, besides conducting his well-appointed general store, Mr. Hyland is, a popular and representative citizen who well merits recognition in this History of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio. 984 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION Mr. Hyland was born on a farm in Green Township, Scioto County, on the 11th of April, 1864, and is a son of John and Mary (Doyle) Hyland, both of whom were born in Ireland, members of staunch old families of the fair Emerald Isle. The parents were reared and educated in their native land and within a short time after their marriage they immigrated to the United States. They established their home . in the City of Cincinnati, Ohio, where they remained until their removal to Scioto County, in the pioneer days. John Hyland here purchased a tract of land near. Franklin Furnace, and there developed a productive farm, this old homestead continuing to be the abiding place of both him and his wife until their death, both having been devout communicants of St. Peter's Catholic Church,. at Franklin Furnace, and Mr. Hyland having affiliated with the democratic party after gaining citizenship in his adopted country, ever afterward continuing a staunch supporter of its cause. Of the seven children, four are living : Catherine is the widow of William Glatz, and resides in the City of Portsmouth, judicial center of Scioto County ; Mary is the wife of Peter Herbst,. of. Portsmouth ; Ellen is the wife of William Woods, of the same city ; and Andrew J. is the only surviving son. The old home farm was the stage on which Andrew J. Hyland played his role as -a child and youth, and in connection with its work he gained his initial lessons in practical industry and responsibility, the while he profited fully by the opportunities afforded him by the public schools. of Green Township. As a youth he learned the art of telegraphy, and in connection with his work as a telegraphist he finally was appointed station agent for the Norfolk & Western Railroad at Franklin F.urnace, a position which he retained for the long period of fifteen years. Since his resignation he has been continuously identified with the general merchandise business, and he has a substantial and appreciative trade in connection with his well-equipped store at Franklin Furnace, besides which he is the owner of a valuable farm of 117 acres near his home village, seventy-seven acres of the tract being fertile bottom land, and the remaining forty acres being 'devoted to pasture, save for the portion that is still covered with native timber. Mr. Hyland's success and independence stand as the result of his own ability and well-ordered efforts, and he is one of the progressive citizens of his native county, where he has so guided and governed his life as to merit and receive the high esteem of all who. know him. In politics Mr. Hyland gives unequivocal allegiance to the republican party, and not only has he held the office of postmaster at Franklin Furnace since 1898, but he has served also as a member of the school board of Green Township for twenty-two years. Both he and HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 985 his wife are earnest communicants of the Catholic Church, in which they are members of the parish of St. Peter's Church, at Wheelersburg. On the 22d of September, 1892, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hyland to Miss Myrtie Eakins, who likewise was born and reared in Green Township, a member of one of the well known families of this part of Scioto County, where she received her education in the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Hyland have four children : Orville R., who was born on the 8th of July, 1893, was graduated in the high school of Green Township and in a commercial college at Portsmouth, and he is now associated in the management of his father's store ; Stanley and Geraldine are students in the high school of Green Township ; and Lewis L., who was born February 5, 1908, is attending the local graded school. HENRY A. SHERMAN. Few of the farmers of the Hanging Rock Iron Region have made 'a better showing from a similar beginning than Henry A. Sherman of Wheelersburg, Porter Township, Scioto County. Mr. Sherman owns and occupies a fine farm of ninety-eight acres, half a mile northeast of Wheelersburg, and having begun with practically no capital at the time of his marriage, has acquired prosperity and a place of influence in the community. He has not only provided well for his family, but is regarded as one of the men of influence in his community., Henry A. Sherman was born at Vernon Furnace March 13, 1863, a son of Valentine and Elizabeth (Huffman) Sherman. Both parents were natives of Germany, and his father came to the United States at the age of thirteen and his mother at twelve, grew up in Ohio and married' in this state. Valentine Sherman was a furnace worker, and finally bought a farm on Dogwood Ridge, and engaged in farming until his death at Wheelersburg. There were ten children, and seven are living : John, of Scioto County ; Sophia, wife of Herman Herms, of Portsmouth, Ohio ; Elizabeth, wife of Augusta Zwickert ; Henry ; Ella, who lives at Wheelersburg and is unmarried ; Dora, wife of June Adams of Wheelersburg. Henry A. Sherman grew up at Vernon Furnace and on Dogwood Ridge, to which locality his father moved when he was three, years of age. His education came from the public schools, and he has been acquainted with the duties of farm and field ever since boyhood. Mr. Sherman began farming for himself at the age of twenty-one. In 1892 he married Sophia Smith, who was born at Dogwood Ridge. They have two children Edith; who married Stephen Hausgen and lives at Waits Station, Ohio ; and Paul, born in 1901 and a student in the Wheelersburg schools. Mr. Sherman is a member of the Methodist 986 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION Episcopal Church at Wheelersburg, and was a charter member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at that place. In politics he is a republican. CHALLIS HADDON DAWSON, M. D. A young physician and surgeon with the promise of a large career of usefulness, Dr. Challis Haddon Dawson. began his work at Wheelersburg in Scioto County, and on June 1, 1915, moved. to New Boston, Ohio. He has gained a large clientele, and enjoys an established position in the community. Challis Haddon Dawson was born February 25, 1892, at Scotland, Edgar County, Illinois, a son of Taylor and Iona (Rodenbarger) Dawson, both still residents of that place. Doctor Dawson acquired his education in the schools of Edgar County, finished the high school course in 1909, and then entered the medical department of the State University of Ohio, from which he graduated M. D. in 1913. On August 26, 1913, Doctor Dawson located for practice at Wheelersburg, and few graduates have done better within one year from leaving school than Doctor Dawson. He is a member of the medical societies, and is affiliated with the Phi Rho Sigma medical fraternity in the Omega Chapter at Columbus. He stood high in the fellowship of his college classes, was president of the high school class, and also president of his class in medical college. Doctor Dawson married Blanche Finney of Sciotoville, Ohio. She is the daughter of George Finney, and a relative of Captain A. J. Finney of Portsmouth, Ohio. Doctor Dawson was the youngest member of the graduating class in medical college, having celebrated his twenty-first birthday in February and graduating in the following May. He is also the youngest son of the family, and his wife is the youngest daughter. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias at Wheelersburg, also with the Modern Woodmen of America, a member of Portsmouth Lodge of Elks No. 154 and a charter member of the order of Geeks, also of Portsmouth. In politics he is a democrat. JOSHUA OAKES SONS & COMPANY. One of the large and important plants which give distinctive character to the industrial activities of the Hanging Rock Iron Region is the Joshua Oakes Sons & Company, manufacturers of drain tile and red brick at Oakland in Green Township, Scioto County. The founder of the business, who recently died, had a long and industrious career in Scioto County, and belonged tp one of the oldest families of this region. He has been succeeded by his sons, who have continued the clay product industry established nearly forty years ago, and the business is now flourishing and one of more than local importance. Joshua Oakes was born January 11, 1826, at Haverhill, Ohio, in Green Township of Scioto County, and in his earlier HANGING ROCK IRON REGION days followed the Ohio River, working as a boatman and boat manager along the Ohio. He was a man of versatile energy and had much initiative and enterprise. An instance of this is the fact that he bought the first circular saw mill used anywhere along the Ohio Valley, and set it up and did considerable business in manufacturing lumber for several years. Later he conducted the ferry at Haverhill, and finally sold that and bought a farm a mile and a half north of Haverhill, situated in lots 8 and 9 of the French Grant. His purchase of that land was in 1858. After farming for some years he and his sons established a tile and brick yard in 1877. That plant has been enlarged and brought to rank as a leading industry. Joshua Oakes died January 12, 1914, and his wife passed away in 1900.. There were eight children, seven of whom are living: 'Mary, wife of Charles Austin ; A. D. Oakes; Oscar F. Oakes ; Ella, widow of Capt. Sam Mathewson ; Elona R., wife of Fillmore Musser, cashier of the Ohio Valley Bank. at Portsmouth ; Elmore, a farmer near McDermott, Ohio; Frank Oakes. The sons, A. D., Oscar F. and Frank, are now at the head of the brick and tile works. A. D. Oakes married Hannah Austin, and their eight children are all married and have established homes of their own, excepting Floyd L. Oakes, who was killed in an accident at Martinsville, Indiana, July 7, 1915. Mr. Oakes is a member of the Woodmen of the World, belongs to the Grange, and he and his ,brothers are among the leading business men of Green Township. ROBERT S. STEWART, M. D. A capable physician and surgeon with a career of active practice covering the past seventeen years spent in the Hanging Rock Iron Region, and who is now located at South Webster in Scioto County, Doctor. Stewart belongs to one of the older families in this section of Ohio and through his profession has made himself a factor of usefulness in the community. Doctor Stewart at the present time is serving as local surgeon at South Webster for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Robert S. Stewart was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, January 4, 1859, a son of Rufus C. and Hannah J. (Boggs) Stewart. His father was a native of the same county, was a. farmer by occupation, and during the Civil war enlisted for service in the Sixth Ohio Cavalry, and gave up his life while in service as a sacrifice to the preservation of the Union. At his death his widow was left with six children, and five of them are still living. One son is Dr. David G. Stewart, a physician and surgeon at Ironton, Ohio. Dr. Robert S. Stewart grew up on a farm, had limited advantages, - 987 - 988 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION and through his own energy and ambition prepared himself for his chosen work. He attended the public schools of Ironton, and in 1897 graduated M. D.. from the Kentucky School of Medicine and Hospital, and began his practice at Black Fork in Lawrence County. Doctor Stewart moved to South Webster in 1911, and has been favored with a large practice both in town and country. Doctor Stewart married Ida M. Hudson, daughter of Dr. David Hudson, a prominent old physician of Waterloo, Ohio. Doctor Stewart and wife have four children : Carrie, wife of D. S. Davis of Oak Hill, in the lumber business; Roxie, wife of Thomas Williams, an engineer, living at Oak Hill ; Nellie, unmarried and at home; and Emil H., married and living in South Webster. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Doctor Stewart is affiliated with Waterloo Lodge No. 532, Free and Accepted Masons, and in politics is a republican. JOHN HARCHA. As a lad of eight years the ex-postmaster of the Village of Buena Vista, Scioto County, accompanied his parents on their immigration from Germany to America, and he was reared and educated in the village that is now his home and in which he has given excellent account of himself in connection with business activities and civic affairs; his popularity and his hold upon the confidence and good will of the community being indicated by his incumbency of the office of postmaster for about a quarter of a century, and is now deputy county clerk of Scioto County. Mr. Harcha is well known in Scioto County, is imbued with marked civic loyalty and progressiveness and is well entitled to recognition in this history of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio. John Harcha was born at Oberzelt kur Hessen, Germany, on the 6th of October, 1872, and at the same place was born his father, John Henry Harcha, the date of whose nativity was October 11, 1846. The latter's father was a substantial farmer in that section of the great empire of Germany and there passed his entire life, of the three children the only one to come to America being the father of the ex-postmaster of Buena Vista. John H. Harcha attended the schools of his native land until he was in his fifteenth year, and he continued to be identified with the improving and cultivating of land in Hessen until he had attained the age of twenty-one years, when he found employment in the great Krupp manufactory of firearms, with which celebrated institution he continued to be thus identified for four years. In 1882 he came to the United States, being accompanied by his wife and their three children, and within a short time after his arrival in America he HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 989 established his home at Buena Vista, where he was employed for a number of years at the stone quarries that have contributed to the industrial prestige of Scioto County in a large degree. Through industry and good management he gained independence and definite prosperity, made judicious investments in real estate, and he now gives his attention principally to the management of his various property interests, as one of the sterling and honored citizens of the county of his adoption. In the year 1872 he wedded Miss Anne Katie Dorn, who was a native of the same place in which he himself was born, the date of her birth having been August, 1846. She died on the 10th of September, 1904, having been a devoted wife and mother, and having been survived by four children—John, .William ,Frederick, Henry and Elizabeth. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church. In 1906 John H. Harcha contracted a second marriage, being united in wedlock to Mrs. Anne Katie (Scheffer) Loss, widow of Henry Loss, of Scioto County. John Harcha, the immediate subject of this sketch, acquired his rudimentary education in his native land and was eight years of age at the time of the family immigration to the United States. His alert mind enabled him to profit duly by the advantages that were afforded him in the public schools of Buena Vista and the memories of his fatherland soon became obscured through contemporary influences and conditions, so that he is essentially and loyally American in all that pertains to appreciation and loyal citizenship. As a youth he entered the employ of the Buena Vista Freestone Company, in the capacity of sawyer, and he remained with this corporation until its affairs were placed in the hands of a receiver. Thereafter he became associated with others in the organization and incorporation of the Buena Vista Stone Company, which purchased the plant of the company previously mentioned and which operated the same for two years thereafter. In 1898, under the administration of President McKinley, Mr. Harcha was appointed postmaster at Buena Vista, and of this position he continued the efficient and popular incumbent until 1915, when he accepted the deputy clerkship of Scioto County under Clerk J. W. Hall. His administration of the affairs of the offices have been circumspect and systematic and have given satisfaction to the community. He is a stalwart republican in politics, is progressive and public-spirited as a citizen and takes a loyal interest in all that concerns the general welfare of his home village, where he has served for the past eight years as a member of the school board, of which he is clerk at the time of this writing. Mr. Harcha and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is affiliated with Rome Lodge No. 535, Free and Accepted Masons ; Buena Vista Lodge No. 842, Independent Order of Odd 990 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION Fellows, and with Peerless Lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose, in the City of Portsmouth. On the 25th of March, 1894, was recorded the marriage of Mr. Harcha to Miss Elizabeth Roth, who was born in Nile Township, Scioto County, where she was reared and educated. She is a daughter of Conrad and Elizabeth (Knauff) Roth, the former of whom was horn in Oberzelt kur Hessen, Germany, and the latter in Butler County, Pennsylvania. Conrad Roth was born January 19, 1835, his parents having passed their entire lives in that section of the German empire in which he was born and reared and where he continued to be identified with agricultural pursuits until 'his immigration to the United States, at the age of twenty years. He landed in the City of New Orleans, and from the Crescent City lie soon made his way to Adams County, Ohio, where he found employment at farm work, later in the stone quarries and finally as a carpenter. He devoted his attention to the carpenter's trade until 1882, when he purchased a farm three miles east of Buena Vista, where he continued to reside until his death, in 1889. His wife was horn on a farm about ten miles distant from the judicial center of Butler County, Pennsylvania, on the 22d of February, 1842. Her father, Michael Knauff, was born in Germany and was twelve years old at the time of the family immigration to America. His father, Nicholas Knauff, purchased land in Butler County, Pennsylvania, and was there identified with farming until his death. Michael Knauff continued his residence in Butler County until 1853, when he came to Ohio and purchased a farm in Green Township, Adams County, where he finally died at the venerable age of eighty-four years. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Gardner, having been born in Germany and having been young when she came with her parents to the United States. She attained to the age of seventy-one years, her mother having reached the remarkable age of ninety-four years. Conrad and Elizabeth (Knauff) Roth became the parents of eleven children, namely : Margaret, Michael, Mary, Elizabeth, Henry, Lucy, Anna, Conrad, Frederick, Amelia- and Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Harcha have a pleasant home at Buena Vista, and the same is known for its generous hospitality and good cheer. They have two sons, Howard Henry and John Roth, the former of whom is a member of the class of 1916 in the high school at Portsmouth, and the latter of whom is attending the village schools of Buena Vista. SAMUEL G. HARPER.. For a great many years the Harper family have been identified with the professional life of Scioto 'County. The father of Samuel G. harper was Judge John J. Harper, one of the HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 991 most distinguished members of the Scioto County bar for many years. Samuel G. Harper is a civil engineer by profession, has done much important work in that line, and his son was recently elected county surveyor of Scioto County. Samuel G. Harper was born in Portsmouth, October 27, 1864. his father, Judge John James Harper, was born on a farm near Amanda in Fairfield County, Ohio, July 6, 1834. The grandfather was Alexander Harper, a native of Berkeley County, Virginia, who came out to Ohio and was one of the early settlers in Fairfield County, where he developed a farm and lived a number of years. While in Fairfield County he served as a justice of the peace. From Ohio he moved to Peoria County, Illinois, and lived there until his death in 1858. Alexander Harper married Jane Cunningham, who died in 1881. The late Judge John J. Harper grew up in Fairfield County, acquired his education in the common schools, taught school both in Fairfield and in Pickaway counties, and in 1853 began an interesting venture which eventually brought him to Portsmouth and into professional life. In that year, in partnership with Horace Ellis, he bought a photograph outfit, consisting of the implements of the trade and a wagon fitted up for the purpose, in which they traveled from one place to another, remaining long enough to serve the people with their art and then going to another town: That was a time when photography was confined to the old-fashioned daguerreotype and ambrotype pictures, many of which are still found in family albums. Arriving at Portsmouth, Judge Harper bought his partner's interest in the concern, and for several years conducted the business alone. In 1858 he began the study of law with Mr. Hutchins, and was admitted to the bar April 25, 1860. Then followed a number of years of practice as a lawyer which brought him well earned and honorable distinction. He was associated with a number of well known lawyers, one time being a partner of Col. Henry E. Jones, later of F. C. Searle, and also with lion. John K. Richards. In 1886 Judge Harper removed to Washington Court House, Ohio, and lived there until his death. Judge Harper was prominent in public affairs. In 1863 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Scioto County, and re-elected in 1865. in 1868 his name was placed on the republican ticket as presidential elector. in 1871 he was elected to the Common Pleas bench, was reelected in 1876, and gave a capable administration of that judicial office until 1882. 'Judge Harper was twice married. His first wife, the mother of Samuel G., was Emily Jones, who was born in Portsmouth and died in 1874, and her four children were John E., William A., Samuel G. and Joseph H. 992 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION In the Evans History of Scioto County appears the following pen portrait of the late Judge Harper: "In personal appearance he is tall, erect,. above the average height, of fine, manly and gentlemanly appearance. He always wears a silk hat and is most fastidious in his dress and personal appearance. His linen is always immaculate, and his clothing of the best and most fashionable. He was always the best dressed lawyer at the Portsmouth bar. While he was in politics he always had the support of his county for Congress, and might have been in Congress had he had the ability to make political deals. That he scorned, and hence he missed the honor of representing his district in the national legislature. He enjoyed the respect of the members of his profession throughout the state for his legal attainments." Samuel G. Harper grew up in Portsmouth, attended the public schools, and in 1883 became assistant to the city engineer. This was the service which introduced him to his chosen field of work. Later he was clerk in different offices in the courthouse for a few years, served two terms as county surveyor, two years as city engineer, and since then has been in active practice as a surveyor and civil and construction engineer. At the present time his services are engaged by the City of New Boston in supervising the construction of the water system, the sewerage and street paving. Samuel G. Harper married, in 1889, Mary Dotson, daughter of Daniel and Clarissa (Diffenbaugh) Dotson, both natives of Ohio and of German stock. The seven children of Mr. and Mrs. Harper are : John J., Sadie M., Samuel G., Jr., Emma J., Joseph H., Marie W. and Mary D. The son John, after leaving the public schools, studied surveying with his father, for three years was employed in the engineering department of the Norfolk & Western Railway, was assistant city engineer two years, and on November 3 was elected to the office of county surveyor. He is the youngest county surveyor in the State of Ohio. Mr. Samuel G. Harper is affiliated with Massie Lodge No. 115, Knights of Pythias, and with Peerless Lodge No. 762, Loyal Order of Moose. W. ALBERT WURSTER. In business circles at Portsmouth, W. Albert Wurster has enjoyed the relations of the successful man and public-spirited citizen for many years. Formerly engaged in the bakery business, he has for the past fifteen years been identified with the Tracy Shoe Company and is now secretary of that well known local enterprise. W. Albert Wurster is a native of the City of Portsmouth, born February 3, 1867. His father, the late John George Wurster, was a sterling German-American citizen, a native of Dettingen, Wuertem- HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 993 berg, Germany. Grandfather Wurster was a manufacturer of linseed oil in Wuertemberg, spent all his life there, and had a mill which was operated by water power. He was twice married, and John George was the only child of his first wife. By his second marriage he reared seven sons, all of whom so far as known remained in their native land. John George Wurster as a boy attended school steadily, and subsequently became assistant to his father in the management of the linseed oil mill. It was his ambition to make a fortune in the New World, and at the age of nineteen he accomplished that journey which brought him to the land of his desires, landing in New York a stranger among strange people, and without capital except good health and willing hands. After a short period of employment in New York City, he joined some relatives in Waverly, Ohio, and later came to Portsmouth. He was a hard-waking, industrious and thrifty young German, and at Portsmouth was employed a few years in the Gaylord. Rolling Mills and then on the death of his brother-in-law, Fred Kraft, succeeded to his baking business. John G. Wurster conducted that shop and established a high reputation for the quality of his products until his death in 1886. John G. Wurster married Mary Dorothy Kiedaisch. She was born also in Wuertemberg, Germany, a daughter of J. Frederick Kiedaisch, who brought his family from Germany, and after a short residence at Waverly, Ohio, moved -to Portsmouth and lived there until his death. Mrs. John G. Wurster died in 1876. She reared four sons and one daughter. The daughter, Mary, is the wife of Daniel Egbert, present county commissioner. The sons are John, J. Fred, William Albert snd J. George. William Albert Wurster acquired his early education in the public schools of Portsmouth, and early began earning his own way. His first regular work was in assisting his father in the bakery, and after his father's death he conducted the business successfully until 1899. In that year he became connected with the Tracy Shoe Company as bookkeeper, in 1906 acquired an interest in the concern, and at the present time is secretary, and one of the men who have done much to increase the business to its present flourishing proportions. Mr. Wurster was married in 1888 to Elizabeth M. Miller, who was born in Portsmouth, daughter of John T. and Elizabeth (Smith) Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Wurster are members of the German Evangelical Church, and he is affiliated with the Royal Arcanum. JOHN P. ADDIS. The efficient and honored superintendent of the Scioto County Infirmary, in Washington Township, has been prominently identified 'with various lines of enterprise in this county, where 994 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION he is the owner of a finely improved farm and other valuable realty, and where he commands secure vantage-place in popular confidence and esteem, as is evidenced by his being called to the exacting office of which he is now the incumbent and in which he is giving a most effective and satisfactory administration. Mr. Addis was born in Sims Township, Lawrence County, Ohio, and is a son of Thomas and Joan (Phillips) Addis. Thomas Addis was born in Adams County, this state, in 1840, and is a son of Rev. Freeman Addis, who likewise pas born in Adams County, a member of a sterling pioneer family of that county. Rev. Freeman Addis became a clergyman of the Baptist Church and labored with much of consecration and zeal in the uplifting of his fellow men. He finally removed from his native county to Lawrence County, where he purchased and established his home on a. farm, in Sims Township. While giving his personal supervision to his farm he continued his earnest services as a minister and he held the reverent affection of those who came within the sphere of his benignant influence during the course of his long and useful life. lie was well advanced in years at the time of his death, and he and his noble wife reared a family of eight children—Isaac, Thomas, Barbara, Benjamin, Barton, Mary, Lewis and Margaret. At the inception of the Civil war three of the sons, Isaac., Thomas and Benjamin, enlisted in defense of the Union, and all continued in active service until the close of the great conflict through which the integrity of the nation was perpetuated. Barton, the fourth son, likewise enlisted in 1861, and he sacrificed his life on the field of battle. Lewis, the youngest of the sons, was too young for enlistment until the final year of the war, when hp entered the ranks and made an admirable record as a youthful patriot. The father was beyond the age limit for military service, but he zealously applied himself in recruiting soldiers and caring for the families of those who had gone to the front, as well as widows and orphans of soldiers who had fallen in battle. He amplified his patriotic service by serving as a trainmaster in the moving of Union forces during the last part of the war. During his entire adult life this sturdy clergyman and patriot was unflagging in his support of the principles of the democratic party, and from this political faith his sons and other descendants have not departed. Thomas Addis was about ten years of age at the time of the family removal to Lawrence County, where he was reared to manhood under the discipline of the home farm and attended the pioneer schools, besides having the benignant influences of a home of marked culture and refinement. He was about twenty-one years old when the Civil war was precipitated on the nation and he promptly tendered his services in defense of the HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 995 Union. Crossing the Ohio River, he enlisted as a private in the Second Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and with this command he saw active and arduous service during the earlier part of the war. After receiving his honorable discharge he returned to Ohio and within a short time thereafter he re-enlisted, as a veteran. At this time he became a member of the One Hundred and Seventy-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the command of General Thomas, and he continued in active service for some time after the final surrender of Generals Lee and Johnston. Upon receiving his honorable discharge for a second time, he returned to his home in Lawrence County, with a record of faithful and gallant service as a soldier of the republic and as one who had taken part in many important engagements. Turning his attention once more to the pursuits of peace, Thomas Addis purchased a farm in Sims Township, Lawrence County, and in addition to giving effective supervision to the cultivation and improvement of his farm he developed also a prosperous enterprise in the burning of charcoal, which he sold and delivered to various iron furnaces in the vicinity. In 1890 Mr. Addis sold his farm and removed to Scioto County, where he purchased ea good farm, in Madison Township. On this homestead he remained until 1913, when he sold the property, and he now resides in the home of one of his daughters, at Waterloo, Lawrence County, having retired after long years of earnest and fruitful endeavor. His wife was born in Aid Township, Lawrence County, and was a daughter of Henry and Rebecca Phillips. She was summoned to eternal rest in 1894, at the age of fifty-five years, and is survived by six children—John P., Barton, Minnie, Hattie, George and Bertha. To the district schools of his native township, in Lawrence County, George P. Addis is indebted for his early education, and when a lad of but twelve years he became a productive worker, as a driver of one of his father's teams and as an assistant in various departments of the farm work. He remained at the parental home until he had attained to his legal majority and then made a trip to the South, but he was not sufficiently impressed with the advantages and attractions of that section of the country to make there a definite location. Upon his return to Ohio he engaged in farming and the cutting of timber in Jefferson and Madison townships, Scioto County, and a few years later he turned his attention to contracting in the construction of public highways. While thus engaged he purchased a farm in Harrison Township, as well as village property at Harrisonville, where he established himself in the general merchandise business, to which he continued to give his supervision until May, 1914, when he was appointed Vol. II-23 996 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION superintendent of the county infirmary, the offIce of which he is now the incumbent. Mr. Addis cast his first presidential vote in support of Grover Cleveland and he has since continued a stalwart advocate and upholder of the cause of the democratic party, in the local affairs of which he has been prominent and influential. He is at the present time a member of the Democratic County Committee of Scioto County and also of the party's executive committee in this county. While a resident of Jefferson Township Mr. Addis served as assessor, constable and land appraiser, and in Harrison Township he was called in turn to the offices of assessor, land appraiser and justice of the peace, besides having served fifteen years as a member of the election board of the township. He is a charter member of the lodge of Knights of Pythias at Harrisonville, where he is also affiliated with the camp of the Sons of Veterans, his father being a valued and appreciative member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and he holds membership also in the Modern Woodmen of America and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. Mrs. Addis is a zealous member of the Baptist Church and has been a popular figure in church and social circles. In the year 1886 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Addis to Miss Julia Delaney,. who was born at Scioto Furnace, a daughter of John and Mary (Wolfe) Delaney, both natives of Pennsylvania. From the old Keystone State Mr. Delaney came to Scioto County, Ohio, where he remained for several years, and after the death of his wife he returned to Pennsylvania, which continued to be the place of his residence until his death. Mr. and Mrs. Addis have eight children, namely : Bertha, Minnie, Lillie, Edward, William, Thomas, Emma and Floyd B. ALBERT TURNER. Few counties of the old Buckeye State can vie with Scioto County in general attractiveness and opulent natural resources, and of the many fine farmsteads which make this county a veritable garden, one of the excellent and admirably improved landed estates is that owned by Albert Turner, the same comprising 300 acres of specially fertile land, situated in the beautiful Ohio Valley about eight miles to the south of the City of Portsmouth, the judicial center and thriving metropolis of the county. Mr. Turner is a native of Scioto County and a representative of one of its honored pioneer families, the name which he bears having been prominently identified With the civic and industrial development and progress of this favored section of the state and he himself holding prestige as one of the representative agriculturists and stock-growers of the county, and as a citizen of marked liberality and public spirit. HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 997 Mr. Turner was born at the old homestead, near Union Mills, Washington Township, this county, on the 12th of November, 1863, and is a son of William and Mary (Daniels) Turner, who reared six children, of whom he was the third in order of birth, the names of the other children being Frank, Louisa, Andrew, Barry and Jennie D. Louisa is. the wife of Andrew Briggs, and Jennie D. married Christian Blair. William Turner was born in Washington Township, Scioto County,. on the 20th of March, 1832, and was a son of Samuel and Phoebe (Wilson) Turner, the latter having been a native of Virginia and a representative of the well known family of that name in the Old Dominion State. Samuel Turner was one of the earliest settlers of Washington Township, Scioto County, where he reclaimed a farm from the wilderness, became influential in public affairs of a local order and where he continued to reside until his 'death, as did also his wife. They became the parents of four children—John, William, Mary and Maria. William Turner was reared under the conditions and influences of the pioneer farm and eventually became one of the most successful and influential agriculturists of his native county. He accumulated a. valuable landed estate of 500 acres, gave his influence and co-operation in the furtherance of enterprises projected for the general good of the county and its people, and so ordered his course as to merit and receive the unqualified confidence and esteem of his fellow men. He espoused the cause of the republican party at the time of its organization, ever afterward continuing a staunch supporter of the same. He was, influential in public affairs in Scioto County, where he served a number of years as township trustee and for six years as county commissioner. In the Evans history of this section of the state William Turner is referred to as having been "one of the most reliable citizens of Scioto county." He died at the age of about seventy-nine years, having contracted a second marriage when well advanced in years, his first wife, mother of the subject of this review, having been about fifty-eight years old when she was summoned to eternal rest. Albert Turner was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home .farm and there learned the ,dignity and value of honest toil and endeavor, the while he made good use of the advantages afforded him in the rural schools of the vicinity. At the time of his marriage he established his residence on his present homestead farm, which has the best of permanent improvements, including a house with metropolitan equipment and facilities, and under his able management the farm is maintained under effective cultivation, with excellent yields of the various products best suited to the soil and climate, besides which he raises on the place excellent grades of live stock and is known as one 998 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION of the alert and progressive farmers of the county which has been his home from the time of his birth. He is an exponent of high civic ideals, is a stalwart republican in politics, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and his sterling attributes of .character command to him the high regard of all who know him. Concerning Mr. Turner a previous publication has spoken in the following words: "While he is essentially a man of business, he is a lover of sports, and in time of leisure takes delight in hunting and in an occasional fox chase." On the 11th of March, 1890, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Turner to Miss Catherine Barbee, a daughter of William A. and Mary (Gable) Barbee, both natives of Portsmouth, Scioto County, where their marriage was solemnized in the year 1869. William A. Barbee was born December 23, 1847, and is a son of Elias and Mary (Hyatt) Barbee, the latter of whom was a daughter of Elvin Hyatt. Elias Barbee was born at Dayton, Ohio, and was a son of William A. and Frances (Curtis) Barbee, honored pioneers of Ohio, to which state it is supposed that William A. Barbee came from Virginia ; he passed the closing years of his life in the vicinity of Dayton and his widow was a resident of Portsmouth at the time of her death. Elias Barbee came to Portsmouth from Dayton at the age of eighteen years, making the journey by way of Cincinnati and traversing the entire distance on foot. He learned the carpenter's trade, to which he devoted his attention, at Portsmouth, for a few years, after which he was engaged in farming in Scioto County until his death, he and his wife having reared five children. William A. Barbee, father of Mrs. Turner, attended the schools of Portsmouth in his youth and in 1863, when in his seventeenth year, he tendered his services in defense of the Union. He enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Fortieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he proceeded to West Virginia and with which he continued in service until after the expiration of 100 days' term of enlistment. After receiving his honorable discharge he returned to his home and during the remainder of his active career he was engaged in farming in Scioto County, where he achieved marked success and where he is still known and honored as an upright and loyal citizen, he and his wife now residing in an attractive home about 2 1/2 miles distant from Portsmouth, on the Buena Vista road, and he has practically retired from active labor, after years of earnest and fruitful endeavor. Mrs. Barbee is a daughter of Nicholas and Mary (Degare) Gable, the former of whom was born in Germany and the latter of whom was of French ancestry. Nicholas Gable was a son of Jacob Gable,. who passed his entire life in Germany. As a young man HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 999 Nicholas immigrated to the United States and established his residence at Portsmouth, where he and his wife maintained their home for a number of years, after which he purchased a farm about seven miles distant from that city, in the picturesque Scioto Valley, where both passed the remainder of their lives. They became the parents of ten children, namely : Catherine, Lucy, Martha, Rhoda, Cornelius, May, Annie, Bertha, Leslie and Clifford. Mr. and Mrs. Turner have three children —William, Leroy and Ethel, the two remaining at the parental home being William and Ethel. Leroy is a progressive young farmer of Scioto County and he married Miss Ethel Pyles. The fine homestead of Mr. Turner is eligibly situated in Nile Township and is one of the fine farms of Scioto County, with thrift and prosperity in evidence on every side. CAPT. CREAD F. MILSTEAD. A man of solid worth, possessing in a high degree those traits that command respect in business and social circles, Capt. Cread F. Milstead is widely known as ex-mayor of Portsmouth, his home city, and as commander of Bailey Post No. 164, Grand Army of the Republic. He was born January 15, 1847, on a farm near Buffalo Springs, Amherst County, Virginia, which was also the birthplace of his father, Newman Milstead. His grandfather, Joseph Milstead, was of English descent, his immigrant ancestor on the paternal side having come from England to America in early colonial days, settling in Maryland, from whence many of his descendants went to other states, some locating in Virginia, and others settling in Tennessee, Mississippi, or other southern states. The grandfather was an extensive planter in Virginia, carrying on farming with slave labor. Newman Milstead was born in Amherst County, Virginia, February 9. 1802. and was there reared to agricultural pursuits. In 1849 he came with his wife and eight children to Ohio, making an overland trip with teams to Malden, West Virginia, where he embarked on a keel boat and floated down the Kanawha and Ohio rivers to Lawrence County, Ohio. Taking up land in Union Township, he was there engaged in tilling the soil until MS death, June 22, 1871. He married Clara England, who was born in Amherst County, Virginia, July 15, 1802, and 'died on the home farm in Union Township, December 8, 1872. They reared eight children, as follows : Richard, born July 4, 1825 ; Harvey, born March 4, 1827 ; Sophronia, born September 6, 1829 ; Erastus, born April 16, 1832; James H., born April 30, 1837 ; Elizabeth, born February 3, 1840 ; Thomas Given, born July 24, 1843 ; and Cread F., born January 15, 1847. But two years old when brought by his parents to Ohio, Cread F.