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CHAPTER IV.

SCIOTO COUNTY IN THE LEGISLATURE.

Table of State Senators, with Sessions, Teams, Districts and

Politics Biographies of Senators-Scioto County- in the

House of Representatives-Table of Representa-

tives, with Sessions, Terms, Districts and

Politics-Biographies of Representatives.

TABLE OF STATE SENATORS.

General Joseph Darlington

was born July 19th, 1765, within four miles of Winchester, Virginia, on a ,plantation owned by his father, Meredith Darlington. It was a pleasant home with delightful surroundings, as the writer can testify.

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He was the fourth of seven children, six sons and a daughter. He grew up on his father's farm, getting such education as the times af- forded. He was too young to have been a soldier in the Revolution, but old enough to imbibe the spirit of the times. When he was twelve years of age, six hundred of the prisoners, British and Hessians, taken at the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, were kept on his father's plantation, from that time until the close of the war. A part of them were lodged in his father's barn and he spent much of his time listening to their wonderful stories of travel and adventure. These stories filled him with a desire to see the world and when he was twenty-one, he begged his father to give him money that he might travel. He went to Philadelphia, and from thence took a sea voyage to New Orleans, and returned by way of the Ohio river. He lived very extravagantly and spent his money freely, while seeing the world. On his return trip from New Orleans, he met Miss Sarah Wilson, at Romney, W. Va., and promptly fell in love with her. She was an heiress and owned slaves and a great deal of land. She had many suitors, but Darlington was the best looking and won the lady, They were married at Romney, March 18th, 1790. At the ceremony lie was dressed in a ruffled shirt, coat; waistcoat, knee breeches, silk stockings, great shoe buckles and had a wonderful suit of hair, pomaded and powdered, and clone up in a queue as long as a man's arm. They resided in Romney until about the close of 1790 and then went to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where his wife owned a farm. There they united with the Presbyterian Church, and there two of their sons were born. While in Fayette County, General Darlington was a County Commissioner, and began his long career of office holding. In October, 1794, he and his wife and their two children came to Limestone, Kentucky, where they lived until 1797. He went from there to the mouth of Cabin Creek, where he kept a ferry. In the spring of 1797, believing that the county seat would be at Washington, below the mouth of Brush Creek, he moved there. When the county was organized on July loth, 1797, he was appointed its Judge of Probate, by Governor St. Clair. In 1803, he removed to West Union and built a double hewed log house in the hill opposite Cole's spring. He was a member of the Legislature from Adams County from November 24th, 1799, until January 29th, 1891. He also represented the same county from November 23rd, 1801, until January 23rd, 1802. He was one of the three members from Adams County in the first Constitutional Convention which sat from November 1st, 1802. until the 29th of the same month. At that time he was a Republican and opposed to Governor St. Clair, and, on November 3rd, he voted against listening to a speech from Governor St. Clair. On November 6th, lie was appointed on the committee to prepare the second article of the constitution, and on the 8th of November, he presided over the committee of the whole. He was on the

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committee to prepare the third article on the judiciary, and on the committee to print the journal of the convention. He was present at every session in the first Legislature of the state. He was in the Senate and served from March 1st, 1803, until April 16th, following, at which session Scioto County was organized by an act of the Legislature. On the 16th of April, 1803. he was elected one of the first three Associate Judges of Adams County, but resigned February h6th, 1804, as the work was too slow for him. On September 10th, 1804, he was commissioned by the Governor, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Ohio Militia, and thus became Lieutenant-Colonel Darlington. This Brigade was commanded by General Wiliam Lucas of Scioto County, who departed this life, September loth, 1805. He had been appointed on the 22nd of October, 1804. He is buried in the Lucas burying ground in Rush Township. March 17th, 1806, Colonel Darlington was made a Brigadier General to take the place of Gen. Lucas. He was appointed a Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Adams County, August 3rd, 1802, and held this office by successive appointments until August, 1847. He was appointed Clerk of the Supreme Court from this county about the same time, and held that office until his death on the 2nd of August, 1851. He served as Recorder of Adams County from 1803 to 1810, and again from September 1813 until 1834. Any one examining the old records in the Recorder's office and Clerk's office of Adams County will find whole volumes written out in his old-fashioned copper plate style. He always used a quill pen and a soft piece of buckskin for a penwiper. In 1885, he became an elder in the Presbyterian Church at West Union and held that office the remainder of his life. His personal appearance would attract notice anywhere. He was above average height, somewhat ,corpulent, had fine regular features, dark brown eyes with heavy brows, and a large head and forehead. He had a manly bearing which impressed all who knew him. The business of his office was admirably systematized and all his habits of daily life were regular and methodical. It is said of him that he did the same thing every day and at the same hour and moment for fifty years. His neighbors set their clocks by him, as he went and returned from his office with such exactness as to time. He had a habit of winding his watch at a certain hour every day, and while writing in the Clerk's office, he would lay it down beside him, and when the hands pointed to that hour, he would take it up and wind it. He was a man of excellent judgment and many matters of his neighbors were submitted to him, and when he decided, his disposition was acquiesced in as satisfactory to all sides. When the Whig party was formed, he became a Whig. While hot anti-slavery in his views, he was opposed to the war with Mexico. He was an entertaining talker and always had something useful and instructive to say. He had much dignity, his life was on a plane above the ordinary and the people. who knew him

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well felt that they were looking up to him. His whole soul, conscience, principles. opinions, worldly interests and everything in his life was made subservient to his religion. His life made all who knew him feel that there was truth and reality in the Christian religion, and he lived it every day. In his opinion his crowning earthly honor was that he had served fifty years in the Presbyterian Church. Four years before his death, he had retired from all public business. All his ,life he had had a dread of the Asiatic cholera. When that pestilence visited West Union in the summer of 1851, the first victim died June 26th. By some irony of fate, he was the last and died of the dread disease on the last day it prevailed, August 2nd. There were but four 'persons present at his interment. Had he died of any ordinary disease, the whole county would have attended. General Darlington was a fair example of the good and true men, who built well the foundation of the great state of Ohio.

Governor Thomas Kirker

was born in Ireland in 1760, and lived in that country until he reached the age of nineteen. His father then emigrated to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His father died soon after their removal to America. He remained in Lancaster County until 1790. Nothing is found of his life in that period, but in that year he married Sarah Smith a young woman of excellent family and great worth. She was several years his junior. Soon after his marriage, they removed to Kentucky, running the gauntlet of Indian hostilities as they floated down the Ohio river. In 1794, they crossed the Ohio and settled in Manchester, Adams County, Ohio. In 1796 he removed to Liberty Township, Adams County. At that time he had a wife and several children. They were the -first settlers to locate in the county outside of Manchester. He was a member of the first Court of Quarter Sessions held in the County under the Territorial Government at Manchester, in September, 1797. He was also a County Commissioner under the territorial government. He was the leading man in that settlement and was usually. the foremost in public matters of all kinds. By common consent he settled quarrels among his neighbors who looked to him for counsel. He had a reputation for good judgment. When delegates were elected to the first Constitutional Convention in 1802, he was sent as one of them. He was a member of the lower house of the Legislature from Adams County from March 1st, 1803, until April 16th, 1803. He entered the Ohio Senate at the second legislative session, closing February, and served in that body continuously until the thirteenth legislative session, closing February 16th, 1815. In that time he was Speaker in the Senate in the fifth, sixth, seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh and thirteenth sessions. From November 4th, 1807, to December 12th, 18o8, he was acting Governor of the State by reason of a vacancy in the office of Governor and his then being, Speaker of the Senate. At the fifteenth legislative ses-

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sion December 15th, 1816, until January 28, 1817, he was a member of the House and its Speaker. At the twentieth legislative session, beginning December 3rd, 1821, he was again in the Senate form Adams and served in it continuously until February 8th, 1825. On January 17th, 1821, he was appointed an Associate Judge from Adams County, and served until October 3oth, 1821, when he resigned. In 1824, he was presidental elector and voted for Clay. From 1808 until his death, he was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in West Union, O., and his son William, was also an elder in the same church from 1826, during his father'S lifetime. He sat in the Legislature longer than any one man except John Bigger of Warren County, who served in 21 sessions. Mr. Kirker was not a brilliant man, but he was honest, conscientious and possessedsiof sound judgment and integrity that was unselfish and incorruptible. He was respected, esteemed, and exerted an influence that was felt in the entire circle of his acquaintance. He died February loth, 1837. He reared a family of thirteen children, and has a host of decendants, in different parts of the United States. He succeeded. Governor Tiffin, March 4th, 1807, when he resigned to enter the United States Senate and served to the end of his term. He served as Governor one year, or until December 12th, 1808, when Samuel Huntington succeeded him. The vote stood Huntington, 7,293; Worthington, 5,6o1 ; Kirker, 3,397.

Jean Pierre Roman Bureau (De Montrou)

was born at Beton Bazoche, Canton de Villier, St. George Arondisement de Provins, Department de Seine et Marne, March 2 1st, 1770. Roman Grandjean was his god-father and Francoise nee le Vicaine (Fromonte), was his god-mother. His father was an officer who served with distinction in the army under the reign of Louis XV., returning home only to have a severe quarrel with his father. He left home, and, being very angry, vowed never to return and to go where he would never he heard from. His mother's maiden name was Marie Romaine Cruchet. She was the daughter of a distinguished and wealthy surgeon of Paris. In addition to one brother, Toussaint, who was in the army and died an old bachelor, he had four sisters : Angelique, the wife of M. Clars ; Genevieve, the wife of M. Galbot; Romaine, who died young; and Marie Rose, the wife of Doctor Naret. Playing one day with two companions young Bureau attempted a high jump from a tree and paid the penalty for his recklessness with a fractured hip. Although he received the utmost skill that love and the science of the hest surgeons of Paris could bring to bear, his injury was pronounced a compound one and hopelessly incurable. His mother, a woman of great piety and force of character, was not dismayed ; placing the suffering lad on a well padded pillion securely fastened upon the back of a sure-footed ass, this valiant woman made, on foot, a pilgrimage to the shrine of our Lady of Liesse, walking beside her stricken son. At the end of nine days, their fervent prayers were

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answered, and miraculously cured, the boy left his crutches on the walls of the little chapel and returned to Paris. He always had a slight lameness, a reminder, no doubt, of the favor granted him by Heaven. The medal given the lad at Liesse after his cure is in the possession of the family of one of his grand-daughters, the late Mrs. Madeline Vinton Dahlgren. Witnessing with dismay some of the excesses of that awful French Revolution, young Bureau emigrated to America. His passport was executed and delivered February 14th, 1790, and was signed by Louis, King of France, and the Comte de Montmarin. Embarking February 19th, 1790, he arrived at Alexandria, Virginia, May 3rd, 1790, and the same year went to Gallipolis, Ohio, where already a few French emigrants had settled. Enduring his share of the toils and sufferings incident to a new settlement but not having the physical strength nor inclination for manual labor he changed his location to Marietta, where his fine education enabled him to open a French school for the youth of the place, which he conducted with great success, giving satisfaction to both patrons and scholars. In December, 1792, he returned to Gallipolis, Ohio, where he remained and became a successful merchant, occupying at different times the positions of Clerk of the Court, Justice of the Peace, Postmaster, etc. Very few men filled so many offices, conferred by their fellow-citizens, with So much credit to themselves and so much satisfaction to their constituents, as Mr. Bureau. He was Major in the first regiment of militia organized in Gallia County, hence his title. He was naturalized February loth, 18o6, and was Postmaster at Gallipolis from Arpil 1st, 1806, to October 3rd, 1807. From December 7th, 1807, until February 22nd, 1808, he represented Washington, Muskingum, Gallia and Athens Counties in the House. He was then elected to represent Gallia and Scioto Counties in the Senate, and served from December 5th, 1809, to February 12th, 1812, during the eighth, ninth and tenth sessions. At the fourteenth legislative session, from December 3rd, 1832, until March 9th, 1835, lie represented Gallia and Meigs Counties in the House. In the great question which arose at that time relative to the right of the Legislature to instruct Senators from Ohio in Congress, Bureau advocated the right to instruct and again showed his grasp of affairs, and that he possessed a true and broad concepton of a Republican form of Government. He retired from public life and engaged in the business of ;merchandising, which he continued as long as he had the physical ability to attend to the labors thereof. When salt was discovered in Virginia, in the valley of the Kanawha, he at once commenced borings which resulted in his becoming a very successful salt manufacturer. February 19th, 1799, he married Madeline Francoise Charlotte Marret, third daughter of Joseph and Madeline Marret, who had been of the same party as Bureau when, in 1790, lie fled from France, and had also gone to Gallipolis. She was at the time of her marriage, a pretty, witty and vivacious

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young girl of fifteen, slight, of medium height, with dark brown eves and black hair, and straight, well-cut features. At that time there was no Justice of the Peace in that part of Ohio, and being obliged to obtain one from Point Pleasant, the ceremony was performed in a boat on the Ohio river so as to be within the jurisdiction of Virginia. She died on June 22nd, 1834. The children of this marriage were: Madeleine Romaine, born November loth. 1799, married Doctor Francis Julius Le Moyne of Washington. Pennsylvania: Romaine Madeleine, born January 6th, 1802, became the wife of the Hon. Samuel Finley Vinton, one of Ohio's most distinguished men and whose daughter was the late Mrs. M. V. Dahlgren Marie, born February 26th, 181o, and died April 2nd, 181o; and Charles Louis Valcoulon, born August 25th, 1812. The latter spent some years in Athens College, Ohio, and later studied medicine and practised his profession. Major Bureau's daughters were given every educational advantage at that time to be obtained, going to school in Chillicothe, Gallipolis, and finally to Mme. Grileau's French boarding school in Philadelphia. The journey to the latter place was made by the young girls on horseback from Wheeling, accompanied by their father and the negro man servant following in a wagon with the baggage. Major Bureau died in Gallipolis, December 31st, 1854, aged 81 ,years and 10 months. He was buried in the same enclosure with his wife, daughter Mary, Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Vinton and their son, John, in the old graveyard at Gallipolis. He was of medium height, broad shouldered and very strong. He was fair, and had blue eyes, rather heavy eyebrows and close trimmed hair and beard, full forehead and head. He had all the quick wit and observation of a Frenchman, and was exceedingly vivacious and polished in manner and bearing. He was a devoted and generous parent, husband and friend. He made money and, although he spent it freely, he left quite a large property. He was one of the most esteemed, popular and useful men of Gallia County and respected by all who knew him. It may well be said of Mr. Bureau that he was well fitted to be a leader to his countrymen, and in no instance was he ever known to betray the confidence reposed in -him. To such men, its founders, the State of Ohio owes much. By their hardships and bravery it was reclaimed from the wilderness and savages, and their wisdom and untiring zeal gave it the solid foundation upon which its greatness and stability now depend.

Governor Robert Lucas

was born at Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, Virginia, April 1st, 1781. His father was William Lucas, born in 1742, in Virginia. He was a Revolutionary soldier. He enlisted February 13th,' 1777, for three years in Captain Nathaniel Welch's Company, also known as Captain Taliaferros' Company and as Captain Thomas Minor's Company in the Second Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel Wil-

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liam Brent and also by Colonel Gregory Smith. His name last appears in 1770. His wife Susannah was born in 1745.

He is said to have owned lands and negroes, but to have been hostile to the institution of slavery. He had five sons and three daughters. His sons were Joseph, Robert, John, William and Samuel. William and John came to the mouth of the Scioto in 1796, and located land at the mouth, of Pond Creek. Their father voted for Jefferson, in Virginia, for President in 1800, and at once started for Adams County in the Northwest Territory. He located near Lucasville. His wife died May 4th, 1809, and he died in July, 1814. Both are buried at Lucasville and their graves marked. His daughters all married, one a Buckles, one a Creamer, and (vie a Sternberger. Joseph Lucas, through a daughter, is an ancestor of the Hibbs family. Robert Lucas, our subject, was the most distinguished, of the family. He was but nine years old when he came to the Northwest Territory. He had a private tutor who taught him mathematics and surveying, and he was an excellent surveyor before his majority. That occupation enabled him to keep busy and make money. He was Surveyor of Scioto County in 1805, and was Justice of the Peace in 1806. On April 4th, 181o, he married Eliza Brown, daughter of John Brown, the first citizen of Portsmouth. The ceremony was said by William Crull, Justice of the Peace. She died in two years, leaving an infant daughter. On March 7th, 1816, he married MisS Friendly A. Sumner, the ceremony being performed by William Power, Justice of the Peace. Robert Lucas had a great deal of military spirit and soon became prominent in the Ohio Militia. As early as 1804, he was a Bridge Inspector with the rank of Major. In 1807, he had a Militia Company in Portsmouth and was its Captain. In 1808, he was elected to the House as Representative of Scioto County. In 1811, he was lister of Wayne Township.

He went to the War of 1812 and was in Hull's surrender. He managed to escape when the surrender was made and showed such military ability that he was made a Captain in the regular army, and is said to have been made a Colonel, but he was out of it in 1814, and in that fall was elected to the Ohio senate, in which he served continuously until 1822. In 1820, he appears to have been a Presidential elector for Monroe, and in 1828, for Jackson. He was again in the Senate from 1824 until 1830, except in 1829. From 1832 to 1836, he was Governor of Ohio. In 1832, he was chairman of the Democratic National Convention.

In 1824, he removed from Scioto to Pike County, where he resided until 1838, when he was appointed Governor of the Territory of Iowa by President Van Buren. In his youth he was a boisterous fellow, fond of all kinds of mischief and deviltry, but when he reached Iowa he joined the church and favored religion and morality. He worked for temperance and against gambling and associated vices.

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His influence is said to have made Iowa a prohibition state. In 1841, President Tyler removed him, and he took up his residence on a farm near Iowa City. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention, which met in Iowa City in 1844, from Johnson County. He was made Chairman of the Committee on Executive Department, and a member of the Committee on Boundaries. He was the first governor of Iowa Territory. He was the first Brigadier General of Militia in Scioto County. He delivered the oration at the farmers' celebration held July 8th, 1808, on Major Bonser's farm on Little Scioto. His private secretary in Iowa, Theodore Parvin wrote and published a sketch of his life in pamphlet form.

He died February 7th, 1853, and his grave is suitably marked in the cemetery at Iowa City. While territorial Governor of Iowa no one who was a gambler or drinking man could receive an appointment from him. He stood for all that was good and true with all the ardor of his intense nature. He was a man, very much the same kind as General Jackson whom he admired and followed. He was a, shrewd politician or else he could not have remained in the Ohio Senate eight years successively representing such counties as Pike, Gallia, Scioto and Jackson, and from 1824 to 1828, he represented Pike, Scioto and Lawrence. He never failed to make the most of a political situation; and he knew when to be silent, a faculty rare in political life. He was a true blue Democrat all the time and was never a trimmer or changing. When he once adopted a policy he would go through fire and water to carry it out. He resolved to stamp out intemperance and gambling in Iowa Territory and he did it. In that territory he became a Methodist exhorter and was always pleased to exercise his functions.

He died at the age of 72, but his work was done and well done. It will reward the student of history to study the story of his life in a much more extended form than can be given in this work.

General William Kendall

was of Revolutionary stock. His father, Jeremiah Kendall served in the Revolutionary War and the following is his record from the War Department : "Was a private in Captain William Washington's Company, Third Virginia Regiment, commanded by Colonel Thomas Marshall. He enlisted February 23rd, 1776, to serve two years. He was transferred in August, 1777, to Captain S. B. Wallace's Company, same Regiment. He was wounded at Brandywine and was discharged on January, 1778." His wife was Rhoda McIntire, and their home was in Fauquier County, Virginia. There on November 23rd, 1783, our subject was born. His father moved to a farm in Pennsylvania directly after the close of the war of the Revolution.

Jeremiah Kendall made a trip to New Orleans on a flat boat directly after his arrival in Pennsylvania, and was accompanied by Samuel Lewis and Lewis Wetzel. They were attacked by Indians in ca-

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noes below Louisville, but they drove them off with a blunderbuss loaded with 36 rifle balls. He served with General Anthony Wayne in his campaign against the Indians in 1794 and was wounded several times in the battles and skirmishes. He was at the treaty of Greenville.

Our subject was his oldest son and settled on Paint Creek in Ross County, but visited the site of Portsmouth and was there with Henry Massie, before the town was laid out. He stopped with Captain John Brown, the first inn keeper in Portsmouth and fell in love with his daughter Rachel and married her, May 29th, 1806. Robert Lucas, a Justice of the Peace, who had married another daughter of Captain John Brown. performed the ceremony. There were eight children of this marriage.

General Kendall kept a dry goods store in Portsmouth, the first of its kind. He at all times did surveying whenever called upon, and during almost the whole of his life in Scioto County, was deputy surveyor of that part of the Virginia Military District in Scioto County, Ohio. His books as Deputy Surveyor are still extant and are in the possession of Mrs. John W. Overturf. In 18o9, he was appointed Associate Judge, but the place was too slow for him.

He declined the honor. In 1812 his public career began. He took a company of horse into the war. The muster roll of that company is still preserved. The same fall he was elected to the Legislature as the Representative of Scioto County and was re-elected in 1813. He was re-elected to the House in 1821, 1825 and 1837. He was elected to the Senate in 1822, 1828, 1834 and 1847. He was always a Whig. He was Treasurer of Scioto County from 1815. to 1818, and again in 1841. He was the first Auditor of Scioto County, 1820 and 1821. He was one of 'the first nine city fathers in 1815, and drew the three years term. He was re-elected in 1818, and in 1821 and served until 1824. About his first official act as councilman was to contract for a public school house in 1815. In the same year he was on a ccommittee to bring in a bill on executions. In 1816, he was allowed $9.00 for printing corporation bills. In the same year he brought in a bill in regard to keeping hogs. In 1819, he was on the committee on streets. In 1820, he was appointed town surveyor. He served in this capacity until June 1st, 1838, and again in 1849, just prior to his death.

In township matters he was prominent and useful. He was Township Treasurer in 1812. In 1810, he was Overseer of the Poor. In 1845, he was a Justice of the Peace. In 1831, at the famous 4th of July celebration, he responded to a toast. In 1835, he took the contract to erect the present court house of Scioto County at $12,650.00. He began it September 18th, 1835, and finished it September 11th, 1837.

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In 1825, he made a map of Scioto County. In the same year he assessed the entire County of Scioto in 57 days at $2.00 per day. He was public spirited in every way.

After the death of his wife, Rachel Brown, November 26th, 1820, he married Christina, eldest daughter of *William Lawson, October 12th, 1821, and by her he had seven children, or fifteen in all. His second wife died August 2nd, 1840, and he married Mrs. Ruth Claypool of Chillicothe, for his third wife and she survived him.

Serving as long as he did in the Legislature he could not escape the fate of being a Major General of Militia by joint resolution of the Legislature and he was compelled to take this title.

Nothing went on, in or about Portsmouth, unless he had some- thing to do with it. He had a saw mill and grist mill on Brush Creek and builtsteamboats at its mouth. He was Postmaster in Ports-. mouth from February, 1842, to 'September, 1845. He was a director of the Commercial Bank for several years. He was popular and was always available as a candidate for office. After being nominated, he took care to be elected. He was a safe and sure man. He was large hearted and hospitable. He was active in his habits. His disposition was mild and he was always calm and deliberate. He never sought to obtrude his views on any one, but was tolerant of the views of others and a good listener. He had uncommon equanimity. He was seldom disturbed in mind or conduct and possessed a sound judgment. He was tall and spare, nearly six feet high, complexion between light and dark, blue eyes, and active in his movements.

He took hold of many enterprises and was very popular. No more active or energetic citizen ever lived in Scioto County, and none was more intimately connected with public affairs. He did not profess any form of religion. He died August 2nd, 1849, of consumption, but held office and served the public up to the time of his death.

He was the father of fifteen children, and here are their names, the dates of their births and whom they married, if married:

Jefferson, b. May 1st, 1807; m. Elizabeth Fenton, December 9th, 1830; d. September 16th, 1862.

Rhoda, b. December 9th, 1808; m. Conrad Overturf, July loth, 1826.

Stephen, b. February 27th, 1800; m. Rebecca Riggs, August 6th, 1839; d. January 13th, 1877.

Milton, b. June 16th, 1812; in. Ruth Lawson, the sister of his father's second wife, January 23rd, 1833; d. August 16th, 1882.

Thomas, b. July 16th, 1814; m. Ann Glover, November 16th, 1836; d. December 16th, 1889.

Eliza, b. September 16th, 1816; d. October, 1823.

William, b. January 2nd, 1819; m. August 26th, 1839.

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Rachel, b. September 21st, 1820; m. Conrad Overturf, August 23rd, 1838 ; d. October 30th, 1874.

The above were children of Rachel Brown.

The following were children of Christian Lawson.

John, b. January 5th, 1823.

Jeremiah, b. February 12th, 1825.

Susannah, b. June 6th, 1827; m. Samuel Baldridge.

Maria, b. November 23rd, 1829; m. James Salsbury, 1851; d. March 11th, 1880.

Joseph, b. October 20, 1832 ; died 1851.

Franklin, b. December 31st, 1834; in. Marietta Hall.

Lavinia, b. February 24th, 1837 ; 111. Louis Dent Adair.

Joseph died of yellow fever at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, while on his way to. California.

By his first marriage he was the brother-in-law of General Robert Lucas, to whom he was unalterably opposed in politics. Kendall was a Whig and Lucas a Democrat. They often contested against each other for the Legislature. Some of the old families of Portsmouth have disappeared, but the Kendall family is still well represented in the third and fourth. generation from General Kendall.

David Mitchell

was born. April 4th, 1774, in the State of Pennsylvania. His father, David Mitchell, was born in 1733 and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He or his father came from the north of Ireland where his ancestors had high standing. His father's record in the Revolutionary War will be found under the title of Revolutionary Soldiers. He came to the Northwest Territory as early as 1797, and located in what is Nile Township, Scioto County, Ohio. In 1798, he was a Collector of Union Township, Adams County, Ohio, appointed by. the County Commissioners, for Union Township, which extended on the river from Salt Creek in the present Adams County and ran up the river east to the mouth of Little Scioto and north about twenty miles, the same width. David Mitchell, Senior, was an important citizen as early as 1798. His wife Sarah Mitchell died September 19th, 18m, aged sixty-eight years. He died November 1st, 1805. Both arc buried in the Mitchell cemetery on the Morrison farm in Nile Township, Scioto County, Ohio. The following can be said of the children of David Mitchell, Senior. Sarah named for her mother, married a Mr. Tucker ; Mary, married a McBride. His son David married Mary Stockham. No others of the children of David Mitchell, Senior, can now be given. Judge David Mitchell, our subject, must have been married prior to coming to the Northwest Territory. His wife was Mary Stockham, said to be a sister of Colonel Aaron Stockham. It is said he went to the Salt Licks at Jackson, Ohio, and made considerable money there, but if he remained there anytime, it was after his father had located in what is now Nile Township in Scio-

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to County, Ohio. From December 5th, 1814, to February 27th, 1816, he represented Scioto County in the House. In 1818 he was a Justice of the Peace in Nile Township. From December 6th, 1819, to February 26th, 1820, he represented Scioto and Lawrence in the House, From December 4th, 1820, until February 23rd, 1821, he represented Scioto, Pike and Lawrence in the House. On February 18th, 1820, he was appointed one of a commission to locate the County Seat of Meigs County. Elnathan Scofield of Fairfield County and John J. Martin of Pike County were his associates. After this he submitted to the usual fate allotted to prominent laymen retiring from the Legislature. In 1824, he was made an Associate Judge of Scioto County and served until 1831. In 1829, on July 18th, General William Kendall resigned from the Senate on account of private business. On August 15th, David Mitchell became a candidate for the Senate ; Doctor G. S. B. Hempstead, also became a candidate. Each thought he was the best man for the place, and neither would give up for the other. Both were Whigs and depended on Whig support for election. The district was composed of Lawrence, Scioto, Pike and Jackson Counties, and had a Whig majority. Up to this time the contest for office had been free to all. There had been no party convention. If the Whigs had but one candidate, the Democrats could not hope to elect. There was a newspaper controversy; there was pulling and hauling, but neither of the two Whigs would retire for the other, and General Robert Lucas stood for the Democrats.

The following was the vote :

This was an object lesson the Whigs never forgot. After that the candidates were nominated by the Whig Central Committee, or a County Convention. Judge Mitchell had a large farm in Nile Township, lately owned by Albert R. Morrison, his grandson, and resided there. In 1831, he had a great craze about silk culture, and published many articles in the newspapers but nothing ever came of it. His daughter Martha, born in 1813, married David Morrison, from whom comes the well known Morrison family of Nile Township. Judge Mitchell died November 19th, 1833, aged 59 years, 8 months and 15 days. He is buried on the hill overlooking his farm. Judge Joseph Moore and William Givens, also Associate Judges, are buried in the same spot. Judge Mitchell's widow survived until September 5th, 1852, when she died in her 73rd year. Judge Mitchell was what the late Homer C. Jones of McArthur, Ohio, would call a "knowledgeable man." He knew a great deal more than his neighbors, and thought he knew more than any of them. He was an investigator

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and student and when he once made up his mind on any subject, he could not be changed. He was a Federalist and Whig in his political views. He had no use for Democracy. He was one of the charter members of the Sandy Springs Presbyterian Church in Green Township, Adams County. On September 2nd, 1826, when that church was organized, he was made one of the three ruling elders. He was a man of strong' will power and great force of character. The same traits have manifested themselves in his, grandsons, a most excellent inheritance. He was one of the most influential men of his time. He liked to have things go his own way, and, where he could control, things did So. He was a good business man and was successful in whatever he undertook.

John Patterson

was born in Pendleton County, Virginia, November 23rd, 1793, and died in Wilkins, Union County, Ohio, February 1st, 1859. His parents were James Augustine Patterson, of English descent, and Ann Elizabeth Hull, of Dutch descent. The family lived on the South Branch of the Potomac river.. Patterson Creek in Mineral and Hampshire Counties, West Virginia, is named for the Pattersons original settlers there. James A. Patterson removed from Alexandria, Virginia, to land now in the heart of the city of Pittsburg. John Patterson was but eight years of age when his father died, in 1801, and in 1804, he was apprenticed to Z. A. Tannehill for a period of ten years to learn the trade of watchmaker and silversmith. His employer died in 1813, leaving his apprentice on his own resources. He enlisted in a Pittsburg infantry regiment, serving in General Adamson Tannehill's Brigade in what is historically known as the "War of 1812." He was made a corporal. In the autumn of 1817, he went down the Ohio river on a keelboat to Manchester, and thence overland to West Union. Here he opened a jewelry store, made and repaired watches and clocks and manufactured articles of silverware. He afterwards established a tannery, and then one of the first wool-carding and combing factories erected in Southern Ohio. He was elected a Justice of the Peace for Tiffin Township, Adams County, on April 13th, 1820, and served for nine years. He was a tax collector for Adams County for several years. In 1826, he was elected as Representative from Adams County to the twenty-fifth General ASsembly ; in 1828, to the twenty-seventh ; in 1829, to be joint representative with Hosea Moore in the twenty-eighth General Assembly. He was always an ardent Democrat. In 1833, and again in 1834, he was for the fifth and sixth times elected as representative in the Legislature.. In 1836, he was elected as State Senator from Adams, Brown and Scioto Counties to the thirty-fifth General Assembly. He was a member of the Legislature longer than any one member with the single exception of Hon. Thomas Kirker. He was a firm friend of all public improvements,

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and heartily supported the "National Road" and all the various canal projects which were before the Legislature during his eight terms of service. In 1834 he was one of the three commissioners appointed by Governor Lucas to settle the boundary between Ohio and Michigan. On March 21st, 1838, he was appointed United States Marshal for the state of Ohio, to succeed John Patterson, of Belmont County, who, though he bore the same name, was not a relative. He served until July loth, 1841. He took the census of 1840 and 1841. He returned to Adams County, living at York Township, Union County, where lie lived the remainder of his life. He was married three times. His first wife was Mary Brown Finley, daughter of Major Joseph Lewis Finley. His second wife was Celia Prather, daughter of Major John Prather of West Union. His (laughter, Matilda Ann, of his first marriage, married Mr. John Smith and is the mother of Mrs. C. J. Moulton, of Lucasville. His third wife was Mary Catherine McCrea, a relative of Jane McCrea, whose tragic massacre by the Indians near Saratoga, N. Y., is narrated in the annals of the Revolution.

John Glover

was the .oldest son of Elijah Glover, Sr., and Catharine James his wife. He was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, about 1806, and was the third child born in the town. As he grew up he learned the hatter's trade of his father, and followed it to some extent, but became a dealer in furs and followed that business extensively. He early developed a liking for trade and merchandising. He had four brothers, Samuel G., Elijah B., Nathan and Azel. In 1831, he owned a lot on Sixth street near the site of the present Court House and was asked to donate it for Court House purposes. In the same year he and Jacob P. Noel were conducting a general store in Portsmouth and in the French Grant. In 1831 he and Jacob Noel undertook to build the upper rolling mill. They completed it in 1833 and carried on a foundry in connection with it. It did not prove a successful venture to them and they sold it out in 1837 to Thomas Gaylord, In 1836 he married Miss Eliza Nourse of the French Grant and she survived him with four children, three daughters and one son. His four brothers were all Whigs, but he became a Democrat. In 1836 he was elected to the Legislature as a Democrat to represent Adams, Brown and Scioto Counties with James London of Brown. The vote in Scioto County stood Glover 488, James London of Brown, 599, Whig, General William Kendall 981, James Pilson of Brown 924. Adams and Brown overcame the Whig vote of Scioto. In 1837, he was defeated for re-election in the same district by General William Kendall. 1837 was a year of disaster to the Democracy. General Kendall had 897 votes and Nelson Barrere 845 votes in Scioto County as the Whig candidates and General James London 427 and Doctor John Glover

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408 votes as the Democratic candidates for the Legislature. From 1839 to 1841, he represented the same counties in the Senate. In 1855 he went to Bennett, Nebraska, with his family. In his old age lie lost his eyesight. His children were Mrs. Cora Lytle, Mrs. Anna B. Stout and Ella B. Glover all of Nebraska. His daughter, Mrs. Kate Mcllvann, resides at West Liberty, Ohio. He died June loth, 1885. Mrs. Stout died June 19th, 1887.

He studied medicine in Portsmouth, Ohio. and thereby obtained the title of Doctor, but he never practised either in Scioto County or in the state of Nebraska. He said medicine was a humbug and its practice was guess work. He was a man of fine appearance, tall and slender, over Six feet tall, with blue eyes and dark curly hair. As a' young. man he was quite a beau, and when in the full dress of his time, with cambric ruffles, edged with thread lace on his sleeves and ruffled shirt and all other parts of his dress in the highest style, he was the beau of the town. For awhile he lived the life of a farmer in the French Grant but it palled on him and Ile returned to town life.

Simeon Nash

was born at South Hadley, Massachusetts, September 21st, 1804. In 1825, he entered Amherst College and was graudated in 1829. He studied la' w two years and, in 1831, located In Gallipolis, Ohio, at the instance of the Hon. Samuel F. Vinton, then the only lawyer residing in Gallipolis. Mr. Nash completed his law studies under the Hon. Samuel F. Vinton, and was admitted to the bar in 1833. He lived in Gallipolis all his life. He was a great collector of the books appertaining to his profession. He was two years in the State Senate, from 1841 to 1843, and represented Gallia, Lawrence and Scioto Counties, as a Whig. After the demise of the Whig party, lie became a Republican: He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1851, and occupied the Common Pleas bench ten years, February 9th, 1852 to February 9th, 1862. He prepared and published Nash's Pleadings in two volumes directly after the adoption of the Civil Code. It is large a criticism on the Civil Code of Ohio. He also prepared a Digest of the Ohio Reports. He published a work on "Morality and the State," and another entitled "Crime and the Family" He was a fine French scholar. He was never a member of any church or secret society. He died January 10th, 1879.

Moses Gregory.

Moses Gregory was one of the most active citizens who ever resided in Portsmouth. He was before the public as often and held as many, if not more, offices than any other Portsmouth citizen, except John R. Turner.

He came in almost with the century. He was born March 24th, 18m, near Chillicothe, Ohio, and never knew the care of a father, for the latter, David Gregory died when lie was an infant, and his mother

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Elizabeth Hays, married Henry Sheeley. He, his mother and stepfather, came to Portsmouth from Chillicothe, Ohio, on a keel boat in 1805, when there was nothing but log houses in the town.

His stepfather was a tailor by trade and the first of the craft who located in the place. All Moses Gregoryls youthful ideas were acquired in Portsmouth. As soon as he was of a suitable age, he was ap- prenticed to Aaron Kinney, to learn the tanner’s trade. However he did not like the confinement and surroundings, and became a keelboat man and boated salt from the Kanawha Salt Works down the Ohio river.

After some experience in this line he ventured and took cargoes to New Orleans. In 1823, he was back in Portsmouth and carried on the butcher business. He had two stalls in the Portsmouth Market House., In 1825, he became Deputy Sheriff under William Carey. In 1826, William Carey died three days before the October election and Gregory became a candidate for the place. He distributed his tickets over the country and was elected, receiving 689 votes to 234 given to Washington Clingman. In 1828, he was re-elected without opposition, receiving 887 votes.

The records of the election of 1830, have been destroyed, but he was then elected Auditor of Scioto County, and re-elected every two years thereafter until 1840, when he retired from the office, While this period was the beginning of the county he was undoubtedly the most efficient Auditor the County ever had, as an inspection of his records with the records of those who preceeded and followed him is convincing proof. That the people of his time thought likewise is shown by the fact that he held the office longer than any one ever held it, before or since.

In December, 1841, he took his seat in the Legislature as the representative of Gallia, Lawrence and Scioto Counties. He attended the special session July 25th to August 12th, 1842, and was one of the thirty Whig members who left on the latter date, and thereby prevented the passage of the congressional districting bill. In the fall of 1834, he was elected to the Senate, from the district composed of the same counties he had represented in the House, and served one term of two years. At the second session the Senate refused the repeal of the Black Laws, but Mr. Gregory did not concur.

In 1846, he was made a member of the First Board of Infirmary Directors of Scioto County, and served two years. 'In 1849, he became a "forty-niner", and went to California for gold. He returned in a year, hut had not made a fortune. In 1851, he took the contract to build several sections of the Scioto and Hocking Valley Railroad, but owing to slow and partial payments by the company was very nearly overtaken by financial disaster.. After this venture he retired to his farm on Turkey Creek, and resided there for several years. But he soon tired of rustic life and returned to Portsmouth. But we

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have not told near all the offices held by Mr. Gregory. For several years he was a school trustee and visitor in Portsmouth, and a most efficient one. He was an active and consistent member of the Bigelow Methodist Episcopal Church, and was one of its Trustees as early as 1834. He was for several years a member of the town council of Portsmouth, and one of the Committee on Claims. That meant that he conducted the affairs of the town, and he seemed to have done it with general satisfaction. He was Recorder of the Town from April, 1845 to April, 1846, and again form April, 1847 to April, 1848.

In 1843, he was elected fence viewer of Wayne Township. This was quite a compliment as at that time it was customary to elect the most prominent citizen to that office to remind him that no American Citizen was too high or proud to accept the humblest office.

In 1834, he was President of the Town Council. In 1829, while Sheriff, he was also the County Assessor.

From 1864 to 1870, he was Justice of the Peace of Wayne Township. He retired at the end of the second term on account of failing health, and died of consumption December 15th, 1871.

In Mr. Gregory's case, while he enjoyed the responsibilities of public office, he could not be said to have been an office seeker. He preformed the duties of every office he held on his conscience. He was faithful to every trust. He was as fond of political management as a cat is of cream, and injoyed the manipulations of politics. He was a zealous and ardent Whig and never flagged in his devotion to his party.

He managed to leave the Legislature without being made an Associate Judge or a Major General of Militia, the usual fate of retiring Legislators under the Constitution of 1802, and so was plain Moses Gregory all his life ; but no man was more useful than he in the many offices he held. As a member of the community, he was aways in favor of progress and improvement. He was a member of the Common Council at a time when all the aristocracy and chivalry of Portsmouth either held Coffee House Licenses or were in favor of them, vet he and Benjamin Fryer invariably voted against each and every Coffee House License. He did this from high temperance principles, and lived to see the practice of- issuing these licenses abolished and condemned.

His first wife was a daughter of Major John Bell, and by her he was the father of Hon. John B. Gregory of Fontana. Ky.

Moses Gregory was a remarkable example of the model American citizen ; always ready to serve the State in any way, and doing it to the satisfaction of his constituency.

Mr. Gregory was a member of the Aurora Mosonic Lodge, and one of the charter members of Cavalry Commandery Knights-Templar. Among the Masons lie is esteemed as one of their Saints, with Drs. Hempstead, Offnere and Burr.

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Joseph J. Combs

was born in Clermont County, Ohio, in 1805. He went to Gallia County in 1826. He began to publish the Weekly Journal in 1831, and in 1834, took in Alexander Vance as a partner. He was Clerk of the House of Representatives in 1830 and 1831. In 1833, he began the practice of law. In the Forty-second General Assembly, December, 4th, 1843 to March 13th, 1844, he represented Gallia, Lawrence and Scioto Counties in the House. In the Forty-fourth General Assebly, December 1st, 1845, to March 2nd, 18si16, he represented the same Counties in the Senate. In the Forty-fifth General Assembly, December 7th, 1846 to February 8th, 1847, he represented the same three Counties and Jackson in the Senate. He was a Whig in politics. He made quite a reputation as a lawyer in Gallia County. He married a Miss Lesby at Gallipolis in 1846. In 1849, he went to Washington and became a clerk in the Interior Department and was Chief Clerk, under Secretary Thomas Ewing. In Mr. Lincoln's administration, he became a Patent Examiner. Hon. S. F. Vinton secured him the appointment of Chief Clerk of the Interior Department under General Taylor's administration, aided by General Thomas Ewing. He died April 29th, 1886, in Washington, D. C., of paralysis. He was one of the best and most successful political managers ever known. His plain practical sense and honesty captivated the people. Hon. Samuel F. Vinton had the utmost confidence in his political management.

William Salter

was born August 1st, 1786, in Fayette County. Penn. So many stories are told about him, that it is difficult to determine the truth. As a young man, he came to the salt works of Jackson County as agent of a company at Uniontown, Pa., which sold salt kettles. He remained long enough to see that there was money in making, salt and engaged in it. He was a regular devil, as a young fellow. He always carried a deck of cards and a bottle of whiskey with him and was very fond of playing cards for money. He was usually a winner. He was such a constant winner that the men with whom he played suspected unfairness and it became dangerous for him to remain there. After many personal encounters and hairbreadth escapes, the place became too warm for him, and he went back to Pennsylvania. There he ventured into politics and was elected Sheriff of Fayette County. at a time when the office was paid in fees, and when fees were plenty. In 1829, while he was Sheriff, he escorted Gen. Jackson through the County. .The General was traveling in his own carriage on the way to Washington to take the presidential chair. Sheriff Salter had an eScort of militia along. Each County through which the President- elect passed, showed him the same courtesy. In 1831, after retiring from the Sheriff's Office in Fayette County, he came to Portsmouth. He invested some of his money in Scioto Furnace. He was a long

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time manager there and was very successful. He was County Commissioner from 1838 to 1841, while a resident of Scioto Furnace. He removed to Portsmouth in 1847 and built a house where the Bigelow Church now stands. It was burned down before he occupied it. He then owned and occupied the Eustace Ball residence. After that, he bought the High School property and built there: In December, 1813, he married Miss Francis Mason. They never had any children. She died May 27th, 1872. He became a member of the Methodist Church in 1839, land continued such during his life. He was always a Whig.

On January 2nd, 1844, he was elected an Associate Judge of the County and served until 1851. From December, 1849, to March, 185o, he was in the State Senate, representing Adams, Pike, Lawrence and Scioto Counties. In 1842, he was one of the Commissioners of the Surplus Fund of the County, and in 1849, he was a Commissioner of Free Turnpikes. He died October 6th, 1876, aged 90 years, 2 months and 5 days. At the time of his death he had $60,000.00 on deposit in one of the City Banks.

He made a great deal of money in the period of his activity. He was successful in all of his undertakings, and kept his own counsel. While a man of great decision of character, he was a pleasant and agreeable neighbor. His talent was for accumulation of wealth, and he exercised it well.

Thomas McCauslen

was of. Scotch-Irish descent. He was a native of Jefferson County, Ohio, born March 16th, 1891, the eldest son of Hon. William McCauslen, a Congressman of Ohio. He attended the district schools of his home and Scott's Academy at Steubenville. In the academy he was a good student, and from there he went to studying law in the office of Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, afterwards the great war Secretary. In 1844, he was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Warren County, and located at West Union the same year. He was liked by the young people, and was popular with all classes. As a lawyer, he was diligent and attentive to business and a fluent advocate. He filled the office of Prosecuting Attorney of Adams County, for three terms, from 1845 to 1851, and did it with great credit to himself. In 1853, he was elected to the Ohio Senate from the Seventh District, Composed of Adams, Scioto, Pike and Jackson Counties, and served one term. He participated in the election of the Hon. George E. Pugh to the Senate. During his term, the Supreme Court of Cincinnati, was created, and the Judges' salaries were fixed at $1,500, and the circulation of foreign bank bills of less than $19.00 was forbidden in the State. This Legislature must have had a sweet tooth, for, by joint resolution, it asked Congress to repeal the duty on sugar and molasses. It also favored the construction of a Pacific Railway. He declined

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to be a candidate for a second term. In 1856, he was one of the attorneys who defended William Milligan, indicted for murder, in the first degree. Milligan was undoubtedly guilty as charged, but the jury brought in a verdict of murder in the second degree, and he spent the rest of his life in the penitentiary. In 1857, Mr. McCauslen removed to Portsmouth, where he resided and practiced law until 1865, when he removed to his native county, and located at Steubenville. He continued in the active practice of his profession in Steubenville until 1883, when he retired. He, however, left his business to his eldest son, William, born in West Union, and who has succeeded him. He was married in West Union on February 19th, 1851, to Mary Jane Sparks, daughter of John Sparks, the banker of West Union, and neice of David Sinton, of Cincinnati, Ohio. At his present home, within one-half mile of Steubenville, he spent thirteen years of dignified and honorable retirement in the enjoyment of 'the society of his family, and his friends. He had four sons and four daughters, all of whom grew to maturity. He died February Toth, 1896. As a young man, Mr. McCauslen was jolly, good natured, and fond of outdoor sports. In politics, he was 'a staunch Democrat, but with no particular taste for party work. In religion he was a Presbyterian. As a lawyer he was active and energetic and a fine speaker before a jury. He enjoyed a legal contest, and would throw his whole soul into it. ' He was an honorable gentleman, an excellent conversationalist, and a delightful companion. His manners were uniformly cordial, and it was always a pleasure to meet and converse with him. While he grew old in years, he preserved the perennial spirit of youth.

"In his years were seen

A youthful vigor and an autumnal green."

George Corwine

was born near Sharonville, now Omega, Pike County, March 18th, 1817. His parents were Samuel Corwine and Mary Wilson. He was raised a farmer, and he had a common school education. He attended school at Dennison University, at Granville, Licking County, Ohio. He was Clerk of the Common Pleas Court of Pike County, Ohio, from 1843 to 1854. He was a member of the 53rd General Assembly from Pike, representing the Seventh Senatorial District In 1858, and 1859, he was elected as a Democrat. He was treasurer of Pike County, Ohio, from 186a to 1864. He was married in 1844 to Lydia McCollister, daughter of Charles McCollister, an associate Judge of the Common Pleas Court of Pike County. He removed to Missouri in 1871, where he resided on a farm until his death in 1898. His wife and seven children survive him. All his children reside at Carthage and Joplin, Missouri.

William Newman

was born at Salem, Roanoke County, Virginia, on the 19th of Jan-

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uary, 1807, the son of William and Catherine Ott Newman, who had removed from Virginia to Pennsylvania. His boyhood years were spent at Harrisonburg, Virginia. He came to Ohio in 1827, and cast his first vote at Newark, Ohio, for Andrew Jackson for President. He returned to Virginia, and on the loth day of February, 1834, was married to Catherine Ott Williams of Woodstock, Shenandoah County. They resided at Staunton until 1838, where Ann M. (now Mrs. Joseph G. Reed), and George 0., were born. In March of the latter year, they came to Portsmouth, where they resided ever after with the exception of a brief period of residence in Highland County in 1841. Five children were born to them in Ohio—Wm. H., James W., J. Rigdon, Charles H., and Hervey M., who died in infancy. The others still live, except Rev. Charles H. Newman, who was an ordained minister of the Episcopal Church. He was sent as a missionary to Japan in 1873. For years his health was impaired ; he retired from the ministry and died in St. Augustine, Florida, May 3oth, 1887, where he had gone with his wife to try the effect of its mild climate

William Newman was, by occupation a contractor and builder. Many of the larger and finer buildings erected in Portsmouth from 1840 to 1847, were his work, including churches and school-houses. Among these are the First Presbyterian Church, All Saints, the two Catholic Churches, the Massie Block, the George Davis residence and many others.

Mr. Newman served as a member of the Board of Education of Portsmouth several terms and for a number of years, he was an active member of the city council. In 1847, he was a Democratic candidate for the State Legislature from the Lawrence-Scioto district, these two counties then constituting one legislative district. In 1859, he was elected to the Ohio State Senate from the Seventh Senatorial District, composed of Adams, Scioto, Pike and Jackson Counties. He served in the same Senate with Garfield, who afterward became illustrious in the Nation's annals, and although different radically in politics, a warm personal friendship sprang up between those two men, as a correspondence several years after testified. He died in Portsmouth on the twenty-third day of July, 1847, aged 67 years.

William Newman was a man of strong character and earnest convictions. To any cause that he espoused, he stood true to the end. He believed in the principles of Jefferson, Madison and George Mason, of his native state. He was a Virginian in all that the word implies, and the doctrines taught by its early statesmen and leaders were planted deep in his heart. He was noted for his honesty. Integrity was the very corner stone of his character. As his old friend, the well known editor, Walter C. Hood, once wrote. "William Newman is an honest man, a strong stocky man of the people. He would rather stand up, assured with conscious pride alone, than err with millions on his side."

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General Benjamine F. Coates

was born June 23rd, 1827, near Wilmington, in Clinton County, Ohio, His father was Aquila Coates, born in 1799, in Chester County, Pennsylvania. His mother was Rachel Pidgeon, born in 1801, near Lynchburg, Va. His maternal grandfather, Isaac Pidgeon, was the owner of 1,600 acres of land, about five miles north of Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, which he divided among his children. General Coates' father and mother. and his grandfather Pidgeon were Friends, and were married according to the formula of that faith at Hopewell Meeting House, near Winchester, Virginia. They came to Ohio in 1823. They had eight children, six sons and two daughters. General Coates was reared on his father's farm, and attended the common school in Clinton County. He also attended an Academy at Wilmington, conducted by Oliver W. Nixon. He studied medicine with Dr. Aquila Jones at Wilmington, and took his first course of lectures at the Ohio Medical College, of Cincinnati. His second medical course was taken at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He began the practice of medicine at Mowrytown, in Highland County, in 1815, and remained there two and one half years. He located in West Union, Ohio, in 1853. In 1857, he was married to Elizabeth J. Patterson, a daughter of John Patterson, a former resident of Adams County, and a prominent politician. In Adams County, General Coates was a Democrat, and as_ such was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1861, to represent the present Seventh Senatorial District. George A. Waller, of Portsmouth, was his opponent, and Coates' majority was twenty-three. In the Legislature he found himself at variance with his party, and acted with the Republicans on all questions relating to the Civil War. On August 10th, 1862, he entered the Volunteer Army as Lieutenant Colonel of the 91st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. From Jan. 6th, until April 24th, 1863, he was granted a leave of absence to attend the adjourned session of the fifty-fifth General Assembly. He was wounded August 24th, 1864, at the battle of Halltown, Virginia. He was promoted to the Coldnelcy of his regiment December 9th, 1864, and was breveted Brigadier-General March 13th, 1865. He was mustered out of service June 24th, 1865. He made an excellent officer, and was highly esteemed for his ability and bravery by his superior officers. He located in Portsmouth, Ohio, July 1st, 1865, as a physician. On July 1st, 1866, he was appointed Deputy Collector .of Internal Revenue, under Col. John Campbell, of Ironton, Ohio, and on October 1st, 1866, was appointed Collector in the eleventh district of Ohio, in place of John Campbell, and held the office until July 1st, 1881, when he resigned. He was a trustee in the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home from 1868 until 1871. He was Receiver of the Cincinnati & Eastern Railway Company from September 1st, 1885, to February 1st, 1887; and as special Master Commissioner, sold

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the road to the Ohio and Northwestern Company.He has served on the Portsmouth City Board of Equlization one Or more terms. In 1897 be was appointed a member of the City Board of Elections for a term of four years,

Since 1862, General Coates has been a Republican. He left the Democratic party, on account of war questions. During the time he held the Collector's office, he was the leader of his party in the county and congressional district. He had a wonderful insight of human nature, and could tell before hand how the public would form opinions of men and measures. He had great executive ability and always had the courage of his opinions. He was a pleasant and agreeable companion, and had hosts of friends. He had been unwell some two weeks prior to his death. On Saturday evening, May 6th, 1899, he went to the Republican primary meeting in his precinct and voted. On returning he lay down for a few moments, and then arose and undertook to walk to his chair. He sank between the bed and the chair, where he breathed once or twice, and then died of heart failure. He left a widow and three children; his son, Joseph, and daughters Lillian and Sarah. The latter is engaged in Boston, Mass., as a teacher. General Coates made quite a reputation as an officer, and his memory will always be cherished by the survivors of his regiment and by all who knew him.

James Emmitt.

His grandfather came from Ireland where he had been a merchant. He and his wife emigrated to this country during the Revolutionary War from Dublin. He settled in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania near Kittaning. His grandfather became a miller and a merchant. His father George Emmitt was born in 18o4, and when nineteen years old married Addie Stanford, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. James Emmitt our subject was, the first child, born November 6th, 1806. In 1816, five families started from the Emmitt settlement; to the Ohio Valley. Abram Stanford and wife were among the party, Mr. Emmitt’s grandparents. Emmitt, then fourteen years of age, came down the Ohio on a raft with the party. The party stopped, at Steubenville, while the elder Stanford went on and bought 16o acres of land near Waverly. In the fall the party left Steubenville arid went down the river. They encountered a myriad of squirrels on the way down. The party landed at Portsmouth. From, there they weft to their land by wagons. A road was made for them in advance of the wagons by cutting trees and filling ruts, etc.. They traveled four miles the first day and lodged with Colonel Jacob Noel, all of whose family had the ague. Piketon had only been laid out in 1815, and Abram Stanford met them there and took them to two log cabins, two miles north of Waverly. Panther, deer and wild turkeys were abundant and their nearest neighbors were two miles away. Emmitt became a good shot with the rifle, In 1819, he worked out

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at $6.00 per month and board. He wore moccasins in the winter and went barefoot in the summer. His clothing was made of buckskin. In 1820, he spent five weeks in learning the blacksmith's trade and the knowledge thus acquired stood him well the remainder of his life. In 1824, he was employed as a wood chopper at $4.00 per month. In 1825, he became a teamster for Hugh Cook at $6.00 per month between Portsmouth and Chillicothe. He kept at this till August 1828. Freight by wagon was so cents per hundred and a full load from ,Portsmouth to Chillicothe made Hugh Cook $15.00. A round trip between Portsmouth and Chillicothe was made in one week. In 1828 he had the ague so bad he quit Cook's employ. He saved $10.00 in the three years he worked for Cook, became a capitalist and went into partnership with Henry Jeffords in the dry goods business at Waverly. The store was burned out in January 1849. Jeffords was a mail carrier at that time. The beginning of the partnership with Henry Jeffords was the foundation of Mr. mmittsis fortune. Among other things he bought shoes of Murtaugh Keh9e which had been made by hand, in Portsmouth. Emmitt bought goods on time of Josiah Lawrence in Cincinnati. They were sent to Portsmouth by boat and wagoned to Emmitt's store. June it th, 1829, he was married to Miss Louise Martin, daughter of Joseph J.. Martin, Clerk of the Courts of Pike County from 1815 to 1822. Mr. Emmitt's house built in what is now Waverly in 1829, was the first house there. His first cooking was done on a fire outside of the house. In 1831, he was made the first Postmaster at Waverly. He kept a hotel in 1831 and 1832 and took the first canal boat to Portsmouth. In 1832, the first stages were run between Portsmouth and Columbus and Emmitt had the contract to board the drivers. Neil, Moore & Company owned the line. Mr. Emmitt called his hotel, "The Coach and Four." It was on the site of "the Grand" in Waverly. The first freight shipped by canal from Chillicothe was a barrel of whiskey for Portsmouth. Who got it? Mr. Emmitt went to New Orleans with a fleet of flat boats in November, 1833. In 1837, when everyone was breaking up, Emmitt made $10,000 profits in selling corn from the valley in Cleveland. In 1845, he and Christian Schultz started a distillery at Waverly. He very nearly ruined himself in this venture, not understanding the business. He had to pay his partner $20,000 or fail. He borrowed the money of James Davis and saved himself, though at this time he owed $80,000. The firm became Emmitt & Davis and made money. It cleared $100,000 in five years and he bought out his partner for $100,000. Mr. Emmitt first traveled on a railroad in 1843 from Cumberland, Maryland, to Baltimore. Robert Montgomery and William Hall of Portsmouth accompanied him. In 1856, Mr. mmitt purchased the distillery just below Chillicothe and while operating it, contributed $20,000 towards building the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad. In 1861, he Secured

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the removal of the County Seat from Piketon to Waverly. In the same year his Chillicothe distillery burned with a loss of $80,000. He rebuilt the distillery in sixty days. Before the war tax, whiskey sold at 15 cents per gallon. When the tax was to be put on the distillers got a stay for 60 days. mmitt's share of the lobbying to secure this was $10,000. Emmitt's distillery ran night and day, during the 6o days grace and had a great stock of liquors on hand when the tax went on. In 1858 and 1859 was the great County Seat contest. He determined the County Seat should be moved to Waverly. He offered to build the Court House and jail and a road to Waverly and donate them all to the County. His petition to the Legislature outnumbered the remonstrants. Alex Sands lobbied for the bill. William Newman then in the Senate from Scioto County, favored the bill as did Cockerill from Adams. Will H. Reed, the attorney worked for Piketon, but his opponents took advantage of his weakness and kept him out of the way most of the time. General Wells S. Jones worked for Jasper. Colonel Higgins also worked for Waverly. When the bill finally passed, the campaign was a nine days wonder. Emmitt canvassed the County with a band wagon and band and with speakers galore. The vote of the people gave 309 majority for Waverly. The contest cost Mr. mmitt at least $40,000. Mr. mmitt built up Waverly. He built the mmitt House, organized and conducted in Waverly a bank, a sawmill and grist mill, a furniture factory, a lumber yard and a large general store. He was engaged in other enterprises in Chillicothe and elsewhere. At one time he paid 1-3 of the taxes of Waverly and 1-10 of Pike County. He was instrumental in the building of the Springfield, Jackson & Pomeroy Railroad and was its first President. He built the first bridge across the Scioto river in Pike County. In 1865, he took a trip to Europe and was gone nine months. Mr. Emmitt invested $3,000 in the Muskingum Valley Railroad, $6,000 in the Scioto Valley Railway and $90,000 in the Springfield, Jackson and Pomeroy Railway. The Beaver pike cost him $15,000 and the bridge across the Scioto $20,000. John Morgan burned it. He built sixteen miles of the Waverly and Sunfish turnpike, at a cost of $40,000. In 1867, Mr. mmitt was elected to the State Senate from the Seventh District, composed of Adams, Pike, Scioto and Jackson. The vote stood as follows :

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Under Constitution of 1851.

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Wells A. Hutchins, W.

Samuel J. Huston, D

Daniel McFarland, W

James B. Ray, D

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James W. Newman, D

Elijah Glover, R

John C. Malone, R

George Johnson, R

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R. H. Hayman, D

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Scioto

Isaac Bonser was elected. Samuel Crull contested his seat and it was awarded to him.

Joseph Lucas

was born in Virginia, in 1771. His father, William Lucas, was born in 1742, and served throughout the Revolutionary War, raising to the rank of Captain He belonged to one of the proud families of Virginia. He owned extensive lands and negroes. His son, Joseph, was married in Virginia, in 1792, to Hannah Humphreys. He and his brother, William, came to the Northwest Territory in 1797, to locate their father's land warrants. They located at the mouth of Pond Creek in what is now Rush Township, Scioto County, then Adams County. In 1800, Captain William Lucas, father of our subject, sold his possessions in Virginia, and came to the Northwest Territory, and joined his sons. He had a son, John, who laid out the town of Lucasville in Scioto County, and his son, Robert, was Rep-

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resentative and 'Senator in the Ohio Legislature for nineteen years; Governor of the State 1832 to 1834; and Territorial Governor of Iowa from 1838 to 1841.

Joseph Lucas was one of the three Representatives from Adams County, in the First Legislature of Ohio, which met in Chillicothe. March 1st, 1803, and continued its sessions until April 15th, 1803. This is the Legislature which met under a sycamore tree on the bank of the Scioto River.

Joseph Lucas was well educated, and took a prominent part in public affairs. His colleagues from Adams County in the House were: William Russell and Thomas Kirker ; in the Senate General Joseph Darlington. At this session, Scioto County was organized and Joseph Lucas was made one of its Associate Judges, in which office he continued until his death in 1808. In politics he was a follower of Thomas Jefferson ; and in religion he was a Presbyterian. Dying at the early age of thirty-seven, a most promising career was cut short. He left three sons and three daughters. His daughter, Rebecca, married Jacob Hibbs, Sr., and. was the mother of General Joseph L. Hibbs and Jacob Hibbs of Portsmouth, Ohio. His daughter, Levisa, married Jacob Brown, of Pike County, and became the mother of several well known citizens of that County. His sons, Joseph and, Samuel. located in Muscatine, Iowa, and died there. Harry Hibbs, of the firm of J. C. Hibbs & Company, of Portsmouth. Ohio, is a great-grandson. The Hon. S. L. Patterson, of Waverly, Senator for the seventh district, is his great-grandson.

Judge Joseph Lucas was one of the active characters of Adams County, but fell a victim to the untried climate which the pioneers found in their first settlement.

Colonel Daniel Collier

came to the Northwest Territory in 1794. He was born in January, 1764, and died on his large farm on Ohio Brush Creek, where he was buried, April 17th, 1835. Colonel Collier selected the site of his future home on Ohio Brush Creek while surveying in that region with Nathaniel Massie and others. The lands, five hundred acres, were purchased from General William Lytle, who held military warrants of Jonathan Tinsley, John Shaver and George Shaver, Virginia Line, Continental Establishment.

Colonel Collier was prominently identified with the public affairs of Adams County in his time. The Second Legislative Session was from December 5th, 1803, to February 17th, 1804. The General Assembly was the Constitutional term for the Legislature, and met on the first Monday of December in each year. At this session, Daniel Collier, of Tiffin Township, John Wright, of Sprigg, and Abraham Shepherd, of Byrd Township, represented Adams in the Lower House. At the fourth legislative session under the second appointment, De-

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cember 2nd, 1895, to January 27th, 1806, Phillip Lewis, Daniel Collier and Abraham Shepherd were representatives from Adams and Scioto Counties. He was commissioned Colonel of the Third Regiment, First. Brigade, Second Division, of Militia, by Governor Samuel Huntington, December 29th, 1809. He served in the war of 1812, and was in the engagement at Sandusky. On May 2nd, 1814, Acting Governor Othinel Looker, endorsed Colonel Collier's resignation as follows : "The resignation of this commission is accepted on account of long service, advanced age and bodily infirmities." Among Colonel Collier's old tax receipts in possession of one of his grand children, is one dated September 8th, 1801, for one hundred and seventy-five cents, his land tax for that year and subscribed by John Lodwick, Collector for Adams County. In 1811, the tax on the same land was nine dollars, as shown by the receipt of Thomas Massie, Collector. His wife was Elizabeth Prather, born December 9th, 1768, and died August 4th, 1835. He had twelve children : James, John, Thomas, Daniel, Joseph, Richard, Isaac, Sarah, Elizabeth, Katherine, Luther and Harriet.

Abraham Shepherd

came from Virginia's best blood. His grandfather was Captain Thomas Shepherd ; and his grandmother was Elizabeth Van Meter, daughter of John Van Meter. His father John Shepherd was born in 1749 ; and in 1773 he was married to Martha Nelson, born in 1750. They had seven children, six of whom were born in Shepherdstown, Virginia, and one at Wheeling Creek, Ohio. Captain Thomas Shepherd, his grandfather, died in 1776; and among other property he left a mill, which fell to his son, John, (father of our subject), who was a soldier. He was a private in Captain William Cherry's Company, 4th Virginia Infantry, from April, 1777, to March, 1778. The regiment was commanded by Colonel Thomas Elliott and Major Isaac Beall. His brother, Abraham, was a Captain of the 11th Virginia Regulars. Captain Abraham Shepherd on August 13th, 1787, entered 1,000 acres of land, Entry No. 1,060, at Red Oak, Brown County, Ohio on Virginia Military Warrant, 290, for his own services. This was surveyed November 3rd, 1791, by Nathaniel Massie, deputy surveyor; Duncan McKenzie and Robert Smith being chain carriers and Thomas Stout, marker. Our subject was born August 13th, 1776, at Shepherdstown, now Jefferson County, Virginia. Next year his father was in the service and so continued most of the time during the war. Fraom 1781 to 1787, his father operated a flour mill ; and his son Abraham learned something of the business. It is said Abraham received a liberal education, for his time and surroundings. The details of that education we do not know ; but we do know that he learned the operations of his father's mill, and the art of land surveying. In 1793, John Shepherd removed to Limestone, Kentucky, where he remained two years. In 1795, he removed to what was then

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Adams County, Ohio, but what is now Red Oak, in Brown County, located on the tract entered by his brother, Captain Abraham Shepherd. In 1799, our subject married Margaret Moore. He was at that time living at Red Oak. Soon after this he bought a part of Captain Phillip Slaughter's survey No. 588 on Eagle Creek and built a brick house on it, now owned by Baker Woods. Here he al 'so built and operated the mill afterwards known as Pilson's Mill. In October, 1803, he was elected one of the three representatives of Adams County in the Lower' House, and took his seat December 5th, 1803. He continued to represent Adams County in the House by successive re-elections until February 4th, 1807. He remained out till December 4th, 1809, when he again represented Adams County and continued to do so till January 3oth, 1811. In December, 1809, he received two votes for U. S. Senator, but Alexander Campbell was elected. From December 1st, 1806, to February 4th, 1807, he was Speaker of the House. At the same time Thomas Kirker, also from Adams County, was Speaker of the Senate. He seems to have dropped out of the Legislature from January 30th, 1811, to December 4th, 1815. He was then in the War of 1812, as Captain of a Company, and had two of his men shot by Indians, as they were returning home in 1812. In 1813, he was Captain of a Company in Major Edward's Battal ion, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Ohio Militia. From December 4th, 1815, to February 27th, 1816, he was a member of the Senate from Adams County. He was a member of the Senate from Adams County in the fifteenth legislative session ; and was Speaker at the same time Ex-Gov. Kirker was speaker in the House, he and Shepherd having exchanged offices from the fifth legislative session. In 1816, he was one of the eight presidential electors of Ohio, and cast his vote for James Monroe. Brown County was set off from Adams and Clermont by the Legislature December 27th, 1817; and Abraham Shepherd procured the passage of the act in the Senate. In 1818, the first court was held in Brown County; and he was appointed Clerk and served for seven years. In 1825, he was sent hack to the Senate from Adams and Brown. During this twenty-fourth legislative session, from December 8th, 1825, to February, 3rd, 1826, he was appointed a member of the State Board of Equilization for the sixth district, the first State Board appointed. From December 4th, 1826, to January 31st, 1827, he was again in the Senate for Adams and Brown, and was again its Speaker. He was a Presbyterian in faith and practice ; and was a ruling elder in that church. The records of the Chillicothe Presbytery show that he attended, as a delegate, in 1823, 1830 and 1832. He was a prominent Mason and Master of the lodge at Ripley in 1818. In 1815, he built and operated Pilson's Mills on Eagle Creek then in Adams County, now in Jefferson township, Brown County. He held this until about 1817, when he sold it and went to Ripley. He built the Buckeye mill on Red Oak, and

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operated' itwith steam as early as 1825. While engaged in this lie was a pork packer. He had a pleasing appearance, and was large and portly. No picture of him was preserved or can be obtained. He was popular with all sorts and conditions of his fellow men. He was possessed of unbounded energy and wonderful perseverance ; and naturally became a man of influence and importance in his community. As a legislator and as presiding officer of the two houses, his services commanded the respect and commendation of his constituents and his fellow members. In farming, he excelled his neighbors; and he made more improvements on his farm, and did it more rapidly than any of them. As a miller, he did more business than his competitors; and the same is true of his pork packing. In 1834 he met with financial reverses, and in consequence removed to Putnam County, Illinois where he lived until his death, on January 16th, 1847. When the slavery question came to be agitated, he became strongly anti-slavery. While he acted with the Democratic party in his earlier career, he abandoned it later on account of slavery and became an Abolitionist. His influence was always on the side of justice and right.

Daniel McKinney, Sr.

was born in Washington County. Pennsylvania, in the year 1744. He served in the early part of the Revolutionary War, the first two years in the Pennsylvania Militia. He was a locksmith and gunsmith by trade, and as such, his services were in great demand, About 1778, while he was burning a coal pit near his home, Ile was captured by the Indians. He had left his coal pit to go past some brush and timber to his potato patch to gather potatoes. He gathered the potatoes and was returning to his coal pit when a party of fifteen Indians, secreted behind a fallen tree top, took him a prisoner. They took him down the Ohio River to the mouth of the Wabash River, and up that river some distance. They kept him with them about a year, and then took him to Detroit and sold him to the British. He was kept a prisoner about Detroit for some time, and one day some man wanted a gun lock repaired. There was a person at Detroit who pretended to do that work but was not able to do it, well. McKinney saw him at work and offered to help. It was then discovered that McKinney was a gunsmith; and the British then required him to make guns for the Indians, their allies in fighting the Americans. They gave him $2.50 a day to make gun barrels and to finish the guns; hut he was shut up in prison every night, He made the guns; but he spoiled every gun barrel so that they could not be relied upon to school his countrymen. It is supposed that he made about 250 guns and spoiled them all but one. There was one Indian who knew what a good gun was, and he got on to McKinney's scheme; he told him he would not betray him if he would make him a perfect gun ,which McKinney did. It is said, that the Indians used one of McKinney's guns and, shot seventeen

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times at Gen. Washington, but could not hit him once. McKinney remained a prisoner at Detroit until about 1783 when he was released. He went back to Pennsylvania and was married to Millie Doutheet. They had the following children: Theodore born 1785; Daniel, jr., born 1787; and Cynthia born 1789, who married Nathaniel Skinner. The second wife of Daniel McKinney, Sr., was Mary Hodnett. She had the following children, Solomon, James, Thomas. Charles and Wiliam. Daniel McKinney, Sr., was a member of the Legislature from Scioto County from December 4th, 18o9, until February 21st, 1812. He was a very active, energetic man and citizen. He died June 17th, 1816. Daniel McKinney, jr., his son, was the father of Lorenzo Dow McKinney, who has a separate sketch herein. Daniel McKinney, jr., was married June 25th, 1808, to Kate Sampson by Thomas Waller, Justice of the Peace. They had the following children : Cynthia, married Jacob Bennett ; Randolph, Benjamin Franklin, Lorenzo Dow, born June 17th, 1816, and Susannah, his twin sister, who married David Hahn, a famous stage driver.

Daniel McKinney, jr., was a Commissioner of Scioto County, from 1824 to 1827. He died at the age of 44, but his wife survived until 1875. He was a farmer all his life. He was buried in the Squires graveyard in Madison Township.

Ezra Osborn.

The date of his arrival in Portsmouth is not precisely known, but it was probably about 1810. He was a native of Vermont and came to Portsmouth, already married. He never had any children. His wife Abigail, died-in advanced life, February 6th, 1838, as the papers stated, after a lingering illness. His first official appearance in Portsmouth was in 1813, when he was elected a Justice of the Peace in Wayne Township.

In 1816, he was elected to the Legislature and re-elected in 1818 and 1819. On August 5th. 1819, he was appointed President Judge of the Common Pleas and served until February 6th, 1820, when he was elected by the Legislature. February 9th, 1826, he retired and in March, 1826, he was elected a Justice of the Peace of Wayne Township, and was re-elected, and served continuously until his death in 1840. In the fall of 1826, he was a candidate for the Legislature, but did not reach the office.

He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and a leader in it. He was a faithful Sunday school teacher. He must have been a man of property and substance, since he was often received as surety on Treasurers' bonds. His home was on the south side of Second street, where the Adams Express office stands. When elected Justice of the Peace in 1826, he had 71 votes and John Brown had 48. In 1829, when re-elected, he had 27 votes, all that were cast. In 1830 he was an Overseer of the Poor in Wayne Township. On February

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28th, 1830, he presided at the meeting when the Scioto County Bible Society was organized.

In 1830, he was a fence viewer of Wayne Township. In 1831, he was Deputy Auditor of Scioto County and President of the Council.

In 1837, he was Deputy Treasurer. In 1816, he was allowed $4.00 for listing the property in Portsmouth. He was a short fleshy man, of an easy temperament, and, in his personal appearance, he much resembled Judge Towne.

In politics, he was a Whig. He was born about 1773 and consequently, was about 37 years of age when he came to Portsmouth.

As a lawyer he had no particular. ability ; but he was a good citizen, and a consistent Christian. His tastes and inclinations were all for the humbler duties of the profession. He was probably better suited for the office of Justice of the Peace, than that of President Judge of the Common Pleas.

He had a stroke of paralysis in the fall of 1839, which disabled him. He survived till April 18th, 184o, when he died. His burial place is unknown. William Hall was his administrator and settled his estate.

William Collings

was born in Maryland. on December 11th, 1780. He was the eldest son of James Collings, a Revolutionary soldier, whose record, as such, is given herein. His mother's name was Christian Davis, of the same family as the Honorable Henry Winter Davis. They were married February 20th, 1780. His father emigrated to Ohio and bought 400 acres of land just south of West Union, 0.. where he died in 1802 at the early age of forty-eight He is interred in the Collings Cemetery just south of the village. William moved to Scioto County, soon after his father's death and located in that part afterwards set off to Pike. He at once took a prominent position in Pike County; and was its first Sheriff, 1815 to 1818. In 1824. he was elected a member of the House of Representatives to represent the Distrct composed of Lawrence, Scioto and Pike Counties. During his membership, William Henry Harrison was elected United State Senator, Mr. Collings was in the war of 1812 with a horse company under Col. Barnes. He was well informed and was a thorough business man. He was a Federalist and later a Whig. His home was on a farm three miles south of Piketon. It is still known as the Collings farm. William Vulgamore resides on it. Our subject was married to Priscilla Guthery, a daughter of one of the early settlers of Pike County. He had three daughters and one son. His daughter, Lydia married John Chestnut and left issue, William Chestnut, who resides in Cleveland. His daughter, Louisa, married William Sargeant and left, no issue. His daughter, Minerva married Charles Sargeant, and left no

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issue. His son, James Collings, was born in 1815 and married Ada Jane Cole, daughter of James Cole. He died in 1856, and she resides in Piketon. They had children, Guthery, and William Cole; a son died in infancy, a daughter, Kate Ellen, married J. W. Lang and resides in Waverly ; a daughter, Nancy, married Lorenzo Dow Philips and resides in Piketon. William Collings died, March 11th, 1826. aged forty-five years and three months. His wife was born July 16th. 1777, and died October 21st, 1878, aged ninety-five years, nine months and five days.

Colonel Isaac Bonser

was born in 1767. In his childhood he was on the frontier in Pennsylvania and was accustomed to assist the men who were protecting the mills against the Indians, during the Revolutionary War He had a taste for hunting and back woods life, and became a very expert hunter and woodsman. At the age of sixteen he was employed as a ,guide and hunter for a surveying party in the back woods of Pennsylvania. He became such an expert hunter and woodsman that he could no more be lost in the forest than an Indian. In the spring of 1795, he was selected by a party of would be emigrants to visit the Northwest Territory and select a location for settlement. , He went alone, on foot, with nothing but his rifle, blanket and such equipment as he could carry. He crossed the Ohio river and wandered along the north bank of the river, until he reached the east bank of the Little Scioto river. He had marked out a piece of ground with his tomahawk, supposing that he would be entitled to it by priority of discovery and locality, and by marking it out. At that time there was no settlement on the north side of the river between Gallipolis and Manchester. Bonser camped out alone on this trip. When he was ready to start back, he net the surveying party under Mr. Martin who had just finished surveying the French Grant lots. They were returning to Marietta in a canoe. Mr. Bonser found them in a bad predicament. They had exhausted their stock of provisions, their powder had become damp,. and they were in danger of starving. Mr. Bonser took in the situation at a glance. He proposed to them that as he was going up into Pennsylvania, if they would take his baggage into their canoe, he would travel on shore, with nothing but his rifle to carry, and supply them with all the game they needed. He would kill a deer or turkey, bear or buffalo as occasion offered, and they could carry the game in the canoe The first night they were together Bonser examined their powder, and showed them how to dry it out. He dried it out by sticking a forked stick in the ground a safe distance from the fire, on which he hung the powder horn, after taking out the stopper, and let the steam from the powder pass out slowly. He left the powder horn in that position until morning, when the heat of the fire had completely dried it out.

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The party traveled in this manner to Marietta where Mr. Martin reported to General Putnam ; and Bonser continued his trip to Pennsylvania. Isaac Bonser was the first white man to visit Scioto County with the view of settlement. He saw the whole country before the banks of the river had been disturbed, or any timber cut down by white men. The next year the five families, for whom he had made the trip, set out to locate in Scioto County. They went to the Monongahela river, and built a boat large enough for them and their families. They arrived at the mouth of the Scioto, August 10th, 1796, and took possession of the ground Bonser had staked out the year before. The men in the party were Isaac Bonser, Uriah Barber, John Beaty, William Ward, and Ephriam Adams. They found two families ahead of them, Samuel Marshall and John Lindsey, who had moved up from Manchester a few months before. Isaac Bonser located above the mouth of the creek and built the third cabin in Scioto County. He cleared a field and fenced it, preparatory to raising a crop the following season. He had a field of eight or ten acres prepared in which he planted corn and such other vegetables as were needed. This was the first attempt to cultivate the soil in Scioto County. He built a water-mill one mile from the mouth of the Little Scioto, in 1798, at the mouth of Bonser's Run. In the summer of 1798, when the Ohio River was very low and he was engaged in building his mill, having all the men from the settlement helping him, five bears came to the settlement where the women were at work. They made' it so hot for the bears that they took to the trees, and Barney Monroe came along and shot all five of them. As soon as the land office was opened in Chillicothe in 1801, Isaac Bonser secured the land on which his mill was bat and kept a mill there until his death.

The land was said to have sold for $2.00 per acre, being congress lands,. and sold for, cash only.

Bonser built a house and planted an orchard. Some of the apple trees he planted out are still living. In 1803, Bonser and Uriah Barber, and another party took a contract to make a wagon road to Gallipolis from Portsmouth. In June, 1804, he was a grand juror. On July 4th, 1808, there was a great celebration on the farm of Major Bonser. It had been announced before hand and parties came from Gallipolis, West Union, and other points. For want of a cannon, they bored out a log and banded it with iron but it burst during the firing. Robert Lucas read the Declaration of Independence.

Mr. Bonser took an active part in organizing the militia of this county. There were ten companies and he was elected a Major of the Militia. In 1813, he went out in the general call as Major of the Militia and went as far as Sandusky. He was County Commissioner from 1814 to 1820. In 1817, he built an overshot mill, the only one of the kind ever built in Scioto County. He was a member of the Legislature from 1826 to 1828. He was very fond of tinkering with

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mills. This mitt he kept until his death. He had some peculiar ideas. He thought the price of wheat and corn should never vary, and corn should sell at twenty-five cents and wheat at fifty cents per bushel. He was a very industrious man, and worked diligently, no matter what the condition of the weather was, whether cold or warm. He worked at his mill until he was upwards of eighty years of age, and his last sickness lasted but a week. He died in Scioto County in 1849, aged eighty-three years. While he was fond of hunting, he would not kill ,game for sport. He Would only do so when it was required for meat ; and it was a common thing for him, on account of his being such an expert hunter. to hunt for other families as well as his own. In his politics he was always a Democrat. He voted for Jackson, in 1824, when there were few men of his kind in the county. He was never a member of any church, but his wife was a Baptist. Her name was Abigail Burt. She was born in New Jersey in 1770. They had four children before they came to Ohio. Their oldest son, Joseph, was killed by the premature discharge of a cannon, in 1836, when he was attempting to fire a salute in honor of General Jackson. She died in 1853, near Sciotoville, in her eighty-third year.

The four children born in Pennsylvania were : Joseph, Jane, Hannah and Samuel. The six born in Ohio were : Isaac, Sally, Jacob, Uriah, John and Nathaniel.

James Rogers

was born in Cumberland County, Pa., Dec. 7th, 1787, the only son of Andrew and Mary Duncan Rogers. His father emigrated from County Tyrone, Ireland, at the close of the Revolution. When James was a child, his father removed to Washington Co., Pa. At sixteen our subject was apprenticed to John Rhodes, to learn the trade of a millwright ; and he served his time till the age of twenty-one. He then took a flat boat of merchandise to Nashville, Tenn., in the fall of 1799, and wintered there. He returned to Pennsylvania and worked at his trade with the Pittsburg Steam Engine Co. In May 1813, that Company sent him to attach steam power to the Brush Creek Furnace in Adams County, which he did ; and that was the first attempt to blow a blast furnace by steam in this country. His next work was to put tip a steam engine, for a saw and grist mill, at New Albany, Ind. He built Steam Furnace in Adams County, in 1816, and with Andrew Ellison and the Pittsburg Steam Engine Co., as partners under the name of James Rogers & Co., he run it until 1826. In that year he went prospecting in Lawrence County, and as a result, on the 4th of July of that year, he .began the erection of Union Furnace, the firm again being James Rogers & Co., but composed of himself, John Sparks and Valentine Fear. This was the first blast furnace in Lawrence County. He represented Adams County in the Legislature, in 1825, and 1826, with Col. John Means as his colleague.

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From 1830 and 1832, he represented Scioto and Lawrence Counties in the House. In 1837 to 1839, he represented Athens, Meigs, Gallia and Lawrence in the Senate. In 1849, and 185o, he again represented Scioto and Lawrence in the House.

He was married three times. He was a Presbyterian in his religious faith. His funeral was June 9th, 1860, conducted by Rev. Dan Young. He was buried first at Hanging Rock and afterwards at Spring Grove, Cincinnati. He was a son of Oliver Rogers, who lives in Lincoln,. Nebraska.

Gen. Edward Hamilton

was the Chevalier Bayard of Portsmouth. He was a gentleman by instinct and by culture, and was always self-possessed. As a lawyer, he was not eminent, but as a citizen and a patriot, he was pre-eminent. He was a citizen of Portsmouth from June, 1826 to October, 1849, a period of twenty-three years. The date or place of his birth is not known ; but he came from Wheeling to Portsmouth, and was married after coming here. He first published his card June 18th, 1826, in the Western Times. In his day, Justices of the Peace were usually elected at special elections. On December loth, 1826, he was elected a, Justice of the Peace for Wayne Township. 112 votes were cast. He had 59, while John Noel had 51. January 1st, 1831, he became the editor of the Portsmouth Courier. Elijah Glover being the publisher. He remained the editor one year. July 4th, 1831, at the famous celebration of the day, he delivered the oration. In .1833 and 1834, he represented Scioto County in the legislature.

December 6th, 1836, he began the publication of the Scioto Tribune, having purchased the Courier of Mr. E. Glover. In 1839, Silman Clark took an interest in the paper and the name was changed to the Portsmouth Tribune. February 14th, 1840, he and Silman Clark retired from the Tribune, and were succeeded by Hutchins and Blinn.

From 1838 to 1842, he was Mayor of the Town of Portsmouth. On August 12th, 1842, he announced that he would thereafter devote himself exclusively to the practice of the law ; but he did not stick to his promise; for in a short time he returned to the Tribune as its editor, and continued to be such until he went into the Mexican War.

In 1842, he built the Judge Towne residence on. Court street, just south of Captain William Moore's residence. A door entered the dining room from the alley. This room he used for an office for sometime. That door has long since been bricked up, but its location can be noticed.

In 1840, he was Examiner of the Public Schools. When he was elected Mayor in 1840, he received 125 votes and L. C. Goff 5.1.. From 1843 to 1847, he was President of the Council. Feb. loth, 1846, he formed a law partnership with E. W. Jordan, as Hamilton and Jordan. He resigned July 6th, 1846, to go into the Mexican War. He was a strong Whig; yet he raised a Company to go into

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the Mexican 'War. It was Co., D. 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Edward Hamilton was appointed Captain, June 1st, 1846. May 2nd, 1846, he was a Major General of the Ohio Miltia. His Company was made up almost entirely from the County and about the furnaces. The regiment was in the battle of Monterey, September 21st, 1846, and saw some hard service. It lost 66 men by death, 24 killed and 42 died of disease. From October 15th, 1847, to October 6th, 1849, he was Town Clerk. On February 16th, 1849, he was one of the committee of Council to receive and welcome General Taylor, on his way up the river to Washington to be inaugurated President.

General Taylor, who remembered him in Mexico, gave him a most cordial welcome and had him remain on the boat and go up the river with him some distance. It is believed that, on this trip, he .promised Mr. Hamilton the office which he gave him the next October.

In August, 1849, he was appointed examiner of the Public Schools. October 14th, 1849, he resigned as Town Clerk, on account of his removal.

President Taylor had appointed him Secretary of the Territory of Oregon and he had accepted. He left with the Council the flag he had carried, through the Mexican War ; and the Council accepted it by proper resolution.

Mr. Hamilton possessed excellent literary tastes. He frequently gave public lectures on educational subjects. He was never prominent as a lawyer. His income as such in 1830 was rated at $300.00, and never above $800.00. He preferred the quieter walks of the profession. He was a communicant of All Saints Church and he and Mr. Burr were great friends. When Monterey was captured, Gen. Taylor appointed him Military Governor of the place; and in discharge of his duties, he greatly pleased the General. It was a Red Letter day in Portsmouth, when he and his Company returned from the Mexican War. They were given a public welcome. Those who knew him best, say he was entitled to better success as a lawyer. than he obtained ; that he was too high toned to obtain much practice.

When he began as a Justice of the Peace, some of the members of the bar thought to make a guy of him. They got up a sham lawsuit. One of them sued Wm. V. Peck, in trover, for the conversion of a pen knife. A very strongly contested law suit was held before Esq. Hamilton. He presided with great dignity. Witnesses were examined and arguments made. The value of the knife was taxed at $1.50 and Peck was found guilty and adjudged to pay the value of the knife and costs. The lawyers left the Court in high glee, thinking they had perpetuated a great joke. Soon after, Hamilton issued execution; and Lawyer Peck had to pay the judgement and costs full.

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Prior to 1842, Mr. Hamilton resided in a frame house on the Judge Towne lot. It was destroyed by fire. The citizens raised a fund and tendered him, but he declined it. He had a daughter, who was grown in 1849. He and his wife and daughter left New York for Oregon in a sailing vessel, the "Supply," around Cape Horn. Aaron Kinney, who was in love with the daughter, went along. On board there was an Army Officer who fell in love with this daughter, Genevieve, on the long voyage; and afterwards married her. Aaron Kinney remained a bachelor. After Oregon became a State, Hamilton is said to have been a Supreme Judge and to have made quite a Judicial reputation. He is said to have lived to about the age of 80, but his life after leaving Portsmouth is mere tradition and we have been unable to communicate with his family.

He was slender,' fine appearing, and carried himself with great dignify. His father lived with him in Portsmouth and wore the old style apparel. He had his hair braided in a queue, and always wore it that way.

Governor Hamilton while a resident of Portsmouth, was poor in pocket, but rich in integrity. He was a gentleman from every point and is affectionately remembered by all who knew him.

Nelson Barrere

was born near Newmarket, Highland County, Ohio, April 1st, 1808, and was the seventh of twelve children. His father was George W. Barrere, a very prominent citizen of Highland County. He was a deputy surveyor, Justice of the Peace, member of the Ohio Senate nine years, and an Associate Judge of Highland County for fourteen years. He fought in the Indian War, and participated in St. Clair's defeat and Wayne's victory. He was also in the War of 1812 at Hullsis surrender, and was in every public enterprise in Highland County until his death in 1839. His son Nelson, lived on the farm until eighteen years of age and attended school in the winters. He spent a year in the Hillsboro High School, and in 1827, entered the Freshman class at Augusta College. He graduated from there in 183o, finishing a four years course in three and one half years.

In 1831, he began the study of law in Hillsboro with Judge John W. Price and was admitted to the bar on December 23rd, 1833. He opened an office in Hillsboro and remained there nine months. He located in West Union in 1834, forming a partnership with Samuel Brush. This partnership continued for a year. He remained in \Vest Union eleven years altogether, and had a large and lucrative practice. He had the confidence of the people. He represented Adams Scioto and Brown Counties in the Lower House of the Legislature at the thirty-sixth Legislative session from December 44th, 1837, to March 8th, 1853. In 1853, he was the Whig candidate for Governor, but was defeated, receiving 85,847 votes, while his competitor,

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William Medill received 147,663. When the Whig party dissolved. he went over to the Democratic party, in which he remained during the remainder of his life; but during the Civil War he supported the Republican administration. In 1870, he was a candidate for Congress on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated. He was the Democratic candidate from Highland County for member of the Constitutional Convention, in 1875, and was defeated by one, vote. He never married. He continued in the active practice of law until his death, which occurred August 20th, 1883.

In Adams County, during his residence there, he was very popular. He was always conspicuous for his public spirit. As a lawyer he was energetic and industrious. He was a safe and reliable counselor, and an eloquent and successful advocate. He was always agreeable and courteous in his manners. In West Union, he formed many warm friendships, and he, Joseph Allen Wilson, Davis Darlington, and others had a club at Darlington's store to which they resorted of evenings and spent many pleasant hours. Joseph West Lafferty and John Fisher, of Cedar Mills, were two of his most particular friends in Adams County. The author of this work received his name Nelson, in honor of Mr. Barrere.

Dan Young

was born April 7th, 1783, in Grafton County, New Hampshire. *His father was Jesse Young, an officer from Massachusetts in the Revolutionary War, who was born and reared in Massachusetts. HiS mother, Ruby Richardson was a native of Connecticut. His ancestors on both sides were from England. Dan Young was the third child of his parents. He first heard of Methodism when he heard Rev. Jesse Lee in 1798. When twenty-one he was a school teacher, and soon after became a local preacher in the M. E. Church. In his twenty-second year, he was admitted to the New England Conference of the M. E. Church ; and went to the New •Grantham Circuit as Junior preacher. In 1806, he was sent to Barre Circuit, in Vermont. The same year he began the study of Latin. In 1807, he was assigned to Athens Circuit, Vermont. In 1808, he went to Hanover Circuit, New 'Hampshire and while there studied Hebrew at Dartmouth College. In 1809, he attended Conference at New London, Conn., where he and his brother James were ordained elders. He was sent to Lynn, Massachusetts. He was in the Legislature of New Hampshire from 1812 to 1813. At that time it was customary to treat the electors to whiskey. Dan Young refused to do this and gave the money to the School Fund. After election he introduced a bill to suppress the custom, and it became a law. He was in the Senate of New Hampshire from 1816 to 1821. He introduced a bill in the Senate to forbid the levying of taxes for the support of the State Church. At the first session it failed to pass and received but

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two votes, one besides his own. He introduced it four times before it passed. In 1820, he formed a company and started for Ohio. He was a member of the New Hampshire Senate and resigned. His company went to the Alleghany River in wagons, thence down the river in flat boats from Orlean, New York. They landed at Hayport and located at what is now Wheelersburg, Ohio. Dan Young called it Concord, for the capital of his native State. He built a cotton factory there and sent his brother South to buy cotton to manufacture, October 29th, 1824, he preached the funeral of Daniel Corwine, at the Presbyterian Meeting House in Portsmouth, Ohio. In March, 1825, Dan and James Young were engaged in wool carding at Wheelersburg, Ohio. Soon after Dan Young located at Concord, he learned there was iron in the hills northeast of there, and he determined to utilize it. He organized the Ohio Iron Company. It was incorporated by special act of the Legislature, passed February 18th, 1830, Vol. 28, 0. L., p. 106. He was President of the Company. The capital stock was $100,000 and shares were $500 each. He built Franklin Furnace in 1827. He, John Young, Jesse Y. Whitcomb, Josiah Merrill, John Hurd, Martin Ruter, all from New Hampshire, were proprietors. It was the first blast furnace in Scioto County. It ceased operation in 1860. Dan Young went to Franklin to reside. He and his Company built Junior Furnace also. In 1828, he was Secretary of the Sunday School Union of the County. In 1832, he was a candidate for State Senator. That year Franklin and Junior Furnaces made $300 worth of iron per day. Franklin Furnace burned in 1836; and the stack at Junior gave away. These two furnaces made from 10 to 20 tons of iron per day ; but one would out sell the other and the Company broke up. In 1840, and 1841, he represented the Counties of Gallia, Lawrence and Scioto in the Ohio House of Representatives. In 1809, he was married to Miss Clough of Northfield, New Hampshire. The children of this marriage were: Maria, wife of Doctor. George B. Crane; Flora, Jesse and Charles G., who became distinguished as a Railroad President in Texas, and was killed in a railroad accident, leaving a large family ; Electa, the wife of Doctor Pryor of Missouri ; Dan ;Martin became a lawyer and died in Shreveport, Louisiana ; John ; Eliza, the wife of Joseph Glidden; Augustus, died young f consumption ; and Catharine married her cousin, Jefferson W. Glidden. In 1832, Dan Young went back to New Hampshire and married his second wife, a Miss Clough, a sister of his first wife. His daughter Flora, the widow of a Mr. Clough returned with him. She had two sons, nearly grown, and three daughters, two of whom were young women. The canal at that time was only finished to Chillicothe; and Mr. Young hired carriages there and took his party home with him. At Chillicothe on this occasion; he met Doctor George B. Crane, who afterwards married one of his daughters. He married a third wife and raised a half dozen more

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children. Mrs. Clough had two sons and four daughters when she married Dan Young. Jesse Young married one of them, Mary Clough. Dan Young died March 30th, 1867.

In his pilgrimage to Ohio, he came from Lisbon, New Hampshire in wagons. With the party were Sophia Ely, Ruby Whitcomb and Narcissa Whitcomb. The three girls rode horseback from Wheeling to Wheelersburg landing. It took a week. In the party were Dan Young, his brother John Young, Josiah Merrill, the widow Preston with her two sons, Nathaniel and Ira, Nathaniel Whitcomb and Mrs. Sarah Smith, a widow.

Colonel William Oldfleld.

Right at the outset we are called upon to determine which is the highest title Colonel of the Militia, or Associate Judge. As the editor of this work is the Tribunal, he unhesitatingly gives the preference to Colonel over Judge. Our subject was both a Militia Colonel and an Associate Judge, and was entitled to either title. He was born December 3oth, 1790, in the State of New York. He came to Portsmouth, in 1814. The first we have on record of him in Portsmouth was in 1816, when he was married to Maria Hempstead, November 16th, 1816.

In 1820, he was a candidate for Sheriff. It was before the day of conventions and the race was free for all. The vote stood John Noel, 229; Elizah McInteer, 179; Marcus Bosworth, 128; Elijah Glover, 100 ; William Oldfield, 96; Joseph Bonser, 9.

In 1823, he was a Trustee of Wayne Township and the same year on July 4th, was elected to the Town Council to fill a vacancy. 0n the 23rd of October, 1823, he was one of the committee appointed by the Council to go to law about the front of the Town. In 1824, he was one of the committee to print twenty-five copies of the ordinances of the Town. In the same year on August 7th, he was elected a Justice of the Peace of Wayne Township, but resigned October 12th, 1826.

In 1826, he was appointed Associate Judge to fill a vacancy. He was elected by the Legislature on January 22nd, 1827, for seven years. He succeeded David Mitchell, who resigned and was succeeded by Joseph Moore.

In 1829, on February 6th, he was appointed with Kennedy Lodwick as a committee to select a new Cemetery. It was purchased May 6th, following. On July 4th, 1831, he presided at one of the greatest celebrations ever held in the county. October 13th, 1832, he was Marshal on the occasion f the opening of the canal.

In 1839, he was Colonel f the Militia. In 1844, and 1845, he represented Scioto and Lawrence Counties in the Legislature. During the one session he served, the State Bank f Ohio was incorporated and Thomas Corwin was elected U. S. Senator. In 1851, he was a

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candidate for Mayor, when Benjamin Ramsey was elected. He and Cornelius McCoy were candidates. The vote stood Oldfield, 387; McCoy, 203. In 1857, he was appointed Infirmary Director and served a few months.

He at one time owned three acres of land on the southwest corner of Sixth and Chillicothe streets, and had a distillery there. He then put up a mill near the Saliaday place on the Chillicothe road and operated it a long time. Then he built the residence on Sixth street now owned by Robert Richardson, and occupied by John T. Breece. He resided there until his death, September 30th, 1861.

He was a communicant of the Episcopal Church, and in politics was always a Whig.

Colonel John. A. Turley

was born June 1st, 1816, at Moorefield, Hardy County,. Virginia. His father was Doctor Charles A. Turley, and his mother's maiden name was Fannie Harness. For twelve years he attended school and studied Latin under Professor Alexander Wallace. His father was a graduate of William and Mary College. Our subject inherited the Davis farm in Valley Township. He came to Ohio, in 1836, and located near Chillicothe. In 1838, he came to Scioto County and located in Clay Township. From 1840 to 1843, he was a Justice of the Peace in that Township. From December 2nd, 1846 to February 8th, 1847, he represented Scioto and Lawrence Counties in the House, being elected as a Whig over Judge Batterson. He remained on his farm until 1856. He was appointed Assessor of the United States Internal Revenue by President Johnson, but the appointment was not confirmed. He organized the first School Board in Clay Township in 1851. On April 27th, 1861, he enlisted in Company G., 22nd "O. V. I., for three months service, and was made Captain f the Company, at the age f forty-five. May 8th, 1861, he had a third Company ready for the war. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel May 23rd, 1861, and mustered out with the regiment August 19th, 1861. He was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 81st 0..V. I. August 19th, 1861; and resigned December 9th, 1861. August 22nd, 1862, he was appointed Colonel of the 91st 0. V. I., and was discharged November 4th, 1864, for wounds received June 17th, 1864, in the battle f Lynchburg, Virginia. He was breveted Brigadier General March 13th, 1865, for gallant conduct in battle. He has been a member of the School Board in Portsmouth, a member f the City Council, Assessor of the United States Internal Revenue for seven months. In 1868, he ran as a candidate for Assessor in the Third Ward on the Democratic ticket and was defeated. In ,1872, he was a candidate for Sheriff on the Republican ticket, and was defeated by John W. Lewis, by 207 votes, he being the only Republican defeated. From 1871 to 1873, and from 1887 to 1889, he was May-.

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or of the City of Portsmouth. He was married to Charlotte E. Robinson January 2nd, 1843, by Rev. C. Brooks. He died March 19th, 1900.

His sons were Augustus R. Turley, Hon. Henry Clay Turley and Leslie C. Turley. The two latter have sketches herein. His only daughter, Charlotte, married Hon. A. C. Thompson, Judge of the United States District Court f the Southern District of Ohio. Colonel Turley was born rich ; and at one time owned one f the finest farms in the Scioto Valley, but lost all before his death. He was a good friend, but sometimes tried his friends by his ungovernable temper. He was a Whig while that party lasted and after that was a Republican. He was a patriot in the intensest sense of the term. He loved his country and would have sacrificed his all for it. He was a brave man and never knew what fear was. His temperament made him an ideal soldier ; but his age was against him ; and his wound disqualified him for further service. He was a great sportsman, and dearly loved hunting and fishing. In the last fifteen years of his life. he had retired from all business or employments and took life easy. His wife survives him, the last survivor of the children of Joshua V. Robinson.

Colonel Elias Nigh

was born in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1815, and grew up there. His parents were of German ancestry. His grandfather was one of the early settlers of Connecticut. His father was Samuel Nigh. He was raised as a boy with William Tecumseh and John Sherman, and was always on the most intimate terms with them. He was educated in the common schools at Lancaster and studied law with the Hon. Thomas Ewing. He located in Lawrence County in 1845, at Burlington, Ohio, to practice law, and there he married Miss Alice Renshaw. He was a Whig as long as that party was in existence and then became a Republican. In October, 1847, he was elected a member of the 46th General Assembly to represent the Counties of Scioto and Lawrence, and attended the Legislature from December 6th, 1847, to February 25th, 1848. In the fall of 1859, he was elected a member of the 54th General Assembly as representative from Lawrence County, and served from January 2nd, 1869, until May 3rd, 1861. In the fall of 1875, he was elected a member of the 62nd General Assembly to represent Lawrence County and served from January 3rd, 1876, until May 7th, 1877. At the breaking out of the war, he was appointed Captain and Acting Quartermaster, United States Volunteers, August 5th, 1861, and was assigned to the Department of Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky. He was appointed Chief Quartermaster by General Buell, and was afterwards appointed Inspector General, Department of the Army of the Ohio. General Wright Commanding. January 1st, 1863, he was assigned Chief Quartermaster of the 16th Army Corps, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. On March

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17th, 1864, he was commissioned Captain and Assistant Quartermaster in the regular army. He resigned both commissions June 28th, 1864. He supplied General Thomas' expedition to Mill Springs by wagons, from Lebanon, Kentucky. He was with Buell in the march to Pittsburg Landing; and had charge f the transportation of his troops from Savannah to Pittsburg Landing. When Buell's army retreated to Louisville, he was in charge of the Quartermaster's Department. He built bridges and removed stores across the Ohio river. After Rosecrans succeeded General Buell, he served as Inspector General f the Army f the Ohio, until January 1st, 1863, when he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and was assigned Chief Quartermaster of the 16th Army Corps. During the time of his last serving in the Legislature, he was greatly interested in the Ohio State University and had a bill introduced and made law to teach civil engineering in that institution. He was always prominent in the General Assembly. He removed to Ironton from Burlington in 1851. After the war, he began, in connection with Colonel Kingsbury, the Sheridan Coal Works in Lawrence County, Ohio. From March loth, 1867, to May loth. 1873, he was Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Tab District of Ohio. In all his views and conduct, Colonel Nigh was conservative. He considered every subject carefully and acted only after the, gravest consideration. He was a great friend f the colored race and did much for its advancement. After the war, he brought many of the colored families to the North and found them homes and employment. He had seven children: Reese, Samuel H., Julia, Mary. Elizabeth, Alice and William. He died in Ironton, Ohio, February 3rd, 1899, and is .buried in Woodland Cemetery, near that city.

Captain, Samuel Huston

was born at Winchester, Va., on September 2nd, 1801. His father. William Huston, was one of the pioneers of Portsmouth and moved into Wayne Township in 1802. William Huston built the fourth cabin in Portsmouth. When that Township was organized in 1809, he was one of the Trustees. In 1811, our subject saw the first steamboat pass down the Ohio river ; and he saw the Aaron Burr expedition go down on bateaux. He also saw the Lewis and Clark expeditions go down in boats. In 1823, he married Elizabeth Leonard, daughter of Adam Leonard.

In 1824, he voted for General Jackson and was always a Democrat. As a youth, he learned the trade of making spinning wheels and worked at it several years.

In 1831, he kept a coffee house and grocery in Portsmouth. In 1832, he began building steamboats at Portsmouth, Ohio, and continued the business till 1848. He built the following steamboats, "Transit," "Sylph," "Eighth of January," "Belvidere," "Drava," "Irene." "Eureka" and "Home." Some he built and sold; and some he built

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for Dowell and Davis. He also ran a number of years, as Master, on steamboats on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in the "Golden Days" of steamboating. He made a great deal of money in steam- boating and kept it.. He built the fine home, which stood, on the southwest corner of Second and Court streets; and maintained a generous hospitality there for years. The leaders of his party were entertained there, whenever they came to Portsmouth.

In 1833, he was supervisor of the East ward in Portsmouth. In 1838, he was a town Councilman, and in 1841, was elected as Councilman from the Third ward. In 1847, he built and ran a saw mill for some time.

In 1852 to 1854, ho was wharfmaster of Portsmouth, and in 1854 to 1856. he represented Scioto County in the State Legislature. In 1856 to 1857, he was City Treasurer of Portsmouth.

In 1840, he was Captain of the crack militia company of Portsmouth. He had it out on the Fourth of July and was Marshal of the procession.

In 1860, he took part in the Union Meeting, and was strong for the war.. His wife reared James M. Ashley and was the founder of his fortunes. He was the father of fourteen children. His son, James was a naval cadet, and died in 1864. His son, William S. attained prominence as a lawyer, and at the bar, and died comparatively young.

His daughter, Maria, married Col. S. E. Varner. Mr. Huston was a good citizen, public spirited, upright and the soul of honor.

His daughter. Miss Irene, who cared for him and made his last years comfortable and happy, still resides at the old homestead on the Chillicothe Pike, endeared to all her friends by her most generous hospitality. His wife died January 14th, 1873 and he survived until February 27th, 1893. In his years of activity, he was one of the most active men of Portsmouth. He never feared to make a business venture and his business career was crowned with success. During the war he retired from all business and lived in dignified, honorable retirement the remainder of his life.

Daniel McFarland

was born in Baltimore, Maryland, September 3rd, 1825. His father was Daniel McFarland and his mother Rachel Owen. They emigrated to Columbus, Ohio, in 1832, where our subject was raised. The father was a shoemaker. Our subject had a brother, Albert, and a sister, Mary, who married Jonathan Siler. Albert learned the trade of a printer, and went to Circleville and ran a newspaper there. Daniel served three years in Columbus learning the carpenter's trade, and worked for his board and clothes. A. C. Tyler was his employer. September 9th, 1853, John Hanna sold the Tribune to A. McFarland who continued to publish it up to April 1st, 1854,

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when he associated with him in business his brother, Daniel McFarland. The Tribune was a Whig paper, and was issued over L. D. Bishop's store on Front street. He represented Scioto County in the Legislature from January 2nd, 1856, to April 17th, 1857. He was elected as a Know Nothing and the paper was a Know Nothing while that party lasted. In 1857. Dan McFarland went to Brown County, Kansas, then a territory, and was there until 1859. He preempted lands and built a Court House on a town site. He lost his tune and money in trying to secure a county seat at Parsons. Hiawatha finally secured it. He was broken down by sickness and misfortune, and then returned to Ohio. When he came back lie went to work for his brother as a printer. Just before the war broke out, Albert, his brother, secured an appointment to Washington as Secretary to Sherman. In 186t, Daniel McFarland bought the entire paper from his brother, who, since the dissolution in 1857, had been sole editor and proprietor of the daily and weekly Tribune. At this time the daily was discontinued. In June, 1867, the office was sold to H. R. W. Smith and David Elick. Our subject was appointed Assessor of Internal Revenue and served all of President Lincoln's term for the 11th Congressional District. It was worth $2,000 per year and McFarland had it for four years. After the death of President Lincoln .Mr. McFarland refused to Johnsonize and was succeeded by a man who had no such scruples. November 20th, 1868, W. A. Hutchins, Thomas Dugan and Dan McFarland were appointed a Committee to go to Columbus and lobby for a new penitentiary.

On July 10th, 1872, Dan McFarland was serenaded at his home on East Second street. and declared for Greeley and Gratz Brown. He told the crowd they had not mistaken the place; that he would vote for Greeley if they would vote for the Railroad question tinder the Boesel law. He was agent for the Portsmouth Dry Dock Company for twenty years. He had 500 acres of land in his charge to attend to and cultivate for twenty years. There was enough sold to satisfy the mortgage by the company; and 100 acres were left after closing the mortgage. Captain Riley was President of the Company and John O’Brien was secretary. Mr. McFarland took charge of the land in 1861. He was Canal Collector at Portsmouth, Ohio, for twenty-one years, commencing in 1861. He again represented Scioto County in the Legislature from January 2nd, 1882, until April 19th, 1883. He was Chairman of the Committee f the Board of Public Works and did much to prevent the canals from being appropriated by private corporations. He was married in Columbus, Ohio, in 1849, to Lydia McCulloch. He died June 1st, 1900. He has one son Charles, a prominent attorney at Los Angeles, California. Mr. McFarland was a philosopher. After he returned from the Legislature in 1883, he lived a life f retirement. He was very fond of fishing, and would spend many days successively in fishing camps. No

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one ever enjoyed the ease and retirement of old age more than Mr. McFarland. He took all things easy and never permitted anything to worry him. He was just and punctual in all his dealings. As a 'citizen, he was always in favor f public improvements. He did more to secure the Scioto Valley Railroad than any citizen of Portsmouth. He was active in securing the car shops f that railroad at Portsmouth. He gave a large and liberal subscription to the Portsmouth Hotel Company which built the Washington Hotel and directed its payment in his last illness, when he knew it would never do him any good, and he would not live to see its completion. He was as public spirited and liberal a citizen as ever lived in the city of Portsmouth. He was a good public speaker and in a political campaign could not be excelled. While he was in politics, he seemed to enjoy its excitement, turmoil and clash. While engaged in the political field, among the people, he was known as "Black Dan," on account of his very dark complexion. The name was given to him by one in one of his audiences at Scioto Furnace, in an exciting political campaign. The name stuck to him and was adopted generally. As a promoter of public enterprises or a politician, he could always reach the hearts of the people and without any apparent effort.

Mr. McFarland suffered much in his last illness but as he 'had always done his best, he met the last enemy without any regrets or repinings. He knew his time had come and submitted to the inevitable like the philosopher he was.

James Beelike Ray, Sr., M. D.,

was born June 12th, 1815, in Washington County, Pennsylvania. His father was James Ray and his mother's maiden name was Phebe Johnson. They were both born in Washington County, Pennsylvania. His father, James Ray, was a miller and distiller. Our subject had two brothers and seven sisters. His middle name, Boone is for the redoubtable Daniel. When he was seven years f age, his parents came to Ohio and located near Salem, in Jefferson County. He received his education in the common schools there and then followed the occupation of a country school teacher. He began the study of medicine in that county under Doctor Matthew Crawford. He came first to Jackson, but remained there but two weeks. He visited Portsmouth in 1843, and stopped at the McCoy tavern. He met Doctor Vogelsong and declined a partnership. In 1844, he located at Harrisonville and that winter attended lectures at Starling Medical College, in Columbus, Ohio. He practiced medicine in Harrisonville for a few years and then retired. He represented Scioto County in the Legislature from January 4th, 1858, to April 6th, 1859. April 3oth, 1844, he was married to Hannah Dunlavy, daughter of Andrew Dunlavy in Steubenville, Ohio. They had six children. Doctor James B. Ray, jr., at Harrisonville was the eldest. They lost three in childhood. Their son William, lived to be a young man and died while a

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law student in Cincinnati, Ohio. Their youngest daughter, Jennie is the wife of J. H. Wyatt f Bell Center, Logan County, Ohio. Doctor Ray is a believer in the Christian religion, but, is not a member of any church. He is a Democrat and always has been. He cast his first vote for Martin Van Buren, in 1836, and from that time to the present, has voted for every Democratic candidate for President. He died May 26th, 1901.

John Wesley Collings.

His father, Elijah Collings, was born March 5th, 1786, in Maryland. His father, James Collings came from Maryland in 1794 and located in Adams County, first in the stockade in Manchester, and in about 1796, on a tract of 400 acres of land just south of West Union, where he died in 1802, at the age of 48 years. He served three years in the Revolutionary War from 1777 to 1780. Elijah Collings, his father, died March 16th, 1865. Our subject was born in Monroe Township in Adams County, April 6th, 1824. He was reared on his father's farm and knew all about poverty and hard work. He was at one time, in his youth, a deck hand, on steamboats ; and he never got entirely away from the prfanityl and uncouth manners he learned in that occupation. He had only a common school education and his want of a better one was a draw back to him all his life. He studied law in Adams County, Ohio, under the late Edward P. Evans, from 1851 to 1853, when he was admitted to the bar and came to Portsmouth, Ohio, to practice.

He was reared a Democrat and that was the political faith he fell back on, when he grew tired of others. He was a Democrat, a Whig, a Know Nothing, a Republican, and at last a Democrat. In 1857, he was the candidate for Probate Judge as an American, though the Republicans and Americans ran a fusion ticket.

In 1859, he was. elected Representative from Scioto County, as the Republican candidate. He had 1,858 votes to 1,349 for Stephen Smith. He went over to Bell and Everett in 1860. While in the Legislature, Governor Chase was elected to the United States Senate ; and his constituents expected Collings to vote for him : but he voted for Thomas Corwin, as did Col. Moore, who was then in the Senate from Scioto County. This was the mistake of his life, In 1862, he appeared in the celebrated Cat Case, an account of which is herein given elsewhere. In 1863, in April, he was elected City. Solicitor as a Democrat, defeating Henry A. Towne, who ran as the Union and Republican candidate. The vote stood Collings 583. Towne 433. The salary during his one term was $50.00 per year. In the fall of that year, he supported Vallandigham for Governor and made speeches for him, though in 1859, he had addressed Republican meetings throughout the County and declared his undying hostility to the Democracy. He had an iron constitution and was a man

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of fiat presence. He always wore a black suit, with a dress coat and a silk hat ; and preSented a fine appearance in public. He was much given to the use of expletives,. and was ften abrupt and uncouth in his manners. He was not a brilliant lawyer. Judge, Martin Crain was fond of telling anecdotes illustrative of his peculiarities of speech. No doubt Crain invented many details of the anecdotes, but they fitted Collings, and were just what Collings would likely have said. Crain was the wit and humorist f the bar. He exercised his humor on all the members of the bar, but Collings was his best subject. The following is told by Crain when Collings was on the Probate Court bench and had jurisdiction of minor criminal offenses. A party named Currie was tried for stealing chickens and was found guilty by the Jury. The moment the verdict was announced, Collings said, "Stand up, chicken thief, and receive your sentence. You have been charged with the mealiest offense known to the law, that of stealing your neighbor's chickens, when he was asleep in the peace of God, and entitled to the full protection of the law, in his innocent slumbers ; yet you violated the sanctity of his chicken coop, and appropriated his feathered chattels to your own use. This deserves the severest condemnation. You have been tried by a jury of your peers and found guilty. On inquiry by the Court, you have offered nothing in palliation. It is the sentence of this Court that you be taken hence to the County Jail, and there be confined for a period of thirty days, ten of which shall be in the dungeon. While in the dungeon, you shall be fed on bread and water. You shall pay a fine of $5.00 and costs ; and may God have mercy on your soul, this Court won't. If you are ever brought before this Court again and found guilty of the same offense, it will hang you, G—d d—m you." Here is another. A party had been 'charged with an assault on Blash Lodwick. The assault consisted in trying to cut him with a knife, in the abdomen. Collings was assisting to prosecute and in arguing to the jury,"The defendant's conduct has been most reprehensible. He was trying to carve Blash Lodwick's belly, and only failed because he was prevented ; but the evidence shows he intended to do it. Such an offense deserves the highest sentence of the law, and ought to receive it. If his conduct receives the slightest approval, this town will be full of guts from end to end ; and the Court should express its disapproval in the strongest terms the law will permit."

Judge Collings was never married. He said he knew that each lawyer had the right to starve one woman to death, but he did not propose to exercise his privilege.

About four years prior to his death, he was in the habit of sleeping in his office in the Massie Block. The windows reached to the floor from the ceiling and lie had them open. He was a sleep walker and one summer night, in his sleep, he walked out f a window and fell to the pavement, sixteen feet below. His jaw, his hip and legs

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were fractured and he was otherwise fearfully injured. Owing to his wonderful constitution, he recovered. But the after result was consumption, of which he died. When he saw death inevitable, he retired to Adams County, and there died July 16th, 1872, at the age of 48. Had he properly taken care of himself, he would have lived to be go years old and upwards. He was interred in the Fenton Cemetery in Monroe Township, among his own people. In his will of record in Scioto County, he made a bequest to a sister and it reads about like this, "To my sister, , married to an infernal scoundrel by the name of “I give and bequeath, etc.," Collings knew well enough that this record would be perpetual, but he was willing it should be so. One day when visiting another sister, she was showing him her baby and said, "John don't you think this is the finest baby you ever saw ?" Collings replied, "Oh Chrissy, don't bother me about babies, they all look alike to me."

Collings was an agnostic. He said he did not believe a man had any more f a soul than a horse or cow ; and that when he died that was the end of him, and he died so professing. He disliked an elective judiciary; and condemned it in the most severe terms. He said the elected judges were all politicians and he did not like to practiSe before them. Had he made a suitable marriage, and taken due care f his health, he might have lived to a great age; and his career might have been more successful. In politics he was a failure because he changed too ften. To make a political success one must stick to one party. His father was a Democrat, but his uncle, the Hon. George Collings, was a Whig and Republican. He had a great admiration for his uncle George, as the latter well deserved. Raised a Democrat, but admiring and believing in his uncle, he might well hesitate in opinion btween the two leading parties. There is no doubt that when Judge Collings identified himself with the Republicans, had he remained there, he might have had any political preferment he desired, but he was raised to pro-slavery views and, apparently, could not get away from them. Whatever he professed he was candid about,. sometimes brutally so. He died in poverty, and, after his injuries from his fall, life turned to bitterness for him.

The lesson of his life is : that a man had better marry at a suitable age; and that he had best cast his fortunes with one political party and remain with it.

Colonel Martin Crain.

At the outset we are called on again to determine whether the title f Colonel or Judge is the highest. It is our rule to give each subject the title f the highest office he attained, and as in the case of William Oldfield, we gave the military title the preference, we shall do so here. Our subject was born Sept. 22nd, 1822, in Alexandria, of an old family, noted for their integrity and steady habits, and for

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being the swarthiest family in Scioto County. Martin Crain was as dark as an Indian, with deep set black eyes, and very dark hair. He was a large man, broad shouldered, over average height, and with considerable embonpoint. As a boy, he waS active and mischievous. He had only such education as the common schools afforded ; but became a teacher of common schools and taught several years. He made a number f trips down the Mississippi River. In 1848, he entered public life as a Constables of Wayne Township. One year f that office satisfied him. He was reared as a Whig, and as such, at thirty years f age, entered the office of Andrew Crichton, Recorder. as a clerk. He remained there until the next, year, when he was a candidate for the same office on the Whig ticket. His opponent on the Democratic ticket was B. F. Cunningham. Crain received 1,275, votes to 1,169, for Cunningham.

On May 1st, 1854, he married Ellen Gibbs, sister of Captain Frank C. Gibbs, and she died the following year. On January 8th, 1857, he married Miss Maria Hall, daughter of Octavo Hall, and by her eight children. In May, 1856, he was admitted to the bar and began practicing law in October, following.

In 1854, the Whig party dissolved, and Recorder Crain trimmed his sails for a Democratic breeze. In 1857, he ran on the Democratic ticket for Prosecuting Attorney and was elected. As the election returns for that year have been destroyed, the vote cannot be given. In 1859, he was a candidate for a second term and was elected. The vote stood Henry A. Towne, Republican, 1,423 ; Crain, 1,611, majority, 188. In 1861, he felt the need of a change in his political associates and went into the Republican camp.. The Republicans nominated him for representative and he was elected. The vote stood, Crain, 1,676, Uri Nurse, Democrat, 1,359, majority, 317. In 1862, Colonel Crain received the title f Colonel by reason of being made Commandant at Camp Morrow. He was a great advocate f the war. While a member f the Legislature, he spent much f his time writing to the newspapers for the instruction and amusement of his constituents. In 1863, his war fever had abated, and he was back in the bosom f Democracy. He went over the County and made speeches for the Democracy. In a speech made at Lucasville, in 1863, he said he had been deluded into joining the war party. But Colonel Crain made the great mistake f decrying a popular war. If a young man has political ambition, he mist always join the war party. In 1867, the Democrats put him on their ticket for Common Pleas Judge. Hon. W. W. Johnson of Ironton had resigned because he was the only Judge in the State receiving $1,500, while all the others were receiving $2,500. He was a candidate for re-election for the fractional term, expected to be elected and ordinarily would have been. The Democrats put Crain on their ticket, not expecting him, or anyone on their ticket to be elected. He received 2,542 votes in

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the County and Johnson, 2,312. The Negro Amendment to the State Constitution defeated the Republicans and made the Democrats victorious. In December, 187o, John J. Glidden resigned as City Solicitor and a special election was held. There was no other candidate but Crain and he was elected. He held the office until the April election following. He was a candidate for the full term, but was defeated by N. W. Evans. The vote stood Evans, 970, Crain, 8o6. This was the last time he was a candidate for a public office. Crain had a great penchant for partners in the practice of law. In 1860, he was a partner of John J. Glidden. The firm was Crain and Glidden. In 1866, it was Crain and Thompson, (Hon. A. C. Thompson, Federal Judge.) In 1870, it was Crain and Pursell, (F. S. Pursell of Logan). In 1874, it was Crain and Fullerton, (H. H. Fullerton). In ;879, it was Crain and Huston, (Samuel J. Huston). In 1870, it was Crain and Haney.

On May 22nd, 1882, he fell dead of apoplexy at his own door. He was a free liver and died poor. He was a good mixer, and could be agreeable with the hoi polloi, to their entire satisfaction. He was a great reader of standard and classic romance, and remembered all he read. He was the greatest wit and humorist ever at the Portsmouth bar. He could tell humorous anecdotes better than any of his cotemporaries. If it lacked details, when it reached him, he always furnished them. He had fancy names for all the members f the bar. The firm of Moore, Johnson and Newman, was "Quirk, Gammon and Snap". Harper and Searl were "Dodson and Fogg." Towne and Farnham, were "Sampson, BraSS and Sally." Searl, was "Cockle Burr." N. W. Evans, was "My learned friend" and the "Chancellor." Duncan Livingstone, was "The Scotch Thistle," and the "Duke of Argyle." William H. Reed, was "Hiawatha" and "Mudgekewis."

Once he had a suit before Squire Samuel P. Nicholls and N. W. Evans, was on the other side. Mr. Evans quoted some Latin in his argument to the Justice and Crain complained that he had no show, because Evans and the Squire talked Latin to each other, and he did not understand it. Crain was a man of generous impulse and was popular, hut he never understood what the term of political consistency meant. He had an inexhaustible fund of anecdotes, and never tired of telling them. He could always entertain and amuse a jury or an audience. It has been said of him ; that, when any county Democratic speaker was to make his first political speech, he was put in charge of Crain, and sent to Brush Creek Township. If the fledgling orator made any mistake, it would not lose any votes in that Township; and, if he failed, ,Crain always made the closing speech, and when he was through the audience was in such a laughing mood, that it had forgotten the blunders f the fledgling. If any acquaintance, of Crain had any peculiarities or eccentricity, Crain could illuStrate them

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in the most humorous manner. The lawyers all liked him, and he was "good friends" with them all.

Elijah Barnes Glover

was born May i ith, 1811, in Portsmouth, the son of Elijah Glover and Catharine Jones, his wife. He had only such education as the common schools afforded. From the age of sixteen he was a great reader. At twenty-one he began life, as the editor f the Portsmouth Courier, an organ of the Whig party. He conducted that journal six years. For a few years subsequent he conducted the book business in Portsmouth, Ohio. In 1839, he published an Elementary Spelling-book. On January 17th, 1833, he married Sarah J. Offnere, daughter of George Offnere,. and that was the best thing he ever did for himself in all his life, as he ften admitted himself. In 1840, he was elected County Auditor on the Whig ticket and was re-elected twice and held the office six years. , During this time he read law with Samuel M. Tracy, and in 1847, he was admitted to the bar. In 1849, his practice was assessed at $800.00, in 1850 and 1851, at $1,000.00. In 1853, he was defeated for State Senator by Thomas McCauslen. The vote in the County stood, McCauslen, 1,622, Glover, 708. From 1864 to 1867, he represented Scioto County in the Legislature. While there he obtained the passage f the Acts for free turnpikes in Scioto County, and was chairman f the committee on Finance at one session.

On March 29th, 1867, he was appointed Register in Bankruptcy for the Eleventh Congressional District f Ohio, and served until January, 1870, when he resigned to take his seat in the Legislature. After returning from the Legislature, in 1871, he held no public office.

On March 6th, 1869, he was ,struck from behind while walking up Second street on his way home in the evening, at a point opposite John P. Terry's home, and was robbed. He never fully recovered from the injury, and the perpetrators were never discovered. If Mr. Glover had one hobby, it was temperance. He was a member of all the temperance societies which were organized, in his time, in Portsmouth. For a time he published a temperance paper, called the "Life Boat." As a public speaker on temperance, he was always in demand and never excelled, and yet owing to a disease f the skin of his face, he would have been taken for the worst toper in the land. He was very fond f telling stories on himself, on account of this peculiarity of his appearance; and some of them will appear under the title of "The Bar f the, County." Writing biographical sketches is a serious matter and they cannot appear here.

In 1870 and 1871, he was a member of the 59th General Assembly. The vote at this election stood Glover 2,312, James W. Newman, 2,289, majority, 23. In politics Mr. Glover was first a Whig. He cast his first Presidential vote for Henry Clay, in 1832,

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and remained a Whig as long as that party lasted: He then became a Republican and continued such all his life. As a campaign speaker, Mr. Glover was in great demand. He could amuse and entertain an audience second only to Thomas Corwine; and the less preparation he had the better speech he made. The reason of this, was that he was a great reader ; and when he got on his feet to speak, all he ever read was at his tongue's end; and he had the full command of it. If he attempted to arrange his speech, he failed to do his best. He had an unlimited command of language; and of anecdotes and repartee, he had an unlimited supply. He never indulged in personal abuse, but pleased and instructed his audience. Rev. Dr. Pratt said of him; "He is one of the readiest man for a speech, on any subject, I ever knew. I have heard him called on, on different occasions, in political, moral and literary questions, and I never knew him to make a failure. His stock of knowledge was always at his command." Mr. Glover never made a dollar in the sense of saving it, or accumulated anything, but always lived well, enjoyed himself, and was a highly respected citizen. In his life he always stood for purity and decency. He never compromised with the liquor interest or any form of public vice, but always stood for morality. He was not an eminent or prominent lawyer, but succeeded well in what he undertook. He died September 17th, 1880. He belonged to one of the first families of Portsmouth as did his wife, who survived him until April 12th, 1889. She was born in Winchester, Virginia, in 1816, a daughter of George Offnere, who was a brother of Dr. Jacob Offnere. She was the mother f seven children. They were: Mrs. Laura E. Watkins, wife of J. L. Watkins; Samuel C. Glover, f Grand Haven, Michigan; Mrs. Mary L. Hope; Mrs. Lizzie Ross; Mrs. Harriet Taylor, wife of Rev. Alfred R. Taylor of. Marion, Ohio; and Frank C. Glover, who died a young man in South America. The Old Glover homestead stood on the property Mrs. Glover inherited from her father, George Offnere, who died comparatively young; and there a generous hospitality was extended to their friends through a course of many years. It was a delightful place to visit, either for the young or the old. Many of those on the shady side of fifty have pleasant memories of the young people who met there; and Mr. and Mrs. Glover both contributed to the young folks' enjoyment, as they were always young in spirit.

John C. Malone

was born in Vernon Township, Scioto County, Ohio, November 5th, 1832. His father was Isaac Malone, born June 5th, 1802, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Perry, daughter of Samuel Perry. His grand-father, was Richard Malone, born in the year of 1776, in Loudon County, Virginia. He was married in 1797, to Susannah Weaver, f German ancestry. They moved from Loudon County, Virginia, to Greenbriar County, Virginia, where Isaac Malone, the father of our subject was born. Richard Malone's father came from

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Ireland. In 1803, the family of Richard Malone removed to the mouth of Pine Creek. In 1804, they located in Vernon Township.

Our subject received his education in the common schools Of his township. His practical education was on the farm, in the ore-banks and coal mines of Scioto County. He was piously disposed; and at the age of eighteen years, became a member of the Vernon Baptist Church. In the Spring following his majority, he was elected Assessor of Vernon Township, and was re-elected again the next year.

In the Fall of 1856, he was married to Eunice Chaffin, daughter Of Reuben and Sarah Chaffin. There were seven children of this marriage : Cynthia C., William L., John E., Lency E., of Tacomao Washington; Charles S., of Otway, Ohio; Eunice A. and Ernest, both deceased.

In the Fall of 1856, our subject moved to Warren County, Iowa. and remained there for five years. In 1857 he was elected Justice of the Peace in Iowa and from 1858 to 186o, he was Township Clerk. He was a member of the militia of the State of Ohio from 1862 to 1864 and was engaged in the pursuit Of the rebel General John Morgan when he invaded Ohio, but did not capture him.

In the Spring of 1863, he was elected Justice Of the Peace of Vernon Township and was also postmaster at Lyra, Ohio.

On August 5th, 1864, our subject enlisted in Co. D., 173rd 0. V. I. and was made a Captain September 17th, 1864. The Company was mustered out on June 26th, 1865.

In the Fall of 1866, he was nominated and elected Sheriff Of Scioto County, Ohio, on the Republican ticket, and was re-elected in 1868. In 1866, the vote stood 2,600 for himself and 2,148 for John J. McFarlan, Democrat. His majority was 452. In i868, the vote was 2,817 for himself to 2,325 for, John J. McFarlan, his Democrat opponent. Mr. Malone's majority was 492.

In 1871, he was a candidate on the Republican ticket for Representative and was elected by a vote Of 2,518 for himself to 2,407 for Robert N. Spry, Democrat. His majority was

In 1877, Mr. Malone's first wife died, and in 1878, he was married to Mrs. Sarah Ervin, daughter of John C. Stewart, of Lawrence County.

In 1880, our subject removed to Granville, Ohio, where he has since resided. He served as Justice of the Peace in Granville for twelve years.

In 1886, his second wife died, and in 1897, he married Mrs. Inez C. Ellis, daughter of Nathan P. and Mary Caldwell, Of Seneca County, Ohio, who survives.

From 1890 to 1894, he was postmaster at Granville. He was the Republican candidate for Sheriff of Licking County, in 1888, but the County was Democratic and he was defeated. He ran 210 votes ahead of his ticket.

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Captain Malone began his career as a Republican. His first vote was cast for Salmon P. Chase for Governor in 1855. He voted twice for the immortal Lincoln, twice for Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Blaine and Harrison, and was a McKinley man up to the St. Louis Convention in 1896, when he left the party and voted for Bryan. He also voted for Bryan in 1900. He was a candidate for the nomination as member of the State Board of Equalization before a .Democratic convention at Zanesville in 1900, but was defeated. He received 94 votes and 97 was necessary to elect him. Mr. Malone is and always has been a religious man. He has had his ups and downs in business and in politics, but in all of his life he has been a consistent pillar in the Baptist church. He has always been a good citizen.

George Johnson

was born in Washington County, Pa., August 7th, 1815, and died at Portsmouth, Ohio, April 14th, 1875. He graduated at Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pa., in 1834. He read law with Russell Marsh at Steubenville, Ohio, and was admitted to practice in 1837. He began first at Steubenville, but went to Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1841. He was alone till November 4th, 1855, when he formed a partnership with Col. Moore, which continued during his life. He was a Whig and in 1844, was Secretary of the Clay Club. In 1846 to 185o, he was Mayor of the town. At his first election in 1846, he had 266 votes and Isaac Kirby, 88. In his second election in 1848, he had 372 votes and William P. Camden, 5.

He was taxed as a lawyer in 1844 at $500, and rose to $1,000 in 1849. From 1854 .to 1856, he was Prosecuting Attorney. He was a candidate for a second term in 1855 as Independent and the vote stood E. Glover, 1,200; George Johnson, Independent, 1,167; majority 39.

In 1864, 1865 and 1866, he was president f the City Council. In 1874 and 1875, he was a member of the Legislature, as a Republican. He was a Director in the Portsmouth National Bank and its predecessor for over twenty-eight years. He was president of the bank at the time of his death and had been for several years. He was married August 24th, 1847, to Mary R., daughter of Samuel M. Tracy, and had four children. Mrs. Emma Jennings, widow of Sanford B. Jennings, Samuel Miles, a lawyer in Portsmouth, Albert Tracy, manufacturer of fire brick and Tracy Bradford, a member of the firm of C. P. Tracy & Co.

Mr. Johnson was a good business man, a good neighbor and reliable in every respect.

Richard Henry Hayman

was born in Newport, Kentucky, June 6th, 1826. His father was Isaiah Tilden Hayman and his mother was Elizabeth (Tarvin) Hayman; the daughter of Richard Tarvin. He attended school in New-

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port and Covington and finished his course in Covington in 1843. His father had been a dry goods merchant in Newport ; and when he was seventeen, his father started him in business in Letart Falls, Meigs County, Ohio. He was there eighteen months, then his father started him a dry goods store in Missouri and he was there eighteen months, but he could not stand the climate and had to come home. He was sick for a year and then he took three flat boats and went to New Orleans. Two of the boats sank on the way. They were loaded with whiskey. In June, 1847, he was married to Elizabeth Fair- man, daughter of Doctor Loyal Fairman. He then went into the dry goods business for himself in 1847; and was in it in Newport for eighteen years. His health failed and he sold out and came to Scioto County with his family. He had been very successful in the 18 years in the dry goods business, and made lots of money. He bought the Cole farm and resided on it until 1871, when he removed to Portsmouth. In 1882, he built a commodious residence near Kinney's Lane. His first wife died May 9th, 1863. He married Mrs. Ellen Sharpless. She died June 3rd, 189o. Mrs. William Bierly was her daughter. Mr. Hayman had four children : Mary, the wife f Dr. William D. Tremper ; Floyd, who died at the age of twenty-two, and two boys who died in infancy. Our subject was always a Democrat. , He is not a member f any church. He was a City Clerk while in Newport ; and a member f the City Council there for two years. He was a member f the Legislature f Ohio for Scioto County at the sixty-third session. In the election f 1877, John T. Sellards was on the Republican ticket and our subject on the Democratic. The vote stood as follows : Hayman, 2,923; Sellards, 2,586; Hayman's majority, 337. In 1879, he was a candidate for re-election, but was defeated' by Amos B. Cole. Cole received 3,321 votes to Hayman's 3,071, majority 250. In 1893, he was again the candidate for his party against Charles E. Hard and was defeated. The vote stood 4,253 for Hard and 3,242 for Hayman, majority 1011. Mr. Hayman ran away ahead f all his party associates on the ticket. While he was a member f the Legislature, he procured the passage f the bill for the Portsmouth Library Board. He originated the bill and deserves great credit in connection with the founding f the Library. The acts creating and regulating the Public Library in Portsmouth will be found in the City Legislative Article. Mr. Hayman was the author of the measure creating the Tax Commis-, sinner for Scioto County. He was originally appointed on the board, and has been on it ever since the law passed. The law will be found on another page of this work. Mr. Hayman is highly esteemed for his honor and integrity. He has the confidence of the entire community.

Daniel J. Ryan

was born at Cincinnati, January 1st, 1855. His father, John Ryan

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and his Mother, Honora Ryan, were born in Ireland and came to this country about 1850, and settled in Cincinnati. They afterwards removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, where young Ryan received his education in the public schools, passing through all the grades. He was graduated from the high school in 1875. For a year before leaving school he was entered as a law student in the office of Judge James W. Bannon, where he continued his studies after graduating. In February, 1877, he was admitted to the Bar by the Supreme Court at Columbus. He at once commenced practice alone at Portsmouth; and in the following April was elected City Solicitor ; was re-elected in 1879, serving until the spring of 1881. In 1883 he was elected a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, and was re-elected in 1885. During this service he was speaker pro tem. and chairman of the committee on public works. At the expiration of his legislative duties be resumed practice. In 1888 he was elected secretary of State of Ohio, and in 1890 was re-elected for a second term. He resigned this office, .however, in 1892 to accept the appointment of commissioner in chief for Ohio of the World's Columbian Exposition, the duties of which required his services until May, 1894. While secretary of State he assisted in the compilation of Smith & Benedict's edition of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. He has since been engaged in the practice of' law at Columbus. He has always been a Republican; was the first president f the Ohio Republican League, and presided at New York over the first convention of the National League of Republican Clubs which met in 1887. For ten years Mr. Ryan has been one of the trustees of the Ohio Historical Society. He was appointed by the Exhibitors' Association at the World's Fair as one f the commissioners to the Antwerp Exposition in 1894. He was appointed by Governor McKinley as delegate to the National Water Ways Convention which met at Vicksburg in 1894. At the present time he is president f the Ohio Canal Association. Mr. Ryan is well and favorably known throughout the State as a man of high character and a lawyer of ability. He has been identified with many important cases in Ohio which have attracted general attention both in and out of the State, among which might be mentioned the case touching the constitutionality of the abandonment of the Hocking canal, and litigation relating to the food department of the State. On the loth day of January, 1884. Mr. Ryan was married to Myra L. Kerr, of Portsmouth, and by this union five children were born, two of whom are living, Julia E. and Elinor.

Joseph Pancoast Coates,

son of Benjamin F. Coates and Elizabeth (Patterson) Coates, is a native of West Union, Adams County, Ohio. During infancy, together with his parents, he became a resident of Portsmouth, where he has since almost continuously resided. His education was obtained in the public schools of his home city, and at Kenyon College, of

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which latter institution he is a graduate. He subsequently taught in the High School, at Chillicothe, Ohio .Upon abandoning the profession f teaching and returning to Portsmouth, he was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio. He has served as a member of the Scioto County Board of School Examiners. He was elected as a Republican to represent Scioto County in the 68th and 69th General Assemblies, of Ohio, his last terms as such expiring in 1892. Since that time, he has held no public office and has resided in Portsmouth, engaged in the practice of his profession.

Anselm Tupper Holcomb

was born November 19th, 1846, a son Of John Ewing and Mary Mathews Holcomb, at Vinton, Gallia County, Ohio. His mother was a daughter of Colonel Phineas Mathews. His paternal grandfather was General Samuel R. Holcomb. His grand-parents on both sides settled in Gallia County as early as 1800. He attended the schools at Vinton and Ewington. He assisted his father in a country store. He entered Ohio University in 1863 and graduated in 1867. While attending the University, he studied law with the Honorable Reed Golden, at Athens, Ohio. Directly after the Civil War, his parents removed to Butler, Bates County, Missouri. After his graduation in 1867, Mr. Holcomb continued the study f law with his uncle, General Anselm Tupper Holcomb. In this period he taught school at Vinton and Rodney, in Gallia County and at Moorefield, Kentucky. In 1870 he went to Bates County, Missouri and was admitted to the bar. He formed a partnership with Hon. William Page and practiced law in Bates County till 1875 when the firm of Page & Holcomb was dissolved and our subject associated himself in the practice f law at the same place with his brother, Phineas with whom he remained until the summer of 1878, when he cam to Portsmouth, Ohio, and formed a law partnership with the Hon. Albert C. Thompson as Thompson and Holcomb. This terminated in 1881, when his partner was elected Common Pleas Judge. In September, 1884, Judge Thompson resigned as Common Pleas Judge and the partnership was resumed. James Madison McGillivray was made a third partner in the firm and it had offices both in Ironton and Portsmouth. In about one year Mr. Holcomb resided at Ironton. From 1886 to 1891 Mr. Holcomb practiced alone. In the latter year he formed a partnership with James M. Dawson (who had just retired from the office f Probate Judge) as Holcomb and Dawson which continued until 1894. In 1891 he was elected to represent Scioto County as a member of the Seventieth General Assembly. He was a member f the Judiciary Committee and that on Municipalities and he served with ability and distinction. He declined a second term. In 1893, he became one of the assignees of the Citizen's Savings bank, one of the most complex trusts ever administered in Ohio. In 1894, he became Administrator of the estate

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of the late George Davis, another intricate trust. On June 1st, 1897, he formed a partnership with Frank B. Finney, as Holcomb and Finney, which continued until just 2 years later since which time he has practiced law alone. He is a man f wonderful energy and activity. While practicing law in Bates County, Missouri, he completed an abstract of title of all the lands and town lots in the county. Since his residence in Portsmouth he has been connected with almost every new business enterprise organized. He has been President of the Portsmouth Board of Trade and while holding that position the Board of Trade addition was made to the city which brought the Portsmouth Stove and Range Works, the Wait Furniture Company and Harsha & Caskey into business in the east end of the city. He induced the building of the Portsmouth Street Railroad and the Portsmouth opera house and is now one of the four owners in the latter. He is President of the Racoon Coal and Fuel Company which is building a branch railroad of three miles to connect with the Hocking Valley Railroad. He bought the Scioto Furnace Lands and is opening coal mines on the same. He is one of the original stockholders and promoters of the Buckeye Fire Brick Company. He is one of the largest stockholders, a Vice President and Director of the Portsmouth Shoe Company. He is President of the Portsmouth Veneer and Panel Company. He is a stockholder in The Washington Hotel and in the Scioto Fire Brick Company. He is Secretary of the Fluhart Coal and Mining Company of Wellston, Ohio. He is engaged in the coal business in Missouri. He was an original stockholder in the Portsmouth Fite Brick Company and the Portsmouth Wagon Stock Company. He and Mr. Leonidas H. Murphy were more than any other citizens of Portsmouth, instrumental in inducing the Editor of this work to undertake it, and if it should be approved by the public, for whom it is intended, the credit will be largely due to him and Mr. Murphy. Mr. Holcomb not only has a taste for promoting business enterprises, but he is a fraternity man as well. He is one of the charter members of the. Portsmouth Commercial Club. For fifteen years he has been a member of Massie Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He is a Blue Lodge, Chapter Council and Knights Templar Mason, and an Elk.

When one of his friends persuades himself he is an enemy, Mr. Holcomb can only express himself like Ceasar did when exclaimed, "et to Brute", There is one part in Mr. Holcomb's character above all praise, persons may cherish enmity to him but he holds none in return. He has a good feeling for those who believe themselves his enemies, as well as for his friends. So far as Mr. Holcomb himself is concerned, he has no enemies, though there are some who regard themselves as such. This quality he possesses, above all men known to the writer, and had he lived in the days of the Early Christian Saints it would have qualified him as one, but living in these days,

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when all men are sinners, his benign disposition, shines out like a beacon light. Mr. Holcomb is the soul of power in all his dealings. George Washington could not be and Mr. Holcomb could not be guilty of anything dishonorable. To do so he would have to deny the record of a long line of honorable ancestry and violate the intuition of his own soul, which he could not do.

It is commonplace to say that Mr. Holcomb is a good lawyer. He is much more. He is a fluent and able advocate. He is courteous with all with whom he comes in contact and is willing to accord to every man all he is entitled to.

He is kind hearted and sympathetic, and these traits in him are often taken advantage of. He is wonderfully enthusiastic in everything he undertakes. He is ever courageous and hopeful. No more public spirited citizen ever resided in Portsmouth. He favors every project for the public good. He possesses confidence in everything he undertakes, and inspires it in others.

He is a Republican without guile. He is true to his party regardless of himself. He has always taken a prominent position in his party councils. In 1876 in Missouri he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention for his Congressional District. He has been a delegate to the Convention in his district in Ohio almost every year. Twice he has been presented by his County for Congress, but other combinations prevented his nomination. He was married October 14th, 1876, to Miss Grace L. Breare, of Gallia County, Ohio, and has two sons Anselm Tupper, Jr., and Robinson Breare. His eldest son is a student at the University of Virginia and will graduate in 1903.

Charles Ellsworth Hard,

the son Of William and Tryphena (McMullen) Hard, was born at Haverhill, Ohio, January 21st, 1864. His parents removed to Portsmouth in 1869. He was educated in the public schools, graduating with one of the honors in the Class of 1882. He engaged in bookkeeping under George D. Selby and J. T. Rardin until 1888, when he entered the law office of Judge J. W. Bannon. Admitted to the bar in 1889, he soon after became a partner with Hon. A. C. Thompson, now United States District Judge, in the firm of Thompson and Hard. He served as Secretary of the Board of Trade for two years. In 1892, he was appointed United States Commissioner by Judge Taft. He organized Company "H", Fourteenth (later Fourth) Infantry, 0. N. G., serving as First Lieutenant and Captain. He is a member of the Elks and a charter member of Magnolia Lodge, Knights of Pythias.

In 1893, he was elected Representative from this County on the Republican ticket, defeating Hon. R. H. Hayman by a majority of 1,011. In 1895, he was re-elected, defeating Edward K. Walsh by a majority of 2,274. He was the author of the Collateral Inheritance Tax Law, Express- Company Excise Tax Law, Foreign Corporation Franchise

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Fee Law, and aided materially in solving the financial and taxation problems, then before the State, by his service on the Finance and Taxation committees. He was the author of many other important measures, one making many needed improvements in the Australian ballot law, giving the franchise practically an educational qualification. He also secured the passage of a resolution declaring for the election f United States Senators, by direct vote of the people. Of Mr. Hard's legislative service, Governor McKinley, among other complimentary things, in the campaign of 1895, in the last speech he ever delivered in Portsmouth, said : "I watched him in his first term in the City f Columbus, and I want to say to his friends and neighbors and constituents that no more earnest, faithful, honest and painstaking legislator was in our legislative counsels at Columbus."

He was a member f the Republican State Central Committee in 1895, and its Secretary in 1896. He was Chairman of the Republican County Committee in both the McKinley presidential campaigns of 1896 and 1900 when the record breaking votes in Scioto County of 5,496 and 5,756 were gotten out. In January, 1897, Mr. Hard retired from the legal profession and became editor of the Portsmouth Blade, which underwent a complete reorganization at that time. He has since conducted it with gratifying success, leading in the movement which has resulted in eliminating personal journalism from the local press and placing it upon its high and proper plane. Since the expiration f his legislative terms he has sought no other office for himself, but few men have been more active and successful in politics for the advancement of the welfare of their friends.

Hon. A. Floyd McCormick

was born October 5th, 1861, in Nile Township, Scioto County, Ohio, His father was George S. McCormick, and his mother's maiden name was Nancy Fleak. His grandfather, James McCormick, was a native of Pennsylvania. Our subject spent two years at the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and afterwards, four years at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. After the completion of his college course, he became a law student of the Hon. Thomas E. Powell, of Delaware, Ohio, and graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1886. While studying law in Cincinnati, Ohio, he was in the office of Cowen and Ferris, Attorneys, the Ferris being Judge Howard Ferris, of the Probate Court of Hamilton County. Mr. McCormick was admitted to practice in 1886, and removed to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he became manager of the R. G. Dun & Company, Commercial Agency. He continued his employment and resided there seven years. He removed to Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, in January, 1895. He was elected, as a Republican, in 1897, to represent Scioto County in the House of Representatives, and served from January 2nd, 1897 to April 8th, 1898.

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He was re-elected in 1899 and served from January 3rd, 1900, to April 27th, 1901. In the House, he served on the Committees on Municipal Affairs, Corporations, Military Affairs, and Public Works. He was married to Miss Anne Corrille Scarlett, daughter of Joseph A. Scarlett, manager of R. G. Dun's Commercial Agency in Cincinnati, on the 31st of December, 1885. They have one daughter, Corrille, now a student in St. Mary's School in Columbus. Mr. McCormick had been a Democrat until 1897, but then became a Republican of the stalwart type. He is a man of liberal views and ideas. He is an excellent lawyer, and his friends think he ought to eschew politics and confine himself to the law. However, as a politician, he has been quite successful, and bids fair to be one of the prominent men of the State. He is one of the handsomest men of the state. He is very active and energetic in anything he undertakes.

Chandler Julius Moulton was born December 26th, 1839, at Randolph, Orange County, Vermont. His father's name was Norman Moulton, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Belknap. His grandfather's name was John Moulton, who was a Revolutionary Soldier. Our subject came to-Scioto County in March, 1848, by way of the Erie Canal. His parents came with him and located at Lucasville, and he has been there ever since. He had a common school education. In 1857 and 1858. he attended the Ohio Wesleyan .College at Delaware. He then spent six or *seven years in agricultural pursuits. In 1867, he went into the mercantile business, which he has been engaged in ever since. In September 1876, he married Miss Mary Celia Smith, daughter of the late Judge John M. Smith, of West Union, Ohio. They have had the following children : Frank, a graduate of the Ohio University at Athens, and of the Cincinnati Law School ; he is now practising law with N. W. Evans, f Portsmouth, Ohio; Arthur, in the mercantile business with his' father ; Mabel and Jennie at home; John attending school at Kenyon Military Academy ; and Earl. Mr. Moulton has always been a Republican. He was Chairman of the Republican County Executive Committee twice; the last time being in 1896. He has been a member of the Republican County Central Committee for six or eight years, at different times. He was elected Representative f the County in the Legislature in 1900, by a vote of 4,352 to 2,405 for Doctor James B. Ray, his opponent. He has been a successful merchant and his integrity, perseverance and industry has secured him a high position in the community of his residence. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, a Mason and Knight Templar. He is a man f commanding influence in business and in politics in his township, and county ; and his advice is sought and followed on those subjects. He has no sharp corners, and is liked by all his neighbors. He takes everything easy and does not worry about anything. Job could have taken lessons of him and improved his book.

County	James Emmitt.	General Wells S. Jones
Adams	2,309	1,979
Pike	1,780	951
Jackson	1,818	1,858
Scioto	2,538	2,815
Total	8,445	7,103

County	Lucas	Mitchell	Hempstead
Scioto	311	280	233
Lawrence	191	211	19
Pike	323	108	153
Jackson	253	281	36
Totals	1078	688	441