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PIONEER SKETCHES - 645 John Clinton Ashley was born May 14, 1800, in Norfolk, Virginia. His father was Rev. Benjamin Ashley, a Baptist minister, ordained by the Portsmouth, Virginia, Association in 1803. His grandfather was William Ashley, who was master's mate in the State Navy of Virginia, during the Revolutionary War. These were all descended from Captain John Ashley of London, England, whose name appears in the second charter to the Virginia Colony in 1609, and whose descendants came to Jamestown, Virginia, in 1635. The subject of this sketch received a good common school education. At the age of seventeen he removed to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he entered as an apprentice in the bookbinding business. After completing his apprenticeship, he continued in the business as a journeyman till the spring of 1826. He was very religious in his nature, and gave much time to the study of the scripture and to religious work. He became a member of the Disciples (Campbellite) Church, and was one of the eight persons who organized the first Disciples Church in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1817. He decided to follow in the footsteps of his father, and devoted all his spare time in studying for the ministry. In 1820, he married Miss Mary Ann Kirkpatrick, of Alleghany City, Pennsylvania, (who was also one of the eight persons who assisted in organizing the first Disciples Church in Pittsburg,) a young lady of Scotch-Irish descent, born October 25, 1800, died October 26, 1861, and was buried in the cemetery near Masterston, Monroe County, Ohio, by the side of her daughter Mary. She was a devoted wife and mother and in every sense of the word a help to her husband. In the spring of 1826, he removed with his wife and three children to Portsmouth, Ohio, and established a bookbinding business on what is known as the McDowell Corner. In 1831, he established the first soap and candle manufactory in Portsmouth, in which he was passably successful. At that time candles were made by the "dipping" process. In 183o, he was present and assisted in organizing the Scioto County Bible Society, and was one of a committee of three to draft by-laws for the government of the Society. In 1837, John C. Ashley was a candidate for County Assessor on the Democratic ticket and was second in the race. Azel Glover, who was elected had 234 votes and Ashley 154. In 1837, he was elected a Justice of the Peace for Wayne Township ; and also served two years as a Trustee of the Township. He (645) 646 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. continued his studies for the ministry, studying particularly the Greek language, which materially assisted him in his work. He preached at "McCoy's," about 4 miles north-east of Portsmouth, at "Elijah Musgrove's," about six miles above Portsmouth ; also in a church at the mouth of the Little Scioto river. In 1842, he decided to give all of his time to the ministry, and received letters of ordination as au elder and evangelist. His work until 185o, was in Meigs, Athens, Washington and Monroe Counties, in southeastern Ohio, where he established a number of churches, teaching school and lecturing on temperance during the winter months. In 185o, he removed to Illinois, where he continued his ministerial work in the section of country from Carmi to Walnut Hill, where he died in August, 1855, and was buried in the little church yard cemetery about one mile south-east of Walnut Hill. He had eight children, five sons and three daughters, viz: James M., has a sketch in this volume. John K., born in Pittsburg, July 4, 1824, studied medicine with Doctor Carpenter in Athens, Ohio, practiced in Masterston, in Monroe County, till 1852. He moved to Illinois in that year, and practiced his profession in Wayne City, and other towns in that vicinity, and is now, (1902), practicing his profession in Fairfield, Illinois. Benjamin, was born in Pittsburg in January, 1826. He learned the baking and candy making business in Cincinnati, Ohio, and established a business in that line in McConnellsville, Ohio, where he died in 1847. William was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1828; learned the cigar business in St. Louis; served in the Mexican War, and was a U. S. deputy surveyor in Colorado from 1861 to 1880. He is now (1902) living on a farm near Hope, Idaho. Mary Jane was horn in Portsmouth in 1831, died and was buried near Masterston, Monroe County, Ohio, in 1849. Eli M. was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, May 28, 1833, was educated at the Western Liberal institute at Marietta, Ohio; engaged in the drug business in Toledo, Ohio, from 1854 to 1861; removed to Colorado, arriving in Denver June 17, 1861 ; was chief clerk of the U. S. Surveyor General's office in Colorado for seventeen years, was President of the Denver Board of Education in 1875, was President of the Chamber of Commerce in 1887, was Chairman of the Republican State Committee in 1891 and 1892. In 1886, he organized the Western Chemical Company, and was elected its President, which position he holds to the present time (1902). John Clinton Ashley was severely strict and conscientious in his ways. His religion was of the old-fashioned sort, and he appeared particularly to believe in the adage, "spare the rod and spoil the child," in his manner of bringing up his children, and while conscientious and unselfish, would now be thought extremely strict. Financially he was always in moderate circumstances. and not very successful. He was in every sense of the word a "self-made man", was a "born teacher" and very successful PIONEER SKETCHES - 647 in teaching school, in preaching and in temperance work. He gave the greater part of his life to the cause of Christ, "preaching the word", and baptising in "His name," and surely deserved the plaudit of "Well clone, good and faithful servant." John S. Baccus. About the year 1805, the paternal grandmother of our subject, a widow then living in Pennsylvania, sold her little home in the Monongahela hills, and with the proceeds in her pocket, set out for the wilderness of Scioto County. She came down the Ohio river with a few others, bringing her horse and a light outfit, with which, after her arrival here, she made a journey on horseback to the Government Land Office in Chillicothe, Ohio, and entered Section 23 in Porter Township. This Section, consisting mostly of alluvial Pine Creek bottom lands above Wheelersburg, she divided between her four sons : Peter, Michael, Christian and James, the father of our subject. Here, James who married Nancy Smith, settled in 1806 and reared a large family. Elizabeth, his daughter married Jesse Alford, and went West. Catharine, another daughter of James, married Lemuel Cadot and reared a large family near Chaffin's Mill. Susan, the third daughter married William Finton. Sarah A., the fourth daughter married Rev. James M. Kelley, now living in Ironton, Ohio. Celinda, the fifth daughter married Martin Beeson, and went to Metropolis, Illinois. Samuel, a son died in this county. Isaiah, another son, moved to Massac County, Illinois. John S., the subject of this sketch, was born in 1811, and lived and died on his farm near Wheelersburg in 1897. The Baccus family, like all others of that period who remained here, possessed the true pioneer spirit. Their wants were of the simplest and they kenw how to do with a little. The fact that stores were not accessible; that they were compelled to make everything they required, huts, furniture, wearing apparel, bedding, leather, sugar, salt, meal, wooden ploughs and brush harrows ; that there were no markets and practically no money except what they had brought with them, developed a spirit of self-reliant helpfulness of which the present generation can have no adequate conception. When a mill was erected in a pioneer neighborhood, it was an occasion for great rejoicing. The opening of salt works at Kanawha led to the forming of small caravans with camping outfits and pack-mules, which came from great distances to lay in a supply of this great necessary of life. Every man and every woman was a fabricant of necessity, there being almost no division of labor in those sparsely settled communities, whereby one might be a carpenter, another a shoemaker, a third a butcher and so on for the others. Hence everyone had a practical, many sided training bearing directly on the amelioration of the hard conditions, the scanty resources of pioneer life. Such were the experiences that fell to the Baccus family in common with 648 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. other pioneers, and through this many sided training the subject of our sketch came up. Being endowed with ingenuity and a quick mechanical eye, he early picked up a knowledge of carpentry which he pursued exclusively for a few years, and was of practical benefit to him all through life. He could make anything he needed in woodwork, from erecting houses to stocking plows, repairing wagons or fashioning a gun stock. Stone-cutting, bricklaying, harness-making, and innumerable things which usually call for expert skill he could neatly accomplish in less time often than the trained mechanic. His powers of endurance and capacity for turning out work were phenomenal. He sometimes had trouble to hire help because when working at his usual pace, men thought he was rushing them. One thing he never learned was the art of tanning, for when a small boy he was installed in a new pair of domestic buckskin trousers and these having got thoroughly wet by a fall in a creek, he never forgot the sorry plight in which the shrunken trousers placed him, and his early disgust for domestic leather clung to him. In 1836 he married Miss Emily Vincent of the French Grant and soon afterward moved to his Dogw00d Ridge farm, then covered with heavy timber. He borrowed money at ten per cent to make a start and then began clearing and improving. He began with a horse and cart, but supplemented this outfit with a yoke of cattle. After paying off his first and only loan, he rigidly avoided debt, and in a few years began to have a bank account. His plan of life was to buy nothing that he could produce, but to always have something to sell; His motto was, "Keep what you've got, then get a little more." In the days before the dog nuisance prevented farmers from keeping sheep, he would have hiS wool product spun in the house, which his wife would knit into stockings, and in the Spring sometimes sell fifty pairs at a time, the output of industrious fingers ;during the long winter evenings. And So he continued to work and clear land and improve his farm, which in the meantime became a model of neatness and productiveness. He t00k pride in sending nothing to market but the best. His wheat must be the cleanest, his ears of corn the largest, his hay the greenest and brightest, his butter the yellowest and sweetest that could be pro-, duced. And for fifty years he toiled and prospered, a conspicuous example in his neighborhood of what can be achieved in this land of opportunities, by ambition, industry, economy and a tenacious holding on to a. chosen calling. The dominating element in his character was his concentration ,of energy to the accomplishment of the matter in hand, whatever that might be. He would hardly rest day or night till the undertaking was in shape to be satisfactorily completed. This trait was uppermost and controling in every situation, even in arranging some pleasure excursion. Of temperate habits, strong will, honorable principles, honest to the last cent in dealing, of strong convictions, just as poSitive and immovable when mistaken PIONEER SKETCHES - 649 as when right, a good story teller, with a grain 0" conceit that was sometimes amusing, such was John Baccus, a fine example of the kind of stuff which the sturdy pioneers of early days were made of. Major Uriah Barber was born in 1761, in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. In 1778, he enlisted in the Revolutionary War and the official record of his service will be found under the title of Revolutionary Soldiers. While he was out serving in the militia during the Revolution, the Indians surrounded his father's cabin, killed him and his family and burned the cabin. In 1780, he was married in Pennsylvania to Barbara Cling- man, daughter of John Michael Clingman. The children born of this marriage were: Hannah, born February 1o, 1783: John, February 23, i785; Samuel, July 5, 1787; Joseph, October 6, 1789; Nathaniel, May 17, 1792: Nancy, March 23, 1794; Isaac, July 12, 1796. They were all born in Philadelphia. August 10, 1896, he landed at the mouth of Little Scioto and from there went on to Oldtown, where he resided till Portsmouth was laid out in 1803. His son, James was born March 16, 1798. Washington and Mary, twins, were born June 2, 1803, the first twin children ever born in Portsmouth. His son John was eighteen years old when Portsmouth was surveyed off in lots and carried a chain for Henry Massie, who gave him a lot for his services. John traded it off. for a pair of boots. Massie offered Uriah Barber a lot in Portsmouth, if he would build on it and conduct a hotel. He accepted the offer and built a two story hewed log house and it was furnished and occupiedl before June 2, 1803, the date of the birth of his twin children, Washington. and Mary. This house was built on lot No. 279, corner of Front and Scioto streets. It had a shingle roof and oak and clay chimneys. The National Hotel was afterwards built on the same site. On November 21, 1803, on complaint of Judge Joseph Lucas, Uriah Barber was bound over by Thomas Waller, Justice of the Peace, to keep the peace. On December 10, 1806, he married Rachel Beard and the issue of this marriage were: Sarah, born July 15, 1808; Maria, March 5, 1811; Michael, February 13, 1813; William E., August 17, 1817; Nancy, February 4, 1820: Laura, November 22, 1822 ; Joseph, November 25, 1824. Major Barber and both of his wives believed in the eleventh commandment to multiply and replenish the earth and the result of it is, that one can hardly throw a stone in the city of Portsmouth now without hitting one of his descendants. He made considerable money in keel boating and purchased 50 acres of land, then outside of Portsmouth, but now in it, and built him a home on the site of the George Ball residence, now occupied by Mr. Halderman. While he visited Chillicothe, he became acquainted with Thomas Scott, He had one fault which we will tell, even if he has been 650 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. dead 55 years. He was too easy about Tutting his name on the notes of others. He endorsed for Scott and lost most of it, but not all of his property. He became a Major in the Militia and hence his title was such. In 1809, he was a trustee of Wayne Township. He was out in the general call in 1812, but in what rank ewe are not advised. He was a Jacksonian Democrat in 1824, but afterwards became a Whig. He was elected Coroner in 1812, and served most of the time until 1837. In the election of 1820, when elected, he had 411 votes. Ebenezer Corwine, 213; and H. Sumner, 68. In the election of 1825, he had 14o votes and Ruloff Whitney 15. In 1827, he had 487, all the votes cast. In 1829, he had 559 votes, no others cast. In 1831, the votes on this office st00d Barber 36o, David Enslow, 147; Samuel Gould, 88. In 1837, he had 351 votes and William Jones, 210. When he lost his fifty acres of land, now the Glover and Damarin addition, be bought some land east of Lawson, now adjoining Martin Funk, and died there. He died Friday, June 26, 1846, and was buried in the Kinney graveyard the following Sunday, with the honors of war. One thousand people were present. Colonel Peter Kinney, then a militia Captain, with his Company, conducted the military ceremonies of the funeral and three volleys were fired over his grave. This was the first military funeral in Portsmouth. We have expressly refrained from mentioning his descendants, who are all respectable good people, because we could not spare the space necessary in this book. Many of them will be mentioned in their OWn sketches. Joseph Brant, Senior, was the son of Christian Brant and Elizabeth Ritter, both from Germany who came to Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1804, from Pennsylvania. Here our subject was born January 13, 1813, and raised until he was nineteen, when his parents brought him to Scioto County. His father was a mill wright and was very ingenious. His father died in 1836 and his mother died in 1865, aged 97 years. She had recollections of the Revolutionary War. Joseph, Senior, was the first clerk of Valley Township and was a Jacksonian Democrat. He was married in 1836 to Mary Vannort, by whom he had two children: Robert, deceased, and Mary Elizabeth, wife of Theodore Appel of Clifford, O. The first wife died in 1838 and he was married again to Susan Wilson, August 14, 1862, by whom he had eight children, as follows: William A., resident of Chillicothe. Missouri, was a soldier in the 33rd O. V. I. and was wounded in the battle of Resaca; Catherine, deceased, married Isaac Williams; George W. resides at' May, Woodward County, Oklahoma; David, married Josephine McNeal and lives near Lucasville; Sarah C., married Frank Winter ; Thomas J. resides at Haddam, Kansas, a farmer and married; Rachel J., married Benjamin Yeager and lives at Lucasville; and Joseph H., a merchant at Lucasville, who has a sketch herein. Joseph Brant, senior, was a farmer most of his life. He owned a small farm of hill land and several lots in Lucasville. At one time, in the forties he bought the old tavern at Lucasville and conducted it for ten years. At the time he bought this tavern, it was the chief distributing point, in Lucasville, for whiskey and other intoxicating drinks, when Lucasville was seeing its "wild and woolly" days for winch it had gained quite a notoriety throughout the lower Scioto Valley. The sale of drinks was stopped when Mr. Brant took charge and immediately, the morals of Lucasville began to improve and have continued to improve up to this day, when not a drop of liquor can be bought ; and it is largely a community of Christian and law-abiding people. In the latter years of our subjectls life, he lived in retirement and died October, 1893. He was a man of low stature, weighing about 200 pounds and seldom was troubled with ill health. He inherited his fatherls ingenious nature and could work with any kind of tools and sometimes tinkered at blacksmithing and woodworking as a matter of pastime and accommodation to his neighbors. He was liberal to a fault, not seeming to appreciate the value of money and was always ready to assist his neighbors, always refusing compensation. As a companion he was entertaining. His observations and anecdotes were always interesting. . He had a fund of stories and reminiscences which seemed exhaustless and when he and his old cronies got together to swap stories, it was an enjoyable time to all the listeners. All they had to do was sit still and be entertained, and no one had to be requested to be present or to keep order. Uncle Joe's stories never lacked spice or humor. Since his death, he has had no successor in this direction, and Lucasville has been more of a serious place. Lyttleton Bradford was born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1796, the son of Ezra Bradford and Sarah Curtis, his wife. Ezra Bradford was the owner of a plantation and slaves near Norfolk, but had a conscience. He thought that slavery was wrong, freed his slaves and removed to Ohio in 18o5. He purchased 30o acres of land on Turkey Creek and remained there until his death. His son, Lyttleton, succeeded to his father's land. He married Abigail Samson, daughter of David Samson, one of the early settlers. They had six sons and three daughters, of whom three sons still survive. They are Ezra, William and Henry. Lyttleton died in Scioto County, on the land his father had purchased. He named the Post Office, at Friendship, and the land he formerly owned is now owned by George Vaughters, Leonidas Pyles and Alex. Cole. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Jean Baptist Bertrand was the last male survivor of the French emigrants. He was born in 1761, in Champagne, east of Paris. He was left an orphan when a 652 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. child. In his childhood, he was a verger and bell ringer at one of the French churches. He had a good education as compared with hiS fellow emigrants. While he was one of the French Colony in 1790, he did not cross the ocean with the emigrants. He drew lot 16 of the First French Grant, but on the record his name iS entered as Jean Baptist Berthone, when it should read Bertrand. Lot 16 was patented to him by his correct name. He also puschased lot 10 French Grant of Michael Mazure on the 31st of July, 1804, for the consideration of $434.00. The deed recites that Michael Mazure was one of those who had drawn one of the ninety-two lots of the first French Grant. Our subject became a miller at Gallipolis. One day when he was requirded to be absent from the mill, he employed a substitute. On that day, the Indians made a raid and killed his friend, and his friend's body was found mangled in the grass when Bertrand returned. He lived aolne in the Grant until he was about 40 years of age, when he went back to Gallipolis and brought him a young wife. She died January 11, 1827. His eldest son John, was born in 1804, and the others were Julie, Felicite, Henry, Rosalie and William. In 1811, be built a large brick residence on his lot 16. Monsieur Bertrand was one of the industrious enterprising and energetic Frenchmen. HiS farm was covered with apple trees and peach trees, from which he distilled the fruit. He was very jolly in his nature, was always courteous and in a good humor. He uniformly, greeted his friends with a low bow and a pleasant smile. It was a great pleasure for him to sit up all night over his cups with his French associates, very often to the annoyance of his family. He was one of the best gardeners in the Grant. In the language of Artemus Ward, gardening was his 'forte. In the latter years of his life, he would work in the garden of simornings till 9 or pp o'clock, and read the remainder of the day. In all his long life he never learned to speak English. He was one of the few Frenchmen who had fixed religious beliefs and views. He was an earnest Catholic, and never retired without saying one or more of the prayers which he had learned as a child. He succeeded in all his business affairs. He was temperate and regular in his habits; and was not off his feet until six weeks before his death. He died March 21, 1855, in his ninety-fourth year. Major John Belli. John Belli was a citizen of the world. His father was a Frenchman, his mother a native of Holland, and he was born in Liverpool, England, in 1760. He received a good education in England, and in military school. When he came of age, he was in Amsterdam. Holland, and received his coming of age papers from the estates of Holland and West Friesland. When he conceived the idea of coming to the United States, he was in Paris, France. He had been study- PIONEER SKETCHES - 653 ing about the United States and had become filled with the extreme Republican notions of that time, In the theory of government, he was a rabid republican ; in his own personal relations, he was an aristocrat, though he was hardly conscious of the fact. So he procured a letter of recommendation from the American Minister, John Jay, who, in his letter, described him as a young man worthy of trust. He came over with Mr. Francis Bowers, of Ostend, a mer- chant who was bringing over goods. His letters of introduction were to Mr. Josiah Watson, of Alexandria, Va. He came alone, without any members of his family, and landed at Alexandria, Va., in May 1783, which was then an important seaport. He engaged in business there, first as a clerk, and afterwards as a merchant, and remained there until the spring of 1791, a period of .eight years. Of his life in ,Alexandria, we have no account, but he formed a number of valuable and important acquaintances in that time, among whom were Col. Alexander Parker and Gen. George Washington. In October, 1791, Gen. Knox, then Secretary of War, sent him to the Northwest Territory on public business. What his functions were does not clearly appear, but they were of a confidential character. On April 18, 1792, when he was in the Northwest Territory, President George Washington sent him a commission as Deputy Quartermaster on the General Staff of Wayne's Legion. This commission is in the hands of John Belli Gregory, his grandson, at Fontana, Kentucky. It is on parchment, illustrated, and bears the original signature of President Washington and Secretary of War, Henry Knox. The commission does not state his rank, but it was, that of Major, hence his title. He went by way of Pittsburg, then called Fort Pitt, and down the Ohio River to Fort Washington. Gen. Knox gave him a letter, dated September 3o, 1791, directed to the Deputy Quartermaster at Fort Pitt, stating that he was to have transportation down the Ohio River, as he was on public business of great importance. He went direct to Fort Washington, where it appears he was stationed until the time of Wayne's expedition against the Indians. There is preserved a list of the Quartermaster's stores he had on hand at Fort Washington, November 1st, 1783. Mr. Gregory also has in his possesion a letter addressed to Major John Belli from Gen. Anthony Wayne, in answer to one of May 30, 1794, preced ing. He tells the Major that he is glad he has been successful in purchasing cattle: that 300 per month will be required, independent of accident ; that he must forward those on hand by first escort. That he has three weeks' supply for the Legion, nor can he think of advancing with less than 600 or Boo cattle, which would not be more than ten weeks' supply, should they all arrive safe. He stated that the wagons would set out from Fort Jefferson the next morning for 654 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY Fort Washington under a good escort, commanded by Major Hughes and they were not to be delayed at Fort Washington more than forty-eight hours, to be goaded with tents, intrenching tools and axes. Also he was to send such hospital and ordinance stores as he had been provided with, together with all the hunting shirts, or shirts and tools that were in his possession. Also, that his own private stores were to be forwarded under a select guard, which he will request Major Hughes to furnish from his department. He was directed to use as many private teams as could be obtained which, with the use of the water transport, when a favorable rise should occur in the Miami, would enable him to forward the grain to Fort Hamilton, which the Quartermaster General had required. He was not to lose a moment in mounting the dragoons and furnishing all the necessary accoutrements. He was also to be furnished with $2,000 in specie, and $8,000 in good bank bills to be replaced by his department. He was told that every arrangement would be made by his department for a forward move by the first of July. He wished the Major every success in his purchase and supplies of every nature, in the line of his department and signed himself, "I am, sir, your most ob'dt humble serv't, Ant'y Wayne." As soon as the expedition was successful, Major Belli, went east and settled his accounts with the department. He returned with some $5,000 and bought one thousand acres of land at the mouth of Turkey Creek and placed a man named Wright upon it, who cleared up a part of it, built a log house and planted an orchard. This was the first settlement, in Scioto County, though the historian, Tames Keyes, disputes it, and says the first settlement was near Sciotoville, by the Bonsers and Burts. He laid out the town of Alexandria, at the mouth of the Scioto River and gave it the name of Alexandria, for that city in Virginia, where he had first landed in this country, and had spent eight years. He spent considerable time in and about Alexandria, N. W. Territory, as the agent of Col. Alexander Parker, for whom he located much land in Scioto County. In Septemebr, 1797, he was appointed Recorder of Adams County. and held the office until October, 1803. He was a Justice of the Peace for Adams County, appointed by the Judges of the General Court, April 28, 1801, and his commission is in existence. It seems he spent a great part of his time in Kentucky. He evidently did not and could not attend personally to the duties of the office of Recorder of Adams County. On the twenty-first of March, 1800, he concluded some very important business in Kentucky, for on that date, he was married to Miss Cynthia Harrison, a cousin of Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison. Her father, Samuel Harrison, was a prominent man in Kentucky, and a large slave holder. He owned the site of the town of Cynthiana, Ky., and laid it out. He named it for his twin daughters, Cynthia PIONEER SKETCHES - 655 and Anna, born just before the town was platted. On his marriage, Major John Belli moved to his land at the mouth of Turkey Creek. He named his home, "Belvidere," and kept a carriage and horses and traveled in style. In every county of the territory, there was a Colonel of the Militia and a Major. Nathaniel Massie was the Colonel of the Adams County Militia and John Belli, the Major. On August 29, 1804, he was commissioned by Edward Tiffin, Governor of Ohio, Major of the Second Battalion, Second Regiment, First Brigade, Second Division Ohio Militia., During the time that the town of Washington was flourishing as the county seat of Adams County, Major Belli was not there much of the time. When he was absent it is not known who attended to the duties of his office as Recorder, but very likely it was General Darlington, who was always ready to do anything to accommodate his neighbors. Major Belli had five children—four daughters and a son. His daughter, Eliza, was born December 3, 1809. She married Moses Gregory, October 20, 1826. Her son, John Belli Gregory, who was a citizen of Scioto County for many years, at one time member of the Board of Public Works in this State, and afterwards its Engineer, resided at Fontana, Ky., and kindly loaned the editor of this work the papers of Major Belli. His son, Hiram D. Gregory, is a lawyer at Covington, Ky. His daughter, Hattie, is, the widow of Ariel Barney, and resides in New York City. Major Belli, after 1803, devoted his whole time to the improvement of his land on Turkey Creek. though he was a land owner in many places. He at one time owned a large tract near New Hope, in Brown County. In 1806, he built him a large two-story frame house on his land at the mouth of Turkey Creek, but did not live to enjoy it. In October, 1809, he was taken with one of those fevers against which it seems the pioneers could not contend, and he died and was buried on the river bank near his home. His widow continued to reside there until 1838, when her home, built by the Major in 1806, was accidentally destroyed by fire. She removed to Illinois, where she died in 1848. In 1865 the Majorls grave was washed by the river, and ,Mr. Gregory had his remains exhumed and reinterred in the cemetery at Friendship. A picture of the Major is in the possession of Mr. Gregory. It represents him with powdered wig and a Continental coat faced with red. A cut from this picture appears herein. Major Belli was a gentlemen of the old school. He never changed his dress from the style during the Revolution. While he lived among backwoodsmen. he always had his wig and queue, wore a cocked hat, coat with facings, waist coat, knee breeches, stockings and shoe buckles. His queue was carefully braided and tied with a ribbon, and this was his style of dress at all times. 656 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. While he believed himself to be a Republican, as the term was understood in his time, he had pride enough for all the aristocrats in the neighborh00d. He was a disbeliever in slavery, and it is thought his location in the Northwest Territory and his maintenance of his residence here was on account of his repugnance to that peculiar institution. His wife's slaves were brought to Ohio and freed, and this through his influence. He was the agent of Colonel Alexander Parker and General Thomas Parker in making their location in the Virginia Military District. Colonel Alexander Parker owned Survey 455 on Pond Run 1,000 acres. Survey 475 at the mouth of Turkey Creeek, was the property of John Belli. Survey 408, on which Alexandria was located, was for 900 acres, and entered for Colonel Alexander Parker, of Frederick County, Virginia. Samuel Clingman Briggs was born near Wilkesbarre, Nescopeck Township,. Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1794, a son of John and Hannah Clingman Briggs. His mother was a daughter of John Michael Clingman, a Captain in the Revolutionary War from Pennsylvania in 1778. He is mentioned elsewhere in this hook. Our subject came to Portsmouth at the age of twenty-one and made his home with his Uncle Aaron Kinney for seven years. On June 23, 1817, when the Parish of All Saints Church was organized, he was one of the original signers of the Constitution. July 27, 182o, he was baptised by the Rt. Rev. Philander Chase and confirmed by him December TO, 182o. He afterwards left the Episcopal Church and connected himself with the Bigelow M. E. Church. In 1852, he assisted to organize the Spencer Chapel, was Stewart and Trustee and held a prominent place in the Church tin to the time of his death. He purchased what is known as the Briggs farm, the principal part of which is now owned by John Richardson. July 1, 1824, he was married to Elizabeth. Smith, a daughter of John Smith, by Jacob P. Noel, Justice of the Peace. She lived only a few months. On Dec. 30, 1825, he married a Miss Rebecca. Timbrook. Their children are as follows; John K., Aaron K., William H., Elizabeth, Henry, Mary and Hannah, nOW Mrs. Sweet of Shipman, Illinois, and Rebecca, wife of Telemachus P. Noel living near Spring Lane Distillery. Of the daughters, Elizabeth and Mary died in infancy. Aaron K., died October 26, 1871 ; John K.. died November 27, 1893; Henry resides in Jameson, Missouri; William lives in Kansas. In 184o, Mr. Briggs' second wife died, and he married Miss Sarah Barber, who died suddenly a few months after the marriage. He then married her younger sister, Marinda Barber, December 27, 1843. Their children are Joseph C., living near the old home; Sarah Smith, wife of Firman Smith of the West Side; an infant son ; Louisa Epworth now the wife of Wel- PIONEER SKETCHES - 657 lington R. Kinney, who resides on the old homestead. July 1, 1860, Mr. Briggs died. He left a fine farm of over 200 acres to his family. He was a man of the strictest honesty and integrity. He was energetic and industrious. He tried to fulfill every duty in every relation of life. He was highly esteemed by his church people and all his neighbors. John Kinney Briggs was born October 6, 1826, the son of Samuel Clingman Briggs, and Rebecca Timbrooks Briggs, his wife. He was born at the old Briggs Homestead on the Chillicothe Pike now occupied by Wellington R. Kinney. He obtained his education in the district sch00l and was brought up a farmer. He was married three times, first in 1850, to Miss Mary Miller. The children of that marriage were: Louisa, who died in childhood, Laura, who died at the age of sixteen, Aaron Anthony, Charles C., and Frank. The fourth child of this marriage was Margaret, now the wife of Dr. George W: Osborne, of Dry Run. The fifth child, Anna Bell, died at the age of two years. The first, Mrs. Briggs, died November 14, 1865, and on December 6, 1867, our subject married Miss Melinda Jane Smith, daughter of Hamlet Smith.. The only child of this marriage was Bertha A., who died at the age of sixteen years. Mr. Briggs' second wife died November 22, 1867, and he married her sister, Margaret Smith, July 17, 1870, who survived him. On March 4, 1861, he located in Washington Township, where he spent the remainder of his' life. Mr. Briggs was noted for his integrity and uprightness. He always enjoyed the confidence of his neighbors. He was Treasurer of his Township for fourteen years. He was a Republican, but never aspired to a county office. and had no political ambitions. He was a member of Oldtown M. E. Church. He died November 27, 1893. Asa Boynton, Senior. John Boynton, the three times great-grandfather of our subject, was born at Knapton, Wistingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in 1614. and came to Massachusetts and settled at Rowley 1630. He was a tailor and married Helen Pell of Boston. He died February 18, 1670, and was the father of eight children, one of whom, was Captain Joseph Boynton. He was horn In 1644 and married Sarah Swan by whom he had eleven children. He died December 16, 1730. One of his sons. Sergeant Richard Boynton, was born November 1I, 1675, and married Sarah Dressler and had seven children. He died December 25. 1732. One of his sons, Nathaniel, the father of our subject, was born August 18, 1712. He married Mary Stewart, 1736, by whom he had twelve children and Asa was the eleventh in order of their births. Asa Boynton was born March 4, 1760, and married Mary, daughter of Joseph and Mary Edmunds, of Lynn, Massachusetts, 658 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. April 10, 1781. She was born in Lynn, August 9, 1762. They resided first at Lynn and then moved to Grafton County, New Hampshire at Piermont. In 1806, he came to the French .Grant for the purpose of looking out a location. He went back to New Hampshire and negotiated the purchase of 3,800 acres of the Gervais Tract, and 650 acres outside, from Rosewell P. Hunt, brother of Samuel Hunt and executor of his last will and testament, for the sum of $9,000, Samuel Hunt had purchased the 3,800 acres of John G. Gervais and had given a mortgage for the purchase money, The mortgage was assigned to Earl Sproat. Samuel Hunt died July 27, 1807. The mortgage was foreclosed and the 3,800 acres were sold to Earl Sproat at Sheriff's sale for $5,700, April 18, 1810. Boynton got a warranty deed from Rosewell P. Hunt, dated January 15, 1810. Tie afterwards, June 25, 1811, received a warranty deed from Earl Sproat for the same premises, the consideration being $8,000. From this we would infer that he paid $8,000 for the Gervais tract and $1,000 for the other 65o acres. In 1812, he deeded the 65o acre tract to Lawson Drury, Senior, Lawson Drury, Junior, Ruth Drury and Charles T. Drury. On January 9, 1811, he deeded 850 acres to Peter White for $1,400. About the same time he conveyed 176 acres to James Abbott for $522. On July 17, 1812, he conveyed too acres to Zelotes Tucker. On January 13, 1812, he conveyed 131 acres to Adam Proebster and Jacob Linch. He sold altogether 2,040 and retained 1,759 acres for himself. Boynton and his family made the trip overland from New Hampshire to their new home in 1810. They traveled in the family carriage and wagons, and they were on their journey for six weeks. By his marriage with Mary Edmunds, thirteen children were born: Mary, b. December 17, 1781, d. May 4, 1797; Asa, b. August 4, 1784, d. August 30, 1802; Lucy, b. July 6, 1787, d. November 29, 1787; Lydia, b. February 21, 1789, m. James B. Prescott November 12, 1815, d. February 23, 1825; Joseph E., b. February 21, 1791, m. Betsey Wheeler, January 18, 1813, d. August 17, 1817; Charles C., b. December 29, 1792, m. Roda, daughter of Captain Edward C. Sumner of Peacham, Vermont, March 13, 1814, d. August, 1837; Cynthia, b. June 13, 1795, m. Benjamin Locke, December 22, 1814; Lucy, b. November 22, 1797, m. George Williams November 30, 1818, d. November 3, 1883; William L., (See Sketch) ; Mary, b. July 9, 1802, m. Thomas Rogers June 1, 1822; Jane Ann. b. March 7, 1805, m. Thomas Whittier December 19, 1821, d. November 19, 1891 ; Asa, b. July 21, 1807, m. Julia Bertrand, December 25, 1828, d. about 1880; John L., b. July 17, 1811, m. Felicite Bertrand February 13, 1836, d. August12 , 1858. Mr. Boynton was an industrious and enterprising man and did much to develop the new country and toward furnishing the necessary conveniences for his friends and neighbors. He built a mill PIONEER SKETCHES - 659 for grinding wheat and corn. The mill was run by horse power and the bolt was turned by hand. Often those who came to get grinding done would furnish the horse power, thereby saving toll. He built another mill back of where Ironton now stands, at which both grinding and sawing were done. In those days it was difficult to get money for market products and upon one occasion, Boynton built a flat boat and took a cargo of produce to New Orleans, and came back on the Steamer "Congress." He was successively a Federal, a National Republican and a Whig. He was treasurer of Green Township during 1819 and 1820. He died February 21, 1837 and his wife died July 23, 1823. William L. Boynton son of Asa Boynton and Mary Edmunds, his wife, was born in Piermont, Grafton County, New Hampshire, in 180o, and came with his parents to French Grant in 181o. His boyhood was spent on his father's farm and his education was meagre. He was married on January 1, 1822 to Nancy Feurt, who was of direct French lineage, and whose father Peter Feurt, was one of the first white inhabitants of Scioto County, having come to Alexandria shortly after it was laid out. To them were born seven children: Mary, (deceased), married Doctor Mussey; Cynthia, (deceased,) married Samuel Skelton, and at his death married Alva Jaynes; Peter, married Eliza J. Cadot ; James, deceased; Henry, lives at Powellsville, Ohio; Asa, deceased, and Wil who lives in Florida. His father gave him 400 .acres of land, a part of the Gervais tract and he afterwards added several hundred acres to this on Pine Creek. When the Furnaces flourished he dealt a great deal in live stock and supplied the furnaces with meat. He was active in politics and was a Whig until the founding of the Republican party and then became a Republican. He was appointed Township Trustee in 1839 to take the place of Jacob Andre and was elected the following year to the same office. He was Justice of the Peace from 1844 to 1847. He was Commissioner of Scioto County from 1840 to 18.46 and was a prominent man in the County. He was not a member of any church but held the Universal doctrine. He died July 12, 1870. Peter Feurt Boynton was born near Franklin Furnace, Ohio, October 17, 1822. He is the son of William L. Boynton and Nancy Feurt, his wife. His father was of direct English lineage and his mother of French descent. He was quite an active boy and liked boyish sports. When a young man he was very fond of dancing and many a pleasant evening the Boyntons spent together dancing and playing the old fashioned games. His schooling was very meagre and he attended one school when he was twenty-one. He offered his services to his country at the breaking out of the Civil War but was rejected on ac- 660 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. count of a crippled hand. He was a Whig and is now a Republican. He was a trustee of Green Township in 1856-7 and in 1858-9, serving two terms. He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church when he was thirty years old and has missed but three quarterly meetings since. He has always been an active and enthusiastic worker and has held some office in the church all the time. He is a member of the Haverhill M. E. church. He was married to Eliza T. Cadot, January 10, 1848. She was the daughter of Claudius Cadot. To them were born three children ; Orin, (deceased), married Urania Bush, now Mrs. George M. Clary, of Ironton, Ohio; Asa of Haverhill, married Margaret, daughter of Henry and Mary A. (Winkler) Feurt ; and Carrie married H. W. Farnham. After lie was married he bought the farm just south of Haverhill now owned by Samuel Krickenberger. . He sold this and bought a fourth interest in Raccoon Furnace in Greenup County. Kentucky ; but the war breaking out immediately afterward, he sold this and resided with his father two years. He then rented .the Hamilton farm between Hanging Rock and Ironton. Next he bought the Ironton ferry and conducted it for a while. He then moved to Haverhill and bought his present farm in 1866. Nearly all the time since, he has owned and run a threshing machine in addition to his farming. He has been a hard worker and is now eighty years old and is as straight as an arrow and as active as most men at fifty. Mr. Boynton is just in all his dealings. He is a good citizen and a conscientious Christian and is respected by all who know him. John Brown., Sr., was the first man to leave Alexandria and locate in Portsmouth. Uriah' Barber had built a two story log house on Front street on the first alley above Scioto street, and intended to keep hotel in it, but his wife dying, he gave up the idea, and induced Mr. Brown to take his house and open it as a tavern. The tavern keepers were the aristocrats of those early days, and they answered all the purposes of bankers, as they obtained all the currency which was afloat. John Brown was about the beginning of things in Portsmouth ; lie was first in almost everything. He was among the first settlers, he kept the first tavern; he built the first school house, the first grist mill, (a horse mill), the first ware house. and he was the first Justice of the Peace who ever administered the office in the town of Portsmouth. He was the first Postmaster Portsmouth ever had, and he aided in digging the first well. He opened the first road from the top of the bank down the grade to the river edge, opposite the Vincent Brodbeck property on Front street. There was no other road down the river bank until 1810. At that time there was not a wagon or dray in Portsmouth, and the goods were hauled on sleds, pack horses, or carried on men’s backs. John Brown owned and used the first cart ever used in Portsmouth. From 1807 until 1812, he was the principal citizen. He was the first commission merchant who ever did business in Portsmouth. He appeared to have performed all his duties well. The first court held in the town was held .at his house. He was one of the first nine councilmen of Portsmouth, and was one of the three to draw a two years term. On March To, 1817, he was elected for three years, and that same year was the town supervisor. His son, John Brown, Jr., was elected councilman in 1817 and held that office for two years, while at the same time his father was a councilman. He seemed to be fond of pleasure, as balls and dances were frequently held at his tavern.. He was a small man, and slender, with sharp visage. As a Justice, he administered his office with severity, He had a rough class to deal with and he dealt with them according to their deserts. Mr. Brown built the first market house in Portsmouth. On one occasion when he was administering justice one John Cutright, was brought before him. As soon as he told his name, John Brown, said, "Well, John Cutright, you have cut wrong this time." When a supervisor of the road, he announced that "God willing" they would work the road Monday and Tuesday, but they would work it on Wednesday anyway. It was in 1806 that he' took the contract to build the first school house in Portsmouth. He was a native of dear old Ireland, and was born not later than 1760. He stopped in Harrisburg, Pa., long enough to get him a wife, and floated down the Ohio river with her, the same as everyone else did at that time. We know his wifels name was Hannah, but her maiden name has not been preserved. He had one son, John Brown, Jr., and two daughters : Rachel, who married General William Kendall, May 29, 1806, the ceremony being performed by Robert Lucas, a Justice of the Peace, and Eliza, who was married to General Robert Lucas, April 4, 1810. Both of them raised large families, as did John Brown, Jr. Our subject was a very active citizen ; he was connected with almost every enterprise started in Portsmouth and was one of the charterers of the Commercial Bank. He owned the site of the present post office in Portsmouth, where his son, John Brown, Jr., kept a tavern. He was post master of Portsmouth from July 1, 1808 to March 7, 1812, and was succeeded by Dr. Thomas Waller. In politics, he was always a democrat. His religious affiliations are not known to the writer, but he was a Protestant. Major John Brown, Jr., was born December 9, 1783, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the son of John Brown, Sr., who has a sketch herein. His father and his grandfather, Adla Brown, were natives of Ireland. His father came to the United States and located near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 662 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. There he married his wife, Hannah, whose maiden name is unknown. John Brown, Jr. must have been about ten years old when he came to Portsmouth. He went out in 1813, in the War of 1812, in the troop of horse commanded by his brother-in-law, William Kendall, better known as General William Kendall. He belonged to a brigade commanded by his other brother-in-law, General Robert Lucas. His name is numbered seventeen on the original roll, now in possession of Mrs. John W. Overturf, of Columbus, Ohio. He entered the service July 28, 1813, and served one month. His pay was $8.00 per month for himself, and 4o cents per day for his horse. He was paid for one month and one day, $21.05. His age was put down as eighteen on the muster roll, which was a mistake of two years too young. While stopping at Chillicothe he had his picture painted bn a board and sent to his mother. It is now in possession of Mrs. Charles P. Kehoe, of Portsmouth, Ohio, his granddaughter, and looks as well as when it was painted seventy-eight years ago. A cut from it is shown on the opposite page. John Brown, Jr., was a very active citizen. He was elected a member of the town council, in 1817, to fill a vacancy, and for two years he and his father were members at the same time. Two ninths of the town Council were Brown. In 1818, he was re-elected to Council, but in 1819 he resigned and moved out to the William Kendall place. On June 1, 1818, he was appointed County Treasurer for one year and gave bond of $4,000, with John R. Turner and William Kendall as sureties. On September 9, 1818, he had an advertisement in the. only newspaper in Portsmouth, stating that "a stitch in time saves nine," and calling on those who owned him to come and settle, and if they did not, on October 1, 1818, he would put his accounts in the hands of Ezra Osborn, J. P., for collection. He was once notified that he had a large estate in Ireland, near Dublin, which he could enter into possession of by swearing allegiance to the then king of England. He declared he would not do that for all of Ireland for an inheritance. At one time he kept a tavern where the post office now stands in Portsmouth, Ohio. He also conducted a grist mill at the same place. He was a Democrat in his political views, and a Methodist in religion. In 1826 he was a candidate for Justice of the Peace of Wayne Township, but was defeated. The vote stood, Ezra Osborn, 71; John Brown, 48. He married Charity Johnson, of Mason County, Kentucky, February 2, 1815. She was born August 19, 1793 in Hampshire County,. Virginia. Their children were: 1st, Eliza, born February 1, 1816, married John F. Day, April 2, 1835 ; 2nd, John Johnson, born August 5, 1817, married a Miss Monroe of French Grant, and went to California: 3rd, Hannah, born January 19, 1820, married Franklin Bliss, of Wheelersburg; 4th, Isaac Brown, born PIONEER SKETCHES - 663 April 15, 1822, married Susan Rickey, of Jackson, C. H.; 5th, William Washington, born September 3, 1824, died in 1826; 6th, Benjamin Franklin, born February 17, 1827, married Susan Calvin, and located in Greenup, Kentucky ; 7th, James Lawson, born September 23, 1830, married Ann Salisbury ; 8th, Thomas, born December 22, 1823, and resides in Knoxville, Tennessee. Our subject was wharf-master in Portsmouth in 1839, and real-estate appraiser in 1840. As the latter he served 145 days and his compensation was $295.00. In 1834, he was a partner in Watson's Hotel with William Watson, Sr., for eighteen months. He attained the rank of Major in the State Militia. At one time he obtained the boot hooks of General Anthony Wayne; they are now in possession of Mrs. Charles P. Kehoe, before mentioned. His wife died April 22, 1857. He survived until May 4, 1868, and he and she were buried at Mount Zion, Kentucky. He was a useful and prominent citizen, but in obtaining municipal distinction was largely 0vershadowed by his father, John Brown, .Sr., who has an interesting sketch elsewhere. Royal Brown was born April 1 1, 1811, in Vermont. His father was David Brown, a native of Massachusetts, and his mother's maiden name was Sarah Hubbard, born in Connecticut, daughter of Wm. Hubbard. Our subject remained in Vermont three years, and in 1816, came to Portsmouth on a flat boat, with his father who had twenty-five cents in money left when he landed. Royal was then five years 0ld. His father located 0n the east side of the Scioto river above Portsmouth. On account of fever and ague he left there and moved in Madison Township, and took part of the Dow McKinney farm now owned by his grandson. After residing here a few years he sold out, and bought land in Marion Township, Pike County, Ohio. He survived his wife. He was a Whig, and a member of the Methodist Protestant Church. He was a stock dealer as well as a farmer and owned a 200 acre farm. He lived an honorable and respectable life, but never made or accumulated money, as his sons, who made their own way, made money and became substantial farmers. His son, Royal Brown, before mentioned, married Rachel Beauchamp, August 18, 1833, whose mother was a native of England, but of French ancestry, daughter of John Beauchamp and Elizabeth Prettyman. Royal Brown began with a farm of eighty-three acres and afterwards acquired more land. He was a stone cutter, and built a great many chimneys for his neighbors. He was an ordained preacher of the Methodist Protestant Church and very active in his work. The children of Royal Brown were as follows: Harriet, married Thomas Allard, father of Dr. Allard, of Portsmouth, born June 27, 1834; Milton Wesley. born September 664 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. 2, 1836, has a separate sketch herein; Francis Asbury, born Nov. 5, 1838, a minister in the Methodist Protestant Church ; Elizabeth, born March 16, 1841, died in infancy; William, born August 23, 1842, died September 20, 1860; John Shepherd, born August 18, 1844, resides at Stockdale, was in Company "G" 91 st Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; Royal Benton, Born Jan. 12, 1847, resides at Stockdale; David Tipton, born May 18, 1849, lives at Stockdale; William Beauchamp, born December 12, 186o, also lives at Stockdale; Rachel Ellen, born January 28, 1848, married James Wallace, August 10, 1876. Royal Brown was the organizer of the Methodist Protestant Church at Stockdale. He was a lover of mutual rights, and claimed that the laity in every church should have the same privileges as the Clergy. He died December 31, 1894, aged 83 years, 8 months and 13 days. Benjamin Brush was born in Suffolk County, New York, April 1, 1817. He was the son of Joseph and Amy (Smith) Brush. His father was a native of New York and his mother of Connecticut. His parents located at Haverhill, Scioto County, Ohio, in. 1822. Benjamin's early life was spent on the farm and in attending a subscription school, where he received a meager education. He worked at the shoe maker's trade and earned the money which enabled him to attend Dennison University, at Granville, in Licking County, where he fitted himself for a teacher. He taught school several years but finally gave it up and began farming, which occupation he followed until his death,. November 5, 1893. He served as Justice of the Peace six years and as Township Clerk twenty-five years. He was a Republican although he favored Prohibition. He was a member of the Methodist Church for over forty years. In 1846, he married Ellen Butterfield, daughter of Benjamin and Mary Butterfield of Scioto County. He has five children living Charles, Amy, Ida and William A., of Gervais and Benjamin of Durango, Mexico. He was a just man, a good Christian and a good citizen. was born in Kentucky, of Scotch parents, about 1800. His parents removed to Chillicothe, Ohio, while he was young. He received such education as he could obtain there. His elder sister married John Woodbrige, a banker of Chillicothe, and as he grew up he obtained a position in Woodbridge's bank, where he learned the business. In 1828, he married a Miss Woods, and removed to Portsmouth to take charge of the Commercial Bank as Cashier. His wife died' at' childbirth, the child, John Buchanan, lived to be fifty years of age, and died at Yellow Bud, Ross County. In 1834, he was elected a fence viewer of Wayne Township. This was evidently intended as a joke by those who voted for him, as it was customary to elect the moSt prominent men of the Township to that office. None of the PIONEER SKETCHES - 665 fence viewers elected were ever known to have anything to do except Martin Funk. March 22 1837, he was married to Elizabeth Belt, the daughter of Judge Belt of Chillicothe then a resident of Washington City. She died March 16, 1838, aged 19 years, 9 months and 17 dlays, in childbirth. Her daughter is now the wife of Lyman Perrin of Cincinnati, Ohio. This second wife of Mr. Buchanan's is buried at the foot of a large tree in Greenlawn cemetery, and the growth of the tree has broken the slab covering her grave. In 1842, he married the third time to Maria Louisa Nixon at Mobile, Alabama. Her parents were Irish, and she was the mother of six children, three boys and three girls. Of the sons, Harry and Austin are deceased, Frank is now living at Newport, Kentucky. Of the daughters, Alice and Kathleen are deceased, and Florence is the wife of one Dewitt, of Baltimore. Mr. Buchanan was prominently connected as financial agent and correspondent of the New York Company through the Stetsons, Bankers of New York. He attended to their business in Portsmouth, he also took quite an active part in the publication of a History of Ohio by Caleb Atwater, of whom he was an intimate friend. He visited West Union and other places with the author in the interest of the work. Mr. Buchanan was connected with the Commercial Bank of Portsmouth during its existence, and afterwards conducted business as a broker in Portsmouth. In 1843, he was Councilman of the town, and on the Committee to receive Ex-President John Quincy Adams, on the occasion of his visit to Portsmouth. He was Recorder of the town from November 15, 1844 .to April 4, 1845. was again Recorder of the tOWn from March, 1846 to April, 1847. On July 20, 1849, he resigned his position as Councilman and left the city. He was always honorable in all his dealings, and had considerable property. He and all his family were communicants of All Saints Church. In 1849, he was in partnership with Thomas Dugan for a short time, as Buchanan & Dugan. He was also an Insurance Agent, and was agent of the Protection Insurance Company of Columbus. During this same year, he returned to Ross County and went into partnership with John Woodbridge, his brother-in-law, then a banker of Chillicothe and owner of the Rapid Forge Iron Works, to further improve the Rapid Forge property ; but after failure to secure a sufficient dam across the Rocky Fork, a few hundred yards above the Rapid Forge clam in Paint Creek, the enterprise was abandoned; after the loss of many thousand dollars. In 1852, Henry Buchanan with his family moved to Newport, Kentucky, and took charge of the interests of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company of Cincinnati. When this institution was closed tinder the State Banking Law, Mr. Buchanan was elected President of the Newport Safety Fund Bank, which was successfully managed by him, and ceased to do business Only after the U. S. Banking Law went into effect. During the clos- 666 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. ing years of his life, Mr. Buchanan with his sons, Harry and Frank, managed the interests of the Hartford City Life Insurance and Trust Company in Kentucky as State Agents. He died in 1872 in Newport, Kentucky, and is buried there. He left a wife and five children. He was a man of fine personal presence. His weight was seldom less than two hundred pounds. He was six feet and two inches high. In politics, he was first a Whig, but during his later years he voted with the Democrats, though he was never prominent in politics. Rev. Erastus Burr, D. D. Of all those who ever lived in Portsmouth, there is no finer or more admirable character than the subject of this sketch. His history and life is largely the history and life of the community in which he dwelt and spent his life. If ever there was a life spent in Portsmouth which was illustrative of the excellences and, of human character, it was this one. It makes no difference from what point of view the life and character of Doctor Burr be viewed, the result is the same; there is ever some noble element to call out admiration. And yet Doctor Burr's life was nothing but a round of simple every day duties, which every clergman is called on to observe and perform, but he elevated and ennobled them. Doctor Burr never made any show of goodness, such a thing never ocurred to him in the course of his long and useful life. He simply lived to do each day what was before him, to do it well and on his conscience. He was a man of extensive learning, of broad scholarship, but he never attempted to display it. As a matter of course he could not-conceal it, for it was part of his life. He was a beacon light to all those about him. He was a man of most excellent judgment, and it served him on all occasions. He was never perturbed or excited. There was nothing nervous or excitable about him, and he always said, advised and did the best thing to be advised, said or done; and his advice, his statements and his actions, on or about any subject, seemed to be conclusive. His diction in public speaking was perfect. He never violated the rules of syntax, never used slang and his qualifying words of every subject of which he spoke, seemed to be perfect. While his delivery was slow, his thoughts and ideas were always instructive and interesting. At the conclusion of his career, when the memory of his life was most vivid, it was said of him, that the loved clergyman and citizen had passed away. He was at that time revered and respected above any citizen of Portsmouth. When discussing goodness and excellence in the community he was always placed first. He was a man of broad views on every subject. He was always conservative, never impetuous or inconsiderate. He was never carried away by new ideas or notions, never adopted extreme views or followed extreme courses in respect to any subject. He was wise in the best and broadest sense of the term. Where his advice was sought and followed, the recipient always found he had adopted the very best course. PIONEER SKETCHES - 667 He was born at Bridgeport, Conn., April 15, 1805, of a long line of honorable ancestry. At the age of thirteen his father settled in Worthington, Ohio, and here, in 1820, he began his preparations for college under Bishop Philander Chase. He attended school in Worthington until 1825, when the school was removed to Gambier, Ohio. He attended the school there until 1828, when he entered Trinity College at Hartford, Conn., where he graduated in 1830. On his return from Hartford, he went to Nashville, Tenn., and studied theology, though he really went on account of his health. On January 6, 1833, at Lexington, Ky., he was ordered deacon, and on August 29, 1834, he was ordained priest by Rev. Dudley Smith, Bishop of Kentucky. This was Bishop Smith's first ordination of a priest. In April, 1833, Doctor Burr took charge of the St. John's Church at Worthington, Ohio, and remained there until he came to Portsmouth. On February 7, 1833, he was married to Miss Harriet Griswold at Worthington. On November 9, 1838, he became Rector of All Saints Church at Portsmouth, and there he spent the remainder of his life. On November 9, 1873, he retired froom the Rectorship of All Saints Church, and on that occasion preached his thirty-fifth anniversary sermon. The writer heard it, and it is one of his cherished memories. Again on November 9, 1891, fifty-three years after taking the Rectorship, and at the ripe age of 86, he again addressed the All Saints Congregation. He stood on his feet and spoke for one hour and twenty minutes and no one was restless. He 'held the strict attention of all his hearers, and his mind was bright and clear as in his youth. He desired the Congregation to consider that address his last words, and so they proved. He stood on the brink of eternity and gave his people tender and affectionate advice and counsel, and words of loving farewell. He was an examiner of the Public Schools of the city from 1839 most of his life. He was County School Examiner for forty years continuously, and had the confidence, respect and affection of the teachers. In the duty of granting certificates, he was always just, and he invariably gave the teacher the benefit of the doubt. He resigned the County Examinership in 1888, but held the City Examinership till his death, because his colleagues insisted on it. In the Councils of his own Church no clergyman was better known or more highly respected. In the Convention of his own Diocese, he was always on the most important Committees. From 1856 to 1887, he was on the Committee on Canons, which dealt with the laws of the Church and had the best talent and learning of the Convention. The Bishop frequently called on him as temporary chairman, and he was the Bishop's own counselor. The Bishop always sought his advice and it goes without saying, followed it. In the discussion of all questions in the Convention, after Dr. Burr spoke, the body was ready for a vote, and his views were nearly always adopted. After he 668 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. had spoken on a question, the members wondered why they had not seen it that way before. Doctor Burr's influence. in his own church was not limited to the Diocese. He was a Trustee of Kenyon College and of Bexley Hall for 48 years, and his labors on those Boards were most highly appreciated by his colleagues. He attended each General Convention of his Church from 184o until 1877, and was most favorably known in that body. This was the highest honor his Diocese could confer. In his prime, he could have been a Bishop, but discouraged all advances of that kind. All the honors he ever held came to him. He sought none. He had very few, if any enemies, and yet a man more positive in his convictions never lived. He had a way of enforcing his ideas on all subjects, which convinced those about him that he was right and his way was best. Everyone conceded he was the best man in the city. His life was pure and noble. It was set to high ideals, conscientiously followed. He was modest, sincere, sympathetic, and his type of Christianity was the best. He died in perfect peace December 19, 1891. Bishop Boyd Vincent conducted his funeral, and the Masonic bodies and the teachers of the Public Schools attended in a body. Samuel B. Burt was a prominent citizen in Scioto County in the early times. He was a Supervisor in Wayne Township in 181o. In 1812, he was a Lister in Wayne Township, and in 1813, 1814 and 1815 a Trustee. He was one of the first nine city fathers and drew a three years'• term. On May I, 1815, he and William Kendall were on a Committee to bring in a bill on executions. In 1815, he- built a school house. In 1817, he removed from the city into the country on the West Side. He was elected a County Commissioner in 1818, 1821 and 1826. He was a Lister in Nile Township in 1818. In 1829, he was elected County Commissioner for three years, but removed from the County in 1830. Nothing further is known of him. Thomas Burt was born in 1803 in Scioto County, near Sciotoville, Ohio. He was a Health Officer of Portsmouth in 1836. He was one of the Executive Committee of the Portsmouth Clay Club which was organized May 23, 1844. He was elected Wharfmaster April 5, 1844 and served until December 1, 1855, when he resigned. He was County Commissioner from 1861 to 1867. In 1826, he was married to Ann Buffington. She was born at White Post, Loudon County, Virginia, March 13, 1809. She came to Portsmouth with her parents in 1814. Thomas Burt had six sons and five daughters. The four surviving sons are: William, John, Charles and Henry. Lewis and Thomas are deceased. Thomas Burt died February 26, 1871, in Vicksburg, PIONEER SKETCHES - 669 Mississippi, while on a visit there. His wife died February 13, 1892, in Chillicothe, Ohio, at the residence of her son, Henry, and was brought to Portsmouth for burial. Abraham W. Buskirk was born in Bedford County, Virginia, in 1820. He was brought up there until he was eighteen years of age. His mother was a sister of Col. T. J. Graham. At the age of eighteen, he came to Green- up County, Kentucky, and became a clerk in a store. He became acquainted with J. V. Robinson there and by him, was induced to come to Portsmouth, Ohio, and engaged as a clerk for him. He remained with Mr. Robinson for a number of years. In 1846, he engaged in the wholesale grocery with Frank J. Oakes as a partner, under the firm name of Oakes and Buskirk. This firm continued until 1868 when Frank J. Oakes retired and George Davis took his place in the business. Mr. Buskirk remained with Mr. Davis until he sold out to William R. Stricklett in 1872. Mr. Buskirk then went in partnership with Sam Hempstead at Hanging Rock. In 1878, he started a Stove and Tinware House in Portsmouth, and in 1883, he retired from all business. He was married to Josephine Oakes, June 4, 1845, by Rev. Gould, in Gallipolis. They had six children. His son, Frank Whitney, was born March 24. 1846. Harry Henderson was born May 22, 1848; Floyd Oakes, born May 1, 1850 and died November 21, 1879. They had one daughter, Aileen, now the wife of George Gilliland, of Washington, D. C. They also had a son, Charles Tracy, who died when lie was about thirty years of age, and Fred, now residing in Cincinnati. Mr. Buskirk resided in Portsmouth from his retirement until his death on the 6th of July, 1898. His wife survived until August 4, 1891. Mr. Buskirk was a member of the City Council of Portsmouth for a number of years, also a member of the City Board of Equalization, and had been for several years prior to his death. During the entire Civil War he was a member of the County Military Committee. In his business career. he was noted for his integrity and fair dealings. He is a valuable citizen and highly esteemed in every relation of life. Claudius Cadot was born February 17, 1793. His father was Claudius Cadot, and: his mother Jane Bastille, both of France. They were married in Paris in 1790. Right after their marriage they started as emigrants to Gallipolis. They arrived there in the fall of 1790. Three children were born to them. The first was Maria Louise, born January 28, 1791 she married Francis LeClercq, October 21, 1809. They had two children, a son and a daughter, Claudius Cadot, our subject. was the second child; the third was Lemuel Cadot. who was born two years subsequent to Claudius. In 1795, Claudius Cadot, senior, fell a victim to the climate and died. In three months his 670 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. widow married Francis Charles Duteil. They located in the French Grant in 1797. Duteil first came down alone to the Grant and built him a pole cabin, on lot number 32 in the French Grant which he had drawn as one of the emigrants. Three months later he brought his wife, and step-children down. Young Claudius worked on his stepfather's farm and learned the art of distilling fruits and grains. He had altogether about eleven months schooling. In the spring of 1812 he volunteered in Capt. John Lucas' Company for one year to go into the war of 1812. He went as far as Urbana, and there his Company joined Col. Duncan McArthur's Regiment, 1st Ohio Volunteers. General Hull took command of the army and marched, to Detroit where he surrendered on the 16th of the August following. Before Hull surrendered our subject was engaged in the battle of Brownsville and after the surrender he and his companions were sent to Cleveland. From there they walked to near Pittsburg, and then floated down the Ohio river. Cadot got off at Gallipolis to visit his sister. After that he engaged in keel boating on the Ohio river, in connection with the celebrated Mike Fink, and earned about 50 cents per day at first and afterwards 62 1-2 cents per day. He followed this four years and saved enough money to buy a quarter section of land. On March 24. 1818, he had patented to him from the United States, the southwest quarter, Section 15, Township 3, Range 21, and afterwards bought 57 acres out of the northwest part of the northwest quarter of the same section, township and .range from his brother Lemuel for $150.00. On December 17, 1819, he married Nancy Ball and in 1820, he moved onto his land. In 1820, he built him a commodious frame house. Tune 9, 1835, he lost his wife who was born December 3o, 1799. He afterwards married Cynthia. Stockham whom he survived. After the death of his second wife, he broke up house-keeping and resided with his daughter, Mrs. Mary Hayward, first in the vicinity of Wheelersburg and afterwards in Wheelersburg. He was the last survivor of his Company in the War of 1812, and drew a pension under the law of 1878. His children were, Mary, born May 1. 1821, married Eliphaz Hayward, and is now his widow: Charles F., born October 12, 1822; Eliza J., born March a, 1825, married Peter F. Boynton ; John Claudius, born June 20, 1828, married to Mary A. Winkler, who died July 1901; Sophronia, horn July 27, 1829, died young; Juliet, born April I, 1830; Madeline, born May 1, 1832, married Asa Boynton, and is deceased. Ruhama, youngest daughter, married Charles Pixley of Ironton. The following is an estimate of Mr. Cadot from one who knew him best : In Claudius Cadot the elements which most contribute to the thrift and general prosperity of the French people as a nation were pre-eminently united. He had great industry, untiring PIONEER SKETCHES - 671 energy, a rare capacity for good management, and the ideas of frugality which had been inbred in the French colonists who located on the Ohio. These qualities, unite.d with a frame of iron, insured for the little man the success which his life exemplified. By good fortune, too, he invested the hard earnings of his youth, made at keel-boating and other laborious pursuits, in land located near the iron furnaces of the Pine Creek country in the Hanging Rock region, and thus realized a ready market for all his produce and Claudius Cadot always had something to sell. If his neighbors—who also lived on farms—ran short of feed, or fruit, or truck, or young stock, Cadot could nearly always supply them. As he continued to prosper he added to his holdings until his farm grew to comprise hundreds of acres. He was prudent and cautious withal—and came to be widely recognized as a solid, safe, substantial, reliable man. At the end of life, when his surplus securities were unrolled and were found to net nearly $60,000, in addition to his real estate holdings, it presented a valuable object lesson as to what the young man in this country, starting with his bare hands, and working without speculative Methods, may achieve, if he is animated by the right spirit. And besides his worldly accumulations, he left not only a worthy example to the community, but the record of a pure life and honorable name to his family. Lemuel Cadet, Sr., was born in Gallipolis, Ohio, July 4, 1794, the son of Claudius Cadot, one of the 500 French who formed the settlement at Gallipolis. His father died in 1795 when he was but a year old and his mother took him and his brother Claudius and his sister Mary to the French Grant to live. His sister who afterwards married Francis Le Clercq was the first child born in Gallipolis. When a boy our subject worked at keel-boating. From 1817 to 1827, he was thus engaged and would go with a keel-boat from Pittsburg to Nashville, Tennessee, and sometimes walk back. In 1827, he purchased a, farm from the government and followed farming until lie died, still residing on his original farm. He was married July 28, 1828, to Catherine Baccus, daughter of James S. Baccus. To them were born nine children, six sons and three daughters. Mary Jane, wife of Harrison H. Fullerton, died in 1873. One daughter died in infancy. Nancy M., wife of Dr. Thomas McGovney, died some years ago at Ironton, O. William Henry Harrison and C. S. Cadot of Portsmouth, John Julius and Lemuel Zenas, both deceased ; Seymour Sydney of Fredricksburg, Virginia, and James Claudius, deceased. Our subject was a tOWnship officer for a number of years, but held no other offices. He was industrious and an honorable citizen, a good neighbor and a careful and close business man. In charitable matters he was liberal. He died June 6, 1875. 672 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. George Washington Calvert Was born in Prince William County, Virginia, September 15, 1805. When he was a child his father died and his mother came to Ohio with her family and located in Scioto County in the vicinity of Portsmouth. For many years young Calvert was in the employ of the late Captain Cleveland, as manager of his farm, now known as the "Infirmary Farm." He was also engaged for a time as a contractor on the Ohio canal, having charge of a section between Portsmouth and Jasper. When the canal was finished, he purchased some land in the neighborhood of Portsmouth, to which he afterwards added as his circumstances permitted; and at the time of his death he was the owner of a very large and valuable farm in the Scioto Valley. In the latter part of his life he was engaged in farming. Our subject's early education was meager, but he was quite a reader and student and acquired a great fund of general knowledge. In 1833, he was married to Miss Mary Emma Dent Hoskinson, daughter of the Rev. Josiah Hoskinson, of Scioto County, but formerly of Virginia. Mrs. Calvert died April 1, 1852, of lung fever, at which time Mr. Calvert was very sick with the same disease. They had six children, five of whom survived; Frank W., formerly a groceryman in Portsmouth, now deceased; Robert A., attorney-at-law, Portsmouth ; Thomas E., farmer of Scioto County, and Eva A., wife of Silas Clark. For some years prior to his death, Mr. Calvert married a second time to Miss Jane E. Reed, who survived. him. He died August 5, 1874. in 1868, he established the Calvert dairy farm and conducted it until the spring of 1874. Mr. Calvert was a Whig during the time of that party and after the death of that party, he became a Democrat. He was an advocate of progress at all times and was noted for his integrity and kindness of heart. Phineas Bean Chaffin was born December 7, 1823, in Porter Township, Scioto County, Ohio. His father, Phineas B. Chaffin, was a brother of Shadrach, Reuben and Daniel Chaffin. His father came from New Hampshire in 1812, and married his mother, Almira Wheeler in 1820. She was a daughter of Nathaniel Wheeler, a Revolutionary soldier, whose record as such will be found in the article on Revolutionary Soldiers in this work. Levi and Luther Wheeler, and Nathaniel Wheeler, Jr., well known in Scioto County, were her brothers. Of the children of Phineas Chaffin, Sr., there were: Lovina and Vilena; Lovina married Reuben Lamb in the French Grant and had a family; Vilena married Horace T. Hall, and had a family. Phineas B., our subject, was the next child, and then there were two who died in infancy. PIONEER SKFTCHES - 673 He had a brother John who married Rebecca Patton, and reared a family. Another brother Frances M.. married Susan Perry, and reared a family.. Another brother, William Brackett, married and has two sons living in Huntington, W. Va. Their names are Clarence and William. Another brother, Thomas B., is married, has a family, and lives in Portsmouth, and George a brother also lives in Portsmouth, and has a family. Abigail, a sister, married Francis Andre. Both are deceased. Another sister, Calphurnia married Augustus Andre, and lives in Huntington. Our subject married Persis Lamb, January 18, 1848. They have five children living, two sons and three daughters. The sons, Albert Byers and Frank Morey, reside in Morgan Township. Of the daughters, Ruby married Thomas Hartman and resides at Wheelersburg; Ida May and Ina Belle are unmarried. Our subject lived on the Lamb farm, one and one-half mile below Franklin Furnace, from 1848 to 1875; and then bought the Montgomery Mill on Pine Creek and lived there until April 5, 1882, and then moved to Crabtree, Morgan TOWnship, where he has since resided. He was a Whig until the Republican party came into existence, and acted with them until 1896, when he voted for Bryan. He learned the shoemakers trade, but never followed it after his marriage. The Lamb family came from Vermont and the Chaffin family came from New Hampshire. His wife died the 1st of September, 1890. Aaron Clark was born at Piketon, Ohio, June 18, 1808. He came to Scioto County in 1834, and settled in Washington Township, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was married April 3, 1836, to Eliza Orme, daughter of John Orme, who with his sons. Silas and John, and daughter, Mrs. Lovey J. Carlin survive him. He was a Democrat all his life, At one time he was was worth considerable money, but three Scioto floods in five years lost him all he had. In. 1878, he was the candidate of his party for sheriff, and was defeated. He died June 15, 1899. Uncle Aaron, as he was generally known, was always willing to do everything for everybody, even to the neglect of his own affairs. He was an easy going citizen and a good neighbor, but utterly lacked the talent of accumulation. His widow, the youngest child of John Orme and the only survivor of his family is living near Dan Harwood's in Morgan Township. She was born September 12. 1817, in a log house near the great mound which formerly stood on the Heinisch lot on Gallia street. George Crawford was born in Ireland, County Tyrone, near Fintona, November 6, 1829. His father's name was John Crawford, who came to this country in 1840, landed at Manchester, and went from Manchester 674 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. to West Union. He bought a little farm on Brush Creek and moved Out there. He resided `there until his death, August 23, 1873 at the age of eighty-five. His mother's ma,iden name was Jane McClung. She died November 7, 1855, aged 63 years. His parents had ten children, all of whom they brought to the United States. They came over in the ship, Napier to Philadelphia, and were six weeks on the ocean. The youngest child, two years old, died on the ocean and was buried at sea. Our subject received his education in Ireland, but attended pay schools all the time, as they had no free schools there in his time. He helped to build the Maysville & Zanesville Turnpike through West Union to Aberdeen. His father, his oldest brother Samuel and himself worked on the pike. In the spring of 1841, his brother Samuel and he went to Bloom Furnace and worked there. In 1842, they went to Jackson Furnace and part of the time at Junior Furnace. They dug ore and filled the furnaces. In the spring of 1843, Joe Smith put him in the store at Junior Furnace, as storekeeper, and his brother Samuel worked in the coal mines. In addition to keeping the store, he attended to taking up the charcoal. In 1844, he was put in the office at Junior Furnace, as book-keeper, and remained there until March 1, 1851. He was married December 26, 1849, to Mary Young Glidden, daughter of Samuel Mills Glidden. They went to housekeeping at Junior Furnace, but moved to Clinton Furnace in March, 1851, where he still resides and expects to die. Joseph W., Charles N., 0. H., and Daniel H. Glidden, four brothers, 'bought Clinton Furnace in 1848. Our subject went in with them first as a b00k-keeper. Then Stephen Glidden, his brother-in-law and he rented the Furnace, and operated it until 1854. At the end of three years, he bought the interest of Stephen Glidden and bought 1-24 from each of the other owners. The furnace continued under the firm name of Glidden, Crawford & Co., until the fall of 1867, when Mr. Crawford bought the entire property. He took in with him Wm. J. Bell. They operated the Furnace as Crawford & Bell, until the fall of 1870, when he sold out to Win. J. Bell, who operated the Furnace individually. Our subject then moved to Portsmouth, and after ten years Jawing about the title of the Furnace, Mr. Crawford bought it back. The Furnace went out of blast in the fall or winter of 1873 for good. There were 5,000 acres of the Furnace property at that time. Mr. Crawford sold about 3,000 acres of the land to G. W. Kelley. His son owns 2,500 acres around the whole furnace site and Mr. Crawford resides there. His wife died April 22, 1891. Their children are as follows: Mary Ellia, died at sixteen months; George W., formerly Mayor of Portsmouth ; Charles M., died at the age of eight years; Dr. John N. W., residing in New York City ; Doctor Mrs. M, A. G. Dwight, at Boston. PIONEER SKETCHES - 675 Mr. Crawford was a Whig while that party lasted, and since then has been a Republican. He is a typical Irishman. Though the infirmities of age have worsted him somewhat, he is hale and hearty for his years. He is as full of business as he was at the age of twenty. Care acts on him like water on a duck's feathers. Time was when he was in a sea of troubles in the business world, but now he is a spectator and enjoys seeing the procession go by. He has outlived all his contemporaries in business, but yet life is sweet to him and he disagrees with the poet who wrote the hymn, "I would not live always." Captain Francis Cleveland was born at Norwich, Conn., December 24, 1796. He was a brother of the father of Ex-President Cleveland. He received a very liberal education and when it was complete, he went to New York City and engaged as a Clerk for his uncle. In 1817, he went to Zanesville, O., where he taught school one year. Here he married and two children were born to him, a son and a daughter. His wife died in 1823. His sister, Mrs. Lewis F. Allen of Black pork, New York, took the infant daughter and reared her till she was fourteen years of age, when she died. His son Francis lived in the east with relatives until he was eighteen years of age, when he 'came to Portsmouth, Ohio, and lived with his father one year or more. He went from Portsmouth, Ohio to Indiana. From there he went to California, where he soon after died. In 1832, our subject went into business in Zanesville with one, Charles Hill, as jewelers. They bought a large stock of high priced goods in the east and could not sell them. As a result, they failed in business. This was in 1824, and he obtained work on the Miami Canal as an Assistant Engineer. He developed a talent for the work and in 1825 was made an Engineer on the Ohio Canal. In 1828 and 1829, he located on the Ohio Canal from ten miles north of Chillicothe to Portsmouth, Ohio. Captain Cleveland had complete charge of the building of the canal for this distance. He was given the naming of the new town to be located in Pike County and he named it Waverly, for Sir Walter Scott's "Waverly." The Captain was a great reader of standard fiction and was especially fond of Scott. He possessed excellent literary taste and was a great collector of b00ks. -When he located in Portsmouth, in 1828, he was the best educated person in the town, excepting Dr. G. S. B. Hempstead. He and his assistants worked all winter in locating the canal and the wonder is he did not die from the effects of it. From the spring of 1828 until his death, his home was in Portsmouth. On July 4, 1831, Portsmouth had the greatest celebration of Independence Day in its history. Captain Cleveland read the Declaration of Independence, after which a salvo of artillery was fired as a defiance to King George. He also responded to one of the toasts at the pub- 676 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. lic dinner on that day. In 1832, he was one of the lecturers before the Portsmouth Lyceum. In 1833, he was overtaken by financial failure a second time by reason of this connection with the New York Company. In 1834, he married Miss Margaret Waller, the daughter of Dr. Thomas Waller. In 1835, he went to Indiana and located the Whitewater Canal. Soon after this he bought what is now the Infirmary farm and built the stone house residence where he resided for some time. In 1845, he had a ferry at the mouth of the Scioto river for which he paid $25.00 per: annum. In 1844, he edited the Portsmouth Enquirer and continued that till 1852, when he sold out. In 1848 he was the Democratic candidate for Congress and was defeated. J. L. Taylor was his opponent. In Scioto County, Taylor received 1,530 votes and Cleveland 1,064. In 1851, he was the Democratic candidate for State Senator in the new Seventh District, against Col. 0. F. Moore and was defeated.. The vote in Scioto County stood, Moore 1,348, Cleveland 928. He adhered to the Democracy till about 1861, when he became a Republican and remained as such the remainder of his life. On October 26, 1848, his wife died leaving no issue. He never re-married. In 1849 to 1851, he was an Examiner and Inspector of the public schools. From 1851 to 1853 he was City Clerk. He was also City Clerk from April 24, 1865 until November 6, 1872. He was Town Surveyor from 1854 to 1860. In 1855, as a member of the City Council, he offered a resolution to build the first sewer in Portsmouth and it carried. In 1856, he was appointed engineer to construct the Third street sewer and controlled the entire work. From 1852 to 1872, he was Secretary of the Aurora Lodge of Free Masons. He was very fond of Masonry and attained the 33rd degree. In 1870, he was one of the Infirmary Directors of Portsmouth. He was the most efficient City Clerk the town ever had. The Committee on Claims was a great power in its time, but Captain Cleveland was equal to the Committee on Claims, and the whole Council besides. He knew every detail and department of the city's affairs. He knew the city's financial condition all the time. The writer knew of his work from April, 1871, to November 4, 1872. On Monday morning, November 4, 1872, he was found in his office speechless. He seemed to be as well as usual in every respect, but his voice was utterly gone. He could not even make a sound, though he could see, hear and understand everything said to him and move about as usual. He could not write, and hence was cut off all communication with his fellows. His minutes from. October were all complete and were in the same firm hand as he always wrote in. A few days after his affliction, the council passed resolutions in regard to his official career, in which it was stated that he was always found at his post of duty and ready to furnish in- PIONEER SKETCHES - 677 formation as to city matters. He was ever watchful of the city's welfare and was truthful and honest. Council resolved it had lost the best and most efficient clerk it ever had, and that he had the sympathy of the council. His salary was ordered paid him to date and that a copy of the resolutions be given him. As long as council had the election of clerk, Captain Cleveland was re-elected unanimously, regardless of the political complexion of council. Well might the Council have spread this testimonial on its journal. For years the Captain had done the work of the committees of Council and they had only to sign their names to a report. Moreover when Captain Cleveland did this work for the members, it was done better than they could have done it themselves, and they knew it. His mind was a' most perfect repository 0f the city's business. He knew every document and every book in his office and could find anything called for at once. It was a good, clean, easy job to be a councilman while Captain Cleveland was clerk. If a councilman, did not know everything about city affairs (which was usually the case) all he had to do was to ask Captain Cleveland and he was informed at 0nce. In 1869, the City Clerkship was elective by the people for 0nce and Captain Cleveland was 0n the Republican ticket and Thomas G. Howell on the Democratic. The vote stood Cleveland 893, Howell 663, a majority ,of 238, the largest majority of any 0ne elected. No doubt every Democratic Councilman and city officer voted for the Captain. He was not a religious man. All his religious emotions evidenced themselves in his Masonry. He did more work for the City of Portsmouth in the administration of its affairs than any officer who ever held office under its municipal organization. As City Civil Engineer, he was the best qualified who ever held the office. The sewers he built stand as well today as when he finished them. The Captain was very fond of reading standard works on science and literature. He wrote out the manuscript of a scientific work which was never published. It is in the possession of his niece, Miss Clara Waller, He survived until June 26, 1881, more than eight years after his stroke of paralysis, but he never recovered his power of speech or ability to write. He could see and could g0 about, but the world was dead to him and he to it. When stricken with paralysis he had been making his home with Robert Montgomery and he continued his home here until his death. "His Masonic brethren and his wife's relatives looked after his comfort, but it seems the irony of fate that he should be compelled to live over eight years shut off from the world. No more useful citizen ever lived in Portsmouth. Charles Chick was born in Gallia County, Ohio, December 23, 1823. He was the son of William and Nancy (Skinner) Chick, William Chick, his 678 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. father, was born in Somerset, England, April 25, 1794. He, with two brothers, John and Charles, came to this country in 1817 and settled in Gallia County. John Chick for years was superintendent of Mt. Vernon Furnace. William Chick in 1828, purchased a farm of five or six hundred acres in the French Grant and removed his family there. He built the stone house on his farm which stood until 1wo when it was destroyed by fire. He had learned the trade of stone mason at the Portsmouth, England, Navy Yards. He also built the stone church near Powellsville which was torn down about 1892. He was baptized in the Church of England, but there was no Episcopal church near him and he gave his strong support to the Baptist church, which he built on his farm with his own hands and contributed very liberally to its founding. His children were : John, who died on "the Isthmus" while on his way to California; Charles, the subject of this sketch ; William, aged seventy-seven, who resides at Walton, Indiana; Elizabeth, wife of John Shope, who died at Powellsville; Frank, who died at his home in Illinois; George, aged seventy-five, of Newport, California; Hiram, aged seventy-three, of Sierra street. Los Angeles, California. and Vashti. aged seventy-one, the wife of James Davis, of Walton. Indiana. William Chick's wife died in 1845 and in 1846 he purchased the farm on the river east of the city which now the site of the Burgess Mill and of Yorktown. The farm contained 237 acres for which he paid $5,000. In March, 1847, while the family were preparing to move to the river farm. he was taken sick and died. Charles and Vashti, the two children who were still at home, moved to the new farm. Charles bought out the other heirs and spent the remainder of his life there. In 1834, he was married to Sarah Lawson. daughter of Squire John Lawson. oldest son of William Lawson; pioneer of Scioto County and oldest son of Thomas Lawson of Hampshire County, Virginia, who was a soldier of the Revolutionary War. Sarah Lawson was also the great- granddaughter of Michael Watson, pioneer of Adams County. who was born in Maryland and emigrated to Mason County, Kentucky, in 1790, and to Adams County, Ohio, in 1804. The children of Charles and Sarah Lawson Chick are: Elizabeth, wife of Henry Amberg, Stephen C., Ida M., wife of W. D. Horn, Clara B., John W.. Harriet. wife of William \V. Gates, Jr., Ella E.. Laura R., Walter A.. and Pearl. One child Henrietta died when three years of age. All the children live in this city with one exception, John, resides on the Peebles farm at New Boston. Charles Chick died June & 1877. His widow resided on the farm until 1898 when she sold the farm and moved to this city. She had lived in the same house for forty-four years, having gone there when a bride. She and four children: Clara, Ella. Laura and Pearl now reside at 229 Gallia street. Charles Chick was a man of sterling qualities and the soul of honor; ever ready to lend a helping hand or PIONEER SKETCHES - 679 do a kindness to a neighbor ; he was honored and respected by all who knew him. The "Golden Rule" was the rule of his life and whatever he did was characterized by thoroughness. His farm was one of the model farms of the county. William Crichton was a native of Perthshire, Scotland, where he was born February 10, 1821. His father was David Crichton and his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth MacFarland. The father with one daughter came to Porter Township in 1832, leaving the family to settle up affairs at home and come over the following season. When the mother and children arrived, they found that the father and daughter had lately died, and they were thus thrown among strangers t0 wage life's battle, as best they could. The children were : John, who early emigrated to the Pacific coast where he lived, unmarried, though in prosperous circumstances; Andrew, a notice of whom appears in this volume; James who became partner in Buckhorn Furnace with Seeley, Willard & Company, married Ruby Whitcomb and left two children; Ernest and James, the former a partner, Secretary and Treasurer 0f a navigation company in Portland, Oregon and Amelia who married a Presbyterian minister, Rev. Gamaliel Beaman and lived in Croton, Iowa, whose only son David C. Beaman is a practicing attorney in Denver, Colorado ; Elizabeth who married Doctor Josiah Haines, a practicing physician in Keokuk, Iowa; Janet now living in Wheelersburg, Ohio, unmarried, and William, the subject of this sketch, who died unmarried at the old home, in October, 1894. When the gold fever broke out in 1849 Mr. Crichton caught it and became an Argonaut. He went overland to California with the party made up at Wheelersburg and a full account of his trip will he found under the article "Forty-niner’s." While in California Mr. Crichton turned t0 the carpenter's trade and worked in the erection of buildings in San Francisco. He soon tired 0f California and returned, by the Panama route. He concluded Scioto County was good enough for him and settled down t0 the life of a farmer. This occupation was to him a study, a pleasure, an esthetic recreation, as well as a source of profit. The first reaper introduced in Porter township, if not in the county, was one of the 0ld, heavy McCormick reapers which he bought soon after it began to be manufactured. His tastes ran to wheat culture. It was he who first demonstrated, even before the days of commercial fertilizers, that there was money in wheat raising. His wheat yields ran up to twenty, twenty-five and sometimes thirty bushels an acre, in favorable seasons. So his neighbors began to take observations. And largely through Crichton's pioneer work in this direction, this section has become one of the famous wheat producing districts of the State. 680 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. As a man he was far above the average in culture and intelligence. His reading was varied and extensive and few subjects came up that he was not competent to discuss intelligently. In 1869, he revisited relatives in Scotland and made a tour on the continent. He began keeping a diary at that time, in which he made entries daily thereafter up to the time of his death, so that on referring to 'this he could tell in a moment about the weather and seasons and all the occurrences of any importance on any day referred to. He was a good talker and a charming companion. A complete file of Harper's Magazine from the first number issued. down to the time of his death had a place in his library. Flowers of many kinds, gorgeous beds of them in season, adorned his yard, kept fresh by a perennial spring in their midst, and in the cultivation of these, he t00k great pleasure and spent a large part of his later years. And withal, he wielded a facile pen and, on occasion, could write an idyllic sketch. or an ironic, biting screed. Not many knew that an occasional editorial from his pen would sometimes appear unsigned in the local press. A fine sense of honor, to ,those who knew him, formed the ineradicable substratum of his character. In matters of principle he was uncompromising. A trust of any kind was absolutely safe in his keeping. When abolitionism was a reproach he was one of two in his township who voted his principles. And he permitted no questions of expediency to dim or blur his perceptions of what was honorable and right. He was a fair type of the Old World country gentleman transplanted to the New. Silas W. Cole was born in Chenango County, New York, August 2, 1797. He received a common school education and in 1819 he went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in teaching English in a German school. In the summer of that year he walked to Pittsburg. On leaving there he with two others went in a skiff to Portsmouth, Ohio, where he landed and which place he afterwards made his home. As a youth he had been brought up to the trade of wagon maker. He located in Washington Township, and followed that trade there and in Portsmouth until about 1825. On November 22, 1822, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Huston, daughter of William Huston, and settled in the town of Portsmouth, on the southwest corner of Second and Court streets. He continued to reside in Portsmouth until 1839, and from that year until 1840, he lived on a small farm along the canal on the West Side. In 1826, he was Supervisor of the east ward of Portsmouth, and the same year, he was Overseer of the Poor in Wayne Township. In 1827, he was one of the Health Officers of the Town, and in 1830, he was the Clerk of Wayne Township. In 1832, he was made an additional member of the Board of Health, in Portsmouth, on account of the cholera. In PIONEER SKETCHES - 681 1833 and 1834, he was a member of the Town Council and one of the committee on claims. Thus lie became one of the aristocrats of the town. In 1835, he was President of the Council. In 1836, he was allowed $100.00 for his services, caring for the streets. In 1837, he was elected street commissioner of the town of Portsmouth, when that office was first created. He served in the same office the following year. In 1844, he was elected a County Commissioner and served one term. In 1837, he was elected County Infirmary Director. He was re-nominated in 1867, on the Republican ticket; but went down in the great disaster to the Republicans in that year. However, lie was re-elected in 1869 and served another term. In 1861, his wife died. In 1864, he married Mrs. Antoinette Squires, who survived him. The following were the children of his first marriage : George W., who lives at Dry Run, this county; William Crayton, who resides at New Windsor, Illinois ; Charles Oscar, living at Cheshire, Ohio; Amos Burnham, deceased ; Caroline, the widow of William Barber, who resides in Portsmouth, Ohio; Joseph H. hereinafter mentioned; Silas, living in Washington Township John, who lives on the Gable farm in Clay Township and James Madison of Hulett, Wyoming. In politics, he was a Whig and Republican. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for fifty years and a consistent one at that. His son, Joseph H. Cole, entered Co. E of the 33rd Ohio as a private, and was appointed Sergeant, promoted to Second Lieutenant in 1863, and on September 19, 1863, was killed at the battle of Chickamauga. Mr. Cole was a man of severe manners and of great dignity. He was one of the plain Methodists. Had he lived in the time of the Puritans, he would have been a Chief among them. He was always frugal and industrious. He was regular in all his habits and positive in his opinions. Sometimes he appeared to be abrupt and cold, but with all he was a most excellent man and citizen and a very earnest Christian. With him religion was no l00se sentiment, but a set of principles to be lived every day. He held many times the offices of Steward and Trustee in the Church. He died on the 6th of January, 1875, honored and respected by the entire circle of his acquaintance. Captain Samuel Cole, son of Benjamin and Hannah Coles, (Quakers) was born at Glen Cove, Long Island, June 8, 1808. His father was a farmer, came west at an early day, settled in Rising Sun Indiana, then removed to Franklin, Ohio, where he was engaged for a time in building a part of the Ohio canal. In 1830, he went to Portsmouth, where with his brother-in-law, Lemuel Moss, he superintended the construction of the terminus of the canal ; and also the excavations for the present channel of the Scioto river at its mouth. In 1835, 682 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. he commanded the steamboat "Fairy Queen." 'Later he built the steamboat "Home" and ran her on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. He was married, October 6, 1836, to Nancy Ellen Peebles, a daughter of Robert and Jane Peebles of Newville, Penn. She came to Chillicothe with her mother in 1828, and to Portsmouth with her sister, Mrs. Lemuel Moss. From 1837 to 1849, he was one of the owners of Moss's Mill near Portsmouth. With J. V. Robinson, he built the tannery at Springville, Kentucky, opposite Portsmouth ; also in the firm of Robinson, Waller & Coles, carried on a commission business for many years. In 1854, he moved to Hanging Rock, having purchased an interest in Hanging Rock coal works and Pine Grove Furnace, and managed the coal works. In 1864, in company with his former associates and others, he purchased the eastern division of the Lexington and Big Sandy R. R., and moved to Ashland. He was president o the company and had supervision of all its interests until his death. He was stricken with paralysis in July, 1869, and never recovered. He died March 8, 1871, leaving a wife and ten children. His son Thomas K., was killed November 19, 1864, near Bunker Hill, Va., :fighting in, defense of the flag of his country. His oldest daughter, Mrs. Martha M. Derby, died at Omaha, December, 1871. His wife survived him fourteen years. She was a woman of remarkable character, was the mother of thirteen children; of whom one son, Col. Frank Coles, and eight daughters survive her. Hugh Cook was born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, March 13, 1785. In his father's family there were twelve sons and one daughter. Our subject came to Portsmouth, Ohio, in the year 1811, at the age of twenty-two. He was then married, but the name of his first wife was not preserved. There were two children of this marriage; John and Mary Ann, the wife of Judge Wm. V. Peck. Mr. Cook's first wife died May 29th, 1822, at the age of thirty-seven years and twenty-nine days. He married the second time on the 8th of October, 1822, to Mercy Smith, the widow of John Smith, and the mother of Luke P. N. Smith, Charles—N. Smith and Joseph W. Smith. The following are the children of the second marriage: Alpheus; Margaret, married Wm. Salter, died in August, 1901 ; Wm. Thaddeus, born October 15, 1828; Mercy, married Valklow, and Robert Hugh. Hugh Cook was elected Appraiser of Wayne Township in 1813 and 1816; and a Trustee of the Township in 1818. In 1819, he was elected Supervisor of Portsmouth, Ohio, but declined the office, and Nathan Wheeler was appointed in his place. From 1827 to 1830, Mr. Cook carried on a very extensive teaming business between Portsmouth and Chillicothe. James Emmitt and Samuel C. Briggs were among his drivers; and James Emmitt claims to have laid the foundation of his fortune by working for Hugh' Cook, as a driver of one of his teams, Mr, PIONEER SKETCHES - 683 Cook was engaged in this business very extensively and must have had six or eight teams. In 1828, 1829 and 1830, he served as Court Constable. He was market master of the city in 1833. He was a man of substance and standing in the community, as he was accepted as one of the securities on Isaac Noel's bond, as contractor for the jail in 1834. He was jailer of the County in 1843 and 1844, and when John Cook was Treasurer in 1852, he was one of his bondsmen. He was always a Democrat, and was one of the seven Democrats in Scioto who voted for General Jackson in 1828. He was a carpenter by trade, but never followed it. He at one time owned the McDowell building on Front street, and afterwards owned property .near the north end of Market street. At one time, he owned the property now occupied by the J. F. Davis Drug Company. He OWned six acres on what is now the north side of Gallia street in the vicinity where Wm. Connolley now resides. He also owned what is now the George Ball Addition on the northeast corner of Gallia and Offnere. Mr. Cook died at Portsmouth, Ohio, August 25, 1858, aged seventy-three years, five months and twelve days. His wife, Mrs. Mercy Cook, survived until February 2, 1885, when she died at Hamden Furnace. Her maiden name was Mercy Stratton. She united with the All Saints Church in 1822, and was confirmed by Bishop Chase. Henry Core was born on Twin creek, Ross County, Ohio. The name was German originally, Kohr. He married Effie McDonald, daughter of Colonel John McDonald, and was in the War of 18 He was a Whig. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Church and during the old circuit riding days, his home was the minister's home. He and his wife had six children : Doctor James Core, of Homer, Illinois, a prominent physician and a member of the Legislature from that district, deceased several years ago; Catherine, wife of James A. Gunning, died in 1856, she was the mother of Mrs. John R. Foster : Elizabeth, widow of James Steele, formerly of Ross County, Ohio, but for many years resident of Marshall, Missouri, was another daughter. John Core died long since. He was long a resident of Red Rock, Iowa. Clay Core, another son, married and spent a long life in Illinois and Anna Core, still living, is a resident of Tennessee. Henry Core came to Portsmouth in 1817, the year of his marriage. He opened a hotel on Front street called the Ohio hotel. It. was said to have been built by Colonel McDonald. From Portsmouth, he removed to Frankfort, Ross County, Ohio, in November, 1829, and kept a hotel there. From there he removed to Bloomingburg, Fayette County, Ohio, where he engaged in farming and dealing in horses. He shipped droves of horses to the southern markets. In 1851, he sold his Fayette County farm and removed to Ross County where he rented a farm. In 1853, he bought a farm near Bourneville. He 684 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. resided here until 1856, when he sold out and removed to Homer. Champaign County, Illinois. Abraham Coriell was a son of Elias Coriell, a native of New Jersey, who came to Scioto County in 1818.- His wife was a Lucretia Covert. They had nine children : Isaac was the eldest, Daniel was the Second, Eliza, who married Isaac Schoonover, the third ; the fourth was Celia; the fifth Peter ; the sixth, Ira ; the seventh, Fannie, who married William Brown; and the eighth was a daughter drOWned at the age of two years in the Alleghany river, as the family were emigrating to Portsmouth. • The boat in which they were traveling sank and they were unable to rescue the child. Their youngest child was Abraham, our subject, born July 28, 1818, in the town of Portsmouth, on Front street. Elias Coriell was brought up to the trade of hatter, but never followed it for, when he reached Portsmouth, he concluded that there were too many of his trade in the town. In the Spring of 1819, he moved to the country, on Little Scioto, where our subject remained until he was fourteen years of age. At the age of sixteen he went into John Clugsten's jewelry store and served there as an apprentice until he was twenty-one years of age. On reaching has majority he went to Chillicothe and worked there one year in the jewelry store of A. J. Clarke. He then came back and worked with Mr. Clugsten till about 1842, when he started up in business for himself in Portsmouth, and continued until the year 1896, a period of fifty-four years. August 5, 1892, he was married to Mary White, a (laughter of Daniel White. From the time of his marriage he resided in the city of Portsmouth. His children were: Electa Ann, wife of Peter J. Honaker, died in 1886; Henry Otterbein, died at the age of eight months; Ira Frank, died in 1898; Alice, wife of William Hancock; and his son Edward, is Secretary of the Scioto Building Association; and a daughter, Ella died at the age of five years. Mr. Coriell was a Whig as long as the Whig party lasted, and then became a Republican. In his early life he was a member of the Methodist Church, but about 1861, he became a member of the Christian Disciple Church, and has continued such ever since. His wife died May 17, 1895, and since then he has made his home with his daughter,. Mrs. Hancock. Catharine Murphy Cox, widow of Martin Cox, was born October 18, 1815. When a girl she attended school three months a year, and stated that the teacher did not know more than a ten year old boy does now. The school house was of logs. She had to walk through wet swampy ground and would often sit with cold damp feet on wooden benches, nothing more than a board with legs. She thinks the boys and girls of today could not stand that. The teachers of her childhood whipped their pupils frequently, and the girls as well as the boys. She attended PIONEER SKETCHES - 685 church about once a month but attended Sunday School every Sunday. Abner Ewing conducted it. Her father, Recompense Murphy, was not a member of any church until after he married his second wite. Her mother was an old school Presbyterian. She saw the second_ steamboat go down the Ohio river. It was named the "William Putnam." When she was a girl, the banks of the river were inclined at about an angle of forty-five degrees, and did not begin to cave until the steamboats began to run regularly. The waves washed the sand out of them and then the banks began to crumble and this process has been going on ever since. This second boat which she saw was a stern wheeler. The articles of table-ware in her time were all pewter. She relates that her father, Recompense Murphy, walked all the way from Adams County to New Jersey to get money to pay for his lands. He had bought six hundred acres and agreed to pay one dollar an acre for it. When she was a child, wolves were howling around her father's house every night. There was an old man who bought six hundred acres of land back of Vanceburg, in the hills and undertook to start a sheep farm. He brought hounds with him and these hounds caused the wolves to leave the neighborhood. One night her father awakened her and her brothers and sisters and told them that it would -be the last time they would hear the wolves, and so it proved. The hounds in Kentucky would run the deer into the Ohio river, and the people on the Ohio side would take them. There was a young woman in the neighborhood named Blakemore. When she was about sixteen years of age, she left her home in Kentucky, crossed the Ohio river in a canoe and walked through the woods from the landing place opposite Vanceburg, to the cabin which stood where James McMasters now lives, more than a mile. She started in the afternoon to return home with a package she had obtained at the house where Simon Smith then lived. The wolves followed her through the woods and she was compelled to undo her package and throw its contents on the ground, and afterwards, her bonnet and" shawl and apron to delay the wolves. They would stop long enough to ascertain what was thrown clown and to tear the articles up, and then they would follow. She managed to get to the river before they did and jumped into her canoe and pushed out into the water. The wolves followed as far as they could wade, but went back rather than swim. Mrs. Cox's father used to go to West Union to buy tea when it was four dollars a pound. She was married November 19, 1834, to Martin Cox. In that year, he built ninety flat boats and took them to Cincinnati. These boats were from tone hundred and twenty to one hundred and twenty-two feet long, and five to six feet deep. They were taken to Cincinnati where they were loaded and taken to New Orleans. There they were broken up and the lumber used to 686 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. build houses. In 1834, was the first year Martin Cox engaged in the building of flat boats; and he continued' it for about five years, and then went to farming. Martin Cox employed eight men in boat building, and sold most of his boats to Thomas Redden. Charles A. M. Damarin was one of the foremost citizens of his time in the city of Portsmouth. He was one of the most enterprising,—one of the most' successful. He was a man of the very strongest purpose. He never undertook anything execpt he had carefully considered it before hand, and approved it. He would undertake nothing unreasonable, nothing he did not believe he could accomplish, and when he undertook it, he succeeded. The we rd "failure" was not in his copy of the dictionary. He was a Frenchman, but without the excitability of a Frenchman. He was always calm, cool and collected. He never lost his presence of mind, or equipoise. He maintained a supremacy over other men in business, because he had the genius and talent which deserved it. He was born in Paris, France, April 1o, 1797. His father was Antonius M. M. Damarin and his mother was Mary Le Brun. He was the eldest of three children. He received a liberal education' in France. On March 16, 1817, he, his father and his brother concluded to come to the United States. They landed in New York, May 2, 1817, and went to Gallipolis, Ohio. He went into the employment of John Peter Romaine Bureau, as a clerk; and subsequently he became a partner in the business. In 1830, he returned to France, and was in the city of Paris at the time when Charles X was dethroned. He brought back his mother and sister with him. He felt that he wanted another field than in Gallipolis, and in 1831, located in Cincinnati, and engaged in business. In 1833, lie was induced by Captain James W. Davis to locate in Portsmouth, Ohio, and did so. He embarked in the grocery business, and expanded it till lie became a wholesaler. Part of the time he had as partner Charles Henking of Gallipolis. He took the lead in his business in Portsmouth and maintained it all his life. While he was in active business, which was the whole of his life in Portsmouth no enterprise of any public consequence was undertaken unless he was in it, and at the first of it. He was one of the founders of the Commercial Bank and one of its directors. He was one of the first to start the Scioto Rolling Mill, afterwards the Burgess Steel & Iron Works. If he and J. V. Robinson had not endorsed the Scioto & Hocking Valley Railroad, it would never have been built. He was also in the 'Portsmouth Insurance Company and its President. In 1853, he built the Hamden Furnace. To show the character of the man, in 1835, when he had only been in Portsmouth two years, he was selected to obtain a loan of $10,000 to build the present Court House. The Commissioners left the money with him and checked PIONEER SKETCHES - 687 it out as they needed it, preferring to do that rather than trust the County Treasurer on his bond or any Bank. Mr. Damarin amassed a fortune, as he deserved to. He had four sons, and three daughters. Two of the sons died in infancy, and one in youth and one is surviving, Augustus M. Damarin. Of his three daughters, two survive, Mrs: Mary E. Voorheis, wife of A. B. Voorheis of Cincinnati, and Mrs. Harriet, wife of George D. Scudder of Portsmouth. Mr. Damarin wanted a lateral canal to Portsmouth, a dam at Bear Creek and the canal on the east side. He planned for a great basin, or canal boat harbor, where the Burgess Mill stood at the west end of the city. It was a wonderful plan and had it succeeded, Portsmouth would have been a city of 75,000 people today. But it was turned over to the State and dropped. Had it been turned over to Mr. Damarin, the enterprise would have been carried through. Had he lived in our day, with his business talent, for organization, he would have found ample opportunity for their employment. He had a strong will, great powers of endurance both mental and physical. His integrity shone above all his other qualities. He was public spirited to the highest degree, and his energy knew no limits except time in which to act. He was charitable and benevolent, and was pleased with opportunities to display those features of his character. His native French courtesy made him courteous to all whom he met. He had a wide business acquaintance and enjoyed the confidence of its entire circle. His credit was as good away from home as at home. Had he offered to buy the- town and council had accepted the offer, lie would have been ready to pay the money down at the time appoint. ed. He never made a business proposition, which he did not mean to lie accepted, and, if accepted, lie always had the means to comply with it. He did as much as any man who ever lived in Portsmouth to contribute to its growth and prosperity. The writer and no one else is responsible for the idea. but he believes that C. A. M. Damarin and J. V. Robinson made Portsmouth what it is: that they laid the foundation for the town's prosperity and success. Sanders Darby was a fine subject for the story tellers. He was born in 1788, but where is now unknown, probably in Philadelphia. He was one of the very first settlers in the town of Portsmouth. He bought a whole inlot, No. 95 82 1/2 feet front on the corner where the Gilbert Wholesale Grocery now stands, for $50.00, of Henry Massie in 1809, and the inlot immediately south of it, fronting the same width on Front street, No. 96, for $100. He built a small log house on the Front street lot and rented it out. He built a two story log house on Second street. There was a door toward Second street, but no windows fronting either street. He had an 688 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY opening 0n 0ne side of the door to enable him to observe any one who approached. At the same time, he bought an outlot on the southwest corner of Third and Chillicothe streets, No. 540, for $50.08, of the County Commissioners. It contained three acres and he used it for a cow pasture. He owned another outlot on Third and Washington streets. It also contained three acres. His business was making 0ars and selling poles for keel boats and skiff oars, and he was kept busy. He carried on his business in the lower story of his log house on Second. street. His Second street lot he had fenced with pickets twelve feet high. He was a bachelor and his own cook and housekeeper. He was extremely frugal and parsimonious in his habits. It is said that he once fell in love with a widow, who had two children, but never declared his love. He at one time prepared a meal and set his table for four. He helped each plate, one for the widow, whom he imagined to be present, and one for each of the two children and one for himself. He then took a survey of the table and then said to himself, it would not do, that he could not afford to maintain such a family. He gave up the matrimonial project and the widow never heard his declaration of love. After rejecting the project, he lived and died a bachelor on September 16, 1825. The newspaper announcing his death, said he died of a lingering disease, and of the infirmities incident to old age. He was 59 years old when he died and yet Captain Shackford who came to Portsmouth at the age 0f 68, lived twenty-five years afterward. He never held any office, except that 0f fence viewer. In April, 1811, he was a fence viewer of Wayne Township and Martin Funk was his colleague. He was a member of the Methodist Church, very industrious and strictly honest. He died four years before Greenlawn cemetery was opened and the place of his sepulchre is not known. His relatives in Philadelphia obtained his property. The hermit bus-. bless was , much 0verdone in the pioneer days. It was then out of place, because people were so dependent 0n each other ; but now it would be a blessed thing if a large number of the community would seclude themselves from their fellows. But with all the conveniences, comforts and luxuries of modern life, the hermit business has been abandoned and there are no more Sanders Darbys.to write about. Stephen P. Drake was born near Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio, in October, 1818. When a boy he was apprenticed to David Ammen and learned the printer’s trade on the "Castigator," published in Georgetown. In the office was Captain Daniel Ammen, afterwards. Commodore Daniel Ammen, and Reeder W. Clark, afterwards Congressman from that district. After finishing his apprenticeship, he worked in the office of the "Western Advertiser," at Cincinnati, as a hand, when George PIONEER SKETCHES - 689 E. Pugh, afterwards United States Senator, was employed in the office. From Cincinnati, he went to Hillsboro, Ohio, where' he worked in the newspaper offices of the "Ohio .News" and "Hillsbor0 Gazette." From Hillsboro, he removed to Wilmington, Ohio, where he established the "Western Whig," since changed to the "Clinton Republican." In the winter of 1840 and 1841, he commenced the publication of the "West Union Intelligencer," at West Union, Ohio. He published this, a Whig paper, until the winter of 1845 and 1846, when he removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, and published the "Portsmouth Clipper," in which he purchased a half interest of Mr. Drouillard. He afterward purchased the other half of the "Clipper" and united it with the "Tribune," then owned by Silmon Clark. The new paper was called the "Tribune and Clipper." Afterwards the word "Clipper" was dropped. He and Clark sold out to John Hanna and subsequently he bought back one half of the paper from Hanna and they started the "Daily Evening Tribune." In 1852, he began the publication of the "Tribune." In 1858, he removed to Jackson, Ohio, and was connected with the "Jackson Standard" for one year. He then removed to Madison, Indiana, and published a daily and weekly paper there. In 1860, he began the publication of the "Clipper," at Ironton, Ohio, and continued it until October, 1862, when he enlisted as a private in the 2nd Virginia Cavalry. About December 14, 1864, he was captured and murdered by his captors. He left a wife and two children, Robert and Louisa. Simon DeLong was a well known character in Portsmouth from 1821 to 1835. We do not know when he was born 0r when he died or what place holds his ashes. We know that he was a butcher by occupation. He lived in that part of the city near South Waller and Second; that he gave his name to one of the additions to the town; and that he had a large family of sons and daughters, none 0f whom or their descendants are now in Portsmouth. In 1821, he was lister in Wayne Township and was allowed $6.00 for his services. In 1822, he held the same office. In 1823, he had charge of the Court House, and for the period from December 28, 1821, until March 4, 1823, fourteen and one-seventh months, he was allowed $30.00, for taking care of it. On the last named date, he was re-employed for 0ne year, and was allowed $5.00 per quarter for his services. In 1824, he was the jailer and was allowed $22.25, for boarding a horse thief (so entered on the Commissioners' Record) for 89 days. This was at the rate of twenty-five cents per day. In the same period he charged and was allowed fifty cents-for washing for the horse thief. In 1824, at the July term he was allowed $6.00 for attending the term as Court Constable. The term lasted twelve days and he was allowed fifty cents per day. On December 690 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. 3, 1827, an inventory of the Court House furniture was given and among them were: four brass candlesticks, one pair of snuffers, one tin bucket, one glass tumbler. He was ordered t0 buy two sets of small andirons and one set of large ones for the Court House. The Court House had but one writing desk, tw0 tables and 29 chairs. In 1825 and 1826, he was Court Constable at fifty cents per day, and in 1827 had charge of the Court House. In 1830, he was jailer. In 1831, he took charge of the Court House for $16.00 for the entire year, payable four dollars each quarter. He was Town Marshal in 1822, and on March 26, it is recorded on the Council Journal that Simon De Long, being sick, asked to go home. He was Town Marshal from 1828 to 1834. In 1822, he served as Town Marshal the whole year for $8.00. After 1834, he disappeared from the public records and we have no further trace of him. William Dever was born October 20, 1825 in Hamilton Township, Jackson County, Ohio. His father was Solomon Dever who lived to the ripe age of eighty-nine years, and enjoyed good health all his life.. His mother's maiden name was Chloe Mault, and she lived to the age of eighty- eight in good health. His grandfather Mault, lived almost to the age of 0ne hundred so that our subject was born with a most excellent constitution. He was one of a family of twelve children, the second child. He was reared in Jackson County, and attended first a subscription school and afterwards a public school ; but the educational facilities in his boyhood were most meager. The joys of his boyhood were chiefly in attending the general musters under Col. Aaron Stockham. He was married in March, 1848, to Louisa Mc- Dowell and has had twelve children. Three of them died in infancy and nine are surviving. He has but one son and eight daughters. His children in order of their ages are as follows : Noah J., a resident of Portsmouth, Attorney-at-Law ; Mary, married Samuel Wade, residing at Chetopa, Kansas ; Abigail, married William R. Micklethwait, residing in the suburbs of Portsmouth ; Ellen, married Stephen B. Kearns, residing at Oak Hill, Jackson County ; Elizabeth Emily, married William Butcher, living in Scioto County, Ohio; Louisa Isabel, married Royal William Allard, residing in Scioto County, near Flat Postoffice; Ida Josephine, married Edwin Stone, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Dolly Alice, married Everett E. Johnson, lives in Pike County near Flat Postoffice; Jane, married Morton M. Johnson, and resides in Jackson County, near Fiat Postoffice in Pike County. Mr. Dever lives on a farm of 240 acres, just over the line of Jackson from Scioto County. He has lived there twenty years, since April to, 1881. Prior to that he lived in Madison Township, Scioto County from the time of his marriage. In political views, Mr. Dever was first a Whig, afterwards a Republican. PIONEER SKETCHES - 691 Always aggressive and out-spoken. He is not a member 0f any church; but his wife is a member of the Free-Will Baptist. William Dever's life has flown along in smooth currents all the time. He has never been sick. He is not troubled with the infirmities 0f age. He was never in politics. He never sought office. He was never in any war. He never had any exciting or wonderful incidents in his life. He is a plain farmer and has lived in the same neighborhood all of his seventy-six years and yet, notwithstanding all that, he is a remarkable man. He possesses great force of character. He has wonderful will power and when it is complete, good judgment. When one comes in contact with him, he feels his will power and personal force. Mr. Dever was never a man "t0 follow. He always led. Living all his life in a locality poor in agricultural resources, he has followed farming all his life and has made and saved a great deal 0f money; and besides that he has reared a family of nine children and sent them out in the world, a credit to him .and themselves. How many men at seventy-six are able to make such a showing? His children are all healthy and strong. His daughters are all fine looking women,—all mothers; and his grandchildren, thirty-three in number, are all in the enjoyment of as fine health as their parents. In the evening of his days Mr. Dever is taking things easy. While his home is on his farm in Jackson County, he and his wife visit among their children much of their time, and, though old, enjoy life as much as they did when young. They have grown old happily and have no regrets. Mr. Dever is about the best illustration of a sound mind in a sound body, that could be found anywhere. If there are any principles he has lived up to more than others, they are these: to he just, to pay his debts, to keep his word and the Bible command, that one should take care of his own,—the latter term referring to the person and his family. Mr. Dever has done these things well. He can be proud of his fulfillment of his duty to his family, and so can his children for him. Abner Doty was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1806. His wife was Lima Burris, daughter of Horatio Burris of Flemingsburg, Kentucky. Our subject was born in Virginia and spent his boyhood there. He came to Portsmouth in 1829. He was married in Portsmouth in May, 1830. He kept a harness shop on Jefferson street, in the Grimes Building, where Harry Grimes was born. John Cooley and George Metz were his workmen. The latter afterwards became a Representative in the Legislature of Illinois. William Nixon. was also in his employment. His children were Amanda who died at five years of age, accidentally burned to death at Mrs: Ashley's school, the first day she attended ; Robert, who lives at number 2, Taylor street, Covington, Ky.; John, who died in 1902 in Chicago; Benjamin F., died in 1878 at Hot Springs, Arkansas; Mrs. Anna Daniel, the 692 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. wife of James Daniel. resides at 7142 Harvard avenue. Chicago: Mrs. Irene Morrison, the wife of Armor Morrison, who also resides in Chicago. Abner Doty died in September. 1844, after ten days illness of inflammatory rheumatism. His widow survived until April 6, 1885. She died in Cincinnati. They are both buried at Greenlawn Cemetery, with other members of the family. The name Doty is of French origin. Colonel Sebastian Eifort was born at Neustadt. near Marburg. Hesse, in Germany, January 12, 1817. a son of Henry and Catherine Eifort. In 1832, the family left Germany aid settled at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where Sebastian served an apprenticeship in a confectionery, and was a fellow citizen with Thaddeus Stevens and James Buchanan. He left for the west in the spring of 1837 and came to Massillon, Stark County, Ohio, engaging in the furnace business, making castings and pig-iron. In 1839, he went to Scioto County. Ohio. working at Jackson, Scioto and Bloom Furnaces, at the last named being founder and manager. In 1842 he married Rachel Jackson. daughter of William Jackson of Scioto County. In 1852. he. with others, built Harrison furnace Scioto County, Ohio, and in 1855, sold his interest and moved the next year to Carter County. Kentucky, where he built Boone furnace and successfully managed it until the breaking out of the rebellion. Being a strong Union man, he called a meeting, in April 1861, of the citizens of Lewis. Carter, Boyd and Greenup Counties at Boone Furnace, where the 0ld flag was raised and speeches made by ex- congressman, George M. Thomas, and 0thers, in favor of supporting the government. Then and there a plan was made to raise a regiment of Home Guards for the protection of property. This was fully organized during the summer and sworn into the service by Mr. Eifort, who was elected Colonel. In 1863, he was sent to the state legislature where his strong Union sentiments made him conspicuous during that stormy period of conflicting opinions. After peace was restored in 1866. he sold his interest in Boone furnace and in 1869 became manager of Hunnewell furnace, for the Eastern Kentucky Railroad Company, where he remained thirteen Years. In the meantime he, Mr. Stoughton, and K. B. Grahn bought 10,000 acres of land near Olive Hill. Carter County. Kentucky, intending to build a furnace, but pig-iron becoming very low, the project was abandoned and the property divided. From 1882 until 1890. he lived at Olive Hill. where he. assisted by his son, Joe. mined and shipped large quantities of a high grade of fireclay which was found to be very abundant on his land. His health failing he retired from all business and with his wife removed to Greenup, Kentucky, at which place he died, December 11, 1893. His remains were interred in Portsmouth. PIONEER SKETCHES - 693 He was a strong Republican in politics and a Royal Arch Mason. His widow still lives in Greenup. Nine children were born to them, three of whom died in infancy. \Villiam Henry whose sketch will be found in this book, was killed in the Civil War, James died at the age of twenty-eight, and Mrs. Kate .Warnock died at the age of fifty-four, in California. Mamie, wife 0f Charles Hertel, 0f Greenup. Kentucky, F. S. Eifort and Joe. B. Eifort of Ashland are still living. Colonel Eifort was a citizen of -great force of character, strong will power and superior executive ability. He was a born leader and manager. His convictions on any subject he had investigated were strong and, when required, he would carry them out at any and all hazards. Andrew Jackson Enslow was born October 24, 1824, near Wheelersburg, Scioto County, Ohio. His father was Rezin EnslOW, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Sebring, a daughter 0f Thomas Sebring. His grandfather, David Enslow, originally settled in Scioto County, and purchased a large farm near Wheelersburg. The family originated in Flanders before the time of William the Conqueror. An ancestor of that time carried a banner in the army of William the Conqueror, on which was emblazoned the word "Onslow", which in the Norman French 0f that day meant "to hasten slowly," the same as the Latin term "Festina lente." Mr. Enslow as a boy attended the common schools of Porter Township and learned "out" there. In addition, he received instructions at Wheelersburg, under the late Hon. Edward NV. Jordan, privately. The latter taught school at Wheelersburg, and gave young Enslow lessons in the advanced branches. Mr. Enslow became a scho0l teacher himself and afterwards became a book-keeper at a furnace in Kentucky, and took an interest in it. It was the furnace owned by Seton, and he was engaged in this furnace two years. He was married December 3, 1846, to Nancy Marie Bliss, daughter of Theodore Preston Bliss, a native of New Hampshire, who came to Scioto County in 1819. Her mother was Nancy Dunton Dean, a native of Maine. Our subject learned the cabinet makers trade with Stephen Cameron. He served as postmaster at Wheelersburg many years. He was a County Commissioner of Scioto County from 1859 to 1863, and was County Auditor from 1863 t0 1865, elected each time on the Democratic ticket. In 1866, he was a candidate for Auditor on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated by Philip W. Noel. The vote stood Noel 1,599, Enslow 2,147. After leaving the Auditor's office, he became manager of a furnace in Tennessee for Stephen Glidden. In 1850, he went to California and was there two years. He was mining in the American Valley. but his health broke down, and he returned. He was Justice of the Peace of Porter Township, Scioto County, Ohio, from April 14, 1870, until October II, 1870. He 694 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. moved to Huntington, West Virginia, in March, 1871, and while there he was a 'magistrate for a number of years. He left Huntington in 1878, and fr0m there he went to Cumberland County„ Illinois, and remained there until 1881. Then he located near Richmond, Virginia, where he resided for ten years, and from there he went to California, where he died in 1894, on October 27. His wife resided in California with her daughter until 1897, and has since resided with her son, Frank B. Enslow; of. Huntington, West Virginia. Mr. Enslow's children are: Frank Bliss, born August 4, 1853, a prominent attorney of Huntington, West Virginia ; Edward Bliss born May 1858, a resident and insurance agent of Huntington, West Virginia; a daughter Alice born July 23, 1849, and married Richard Peckham, of Richmond, Virginia, March 23, 1877, in the city of Portsmouth. She died in California,, May 17, 1897. Our subject also has a son, Linn Bliss, born February 1, 1860, who resides in Richmond, Virginia, and is auditor of the Chesapeake and Ohio R. R. Mr. Enslow was a most excellent business man, a correct book-keeper and accountant and very highly esteemed by all his business associates. John Davidson Feurt was born in Scioto County, Ohio, March 2, 1816. His father was Gabriel Feurt and his mother Lydia Hitchcock, daughter of Jesse Hitchcock, one of the first settlers of the County. His father was born in 1780 and died September, 1850. His mother was born February, 6, 1793 and died January Jo, 1864.. (For further particulars, see Feurt Family in the Pioneer Record.) His father was out in the general call in the war of 1812. Mr. Feurt was brought up a farmer and followed it all his life. He died near the spot where he was born and had always lived. In 1839, he was married to Maria Oldfield, daughter of Judge William Oldfield. They had a family of nine children : Caroline C., wife of Henry Clinton Feurt, of Franklin Furnace; Lydia, wife of John Lindsey; Harriet E., first married to William H. Peters and after his death to T. J. Brown; Nettie, wife of George M. Salladay ; Frank B., wife of John F. Noel; John F., now of Canada; and William Oldfield who resides 0n his home farm. Mr. Feurt was a Whig and a Republican. He was a Justice of the Peace of his township for ten years and held other township offices, but only because he felt it a duty. He never aspired, but sought to be a good citizen, and as such he was esteemed by all who knew him. He was an exemplification of all the civic virtues. He was a good father, a good neighbor, a good Christian and to sum up all, a valuable citizen. James Smith Folsom. From the published Genealogical Family Record, we learn that the Folsom family originated in England, the earliest known progenitor being Roger Foullsam who lived at Necton, County of Norfolk PIONEER SKETCHES - 695 and whose will was dated in 1534. For five generations the Foullsams appear to have been large land owners there in Besthorpe, Windham, Burwell, Hackford and Hingham. Coming down to 1638, John Foullsam, the first of the Anglo-American line, and his wife Anna Gilman emigrated from Hingham, England t0 Hingham, Massachusetts. The immediate cause of their coming to America was ecclesiastical troubles and persecutions at home. They came for conscience sake, selling their lands at half their value. John was a sturdy character, well fitted to stand as the progenitor of the many thousands who have since born that name, or sprung from that source through collateral inheritance, now scattered through every part of the United States. Every Folsom in America, except one family in Georgia, is descended from this John of whom it was said, "He was enterprising, courageous, prominent in the communities in which he lived, a leader in public affairs, determined on simplicity in religious worship and equity in the State, a solid, independent, righteous and true man." While most family names which are distinctive tend to disappear, this one 0n the other hand has multiplied exceedingly, until it embraces all manner and qualities of people, from the dead level of humanity, up to a great body of useful and respectable citizens, including members 0f all the learned professions, editors, authors, capitalists, inventors, railway magnates, naval and military officers,, legislators, judges, congressmen, governors, and 0n up to Frances, the charming wife of Grover Cleveland. The emigrant John was an officer, and the Gilmans, his wife's people, were also prominent military men. And the military spirit thus prominent in the progenitors has been faithfully transmitted to all succeeding generations, every war from the Indian and the French Wars down to the late Spanish war, having enlisted numerous representatives of this famly. The records down to 1882 show more than 700 different surnames, other than Folsom, derived from female marriages into other families, some of the more common names embracing as many as forty or fifty individuals. Thus does the stream from a, prolific stock continue to widen down the centuries. James Smith, the subject of our sketch, appears in the sixth generation in the line of descent from John, having been born at Point Harmar, Ohio, April I, 1804. His father Samuel, who married Catharine Smith, bought the home in French Grant in 1805, moved down on a flat boat from Marietta, in 1806, and died there in 1813. Besides James S. there were born, in this county, Samuel, Melissa and Mary, all of whom married and had large families. James S. married Sarah Bennett of Baltimore, in 1827, and had the following children: William, Catharine, Melissa, Mary, Albert, Minerva, Sarah and Henry. All his life, except a brief period spent at Portsmouth learning the cooper's trade, was passed at the old home farm which he bought in early manhood. Junior and Empire furnaces, 696 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. located a few miles back, had a tramroad to this place, and for many years he kept their landing, shipping iron, caring for the freight, and doing their receiving business. At the same time he farmed and Merchandised and prospered apace. During the Civil War, the sales from his retail store became so large that he was required to take out a wholesale license. Just before the war he took a large quantity of pig iron in a settlement with .the furnace companies at from $14 to $15 a ton. Later he disposed of it at $70. Yet he was not given to speculating. His favorite way of investing his surplus was in buying farms, which resulted in his becoming a large land owner. In 1852, he was •elected a County Commissioner to fill a vacancy, by a vote of 1,407 to 1,069 for his opponent. He served about one year. He had no taste for politics except to be conversant with the affairs of the nation, and t0 maintain high fealty to his political party. From a previously written biographical sketch we reproduce 'the following which characterizes him suitably "The 0ne predominant trait which gave form and texture to his whole character was his utter detestation 0f everything which savored of insincerity. Not a grain of dissimulation infected his nature. No motives of worldly policy could induce in him the slightest departure from an honest conviction. His loyalty to truth was ingrained and incorruptible. He would face the whole world in defense of his convictions. However much one might differ from him in belief, there was that in the man which proclaimed that in his inmost heart he felt himself impregnable in his position. Hypocrisy or shams of any kind or what he believed to be such, he would denounce before all mankind if need be. And his clear steadfast eye carried the str0ng assurance that here at least was a man who had the fullest courage 0f his convictions. This was the one overmastering trait in his character which commanded the respect of every man who knew him. The other prominent characteristic for which he will perhaps be longest remembered, was his unfailing readiness to help the poor. No one in distress, that was worthy, ever appealed to him in vain. His benevolence to any about him who might be in need was as steady as the flow of an unfailing fountain. Those whom he befriended will carry the remembrance of his cheerful acts of kindness long after his perceptions were exceedingly clear, the processes 0f his mind logical, and his confidence in conclusions arrived at was immovable. In all business transactions he was the soul of honor, positive in manner, truthful in statement, energetic in action, prompt in decision, the possessor of executive ability in a rare degree. Among those who knew him his word was a guaranty, without future quibble or evasion. And in possession of the highest respect and confidence of his unique character. His disregard of conventionality not always diplomatic, was sometimes almost suggestive of eccentricity. Withal, the fitful fever of this life is 0ler." In Many respects he was a   PIONEER SKETCHES - 697   neighbors, he died at his old home October 3, 1883, in the eightieth year of his age.   Martin Funk   was born in February, 1762, at Stephenson, Frederick County, Virginia. His father came to Pennsylvania from Germany in 1712, and afterwards located in Virginia. We cannot give the names of his parents, but believe that he was related t0 Captain John Funk, who was prominent in Frederick County, Virginia, eleven years before his birth; and also to Joseph Funk, another prominent citizen of that county. Joseph Funk, on June 12, 1751, entered 205 acres on the river of Shenandoah within Josh Hite's claim. Capt. John Funk, on November 10, 1751, entered 341 acres on Cedar Creek and 15o acres on the south side 0f the Shenandoah under the Three Tops mountains. We have reasons to believe that our subject was of the same family. When he was a year and one-half old, his parents moved t0 Hagerstown, Maryland. At the age of nine years, they moved to Westmoreland County, Pa. While here in this county, he performed service in the Revolutionary war, which is officially given under the title of Revolutionary Soldiers. During his two months service he was a substitute for Robert Wallace. In his four months service, December, 1776, he was in New Jersey, and was reviewed by General Washington. It is said that on the review, he forgot the etiquette of the occasion and personally addressed General Washington in broken English. He relates in his application for pension, that when he was serving in New Jersey, the British in small bands were traveling through the country robbing the people. He and his party took four prisoners, a cart and horse, and two dead hogs, which the British had, taken from the people. He relates that in 1778, while scouting he was chased by seven Indians t0 the Fort. Twenty-five went out and fought one hundred Indians, and nine of his ,company were killed. Mr. Funk in his application for pension gives the list of names 0f those killed and stated that the survivors had to fall back to the Fort. He further relates that in October, 1778, the Fort in which he was then stationed, was besieged by 110 Indians for thirty hours, and forty-five men, the garrison, repelled the attack of the Indians. He was married in 1789, in Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Studebaker, who was born in 1772. He emigrated to Oldtown in Scioto County, and arrived there June 25, 1798. His daughter, Catharine, was born ten days after their arrival at Oldtown. His eldest son, John Funk, was born in Pennsylvania in 1790. He married Margaret Glover, a sister of Elijah B. Glover, and raised a large family. His sons were Thornton, John, Melvin and Melvira, twins, Azel Glover, Samuel Martin and Margaret. Martin Funk's daughter Mary was born in 1792, his son Jacob, in 1795. His daughter Catharine, married John Timmonds, October 16, 1817, the ceremony was performed by John   698 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY.   Brown, Justice of the Peace. Martin Funk brought considerable money with him. In 18o9, he bought a quarter section of land from the United States, now the Micklethwait, Stewart and Timmonds lands near the Children's Home. In 1810, he bought twenty-three acres along Lawson's run next to the river, and in 1811, twenty-five acres adjoining it on the east. He built a log cabin near the site of the old brick Micklethwait home near a fine spring, and started a distillery. Making whiskey was the only way of turning corn, selling at eight and ten cents per bushel into cash, and Mr. Funk was not behind his neighbors in this. He lived 0n the old Chillicothe road, and he entertained wagoners to and from Chillicothe, and made much gain in that way. His home was a general stopping place. In 1811, there was a general muster 0n the portion of his place now owned by Gilbert Stewart. An eclipse occurred during the muster ; when the general call for militia was made in 1813, the place of rendezvous was Funk's. James Keyes tells of that meeting. All were there at twelve noon and marched away at two 0'clock in the afternoon.   He tells that William Lawson, a neighbor, became much incensed at Mr. Funk and one morning came over to whip him. Mr. Funk declined to fight till after breakfast and Lawson waited in the yard until Mr. Funk had breakfast. After breakfast Funk came out and asked Lawson, if nothing but a fight would do. Lawson insisted and both parties stripped to the waist. At it they went, and Lawson soon cried enough. Funk then said, "you had no break- fast while I did and so you have learned the folly of fighting before breakfast." The writer does not place the fullest confidence in this story. Historian Keyes had a vein of romance.   Mr. Funk was a man of great strength and muscular power. He could lift a barrel of whiskey almost as easily as another man could lift a jug.   Mrs. Elizabeth Funk was an excellent cook and a most efficient nurse in sickness. Many of those attacked with malaria resorted to her home and remained there till cured. She, however, fell a victim to malaria prevailing in 1822, and died that year, at the age of fifty years,. Her daughter Barbara married Joseph Micklethwait an Englishman, and lived and died at the present Micklethwait homestead. She was born in 1801.   Martin Funk believed in attending to his own business and prospered by doing so. He never held any office, but that of fence viewer, and he was elected to that office in the years 1809, 181 1, 1813, and annually until 1817. There were always two and he had as associates, William Brady, Sanders Darby, .George Bowers, Abraham Stock, Aaron Kinney, John Simpson. Most times, persons were elected to this office in sport, but Martin Funk was elected. in   PIONEER SKETCHES - 699   earnest, and served in earnest. It was an office never sought, but always thrust on the person elected. Mr. Funk left valuable real estate which was divided among his heirs and afterwards made them rich. He died October 16, 1838, in his 77th year.   Benjamin Fryer   was born in 1794, but the place of his birth is now unknown. He located in Chillicothe about 1819. He was married August 18, 1814, to Catharine Jefferson, a sister of Mrs. John McDowell and Mrs. Bernard Kepner. They came to Portsmouth about the same time the Jefferson family did. Mr. Fryer had no regular occupation, but did whatever he could find to do. When the Gaylord Rolling Mill started, he became a worker in it, and continued as. such until 1846, when failing health compelled him to give up all manual labor.   He always took great interest in town and municipal affairs. In 1832, he was a member of the Portsmouth Board of Health, and again in 1855. During the time the coffee houses were rampant in 'Portsmouth, he was a member of the town council and uniformly voted against each and every. one of them which applied for license. Moses Gregory and. William Newman voted with him on the coffee houses. They were always in the minority but they voted their principles and were satisfied. In 1838, Mr. Fryer was a Trustee of Clay Township. In 1861, he was First Lieutenant of the third ward Home Guards, and was one of the most loyal men in Portsmouth. In 1867, he was again a Trustee of Wayne Township.   He had eight children. His eldest was John Hamilton. Eliza, his second child, married Cornelius Moore of the French Grant. His daughter, Mary, died single at the age of thirty. Benjamin, his fourth child, born in 1823, enlisted in Company G. 1st 0. H. A., December 15, 1863, for three years. He died at Cleveland, Tennessee, April 2, 1865. His widow, Mrs. Matilda Fryer, resides on east Eleventh street. Asbury Walker was his fifth child. He became County Judge of Lewis County, Kentucky. He died, leaving a son Grant, who has a tannery at Vanceburg, and two daughters, Mrs. Lewis Stricklett and Mrs. Elmer Rowland.   Mr. Fryer was always a devout and pious member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was an old fashioned shouting Methodist. He believed in the discipline of the church and lived up to it. As early as 1834, he was a member of the official board of old Bigelow, and was always a class leader. When Spencer Chapel was formed he became a member of it. All who knew him believed in him. In his latter years, he was affectionately and reverently called "Father" Fryer, and in the Church he was regarded as an oracle and a leader. He is written up for this work because he was one of the truly good men of Portsmouth and if his spirit and those of Father