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700 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. McDowell, Jacob P. Noel, and Job Ledbetter can be located, there is Heaven. Wilson Gates, the father of Erastus Gates, had a dry goods store in a frame building on the corner where Brunners are now located. On November 30, 1820, he was married to Elizabeth Kinney, (laughter of Aaron Kinney, by Rev. Stephen Lindsley. On January 2, 1824, he was a member of the Council, in place of James Lodwick who resigned. He held this office until June 4, 1824, when he resigned. April 3, 1829, he was Health Officer of the city of Portsmouth. He was City Treasurer from 1830 to 1836. In 1832, he built the brick residence just across the alley from Daehlerls furniture store and resided there until 1843, when he sold This home to Charles Henking and removed his family to Memphis, Tennessee. He lived there until 1849, when he returned to Portsmouth. He died, July 29, 1849, at the age of fifty-seven, and was buried in the Kinney graveyard. His widow, Elizabeth Gates, lived to see her eighty-seventh year and died at the Dennison House, in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 21, 1887. Wilson Gates was a large, fine looking man, with light hair and a portly bearing. He was an active citizen, well esteemed by his cotemporaries. As a merchant he had to encounter reverses, but did so in a manly way. We regret we were able to obtain so little of him. but from what we could learn, he was one of the forceful characters of his time. His widow survived him thirty-eight years. Thomas Gould Gaylord. The Gaylords or Gaillards as it is in the French, were among the many French Hugenots that left their beloved shores of France to enjoy the freedom of religious and political thought and action that was afforded them in the new land across the sea. They settled with others in the old Puritan State of Connecticut and there founded the town of Gaylordsville. In time they branched out, some going south others to the westward. Silas Gaylord, the father of the subject settled on a farm near Utica. New York and there married Mary Gould. He was very religious in his tendencies, although they never carried him farther in the service of our Lord than a deaconship and eldership in the Presbyterian Church. The wife and mother of Thomas was a stately commanding personage of great dignity and decision of action. From her Thomas got what proved so useful to him in his business life, quick perception and instant action. Silas and Mary Gaylord were blessed with two children—both boys—Thomas and Horace. Thomas being more patterned after his maternal than his paternal—took the lead in every- PIONEER SKETCHES - 701 thing and being an ambitious youth, while yet in his teens, after getting a good common school education, and after teaching a year as was the custom for one to do, before one was considered a thoroughly educated man, asked his father to aid him in furthering himself in the world and adopted New York as his 'initial. point, for a start. He was employed while there by a Mr. Greenfield, who was a very rich and influential queensware merchant, and he seeing that Thomas was ambitious to rise above the ordinary man of that day, determined to aid him and made a proposition to him to start a queensware establishment in Pittsburg, and place him at the head of it. Thomas readily accepted and moved to Pittsburg and opened his queensware store. Before leaving however, while on a trip to Johnstown, New York, he met and fell in love with Angeline Morrell, daughter of Judge Morrell. then a very eminent and respected Judge on the bench. They were married and Thomas took his young bride to Pittsburg,. He was so successful in the queensware store that he soon made Mr. Greenfield a proposition to buy out his interest, which was accepted and he carried on the business himself. About this time he set his brother. up in the queensware business in Maysville, Ky., but with the appearance of cholera there in 1836, which carried off Horace and his entire family, he sold his store in Maysville and concentrated his attention to his Pittsburg house. In 1837. Mr. Gaylord while on a visit to Portsmouth traded his queensware house and some mountain land in Pennsylvania for the Glover. Noel & Co. rolling mill of Portsmouth. This was his first appearance in the business community of Portsmouth. He moved his family there and set to work to re-model and modernize the mill and to build up a success in the iron business such as was his in the queensware business. New boilers were put in. The old fashioned "knobbling," furnaces gave place to the "puddling". furnaces and the "hammers" gave place to "rolls" and he soon had one of the most complete and modern rolling mills of the West. In 1816, he left Portsmouth and moved with his family to Cincinnati and continued in the iron business under the name of T. G. Gaylord & Son. He gave his son Thomas Greenfield Gaylord. whom he had named for his friend Mr. Greenfield, a quarter interest to remain in the business and promised him another part, as soon as he could pay for it out of the profits, which he soon did. In 1858, While on a visit to New York, he was suddenly taken with a stroke of apoplexy and was found dead on the street. His remains were brought to Cincinnati and with his own workmen, who came in a body from Portsmouth to bring their last tribute to their beloved employer, as pall-bearers, he was laid away for his 'eternal rest in the Gaylord lot in Spring Grove cemetery, and afterwards his 702 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. body was placed beside his wife in the Gaylord vault in Cincinnati, which had been built by his son Thomas G. Gaylord, Jr. Mr. Gaylord never took much interest in politics for his own advancement. He was a stanch Whig. His only public office being one of a committee of three including James Pursell, and Moses Gregory as fence viewers of Wayne Township. Outside of his milling business he was director of the Portsmouth Insurance Co. He left what would be considered in those times a large estate. A man of great personal magnetism, he made many friends, while his perception and nerve in business enabled him to be considered among the foremost citizens of Portsmouth. He left a son. Thomas Greenfield Gaylord, and a daughter, Emma Gaylord. The former married Miss Grosbeck, of Cincinnati who died shortly afterwards. He then married Miss Pall of Philadelphia, by whom he had one son, J. Pall Gaylord, now living in Chicago. His second wife died a few months after the birth of her child. Mr. Gaylord then married Miss Alice Brannin a celebrated beauty of Louisville, by, whom he had three children, two girls and a boy, Elsie Kilgour Gaylord, Edith Pommeroy Gaylord and Thomas Gould Gaylord. Edith died at the age of six from diphtheria. Emma, the daughter of Thomas, married E. H. Pendleton of Cincinnati, by whom she had eleven children, four of whom are living. Lucy, the oldest, married Ambrose White of Cincinnati E. H. Pendleton, Jr., married Miss Eckstein of Cincinnati ; N. G. Pendleton, married Miss Bessie Johnson of Iowa, and Susie G. Pendleton married Mr. Nathan Powell of Madison, Indiana. Benjamin Brayton Gaylord was born in Westernville. Oneida County, New York, November 26, 1811. His father was Dr. Chester Gaylord, and his mother was Lydia Brayton. When he was a child, his parents removed to Litchfield, Herkimer County, New York. There at the age of 15, under the preaching of Rev. Abner Towne, father of Judge Henry A. Towne, of Portsmouth, Mr. Gaylord became a member of the Presbyterian Church and continued such all his life. In the year 1839, he came to Portsmouth and was employed as a clerk for several years by his cousin, the late T. G. Gaylord, of Cincinnati, in the Gaylord rolling mill in Portsmouth. In 1844, he became manager of Clinton Furnace and remained such four years. He was also a stock-holder in the same furnace. In 1845, he married Margaret Jane Hempstead, daughter of Dr. G. S. B. Hempstead. Returning to Portsmouth in 1848, he assumed full control of the Gaylord Mill and remained in charge until December, 1874, when, on account of failing health, he was compelled to retire. He was an incessant worker, a superior financier. He had the faculty of be- PIONEER SKETCHES - 703 ing able to attend to a great many things at once. He was a man of remarkable foresight and would anticipate a coming crisis when others would fail to understand the situation. He was an eminently practical man and gave his personal attention to his business. He made a specialty of the manufacture of boiler iron and built up a reputation in this line second to none in the country. He held the love and affection of his employes, and they always regarded his interests as carefully as they would their own. He had but one strike in all his business career. He took special pains to encourage economy, and exerted his influence to induce his employes to save their money and obtain homes for their families. In this way he gathered round him a class of steady, industrious laborers, many of whom became well-to-do and influential citizens of Portsmouth. To assist those who were willing to act upon. his advice, he advanced them money for the purchase of property, and gave them convenient period for payment. When the civil war opened out and the Government invited proposals for the making of gun-boat iron, the other mills along the Ohio river were afraid to undertake to make the iron because it involved such enormous expenditures and such expensive changes of machinery, but Mr. Gaylord accepted a contract with the Government to make the iron to sheathe the gun boats. His execution of the contracts were entirely satisfactory to the War Department and he made a very large sum of money for himself and for those in business with him. He was not a graduate of any college, but was a self educated man. He read a great deal and digested what he read. For a great many years he was a member of the Board of Trustees of Marietta College and contributed several thousand dollars towards its endowment. He also gave liberally to the Lane Seminary at Cincinnati, and in many instances, assisted young men in acquiring an education. His benefactions to the churches and other parties were of the most liberal character. His pastor, the Rev. Dr. Pratt, said of him. "He cared for the poor and needy, sending- coal and provisions often to their homes when they knew not from whence they came." Dr. Pratt also said of him that if every one who had received a special favor of him, were to bring a spray of evergreen and throw in his grave, he believed it would fill it to the top. He was one of the most upright and conscientious men in the community. To show his peculiarities of conscience,one of his business associates had employed a young lawyer to collect a bill for about one-half what his services were worth. Mr. Gaylord ascertained the circumstances and sent the lawyer a check for .$50 more to make his fee what it should have been. At another time, he bought a lot of pig-iron of an agent for the furnace. The bill called for one hundred tons, and on re-weighing 704 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. the iron, it was found to weigh One hundred and sixteen tons. Mr. Gaylord settled for the sixteen tons extra, although it was billed to him at one hundred tons. He bought at one time a lot of miscellaneous bar iron from the old rolling mill of Means, Hall & Company. They asked $2,500 for it, but he offered them $2,000, and they accepted that sum. He sold it in St. Louis better than he expected to, and on his return, he paid Means Hall & Company $500 additional. In 1873, he was a candidate for State Senator on the Republican ticket, but was defeated by Hon. James W. Newman. In 1862, he was a member of the Board of Military affairs of the city and on the Military Committee of the county. Mr. Gaylord was for many years a ruling elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Portsmouth, Ohio. He had a family of six children, only three of whom survive; Martha B., Helen and Benjamin H. After his death on September 1, 1880, his family removed to Riverside, California, where they now reside. . The employes of the Gaylord rolling mill attended his funeral in a body, and no man was ever more deeply mourned than he. David Gharky was one of the most interesting characters who ever t00k part in public affairs in Portsmouth. To begin with, he was one of the first nine City Fathers of Portsmouth, Ohio, and he continued to be a Councilman of the town of Portsmouth from March 15, 1815, until March. 1823. He was Town Treasurer of Portsmouth, Ohio, from March 15, 1815, until April 1, 1822, when he was removed by a unanimous vote for squandering the circulating medium of the town. The town at that ime had a currency of its own, and the Town Councilmen of 1822 could not understand David Gharky's method of keeping accounts, and so they removed him. The town never sued him, nor does it appear he was brought to book on account of the circulating medium; nor did the charge seem to affect his health or spirits; nor did it have any effect to modify his peculiar characteristics. For a plain Dutchman, Mr. Gharky could give the Virginians lessons in office-holding. Here is an inventory of the various offices held by him. 1815 to 1823. Town Councilman. 1815 to 1822, Town Treasurer. 1808 to 1811, County Commissioner. 1815 to 1816, Trustee of Wayne Township. 1821 to 1829, County Auditor. 1834 to 1836, County Treasurer. He was the first City Treasurer, and the second County Auditors In 1840 he was Town Councilman, and in 1827 elected Health Officer of the Town, but declined to serve. PIONEER SKETCHES - 705 He was born February 13, 1775. in Stargard, Prussia. a subject of Frederick the Great. His father was a brewer and distiller: kept an Inn, and was a man of consequence. David received a good education for his time. His mother died when he was but seven years of age, and his father soon married again. His step-mother was of the traditional kind—largely emphasized. His father was imbued with King Solomon's ideas as to the use of the rod, and carried them into practice on his son. He was kept in school and sent to church regularly. His father wanted him to be a Lutheran minister. but the son was determined otherwise, and learned the carpenter's trade in an apprenticeship of three years. He then traveled about and worked at his trade. He visited many towns and cities, and ran up against gamblers and sharpers. After five years' wandering he returned to his father’s home, but he soon quarreled with his father about a matrimonial venture his father wished him to make. and left home. He then determined to emigrate to America, and landed in Philadelphia in the fall of 1796. He was disgusted and about to return home, but missed his vessel. Then he started for Pittsburg. At one place he stopped with a Dutch farmer of the name of Knappenberger. He had an attractive daughter, and David Gharky, who never did anything by halves. fell in love with her. When her father found out the state of facts he sent young Gharky away, not approving his proposition for the position of son-in-law. David Gharky went to Pittsburg. and from there down the river in a flat boat, with a view to going to Chillicothe. Ohio. He landed at Alexandria and viewed the town site. He went on to Chillicothe and found everybody sick with the fever and ague. He could obtain no work, and he returned to Alexandria. He was about to start dlown the river when Philip Moore gave him some work and he remained. When it was known that he was a carpenter and joiner. he obtained all the work he could do. He bought lots and built him a home. and in the spring he went back to Pennsylvania and married Elizabeth Knappenberger. He bought in-lots and out-lots. In 1803 he was elected an Assessor of Union township. when it extended east from Carey’s run to Little Scioto, and north to the present Pike county line. In 1803 Henry Massie tried to induce him to abandon Alexandria and move to Portsmouth. but, with his usual obstinacy. he declined, and remained in Alexandria till 1814. and then only left because the floods compelled him. He was a Justice of the Peace in Union township in 1810. When Mr. Gharky was compelled to move to Portsmouth. in 1814, he bought four lots on Scioto street. where Vincent Brodbeck kept his store so many years. and established a ferry. which was conducted by him and his sons. He built a large shop on the lot and 706 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. carried on the business of cabinet-making. Up till 1817 the Courts were sometimes held in his shop. In 1818 he started a carding machine. It was run by horse power and carried on by Captain Edward Cranston, who was a practical machinist. They ran it several years when it was purchased by the Youngs of Wheelersburg and removed there. However, Mr. Gharky kept the wool-carding business going on several years after that. While he was auditor of Scioto County he conducted the business at his cabinet shop. Prom 1830 to 1834, he was in Muncie, Indiana. In the latter year he returned to Portsmouth and became a candidate for County Treasurer and was elected by a plurality of nine votes. In 1836, he went to Muncie and was there for some time. He returned to Portsmouth in 184o, and was in the Council. He went away to Muncie after that, but returned in 185o, took sick and died at Robert Montgomery's hotel in the 75th year of his age. He was buried in the Alexandria graveyard on the shelf of the hill overlooking Carey's Run. In 1831, it was claimed that Mr. Gharky, while Auditor, in making up the tax duplicate of 1826 to 1829 had overcharged for the work. Suit for the overcharges was filed July 2, 1831, in trespass in the case, but the declaration read like one in debt. The narration called for $1,000, but the real amount claimed was $232.90, with 'interest. At the March term, 1832, it was tried in the Common Pleas by a jury and there was a verdict for plaintiff for $278.47. Mr. Gharky took a Bill of Exceptions and appealed to the Supreme Court on the Circuit and the verdict was for the defendant. Samuel M. Tracy represented the Commissioners, and William V. Peck the defendant. It is reported that the jury verdict in the Supreme court turned on the charge of the court, that if the jury found there had been a settlement between the parties for the work, the county could not open it up. The anecdotes in regard to Mr. Gharky's peculiarities are numerous. Many of them are probably apocryphal. Mr. Gharky was a good subject to fasten a story to and was probably used for that purpose by the illustrators. In June, 1835, while Treasurer, he was in the habit of endorsing orders "not paid for want of funds," and thus putting them on interest. This was carried so far that the Commissioners in a 'body called on Mr. Gharky and demanded to examine his books. The Commissioners entered the transaction on their journal and stated that Mr. Gharky became so disorderly that nothing could be done. The Commissioners ordered suit on his bond and he then agreed to pay the orders. PIONEER SKETCHES - 707 George A. Waller told this anecdote: Mr. Gharky, the Treasurer, would refuse orders, stating there ;were no funds and send the holders to Jacob Clingman, the banker, who would buy their orders. If the person receiving the order Were a particular friend of Gharky's, he would place a circle with an "X" over in the left hand corner and then Clingman would pay it without question. Once Gharky gave his best -friend in the County an order to take to Clingman, but forgot to put the circle and "X" on it. Clingman examined the order and said he had no money to pay, but would discount. The friend brought the order back to Gharky very indignant at being refused payment. Gharky said : "Did old Jake Clingman refuse to pay that order ?" 'His friend answered "yes." Then Gharky said : "Let me see that order." His friend handed it over and Gharky saw at once that the circle and "X" were not in the lower left hand corner. Gharky placed them there and returned the order to his best friend, saying: "You take that back to old Jake Clingman and show him the mark and he will pay you." Gharky's friend took the order back and gave it to Mr. Clingman without pointing out Gharky's circle and cross. On being shown the mark, he apologized, saying: "I did not see that before," and at once paid the order. As soon as he took the treasurer's office in 1834, he announced that he would pay out the money in the Treasury raised by taxation to pay for a new jail on County current orders and would not deposit it in the Commercial- Bank as ordered by the Commissioners. This created quite a commotion and made much trouble. Mr. Gharkv reared quite a family of sons and daughters. He made and published a small book for the benefit of his family. He preserved all the early newspapers of Portsmouth and they are now in the state library. Mr. Gharky was a man of the most decided opinions and was obstinate in the superlative degree. He loved to be in opposition and was the happiest when he was. In 1822, he entered his solemn protest in Council against fencing the graveyard then on the old site of the Burgess Mill. He protested because the proposed fence left some graves out and he continued to protest until the occupants of those graves were disinterred and reinterred inside the new fence. Mr. Gharky was a very industrious and useful citizen. but dreadfully abrupt and eccentric. His son, John, was in many respects like him, as well as his son George H., but neither of them were as self-willed and obstinate as he. With his peculiarities, it is strange he was able to be elected to public office as often as he was As a modern politician he would have been much out of place. He was not a member of any church, but he and Dr. Burr were always good friends in spite of Mr. Gharky's quarrelsome disposition. 708 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. George Henry Gharky was born in Alexandria, Scioto County, Ohio, May 17, 1813, the son of David Gharky, who has a separate sketch herein. His father moved to Portsmouth, Ohio, from Alexandria, in 1814. The first eighteen years of his life were spent in the town of Portsmouth. At the age of 18, he went to Cincinnati and spent six months learning the carpenter's trade. He returned to Portsmouth and worked at that for four years. His father was a cabinet maker and carpenter and George worked with him. In November, 1833, at the age of twenty, he built a box house on a flat-boat, loaded it with goods and went to Cincinnati. He made four trips down and three back, pushing and pulling the boat along the shore and tying up at night. The boat was eleven tons burden, and on the last trip he sold her for $75 or twice what she cost him. Captain William Ripley was chief engineer, cook, bottle washer and mud clerk. The dry goods which Mr. Gharky handled in this venture were shipped from New York to Cleveland, and thence to Portsmouth by canal. In 1834, he built a canal boat and was its captain for one year. He named the boat "William Shakespeare." In 1840, he was wharfmaster at Portsmouth, Ohio. In 1843, he purchased the canal boat "Laurel" and had in operation three boats making weekly trips between Columbus and Portsmouth. He continued in this business for five years. He learned the business of river pilot and followed that for several years. In 1847, he bought the steamboat, "America" and took her up the Scioto River as far as the State Dam, six miles below Chillicothe. This was considered quite a feat and the citizens of Chillicothe came down in great numbers to see the boat. It is tradition that they took Captain Gharky to Chillicothe and initiated him into the Ground Hog Club. On the return of the boat to Piketon, it gave the people of that village an excursion to Richmonddale. He was married September 26, 1852, to Miss Martha Oldfield, daughter of Judge Oldfield. Immediately after this, he was in the shoe business with Thomas G. Lloyd for a short time. He was elected Auditor of Scioto County in 1854 over John Waller. He served two years from March 1. In 1857, he became Deputy Auditor and remained such until 1860. In 1863, he was Deputy Treasurer for one year. He became book-keeper for the First National bank in 1864 and served until 1868. On June 6, 1873, B. P. Holmes resigned as City Clerk and he was appointed in his place. He was elected by the Council for one year from April 17, 1874. From 1875 to 1879, he was a member of the City Board of Equalization. His children are George H., who died in 1875 at the age of 22 PIONEER SKETCHES - 709 years; Miss Jennie L. who died in 1879 at the age of 39 years; Sarah Elizabeth, who died at the age of 3 years; Marinette, the wife of Samuel Rice and William D., who is engaged in business in Philadelphia. Mr. Gharky was a Whig during the time that party existed. He afterwards became a Republican. He was very fond of reminiscence and of conversing about the early history of Portsmouth. He liked a good story and could laugh with as much zest as any one who ever resided in Portsmouth. He was very much given to telling people what he thought of them and his extreme candor rendered him unsuitable for a candidate before the people. All his duties as a public officer were performed with the greatest exactness and care. He was an excellent citizen, but as arbitrary as Bismarck. His way was always the best way and the only Colonel Troilus Jura Graham always signed his name T. J. Graham and every one assumed that these initials stood for Thomas Jefferson and that his father was an admirer of the great Apostle of Democracy, but on the contrary, the "T. J." stood for the name above given. Like most of our distinguished citizens, he was born in Virginia. His birth was on January 22, 1810, near Snickers' Gap, in Loudon County. He attended school at Bloomfield Academy and at Rockbridge College. In 1827, his father removed to Muskingum County, Ohio, on a farm where our subject worked until he was nineteen years of age. He taught school two terms. He then went to Zanesville and clerked in the dry goods store of Robert and James Golden two years. On October 21, 1831, he went to Chillicothe, Ohio, and put up at Watson's Hotel. He first taught a select school of from eighty to one hundred pupils and then went into the clothing .store of White and Douglas. After a time he became a partner in the business. On October 30, 1836, he was married to Miss Harriet Scott, daughter of Judge Thomas Scott. He was quite -a society young man in Chillicothe and occupied a prominent position. He commanded a fancy military company in the city, and was afterwards made Colonel of the County Militia in Ross County, hence his title. He came to Portsmouth as. Colonel Graham. and so remained all his life. In 1837 and 1838, he attended the legislature, as a lobbyist, and procured the passage of a new militia law of which he was the author, and many features of which are retained to this day. While visiting in Columbus he became acquainted with Dr. John Glover. in December, 1839. The latter thought he would make a good hotel keeper and induced him to come to Portsmouth and take the Watson House, as Watson, who was then conducting the hotel, wished to return to Chillicothe. He landed in Portsmouth February 20, 1839. The steamboats., the canal and the stage line were all doing a big business and Portsmouth was on a boom. Colonel Gra- 710 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. ham remained in charge of the hotel eighteen years and four months, when he sold out to John Row & Son. The Colonel was a model landlord and the hotel business was better paying in the time he conducted it than it ever was before or has been since. In 1842, he charged two dollars per week for meals and board; but that was when wheat was thirty to forty cents per bushel, corn ten cents per bushel, and fresh beef three cents per pound. Our subject was active and public spirited and was into everything which went on. His was the best hotel in the place and he entertained all the distinguished men who visited Portsmouth. Henry Clay, John J. Crittenden, William Allen and Allen W. Thurman were among his guests. Amin Bey was a guest, as was John Quincy Adams. His wife died while he was in the hotel and on March 16, 1855, he married Miss Eliza Tobin. They took their wedding trip to Wheeling. Directly after his wedding Governor Chase appointed him canal collector and inspector and he gave up the hotel. During the war he was again remembered by his old friend, Salmon P. Chase, and was made a treasury agent in the south. He took a cotton plantation and planted a crop, but lost it by the cotton worm. He left Vicksburg on the 24th of January, 1866, on Captain Jesse Hurd's illy-fated steamboat, the "'Missouri." She exploded her boilers in the night of January 3o, near Smithland, Kentucky, and killed and wounded many people. Colonel Graham was in his state-room at the time and was thrown between the wheel-houses. He was badly and permanently hurt and never recovered from the injuries this received. On June 13, 1866, he took the agency of the National Express Company at Portsmouth and held it until the company quit business. On May 25, 1869, he was elected a Justice of the Peace in Portsmouth, but resigned on the third of June, following. In 1874, he took charge of St. James Hotel in Cincinnati and conducted it for over a year. In 1876 he returned to Portsmouth for good. In the same year the City Council made him Infirmary Director and he held that office by successive annual appointments, until his death on January 20, 1898. He had been a resident of Portsmouth for almost forty-nine years. In his political views, he was first a Whig and afterwards a Republican. with the "know-nothings" switched in between. In 1866, after recovering from his dreadful accident, he was confirmed in All Saints church. He was a citizen held in general esteem. Jean Gabriel Gervais. In the spring of 1790, five hundred French families landed at Alexandria, Virginia, induced to emigrate to this country by the Scioto Land Company, on promises of lands which that Company was unable to fulfill. Some of them returned to France at once, PIONEER SKETCHES - 711 some settled in seaboard cities, and about one half resolved to cross the mountains and settle in the wilderness. They went across the country to the Monongahela river, at Old Redstone Fort. Here they took boats and floated down to below the mouth of the Great Kanawha, where the Scioto Company's lands were said to be, but they located in the Ohio Company's purchase at Gallipolis. It is said that eighty cabins had been erected for them on the site of Gallipolis, and the Scioto Land Company supplied them with provisions for a while. When they found that they were in the Ohio Company's purchase. many of them left. Those who remained employed Jean Gabriel Gervais to procure them lands from Congress. He was a gentleman of means, and had a great sympathy for, his suffering countrymen. He was well bred, of fine education and polished manners. He went to Philadelphia and employed Peter Stephen Duponceau, a Philadelphia lawyer to assist him. It is apparent that Gervais made the Lest selection of an attorney to put his scheme through. Duponceau was born on the Isle of Rhe on the coast of France, in 1760. He came to the United States in 1777 with Baron Steuben, whom he served as secretary and aide-de-camp. He quit the army in 1780, on account of ill health, and studied law, and became an eminent lawyer in Philadelphia. He was a voluminous writer of essays on various subjects. He wrote a book on the "Jurisdiction of the Courts," published in 1834. He received a prize from the French Institute for an essay on the "Indian Languages of North America." He was for some years President of the American Philosophic Society. He died in Philadelphia in 1844. The French inhabitants of Gallipolis had agreed to give Gervais 4,000 acres of the grant for his services in securing the necessary legislation. Gervais employed Duponceau and "An act to authorize a grant of lands to the French inhabitants of Gallipolis and for other purposes therein mentioned" was passed March 3. 1795, and is found in Volume 2, page 503, of the United States Statutes at large. Under this act, 24,000 acres of land now constituting Green Township in Scioto County, was surveyed into a tract of 4,000 acres, and 92 lots of 217 acres each. Each inhabitant was to draw a lot. and have it patented to him. The act and Gervais' patent required him to settle on the tract within three years from the date of the patent, and to live on the land three years after, and in default of so doing the land was to revert to the United States. Each of the other French settlers was to locate on his lot within five years from the date of his patent, and reside on it for five years, and in default of so doing, the lot was to revert to the United States. However, on February 21, 1806, Congress repealed the conditions of the act of March 3, 1795. On June 25, 1798. (3rd United States General Statutes) Congress made the additional French Grant of 1,200 acres lying just west of the first grant, and fronting on the Ohio river 640 712 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. rods, and extending back to include the quantity, There were eight persons included in this grant. It does not appear that Gervais was concerned in obtaining this grant. The patent to Gervais was dated December 28, 1800, and is recorded in Volume A. B. C., page 84, Record of Deeds of Scioto County. Gervais deeded 200 acres of the 4,000 acre tract on the Ohio river to Peter Stephen Duponceau, the Philadelphia lawyer whom he had employed. The consideration named was $600.00. The deed was dated April 3, 1802. In the deed, Gervais is recited as "Gentleman" of Upper Township, Scioto County, Ohio. The deed to Duponceau is presumed to have been for his services to Gervais. It is found in Volume A. B. C., page 2, and in 1855 was owned by. Boynton and Lacroix. On May 6, 1806, Gervais conveyed the remaining 3,800 acres to Samuel Hunt, of Charlestown, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. The consideration stated was $7,600. The deed was executed May 26, 1806, and is found in Volume A. B. C., page 85. Hunt gave a mortgage to secure $5,600 of the purchase money payable May 6, 1808. He did not pay the money and the land was sold on foreclosure, December 22, 1809, to Earl Sproat to whom Gervais had sold the mortgage. Roswell Hunt obtained it of Sproat and sold it to Asa Boynton for $9,000. Roswell Hunt was of Charlestown, New Hampshire, "Gentleman," and Asa Boynton is recited to be of Piermont, Grafton County, New Hampshire, "yeoman." The deed is recorded in Volume A. B. C., page 303, and was dated Jan. 15, 1810. Duponceau held on to his 200 acres until February 20, 1830, when he sold them to Thayer D. White for $1,000 silver money. Keyes says that of the too French who drew lots, only about twenty settled on them. That the others remained in Gallipolis, or went elsewhere. Gervais laid out a town on his land and called it Burrsburg. There were never more than five or six cabins on it. It is said he had estates in France and had moved in the best society in Paris ; that he was a fine dancer, and fond of all kinds of amusements. Frontier life ,palled on 'him even if he did have a two story double log house in Burrsburg. He came to the United States in 1790 and in 1806, he sold out to Samuel Hunt, and the land went to a colony from New Hampshire of which Asa Boynton seemed to be the head. Then Monsieur Gervais disappeared below our horizon and we hear of him no more. He, went back to his beloved France, in 1817. He rode all the way from Gallipolis to Philadelphia, on horseback accompanied by E. S. Menager. When he reached Philadelphia, he gave his horse to Menager. He carried his money on this trip in his saddle pockets. He was never married but resided in Paris with his sister. He died in 1824, at the age of sixty. In leaving Gallipolis, he presented the many town lots he owned there to his friends. PIONEER SKETCHES - 713 Martin Beebe Gilbert was born September 16, 1816, at Canaan, New York, the son of Giles Gilbert, Senior, and Effie Beebe, his wife. \Vhen he was but two years of age, his parents located in Marietta where his father engaged in the grocery business with Colonel Stone at Point Harmar. The family came to Portsmouth in 1830, and his father engaged in the same business; and he was connected with it as clerk and partner until 1846, when his father went out of it and it was changed to M. & G. Gilbert, our subject and his brother Giles Gilbert, Jr., composing the firm. Mr. Gilbert obtained his education in Marietta and in the public schools at Portsmouth; but the greater and better part of it was his business education in the counting room of his father. Between 1830 and 1850, the furnishing of supplies to the steamboats plying the Ohio river was a very extensive and lucrative business; and Portsmouth was a point at which a great many of the supplies were purchased. Mr. Gilbert made his fortune largely from the steamboat and river craft trade. He continued in the wholesale grocery business from 1838 until his death, and was uniformly successful. He was a man who made and held many friends. He had a vide acquaintance through all the territory tributary to Portsmouth; and had the confidence of the entire business community. He was known for his promptness and integrity in business. He was a public spirited and liberal minded citizen. No enterprise. for public benefit was ever projected in the community, but he was called upon for and favored it with a liberal subscription and with his influence. He was a Whig and a Republican in his political views; but he never sought an office or attempted to control any political action. He was ambitious only for business success. About the only public office he ever held was that of city wharfmaster, from May 3, 1842, until April 6, 1844; but this was directly in ,connection with his business in selling boat stores. Mr. Gilbert was one of the most patriotic and loyal citizens of the County. October 14, 1861, he was made one of the Military Committee of Scioto County. This was an office of great responsibility but without emoluments. His associates on this committee were F. C. Searl, W. A. Hutchins, John P. Terry and A. W. Buskirk. He served on this committee as late as November 20, 1864. When the history of the war is written, the arduous duties that were performed by the County Military Committee will be known. It had arbitrary power ; and none but the most loyal and self-sacrificing men, could, or would accept the place. Mr. Gilbert performed his duties on this committee to the satisfaction of all concerned. He was the founder of one of the most substantial and extensive businesses in the city of Portsmouth, now conducted by the M. B. Gilbert Grocery Company. During his life and until the 1st of January, 1900, the business was conducted as a partnership, but since that tie it has been conducted as a corporation. Since his 714 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. death his estate has been largely interested in the business. Mr. Gilbert was not only an honest and successful business man during his entire life, but he was essentially a religious man. For thirty-five years, he was a communicant of All Saints Church. He was a member of the vestry of that church nearly the whole of that time. For some years prior to his death and at the time of his death, he was a Senior Warden of the church, the most imporant lay office in the 0rganization. May 12, 1840, he married Laura Virginia Hancock. the died October 14, 1868. Their children were: Lucius H., and Augustus B., both deceased in young manhood; Frank L., and Martin B. jr., deceased in middle hfe. On the 15th of June, 1871, he was married to Mrs. Caroline Stockham, widow of Thomas Cruli, who survived him. They had one daughter Laura Virginia, the wife of Frank Kendall. Mr. Gilbert was punctilious in carrying out to the letter all of his obligations whether financial, social or religious. He was not a user of liquors or tobacco and was very methodical in all his doings. He was uniformly courteous and obliging to all of his acquaintances. He was a model business man and churchman. He was most highly esteemed in his church and in the community, and when called upon to part with this world he had no regrets. His life and who were more valuable than a thousand sermons and all those who remember him, recollect' the words, "He being dead yet speaketh" because the remembrance of his honorable Christian life is a precious treasure to all who knew him. Marion Ingalls Gilruth, daughter of William and Grace Ingalls Gilruth, was born Feb. 14, 1776 in the city of Edinburg, Scotland. In 1784, she with her parents emigrated to the United States. On the 16th of March, 187, they settled on the Ohio river, at a place called Belleville on the Virginia shore, some eighteen miles below the mouth of the Little Kanawha. During the Indian War which followed they ran many risks of losing their lives. On one occasion as the family were sitting at breakfast, they heard footsteps of men running. Marion stepped t0 the door to see what it meant. As she opened the door, she heard a scream in another direction, and looked to ascertain the cause. She saw him, who afterwards became her husband, rush into his house while some twenty Indians were carrying on a work 0f death within a few yards of the other end of his cabin. Turning she saw three Indians within fifteen feet of her, with their guns pointed at her. She looked one that was immediately in front of her full in the face, he instantly took down his gun, crying out "Ugh." In the meantime her little brother had come 0ut and advanced nearly half way to where the Indians stood. She sprang forward, caught the child, darted into the house, and shut the door, and gave the alarm. Firing commenced and the Indians retreated, having killed one man, taken a little boy prisoner and lost their chief. In March, 1792, she PIONEER SKETCHES - 715 was married to Thomas Gilruth by whom she had seven children, two of whom died in infancy. John, Jane, James, Mary and William are yet living. Having lost their possessions at Belleville by an older claim, the Gilruth family settled in the French Grant, Scioto County, Ohio, oh the 8th day of April, 1797. Thomas Gilruth died March 19, 1826. She survived until April 14, 1847. She was a mother to the orphan, a friend to the poor, and a support to the church. James Gilruth was born January 29, 1793, at Belleville, Wood County, West Virginia. He was the son of Thomas Gilruth and Marion Ingalls, his wife. His parents came from Scotland shortly after the close of the American Revolution ; and the year 1792 found them in southern Ohio, then the theatre of an Indian war. The danger of assaults from the savages caused the Gilruths to cross the Ohio river and seek shelter in, 0r near, a fort at Belleville, Va. After the treaty of Greenville the Gilruths concluded to seek a permanent home in Ohio. April 8, 1797, they settled in the French Grant. Our subject spent his youth on the farm, with occasional interludes for such schooling as the neighborhood afforded. In 1813, he volunteered with a company raised in his region for service in the war against Great Britain. The company was assigned with an Ohio regiment, and saw a great deal of hard service on the northern frontier. He made a good record and was sent out on several scouting expeditions. In 1816, he was married to Miss Hannah Kouns. In the winter of 1818-9, a great revival swept through southern Ohio; and in February of the latter year, our subject was, as he himself had said many a time, "powerfully converted" at a Methodist meeting. By the latter part of March, he had s0 favorably impressed his Presiding Elder that he was licensed to preach; and on the 7th day of August, following, when the conference met, he was ordained as a regular minister. He 5continued in the regular ministry in the Ohio Conference for thirty-two years. He made his first visit to Iowa in 1844; and in that year, or the year following, entered a quarter section of land two miles north 0f the city of Davenport. He returned to Ohio and remained until the spring of 1851 when he removed with his family to Davenport, Iowa. He became a member of the Iowa Conference, a relation he sustained until the day of his death. He officiated as pastor in charge, or on circuit, whenever appointed, until the year 1863, when he was placed upon the superannuated list. Gilruth Chapel near his home was named for him. In 1853, he moved his family onto a farm near Davenport, where he resided until his death. His wife died in 1818. September 25, 1823, he married Miss Mary Westlake, daughter of a prominent citizen of Gallipolis, Ohio. 716 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. He had eight children : Harriet and Mary, both deceased; Naomi M., the wife of Sylvester R. Hayes; Matilda, the wife of George Carpenter; Pauline, who married A. J. Kynett; Christina, the wife of Augustus R. Logan; James M. and Thomas W. He died June 11, 1873. He had made money, became quite rich, indeed, but he never lost the respect and confidence of the neighbors nor of those who had business transactions with him, by the means of acquiring it. He sustained his Christian integrity in business as well as in the pulpit. He possessed bright intellect, had vivid imagination, and a love for the beautiful in nature and literature. His memory was very retentive, his command of language good. He was a mighty man physically, and in his prime, his weight was nearly 300 pounds. William Gilruth was born May 24, 1797, in Adams County in the Northwest Territory. He was the youngest of three children of Thomas and. Marion Ingalls Gilruth, who emigrated to this country shortly after the Revolutionary War and finally settled in the French Grant. He was early trained in the use of rifle, ax and fishing rod, the first implements of those days. Schools, there were none. But his mother was a woman of refinement ; and having brought some books from Scotland, her children were given the rudiments of an education, with a taste for good reading which they improved all through life. He was married to Rebecca Austin of Lawrence County in May, 1822. Her parents came from Luray, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. His wife died in April, 1860, leaving ten children, seven sons and three daughters. The sons were Irwin Malcomb, Thomas, James, Austin, Isaac Newton, Henry Clay, Archibald. All the sons lived and grew to manhood, except Henry a boy of eighteen, who enlisted in Co. D. 173 O. V. I., August 25, 1864; appoipted post duty sergeant, September 16, 1864; died in the service January 23, 1865. Only two sons are now living, one of them, Austin, is the owner of a Cattle Ranch near Elko, Nevada. He is of quiet, reserved disposition, taking pleasure in his fine stock, his books and papers. Archibald, the other was for fourteen years a missionary in India: He is now a member of the Ohio Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church. FIe married Miss Agnes Mulligan. They have six children. The daughters of William Gilruth were : Minerva, married Thomas D. Kelly, now a widow, living in Huntington, West Virginia ; Mary, married A. E. Goddard, lives at the old home place, near Haverhill, Ohio; Alice married M. S. Pixley, M. D., Portsmouth, Ohio. William Gilruth lived four score years on a farm on which he was born. He died June 2, 1879, honored and respected by all who knew him. PIONEER SKETCHES - 717 Thomas Gilruth was born November 5, 1827, at the old Gilruth homestead in Green Township above Haverhill, Ohio. He was the .second son of Willam and Rebecca (Austin) Gilruth. His grandfather was Thomas Gilruth, born in Perthshire, Scotland, and came to the United States in 1783, and located in Virginia. His wife was Marion (Ingalls) Gilruth, daughter of William and Grace Ingalls, and was born in Edinburg, Scotland, February 14, 1776. Our subject was raised on a farm and got his meagre education by attending three months subscription schools during the winter months. At the breaking out of the rebellion, he enlisted October 3, 1861, in Battery F., First 0. V. Light Artillery and was transferred to Co. G., 19th regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, April 28, 1864. He was mustered out at the expiration of his term of service, November 9, 1864. He was wounded by a piece of shell on the right hand. He was married December 25, 1866, to Nancy Coe, daughter of Strander and Sophia Coe. They have had four children, but only two are living: Hattie and Addie Bell, who reside with their mother. Mr. Gilruth died April 13, 1899, and is buried in the family graveyard on the home farm. He was a Republican in his views, a man of integrity and honor and of a quiet and retiring nature. He was a great reader and kept well informed on current events. He had a special weakness for fine horses and had a reputation for his blooded animals. William Givens, the eldest son of Judge William Givens and Rachel (Stockham) Givens (see their sketch), was born at Poplar Row, now Jackson, the village of salt boilers in Jackson County, Ohio, July 31, 1811. He attended the district schools and the subscription schools of the day, and worked with his father at the salt works until the year 1826, when the family moved to Nile Township, Scioto County, Ohio, on the farm purchased from John Graham. one of the proprietors of the Graham, O'Bannon & Massie Survey Nos. 2,459 and 2,558. Here he assisted his father and brothers David and John in clearing up the land and cutting wood for the supply of such steamboats as were then plying the Ohio river. They used their earnings in making payments on the farm, which was then a wilderness. He was en- gaged much of his time in the construction of keelboats and flatboats,- for which there was a good demand for freighting to all points on the Ohio and Misissippi rivers, as far clown as New Orleans. The boats were loaded with produce and floated down the river and the load sold out. Then the boat would be sold, and the enterprising mariners would frequently walk back. He was connected with this business more or less, as well as looking after and cultivating his farm and orchard, until there was no more produce of the forest worth looking after in his neighborhood. In politics he was a Whig until the dis- 718 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. solution of that party, and was then a Republican the remainder of his life, taking a very active part in recruiting soldiers for the Civi? War, and in assisting in caring for those who were left behind. In religion, he was a Methodist from the age of twenty-one, and his home was a haven of rest for the circuit rider and those attending the quarterly, and other meetings, from a distance. He was a warm hearted, friendly man, and was always slow to believe that any of his acquaintances could go wrong. He saw nearly three generations come and go in his neighborhood, and was acquainted with all the men, women and children, and was highly respected. William Givens was married to Elizabeth Elliott on October 15, 1834. She was the sister of Katharine, who married Laban Woodworth: Nancy, who married John Elliott, and Sarah, who married Leroy S. Moore. She had four brothers: John, Benjamin, William and Alexander. These were all children of Benjamin Elliott and Isabella (McCann) Elliott. Both families, the Elliotts and McCanns, are believed to have emigrated from Scotland and Ireland at an early date and settled in Adams and Scioto Counties. The clan of Elliott had a separate tartan of plaid, and were an important family in Scotland. There was also an important English family by the name of Elliott, belonging to Devon arid Cornwall. Elizabeth Elliott was born in Scioto County, Ohio, February 12, 1814. Children were born to them as follows: Cynthia A., who married Washington Cross, and now lives at Roseland, La..: Sarah Ellen, who married R. A. Bryan, residing in Portsmouth, Ohio; Mary Jane, who married M. Herdman, residing at Elm Tree, in Nile Township: Martha Susan, who married Rev. S. M. Donahoe and died June 16, 1881 Eliza Catharine, who married George Williamson of Dry Run and died March 28, 1887; Margaret Isabel, who died at the age of sixteen in 1862; David Creighton, who married Josephine McDermott and resided in Nile Township until recently, when he with his family emigrated to Hampton, Iowa: William Alexander, who married Lucy Murphy, daughter of Sherry Murphy, of Adams County, and now resides on the old Givens farm. The married life of William and Elizabeth Givens extended to nearly sixty-four years. Williams Givens died at his home in Nile Township, July 30, 1898, from the infirmities of old age, aged eighty-seven years. Elizabeth (Elliott) Givens died October 11, 1899, from the same cause as her husband, aged eighty-five years, seven months and twenty-nine days. Allen Forsythe Givens, the sixth son of William Givens, was born in Jackson County, Ohio, April 22, 1820. He lived in Jackson County until 1827, when his father removed to Scioto County and located 312 acres in the O'Bannon, Graham and Massie survey No. 2,459 and 2,558. He attended the country schools for three months in the year, during his boyhood and was reared a farmer. He lives on a farm of 120 acres, part of PIONEER SKETCHES - 719 the same land on which 'his father located, and has lived there all his life. When he moved there his father's purchase was nearly all woods. For thirty years, our subject was engaged in building flat boats and in flatboating to Cincinnati. In 1880, he was real estate Appraiser of Nile Township, the only public office he ever held. On June 10, 1841. he was married to Mary Smith. daughter of James Smith, a brother of John F. Smith. the old ferryman, His children are: John \V., living in Salina, Kansas; James H., deceased, leaving a widow and three sons; Rachel Eliza. the wife of Augustus Orcutt, now living in Charleston, West Virginia; Elizabeth, married, first, to Marion Coe by whom she has two children, living and married: second, to George Williamson of Dry Run; Aurilla V., married to Andy, Noel and has died leaving five children; Victoria Givens, married to Silas Smith and died leaving two children. Mr. Givens lost three children in infancy, two sons and one daughter. He was originally a Whig and then became a Republican. Since 1884, he has been a Prohibitionist. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for sixty-five years. He has been a steward of the church for forty-five years and Sunday School superintendent for twenty-six years. He is holding both offices at present. His wife died November 8, 1900. aged seventy-eight. No citizen of Scioto County is held in greater regard than Mr. Givens. The purity of his life and the integrity of his character are known to all of the community where he dwells and have earned him the high place he has in the esteem of his fellow men. Jefferson Wadley Glidden was born at Northfield, New Hampshire in 1806. His father was Charles and his mother. Ruth (Hall) Glidden. She lived to be 91 years old and died in Wheelersburg, Ohio. He learned the dyer's trade in New Hampshire. His father, who had located in Franklin this county, in 1826. is buried there. Jefferson Wadley Glidden went into the woods and made charcoal.- He formed a partnership with John Blair, Obadiah Glidden's father-in-law. He began chopping wood at $10 a month, and then went into making charcoal for Junior Furnace. After a few years, he was one of the parties who bought the furnace. He discovered a spring on the place that would cure ague. It cured him and all of his neighbors. It turned out afterwards when the water was analyzed that it was impregnated with arsenic. He was a member of the old Ohio Iron Company which built Junior and Empire Furnaces. When the company failed,' our subject went to Texas on a trip. He afterwards came back and bought Junior Furnace. He went there in 1840 and remained until 185o.. He owned an interest in the Furnace until it blew out in 1866. He and John Blair were the owners and were partners. It was then purchased by Glidden & Company, consisting of Jefferson Wadley Glidden and Obadiah his brother. After that, it was OWned by Glid- 720 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. den, Murfin & Company, composed of Jefferson W. Glidden, Daniel A. Glidden, Obadiah Glidden, and James Murfin. Glidden & Murfin built Empire Furnace ill 1859. In 1852, the firm of Glidden, Crawford & Company was organized, consisting of Jefferson W., Obadiah, Charles Mills,- Stephen S. and Daniel A. Glidden and George Crawford. That firm purchased and operated Clinton Furnace. Jefferson W. Glidden also had an interest in Scioto Furnace under the firm name of Glidden, Robinson & Company. Jefferson Glidden built the first suspension bridge across the mouth of the Scioto. He organized the Gas Company at Portsmouth and built its works there. He was one of the leading spirits of the city of Portsmouth during his residence there. At one time he was interested with Mark E. Reed in the purchase of 30,000 acres of land in La Porte, Indiana. He, with John Lockwood, bought a large tract of land near Milwaukee and laid out an addition to the city known as the Glidden & Lockwood Addition, which was sub-divided and sold during his life, and after his death. At one time he had a judgment of $13,000 levied on his house as a member of the firm of Glidden, Robinson & Company, he being the only solvent member of the firm. COL Turley had the judgment. When Jefferson Glidden heard of the levy, he was then sick in bed and said to his son, John, "Let them sell the house, I can't." John Culbertson, of Ironton, better known as "Black Hawk," hearing of the levy, offered him $22,000 on his own note at 6 per cent. He declined the offer and paid off the judgment from his own resources. He died March 16, 1863, of consumption, He was a Whig and Republican, but not a member of any church. He was a man of few words, clear and concise in his expressions. He had immense energy and great kindness of heart. At one time when Judge Searl, then a mere boy had a coal contract for Franklin Furnace, and was losing money right along, he asked to be relieved from his contract. The other partners refused. The matter was brought to the attention of Mr. Jefferson W. Glidden. He investigated it and saw that if Judge Searl completed his contract, it would ruin him. He insisted to the other members of the firm that it should make a new contract with Judge Searl, who was then plain F. C. Searl, and give him an opportunity to make something. A new contract was made and Mr. Searl came out all right under the contract. Mr. Glidden was a man of wonderful nerve, always cool. He was a great reader and a man who investigated everything thoroughly. As a business man he was invaluable in the community. Elijah Glover, Sr. The Glover family were among the earliest settlers of Scioto County and Portsmouth. Their American ancestor, John Glover came from London, England. under a grant to Lord Baltimore. He PIONEER SKETCHES - 721 was of mixed Scotch and English descent. He bought land in Frederick County, Maryland, and lived near what was known as Ellicott's Mills. His children were Joshua, Samuel and Sarah. The latter married, in Maryland, a man named Basiman; Samuel married Elizabeth Barnes 0f Cecil County, Maryland; and through every generation of the Glover family until the present time, there has been a Samuel Glover and an Elizabeth Barnes Glover. Samuel Glover and family emigrated to Kentucky in the year 1795. They settled 0n a farm in Mason County near May's Lick. They had thirteen children : John, named for the grandfather, Ezekiel, Elijah, Johusa, Nathan, Joshua, Sarah, Samuel Barnes, Asa, Anna, Margaret, Azel and Elizabeth Barnes. The last named died in early girlhood, the remaining twelve lived to manhood and womanhood, and most of them to old age. Elijah, Johusa, Nathan, Sarah, Anna, Margaret and Azel lived and died in Portsmouth or vicinity. Elijah Glover was born May 6, 1782, and was the first member of the Glover family to locate in Ohio. He was followed by, his brothers and sisters before named. He was the third child of Samuel Glover and was in his fourteenth year when his father left Maryland. His first visit to Ohio was in 1799, when he came to buy furs for his father's hat store in Kentucky. In company with a man named Crane, he went in a pirogue up the Sciot0 river as far as Chillicothe. On their way back, in passing through the old ford, at the head of the mill race, their boat struck a snag, turned over and Crane lost all his furs. Ever after, during the keel boat navigation, this spot was called "Crane's Defeat." In the year 1800: Elijah Glover, and Catherine Jones were married in Kentucky. Her father— Griffith Jones was also from Maryland and lived on a farm, about five miles from the Glover farm. Several of her brothers and sisters also came to Ohio, and many of their descendants are still residents of Portsmouth. After Elijah Glover's marriage, he came to Ohio and settled at Alexandria. Two of his children were born there: Samuel and John, the latter in 1802, afterwards known as Doctor John Glover. The subsequent children : Ezekiel, William, Nathan, Elijah Barnes, known in Portsmouth as Eli, Samuel Griffith, Elizabeth Barnes and Anna Maria, were all born in Portsmouth, to which place Mr. and Mrs. Glover moved in 1804. They built a house between Scioto and Massie streets. He finished the kitchen first and moved into it. The same year they completed the house and opened a tavern. Mr. Glover also opened a hat store, running both at the same time. This tavern was a log house, weather boarded and painted red. It was used as a tavern many years by different parties, among them Mr. John Peebles, father of the late John G. Peebles. Mr. Glover afterwards built a larger house on the corner of Jefferson and Front streets, which is now 722 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. known as "Pig Iron Corner." This house was for several years the largest house in Portsmouth, the "'Prescott House" built soon after, being next in size. Elijah Glover was appointed sheriff in May, 1810. John Clark, the sheriff, resigned rather than serve a bastardy warrant on General Robert Lucas. A volunteer was asked to accept the Sheriff's office and served the warrant. Elijah Glover volunteered, was appointed and lodged General Robert Lucas in jail. He was elected to the office that fall, and served until 1812. He was re-elected and served until 1814. There was bad blood between the Glovers and the Lucas’s from that time on and there were arrests and prosecutions while that generation lived. The first court was held in what was called a bank stable. The room for horses was dug out of the bank of the Scioto river, and the room where court was held was above it. While Mr. Glover was Sheriff, court was held in his hat store and in the Overman house which stood on the corner of Massie street. Mr. Glover lived On the corner of Jefferson and Front streets until his death. Three of his sons : Samuel, William and Nathan were drowned in the Ohio river. Ezekiel, the third son, died in 1823, in his sixteenth year, of a fever which then prevailed and which was almost as fatal as yellow fever. There were not enough well to care for the sick, and many fell victims to it. Mr. Glover was Councilman in 1823, and a member of the committee on streets. He was also on the Committee to improve the front of the town. He owned land in Portsmouth and a farm above the town on the Ohio river. His cows pastured in a lot where All Saints Episcopal Church now stands. He was a man of quick temper, but soon over it, and never cherished ill will, but forgot and forgave. He was hospitable and his house was always full of his own and his wife's relatives, who found a welcome and a home, when needed. They raised several of their nieces and nephews. He never turned the hungry from his door. He was intelligent, beyond the time in which he lived. Letters .still in existence show him to have been a man of education beyond the average of that day. On October 23, 1829, he went to his home to dinner, and laid down on a settee to rest until it was ready. When his wife went to call him to the meal, he was found dead. After his death, his widow moved to the corner of Washington and Second streets. The house stood on the alley where Knittel's bakery now stands, and the grounds extended to Washington street, on the east, and to Third street on the north. Many of our older citizens will remember this beautiful garden with its flowers and shrubs and vines, the long vine-covered porch with its ample settees, where the society belles of those early days met to talk over social events. Mrs. Glover was loved by everyone. She had a kind word for all and an excuse for everybody's faults. She was far in advance of PIONEER SKETCHES - 723 her day in her views and opinions. After her children married, she moved to Fourth street, in half of a brick house standing next to the Baptist Church. She leased the lot on the corner of Front and Jefferson streets about 1850, to Conway & Tomlinson. The old hotel was divided into sections and moved to different parts of the town. One portion formed the Ben Ball house on Second street. Mrs. Glover lived wth her daughter Elizabeth many years in the Fourth street house, and died there in March, 1856, aged seventy-eight years. She made no outward profession of religion, though a Methodist in early years, but she lived her religion, in a pure, loving, blameless life. Rev. Doctor Burr often said he enjoyed conversing with her more than with anyone else he knew. When she died, he came to the house and requested them to bury her from All Saints Church, saying, he "knew of no one more worthy to be taken to God's house, for she lived her religion, seen and known of all men." Nathan Glover, the brother of Sheriff Glover, first appears in the court of Thomas Waller, Justice of the Peace, on May 4, 1814, when he was sentenced to work two days on the road for swearing. He did not seem to hold any grudge against the Squire for this, for on June 11, 1808, the latter married him to Polly Jones. In 1810, he was Clerk of Wayne Township and in the same year' he participated in the arrest of Gen. Robert Lucas. In the melee he threw Squire John Brown over a fence into the jimson weeds. Gen. Lucas wrote of him that he was "one of the damn raskels who mobbed him and put him in jail." This was before Gen. Lucas became pious. On March 15, 1815, Nathan Glover was elected one of the first nine city fathers, but served only till December 29, 1815, when he left Portsmouth and John Young was elected in his place. He was a man of fine appearance and great physical prowess. He was the Apollo Belvidere of the Glover family, and when the Sheriff wanted a posse, he was always called on and could be the posse comitatus all by himself. He died on the loth of April; 1822, aged 36 years and 27 days. His wife Mary, died August I, 1823, in the 35th year of her age. They are buried in Greenlawn, victims of the sickly years of Portsmouth's history. Azel Glover Was a brother of Elijah, the Sheriff, and was born Sept. 27, 1800, in Maysville, Ky. He came to Portsmouth about 1820. His wife was Elizabeth Deering. She was born in Winchester, Va., March 24, 1809. He married her in Scioto County on December II, 1824. In 1831, he attended the great Fourth of July celebration and responded to a volunteer toast. In 1837, he was elected County Assessor and failed to qualify. In 1838, he was elected Town Marshal. On June 724 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. 7, 1839, Mayor Hamilton filed charges, against him for the following reasons : The mayor had heard a State case and had ordered defendant to .give bond or to go to jail. Glover undertook to take the prisoner to jail and seized him by his auburn locks and proceeded to drag him out to the jail at once, in disregard of the mayor's instructions. On June 21, Samuel M. Tracy, Corporation Council presented articles of impeachment to the Council. William V. Peck represented Glover, and asked 24 hours delay. At the end of that time, Peck asked that his client be allowed to apologize, and that the case be dismissed at his costs. Council accepted the terms. On July 7, 1839, Squire Cornelius McCoy presented charges against Glover for misconduct in office, and a committee of Council was 'appointed to investigate. This commitee reported Glover's resignation and asked to be discharged, which was agreed to. In 1846, he sold six acres of ground where the children's home now stands to the County for an Infirmary. The price paid was $1,200. On January 18, 1855, he was elected sexton of the city cemetery, and served until November 20, 1865, when he resigned. From 1857 to 1863, he was market master of Portsmouth. He was Marshal of the city from May, 1864 to July, 1865. He left Portsmouth in 1865, after resigning as sexton of the city cemetery, and took up his residence in Covington, Ky. He died, October 10, 1877, and is interred in Greenlawn cemetery, where he interred so many others. His wife died December 12, 1884, and is buried by his side. Elizabeth Glover was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, July 29, 1813,—the eldest daughter of Elijah and Catherine Glover. She was a welcome child, being the first girl in a family of six boys. She often said, had she only been a boy,, she would have come to honor as the seventh son. She finished her education at Doctor Lake's School at Cincinnati. She had hosts. of friends through all her life. She was very popular and much sought after in social circles; had many admirers and numerous offers of marriage; but lived to old age unmarried. She was the life of many social gatherings, always surrounded by a circle of friends, whom she attracted by her wit and brilliant repartee. She had always an anecdote or illustration to suit the topic of conversation, There are many still living in Portsmouth who will remember her wonderful curls. The fashion of hair dressing never changed with. her. Her curls were perennial and when age had silvered them, they were even more beautiful than the original color. She taught many years in the public schools and her pupils loved her. She was a member of All Saints Episcopal Church and devoted to it. She was Chairman and Secretary of the Business Committee of the Soldier's Relief Circle and served one year as Secretary of that Associa- PIONEER SKETCHES - 725 tion. Her Sister, Mrs. Kendall, having moved to West Liberty, Ohio, in 1866, she followed her and resided there until her death. Her heart longed for her church and many friends in Portsmouth to the very end, and her love for them never grew cold. No one who ever resided in Portsmouth left behind more friends or warmer ones. She was the most popular single woman who ever lived in Portsmouth. The flag she ,loved and honored is placed at her resting place each Memorial Day, and covered with flowers on that occasion. At the end of life she lost her sight and could neither read nor sew ; and she who had cherished so many friends, spent many lonely hours in her room, with no companion but the memory of other days." She passed away May 30, 1892, and was brought to her childh00d's home, to lie in beautiful Greenlawn among those she loved and who had loved her Samuel Gould was born June 5, 1783, at Tyngsboro, Massachusetts. He was married to Mrs. Hannah Young Ela in 1811. She was the daughter of Jesse Young and was born in 1780 and died in 1846. Her father, Jesse Young was a Major in the Revolutionary War. Samuel Gould emigrated to Ohio with the Young family, about 1820, and resided there the remainder of his life. He was a Justice of the Peace of Green Township, Scioto County, Ohio, from June 14, 1832 to 1834. He held the office again from June 20, 1849 to 1852, and from 1859 to 1862. He was Trustee of Green Township in 1849. He was post master at Franklin Furnace. He was a carpenter and builder by trade, and prominent' in the early Masonic circles of this county. He was highly respected in his community. He died February 11, 1864, aged 80, and was buried with Masonic honors. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. A. G. Byers. Orin Barron Gould, Sr, was born in Concord, New Hampshire, November 20, 1818. His father was Samuel Gould and his mother's maiden name was Hannah Young. She was one of the family of brothers and sisters who came from New Hampshire to Southern Ohio in the early twenties. Our subject came to Scioto County, Ohio, when but two years old. His father located in Wheelersburg and he attended the district schools there; but his education was supplemented and continued throughout life by wide reading, keen observation and earnest thinking. He was one of the pioneer furnacemen of the Hanging Rock region. When eighteen years of age, he went to La Grange Furnace, Lawrence County, Ohio, and was there for two or three years, connected with the management. He then went to Peoria, Illinois, and remained there for two years. He came back to Ohio. and he and his brother, John, bought Franklin Furnace, and operated it as J. F. Gould & Company. The furnace ran until 1858, when it blew out, 726 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. and has never run since. Directly after the furnace dosed, Mr. Orin B. Gould bought his brother's interest in the Furnace property and thereafter was sole owner. He was twenty-three when he first came to Franklin Furnace; and he lived there all the remainder of his life. After the furnace closed, he was a farmer till his death. Strong in his attachments and taking root deeply, he could not bear the thought of giving up his old home and entering into new alliances after the making of charcoal iron in his neighborhood was no longer practicable. He clung to the old scenes and faces tenaciously. He was manager of the Scioto County Agricultural Society in 1868. In 1872, he was a candidate for Commissioner on the Republican ticket. He received 2,895 votes to 2,153 for John Violet, Democrat, majority, 742. Office holding did not suit him and he declined a second term. In 1859, he was united in marriage with Lavinia Seeley, widow of Henry S. Willard, who was a member of a New England family which emigrated early to Northern Ohio. Of this union were born two children : Orin B., of Wellston, Ohio, who has a sketch herein. and Mrs. Winnie H. McBride of Asbury Park, New Jersey. While not a church member, he had deep religious convictions, studied the Bible seriously, and reflected earnestly on the problems of life and eternity. To the Methodist Church and its ministers, he was notably liberal, without ostentation, as many yet living gladly bear witness. Politically, Mr. Gould was a Republican, and gave to the party his time and money without stint. He was a strong partisan, and not tolerant of the views of opponents. What he felt to be right, he believed in without shadow of turning. In politics, as in other things, he was unselfish, that is not self-seeking, and gave his services and means, without thought of compensation, to promote the principles of his party and the interests of his friends. The only office he ever held was that of County Commissioner from 1872 to, 1875. He was many times a delegate to County and City Conventions. He was a lover of fine horses and had a great many about him. Through church and political associations, he made a wide acquaintance and established many enduring friendships. To know him well, which was not easy, was to love and admire him; and his friends were knit to him with links of steel. Apparently abrupt and outwardly austere, his nature was mostly kindly, warm and unselfish. Stern of countenance and often harsh of expression, his heart was overflowing with sweet and generous impulses, and his hand quick to do noble deeds. He was a natural leader of men, and led more by example than direction. He was independent in thought and action, ignoring all conventionalities, and bordering on radicalism. In criticism, he was bitter and fearless ; in support of a friend, or cause, true, staunch and loyal to the core. His position was never PIONEER SKETCHES - 727 uncertain or equivocal. He was usually in advance of the sentiment of the day upon all public questions. Of good roads, he was an early ardent advocate, urging their efficacy as a material help and an educational influence. He was a man of remarkable energy, wonderful presistency and determined will. He delighted in physical labor, and in doing things, the harder and more difficult the better, the more adverse and rough the elements the greater his pleasure, and many instances of his endurance and vigor are well remembered. His nature may be compared to an uncut diamond,—a rough exterior covering a gem of rare purity and value. His acts of kindness and helpfulness were as the sands 0f the sea ; and his left hand knew not what the right hand did. He died at Franklin Furnace, March 20, 1890, and was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Portsmouth, Ohio. Hs wife survived him until December 2, 1900. Samuel Gunn was one of the Saints of the Lord on earth. He was born in Connecticut in 1763 and came to Alexandria as early as 1805 with his wife, Joanna Warner and family. He was a school teacher, and taught in a log school house at the foot of the hill back of Alexandria. in the latter place he had a two story frame residence. He moved to Portsmouth in 1816, and established a cooper shop. June 16, 1819, he took part in the organization of All Saints church and was -one of the two wardens selected,—Dr. Thomas Waller being the 0ther. He became a lay reader in the church and, as such, conducted services for twelve years. In 1820, he was elected one of the town councilmen to fill a vacancy. In 1822, when David Gharky was removed as town treasurer, he was appointed to succeed him and served until April 14, 1830, when he was succeeded by Wilson Gates. On March 8, 1824, he was elected to the town council by 13 votes,—all that were cast. On June 11, 1824, he was appointed to bring in an ordinance to establish a Board of Health. The ordinance was brought in and passed, and under it, Portsmouth had its first Board of Health. In 1827, he was re-elected to the town council and received 41 votes. Colonel John McDonald, elected at the same time, had 27 votes, and James Lodwick, also elected at the same time, had 23 votes. He served until 1830. In 1821, he was surety 0n several official bonds, showing him to be a man of substance. In 1828 he was president of the Sunday School Society of the town. In 1829 he and Washington Kinney were appointed a committee of the Council to procure two floating wharves six feet long. On the 18th of February, 1830, he was one of the founders of the Scioto County Bible Society. August 27, 1832, he died in his 69th year. His widow, Joanna Gunn, survived until August 21, 1858, when she died in her 96th year. He had four sons, Havillah, Enos, Zina and Bela. He had 728 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. two daughters, ___a, who married Levi Moore; and Pama, who married Philip Moore. Captains William and Enos Moore are sons of Levi Moore. Havillah Gunn was born in Connecticut in 1786, the son of Samuel and Joanna Gunn, and came to Alexandria with his father and mother. In 1810, when Alexander Curran resigned as Clerk of the Courts, he was appointed pro tempore and served a month. He was succeeded by John R. Turner. On July 15, 1824, he was elected Justice of the Peace of Wayne TOWnship and served till January, 1826, when he resigned. In 1825, he was an Overseer of the Poor of Wayne Township. From 1826 to 1828 he was a Trustee of Wayne Township. From 1832 to 1835, he was Clerk of Wayne TOWnship. In 1826, he was a candidate for Auditor and was defeated. David Gharky had 769 votes, and he had 140. In 1828, he was conducting a general store in Portsmouth. From 1828 to 1830, he was County Treasurer. In 1829, he was a candidate for re-election to that office and was defeated. Wm. Waller had 448 votes and Gunn 319. At that time the county duplicate was $4,087.33. In 1834, he served as Town Recorder, April 4 to September 5. He does not appear to have held any public office in Scioto County after 1835, but went to Illinois. He died in Olney, Ills., September 8, 1867, at the age of 81. William Hall, first of Colchester, Connecticut, and afterwards of Groton, in the same state, was married to Eunice Foote,. August 12, 1787, at Colchester, Conn. William Hall died in Groton, Connecticut, August 16, 1810. His widow Mrs. Eunice Hall died in Marietta, Ohio, July 15, 1826. To them were born six children. William Hall, late of Portsmouth, Ohio, and the subject of this sketch, was their fifth child. He was at Colchester, Connecticut, July 7, 1800. Of his early childhood, little is known. He attended the common schools of the "Nutmeg State" until about his twelfth year, and as the necessities of the family required it, he went to work with his elder brothers in a bakery that they were then carrying on. He worked at that business for seven years. The war of 1812 coming on, the British sent a fleet of war vessels to blockade the port of New London, at the mouth of the Thames river, the principal port for sea going vessels on Long Island Sound: The militia of the state and neighboring states were called out for the defense of the city. Wyllys Hall, his elder brother, was in command of a company of militia, and marched his company from Colchester to New London and went into camp. The British commander sent word to remove all non-combatants from the city within a certified time. The mother and the girls immediately left for Col- PIONEER SKETCHES - 729 chester, twelve miles back, and for their sustenance while away, William loaded up a barrel 0f flour on a wheel barrOW and wheeled it the entire distance. He then returned to camp, and his brother Wyllys said to him, "Bill, you might as well stay in my tent and keep things in order. black my shoes, etc., and I can draw pay for you as my servant." This was agreeable to Bill and he entered upon his duties. Some brick masons were at work near the camp building brick 0vens, and William, like all boys, could not get along without fun, so he would call out, "mortar !" or "brick !" and run off and bide behind the tents. This was an annoyance to the workmen; and he was finally caught and put in the Guard House, for three days. About 1860, Wyllys Hall, while visiting his brother, said to him, "Bill, did you ever get a land warrant for your services in the war of 1812 ?" He answered him, "No." He told him he was entitled to one and to look it up. He did so and much to his surprise found his name on the muster roll at Washington and got a warrant for 160 acres of land. He told his children that he thought that was good pay for being three days in the Guard House. After the war in 1812, the family concluded to remove to Ohio, and there being a Yankee town at Marietta, that place was their objective point. They sold out their little property and started overland with one horse, "old Charley," and a wagon to carry their mother and sisters, the boys all walking., They camped 0ut at night, until they arrived at Pittsburg, where the boys built a flat boat and floated down Ohio to Marietta, arriving there in the fall of 1816. The mother, brothers and sisters lived, died, and are buried in Marietta. William, the subject of this sketcb, worked with his brother in the baking business, they established there, serving his full seven years' apprenticeship. After the completion of his term, he went to Cincinnati and worked as a journeyman baker for one year. Going back to Marietta he worked for a year with Weston Thomas and had saved up $500, when Thomas told him to start out and hunt a location and he would start him in business. He left home in search of a location, visiting Gallipolis, Greenupsburg, Portsmouth and Maysville. He seemed to think more of GreenupSburg than of the other towns; and went home concluding to locate there; but the old anti-slavery doctrine was strong in the old mother and she opposed it very strongly, and told him, not to locate in a slave state; that a blight was over slave states; that Kentucky was far behind Ohio, a much younger state; and that he had been raised to believe that slavery was wrong. So he changed his mind and came to Portsmouth in 1826. He 0pened out his stock of dry goods and groceries on Front street on part 0f the lot on which the Biggs House stands. Being a violin player 0f n0 mean merit, he soon "caught 0n," in a social way, 730 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. and was popular. HiS business was a success from the start. November 3o, 1828, he was joined in marriage to Miss Margaret Kinney, daughter of Aaron and Mary Kinney, who were among the first settlers of Portsmouth. In 1820, he bought the lot where Webb's mill was lately burned down, and built a stone house and residence in the rear, and then the firm of Hall & Thomas was dissolved. In 1834, he took in as a partner, ThomaS S. Currie, which partnership was dissolved in 1842. In 1838, he in conjunction with Eli Kinney and Peter Kinney, established the banking house of E. Kinney & Company, which proved very profitable. They continued in business until 1846, when E. Kinney withdrew, and the firm name changed to P. Kinney & Company. In 1850, he sold his interest to Peter Kinney. In 1854, the firm of bankers under the name of Dugan, Means, Hall & Company was established and continued' in business until 1862, when it was wound up. In 1855, he sold out his stock of dry goods and became one of the original builders of the Scioto Rolling Mill Company (now the Burgess Steel and Iron Works.) . The affairs of the mill company were closed and since that time he was not engaged in any business up to the time of his death, which took place, June 17, 1869. His wife preceded him a few years, her death taking place September 21, 1864. Both died at the homestead on Rose Ridge and were buried from All Saint's church of which they were members. Their children are; Henry, born October 11, 1829; William Oscar, born September 10, 1831, and died September 1832; Margaret K., born June 8, 1833; Thomas F. C., born October 26, 1835; Wyllys, born March 18, 1838; Mary Clingman, born June 4, 1840; William Foote, born February 24, 1843; Aaron Kinney, born May 10, 1845; Eunice Foote, born September 19, 1847; Faneuil, deceased, and Loren. Nine of the eleven children are now living (1900.) Mr. Hall was a man of affairs while in Portsmouth. In 1829 and 1830, he was elected a fence viewer in Wayne Township. Only the most prominent men in town were elected to that office. He was a Mason and a member of Aurora Lodge. In 1839, he was elected town treasurer. In 1844, he was a director of the Portsmouth Insurance Company. In 1850, he was a school trustee of the town. In 186o, he participated in the great Union meeting held at the Biggs House on January 16. He was a Whig and a Republican, a first class business man of excellent judgment and great force of character. Octavo V. Hall was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, August 18, 1813. His occupation was that of a brick layer and plasterer. He was one of a family of three sons and two daughters. He built the John Neill house on Third and Market streets. His father was Abraham Hall, who PIONEER SKETCHES - 731 built a house on the site of that occupied by John Dice 0n Second street, the timber for which was cut in the rear of the premises on Fourth street. The house was moved away many years ago t0 give place to the present residence of John Dice. Abraham Hall was a stone and brick mason, and made headstones and monuments for the cemetery. Octavo Hall married Rebecca Sappington, September 22, 1832. She was born June 24, 1807, and died February 18, 1887. Her father was James Sappington of Maryland, who came to the Northwest Territory in 1795. He was a ship carpenter, and had a wife, three daughters, and two sons,—Thomas and Elias. Thomas enlisted in the war of 1812, and died on his way to Sandusky. He was a civil engineer. Elias died while living in Sandusky. James S. and several others who afterwards became prominent as early settlers of this vicinity, came down the Ohio river in keel boats. They floated to the mouth of the Scioto river and then cordelled their boats up the Scioto to one-half mile above the site of Piketon, where they located. There James Sappington entered 168 acres of land, and in 1797 sold it to Sargent and located three miles below Piketon. The children of Octavo V. Hall and Rebecca, his wife, were: Mary Francis, deceased ; James Hall, deceased ; Marietta Kendall ; Josiah, deceased; Maria, deceased, wife of Judge Martin Crain ; Cornelia, deceased; and J. Clark Hall. He and all his family are buried on the home place near Piketon, with the exception of Mrs. Crain. He was a member of the Whig party, and a member of the original Methodist Congregation 0f Portsmouth. On June 19, 1838, he was appointed Deputy TOWn Marshal. In 1840, he was an Overseer of the Poor in Wayne Township. In 1841, he was a Health Officer for the Third ward, and in 1842, he was elected a councilman for three years from the Third ward. He went to California in February, 1850, and returned in 1851. He died February 6, 1851. David Hahn was born April 4, 1810, at Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Virginia, a descendant of a German family, which settled there before the Revolution. At the age of fourteen he left home and being large for hiS age became a stage driver, driving four horses over the Alleghany Mountains. David Hahn was a born driver and drove over all t. a principal lines of the United States. He had a knack of managing horses—the gift of nature. The horses all behaved for him. If his shade could come back and mount the Seventh street fire engine and take the lines, the horses would go off like lambs. He was gifted to train animals and did the training for the famous Van Amberg, and for the 0ld time Stickney circus. He was a great friend of Dan Rice and was identified with the floating palaces that in 732 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. former days traversed the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. His secret in animal training was in their diet and this secret went to the grave with him. David Hahn came to Portsmouth when a young man, and became a driver on the stage line between Portsmouth and Columbus and stuck to the job until the stage line was discontinued. He was the last survivor among the Jehus of the old stage coaching days in Portsmouth. His stage horn has waked the morning echoes many a morning before the sign of the "Golden Lamb" on Front street. But David Hahn was something more than a stage driver. He was a patriot. June 20, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Battery L First Ohio Light Artillery. He gave his age as forty years when in fact he was fifty-two. What might have been expected, and what usually happens in such cases, happened in his case. December 4, 1863, he was discharged on account of physical disability. At the age of forty-six years he was married to Mrs. Susan Clark, widow of Joseph Clark. They had one child, Mrs. Balser H. Andres. On June 19, 1869, David Hahn was appointed driver of the city fire engine, No. 1, and he served until April, 1876. The city never had a more faithful servant. He died on August 6, 1894, at Portsmouth, Ohio, and was interred in Greenlawn Cemetery. His death was noticed in the New Mail and Express and in all the big dailies of the country and in all the dramatic papers, and it waS stated that in driving over the Alleghanies, he had carried General Jackson, Henry Clay, Presidents Harrison and Tyler. When last he drove from Columbus, the coaches stopped at Pim's Hotel on the site of the present Sixth street M. E. Church. William Hard was born September 9, 1820, in Green Township, Scioto County, Ohio. His father was Ezra Hard, a native of Arlington, Bennington. County, Vermont. His father was born December 3, 1773, and came to Ohio in 1812. He was a communicant of the Episcopal church. He died December 22, 1867, in Green Township. He was married December 3, 1796, to Mary Cook Perkins, a niece of Captain Cook, the explorer. His great-grandfather, Elisha Hard, had a son of the same name. His grandmother Hard's maiden name was Mary Benedict. His motherls father Moses Perkins was a drummer in the Revolutionary war. For record see Revolutionary Soldiers herein. Our subject attended school in Green Township. Rev. Landon Taylor was one of his teachers. He left school at the age of seventeen and became a farmer. He was married April 15, 1845, to Tryphena McMullen, daughter of James McMullen, of Greenup County, Kentucky. Their children were: Mary Cook, who married Henry PIONEER SKETCHES - 733 B. Boynton, both deceased. (She died September 13, 1883, and he died July 17, 1887.) He has a son Frank Lee at St. Albans, West Virginia. Dora E. is at home. William Carroll resides in Boise City, Idaho. A daughter, Viola Belle, died in infancy, and Charles Ellsworth is the editor of the Portsmouth Blade. Mr. Hard lived the life of a farmer until November 10, 1869, when he came to Portsmouth. The family lived two years on Ninth and Chillicothe streets, and then purchased the lot on the southwest corner of Simon and Gallia streets. His father was a Whig, and he was a Democrat until the war broke out, when he became a Republican. He has been a member of the M. E. church since 1852, and attends Bigelow. He never belonged to any secret orders, except the Sons of Temperance. He is the youngest of twelve children by the same mother, four of whom died in infancy. Of these there were eleven sons and one daughter. He has never been out of the county twelve months since his birth. He keeps a clear conscience, does the duty nearest him, and does not allow a wave of trouble to roll across his mind. Moses Hayward was born in Lebanon, Connecticut in 1766. His father, Caleb Hayward, came from Scotland, in 1700, and located in Connecticut. His father was a sea captain with quite a large family of Children, of whom Moses was the youngest son. His father, Caleb, would spend a portion of his time on the sea, and a portion on his farm. When our subject was twenty-one years of age, in 1787, he went to Vermont where he had an older brother. He married Hannah Smith in Norwich, Vermont. in January, 1793. He had the following children : Lora, born January 8, 1794, married Joshua Cutler, and has one son living in Nebraska; Rhoda, born March 12. 1796, married Thomas Brown; Betsey, born June 27, 1798, died an infant ; Moses, born October 30, 1799, married Julia Reynolds. Our subject has one son in Iowa, Horace; Mrs. Sophia Merril, a daughter, resides in Parsons, Kansas; Phillip Smith, born June 4, 1801, married Elizabeth Keyes. They had an only child, Sarah Ann Noel, born July 15, 1826, and married to John Harrison Noel, lately residing near the city of Portsmouth on the Chillicothe Pike. Her mother, Elizabeth Keyes, was a sister of James Keyes, and she married John .Harrison Noel, August 1, 1852. Moses Hayward's son Orange was born September 8, 1802, and died October 1, 1822. unmarried. His son Zenas was born December 14, 1803, and was married twice, first to Rebecca Ewing and then to Sarah Mitchell, daughter of Judge David Mitchell. Mrs. Salome McKinley, widow of James McKinley, was a daughter. He also had two sons, Virgil and Mitchell ; another daughter, Mrs. Mary Kenyon, wife of Dan Kenyon, lives at Santa Clara, California. Moses Hayward's son, Leonard, was born January 16, 1805, married Mary Ann Mus- 734 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. grove and located in Jackson County. Their grandchildren only are living. Our subject also had a daughter, Betsy, born June 13, 1806, and married Lloyd Orm. They had a family of three children: Mrs. Condit of Kansas, was one of them. She married Seymore Pixley and had children : C. L. Pixley, Dr. M. S. Pixley and Mrs. Joseph Merril. Moses Hayward's daughter, Philura, was born October 16, 18o8 and married John Orm. She was the mother of Mrs. A. B. Cole, Mrs. James Richardson and Mrs. John Richardson. Eliphaz, a son, who was born May 14, 1810, and married Mary Cadot, daughter of Claudius Cadot. Frank Hayward of Ironton was a son of this marriage. Another daughter, Sarah Ann, was born September 17, 1811, and died in childhood January 27, 1816. Another son, Hiram, was born February m, 1813, and died at the age of fourteen days. Moses Haywardls daughter, Martha, was born February 9, 1814. and married John Miller Salladay. Her children are George W. Salladay and Mrs. Lora Bierley. Moses Hayward left Vermont in 1814 and went as far west as Pittsburg where he remained two years. He came to Scioto County, in 1816, and located in Vernon Township at Chaffin's Mill, where he bought land. A great many people called, him Howard, instead of Hayward; and he sold the land on which the Howard Furnace is built, and the Furnace was named for him, assuming that his name was Howard, instead of Hayward. He had sixteen children, all told, tell boys and six girls He was a very energetic man. He built roads, churches and schools. He was not a member of any church. At one time, he was a Mason, but gave it up. He was of an inventive turn. At one time, he made gun powder, at another time, he manufactured buckskin gloves, and at another time, he had a' fad for raising hops. There was no experiment he was not willing to try. Shortly before his death he had $10,000 in government bonds. He had ten Surviving children, and gave $1,000 to each of them. His wife died August 2, 1834, and he never remarried. At one time, he was also a distiller. and distilled corn. Like the native born Yankee, there was nothing he could not do when he tried He was a successful farmer and a man of strong character. He lived to be ninety-four years of age. and died October 2, 1860. Eliphaz Hayward was born May 14, 1810, in Windsor County, Vermont. His he was Moses Hayward, and Eliphaz was the youngest child. He was married to Mary Cadot, the oldest daughter of Claudius Cadot, Aug. 24, 1837. They had six children: Claudius Cadot Hayward, died single, in Santa Clara. California, in 1893, aged fifty-four years: Philura Elizabeth Hayward, married John W. Hatch, a farmer of Marion County, Illinois, who formerly lived near the old Red School PIONEER SKETCHES - 735 House above Portsmouth, Ohio. on a farm now owned by Mr. Peebles; Charles Eliphaz and Augusta Ann died of cholera in 1849; Francis, Edwin resides in Ironton; and Mary B., married J. B. Fullerton, of Wheelersburg, Ohio, a farmer and book-keeper. Mr. Hayward died November 22, 1850, near Wheelersburg, in the Lower French Grant. Patrick James Stuart Hayes was born near Dublin, Ireland, March 17, 1790. His father was Richard Hayes, and his mother's maiden name was Anne Cummins Stuart. He was the eldest son. When about ready to enter college, having been prepared for that purpose by a private tutor, his father died suddenly. From that sense of duty, which always controlled his every act, he gave up his cherished ideals to assist his mother in the rearing of his younger brothers and sisters. Making surveying 'and kindred subjects his professor, he was successful. Later, when through his help, those younger sisters and brothers, according to choice, had settled on the Continent. in India and Australia, he traveled in the Orient, finding there in the philosophy of the Ancients' "passing race" much that was congenial to a meditative mind. Returning to Ireland, he married Alice Fitzgerald, and then came to America, the home of the "coming race. Stopping for a time in Canada and New York, his journey ended in Portsmouth, Ohio. In politics. he was independent, voting locally for the candidate he felt would best discharge the duties of the position. In Federal politics. he recognized. in 1860, that the union of states could be best preserved through the supremacy of the party supporting Abraham Lincoln. and voted accordingly. He was a devoted member of the Catholic Church. and there was nothing cynical in his view of life. He could see with a hopeful spirit, the pathos and the pity of it, knowing that some day the mystery of it would be untangled. He died in 1870, his wife haying preceded him by many years. George Hereodh was born in Green County, Pennsylvania, January 24, 1789, of German parentage. His boyhood was spent on the farm and he learned the carpenter's trade. His educational facilities were limited to the common country district school, and as is prevalent in all the new countries, the school term was generally limited to the winter months, when .farm work was slack. He served in the War of 1812, tinder General Harrison. After the campaign of the Miami and Maumee terminating with the battle of Fort Meigs, he was detached to superintend the building of boats to transport the army to the Ohio river at the mouth of Big Miami, where General Harrison finally settled and passed the remainder of his life excepting time served as President at Washington. After the \Var. George Hereodh returned to his home in Pennsylvania, and in 1815, was married to Elizabeth Kendall, 736 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. daughter of Jeremiah and Rhoda Kendall, both natives of Scotland. She was a sister of General William Kendall. Elizabeth Kendall was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1796. George Hereodh had six children four of whom lived to maturity : Rhoda, who married William B. Russell Sarah, who married Robert Russell, and after his death, married Levi Kirkendall, now resides on the Hereodh homestead nine miles from Portsmouth: George W., of Chicago, Illinois: and Emma, the wife of \V. A. Marsh. A few years previous to the building of the Ohio Canal, he removed with his family to Ohio and settled in the Ohio Valley, nine miles from Portsmouth. He and his brother-in-law, General William Kendall, built a mill and saw mill at the lower falls of Scioto Brush Creek, and built two steamboats, the Diana and Belvidere. When work commenced on the Ohio Canal in 1826, Mr. Hereodh took and completed several contracts of stone work, viz : the Elbow lock, and a lock below that one; near the mouth of the canal, the Hereodh lock and the Camp creek culvert. On July 4, 1859, Mr. Hereodh suffered a stroke of paralysis which completely paralyzed his left side. He never regained the use of himself, and died February 16, 1861, from an attack of pneumonia after about a week of sickness. His widow died February 23, 1866. In politics, he was a Whig, as long as that party was in existence, but did not aspire to office; and never held a political office above a township office. In his early manhood he joined the Methodist Church, but after his marriage he joined the Baptist Church, to be with his wife in her religious views. After completing his last contract on the Ohio Canal, he burned brick and had a church erected on his farm, in fulfillment of a promise that he had made to Mrs. Hercodh, before he went into contracting on the canal. The church was called Bethany and was of the regular Baptist denomination. He was generous and open hearted to both educational and religious institutions. It afforded him more pleasure to give than to receive. In the last thirty years of his life he made it a point to give one half of his income to charity. The world was better that he lived. Jacob Hibbs, Sr., was born November 5, 1793, in Pennsylvania. His father was Aaron Hibbs, who settled near Locust Grove, Adams County, Ohio, about 1800, and died there in June, 1852, in the sixty-sixth year, of his age. His mother's maiden name was Catharine Humphreys, who died in October, 1846, in her seventy-seventh year. Our subject's early life was passed in helping to clear a farm in the woods, and his educational advantages were very meager. He was married March 3, 1814, to Rebecca Lucas, daughter of Judge Joseph Lucas. To them were born eleven children: Aaron, born February 15, 1815, died unmarried April 15, 1837; Hannah Humphreys Lucas, PIONEER SKETCHES - 737 born July 12, 1817, married Reason Wilcoxen, and now living near Freeport, Ill.; Joseph Lucas, born April 8, 1819; George C., born July 27, 1821, died unmarried; Ursulina, born June 5, 1823, died unmarried,. October 6, 1855; Rebecca Lucas, born August 3, 1825, married William B. Russell, died September 10, 1885 ; John A. T., born January 18, 1829, was never married, and resides at Council Bluffs, Iowa; Jacob C., born April 3, 183o, residing at Portsmouth; Robert LucaS, born April 23, 1832, died near Alexandria, D. C., November 11, 1862, a member of the Twelfth United States Infantry, regular army; Sarah C., born June 26, 1834, who resides in Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio; Van Buren, born January 13, 1839, served through the entire war of the Rebellion; was private, Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, and died in Mattoon, Ill., in November, 1869. Our subject served in Captain David Roop's Company at the time of Hull's surrender, in the war of 1812. He took an active part in political matters from 1840 to 1848, and was always a strong Jackson Democrat. He held the office of school trustee for a number of years, but held no other offices. After his marriage he settled in Union Township, Scioto County, Ohio, where he died July 12, 1852. His wife died October 20, 1853. They were members of the Disciple church. Mr. Hibbs was a man of great firmness and moral courage; and was noted for his determination and positiveness of character. He took great pride in the education of his children; and did all in his power to give them a good start in life. Hon. Samuel Hunt, Jr., was born July 8, 1765. He never married. Hon. Samuel Hunt, as he is now usually called, possessed natural abilities of a very high order, to which, what he accomplished in life.—though he attained some eminence—was hardly proportionate. Deciding on the profession of law, he entered himself as a student in the office of Benjamin West, and, in 1790, was admitted to practice. He established an office at first in Alstead, but soon removed to Keene as a more suitable location; and after continuing about five years in the profession, he gave it up; for what reason is not definitely known ; but it is usually supposed that it was on account of the many details which are essential to a successful practice of it. and to which he had a great aversion. He is described by the late John Prentiss as "an eloquent advocate who early retired from the bar." His talents adapted him to literary pursuits. and his inclination led him also in that direction. He became, therefore, a contributor to the famous "Farmer's Museum," which had been established by Joseph Dennie at Walpole. Dennie was afterwards editor of the "Port Folio" at Philadelphia, which may be said to have been the first popular magazine established in the country. The "Museum" was sustained by the "Literary Club," which consisted of the following persons, all of whom were or had 738 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. been members of the bar ; Joseph Dennie who was .editor of the "Museum"; Royal Tyler, of Brattleboro, Vt., afterwards Chief Justice of Vermont ; Roger Vose of Walpole, who also became Chief Justice; Samued Hunt, whose popular talents ultimately secured his election to Congress; and Samuel West of Keene, son of Rev. Samuel West, D. D., of Boston, and nephew of Hon. Benjamin West, of Charlestown, a most brilliant advocate and eloquent orator. These were all men of fine abilities, keen wit, and no inconsiderable culture, whose superiors have not probably been since consolidated in the country. The combined talents of the club produced a paper which became exceedingly popular, and which was taken and read with interest by many educated persons in other states. Mr. Hunt, soon after giving up his profession, went abroad, with the double purpose of improving his mind and benefiting his health. He was absent nearly three years, the greater part of which time was spent in France. He spent considerable time at Bordeaux. From a letter to Dr. Oliver Hastings, written from that place in answer to one communicating the death of his brother, a promising young lawyer at Windsor, Vt., it appears that he was in very low spirits, and without any plan or settled purpose for the future. To the question, when he expected to return to America, he replies, "Perhaps soon, perhaps never." His brother had been very dear to him, and his death, when he was so far away from him, in connection with some sad circumstances which had transpired previously to his leaving Charlestown, had probably at that time produced an -unusual depression of spirits. He, however, after an absence of about three years, returned home, and settled down in Charlestown to the business of a gentleman farmer. In this he continued, engaging moderately in politics, till 1802, when he had so attracted public attention that on the occurrence of a vacancy in the state's representation in Congress by the resignation of Hon. Joseph Pierce of Alton, he was appointed to fill his place. His term expiring in the 7th Congress, he was re-elected to the 8th in 1803. At the close of this term, not desiring a re-election, as he had business in view that would wholly occupy his attenton, he was succeeded by the Hon Caleb Ellis of Claremont. The business referred to was the formaton of a colony for the settlement of a large tract of land, of which he had come into possession in Ohio. In this project he enlisted some dozen or fifteen persons in Charlestown, by holdng out to them the inducement of the acquisition of a fortune more speedily than it was likely to be obtained in any other way. Hunt made the journey to Ohio on horse-back, accompanied by Miss Cynthia Rigg, whom he had engaged to be his housekeeper, while the others sought their land of .promise on foot. All arrived in Ohio in safety, and commenced their settlement in French Grant. as the place was called. But the location proved so unhealthy that nearly all of them were very soon PIONEER SKETCHES - 739 prostrated by sickness, and it is related that at one time there was not a person in the company able to wait upon the rest, and that all the attention and nursing they had was from one Indian squaw, who did little more than to bring them water from a distant spring with which to quench their thirst. The fever proved fatal to Mr. Hunt, who died on the 7th of July, 1807, at the age of 42, and was buried on the bank of the Ohio a few yards from Mrs. Clay's house at Haverhill, Ohio. The colony was broken up; and of those who went out to it from Charlestown, only three survived to return. He appears to have been the son of Colonel Samuel and Esther (Strong) Hunt, and to have been born in Charlestown, although the genealogy in the history is confused. Captain Jacob Sampson Hurd was born December 25, 1816, near Concord, New Hampshire. He was the son- of John and Mary (Young) Hurd, sister of Dan Young. He came to Ohio when a boy, and lived in the French Grant, in Scioto County, Ohio. His education was obtained in the country schools. He married Miss Sarah E. Clough, daughter of Abner Clough, in 1837, and they had children : Col. John R. Hurd, of Pueblo, Col. ; Jesse C.. of Jackson C. H., Ohio; Mrs. Alice Riggs, wife of Charles Riggs of Pittsburg, Pa., and Joseph H. Hurd, of Portsmouth, Ohio. Jacob Hurd was a Whig, during the existence of that party and afterwards a Republican. From the date of his marriage, until about 1851. he resided in the Hanging Rock iron region and was interested in several furnaces, moving from Jackson Furnace, Jackson County; to Portsmouth, January 1, 1852. From this time until the outbreak of the Civil War, he commanded several different steamers, and was engaged in boating on the Mississippi river and its tributaries. He was master of the "Susquehanna," "Clipper," "Zachary Taylor," "Boone," and "Effie Afton." From the beginning- of the Civil War, he, with his youngest son, Joseph H. Hurd, was in the gunboat service until 1864. He was a master on the "Lexington," while in the gunboat service. Following his retirement from the navy, he resumed his former occupation of steam-boatman, and by reason of an explosion of a boiler on the "W. R. Carter" on February 2, 1866, he lost his life. The explosion took place at 4 a. in. at the mouth of Green river, Ky. He was asleep in the Texas and was never seen after he retired from his watch: His remains were lost in the river and never recovered. Some sixty-five persons lost their lives in the same disaster. William Huston, one of the pioneers of Portsmouth. was one of the first settlers on the town site. He came to Portsmouth from Virginia, with his father, William Huston, from Frederick County, Virginia. He and his brother Joseph were located at Portsmouth, but William Huston, 740 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. their father, went to Piqua and resided there until his death, in 1822. The members of one branch of the Huston family were hereditary Barons in England. An uncle of William Huston was knighted in England for distinguished bravery. and the family had a coat of arms. It represents. a greyhound rampant on a broken column, an hour-glass with the last sand running out and the motto, "In tempore." The John Huston who was knighted for bravery, re-enforced a broken column, marching in great haste, and this design in the coat of Arms was from this instance. The greyhound rampant indicates the fleetness of his coming to the rescue, and the last sand in the hourglass indicates the perilous extremity of the army, to whose rescue he came. The motto "in to commemorated his coming at the proper moment. William Huston's wife's name was Susannah Boyd, born in Maryland. She came with her husband to Ohio. in 1802. They erected a pole cabin, the fourth, on the site of Portsmouth. William Huston's wife was raised a Quaker, but after locating in Portsmouth. became a Presbyterian, and it is said, she was the first person baptized in the Presbyterian Church in the city of Portsmouth. As a child she went over the battlefield of Brandywine, the day after the battle. William Huston was quite prominent in the early history of Scioto County. In 1809, he was a member of the Board of Trustees of Wayne Township, at the organization of the township. He was Overseer of the Poor in Wayne Township in 1812. He was one of the nine city fathers of Portsmouth March 1, 1815; but the position of councilman not being to his taste, he neglected to attend its meetings. So on May 1, 1816, he was dropped from council for nonattendance: and his place was filled by Philip Moore. He forgot the Huston motto and was not at the council in tempore.” He had a taste for military matters and was Captain of a company of Light Horse. He served in the war of 1812. At one time. he was engaged in keel boating on the Ohio and Scioto rivers, and he took much specie from Chillicothe to Pittsburg. Afterwards he boated considerable on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. His last trip is related as follows : He brought a boatload of salt from the Kanawha and went down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. He was then engaged by emigrants to take them to Texas. by way of the Gulf of Mexico. He made the trip in safety, but on returning, his vessel encountered a storm in the Gulf and the boat was foundered. He managed to get ashore at a desolate island and died of starvation. His wife was born in 1772, and died in 1854, at the house of her son, Captain Samuel T. Huston. Mr. William Huston was a man of great energy and enterprise, a family characteristic; but it was his extreme daring which lost him his life, in the zenith of his physical and mental powers. PIONEER SKETCHES - 741 Cornelius Creed Hyatt was born on the 24th of August, 1804, on Long Island, New York, four miles east of the original site of Brooklyn. His father was a farmer. Eldred Hyatt, and his grandfather, Thomas Hyatt, came over from England before the Revolution. He had a brother, Shadrach Hyatt. They were fifteen and seventeen years of age, respectively, when they landed in New York. They by some means became separated, and never found each other afterward. Our subject remembered Brooklyn when there were but three stores in the place; and. their proprietors were: Baghy, Ramsen and Haggeman. They were general stores and were on Fulton street. His father had four sons and two daughters. Cornelius was the youngest son. His mother's name was Rebecca Creed. Thomas. Hyatt, his grandfather, was a man in excellent circumstances and was a Royalist during the Revolution. He divided his land among his children and gave Eldred the farm of sixty-five acres, which he mortgaged to improve it. Mr. Hyatt remembers having walked four miles to school, and every quarter was paid for by his father. He lived on a farm until the age of eleven, when his parents moved to New York city, where he was apprenticed to a bricklayer. His master was Stephen P. Britton who had twenty-one other apprentices. He served six years. After completing his apprenticeship, he worked as a journeyman in New York city. He worked in building the Bowery and the Park theatres. He was married in 1825, to Miss Cornelia Cynthia Thompson in New York city. He determined to try his fortune in Portsmouth, Ohio, because his wife had relatives there, John Thornton's family. One Saturday night, he quit work and the next Tuesday he and his wife were on the way to Albany, by boat. They went from Albany to Buffalo by Erie Canal, from Buffalo to Cleveland by lake steamer, from Cleveland to Newark by the Ohio Canal, from Newark to Portsmouth, they drove overland and arrived in Portsmouth, October 3, 1830. The first person they met was John G. Peebles. When they arrived in Portsmouth, it had but six brick houses. The corner opposite Pig Iron Corner on Front street. the McDowell Building on Front and Market, the old Clough house on Fourth street, the McDowell brick above the corner, a brick on the corner of Fourth and Market and a brick where Dr. Kline's house now stands. The first work Mr. Hyatt did in Portsmouth was to plaster the house where Captain A. W. Williamson formerly lived. This was done for Charles Oscar Tracy. His first wife died in 1847. He had three children who died in infancy On February 24, 1846, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Taylor, of Cincinnati, and she was the mother of his daughter, Mrs. Dukes, afterwards Mrs. J. R. McClure. The foregoing was obtained from Mr. Hyatt by the editor of this work, when he last saw him. 742 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. The following facts are taken from biographical sketches hereto fore published. Mr. Hyatt had a longer life than any one who ever lived in Portsmouth. From August 29, 1804, to October, 20; 1901, is ninety-seven years and one month and twenty-two days. Mr. Hy- att was a citizen of Portsmouth from October, 1830 to November, two, a period of seventy years, less one year spent in Cincinnati, and four in St. Paul, Minn. The first house he built in Portsmouth was the one story brick on the southeast corner of Front and Chillicothe streets, for George Corwine. He built the first All Saints Church in 1833, which stood where the chapel now stands. He built the following churches : St. Mary's, on Madison street, Bigelow, the German Lutheran and Sixth Street. He built the first school house in Portsmouth, the lower Fourth street in 1839. He built the United States Hotel in 1835. He built the Damarin grocery on Front street, the Stephenson residence which stood where Simon Labold's residence now does. He built the Moses Gregory residence- on the north side of Third street. In 1837, he started a grocery on Fourth and Court streets. While in business, he built the brick business-house on the, southeast corner of Second and Chillicothe streets, where T. B. Blake now does business. It was built three stories, but the top story was blown off by the storm in May, 1861. In this year, Mr. Hyatt sold out and went to Cincinnati and remained about one year. In 1886, he sold out and removed to St. Paul, Minn., where his son-in-law was located. On February 25, 1870, he returned from St. Paul and re-engaged in the grocery business and kept it up till about 1886, when he retired. Mr. Hyatt was honest to the core,—too honest for his own good. He trusted out goods of the value of .the site needed for the Carnegie library in Portsmouth. He was always ready to take every man at his own estimate, and he lost thousands of dollars by reason of his confidence. In 1833, he united with the Methodist Church and lived a consistent member ever after. At the time he joined the church, the services were held in the old Academy on Fourth street. John Waller and Richard Lloyd became members at the same time. Mr. Hyatt was an old fashioned primitive Christian. He believed in the discipline of the Methodist Church just as it reads, without being construed. When the church was built where Hibbs' hardware store now stands, Mr. Hyatt was made a trustee and was the last survivor of the Board elected in 1834. When Spencer Chapel was organized, Mr. Hyatt thought Bigelow Chapel was too fashionable and he went to form the new church, with a number of other plain people who were Puritans—among their Methodist brethren. Mr. Hyatt was always a plain spoken man. He condemned his grandfather, Thomas Hyatt for being a tore ; and his father, Eldred for being a "ne'er do well" and missing all his opportunities. He was one of the pillars in the Sixth street church for years, and there was never any question as PIONEER SKETCHES - 743 to the sincerity of his religion or his living up to what he professed. In 1837, he was one of the health officers in Portsmouth, and in 1843 and 1844, was one of the town council. In 1844 he worked on the grade to the amount of $365 and took his pay in town scrip. He was one of the committee who welcomed Hon. John Quincy Adams, Ex-President, when he visited Portsmouth in 1843. He had one daughter, Ella, who married W. H. Dukes. The latter died of consumption in St. Paul, in 1870, leaving one son, Harry, a prosperous young man located in Hemet, California. Mrs. Dukes afterwards married Dr. John R. McClure and survived him. Mr. Hyatt loved Portsmouth and would have preferred to have ended his days there, but his daughter felt it her duty to follow her son, Harry, and she felt her father must go with her. The family went to Arkansas, in 1900, and a few months later to Hemet, California, where he died on October 20, 1901, and was buried. Mr. Hyatt was a man of pleasant address, always cheerful and always gracious to every one. He believed everybody was honest and good and was often shamefully deceived; but the deceptions never changed his faith in humanity or soured his disposition. He was always the same genial neighbor and kind friend. He ever spoke well of those who had beaten him out of large grocery bills. He lived his religion every day and was a living epistle read and known of all men. William Jackson the son of Samuel and Mary (Scarlett) Jackson, was born May 30, 1780, at Reading, Pennsylvania. His father died when he was very young. He learned the hatter's trade with his brother, John.  He traveled through Virginia while working at his trade. He then went into business as a hatter at Berwick, Pennsylvania. There he was married to Rachel Tomlinson, January 15, 1808. He remained in Berwick, until 1816, when he emigrated to Ohio, crossing the Alleghanies in a wagon to Pittsburg, where he bought a flat boat and floated to Portsmouth, with his wagons, horses and family. He brought his hatter's outfit with him, intending to follow his trade, but there was a hatter already in Portsmouth, and the country being thinly populated, one was sufficient. He went twenty miles to Bloom Township, and bought some land, and farmed where William Jackson, Jr., now lives. Our subject was Justice of the Peace in that Township. He was County Commissioner from 1828 to 1834 and from 1837 to 1840. He was Assessor of Scioto County from 1837 to 1841. He was in the militia, but his Company was never called out. He was a Whig And was very prominent in politics. He was raised a Quaker, but afterwards became a Methodist. He had the following children : Marv, who married William Pout ; Joseph ; Sarah Ann, died at the age of fifteen years; Isaac, deceased, aged twenty-five; William, who resides on the old home place; 744 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. Rachel, married to Sebastian Eifort and resides in Greenup, Kentucky; Samuel; James T. died in infancy; John T. lives in Waukee, Iowa; Hannah, died in infancy. John, William and Rachel are the only surviving children. He died February 26, 1874, in his 94th year. He was a distant relative of Stonewall Jackson,. and strength of will and purpose was a family characteristic. He was decided in his convictions and uncompromising in politics. He was benevolent and hospitable He would never charge travelers for lodging, or meals, and would never turn anyone away from his home. He was plain spoken, candid and sincere in all his intercourse with his fellow men. He was one of the most prominent figures in the county in his time. In the Whig party, he was always a leader. James Okey Johnson was born in Scioto County, Ohio, February 28, 1808, a son of Isaac and Jane (Clark) Johnson, natives of Hampshire County, Virginia, who came to Ohio in 1807 and located near what was known as Scioto Inn, the land having been entered by his grandfather, James Clark. Eight months later his parents removed to Ross County, where they remained two years, and then returned to Scioto County. His father and mother were married February 28, 1805, and had a family of six children. Isaac Johnson, his father, died February 18, 1832, and his mother died July 11, 1845. James 0. received but a meager education, the most of his time being employed on the farm. On March. 10, 1833, he was married to Phoebe Jeffords, daughter of Henry C. Jeffords, the Scioto Inn keeper. She was born June 17, 1817, in Warren County, Ohio. They had the following children :—Sarah Jane deceased at two years; Mary Ann, the wife of Wm. T. Carnahan, resides at Emden, Illinois; Isaac. Johnson, resides at Washington C. H., Ohio; Rebecca, the wife of George Taylor, resides, near Emden, Illinois; Henry Johnson, died aged one year ; Eliza, the wife of C. J. Husband, lives at Grandin, Florida; Caroline, the wife of Newton Austil, of Piketon; Emma, the wife of J. G. Rice of Rush township; Milton, deceased Okey, resides at Dayton, Ohio, and William G. Johnson. At the time of his marriage, our subject was farming on his father's land. In 1838, he sold out his interest in the place to his brothers and emigrated to Jersey County, Illinois, and settled four miles from Jerseyville. He raised one crop there and sold out and returned to his old home in the valley, and soon after bought a farm below Lucasville from Judge Samuel Reed of Piketon. In 1849, he sold to William Marsh and leased a farm of Thompson W. Cockerel], for five years. In three years he purchased it. Once in his life, he narrowly escaped being caught in the mill stream of politics. In 1860, he was pressed into service as the Republican candidate for Commissioner against John M, Violet, and was defeated by a small PIONEER SKETCHES - 745 majority. March 10, 1883, he and his wife celebrated their golden wedding. He was a very successful farmer and stock-dealer and at one time owned 1,300 acres of land. In the latter years of his life, he traveled a great deal, visiting all parts of the Union. He died August 3, 1883, aged 75 years, 5 months and 5 days. His widow continued to live at the old homestead until her death, November 17, 1885, aged 68 years, 5 months and 16 days. James Okey Johnson was not forgetful to entertain strangers. He was noted for his hospitality, far and wide. He was a neighbor in the true sense of the term. He was always ready to do a kind and generous act. If he was a friend once, he was a friend always. Samuel Griffith Jones was born in Maryland in 1778, and received a fair education. His father and family removed to Kentucky in 1793, in the midst of the Indian War. They came down the Ohio in a boat, but had the good fortune to escape all Indian encounters. They located in Kentucky. In 1799, our subject made a trip to New Orleans in a flat-boat for one Samuel Smith. He traded his cargo for sugar and took the sugar around by sea to Baltimore. He rode from Baltimore to Kentucky on horseback. He married Phebe Coon on his return, and in 1803, bought a town lot in Alexandria, for $100. He was the first Recorder of Scioto County, appointed September 28, 1803, and served until June 26th, 1805, when he resigned and was succeded by Alexander Curran. He was also Clerk of the Courts from August 6, 1804, till June 26, 1805, when he resigned and was succeeded by Alexander Curran. At this remote period, his reasons for resigning these offices can only be conjectured. There was but little to do in the public offices, at that time and as Jones was a cabinet maker and a genius in that trade, he probably resigned to give his whole attention to his trade. In 1810, he moved to the mouth of Scioto Brush Creek, and became a farmer This proved to be a great mistake. He aided in building Gen. Kendall's mills there in 1815, two saw mills and a flour mill. He also worked there in boat. building. He had the ability to take up any trade and follow it, creditably. He was regarded as better educated than most men of his time. In 1821, he was a Justice of the Peace for Union Township. In the same year he and his large family returned to Portsmouth. In 1823, he was clerk of the market in Portsmouth. In 1825, he was the jailer and was employed to put a lock on the dungeon in the same year he was elected to the town council by 21 votes, and the council made him supervisor of the Fast ward. From 1825 to 1828, he was the Town Marshal and in 1828 and 1829, he was clerk of the market. In 1826, he was a candidate for Coroner. In 1827, he was employed by the county to make a desk for the Commissioners and received $8.00 for it. While 746 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. Jailer, he had Robin Hood as a prisoner. When he fed prisoners on bread and water he received 124 cents per day for each and he at one time had five on bread and water for three days. From 1829 to 1831, he worked on a contract on the Ohio canal, and when the latter was completed went to boating on it. His wife died of the cholera in 1834. In the fall of 1840, Mr. Jones took a severe cold which resulted in consumption, of which he died December 9, 1841. He was strictly honest in all his dealings and his word could always be relied on. He met many heavy losses in business by trusting that every one was like himself. He had been opposed to the party of Jefferson until 1832, when he went over to the Jackson Democracy on account of President Jackson's action as to the U. S. Bank. Mr. Jones: had he lived in our day, would have been deemed an agnostic. He did not .believe in revealed religion. He had been reared a Methodist, but he was a great reader and especially of "Freethinkers' " works. He was also a Socialist and Communist. He was a great reader and possessed a mind always bent on Investigation. He was a good neighbor, but used liquors to excess. The wife of Elijah Glover, senior, was his sister. Nathan L. Jones at. one time Infirmary Director, was his son. One of. his daughters married Ezra Jeffords. Murtaugh Kehoe was born in Winchester, Va, December 9, 1797. His parents, Peter Kehoe and Ann Carey, came from Ireland in youth, and were married in Virginia. Peter Kehoe was a shoemaker, and had his son. learn the trade. The father accumulated and owned real estate in Winchester, Va. His mother died in Winchester when he was quite young. In 1815, Murtaugh and his friend Nicholas Burwell, both of Winchester, Va., and both shoemakers, concluded to come west. They came to Portsmouth, and looked the town over. They concluded it could not stand two shoemakers; and as Kehoe was more favorably impressed with Portsmouth, he remained and Burwell went to to Maysville, and afterwards to West Union. Both followed the shoe business all their lives. Kehoe died November 25, 1874, worth $75,000 and Burwell died July 1, 1879, with $750. Peter Kehoe, father of our subject, soon after came to Portsmouth, with his other children and remained until his death, October 19, 1838 at the age of 74. Peter Kehoe set up a shoe shop in Portsmouth and, in 1818, advertised as a shoe dealer in the first newspaper published in Portsmouth. Murtaugh Kehoe was in business with his father until 1826 when he engaged in business for himself with a stock of boots and shoes, groceries and liquors. In 1831, he had discontinued the shoe business and confined himself to groceries and liquors. In 1837, he was again in the shoe business with William Gray, made the firm name, Kehoe & PIONEER SKETCHES - 747 Gray. In 1828 young Thomas Waller owned a strip of ground from Second to Gallia street, which he inherited from his father. It contained about six acres. Young Waller thought the town would go to the "demnition bow-wows," and wanted to sell out, so he sold to Kehoe for $300. Kehoe held on to it and before he died it was worth$50,000. The same ground now with the improvements is not worth less than $300,000. Mr. Kehoe was born with good business talents and he improved them. He was strong in his likes and dislikes. He was conservative in everything. He was industrious and frugal, and always strickly honest. He retired from business about 1862 and lived a quiet and retired life, thereafter. Moses Thompson was a prominent citizen of Portsmouth, who about 1829 had five handsome, loveable and marriageable daughters. He furnished the same number of wives to five lucky young men of Portsmouth. Mr. Kehoc was one of the lucky ones, and he married Eliza Thompson, April 29, 1829. They had eleven children, of whom Charles T., John C., James S., Caroline, Ann Eliza, Ann Carey and Mary Ellen are deceased. James S. was a soldier in the Civil War, in Battery L, First Ohio Light Artillery. After the War, he studied medicine and became an excellent physician. He died in Clay Center, Kansas, in March, 1875, leaving a family. Charles T. Kehoe was a merchant and business man in Portsmouth. The surviving children of our subject are: Peter Kehoe, a merchant of Clay Center, Kansas; Frank B., Of the old Tremper Shoe Company of Portsmouth, and Murtaugh, Jr., also of Portsmouth. Mr. Kehoe was raised in the Roman Catholic faith, but became an Episcopalian. He was originally a Whig, but became a Democrat. He never took any interest in politics. In 1832, he was an Overseer of the Poor in Wayne Township, and in 1842, was a school trustee. He was an ardent supporter of the Civil War. In September, 1861, he was nominated as Infirmary Director on the Union ticket, but declined to run. He died November 25, 1874. He was one of the successful men of Portsmouth ; but quiet and unostentatious in all things. In all respects he was a useful and valuable citizen. Jefferson Kendall was born at Xenia, Ohio, May 1, 1807. His father had the contract for erecting the first Court House built at that point, and was residing there temporarily. He was the oldest son of William and Rachel (Brown) Kendall. He spent his boyhood in Scioto County, and was sent to Uniontown, Pennsylvania, to his grandfather, Jeremiah Kendall's to be educated. When he returned to Ohio, he was surveyor for a number of years. He married Elizabeth Fenton, December 9, 1830. 748 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. He assisted his father in the building of Scioto, Clinton and Buckhorn furnaces. He moved to Wheelersburg in 1835, where he established a general store of drugs, dry goods and groceries. He remained there until 1846, when he loaded his goods on a flat boat and went south as far as Memphis, Tennessee, closing out his stock there. He moved to Portsmouth in 1850, locating on the southeast corner of Seventh and Chillicothe streets. The old stage line between Columbus and Portsmouth, made his house their headquarters and occupied a large frame barn once used by his grandfather, John Brown, as a mill. Here he again engaged in surveying for a number of yearS. When the- war of the Rebellion broke out, although fifty-four years of age, he enlisted as a private in Battery L, First Ohio Light Captain L. N. Robinson, October 19, 1861. He served with the Battery until September 26, 1862, when he died at Washington, D. C. He is buried at the National Cemetery near that city. He was a life long Whig until 1860, when he voted for Abraham Lincoln. His wife, Elizabeth Fenton, was born in Hector, New York, August 30,18o8. She was the daughter of John and Sallie Bennett Fenton. Her father took a drove of horses to Philadelphia to sell, and died there, after a few weeks illness. Her mother with four children then came to Ohio with her father, Thaddeus Bennett and a number of other families in 1818. They left New York in the fall of 1817, and wintered at the head of the Alleghany river, where they sawed lumber and built rafts. Upon these they placed cabins, and floating down the Alleghany and Ohio rivers landed at the mouth of the Little Scioto on April 27, 1818. They lived in a sch00lhouse at Wait's Station during- the summer, while they looked around for a location. Fever and ague having become prevalent along the rivers, they settled inland in Madison township. Elizabeth Fenton taught school until her marriage with Jefferson Kendall\ Five children were born to them, three of whom died in infancy. Of the two who grew to maturity, the son, Alva. Fenton Kendall of Portsmouth is deceased, and the daughter, Ella Kendall Overturf, who resides in Columbus, is still living. Milton Kendall, son of General William Kendall and Rachel Brown, his wife, was born June 16, 1812 in Clay Township. He spent most of his boyhood on his father's farm, but resided with relatives in Pennsylvania for some time. He became a farmer and resided near the city of Portsmouth, and gardened for the market. He continued at this work most of his life, He was a member of the Whig party until the dissolution and then became a Democrat. He was united in marriage, June 23, 1833, to Ruth Lawson, youngest sister of Christina Lawson who was his father's second wife. Ruth Lawson was born June 16, 1812 and PIONEER SKETCHES - 749 died September 27, 1883. To this marriage were ten children born Thomas L., William H., Mary J., George W., Stephen, Louisa, Rachel, Milton, Clara B., and Jeremiah. Mr. Kendall was a member of the First Baptist Church of Portsmouth, Ohio. He was a good father, a good neighbor and was well liked by all who knew him. He died August 6, 1882. Thomas Kendall was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, July 6, 1814, the eldest son of General William Kendall and Rachel Brown, his wife. His mother died' while he was a child and he was taken to Pennsylvania to the home of his paternal grandfather, where he spent his boyhood. As a youth, he returned to Portsmouth, and became a clerk in the drug store of Andrews & McVey, and subsequently went into business himself. In 1837, and in 1843, he was Overseer of the Poor of Wayne Township. In 1846, 'he was a Trustee of Wayne Township. He was Superintendent of the Scioto and Hocking Valley Railroad for a number of years. In 1856, he removed to West Liberty, Ohio, and engaged in milling. In 1874, he went to Cleveland and engaged with the Wilson Sewing Machine Company. In September, 1888, he returned to Portsmouth. November 16, 1836, he married to Miss Anne Glover and three children were born to them : Charles Kendall, Roda, the Wife of General William H. Raynor of Toledo, Ohio and Mrs. Elizabeth Henderson, deceased. The latter left three children: Annie, Jennie and Charles. Our subject died December 15, 1889, of a paralysis of the muscles of the throat. Milton Kennedy was born May 7, 1811, on Wolf Creek in Washington County, Ohio. His parents were William Kennedy, son of a Revolutionary Soldier and Martha Gray, his wife. The family moved to Washington County Pa., shortly after his -birth, and resided there until he was eight years old. At that age the family embarked on a family boat and went to New Richmond, Ohio. Our subject's father was a tobacconist, and the son learned the business. He attended school but six months, but studied law in New Richmond with Perry J. Dunham. and practiced before the magistrates in Clermont County. In 1848, he came to Portsmouth and engaged in buying and selling corn. He continued in that business until 1856, and handled as much as $40,000 to $50,000 per year. In 1855, he met with financial reverses, from which he never fully recovered. He lost $26,000. In politics, he was most prominent always. In 1836, he voted for Van Buren. In 1844, he voted for James G. Birney. He was the first member of the Free Soil Party in Scioto County. In 1852, he voted for John P. Hale and he, Wm. Hicks and R. S. Silcox were the only ones in Scioto County, who so voted. He held the first Free Soil meeting in Scioto County in 1852, and made a speech