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750 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. from a wagon in front of the White Bear Hotel. The same year he attempted to make a Free Soil speech at Lucasville, and was stoned and rotten egged. He joined the American Party when it was formed, and, in 1856, was a delegate to the National Republican Convention in Philadelphia. He was a first-class politician, and one of the first Apostles of the Republican Party, when many wanted to act; with him but were ashamed to. He was a great friend and admirer of Salmon P. Chase, and named a son for him. That son was educated at West Point, is now an officer of the Regular Army and has a sketch herein. In 1860, Governor Chase made him Superintendent of the Ohio Canal, and when the war came on. Assistant Treasurer of the United States at Vicksburg. In the earlier part of the war he commanded the steamboat Piketon on the Sandy river, and was a captain of transports on the Mississippi. He at one time owned the Peytonia and Reville—small steamboats. He married Rosanna Israel February 4, 1830, and had eight children. October 20, 1849, he was married to Miss Josephine B. Hutchinson, of Pittsburg, and they had ten children. He was a Constable in Portsmouth many times. He was a Justice of the Peace in Wayne township in 1858. In 1871, he was a candidate for Postmaster, Oliver Wood got 428 votes and he received 385. In 1872, he was a Day Policeman in Portsmouth. In 1873, he was appointed Sanitary Policeman He was a man of great physical powers and intense mental energy. He became addicted to the drink habit, after he came to Portsmouth, but he reformed and became a great advocate of temperance. James Keyes was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, March 44, 1801. His father's name was Selma Keyes, a native of Massachusetts, and his mother's maiden name was "Polly" (Mary) Andrews. There is an account of the Keyes family elsewhere in this book. When our subject was ten years old, his father re-considered the idea of residing, in 'Virginia and moved to Scioto County, Ohio. Selma Keyes was a Revolutionary soldier, a sketch of him, as such, will be found under the title of Revolutionary soldiers. James Keyes was born with a disposition to be a student. He received a fair education in Virginia. When he came to Ohio he procured a scholarship in the Ohio University at Athens, and improved his education there, but never graduated. He was one of the earliest pupils at the Athens University. He was a fine mathematician, well read in both modern and ancient literature. After completing his education, he learned the trade of a carpenter, and followed it to some extent. In 1830, he kept a ferry at the mouth of Scioto Brush creek. Samuel Griffith Jones, who has a separate sketch in this work, resided PIONEER SKETCHES - 751 there with his large family, and Mr. Keyes became acquainted with his daughter Catharine, and was married to her April 3, 1831. Her father's home was then on the Kirkendall place. He had four children: Thomas, of Columbus ; Milford. who resides at No. 151 East Eighth street, and is a journalist; and two daughters who died in infancy. Mr. Keyes was a Democrat until the Know Nothing movement came up, and then he joined that party. When it went to pieces, he became a Republican, and continued that during his life. Keyes never belonged to any church. He was a man of the strictest morality. He never drank any liquors, never smoked nor used tobacco in any form, and would not tolerate profanity or immoral talk in his presence. He was a free thinker in his notions. He was of the strongest of will power, great purity of life, a high sense of business and social honor. He had a wonderful constitution physically. he never got old, except in years and at eighty, he still had advanced ideas and kept abreast of the times. In 1866. he was elected Justice of the Peace of Wayne Township and served one term. In 1872, he was one of the City Infirmary Directors of Portsmouth. In 1880, he issued a book called "A Series of Pioneer Sketches," which is fully noticed under the bibliography of Scioto County. He moved about considerably in his early life, but settled down in Portsmouth and became quite well off from the year he made Portsmouth his permanent home. Mr. Keyes conserved all his powers physically and his faculties, mentally to the year of his death. He was a pleasant companion and fond of reminiscence. He never forgot anything he learned of a historical character. He was stricken with paralysis in March, 1883, but appeared to have recovered. He died suddenly on June 28, 1883, in the fullness of all his powers. He was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery. He was highly respected by5 all who knew him : and it is most unfortunate that Ile did not undertake to write a history of the county, for no one appreciated a work of that character more, and no one was more competent to Edit such a work. Aaron Kinney was born in Sunbury. Penna., October 10, 1773. His father, Peter Kinney. was in the Revolutionary war. He was a man of great force of character, find after the war became a farmer. As to the early education of our subject, we know but little, but we do know that he had only such as the vicinage afforded. He however. learned the tanner's trade. In 1797, he married Mary Clingman, the daughter of John Michael Clingman, who was born in 1746, a native of Germany, but a man of substance and importance for his time. He had been a Captain in the Revolutionary war. 752 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. On August 26, 1798, the eldest son of our subject was born, and was named for the Father of our Country, then living. His next child, Elizabeth, afterwards married to Wilson Gates, was born October 2, 1800. His third child, Ann Elizabeth Cady, was born July 2, 1802, and his fourth, Maria Tracy, was born July 2, 1804. Then Mr. Kinney thought he had best emigrate where his increasing family might have room to grow up. As a youth he had learned the tanner's trade, and he thought the great state of Ohio would be a good place to exercise it. He came to Portsmouth with his family, from Pennsylvania, in 1804 in a four horse wagon. His brother-in-law, Washington Clingman, had come before, and had entered fractional section seven and section eight, north of Portsmouth. Aaron Kinney purchased his rights and had them transferred to him5 The first thing he did was to inspect his domain. It extended from the foot of Amos B. Cole's hill, at the old toll house, to the foot of Clingman's hill where the C. P. & V. railroad crosses the turnpike, and from the Scioto river to Martin Funk's land on the west. He was of course first looking for springs of water, and he found the celebrated "Kinney Spring," and drank from its limpid waters. Then he took his trusty rifle, and went upon the hill just above the spring and killed two deer. He marked out a place for a cabin west of where the present brick house is built ; here he built the cabin and set up his household goods. He sunk .a tannery in front of the present brick residence and went to work to make money; and well he might, for his family was increasing right along. Peter was born December 16, 1805;, Margaret Hall. February 16, 1808; Rachel Dodson, December 9, 1809; Nancy Walker, November 19, 1811. In the mean time he was busy All his tanning, Leather was a prime necessity among the pioneers, for money was a thing almost impossible to obtain. So he tanned on the shares and took his pay in hides. His share was plenty, and he sent it to Barr & Lodwick in Chillicothe. He owned a six-horse team which was sent to Chillicothe with tanned leather and came back with goods "and money: Samuel C. Briggs drove this team for him. Hugh Cook had a six-horse team and took his leather to Chillicothe. James Emmitt drove the Cook team for him, and one James Davis of Chillicothe, was also a driver for him. While Aaron Kinney brought money from Pennsylvania, he was a money maker, a family trait which descended to his sons. From 1809 to 1811, he found time to be an Overseer of the Poor in his township, but he eschewed politics and office holding. In 1812, he began to feel that he was on a firm foundation, financially. On August 7, 1812, he had completed his payment for fractional section seven and section eight and received a patent from the United States, recorded in Volume D; Page 402. This PIONEER SKETCHES - 753 was a goodly inheritance and embraced several of the best farms in the county. On June 14, 1814, he bought of Henry Massie for $900.00, 104 acres which fronted the Ohio river, and was bounded on the west by the Raynor property, and by the Martin Funk tracts on the east. It extended north from the river 209 poles and was 8o poles wide. In the summer of 1812, he built the present brick house in which his son, Henry R. Kinney resides. The brick was made of earth excavated in front of the residence. All the time his family was increasing. His son, Eli, was born September 17, 1813 ; his son, Henry Richie, was born July 2, 1815; his daughter, Sarah Ann Renshaw, was born April 23, 1817; and the youngest, Philander Chase, was born May. 28, 1821. On February 9, 1816, he began the tannery business in Portsmouth. He went into partnership with General Kendall. Each put in $700.00 and they sunk a tannery where the Gas Works are now located. The partnership was to last for ten years. On December 15, 1823, he purchased 178 acres of land of Henry Massie. It embraced the Maria L. Kinney, Peter Kinney, and Eli Kinney Additions. It extended from Union street to the Scioto river, and from the south line of sections seven and eight to Thirteenth street. He gave $1,780, or $10.00 per acre, for it. At the time of the purchase General Kendall had 124 acres south of it, which he had purchased of Massie, and which afterwards became the Barr Addition. This was the last of his purchases, and he died seized of all of it, and it was divided among his heirs. He was a staunch citizen, always up to date with his obligations. He was a communicant of the Episcopal church. His wife died August 21, 1849, of the cholera, and he survived until April 11, 1857. He was the first tanner in Portsmouth. In his political views he was a Democrat. Of his four sons, Henry R. Kinney is his only survivor. Of his Seven daughters, only Mrs. Sarah Ann Renshaw survives. Men of such sterling qualities as he, made our nation great and powerful. He was a man who let no opportunity pass, and left his impress on his sons, who were all prominent business men. Washington Kinney was born August 26. 1798, in Pennsylvania, and came to Portsmouth, Ohio, with his parents. In 1820, he advertised in the Portsmouth paper as "G. W. Kinney, Tanner and Currier." He had his tan yard where the Portsmouth Gas Works now stands and it ran through from Second to Third street. On December 14, 1820, he was 754 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. married to Mary, one of the daughters of Doctor Thomas Waller and they had a large family. The daughters were -Mrs. Samuel Ross and Mrs. Samuel Reed ; and the sons were George, Charles, Aaron, Alfred, William and Thomas Waller. Mr. Kinney was successful as a tanner and currier and made and saved money. He became a banker and for many years conducted a private bank in Portsmouth under the name of W. Kinney & Company. He was a person in whom the whole community had confidence. He was always an active and useful citizen. In 1827, he was Secretary of Mt. Vernon Chapter of Freemasons. In 1829, 1830 and 1837, he was a Trustee of Wayne Township. In 1829, he was in the town council and he and Sam Tracy settled the question as to the front of the town. That was a great question in its time and Mr. Kinney settled it happily. In the same year, he and Mr. Samuel Gunn procured two floating wharves for the city. In 1833, he was Overseer of the Poor of Wayne Township. In 1839 to 1845, he was one of the school directors of Portsmouth. He filled the same office in 1837. From 1847 to 1850, he was one of the County Commissioners. In 1846, he was Assessor in the Second ward. He was a Whig in his political views and he was a devout communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church. He was a vestryman, first of All Saints and afterwards of Christ church. He was always reliable as a citizen and a churchman. He was conservative in his views, but of excellent business judgment. He had a happy faculty of getting along smoothly mid easily with all with whom he did business. Mr. Kinney was highly esteemed by all his business contemporaries as a man of honor and integrity, and he enjoyed the highest confidence of the entire community. He was always regarded as a safe man. He died September 21, 1869, aged seventy-one years and one month and his wife died March 7. 1874. Colonel Peter Kinney was born in Scioto County, Ohio, on December 16, 1805, the son of Aaron Kinney and Mary Clingman, his wife. He was born with an imperious will and it lasted him to his dying hour. He grew up in Portsmouth with what little education the town afforded him, but he learned much from the association with his fellow men. He was at all times daring and venturesome. In 1820, his father sent him with the family grist to Major Isaac Bonser's mill on Bonser's Run, when the woods were full of wild animals. This then was the near- est mill available to Portsmouth. In the same year his father sent him to New Orleans on a flat boat loaded with produce. In 1827. he made another trip to New Orleans and this time brought with him the seed of the pecan tree, which stands near the spring near the old Kinney homestead. In 1829, he was Captain PIONEER SKETCHES - 755 of a cavalry company of militia. He had a taste for military affairs which followed him all his life. In 1829, he and Wilson Gates had a general store. under the name of Gates and Kinney. In 1832, he engaged in business as a private banker and was so engaged for many years. The firm name was E. Kinney & Co. In 1832, he also had a grocery license from the city countil and conducted a grocery on Front street. In this year he married Elizabeth Redhead, who survived him. In 1835, he became a member of the city council and was a member of the town and city council most of the time until 1854. From 1842 to 1844, he was a Director of the Portsmouth Insurance Company. In 1845, Ile appears on the committee on claims. In 1846, he was elected town recorder, but declined. In 1848 , his banking firm was P. Kinney & Co. In 18o, it was Kinney & Tracy. In 1849, he was appointed to welcome Gen. Zachary Taylor on the occasion of his visit to Portsmouth on .his way to Washington to be inaugurated President. In the same year on September 21, he was elected trustee and visitor of the public schools. In 1850. he was one of a committee sent to the Legislature to lobby on the Scioto and Hocking- Valley railroad. He was president of the city council from 1852 to 1854. In 1855, he obtained a controlling interest in the Portsmouth branch of the state bank of Ohio and directed its affairs till 1861, when he yielded the control to go into the military service of the United States. In 1856, he took a great part in the erection of Christ church and was a vestryman there a long time. but went back to All Saints church. In 1857, he was treasurer of the Scioto and Hocking Valley railroad and helped build it. On September 11, 1861, he was appointed Colonel of the 56, 0. V. I.. and served as such until April 8. 1863. During the Morgan Raid, he commanded all the militia at Portsmouth. He declared martial law. Every man who could carry a gun did so: and those who did not were ordered to work with a pick or a spade on the entrenchments. After his return from the army, he resumed his position in the bank : and when the law was passed organizing banks, he organized the Portsmouth National bank, became its president and remained such until 1867, when he sold out his interests and made his celebrated trip to the Holy land. in with the party written up in Mark Twain's "'Innocents Abroad" When he came home from Europe. he organized the bank of Portsmouth and in 1872, he changed it into the Kinney National bank of which he became president. This enterprise was not a success, as Portsmouth was then overstocked with bank capital. After Col. Kinney's death, this bank liquidated, and its stockholders lost fifty per cent of their investment. 756 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. On May 16, 1872, he and Mrs. Kinney gave a party to the young folks at their beautiful home at Mt. Tabor in the afternoon and evening. The day was fine, merging gradually into a moonlit evening and the young people rolled ten pins. Col. Kinney and his wife always took pleasure in the young people and this function was one of those ever to be remembered in the history of the city. Col. Kinney was always in favor of any public enterprises or improvements. He took a great interest in the completion of the Scioto Valley railway. He took part in the ceremonies of digging the first earth on April TO, 1877. He died on the 13th of August, 1877. He was proud, self-willed and very much set in his own opinions. He was a good friend if he had his own way all the time. It was of no use to cross him. He was a communicant of All Saints church and a vestryman there, after 1870. He was a valuable citizen. After his return from Europe, he built a fine residence on Kinney Lane, north of the cemetery and named it Mt. Tabor. He was the father of ten children all of whom died in childhood, but two; Emma, the wife of Hon. Theo. K. Funk and Captain John W. Kinney. Eli Kinney was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1810. He and his wife, Martha S. Lodwick were married at the residence of James Lodwick, the old Buckeye House on Front street. They went to housekeeping in the east side of the double brick in the rear of All Saints Chapel. Mr. Kinney then had a salary of $400 per year and he and his wife thought they were rich. In 1849, he built the brick dwelling on the southwest corner of Court and Fourth streets and lived there until his removal to Cincinnati. He began his business career in the old Commercial Bank below Lynn's livery stable. He afterwards went into business two doors below Gilbert's store on Front street. The firm was E. Kinney & Company and was composed of himself, Peter Kinney and William Hall. He retired from this firm in 1846 and became the founder of the Portsmouth branch of the State Bank of Ohio, and was its first cashier. He- went to Cincinnati and established the banking house of E. Kinney & Company, composed of himself, B. B. Gaylord, George Johnson and William Salter. A few years after the firm became Kinney, Espey & Company. Then the firm became Kinney & Company. His son-in-law, Major Low was a partner. In 1877, the firm failed and that precipitated the failure of W. Kinney & Company of Portsmouth, Ohio. At one time Eli Kinney had a fortune of $500,000, but had too much in real estate when the Jay Cooke panic came on. In 1849, he was a councilman in Portsmouth in place of Henry Buchanan who resigned. He died at his home at Newport High- PIONEER SKETCHES - 757 lands, August 22, 1884, of paralysis. His widow and four children survived him, Mrs Major Low, Mrs. Darling, Fannie and Alice. He had two sons, one died of yellow fever in the south and 0ne was killed by an accident 0n a ferry boat. His daughter Alice is the wife of Mr. Dudley Hutchins of Portsmouth, 0. Henry Richie Kinney, son of Aaron Kinney, who has a sketch and portrait herein, was born July 21, 1815, at the old Kinney homestead, where he now resides, on Kinney Lane. His last year of schooling was in 1836 in the Woodward High School, Cincinnati, Ohio, where he received instruction from Dr. Ray, the author of Ray's Arithmetic, and the two McGuffeys, authors of the McGuffey school text books. Stanley Matthews and George E. Pugh were classmates. He worked on his father's farm until he was twenty-two years of age. The farm extended down to what is now Twelfth street and much of that portion 0f Portsmouth, north of this street was ploughed and cultivated by Mr. Kinney when a young man. His father gave him a farm when he was twenty-one which he sold and took the proceeds, and with his brother, started west to invest in real estate. It was their intention to invest in Chicago which at this time, was a mere cluster of huts, and seemingly a swamp. It looked so unpromising that they decided not to invest there. They traveled through the West and East for about three years. They were present at the signing of the treaty by which Iowa was acquired from the Indians. The chiefs, Black Hawk and Keokuk, were present. This was at the period of suspension of specie payment, and Mr. Kinney emulating the example of his brother, Eli, who was then a banker in Portsmouth, began to buy and sell the paper of the local banks, at which he made considerable money. After this he became .a trader on the Mississippi river, buying produce and live stock, and transporting it to New Orleans to market. During 0ne of these trips, the party became wind bound near Island 96 and narrowly escaped an encounter with the land and sea pirate, Lafitte, whom they learned had a few days previously captured a flat boat loaded with cattle, and murdered the crew. He was married November 7, 1843, to Mary McNairn, a daughter of Joseph and Jane McNairn, natives of Scotland. His wife came to the United States when only fifteen years of age. When Mr. Kinney gave up flatboating he located in Portsmouth and set up a hardware store. His stock was worth about $3,000 and there was not $10.00 worth of American manufacture in the whole stock. He continued in this business until 1856 when he sold t0 Waller and Ward and received for his stock complete $23,000 and not $50.00 worth of foreign manufacture could be found in the 758 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. stock. He imported his stock for about four years and at that time American manufactures began to come forward, so he patronized home industries. It was one of his characteristic traits, to attend closely to any business he had in hand and almost all of his ventures were successful. Everything he touched turned into money. His father made a division of his property in 1856 and Mr. Kinney received for his portion the old homestead. Here he has lived ever since. This house was built in 1812, and has been the home of three generations. Upon moving to the farm he turned his attention to farming, and the cultivation of fruit trees for profit. In 1870, he went back to the hardware business with his sons. This was one of his unsuccessful ventures, and he sold out February 28, 1877, to J. B. Rottinghaus and Joseph Lang. He then went back to his farm and has been engaged in farming, gardening and raising small fruit. In 1826, he went to Cincinnati and got one dozen grapevine cuttings and brought them home with him and planted them. He is said to be the second man in the state of Ohio to cultivate the grape. Mr. Kinney has always been a Democrat. He was treasurer of Clay Township for a short time, filling a vacancy. He was a candidate for County Treasurer October 9, 1877, against B. R. Miles. The vote st00d Miles, 2,974, Kinney, 2,539. He has been a member of All Saints church since 1843. He was baptized by Bishop Chase in the old Court House, which stood on Market street between Second and Front streets, in 1821. His children were: Joseph, died aged one year ; Sarah Ann, died aged eight; Wellington, living on Chillicothe Pike; Mary C., died aged four ; Harry Elwell, died in 1881, aged thirty; Janet married Samuel T. Williams, living; Josephine and Isabel, living; Aaron and Polly, twins, died aged three months; Sarah Ann and Mary C., mentioned above died of cholera, July 1, 1854. Mr. Kinney bears well the weight of years, aside from his loss of hearing, he enjoys complete, health. He is the last survivor in this vicinity of the generation of men who conducted flatboats to New Orleans. Philander Chase Kinney was the on of Aaron Kinney, who has a separate sketch herein. He was born in Portsm0uth, Ohio, May 18, 1821. He was educated partly in Portsmouth and partly in Cincinnati, and passed his minority on his father's farm. In his youth he was a market gardener and dairyman. For several years subsequent to his majority he was engaged in farming and flat-boating between Portsmouth and New Orleans. In 1846 to 1848, he was engaged in the livery stable business in Portsmouth. In 1849, he was engaged in the banking business in Portsmouth with Thomas Dugan, under the name of Kinney & PIONEER SKETCHES - 759 Dugan, and continued it until 1870, when he removed to Cincinnati and engaged in the same business there until 1874. In 1850, he was married to Marie L., daughter of John Clark. They had one daughter, Lilly, wife of Walter A. Cissna, of Chicago, Illinois. From 1856 to 1858 he was interested in the lower rolling mill. In 1868, he was a candidate for County Commissioner of Scioto County, 0n the Democratic ticket but was defeated by Henry Rosenberg. The vote stood, 2,764 for Rosenberg, and 2,340 for Kinney. He was always a Democrat. In 1871, he retired from the banking firm of W. Kinney & Co., with which he had been engaged for some time. From 1874 to 1877, he was engaged in the furnace business in Tennessee, but had his office in Cincinnati. In 1877, he returned to P0rtsmouth. He was a man of great business qualifications and met with remarkable success. He traveled extensively through this country and made two trips to Europe. On one trip he was accompanied by his nephew, William Kinney. As a banker, he was very successful and made a fortune. He died January 15, 1884. Levi Kirkendall was born in Jefferson, now Valley Township, Scioto County, Ohio, October 19, 1818, a son of Daniel and Sarah (Campbell) Kirkendall. His grandparents William and Lavinia Kirkendall, settled in Portsmouth about the beginning of the present century. They had a family of five children : Daniel, Levi, Henry, William and Lavinia. Daniel was married about 1813, in Portsmouth, to Sarah, daughter of William and Mary (Stricklett) Campbell. In 1819, he removed to the farm where Levi now lives. He was a Captain of a rifle company in the old military days, and served in the war of 1812. After his death the government gave his widow warrants for land in Logan County, Illinois. He died in 1853 and his wife in 1857. Eight children were born to them : William of California; Levi; Mary, wife of Thomas Craig; Stephen, on the old farm; Lavinia, wife of David' Dunlap ; and John. Sarah Ann and Henry are deceased. Levi Kirkendall was married March 15, 1838, to Minerva, daughter of George and Mary Beloat, and settled on the old Beloat farm. In 1855, he removed to Joliet, Daviess County, Ill., but the next year returned to Ohio. The day after his return, August 31, his wife died. Of their six children : George, William, Sarah Alice, Mary, James 0. and Levi, the three latter are deceased. In 1857, Mr. Kirkendall married Mrs. Sarah Russell, daughter of George and Elizabeth Hereodh, and removed to Washington County, Ill. In 1864, he returned to. the home farm where he has since resided. Mr. and Mrs. Kirkendall have had four children, but two now Rhoda E. and Fanny. James S. and Truss L. are deceased. 760 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. Politically, Mr. Kirkendall was a Republican. Before the organization of that party he was a Whig and cast his first vote for William Henry Harrison for President. He owned a fine farm, well improved. He was a member of the Baptist church, and of Lucasville Lodge, No. 465, F. & A. M. His son, George W. enlisted in the Forty-fourth Illinois Cavalry and served during the war. He died June 11, 1888. Mathias Kricker was born April 22, 1811 in Dusseldorf, Parish of Kempen, near Cologne, Germany, now part of Prussia. His father was a school teacher, and he was brought up to follow that profession. His mother's name was Gertrude, the family name not remembered, He had a brother, Peter, and three sisters, Madeline, Catherine and Gertrude. He attended his father's primary school and afterwards an academy. At the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed to a cabinet maker, served three years and became a journeyman. At the conclusion of his apprenticeship, after the custom then, he had to designate a route he would follow, starting from his master's place and returning to the same point. This route was marked down in a book and certified by the government and he had to obtain statements in every place he stopped from a master workman. He worked in Belgium about a year and was three years in Holland, at the Hague, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and other places. At the age of twenty-one, he returned to Cologne, and he and his brother Peter went to making velvet ribbons. They were prosperous for a time, but a duty interfered with their business and broke them up. He spent three years after the conclusion of this venture in Cologne, as a foreman in a cotton factory. At the end of that time, his father died, and he took his place as a school teacher in the public schools for a few months. He came to the United States, at the age of thirty-one. He came as a sightseer with the view of locating in case he was satisfied. He reached this country in the fall of 1842, and went from New York to Buffalo and then to Cleveland. He worked awhile at his trade in Cleveland, and came to Portsmouth on the canal, intending to go on to Cincinnati. He stopped in Portsmouth at Major Reiniger's hotel. The latter persuaded him to stay. In the summer of 1843, he made a trip through Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. He was looking for a better locati0n than Portsmouth, but concluded to return. He worked for others until his marriage. He met his wife in the Roman Catholic church, on Madison street. Her name was Margaret Myers, a daughter of Anton Myers, a native of Wurtemburg. They were married November 23, 1844, by Rev. Father O'Maley. They went to housekeeping at once. on Third street, between Madison and Jefferson streets. He then PIONEER SKETCHES - 761 went into business for himself as a cabinet' maker for three years. He then concluded to try hotel keeping and kept the Swan Hotel for three years, after which he purchased where the post-office and the Kricker building now stand, and became a contracting teamster until 1854. He then went to manufacturing buggies where Fisher & Streich's drug store now stands. Ho was afterwards an Insurance agent. He was a Justice of the Peace from March 4, 1863. to January 10, 1872, in Wayne Township. He retired from business in 1888, and died January 31, 1890. He was brought up in the Roman Catholic church and adhered to it all his life as a faithful member. Samuel M. Tracy was one of his intimate friends. Both were great readers, fond of history, and had many tastes in common. In his political views he was a Democrat. He was noted for his integrity in business and his conscientious life. Mr. Kricker was a man 0f domestic tastes and preferred to spend his leisure with his family. He was very successful in business and could have been more so had he chosen to. He never had good health. He was administrator, executor and trustee of many estates, and was very methodical in all his ways of doing business. Having been a school teacher, he never used any colloquialisms but followed the rules of syntax in all his speaking. His wife, Mrs. Kricker was born April 23, 1826, in Wurtemberg, Germany, of a Roman Catholic family. Her father's family came to Pittsburg in 1832, over the mountains with mule teams. They went from Pittsburg to Louisville on the steamer "Powhatan." At that time there was only one other steamer plying on the Ohio river, the Robert Fulton. They were two weeks coming from Pittsburg to Louisville. She came to Portsmouth in January, 1835. Her father was a butcher and went into partnership with Major Rniger. Her father died in 1841 and her mother, when she was five years old. Mrs. Kricker is a woman most highly esteemed in her church, and in the circle 0f her acquaintance in the community. Her faculties are wonderfully preserved for her years. She has a remarkable memory and her hair is as black as when she was a young woman. Her life has been one of great usefulness. Mr. Kricker and his wife were the parents of the following children : Lewis, born 1845, and died 1887, leaving a wife and five children. Joseph, born 1847, died in St. Louis in 1896, leaving three children, who reside in Portsmouth; Francis Charles, born in 1850, died in Portsmouth in 188, at the age of twenty-eight and left a wife; Mrs. Louise Balmert, widow of Simon Balmert, has seven children and resides on Washington street, Portsmouth, Ohio; George Englebrecht, born in 1856, is cashier of the Central Savings bank ; Richard, who resides on East Second street; William, born in 1870, resides in Baltimore, is employed by the Canton Distilling Company. and is single. 762 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. Andrew Lacroix, a French emigrant, was born in Normandy in 1766. He was an accouchcur in his own country. He came to the United Statets at the age of 25 years. He was one of the regular French emigrants, not a pick up or stowaway as some were. In Gallipolis he became a whip sawyer under Monsieur Bertrand, and carried on a horse mill. On February 13, 1797, he was married to Madame Serot, widow of Peter Serot. She had four children of her previous marriage, the oldest of which was only four and one-half years old. He came t0 the French Grant on March 21, 1797, with Jean G. Gervais, Jean Baptist Bertrand, Charles F. Duteil and William Duduit. He drew let number 15 as his portion. He built him a cabin and cleared ground for peach orchards. When he secured a crop of peaches, he distilled them. Directly after coming to the Grant, he had an encounter with a bear on the hills back of Franklin Furnace. He shot at the hear and only broke its lower jaw. The bear then hugged him and the two fell down and rolled down the hill together. Lacroix managed to stab the bear with his knife and make an end of it after much injury to himself. As Lacroix's peach distilling grew, he sent boats to New Orleans. He gave his attention. to fruits. He had orchards of apple trees. From September to March, he would be engaged in distilling apple or peach brandy. It was a hard employment, requiring constant attention, night and day. One night he fell into a well 36 feet deep but managed, unaided, to climb to the top and saved his life, as it was in a lonely place where no assistance could be called. His wife died December 16, 1824, leaving seven children of her marriage with him, Cecilia, born May 20, 1798; Zaire, Emily, Catharine, Michael, Andrew and Alexander born December 28, 1809. Madame Lacroix was herself one of 23 children. Monsieur Lacroix was called to practice his profession in the Grant, and often went twelve to fifteen miles in the night. He died September 29, 1844. He was fond of bo0ks and spent much of the time in his latter' years, in reading. William Lawson enjoys the distinction of being about the only one of the pioneers of Portsmouth, who brought any money with him. We have stood them all up and searched them (historically speaking) and we find that he brought about one thousand dollars—a great fortune in 1799. This William Lawson is reported to have been born in Virginia, but was born in York County, Pennsylvania, in December, 1761, the eldest son of Thomas Lawson, a Revolutionary soldier, whose record will be found under that title. William may have been in the Revolution, but if so we have no account of it. He went into Hampshire County, Virginia, in 1779 or 1780, and remained there nineteen PIONEER SKETCHES - 763 years. It is said he disliked the institution of slavery. In 799, he appeared in Alexandria. He came with three 0f his brothers, Thomas, John and James, and three sisters. The brothers and sisters located in Kentucky opposite Scioto County. He located on the Ohio side and went into a trust which bought up the 2,024 acres of land on which Portsmouth was located. Henry Massie, Jeremiah McLene, Nathaniel Willis and General Thomas Parker were his partners. Jointly they entered all of section sixteen and fractional sections, 15, 7, 18, 19 and 20, Township 1, Range 21, and fractional sections, 1 and 2, Township 1, Range 22, on March 28, 1801. They all sold out to Massie who thus obtained the credit of being the founder of the town. Lawson's share was 454 acres in the pool and he took it on the east side of the purchase. The part he took is bounded on the east by the Damarin farm, on the north by Seventeenth street extended, on the west by Campbell Avenue and on the south by the Ohio river. Lawson formally assigned his interest to Major Henry Massie who took out the patent for the tract in August, 1804, but directly after, he deeded to Lawson the 454 acres, two rods and thirty-six poles. Lawson paid Massie, or rather the government two dollars per acre for this land. His deed from Massie was dated October 29, 1806, and in consideration of one dollar. He built his cabin on the tract near the present residence of Miss Mary Young, when no timber had been cut on the site of Portsmouth. It was built with reference to the large spring. Lawson's Run was named for William Lawson. When Massie was surveying out the lots in Portsmouth he and his party 0f surveyors boarded at Lawson's home. He was evidently pleased with the treatment accorded him for he offered to give Mr. Lawson a lot in the town of Portsmouth. It is said Lawson declined it because he thought it would be a burden and the town would never amount to anything. In 1811, Lawson replaced his cabin by a rich house which in its turn was replaced by the present Jesse Young residence, built by Mr. Aholiab Bently in 1854. On May 10, 1803, William Lawson was made a Commissioner when Scioto County was organized. He served until October pp, 1810, seven years. In 1809, at the organization of Wayne Township he was made an Overseer of the Poor. In 1813, he was a viewer of the first road laid out in Wayne Township. In 1814, he was an Overseer of the Poor for Wayne Township, a second time. In 1820, he was elected a fence viewer of the Township, refused to serve and was fired. William Lawson married Susannah Earsom. The following are their children : Manasseh and Thomas; John, born August 27, 1790, died September 18, 1859; Madison and Enoch; Mary, married Judge Joseph Moore: Christina, married to General William Kendall; Maria, married to General William H. Kelley of Union 764 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. Landing; Ruth, married to Milton Kendall, a son of General William Kendall. William Lawson was a positive man and went direct after everything he wanted. He was very candid in his opinions and never hesitated to express them. He had no policy except to speak out his impressions and feelings at any time. He died March 18, 1832, and is buried on the hill in the spot back of where Thompson Kenyon now resides. His wife died June 25, 1846, aged seventy-six years. The proposed city, in which he had no faith and whose pretensions he despised, has absorbed his entire farm of 454 acres. Thomas Cotton Lewis, Sr., was born in Llandaff, Wales, March 31, 1776. He was the son of Lewis Lewis and Ann Cotton Lewis. He served apprenticeship in Merthyr-Tydvil, South Wales, to become a machinist, draugtsman and millwright. He was the master mechanic in erecting iron works at Newbridge. June 19, 1815, he landed in New York city. At Middletown, Fayette County, Pa., in 1818 he erected, and with his brothers, run for Mason & Company, of Connellsville, the first mill in the United States for rolling bar iron from blooms. In 1821 and 1822, he put up a blast furnace in Butler County, Pennsylvania, for Whitney & Company. Later he repaired and remodeled several mills in Pittsburg, and built a new rolling mill in Centre County for Curtain. As master mechanic, he erected "the upper" rolling mill in Portsmouth, in 1832, for Glover, Noel & Company. With his son, Thomas Cotton Lewis, Jr., he built and operated a foundry on Mill street, in Portsmouth, Ohi0, in 1842. He prospected for iron and coal in Ohio and West Virginia. About 1850, he gave up business and settled on a farm, near Wheelersburg, where he died October 19, 1853. He was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery. He joined the Masons in Wales, was a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church, was a well educated man for the times, was competent in his trades and capable of erecting and running all kinds of iron works. Thomas Cotton Lewis, Jr., was born in Merthyr-Tydvil, Wales, January 25, 1805. He was the son of Thomas Cotton Lewis, Sr. and Mary (Watts), Lewis. He was one of the forty-two persons, by the name of Lewis, who came in one ship to New York city in the spring of 1817. He helped his father and his uncles make the first bar iron rolled in the United States. He was a machinist, roll-turner and engineer at Pittsburg. Pennsylvania. He was an engineer on passenger boats on the Ohio river for a time. In 1832, he came to Portsmouth and for years, at different times he was roll-turner and machinist in "the upper" or Gaylord Mill. Soon after coming to Portsmouth, he bought the lot at the north-east corner of Third and Washington streets where he lived for nearly sixty years. He invented and built the old rivet PIONEER SKETCHES - 765 machine that David Patton ran, click-ety-clack, for so many years in the Gaylord Mill. With his father, he built and run the foundry, afterwards a wheel-barrow factory, paper mill, etc., on Mill street. With his son, Charles, he went over-land to the California gold fields, in 1852. Returning by the Isthmus of Panama, he was shipwrecked in the Caribbean Sea. In 1856, he built the store room on the owner of Third and Washington streets, where he conducted for thirty years a toy and notion store, and was "Santa Claus" to the boys and girls of old Portsmouth. At various times, he built six or eight houses in the city. He took stock in several factories and did what. he could to build up the city. He was elected Assessor of the Third ward of the city many years in succession. He was an active member of various temperance societies, of the Y. M. C. A., 0f the Home Guards, and a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church. He died in his eighty-seventh year and his remains are interred in Greenlawn . Richard Lloyd was born in, Boston, Mass., Nov. 9, 1806. He came to Portsm0uth Ohio with his father in 1817. The following year the family moved to Cincinnati. but returned to Portsmouth in 1820. In 1827, he engaged in the shoe business for himself, and in 1830, formed a partnership with John P. Terry to carry on the same line of business. Later on he employed a number of men in the manufacture of boots and shoes in connection with his regular jobbing business, being the pioneer manufacturer in this line in the city. The firm did an extensive wholesale business in this and adjoining states for a number of years, being located on Front street. below Market. He had five brothers and one sister. October 21, 1829, he was married to Anna Canfield, who died April 25. 1896: Eight children were born unto them, all of whom have passed away with the exception. of Mrs. Geo. W. Field, of London, England. Richard Lloyd was a man of the strictest integrity, a consistent member of the Sixth Street M. E. church, and one of the most liberal supporters. The lot upon which the church was erected being donated by him. He died March 5, 1891, at Portsmouth, Ohio. Thomas Geldred Lloyd was born at Marietta. Ohio. October 11, 1810. His parents moved to Cincinnati on or about the year 1811. They removed to Portsmouth during the year 1817. Here the remainder of his life was spent. His education was such as the schools of the pioneer days of Ohio afforded. . \side from education he was endowed with large common sense, business foresight and executive ability. 766 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. His first business adventure, after reaching years of maturity, was the manufacture of shoes in which he was successful, employing many laborers. He made for himself the start of what was afterward a very comfortable competence. He learned his trade as shoemaker under his brother-in-law. Benjamin Melcher. When money began to flow into his exchequer, his foresight began to assert itself. When he saw that the destiny of Portsmouth was one of progress and that there would be money in the real estate business, he ventured 0ut upon this line, purchasing vacant lots and improving property until before he ,died he was one of the largest real estate holders in the city of Portsmouth. He constructed sonic fifty odd new houses in the city which were s0ld soon after completion, as it was a well known fact that houses he had constructed were of the best material and would stand wear and tear. He and two associates, realizing the need of a cemetery, and one that would be creditable to a coming city. laid out what was known as Evergreen Cemetery, the southwest part of Greenlawn. Mr. Lloyd gave this project his personal supervision and the most, if not all, of the trees planted in that cemetery are the work of his hands, or were planted by his direction. His business and executive ability, as well as his judgement of real estate, brought him into considerable notice and his advice and opinions were often solicited. In 1841, a newspaper clipping would indicate that he held trust funds and loaned large sums of money to some different parties. Along in the early sixties, he was appointed to the Board of Equalization of the city of Portsmouth, and on five subsequent occasions was re-appointed to the same Board, serving fr0m one to three years each term. Thomas G. Lloyd was married to Lola Adams, May 8, 1833. To them eight children were born, four of whom are with their parents in the happy beyond. The four remaining children are: Lola Cornelia Duke, wife of John K. Duke of Portsmouth, Ohio: Louella N. Lucas. wife of Samuel B. Lucas, of Cherokee, Kansas : T. Frank Lloyd, the only son, a resident of Portsmouth, Ohio : Julia A. Russell. wife of J. S. Russell of New Hartford, Missouri. Mr. Lloyd's family were members of the First Presbyterian church of this city. Mr. Lloyd did not identify himself with the church till late in life. Yet from this it is not to be inferred that he was not an attendant and a supporter of the church. When the present structure was built, an indebtedness of considerable amount hung over the church for some time. Mr. Lloyd and his neighbor, George Johnson, each being large contributors originally, took it upon themselves as outsiders, to set the precedent of doubling their subscriptions and relieving the liability of the church, and they accomplished this in a remarkably short space of time. Mr. Lloyd was originally an old line Whig, but joined the Republican party at its organization, and loyally adbered to it through- PIONEER SKETCHES - 767 out the residue of life. In the early part of the great civil strife of 1861-65, he joined the Home Guards, or what' was known as the "Silver Greys" in which organization he did service. No one under forty-five years was permitted to be a member. During the dark days of the Republic his face was the index as to the success of our army. He was a loyal adherent to all the policies advocated by the President, Mr. Lincoln; and was equally as loyal in the support of the boys who wore the blue and followed the flag. On May 8, 1873, Thomas G. Lloyd and wife celebrated the fortieth anniversary of their wedding, in their residence, now owned and occupied by Doctor W. D. Tremper, corner of Washington and Second streets. Mr. Lloyd spent sixty-seven years of his life in the city of Portsmouth and witnessed its slow growth from a small village to a city of 13,000 to 15,000. But few pioneers took more interest in the growth of the city and of relating its prosperity from its pioneer days, than did Mr. Lloyd. For a few years prior to his death, he was a great sufferer from kidney disease, but he bore this affliction with great fortitude and without complaint. His faithful wife passed to her reward February 10, 1880. The remaining years of Mr. Lloyd were spent with his family and to him they were lonely (lays as he and his wife had been happily mated near a half century. He died September 1; 1883. William Lodwick was born in the stockade at Manchester, Ohio, January 17, 1894, the son of Col. John Lodwick and Elizabeth Cooley, his wife. He was the oldest son. He came to Portsmouth in about 1814, and he made money very fast. He was a Councilman in the second year of the town in 1816, and was re-elected in 1819, and served until 1822. In 1821, he was elected a Supervisor of the town. He kept a general store, a wood yard for steamboats and was a money lender. On April 24, 1822, Council gave him leave to have a woodyard under the bank, with the permission to put his wood on top of the bank in case of high waters. He was to pay the town one-half of one per cent on the wood he sold as a tax. In 1823, he tired of municipal honors and resigned from the Council. He built several steamboats and built the first one ever built in the county. This was at George Hereodh's, at the mouth of Brush Creek. In 1825, he sold the county the blank books and stationery which it required. He owned Hahn's row on Fourth street near Madison. In 1819, 1820 and 1821, he conducted a general store in the town. In 1826, he and John T. Barr dissolved partnership. In 1828, he and his brother. Kennedy Lodwick had a general store. and in 1830, Kennedy Lodwick had a store alone. When Massie laid claim to the front of the town and laid out lots on the river bank south, Mr. Lodwick purchased two lots of Massie right opposite his 768 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. store on Front street about 1823. This controversy with Massie lasted till 1829. There was correspondence with him, suits were ordered, and there were proceedings to take testimony de belle esse. In 1829, Massie offered to sell his claim to the front of the town for $3,000, but the town had no money to pay him. Thereupon William Lodwick came forward and offered to sell his two lots for $2,000, to lend the town $3,000 to pay off Henry Massie, and to take the town scrip or notes in payment. The town borrowed $6,000 of Lodwick and gave its notes payable in gales and pledged the wharfage of the town to pay the notes. Mr. Lodwick left the town soon after this and went to St. Louis, where he died at a comparatively early age. He came to Portsmouth without anything. He became associated with John T. Barr and made a great deal of money. At one time, he owned more lots in Portsmouth than any one in it, not excepting Henry Massie, and he was one of the early money lenders. While he did not keep a bank, he managed to find money if any one wanted to borrow it. He was an excellent business man and that is the most we know of him. James Lodwick. It was his misfortune not to have been born a Virginian, but he came very near it. His father and mother were married in Winchester, Va. His father was Col. John Lodwick, born in Winchester, Va., March 24, 1767. His mother. Elizabeth Cooley, was born in 1760. She was a widow with one child, Peter C00ley, when John Lodwick married her in June, 1793. Their eldest child, Sarah was born in Winchester, Va., 0n July 13, 1791. In 1792, the family went to Mason C0unty, Ky., and in 1794, to the stockade in Manchester. In 1795, Col. John Lodwick purchased the farm on Zane's Trace known as the Col. John Means farm. It is one mile south-west of Bentonville in Sprigg Township. Here, our subject was born March 15, 1798, the fourth child and third son of his parents. Here his mother died on July 6, 1800, in her 41st year. While a boy in Adams County he was treed by a wolf, which his father's dog drove away. In 1812, being somewhat of a musician he played airs on a horn for Henry Clay who was passing through Adams County on his way to Washington. His eldest brother, William, born in the stockade in Manchester, July 11, 1794, had located in Portsmouth and in 1814 was a merchant there in the firm of Barr & Lodwick. He was then one of the principal citizens of the town and at one time owned more real estate in Portsmouth than any one. James Lodwick entered the store of Barr & Lodwick as a clerk and so continued with his brother for five years. The first year he worked for his board and clothes, and the second year, he was allowed a salary of $500. PIONEER SKETCHES - 769 October 14, 1819, he married Jane Hempstead and the same year he went into the business of merchandising for himself and continued it for fifteen years. He made soap and candles, carried on a bakery, and a woodyard for steamboats. He sold the wood to steamboats at $1.00 to $1.50 per cord. Elijah Glover, as a boy did his first work in cording wood for Mr. Lodwick at thirty cents per cord. In the year after he was married, he built the Buckeye House on Front street and lived in it until 1850. While in the bakery business, Martin F. Timmonds came to him as an apprentice to learn the business under him. He also had Robert Montgomery for an apprentice and taught him the bakery business. Mr. Lodwick also sold goods from a keel-boat, which traveled between Portsmouth and Guyandotte. In 1832, he began selling lumber on commission for B. Chamberlain. At the end of two years, he bought out his principal and conducted the business until 1848. At the same time he was in the dry goods business. In 1848, he took his eldest son, John K. into the dry goods business. He retired from the dry g00ds business in Portsmouth, on February 15, 1871, having been in it fifty-one years. In 1852, he became agent for the Protection Fire Insurance Company and, from that time, was an insurance agent the remainder of his life. Mr. Lodwick was not born a Virginian and therefore not born with a thirst for public office, but he held office persistently and long enough to make any Virginian green with envy. John R. Turner, who was a native Virginian has always been considered the star office holder of Scioto County, but a close comparison of his record with that of Mr. Lodwick, will satisfy any one that the latter was a close second to Mr. Turner. The first office he held in Portsmouth was that of town councilman in 1823. but the honors wore on him and he resigned in 1824. In the fall of 1825, his brother, William was nominated as county commissioner, but declined to run and thereupon, James Lodwick run in his place. At that time parties had not been organized to any extent and it was a free for all race. The vote was James Lodwick, 424: Daniel McKinney. 265: Charles P. Hatton, 293; John Brown, 122 ; James Chapman, 121; Samuel Monroe, 79 and Thomas W. Burt, 19. His first official act was to concur with the other two commissioners in appointing Samuel M. Tracy as legal adviser for the county. In those days no act was done by any city or county officer until Mr. Tracy had been consulted and advised it. Mr. Lodwick was a candidate for the same office in 1853, and was elected. The vote stood James Lodwick, 1,446, Leonard Groniger, 1,076. In 1874, Mr. Lodwick was a candidate for the same office on the Democratic ticket and was elected. The regular Republican nominee was Dr. L. A. 770 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. Norton. Col. Sampson E. Varner ran as an independent Democratic candidate and contrary to expectation his candidacy defeated the Republican nominee. The Republicans divided between Norton and Varner, while the Democrats stood by Lodwick. The vote stood, Lodwick, 2,255; Norton, 2,023; Varner, 728. In 1823, 1825 and 1835, Mr. Lodwick was a trustee of Wayne Township. From June 23, .1829, to February 9, 1842, he was the postmaster at Portsmouth. He received the appointment from Gen. Jackson and his appointment created a great newspaper .controversy because of the removal of John R. Turner to give him the place. This was the first example the people had had of Jacksonian doctrine that "to the victor belonged the spoils." He removed the office to the Buckeye House and kept it there till November 15, 1841, when he removed to the market house, where5 he kept it till relieved by Gen. Wm. Kendall. In 1839, he was appointed by the council as inspector of domestic spirits and served as such until 1839. In 1838, he was elected a sch00l trustee for the First ward. In 1839, he became a councilman for the Second ward and in 1841, was re-elected for Third ward. In 1842 to 1851, he was City Treasurer, elected annually. In 1845, he was a town guard for the First ward. In 1850, he was a guard for the Third ward. In 1840, he was a director of the Portsmouth Insurance Company and in 1844, its president. From 1832 to 1879, he was Treasurer of Aurora Lodge of Free Masons. The only time that we have found that he was defeated for office was in 1870. He was a candidate for City Treasurer and the poll stood W. T. Cook, 884, James Lodwick; 788. In 1844, he and Mr. Joseph Riggs were sent by the town council to Columbus to lobby against the machinations of the Portsmouth Dry Dock Company, which was then supposed to be intending to have the mouth of the current made a mile below Portsmouth. . Their errand was successful. In 1863, 1868 and 1873, he was appointed to the City Board of Equalization and served nine years. In 1867, he was in the City Board of Health. In 1872, he was appointed city collector and served as such until his death, October 11, 1879. His wife died October 11, 1865, and he never re-married. His four sons were, John Kennedy, Oliver C., Eggleston B., and Henry C. Mr. Lodwick made a great deal of money in his time, but made no noise about it. He was very liberal with his sons and helped them while they were in business to the amount of $6o,000 all told. Mr. Lodwick was a quiet unostentatious citizen. He had a great vein of humor but never used it offensively. He had a faculty of dealing pleasantly with every one and was for this reason much liked. He was just and exact in all his dealings. He was very fond of Mas- PIONEER SKETCHES - 771 onry. He became a Master Mason in 1820, Royal Arch in 1839, and Knight Templar in 1850. He was secretary of the Chapter 0ver twenty-five years. He was a man whom every one trusted. In 1861, when Sumter was fired on, he was appointed one of three to take charge of the 85,000, appropriated by the county for the defense of the town. Whenever there was any public business to be done which required discretion and good judgment, he was usually called on. He was a safe man, and the whole public knew it. He was true to every trust he ever undertook and was as reliable as the bank of England. He was of dark complexion, over medium height, with small black eyes deeply set in his head. He had a pleasant salute and greeting for his friends, enjoyed a good joke or story and liked to tell it himself. He was a firm Democrat in faith and practice all of his life and never wavered. He was a good husband, a good father, a good Democrat, a good citizen and a good Christian. He never failed in any duty, and left the record of a busy, pure and good life. Captain Preston Lodwick was born 0n three mile creek, three miles from Manchester, in 1810. In 1824, he came to Portsmouth, Ohio, and engaged in mercantile business with his brother, James Lodwick: He continued in that till 1828, when he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and became a member of the firm of Barr, Lodwick & Co., dry goods dealers. In 1832, he formed a partnership with Thomas Huff as Huff & Lodwick. They purchased the store of Graham & Clare at Second and Main streets. They continued their business for several months, and then moved it on a boat on the river. He closed out this business and then he and his brother, John N., and two 0thers bought the steamboat "Argo" and took her south and entered her in the Natchez and Shreveport trade. "Honesty" Joe Jones was one of the pilots. He kept the boat one season, made a lot of money and brought her back and sold her at Cincinnati. He then re-entered the dry goods trade, where he remained until 1842. He bought a one-half interest in the steamboat "Sylph" with his brother, Capt. John N., and they ran her from Louisville to Owensboro, Ky., making two trips per week. The trade was profitable and they purchased the "Gallant," and put her in the same trade. They extended her trips to Henderson, twenty-four miles further. They sold the "Sylph" and ran the "Gallant" on this trade for two years, when they sold her. Captain Preston then built the "Swallow" and sold her in New Orleans. Then he built another boat and called her the "Argo." He took her to the Upper Mississippi, and sold her, and became a Captain on one of the boats of the Northern line. Soon after, he went to Madison, Ind., and superintended the building of a large steamboat called the Northern Light, for the Northern line. A fter that he returned to Cincinnati where he, David Gibson and oth- 772 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. ers built the "Prince of Wales," a fine steamboat. She was sold to the southern trade, captured by the rebels and burned. He bought the steamer "Kentucky" and ran her in the St. Louis and New Orleans trade. The rebellion coining on, his boat was impressed. After a time he escaped, and came north. He bought the interest of Captain Wm. McLain in the "Bostona." She was burned and another built and he kept his interest till he sold out to Captains Wm. and Pilos Moore. He bought an interest in the Arms & Wick Rolling hill in Portsmouth and dropped $80,000 in it. He again went to Cincinnati and commanded the steamer "Ohio" for a while and then the Kanawha steamer, "Virgie Lee." He was associated with Captain W. W. Little in constructing the "Eldorador" in 1874. This closed his steamboat career. He returned to Cincinnati and dealt in real estate there. He accumulated quite a fortune. He died at his home in Sedamsville, Ohio, November 16, 1887. John Newton Lodwick was born October 24, 1812, on the Col. John Means farm in Adams County, now owned by A. V. Hudson. As a boy he was very fond of fun and mischief according to his own accounts. He used to play all manner of tricks in school and out of it and sometimes came to grief. Notwithstanding his aptitude for mischief he thought he got a whipping too much when, he was a school boy and he laid it up against the teacher, intending to whip him when he became a man. When he became a man he was mate on a steamboat, and the teacher came aboard the boat and recognized him. He spoke very pleasantly to Mr. Lodwick but he was very gruff and told him he intended to whip him the first time he saw him and as this was the first time the whipping was in order. Capt. Lodwick says that he got the best whipping then and there that he ever got in his life. In 1826, he came to Portsmouth and attended the school taught by Erastus Dwyer for two years. He began life on a flat boat in 1828. At the age of 20, in 1832, he took the river and made a trip to New Orleans with two flat boats loaded with pork, lard and bulk meat. The cargo was owned by Renich and Hurst of Circleville. In 1831, he began to learn the trade of ship carpenter under Archibald Gordon at Cincinnati. In 1832, he built the steamboat "Carroll" at Portsmouth for Gordon. In 1834, he was shipping clerk at Portsmouth for a canal boat line called the Troy and Erie. There were two boats a day for the line which was then considered a small business. In 1833, he went on the river as a -mate on the "Helen Mar" under Captain Fuller. He was captain of several different boats, and in 1836, he went as mate on the "Comanche" to New Orleans and Texas. When he arrived there the war for Texan Independence was going on and he joined a company of independent scouts, as he then believed them, PIONEER SKETCHES - 773 but thinking over the matter for 50 years he thinks they were plain cattle thieves. Their business was to go into Mexico and steal cattle from the Mexicans and sell them to the Texan government. After the war, and some bouts with the Mexicans and Indians the Captain returned to New Orleans and continued on the river as captain and mate. In 1840, he was married to Elizabeth A. Stephens, of Wheeling and took up his home at Hawesville, Ky. He then owned one-fourth of the steam-boat "Pensacola" and was its Captain. She was sunk and he came down to mate again. In 1834, he came to Portsmouth and bought the "Sylph" of McDowell and Davis. The boat cost $2,700 and he did not have a dollar to pay for her. He took her to the Illinois river and paid for her in six months. He bought a new boat, the "Gallant," and the purchaser of the "Sylph" sunk her on the first trip out. Captain Lodwick wore the "Gallant" out in the Louisville and Henderson trade. In 1833 he moved back to Portsmouth. He purchased the "Hamburg" and run between Portsmouth and Pomeroy. He was Captain and J. W. Vance was Clerk. Dr. A. B. Jones and Col. S. E. Varner were part owners with the Captain and Clerk. On April 26, 1854, he was walking along the track of the Little Miami Railroad near its station in Cincinnati and was reading a paper as he walked. A switch engine with a baggage car attached was backing up and struck him and knocked him down in the middle of the track. The baggage car passed over him but the fire box caught him and he was dragged 95 yards.. He held on to the fire box and this saved his life. About all his ribs were broken loose and his jaw and nose were broken. His right arm was wrenched out of place and his left leg lacerated from hip to foot. He was laid up for twelve months. After this he bought a shoe store and run it for a while. From 1856 to 1862, he was wharf master at Portsmouth, Ohio, and built a fine wharf boat, the first one ever at Portsmouth. During this time he was agent for the B. & O. Ry. In the year 1862, he sold his wharf boat to Thos. T. Yeager and went on the river and remained until 1868. He ran as Captain on all the "Bostonas'' but the last one. In 1879-80 he served on the city Board of Equalization of Portsmouth and from 1883 to 1888. the time of his death, he was a member of the Board of Health of Portsmouth. In 1881 he was invited by his friend, A. W. Williamson to take a ride on the propeller, "W. F. Gaylord." When she was opposite Ashland in the night the tow boat "D. T. Lane" was coming down. She ran the "Gaylord" down and sunk her and the Captain was thrown into the river. He seized two board life preservers and floated down the river until he was picked up by the "Nellie T. Brown." The cook, Elizabeth Meade, was drowned. 774 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. After that the Captain stated that he had been blown up four times, sunk three times and run over by the railroad once. After his experience at Ashland he came to the conclusion that he was hound to die in bed; and was not born to be killed on the railroad or drowned in the river. However, he did die with his boots on, as he was found dead in his yard in March, 1888. He served on the Board of Health twelve years, and took a great interest in the work. After he had left the river for good, he became a member of the First Presbyterian church. In politics he was a Democrat, and ready to serve his party at all times, although he was not a strong partisan. In 1868 he opened a commission house on Pig Iron Corner. The same year he was a candidate for the position of wharf master and was defeated. He was also a candidate for Coroner in 1873. He was a very strong patriot in the civil war, and when his son Blashford got up a company of volunteers, he spent $600 in equipping them. He had a fund of anecdotes entertaining enough to entertain a regiment at any time. He was one of the most agreeable companions and was greatly esteemed by all who knew him. He was one of the old fashioned steamboat captains, the generation of which has forever passed away. John Wood Lummis was born near Vineland, Cumberland County, N. J., September 5, 1813. His father was James Lummis, and his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Wood, a native of Holland. His education was limited to the common schools of Cumberland County, N. J. When a youth of eighteen, he went to Wheeling, W. Va., where he served three years as an apprentice in a machine shop. At the age of twenty-one, he went to Hanging Rock, Ohio, and became an engineer for Mr. Dempsey. He worked here a time, then went to Tennessee, to a furnace, and worked for a man by the name of Peters, running a furnace engine. He did not like it there and returned to Portsmouth. Shortly after returning to Portsmouth, he was offered the place of engineer at Bloom Furnace, and went there and remained in the employment of the Bloom Furnace Company for twenty years. After leaving the furnace, he bought eighty-four acres of land in and near Webster. He built him a comfortable home in Webster and resided there until his death. He married Elizabeth Chaffin, the daughter of Shadrach Chaffin of Vernon Township, February 1849. She died in March, 1883. They had eight children, all of whom are deceased, but three, Sarah E., wife of Simeon E. Evans, of Jackson, Ohio: Jacob W., agent on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, and Postmaster at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.. and Shadrach Chaffin, Treasurer of Custer County, South Dakota. PIONEER SKETCHES - 775 Mr. Lummis was always an abolitionist but acted with the Republican party. He had a talent for accumulation, and left a good estate at his death, September 5th, 1891. He was a religious man and a Christian. He was a member of the United Brethren church at South Webster, and one of its main pillars. He was a man of strong convictions. He examined a subject carefully and made up his mind. When once made up, nothing could prevent him. He was never idle a day in his life. He always found something to do. He was not only a good mechanical engineer, but a draughtsman as well. He built the engines for Ohio, Buckhorn and Bloom furnaces. When he took up farming he was just as busy at that as he had ever been before, and death struck him and t00k him while he was out in his field at work; but he had been ready for his call for years. Mr. Lummis was essentially a good citizen and a credit to the community in which he dwelt. William Maddock, Sr., was born in Staffordshire, England, in the year 1803. His father was a manufacturer of porcelain ware and pottery. John B. Maddock of the firm of John B. Maddock & Sons, of London, England, manufacturers of the widely known Maddock ware, is a brother. William learned the trade of a foundryman and machinist in Manchester, England. He was raised a Quaker and when he came to America in 1824, at the age of twenty-one, he wore the conventional Quaker dress. He first landed in Maine, but located in Detroit the next year and worked for a Mr. Pond in a foundry, but did not stay long. He came to Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1826, and with money which his thoughtful mother had stowed away in a chest for him, similar to those brought by most emigrants to America, and with $600.00 borrowed from Judge William Salter he bought the lots where the Opera House now stands and built a woolen mill with a grist mill attached. After operating the mill in this way for some time he purchased the balance of the lots between Fourth and Fifth streets, fronting on the east side of Chillicothe and built a foundry and machine shop. To these as side lines were attached mills for flour and linseed oil, so that he had a monopoly on the manufactures of the town. This foundry and machine shop was the first of the kind in Portsmouth. Maddock and Beverly advertised in 1836 as manufacturers of sheet iron, and Stevenson and Maddock as foundry. He was connected with the foundry business until his death from apoplexy, May II, 1865. He was married in 1826, to Elizabeth Buffington and had nine children. John B., died June 29, 1898; Mary J., widow of Captain Charles A. Barton : Addean E., widow of Captain William Stoner: William H., died December, 1897, was a mechanical engineer in 776 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. Pittsburg; Emma and James died in infancy; Charles R., United States Inspector of woolen goods for army use at Chicago; Ida C., widow of Walter Mann, now living at Columbus, Ohio; Richard Cotton of Philadelphia, agent' for the output of several knitting factories (stockings). Mrs. Elizabeth Maddock, wife of our subject died November 1, 1868, aged fifty-five years and nine months. Our subject always retained his Quaker ideas, but attended the Episcopal church. He was a Whig and afterwards a strong Republican. When he died he left his business to his sons and $8,000 each to his daughters. Isaac Malone, one of the twelve children of Benjamin Malone and Priscilla Guthrie, his wife, was born in Scioto Township, Ross County, Ohio, Nov. 20, 1820. His father was a native of Bedford County, Va., and emigrated to Lawrence County, Kentucky, near the Blue Lick Springs and afterwards to near Chillicothe, Ohio, about 1813. Shortly after arriving, he was asked to convey the news of peace to Detroit at the conclusion of the war with England. Three days after being asked, he started and made the journey on horseback. Benjamin Malone was born December 25, 1785, and died January 15, 1881. The mother of of subject was a daughter of William Guthrie, one of the pioneers of Pike County, who emigrated there from Pa. about 1799, and was married March 1, 1816. Isaac Malone came to Scioto County when about 20 years of age and was married to Mary Ann Utt, daughter of John Utt, February, 1844. He lived awhile on Pond Creek and afterwards moved to Hygean Run and bought 138 acres of Scioto bottoms of George Davis which he continued to own until his death. Of the eight sons born to them, seven are now living: George, Frank, Joseph, Charles, Isaac, Fred and John. All daughters are living: Lizzie, wife of John L. Hinze; Priscilla, wife of Frank Turner; Mary, wife of Carl Tuber and Hattie, wife of Charles McMillen. Our subject was always a Democrat but often voted for the man and not the party he represented. He died November 7, 1884. Samuel Marshall, Sr. Samuel Marshall, his wife and four children were the first persons to settle permanently in Scioto County. They left Pittsburg in the summer of 1795, and went to Manchester where they remained till after Wayne's treaty. He then t00k the same boat he came down in and went up the river to opposite the mouth of Tygart creek in Kentucky, where he landed and built the first log cabin in Scioto County. His family consisted of himself, his wife Polly Marshall and her children : Labina Marshall, Jesse Marshall and Samuel Marshall, Jr. This was in March, 1796, when he located in Scioto County. His daughter, Nancy, did not come till the next year, and PIONEER SKETCHES - 777 then as the wife of William Rollins. Labina married a Pyles, and she and Samuel Marshall, Jr., were living (August 2, 1873) in Madison Township. The log cabin built by Samuel Marshall in 1796 was, when completed, the only one on either side of the river between Gallipolis and Manchester. John Lindsey and wife and children soon followed. They came from Manchester also. His children were Beulah who married George Edgington, John H., William, Oliver, Lemuel, Peter and James. Sallie Lindsey married Samuel Perry. John A. Lindsey and Polly Marshall were the first couple married in Scioto County, but when or where does not appear. They probably went to Kentucky. They built a cabin where the Scioto Furnace now stands. Samuel Marshall, Sr., had five children when he settled in Scioto County. A daughter Fanny was the first white child born in Scioto County. She married George Shonkwiler, reared a large family and died at an advanced age. Major Henry Massie was a son of Nathaniel Massie, of Goochland County, Virginia, and Elizabeth Watkins his wife, and was born February 7, 1768. His elder brother, General Nathaniel Massie, founder of Manchester and Chillicothe, was born in 1763. His father was said to have been a Colonel in the Revolutionary War. He was well educated, but the place or extent of his education is unknown: It is certain that among his educational acquirements was the science and art of surveying. He followed his brother, Nathaniel, to the Northwest Territory and became a land speculator. Like all men of his time, he was in the militia, and rose to the position of Major. He married Helen Bullitt, daughter of Colonel Alexander Scott Bullitt, one of the first settlers of Jefferson County, Kentucky. No children were born to them, but they adopted four—two of his own nieces, and two of his wife's nephews. The nieces were Constance Massie, who married Major James Love of Louisville, Ky., and Elizabeth Watkins Massie, who married William L. Thompson, of Jefferson County, Kentucky. The nephews were Henry Massie Bullitt, son of Cuthbert Bullitt and Scott Bullitt, son of William Bullitt. He owned a large farm of 300 acres eight miles out of Louisville, Ky., which he called Ridgeway. There he built a beautiful home, from which he dispensed a generous hospitality all his life. He was married about 1807. He spent considerable time in Chillicothe, Ohio, and prior to his marriage, in5 Adams County, but Ridgeway was always his home. He died February 8, 1830, and is interred at Oxmore, the family burial place of the Bullitts. 778 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. His widow re-married twice-first to Major John L. Martin, and second to Colonel Marshall Key, of Mason County, Ky., and is buried at Oxmore. Ridgeway is now occupied by Joshua Bullitt, a nephew of his wife whose post office is Buechel, Ky. Henry Massie came to the site of Portsmouth as early as 1798. He saw what others failed to see, that Alexandria was predestined to failure, and undertook to purchase lands on higher grounds on the eastern side of the Scioto, but he was not the first one to appreciate the site of Portsmouth. Jeremiah McLean, Nathaniel Willis, William Lawson, and Thomas Parker had all of them entered the lands he wanted, before him. As four of them were non-residents he did not have much trouble with them, and William Lawson, the only resident yielded quickly. He bought them out in 1802, but the lands were not patented, to him until August 4. 1806, when he received his patent from the United States for fractional sections, 17, 18, 19 and 2o, Township I, Range 21 and fractional sections 1 and 2, Township 1, Range 22. This covers all the land 0n which the original town of Portsmouth was located by him, in May, 1803, and hence any one who has real estate in Portsmouth and can trace it clear to Henry Massie has a good title. His patent embraced 2,024 and 26-100 acres. He dedicated in-lots 130 and 143, where the Second street school house now stands, and out-lot 39, where the Fourth street school house now stands, to the public schools. He dedicated lots 3, 146 and 147 on Second and Market streets for public purposes, and they were so used for many years. On July 10, 1807, he deeded to the County Commissioners- Samuel Lucas. James Edison and Gabriel Feurt-in-lots 18, 19, 30. 62, 63, 66, 78, 99, 110, 111, 114, 115, 126, 131, 142, 177, 186, 200, 205, 214, 219, 226, 235, 241, 246, 261, 264, 268. 269, 271, and out-lots, 14, 15, 16, 21, 35, 36, 37, 38, 42, 46, 51, 53, 54 to be sold by them and the proceeds used to build a court house and jail. On March 8, 1809, he deeded in-lot 31 to the Commissioners for building a court house. It is in the center block, on the south side of Second street, between Court and Market. When he made the town plat he left all land south of the present Front street vacant, and made no indications of his intentions in respect to the same. About 1811 he undertook to plat and sell the Front of the town on the river south of Water street, and went so far as to sell one lot to General William Kendall for $80.00. It was opposite lot 280, and was six poles square. About the same time he sold two lots to William Lodwick, opposite his lots on the north side of Front street. The latter bought them for a wood yard. This matter troubled the PIONEER SKETCHES - 779 town for years, and was the subject of much public agitation. Delegates were sent to him at Louisville, lawyers were employed and testimony de bene essc taken. The matter was supposed to be settled on August 7, 1829, when Massie was paid $3,000.00 and he gave the town a deed, but it was nut signed by his wife. In the deal William Lodwick reconveyed his lots to the town, but General Kendall's lot was lost sight of. After Henry Massie's death, his widow asserted a claim as executrix of her husband and dowress in this land, and the matter was bandied back and forth until 1842, when, on June 19, the city paid her and John L. Martin $1,087.62. for a release 0f her claim. It is in tradition that after Henry Massie had purchased the site of Portsmouth, he revisited it and found Captain Josiah Shackford there. The Captain informed him that he had expected to purchase the same land, to plat a town on it and name it Portsmouth. Major Massie then told Captain Shackford, if he would aid him in building up the town, he would name it for Portsmouth, Captain Shackford's native place. Captain Shackford agreed to Major Massie's proposition, and the town received the name of Portsmouth. Whether the same be true or not, Captain Shackford and Massie became great friends, and Shackford did all he could to promote the town of Portsmouth. When Massie began to sell lots he usually sold a lot 82 1/2 feet front by 132 feet deep for $50.00. He was content to sell his land outside of the lots for $10.00 per acre. In 1807 he vacated all of his town plat of 1803 north of the center line between Second and Third streets, and made the inlots into outlots of about three acres each. This was probably done because he despaired of the town. Major Massie made his will but two days before his death. He gave to his wife his home estate of 430 acres and his slaves and their increase, his moneys on hand, debts elue him in Kentucky, and his stock in the Shelbyville and Louisville turnpike road; also $3,000 and the securities for the same, owing to him but payable to him some time in the future by the corporation of Portsmouth in the State of Ohio. He directed that his debts be paid and the interest 0n $1,400 be paid to his brother, Thomas Massie during his life, the principal on his death to go to his wife. He gave his nieces, Constance Massie and Elizabeth Thompson each $3,000. The residue of his estate he divided between his nephews, Heath Jones, of Louisville, Kentucky; Nathaniel Massie of Ohio; Henry Bullitt, son of Cuthbert Bullitt, and Alexander Scott Bullitt. The will expresses a great affection for his wife and his desires to provide for her. She seemed to have been much attached to him, but that did not prevent her marrying twice after his death. The following is a tribute written by Mrs. Massie in regard to him directly after his death. "He 780 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. fell like a noble tree, after two or three strokes, with all his sap and verdure, with extended boughs and rich foliage, while many were reposing in his shadow and partaking of his fruits. Seldom has death gained a richer spoil than in the extraction of the earthly existence of this admirable man." "Take holy earth all that my soul holds dear, Take that best gift which heaven so kindly gave." Benjamin Melcher was born July 7, 1794, in Rockingham County, New Hampshire. His grandfather was in the Revolutionary War. His father was a farmer. He lived at home until he was sixteen, when he was apprenticed to a shoe maker in Exeter, New Hampshire. He served five years. He was in the first company, Fourth Regiment, New Hampshire the war of 1812. He was in active service for forty days. Captain Gilliman commanded his company. After his apprenticeship, he worked in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as a journeyman shoemaker. He had an uncle there in New Hampshire, who resided in Marietta, Ohio. He concluded to go west with his uncle. They drove in a two horse wagon all the way from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Marietta, Ohio. He remained in Marietta, a month, and not obtaining work, concluded to go further down the river. He landed at Portsmouth, Ohio, August 16, 1816. He took breakfast at Eli Glover's tavern. After breakfast, he took a walk to see the town. He dropped into John H. Thornton's shoe shop and asked for employment. He obtained it and in three months bought Thornton out. He had at this time between $300 and $400. October 19, 1817 he married Miss Nancy Lloyd. She was born on September 1, 1798. In the spring of 1819, he built a two story brick house on the southeast corner of Second and Washington streets. In 1819, he bought O. F. Moore's lot for $300. In 1820, he built a two story frame, some distance above, on Second street 0pposite O. F5 M00re's. 5At that time business began to be dull and many left the place. In 1829, Mr. Melcher built a two story brick on the southwest corner of Second and Court streets. It gave way t0 the present Elk building. He opened a boarding house in it. He sold his shoe business and went into the grocery business in the same building. He made money and considerable of it, but bard times and unfortunate speculations overtook him and he was compelled to sell out. He then went back to his trade and worked for his brother-in-law, Richard Lloyd until he was unable to work at all. Mr. and Mrs. Melcher were members of the Presbyterian church. They had three children living (in 1874) : Richard Lloyd Melcher, Mrs. M. V. Cropper and Mrs. Jesse J. Appler. When he failed he was several hundred dollars insolvent. He paid it off by working at PIONEER SKETCHES - 781 the shoe bench. He died of paralysis April 9, 1874, aged 79 years and 1 month. Martin Moister was born in Oldurf, Holland, on November 20, 1805, and died in Portsmouth, Ohio, on November 26, 1879. He was the son of John and Wilhelmina Moister, and grew to young manhood in his native land, where his father was employed at teaming on, the construction of some of the Dutch canals. In 1823, John Moister and a brother with their families set sail for South Carolina, intending to settle there. The writer isn't informed whether they ever reached there, or, if so, why they did not remain. At any rate, they settled in and near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the men found employment in the rolling mills, and there our subject 'met and married Charlotte Blecker, a native of Lancaster, a Pennsylvania Dutch girl, whose parents were natives of Alsace. In 1831, Martin Moister who had become a skilled worker of iron, with his young wife and their first child, traveled by wagon over the then great highway the Cumberland road, to Wheeling, West Virginia, and thence by boat to Cincinnati, Ohio, whither he went to assist in the construction of one of the first mills in the west. In the next year they returned to Philadelphia or Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, and remained about two years when they again went to Cincinnati. In 1836, he came to Portsmouth and with the exception of about one year 1839-1840 when the family resided in Cincinnati, continued to reside in Portsmouth till his death. For thirty-six years he was employed in the Gaylord rolling mills, and when in 1873 he retired from the mill he had completed fifty years of toil in various iron works. He acquired in that service a splendid knowledge of the building and operation of every feature of the rolling mill, was the wise counselor of his sons and co-laborers in the mills, and enjoyed the highest esteem of his employers, and especially of the late Benjamin B. Gaylord. He had "run with the machine" as a member of the Volunteer Fire Department, Independent Company No. 1 for many years and in recognition of that service was elected Chief of the Fire Department in 1876, serving until 1878. At the time of his death, he was Street Commissioner of the city to which office he was elected April, 1879. In politics he was a Republican, though up to the beginning of the Civil War he had been a Democrat. His was a vigorous mind and body and whatever he undertook was done with enthusiasm, with all his might. So after he took the vows which united him with the First Presbyterian church in 1841, he was ever a consistent and faithful member evidenced by attendance on its service, the study of his Bible and his walk in life, where to know him was to love him. 782 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. During the Mexican war, a company of guards of which the late Peter Kinney was Captain and our subject was a member, was engaged in a sham battle north of the court house, and during its excitement Charles Kinney, a fellow member let the steel ramrod remain in the gun barrel and 0n being discharged, a piece of the rod was driven through Mr. Moister's neck and into his shoulder. It was removed with great difficulty and the flow of blood checked by some heroic means. A. long fight followed, but he eventually recovered his full strength. At the time of the accident, his son, Henry, then a lad of eight years, was playing nearby and learning of the affair, ran all the way to the family home on Second street, where he fell prostrate in his mother's presence, unable to deliver the news. During the war of the Rebellion, he did service as a member of the Home Guards and did scout duty at the time of Morgan's Raid. He was an expert rifleman and loved to hunt. Four sons and three daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs.. Molster: Mary Ann, John T., both deceased, Henry, Cornelius, Susannah E., wife of Peter J. Monaghan, James M. and Wilhelmina, all of whom together with numerous grandchildren, gathered at the family residence on the evening of Monday, November 24, 1879, to celebrate the golden anniversary of their wedding. It was a joyous assemblage with little thought of what a day might bring forth. Martin Moister was taken deathly sick that night and after intense suffering endured with wonderful fortitude for thirty-six hours, died oil Wednesday morning. All the people mourned his death and sypathized with the bereaved household and especially the widow, Mother Moister as she was known to many (as our subject was "Daddy") lived eleven years thereafter till December 8, 1890, and many a sad heart or sick one was gladdened by her visit, generally with some delicately prepared food, always with a sunny smile. The world is better for their living. Captain Enos Bascom Moore, the son of Levi Moore and Amanda Gunn, his wife, was born December 27, 1823. His mother was a daughter of Samuel Gunn, one of the pioneers of Portsmouth, who has a sketch herein. His grandfather was Phillip Moore, a native of New Jersey. A fuller statement of the ancestry of our subject will be found under the title of Capt. Wm. Moore, an elder brother. Enos Moore grew up on his father's farm, graduated from the country school of his vicinity, and was preparing to enter Delaware College with a view to the study of law. At this time, a flat-boat loaded with flour from New Orleans came down the river and landed at the bank near his father's farm. He was invited to become a part of the crew and take a trip to New Orleans. If he did so he hall to give up his project 0f an education at Delaware. The love of PIONEER SKETCHES - 783 adventure was too strong, he decided to make the river trip, gave up the idea of being a lawyer and followed the career of a boatman. For forty-two years from that time his life was given to the occupation of boating on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. For ten years he served as a pilot between St. Louis and New Orleans, and afterwards as a master. In 1858, he and Capt. Duvall Young built the steamer "Champion" and ran between St. Louis and New Orleans. The breaking out of the war compelled the abandonment 0f the trade and the boat was sold. Capt. Enos Moore has served as master on no less than forty different steamboats, but most of his service has been in the Cincinnati and Portsmouth trade, on the boats of the White Collar line, in which company he was largely interested until his retirement from the river in 1889. In 1863, he and his brother, William, purchased an interest in the foundry and machine business, conducted at that time by Murray., and Stevenson. The firm was originally Murray, Ward and Stevenson. In 1863, the Moore brothers purchased the business, and conducted it under the firm name of Murray, Moore & Company, until 1872, when Mr. Murray sold out his interest to the Moore brothers: and afterwards the business was in corporated as the Portsmouth Foundry and Machine works, and has been conducted as such ever since. Capt. Enos Moore is now president of the company. and has been for a number of years. Capt. Moore has been twice married, first to Miss Maria Prime Pratt. of Washington County, New York, and second time to Miss Mary E. Switzer, of Dayton, Ohio. There are two children of the first marriage : Mrs. Frances Geiger 0f Troy, Ohio, and Mary Young Moore at home. Of the second marriage, the children are: Ralph, Lucy, Edith and William. Capt. Moore is a Republican in his political views.  He has been a member of the First Presbyterian church since 1862, and is one 0f the board of ruling elders. Capt. Moore is a gentleman of the most agreeable temperament. He is always calm and collected. sever loses his equipoise. As a captain of a large steamboat he was unexcelled. Whatever clangers threatened, he was equal to the emergency, and never was taken off his guard. No matter what happened he was always ready for it. He used to claim to the passengers on the old "Bonanza" that they were safer on his boat than they were on land, and they believed it. He is a gentleman of the most excellent judgment in business and in social affairs. He has always been _a most pleasant companion and could always entertain the passengers with him on the steamboats. as well as take care of their safety, and navigate the boat. He looked for the comfort of his passengers with great care, and it was always a real pleasure trip to travel on the "Bonanza" with Capt. Moore as master. He has made as excellent a citizen since 1889, as before that he did a steamboat master. It would be useless to at- 784 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. tempt to inventory his good qualities, he has so many of them. While his life has been mainly devoted to business, he has been very successful and all the while, has enjoyed the highest regard of all who knew him. Captain William Moore was born October 8, 1815, in Alexandria, Scioto County, Ohio. His father was Levi Moore, born in Fayette County, Pa., February 9, 1793. His mother was Amanda A. Gunn, daughter of Samuel Gunn, who was born in Waterbury, Conn., and came to Portsmouth, at five years of age. Levi Moore was the same age when he came to Scioto County in 1797. Philip Moore, grandfather of our subject, was born at Allentown, Pa. Levi Moore had the following children : our subject, the eldest; Milton, died in Mississippi, of yellow fever in 1854; Maria, who married Solomon B. McCall; Lora, died when 18 years of age; Mary Ellen, died about the age of twenty-five years; Enos and Samuel. Our subject was educated in the common schools, and did not learn any trade. He labored on his father's farm until he was about fifteen years of age, then he began to run machinery wherever steam was employed. He worked for Dr. Offnere in the old Red Mill, as engineer for a year. He began steamboating for Samuel Coles on the steamer "Home" from Cincinnati to Pittsburg, as engineer. He went to Franklin Furnace and was engineer for Dan Young in 1837. The year 1838 he spent on his father's farm four miles below Portsmouth. In 1839, he made a trip to New Orleans on a flat boat, and while there became an engineer on a steamboat 0n the Yazoo river. He built the steamboat "Reliance," and was her master in 1841. He was then a steamboat engineer for two years. Then he was 0ff the river for one year; and in the meantime ran a flat boat of corn to New Orleans in 1845, and was at his father's home in 1846. In 1847, he ran the steamboat "St. McClean" from Yazoo to New Orleans. He was married August ti, 1847, to Elizabeth Smith, daughter of John F. Smith, and her mother Margaret Russell. Directly after his marriage, he went to New Orleans and began running a corn sheller 0n the steamboat, "Grace Darling." and also shelled corn on the flat boats. He was then employed by the Yazoo Packet Company, to run the packet "Hard Times" from Yazoo city to Vicksburg, one hundred miles, and he lived in Yazoo city. He was master and kept at that for four years, when he sold her in 1851, He built the steamboat "Home" Cincinnati in the summer of 1855, and the "Hope" in 1859, and run her until the war broke out when the Rebels took and sunk here. Then Capt. Moore stayed at home and fished until he could get a chance to escape the Rebels. Gen. Heron brought an expedition up the Yazoo in 1863, and Capt. Moore PIONEER SKETCHES - 785 got in with him and came home. He then went into a partnership with David N. Murray and his brother, Enos B. Moore, in the fall of 1863, as the firm of Murray & Co. In 1878, Murray sold out and a corporation was formed, under which the business has been conducted. This corporation was called the Portsmouth Foundry and Machine works. Capt. Moore has had the following children: Louisiana, wife of James W. Ricker: Mary: Virginia, married E. B. Greene:' Elizabeth, married R. R. Peebles. He has two sons, Enos and John. He has been a communicant of All Saints church for many years. Captain Moore has been a great reader and accumulated a large collection of books which he sold to the public library of Portsmouth. He is quiet and retired in all his tastes and prefers the fellowship of his books, papers and family to public assemblies. He has taken no interest in political affairs since the war, though he keeps fully informed in all public affairs. He has been very successful as a business man and devoted all his life's energies in that direction. Capt. Moore died suddenly on Sunday, June 22, 1902. David Morrison was born September 16, 1807, in Pennsylvania. He was a nephew of John Loughry. He went from Pennsylvania direct to Rockville to engage in business under Mr. Loughry. He remained with John Loughry from about 1831 to 1841 as superintendent of the business of quarrying and shipping stone. From 1841 to 1847. he was engaged in boating on the Ohio river. He owned a towboat and a number of barges and engaged in transporting heavy goods on the Ohio river. From 1851 to 1859, he resided in Covington, Kentucky. He bought the Judge Mitchell farm. lately owned by his sons. Albert R. and James H. Morrison. removed there in 1859. and resided there until his death, though he never was at any time a farmer, but was always engaged on the river. He was married to Martha Mitchell, the daughter of Associate Judge David Mitchell, 0n the 28th day of November. 1835. by Rev. Eleanor Brainard. and they went to housekeeping in Rockville. He was a large man. weighing over two hundred and fifty Pounds and was always active and energetic. He died suddenly March 23, 1863. from the effects of an operation on his eyes. His wife survived him until March 18, 1886. They both rest in the Mitchell cemetery on the hill overlooking the former home of Judge David Mitchell. her father. They had the following children : Mary. wife of Loyal Wilcox. residing in Kansas, who has a large family and a son and daughter married: Armour Morrison. resides in Chicago and is engaged in the life insurance business: Albert R. Morrison. married Elizabeth McMasters. now his widow. who resides in the old home in Nile Township. Scioto County: James H. Morrison, the second son, died September 23. 1901 ; Charles \V. Morrison, the 786 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. youngest son, is a teacher of music in the Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College, and has been so engaged for the last twenty-three years. He went there as a young man to study music and after he had completed his studies there and in Europe, he was engaged to teach and has remained ever since. The sons are and were all like their father, active, energetic and industrious men. David Whittaker Murphy, son of Recompense Murphy and Catherine Newkirk, his wife, was born in Salem County, New Jersey, in 1800. He was brought by his parents to Adams County when five years old. This incident occurred when our subject was about twelve years of age. He and another boy near his own age were crossing the Ohio river in a canoe, one sitting at either end. When they had gotten far into the current, they noticed a large animal swimming toward them. It proved to be a bear, nearly grown, and was almost exhausted by its efforts. Seeing them, it made for their canoe and climbed in. The boys, of course, were very much frightened, but nevertheless, continued paddling their canoe to the landing. The moment they touched the shore, bruin sprang out and disappeared. The boys were as glad to be rid of their shaggy companion as he was of their company. Our subject grew to manhood in Sandy Springs neighborhood, having the advantages of such schools as were there, having the fun and sports that boys of his time were privileged to have. His first wife was a Miss Julia Ann Turner, whom he married in Bracken County, Kentucky. By this marriage there were two sons and a (laughter ; James, William; and Anna Maria. The sons both went south before the Civil War, and were soldiers in the Confederate Army. William was Lieutenant of a Mississippi Battery. David Murphy's second wife was Cynthia Givens, a widow whose maiden name was McCall. The children of this marriage were: David A., married to Jennie M. Ball, of Portsmouth, Ohio, now living at Oxford, 0. ; Ella M. Evans, wife of Mitchell Evans, a 'prominent citizen of Scioto County. residing at Friendship, Ohio; Leonidas Hamline, a partner in the recently 0rganized shoe house, The Murphy Shoe Company, of Portsmouth. Ohio; John Fletcher Murphy, a clerk in the Auditor's office of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Company, in Cincinnati, and Miss Tillie M. Murphy, residing at Valparaiso, Indiana. Our subject and his second wife, Cynthia Givens, were earnest members of the Methodist church all their days. Until 1848, he was a farmer, residing in Adams County, Ohio. In that year he left Adams County. and removed to Buena Vista, just over the line of Adams County in Scioto County, where he kept a hotel for awhile. He was postmaster at Buena Vista from 1868 until 1873. His home in Buena Vista was PIONEER SKETCHES - 787 a delightful one where it was always pleasant to visit. After the death of his second wife, in 1873, he made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Evans, of Friendship, Ohio, until his death in 1892. Mr. Murphy had a great deal 0f dry humor and could express himself so as to entertain his hearers and amuse them at the same time. He was always anti-slavery, and once, a long time before the war, being asked if he would help execute the Fugitive Slave Law, he said, "Yes, if called by the United States Marshal to be part of a posse to catch fugitives. I would help, as I must obey the law, but I would be very lame." He served as a Justice of the Peace in the two counties of Adams and Scioto. for a period of fifty years, and his decisions gave general satisfaction. He would draw an ordinary deed as well as any lawyer. In politics, he was a Whig, until the Republican party, was organized, when, after 1856, he went into that party and remained a member of it during his life. However, he voted for Fillmore for president in 1856, because he felt that his election would better preserve the Union. In 1860, he voted for Lincoln and for every Republican presidential candidate from that time until 1888, his last presidential vote, which was for Benjamin Harrison. He died in February, 1892. Lorenzo Dow McKinney was born in Madison Township, Scioto County, Ohio, June 7, 1816. He was the son of Daniel and Catherine (Samson) McKinney, and a grandson of Daniel McKinney, one of the first settlers of Scioto County. He lived on the home farm until he grew to manhood, has always followed farming pursuits, and by his own industry has accumulated a large property. He was married September 12, 1841, to Isabinda Stockham, daughter of Joseph and Hannah Stockham, pioneers of Scioto County. She was born February 26, 1819. They were the parents of eight children, two of whom are dead. Those surviving are: William. a farmer 0f Madison Township: Samantha, wife of Jacob Deemer of Crabtree. Ohio; Ruth, wife of Eli Stout residing in Portsmouth, Ohio: Maria. wife of John Decker residing in Los Angles, California: Charles, in the Steam Shovel Works of Marion, Ohio, and Eliza, residing in Denver, Colorado. His wife died in 1886. He was always a Democrat and at one time was a member 0f the U. B. church, but is no longer. He announced his intention of having his funeral preached on his eightieth birthday. The fact was heralded all over the United States and his picture was printed far and wide in all the great newspapers. He was a widower and gave it out that if he survived his funeral he would marry again. That was published broadcast and he was deluged with 0ffers of marriage by mail. His post office was Scioto and the post office was overwhelmed with scented and tender missives. He received over a hundred such offers. They were 788 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. from old women, widows with children, widows without children, and young misses. Some of them sent photographs and three of them were from Portsmouth. It is only the eccentric people in this community who attract attention. Lorenzo Dow McKinney was eighty years old on the 17th day of June, 1896. For twenty-five years, he had been contemplating having his funeral sermon preached if he ever reached his eightieth birthday. The services held in the grove at Fallen Timber were carried out according to his directions. Six weeks previous, he made the matter public and it was published in all the great daily newspapers in this country and even in the London Times. The place was on the farm of John Diffen, six miles east of Lucasville. Ohio. There were 6.000 to 8,000 people present. The newspaper men present were: C. I. Barker, George Mitchell and Walter C. Taylor of the Blade: E. C. Dover, C. A. Goddard and H. E. Taylor of the Times. Rev. Forest E. Evans delivered the funeral sermon. He resided at Pride in Ross County. Ohio. and Fallen Timber was one of his regular appointments. His text was from II Timothy IV Chapter. 6 verse, "The time of my departure is at hand." It was a funeral without a corpse. Uncle Dow was seated on a round platform. surrounded by a dozen newspaper reporters and listened to his funeral sermon. The minister gave some account of him. The corpse behaved himself properly only sometimes he talked to persons in the crowd when he ought to have been listening to the sermon. After the services were concluded, each man, woman and child present filed past the platform and shook hands with the anticipated corpse. It took an hour for the people to bid him farewell. They picnicked on the ground and there were services in the afternoon at 2 p. m. and again in the evening. The sentiment, "I would not live always" has no response in Dow McKinney's heart. He would live always if he could, and enjoy it too. After his funeral was preached. he took a long trip west, and where he was known, he had an ovation. Everyone who had heard of the man who had his funeral preached on his eightieth birthday wanted to see him and shake hands with the corpse. Wherever they found him out, Uncle Dow's receptions vied with those of Prince Henry. In all the history of the world. "Uncle Dow." as he is best known. Charles V., of Spain and a Japanese gentleman are the only examples of those who have had their funeral sermons preached while they lived. Uncle Dow takes life easy. He never worries about anything. That is perhaps the reason he has lived so long. At eighty-six, he can take a tramp like a young man and there is nothing that he enjoys more than a festive occasion. He has outlived all the enmities of life and having a competence. he has nothing to worry about. He resides PIONEER SKETCHES - 789 in New Boston with a granddaughter, Mrs. Thomas Lantz; and does not permit a save of trouble to roll across his peaceful Soul. Colonel John McDonald was born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, January 28, 1775. His father was William McDonald and his mother Effie McDonald, a distant relative. He was the first born of his parents and had four brothers: Thomas, James, William and Hiram and two sisters: Nancy and Henrietta. Nancy married George Duncan McArthur and Henrietta married Presley Morris. His grandfather, Thomas McDonald was a shepherd in Scotland, born near Lock Shin. He came to America in 1772. William McDonald, father of 0ur subject, was a soldier of the Revolutionary War and about 180 crossed the mountains and settled in the Mingo Bottoms near Steubenville, where he remained until 1798, when he removed to Washington, Kentucky, where he lived a number of years. He then settled in Ohio. He died near Chillicothe on the 6th of September, 1823, and his wife died on the 10th of September following. They were buried side by side 0n Fruit Hill. The husband was seventy-eight and his wife sixty-eight. Our subject learned to be a woodman while his father lived at Steubenville. He was a contemporary with Simon Kenton, General Nathaniel Massie and others, well known pioneers5 of Ohio. He was so anxious to go with parties from Washington, Ky., to pursue Indians, that on one occasion, he stole a rifle and joined a party going in pursuit of the Indians. In the spring of 1792, he joined, General Nathaniel Massie's settlement at Manchester and waS engaged in many dangerous expeditions. During the Indian war, his life was one of extreme hardship and constant peril. He was a boatman, a' hunter, a ranger, and a surveyor. In 794, in Gen. Wayne's campaign he was a member of a company of seventy-two men, commanded by Capt. Ephraim Kibby. It was their duty to traverse the country in every direction in front of the regular army. McDonald was a man of the most unquestionable bravery, persevering and wonderfully ingenious and surveyed over the entire Virginia district. He was skilled in woodcraft and had a thorough knowledge of Indian habits and tactics. He was courageous enough to attempt any task and he was judicious enough to conduct it to a successful issue. He was 0f short stature, broad built and heavily muscled and had great physical power and ability to resist fatigue. He was agile and active arid always on the alert. He was married 0n the 5th of February, 1799, to Catharine Cutright, and in 1802, settled on Poplar Ridge in Ross County. He was elected several times as Justice of the Peace and served as a militia officer, being Captain; Major, Lieutenant-Colonel and Col- 790 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. onel. When the war of 1812 broke out, he enlisted in the first regiment of Ohio Volunteers and was immediately made Paymaster General 0f the army. He went to Dayton where he accepted this appointment and there was made quartermaster of the regiment and served in both capacities until General Hull's surrender. In 1813, he was made a Captain in the regular army. In 1814, he was a Colonel of volunteers. He remained in the service until peace was made in 1815. He entered the Ohio senate December 7, 1816, from Ross County and served at the 15th and 16th legislative sessions. On December 20, 1816, Lawrence County was organized. During his second session of service, 0n December 2, 1817, Brown County was organized and Hocking County was organized December 17, 1813. He removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, sometime prior to 1825 and resided on Front street with his family. In that year, he was Captain of one side in a great squirrel hunt, which took place in Scioto County. On March 7, 1837, he was elected a councilman of Portsmouth, for three years, by 27 votes and had no opposition. He served the first year on committee on streets with Doctor Hempstead. In 1828, he was on the committee to repair the public well. November 28, 1829, he vacated his office and William Hall was elected to succeed him. In the year 1827, he was Assessor for Scioto County. He returned to his Ross County farm on Poplar Ridge, late in 1829, where he spent the remainder of his days. In 1834, he began writing his sketches of the pioneers with whom he had been familiarly acquainted. They were first published in the Western Christian Advocate and four of the more important biographies were published in book form in 1838, and known as "McDonald's Sketches." The prospectus of his work was published in the Portsmouth papers. When published it sold for seventy-five cents but the books are rare now and a copy sells for five dollars. He was not an educated man but he possessed a strong and vigorous mind. As an author, he was very modest and was very reticent in regard to himself, a matter much to be regretted by readers of this day who would like to know more about him. His work was valuable beyond his fondest hope, and has given him a place in the minds and hearts of the thinking people of the present time, which he never thought to fill. His early years were spent in the midst of excitement, toil and conflict. The later years of his life were 0ccupied in the promotion of public good and almost every work of material and moral improvement and every benevolent enterprise found in him an unselfish friend and warm supporter. He died September 1, 1853, after a long and lingering illness, having survived his wife over three years and his intimate friend General Nathaniel Massie over forty years. PIONEER SKETCHES - 791 Col. John McDonald had the following children : Effie, born 0n the 15th day of January, 1801, married Henry Core, November 11, 1817; Maria, born on the 14th day of December, 1802, married White Morgan, March 20, 1820 ; Henrietta, born 0n the 4th day of December, 1804, was never married; Nancy, born on the 6th day of December, 1806, married Enos Gunn, September, 1827; Mary Teeter, born on the 8th day of July, 1808, married David Core, March, 1833; John Cutright, born November 26, 1809, married Hannah Teeter, January 17, 1833; Margaret, born on the 10th day of March, 1811, died July 7, 1814. Elizabeth, married to John B. Morgan, October 7, 1820. Captain John McDowell was born September 24, 1798, near Winchester, Virginia. His father was Doctor William McDowell, who was born in Ireland and died in Chillicothe, Ohio, November 11, 1841, in his 81st year. His mother Rachel McClintick was born in Philadelphia and died in Chillicothe, in 1831, in her both year. In 1806, his father removed to Chillicothe. In 1818, our subject joined the Methodist Episcopal church. He was married September 20, 1820, to Mary Whiting Jefferson. He came to Portsmouth, Ohio, on January 1, 1821, with his personal goods, overland in wagons and loaded them on a keel boat to go further west. After they were loaded the boat was snagged and sank in shoal water near the shore. Their goods were , somewhat damaged by water and they took them 0ut and put them in an empty warehouse to dry out, intending to resume their journey. While waiting for their goods to dry, John McDowell concluded to try to sell some goods and met with so much encouragement, he concluded to remain in Portsmouth. He was a zealous and earnest member of the M. E. church and lived his religion every day. In 1821, he was appointed a class leader in the Methodist church and took part in organizing the first Sunday school. This Sunday school met at the Academy 0n Fourth and Market streets until 1834, when the church on Second street was built, after which it was held there. In 1827, he was a Captain of a Light Infantry Company 0f the Ohio Militia and served five years. In 1823, he was an Overseer of the Poor of Wayne Township and was such in 1826 and 1834. In 1832, he built the steamboat "Diana," and ran her as master. He and Captain Davis built the "Scioto Valley," a fine side wheel boat. In 1834, he was in the Commission business with James W. Davis as McDowell and Davis and was associated with him for many years. In 1836, he purchased of C. C. Hyatt and moved into the Moses Gregory property on the north side of Third street and remained there until he moved into the William Knowles residence on Second street, built by Captain Frank Oakes. Then the B. Kepner property 792 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. 0n Second Street was bought, and the family afterward resided there. In 1839, he was inspector of the schools. In 1839, he kept ferry across the Ohio at Portsmouth and paid a license of $50.00 per year. He was to cross every half hour in daylight from May to December, and every hour the remainder 0f the year. In 1840, he was Treasurer of the Portsmouth and Columbus Turnpike Company. In 1842, he was agent of the Columbus Insurance Company. In 1842, he was elected mayor of Portsmouth and served two years. In 1846, he was active in the Sons of Temperance. He was County Infirmary Director from 1848 to 1854; 1865 to 1868 he was County Commissioner. In 1853, he and Captain A. W. Williamson established a wharfboat and paid the city $295 per year wharfage. In 1861, he was Captain of a Military Company, known as the "Silver Grays." No man under forty-five years could be a member. From 1873 to 1875, he was 0ne of the City Infirmary Directors. He built the three story brick 0n Front street, just south of the Washington hotel. For years he conducted a commission business in Portsmouth. In his political views he was first a Whig and afterwards a Republican. In his church, he was esteemed one of the Saints on earth, and in the latter years of his life was affectionately referred to as Father McDowell. He was one of the few men as to whom everyone agreed that his life accorded with his professions. In his latter years, had anyone inquired as to the best man in Portsmouth, in virtues, Father McDowell's would have been the first name used. He was a citizen whose memory should be sacredly cherished by his townsmen as the record and exemplification 0f all the Christian virtues. He died March 20, 1876, leaving a widow, five sons and two daughters. David Nevin Murray was born in Gallowayshire, Scotland, May 23, 1814. His parents were John Murray and Hannah (McKean) Murray. He was reared 0n a farm and received a good education in his native country. When a lad of seventeen, having a desire to try the fortunes of the new world, he embarked for the United States, and landed at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, in July, 1831. There he clerked in a wholesale dry goods and hardware store for three years. In 1834, he removed to Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, his father's family, having come to America and located at that place. He was engaged as a clerk there until 1837, at which time his father removed to Morgan County, Illinois, and he came to Portsmouth and became a member of the hardware firm of McNairn & Murray and so continued for six years. After the dissolution of this partnership Mr. Murray carried 0n the hardware business for some twenty-five years, thus making thirty-one years in which he was engaged in the hardware trade, In 1854, he with Messrs. Ward & Stevenson erect-   PIONEER SKETCHES - 793 ed the machine shops and foundry in Portsmouth, now owned by the Portsmouth Foundry and Machine works. In 1857, Mr. Ward sold out and the firm was Murray & Stevenson. In that year, Mr. Murray offered to sell the whole property for $10,000, but could not. It was to avert the panic of that year that he offered so low. Afterwards when he sold out, he received $138,000 for his interest from Moore brothers. These shops built the cars for the railroad from Portsmouth to Hamden, then known as the Scioto and Hocking Valley Railroad. When that company failed, Murray & Stevenson were their creditors to the amount of $69,000 of which the firm lost some $9,000. In 1855, Mr. Murray built the Portsmouth Rolling Mill, assisted by James W. Davis and Charles A. M. Damarin. They each put in $10,000. They afterwards took in seven more partners and made the capital stock $100,000. In 1857, it went down and its debts were paid by five out of the ten partners, Mr. Murray being one of the five. In 1862, he and 0ther prominent business men of Portsmouth undertook to get a National armory at Portsmouth but failed. In 1871, he was interested in building the Portsmouth Agricultural Works, which failed in 1874. In 1875, he organized the Citizens' Savings Bank of Portsmouth, and at the outset owned half its stock, and was its president. He was a member of the School Board as early as 1849. In 1882, he was elected president of the Board of Education and served several years as a member and was also its treasurer. From 1875 until 1880, he was a member 0f the Board of Health and was for two years president of the Board of Trade. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church for forty-two years, and a teacher or superintendent in the Sunday school for forty-seven years. He was the first man to introduce the plan for the superannuated ministers' fund in his church. He was also the first to establish a young men's prayer meeting in the Presbyterian church in Portsmouth. He was a staunch Republican. His first wife was Isabella McNairn, whom he married May 23, 1839. She died April 28, 1849, leaving three children : Joseph, now in Grand Rapids, Hiram B., a resident of Portsmouth and Mary deceased. May 14, 1850, he was married to Harriet White, daughter of Josiah \Vhite of Hadley, Massachusetts. There were seven children of this marriage ; the survivors are: Emma, the wife of J. Boyd Herron, 0f Chicago, Ills. ; Addie, the wife of John Naesmith, of Marion, Ind. ; Lucile, the wife of William A. Harper of Portsmouth, and Maggie, the wife of Mr. Kerner living in Columbus. Mrs. Harriet Murray is deceased. Mr. Murray died August 13, 1895. At one time, he was worth $100,000, but lost every cent of it before his death. Colonel Jacob Noel was born in 1778 in Virginia. In 1809 he was a commissioner of the County and served as such until 1823, a period 0f fourteen years. 794 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. In 1810, 1815, and 1817, he was a supervisor of Wayne Township. In 1817 he was also a Justice of the Peace of Wayne Township. In 1818 he was an overseer of the poor. He was a Colonel of the Militia. He appears to have been a popular citizen, capable and highly appreciated. He died June 27, 1828, in the 50th year of his age and is buried in the Noel graveyard on the Nicholas Gable farm. Mrs. Joseph Briggs is a granddaughter of his. Aaron Noel was born in Scioto County, Ohio, July 13, 1807. His father was Philip Noel, a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother's maiden name was Susannah Putnam, a native of Virginia.  His parents had thirteen children, Aaron being next to the youngest. His father emigrated from Virginia in 1798, with his wife and seven children. Peter, John, Philip, and Jacob P., Mary, Solomon and Catherine. After his location in the northwest territory, Isaac, David, Margaret, Aaron and Elijah were born. Philip Noel came to Wheeling by land and thence to the town of Jackson, from there he removed to Oldtown. He was a weaver by trade and a great hunter.5 He died in the year 1849, at the age of eighty-five years, and his wife died October 11, 1851. Aaron's four brothers, Peter, John, Philip and Jacob P., were in Captain Roup's Company, in the war of 1812, and were surrendered by Hull at Detroit. Aaron worked 0n the farm until he was of age, and he also learned the trade of a baker, and worked at it for his brother, Jacob P., in Portsmouth, Ohio, for eight years. Aaron Noel never saw window glass till he was five years old. His father's house till that time had greased paper for lights. In 1814, his father built a frame house, where Michael J. Noel now lives and it was used for an inn for thirty-eight years. In 1831, he traded on a boat on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, selling dry g00ds, groceries, etc. In 1832 to 1835, he conducted a dry goods store in Portsmouth, Ohio. After that, he went back to farming. August 15, 1844, he was on the Whig Central Committee. October 8, 1867, he was elected County Treasurer on the Democratic ticket, and he served one term. The vote stood Charles A. Barton, 2,344: Aaron Noel, 2,503: Noel's majority, 159. In October, 1869, he was again a candidate for County Treasurer, but was defeated. He received 1,088 votes to 2,530 for his opponent, Charles Slavens, his son-in-law, majority of 452. He has been a trustee of Clay Township a number 0f times. In 1886. he owned 600 acres of land within four miles of Portsmouth, all highly improved. He was married June 3, 1832, to Catharine Ann Orm. She died February 25, 1864. They had eleven children. His son, Nathan Milton was drowned in the Scioto river, November, 1855. aged twenty-two years, three weeks after his marriage. His older children : were Josiah 0., Ann PIONEER SKETCHES - 795 Eliza, married Henry Briggs, John Philip, Elizabeth S., Aaron T., Mary C., married Charles Slavens, Jacob S., Oscar B., Maggie J. and Sarah M. He was a Whig during the continuance of that party, and then became a Democrat. Mr. Noel died April 1, 1895, on the same farm on which he was born. He was a very generous man and hospitable. He was firm in his convictions and not easily moved. He could be led but not driven. He was remarkably charitable to the poor. He was never anti-slavery in his views and this fact caused him to join the Democratic party when the Whig party dissolved. He was a man of great public spirit and in favor of public improvements. He gave the Scioto Valley Railway the right of way through his lands, a distance 0f three-fourths of a mile. Mr. Noel was a very agreeable companion and was always disposed to make the best of every situation. He accumulated much wealth in land and money and was very liberal with it t0 his children, to charity and public enterprises. He was the last survivor of the early Scioto Valley farmers, a hardy race who conquered the forest and gave their descendants good estate. Abraham Good Noel was born in Scioto County, Ohio, six miles northwest of Portsmouth, January 29, 1809. His grandfather Peter Noel is said to have come to America from Holland, at the outbreak of the Revolutionary war and to have enlisted in that war from Virginia and served during the contest. After coming to this country he learned the trade of a weaver. In 793, he removed to the Northwest Territory where he died. His wife was Sophia Good and he had thirteen children, all of whom grew to maturity and married. The third of these, Peter, was fourteen years old when the family located in the Northwest Territory. He learned the trade of a gunsmith, which he followed much of his life. He was an expert marksman, He was in the war of 1812, and was a scout and guide. For this work of guide he was well adapted, for he was a thorough woodsman and could tell the points of the compass at night by feeling the bark of the trees. He was at Finley's block house, eighteen miles from Detroit, when notified of Hull's surrender and paroled. He was taken sick immediately after, and it is said that on recovering, he re-enlisted in the war of 1812, in which he was promoted to be a Colonel. He left Ohio in 1850, and went to Will County, Illinois, where he died in the spring of 1851. He was a large land owner in Ohio, at the time he left the state. In politics, he was a Whig and it is said that in 1840 there were 76 Noels in Scioto County who voted the Whig ticket. In the militia he commanded a company of riflemen and he was a great hunter. 796 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. In 1833, our subject and two others were out hunting at the time of the shooting stars, which made the night light as day, an interesting phenomenon which our subject vividly recalls. In the month of October, 1833, Peter Noel, father of our subject, shot 47 deer and our subject 37, while one was shot by both, making a total of 85, which suggests that there ought to have been a law for the protection of game at that time. Peter Noel, father of our subject, married Susannah, daughter of Joseph DeFeurt, said to have belonged to the nobility of France, who came to America, and served in the Revolutionary War. He settled in New Jersey and afterwards removed from there to Ohio, making the trip in the same boat with Peter Noel. Peter Noel's children were Joseph, Abraham G., Mary, Sophia and Mercy, all of whom are deceased. Our subject obtained what was then considered a good, practical education in the subscription schools. November 9, 1837, he married Evelina Glasscock, the daughter of Gregory and Elizabeth (White) Glasscock, the latter a cousin of Zachary Taylor. Her father, Warner White, a native of Virginia, but for years a resident of Ohio, served in the Revolution. She was born and reared in Brown County, Ohio. After his marriage, Mr. Noel bought a farm and began life for himself. In 1844, he removed to Indiana, and to Will County, Illinois in 1848. Since 1850, he has resided in Joliet or near there. He was a farmer until 1885, when he moved to town. For many years he served as a school trustee in Joliet, and was regarded as a man of good judgment and had great influence in his community. In his political views, he was a Republican. He had five daughters : Mary, the wife 0f Lewis Linebarger, banker of Orient, Adair County; Iowa; Sophia L., died in 1890: Susanna E., the wife of Joseph Campbell, a grain dealer of Lacon, Illinois; Sarah, married James Watkins and is now deceased; Melvina M., widow of Carlos F. Long, resides at Joliet. He has four grandchildren : H. Norwood Linebarger, a banker at Greenfield, Iowa; and Sarah F. Linebarger, the wife of A. A. Wright, a banker of Kent, Iowa ; Ethel M. Campbell, a water color artist of New York city and Harry Noel Campbell, wh0 resides in Chicago. He also has four great grandchildren. Mr. Noel died February 5, 1902, aged ninety-three years, at his home in Joliet, of injuries resulting from a fall. He furnished the account of the shooting stars on November 13, 1833, which is published in this book. He also furnished a list of the animals, birds, trees and plants of this county when he was a youth, which will be found herein. He was a citizen highly respected at Joliet and was noted for his honor and integrity in the whole course of his long life. , PIONEER SKETCHES - 797 Philip William Noel was born on the George Davis farm, September 16, 1824. His father was Solomon Noel and his mother Mary Huston, daughter of Joseph Huston. His education was 0btained by attending a: country school, a month and a half each winter, commencing in December and quitting in February to make maple sugar. He lived in the Davis Bottoms till he was eight years old. He was run out in 1832 and moved to the Hereodh farm. In 1834, he moved to where he now lives. He was elected Clerk of Clay Township in 1847 and served fourteen years. He was treasurer of the Township for ten years. He was county Treasurer from 1860 to 1864 and Auditor from 1865 to 1869. He has always been a Republican and was formerly very active in politics. He was married January 3, 1830, to Harriet Oldfield, daughter of Judge Oldfield. She died February 13, 1851, leaving one son, John F., still living. He was again married April 3, 1861, to Miss Sophia S. Chase. She died June 14, 1873, leaving. three daughters: Janette C., Anna Sophia and Elsie Catherine. Joshua Oakes. Joshua Oakes was born at Haverhill, Scioto County, Ohio, January 11, 1826. His father, Ephraim Oakes, was born at Long Island, February 1, 1796, and came to Ohio when about twenty-one years of age, being one of the early settlers, suffering the hardships incident to pioneer life, and in the course of time amassed a considerable fortune. He lived to see a large family of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren bear his name, dying at the ripe age 0f ninety-two. Joshua Oakes, his eldest son, soon after attaining his majority, went to Illinois, where he operated a saw mill for three years. Returning to Ohio, he purchased the ferry at Haverhill, running it for seven years, when in 1857 he bought a farm of two hundred acres in Green Township, on a portion of which he now resides. On this land, in 1877, he erected the tile factory which has since grown to extensive proportions, and is one of the thriving enterprises of the county. January 10, 1850, he was married to Temperance, daughter of Jesse Marshall and Mary Gervais Serot Marshall, who was born June 21, 1791, at the French Settlement at Gallipolis, and who has always been claimed by her relatives and descendants to have been the first white child born in that settlement. Her parents, Marie Avaligne and Peter Serot, were married in Christ church, Alexandria, Va., just after landing in America. In token of her being the first white child born, she was given tw0 town lots and a half dozen solid silver teaspoons and table spoons, each inscribed with her bap- 798 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. tismal name, "Mary Gervais," by the members of the French colony. Joshua Oakes and Temperance M. Oakes were the parents of eight children, all of whom are living: Mary C., the wife of Charles W. Austin, residing in Lawrence County, Ohio; A. Davis, Oscar F., and Frank E., residing on the home farm; Ella T., the wife of Samuel Matheson, residing at Charleston, West Virginia; Elona 0., the wife of Filmore Musser, and A. Elmore, residing at Portsmouth, Ohio; and C. Henry residing at Yazoo city, Mississippi. The mother passed to her reward, at the age of seventy-two years, on March 10, 1901, after having celebrated with her husband, the fifty-first anniversary of their marriage. Joshua Oakes is still vigorous in mind and body, is a practical farmer, a prosperous manufacturer, a good citizen and a kind parent. Doctor Jacob Offnere was born October 4, 1775, in Virginia. His father was Samuel Offnere, a native of the Canton of Berne in Switzerland. His mother was Sarah Carpenter, only daughter of a Dr. Carpenter of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied medicine with her father. The name Carpenter is a translation of the German name Zimmerman which was the name the family bore in Germany. Dr. James Offnere was the eldest son and he studied medicine." When he came t0 Scioto County, he had his diploma as a Doctor of Medicine, a horse, saddle, bridle and saddle bags. At the close of his life he was in as good circumstances as any one in Portsmouth. One of his mother's ancestors was a Dr. Zimmerman, physician to Frederick the Great of Prussia. Samuel Offnere lived in Lancaster County, Pa., and was the 0wner of "Wheatland," the estate afterwards owned by James Buchanan. He was ready to endorse for his neighbors, and lost all he had. including "Wheatland." Everything was sold and he died. His wife then began the practice of medicine and thus supported herself and children. Her sons Jacob and George came to Portsmouth. Dr. Jacob built a brick house 0n his farm near the river, the present Damarin farm, and was residing there in 1816. When he moved t0 Portsmouth, in 1823, he built a red brick house on the street just east of the first alley above Market street on Front street. It had a hall through the center and a large flower garden back. Mrs. Harriet Damarin was married in that house. They had three children, a daughter Caroline and a son Samuel, both of whom died young. He did not practise his profession subsequent to 1830. He had a natural adaptability for business and followed it. He was conservative in all matters prudent and economical. He knew when to buy and when to sell, but he did very little selling. He invested in real estate as opportunities offered and held it as did his descendants after him, until now it is in the possession of the third generation. PIONEER SKETCHES - 799 The first official recognition of him at Portsmouth, was in 1810, when he was elected treasurer of Wayne Township and refused to serve. In 1817, he was elected township road supervisor and served. He evidently wanted good roads and to keep out of the mud, and to do so was obliged to accept the office. From 1819 to 1823, he served as county Treasurer being appointed in June of each year. In 1820, he served as township Clerk of Wayne Township. In 1823, the town authorities appointed him and Drs. Waller and Hempstead to investigate the slaughter houses, then being conducted in Portsmouth, with a view to report to what extent, if any, they affected the public health. Their report was not a matter of record. In July, 1823, he as elected a member of the town council, but refused to serve. In 824, he was 0ne of the three health officers of Portsmouth, the others being physicians. This particular Board of Health officers was the beginning of a Board of Health in Portsmouth, and it was suggested by Mr. Samuel M. Tracy, the year previous. In 1825, Dr. Offnere was supervisor of the East ward in Portsmouth. hieing all that part of the town, east of Market street. The office was then the same as street commissioner now, but for only one-half of the town. In 1823, he was elected treasurer of Wayne Township and was re-elected each and every April thereafter, except 1836 until 1842. when he retired and was succeeded by William G. Whitney. Apparently he was elected without opposition. A singular thing occurred in 1836. John Smith, grandfather of our Col. Floyd L. Smith was elected by 71 votes to 15 for Doctor Offnere. Doctor Offnere was not a candidate in seeking the office and whatever may be the cause of his being dropped in 1836, the Township was sorry for it and re-elected him in 1837, and thereafter until 1842. His wife, Mary Harness, was born October 4, 1775, and died April 9, 1843. He never married. His daughter Harriet . married Charles A. M. Damarin and his grand children are the well known members of the Damarin family. In 1820, he was carrying on a nail factory in Portsmouth. in 1839. he was a Director of the Commercial bank in Portsmouth. In 1840, he was a Health Officer in Portsmouth. His principal business in Portsmouth was conducting a mill which stood on what is known as the York place. In this business. George Corwine was his partner for a long time and the firm was Corwine & Offnere. They were in business many years and were quite successful. Doctor Offnere had the faculty of King Midas. He was always successful in business. He was exact and precise in all his business methods and far seeing. He had a patent from the United States for the 400 acres constituting, fractional section 14. township 1, range 21, what is now the Damarin farm, and there has never been a conveyance of it since the patent. It descended to his daughter and from her to her children.