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1000 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. The business grew so rapidly that it became necessary. to find new and larger quarters. In March, 1902, the Connolley building on the corner of Chillicothe and Fifth streets was fitted up and the entire business was concentrated under one roof. The trade is both wholesale and retail and it is one of the largest and most prosperous firms in Portsmouth. Mr. Haas is a republican in his political views and is a member of the Jewish Congregation of which he has been secretary for the past twelve years. He served as a member of the City Board of Elections from 1895 to 1899 and was president of the Board for one year. He is a member of Aurora Lodge, F. and A. M., Past Chancellor of Massie Lodge K. of P. and a member of the United Commercial Travelers and of the Royal Arcanum. He was married to Clara Labold, daughter of Henry Labold and Fanny (Rosenfeld) Labold, June 23, 1891. They have had three children: Esther, deceased, Miriam and Julia. When a person knows Felix Haas, he is soon recognized as a man of noble determination, stimulated only by lofty aspirations, of keen intellect and quick perception, of literary tastes necessarily giving way to business duties, a man true and just to the country of his choice and adoption, a man of devotion to his friends, to all that is pure and beneficial to mankind, and above all to his family and home whose ties he holds most dear, even in sacred reverence. In Felix Haas is found a worthy representative of self made, but none-the-less well made men: one whose energy, ambition and integrity any boy might safely emulate. William Timothy Hackworth was born February 1, 1866, at Forestdale, Lawrence county, Ohio. His great-great-grandfather, Thomas Hackworth, emigrated from Roanoke county, Virginia, to Wayne county, West Virginia. His son, William emigrated to Lawrence county, Ohio, and located near Forestdale in Perry township. George Hackworth, son of William, and father of our subject, removed to Mt. Joy, this county, in 1877, with his family. George W. and his father William were both members of Company C 5th W. Va. Infantry. George W. enlisted September 14, 1861, at the age of twenty-three and entered service as a Corporal. He re-enlisted February 14, 1864 and was finally discharged September 21, 1864, with the company. William entered the service August 12, 1861, at the age of forty-four, re-enlisted December 24, 1863 and was discharged with company September 21, 1864. William was wounded at the second battle of Bull Run in both legs by gunshot. He received another gunshot wound in the head at Winchester, Virginia, and another wound in the elbow was received in a later battle. He carried this bullet in his elbow until his death, July 20, 1890. The mother of our subject was Susan (Carry) Hackworth, daughter of Timothy F. Carry and Mary J. (Wooten) Carry. Her father was a member of Company F, 56th 0. V. I. enlisted October 31, 1861, at the age of forty. He was wounded by a horse's hoof at Pittsburg Landing in a cavalry charge. He was drowned at Cincinnati while being transferred with his company from one boat to another July 28, 1862. Our subject was raised on a farm and attended the country schools. He commenced the mercantile business in April, 1897, at Mt. Joy, where he did business for five years. He removed to Rarden in 1902 and is now conducting a general store there. He is a republican and a member of the Mt. Joy Baptist church. He is also a member of the Improved Order of Red Men. He married Nora McBride, daughter of A. B. McBride of Rarden,. January 25, 1894. Their children are: Ruth, aged six and Hazen, aged two. Henry Hall was born October 11, 1829, in the Aaron Kinney homestead. His father was William Hall and his mother, Margaret Kinney. They were married November 30, 1828, at the Kinney homestead. He has lived all his life in Portsmouith. He graduated from the Portsmouth High School in 1846. A. L. Childs was superintendent of schools and his teacher. R. S. Silcox was also one of his teachers. He attended school frrst at the Fourth street school. A Mr. Sample was superintendent at that time. There were then nine schools. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1001 After leaving school at 16, he went into his father's store, on Front street, where Webb's saw mill formerly stood. In the spring of 1846, he went east to buy goods and afterwards bought all the goods and managed the store until 1855. In 1853, he became a partner with his father and the firm was W. Hall & Son. In 1855, the firm sold out to te Scioto Rolling Mill Co. In the fall of 1855, he went into the banking house of Dugan, Means, Hall & Co. composed of Thomas Dugan, Thomas W. Means, Hugh Means, William Hall, J. L. Watkins. Wm. and George Wertz, J. M. Shackelford, W. V. Peck, Wm. and John Ellison and Wm. Means. He was teller. It was located where the Farmer's National Bank stood, for a while and then moved where the First National is now. In 1858, the firm became Means, Hall & Co., and Watkins was manager, and Henry Hall, Cashier. The Bank continued until 1862 and Hall was Cashier until that time. In 1862, he was appointed First Lieutenant and Quartermaster of the 91st 0. V. I., but did not serve over six weeks. When D. McFarland was made U. S. Assessor, our subject became editor of the Portsmouth Tribune, and remained two years. In 1864, he was made special agent of the Treasury Department, and continued so to the close of the war. After the war, he made wheelbarrows for four years. He ran a canal packet from Portsmouth to Chillicothe for ten months. Frbm 1874 to 1876 he was clerk of the Water Works Board, and superintendent. From 1876 to 1881, he was a flask maker at Neill's foundry. In 1881, he was elected Justice of the Peace for Wayne township and served ten years. He was elected Mayor of Portsmouth in 1891, and served two terms. In 1896, he was elected Justice of the Peace for Wayne township, and re-elected in 1898. He was a Whig and is a republican. On February 19, 1852, he was married to Miss Caroline Clark Thompson, a native of Portsmouth. Her father was John C. Thompson, a soldier of the Mexican war. Her grandfather was Moses Thompson, an early citizen of Portsmouth. He has two children, George W. Hall, of Cincinnati and P. Kinney Hall of Portsmouth. He was made a Mason in Aurora lodge in 1851 and has been such ever since, and was secretary of the Portsmouth lodge, No. 395 until it united with the Aurora Lodge in 1902. John Wikoff Hall was born about two and a half miles above Rome on the Ohio river, on the old Wikoff homestead, June 30, 1861. He is the son of Charles N. and Calista (Wikoff) Hall. She is a sister of General A. T. Wikoff, formerly Secretary of State. The grandfather of our subject was James H. Hall, son of Benjamin Hall. His maternal grandfather was John Wikoff, son of Peter Wikoff, born in Shelby county, Kentucky, of Welsh descent. His father enlisted in Company I, 91st 0. V. I., August 9, 1862, for three years, was appointed First Sergeant October 28, 1862; promoted to Second Lieutenant February 17, 1864; and to First Lieutenant November 3, 1864, discharged March 21, 1865. He was wounded at the battle of Opequan. After his discharge from the army, he was elected Clerk of Adams county in 1866 and served for one term. After this he was Deputy Sheriff for a time. Our subject attended the public schools at West Union until the family removed to Columbus, Ohio in 1872, when he entered the High School there and was graduated in 1876. He immediately entered the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College there and attended for the two years following. During this time, his father was Chief Clerk in the office of the Secretary of State. The family returned to the farm in Adams County in March, 1878, where our subject labored for two years and then became a clerk in the United States Pension Office at Columbus, Ohio. He only remained here about six months and then took a position with the Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo railroad. He did clerical work there for eighteen months. After this he spent one year at home in Adams county and three years in Missouri and Kansas and then settled in Scioto county and has been a farmer ever since. He has always been a republican and is a member of Dirigo Lodge, No. 702, I. 0. 0. F. at Rome, Ohio. He was married June 30, 1885, to Elizabeth F. Kirk, daughter of T. J. and Eliza (Glass) Kirk. Their children are Horace L., Gracie E., Bessie P., Mary Susan, William A. and Lulu I. 1002 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. Vallee Harold was born at Fredericktown, Madison county, Missouri, June 4, 1857. His father was Doctor John Harold, a native of Ireland. His mother was born Aimee Vallee. She was descended from distinguished French and Spanish ancestry. Her great-grandfather was the last Commandant of the Province of Louisiana and her grandfather the last Commandant of the post, of Ste. Genevieve, under the French government. Both of Mr. Harold's parents died before he was eight years old and he was given by his mother to her sister Eleanore, the wife of Col. Joseph Bogy. Although she had reared twelve children of her own, this gentle and lovable woman gave the orphan the same affection and care as if he were of her own flesh and blood, and never, in word or deed, was he regarded as other than the child of this generous and noble couple. By them he was reared and taught, by tutor and in private school, and finally sent to finish his education in the college of the Christian Brothers, at St. Louis. From this institution he graduated, the head of his class, at seventeen years of age. At the age of twenty, he was licensed to practice law. In 1880, he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Ste. Genevieve county, Missouri and reelected in 1882. In the year 1884, he resigned the office and moved to Greenville Illinois, where he devoted himself to the newspaper business, which he had entered upon in Ste. Genevieve in 1880. At Greenville, he held the offrce of Master-in-Chancery from 1886 to 1891, and resigned that office, in the latter year, to become editor of the Portsmouth Times, haying bought a half interest from the late Hon. James W. Newman. On November 25, 1891, Mr. Harold was married at Greenville, to Miss Anna Belle Tiffin, who was a relative of Governor Tiffin, of Ohio. She died October 13, 1895. In religion, Mr. Harold has always been a Catholic and in politics he is a democrat. He, is opposed to character comments in a work like this, but the editor wishes to say that Mr. Harold is one of the energetic and enterprising citizens in Portsmouth. Socially he stands the best and as a newspaper man, he has made the Times one of the best journals in the state. Benjamin Gaylord Harris was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, May 8, 1867. He is the son of William and Ann (Lewis) Harris. His father was a foreman of the Gaylord Mill for a number of years. Our subject spent his boyhood and youth in Portsmouth where he attended the public schools. He learned his trade of J. W. Lutz and worked with him for six years. In 1892, he started in business for himself as a photographer at Springfield, Ohio, and remained there three years. He then went to Osborn, Ohio, and remained there four years. He was a member of the City Council of Osborn for two terms in 1896 and 1897 in 1899, he removed to Portsmouth where he has conducted a photograph gallery since. In December, 1893 he was married to Miss Laura Hershey. They have one child, Louis, age seven. Mr. Harris is a republican and a most excellent friend and citizen. Paul Howard Harsha was born August 19, 1859, in Harshaville, Adams county. His father was William Buchanan Harsha and his mother Rachel McIntire, daughter of General William McIntire. He was the second son of his parents. He has a common school education. He learned the practical business of milling from his father. From the time he arrived at the age of twenty-one years, until 1884, he was employed in his father's mill at Harshaville, and had charge of the entire milling operations. In 1884, he took an interest with his father, under the firm name of W. B. Harsha & Son, which has continued until the present time. On January 11, 1884, he was married to Miss Ada Barnard, of Cincinnati. He resided at Harshaville from 1884 until 1892, when he removed to the city of Portsmouth, Ohio. In 1889, he formed a partnership with John BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1003 P. Caskey, under the firm name of' Harsha & Caskey, built a flour mill in the east end of the city, and that business continued until October, 1901, when he and Mr. Caskey dissolved. Since that date he has conducted the business alone. He is one of the progressive men of the city. He is a member of the United Commercial Travelers, Elks and Knights Templars. He was in Ports- mouth from August, 1889, but did not remove his family there until April, 1892. He has four children: Edith Armstrong, Elizabeth Lucile, William Howard and Philip Barnard. He and his wife are members of the Second Presbyterian church. He has always been a republican. He has never held a public office except that of member of the City Council of Portsmouth. Daniel H. Harwood was born February 3, 1828 in Twin township, Ross county, Ohio, near Bourneville. His father's name was Benjamin Harwood. He was a native of Maryland. He died in the autumn of 1848, aged fifty-five years on what is now the Davis farm, then the John A. Turley farm. His mother's maiden name was Mary Ward. She was born in Twin township, Ross county, Ohio, in 1799, and died in Lucasville in 1884, being over eighty-five years of age. The subject of this sketch never received any school training. When twelve years of age, he hired as a jigger boy at $4.00 per month on public works, building the turnpike from Chillicothe to Bainbridge. His work was to go around with a jug of whiskey and a pepper box and give each man the full of it with whiskey six or eight times a day. The next year, when thirteen years old, he drove a cart making a cut through a hill. When he was fourteen, he worked on building the turnpike between Kingston and Tarleton. In 1843 and 1844, he worked on the turnpike from Chillicothe to Portsmouth. He drove a two horse team and his wages were $6.00 per month. Men on a farm at the same time were receiving $7.00 per month. In 1850, he married Hannah Darlington. In the spring of 1854, he rented the Marsh farm and farmed on it for twenty-six years. In 1880, he bought the farm where he now lives on the Canal opposite Lucasville. His wife died in April, 1886, leaving seven children, as follows: Sarah Ann, deceased; William H. living on the old home place; Benjamin F., a resident of Portsmouth; Mary E., deceased, wife of John Marsh; Daniel L., at home; Charles M., a member of Company A, 9th Regiment, United States Infantry now in the Philippines; Ida B., the wife of William T. Dever, residing on the Dever farm opposite Lucasville. In November, 1888, he was married to Emma Double, a daughter of William and Margaret Double of Sedan, both natives of Butler county, Pennsylvania. Her motherls maiden name was Margaret Alsworth. Mrs. Harwood was a teacher in the public schools for six years and attended one term at the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, in 1881. In 1877, she was united with the Salem Regular Baptist church and in 1896 transferred her membership to Bethany Regular Baptist church at Rushtown, Ohio. Mr. Harwood's father was a Jackson democrat, but to use his own language, "he was born a republican" and has always been one, never voting any other way. He is a man who is outspoken and pronounced in his views on any subject. He is kind to his family and accommodating to his neighbors. His home is the stopping place for his many friends and not even a tramp was ever turned away hungry. Generous to a fault he is always ready to donate to any one in need. Francis Edward Hayward was born May 13, 1848, in the Little Frencn Grant. His father was Eliphaz Hayward, son of Moses Hayward and his mother was Mary Cadot, daughter of Claudius Cadot. Moses Hayward and Claudius Cadot both have sketches herein. His childhood and boyhood were spent at the place of his nativity. He attended the common schools and took a course in Duff's Commercial College in Pittsburg which he completed in 1870. The first actual business he engaged in was selling sewing machines for George D. Selby in Jackson county, Ohio. This he regards as the most successful effort in business he 1004 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. has ever engaged in. Subsequent to this, he spent three years in the Mercan- tile department of the Los Gatos Manufacturing Company, Los Gatos, California. He located in Ironton, Ohio, in the retail grocery business in the spring f 1874. He followed that for 26 years and merged it into the exclusively wholesale grocery business, March 26, 1900 with Drake S. Murdock at Ironton, Ohio. For twenty years, he has been a stock holder in the Ironton Fire Brick Company. He was its secretary and treasurer for eighteen years, and has been its president for the past two years. He has been a director in the First National Bank of Ironton for about ten years and has been vice president of the bank for the past six years. He is also secretary of the Lawrence Telephone Company. He is an uncompromising republican. He was married June 28, 1874 to Julia A. Work. Their children are: F. R. now assistant superintendent of Siegel, Cooper & Company's house in New York; Claude C. a practicing attorney in Ironton, Ohio; Mary Elizabeth at home. Mr. Hayward is one of the most respected business men of Ironton. He is a power and a force in every enterprise with which he is connected. Alonzo Wesley Hazelbaker was born near Otway, Ohio, September 5, 1876. His father's name was William Hazelbaker, and his motherls maiden name was Elizabeth Thompson. Our subject was one of five children. He was brought up at Otway, and was a farmer's boy. He attended the common schools near his home, and at Lebanon one term, in 1893. He taught school from 1893 to 1900. In 1899 and 1900, he studied telegraphy, and was appointed agent at Newtown, Ohio, in August, 1900, and remained there until November, 1900. He has been agent at Otway since November, 1900. He is unmarried, and is a democrat in his political views. John Heer was born Feb. 2, 1854, in Chillicothe, Ohio. His father was Samuel Heer, and his motherls maiden name was Catharine Wilhelm. His father was a native of Bavaria and his mother was from Hesse, Germany. Our subject is the oldest of six brothers and three sisters. His father moved to Portsmouth when he was four years of age, and from the age of six attended the public schools of Portsmouth until he was fifteen. He then went into the employ of Ramsey, Rhodes & Reed, wholesale dry goods. He was with them until 1873, and then was engaged with Voorheis, Miller & Co. When they moved to Cincinnati in 1874, he went with them, and remained in their employ sixteen years. He left this firm in 1890, and was with Henry Giershofer & Co., for one year. He then came to Portsmouth, and opened a clothing house at Nos. 307-309 Chillicothe street, and has been engaged in that business ever since. He was married Nov. 8, 1880 to Jessie L. Miller, a daughter of William Miller of Hillsboro. Ohio. He is a member of the Masonic bodies in Portsmouth, Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council, Commandery and is an Elk. Mr. Heer is one of the most energetic, enterprising and industrious business men of Portsmouth, and a man f the highest character and standing in the community. He believes in strictly attending to his own business, and does not seek public attention in any way. He is regarded as one of the successful merchants in the city, and one of the most valuable citizens. Frederick Held was born January 19, 1831, at Colmar in Alsace. His father was Frederick Held, and his motherls maiden name was Hauser. His father and mother had five children, four sons and a daughter. Frederick was the second child. His father was a weaver by occupation. Young Held had no ambition to serve in the French army and so he left the country privately, and determined to go to America. He sailed from Havre in the French sailing vessel "Liberty." After forty days he landed at New York, and then went to Cincinnati, and from there to Barboursville, Virginia, where he remained for eighteen month, working at the cabinet maker’s trade. Then he went to. Ironton and worked at his trade there, and from there he went to Clifton furnace and dug ore. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1005 Among other places he visited Portsmouth and stayed a short time, and went to Scioto furnace. He was married here to Christina Graffer, in August, 1855. He worked about the furnace until 1855, when he went to Bloom furnace, and was there when the war broke out. He enlisted October 18, 1861, in Company B, of the 56th, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was appointed a Corporal and afterwards made a Sergeant. He is a firm believer in the idea that thirteen is an unlucky number. He participated in twelve engagements, and the thirteenth was the battle of Champion Hill, May 16, 1863. There his good right arm was shattered, and was so mangled that it had to be amputated close to the body. For two weeks after the battle, he was on the field where he was shot. He was then taken to the hospital at Memphis, and from there to Jefferson City. Subsequently he was sent to the government hospital in Indiana. There he obtained his discharge, November 5, 1863. He was in every battle and engagement participated in by his command until he lost his arm. He came back and located at Gephart's, where he has ever since resided. He has eight children: Kate, the eldest daughter, is the wife of John Doll, who lives on the west side near Union Mills; his second daughter, Mary, is married to George Jenkins, and lives on the west side; his son Herman is a farmer near Gephart's station; his son William works in the car shops at Huntington, W. Va.; his sons John and Fred, are at home and single; his son Charles is at work in Wheeling, W. Va.; his daughter Anna Cordella is at home. Since his injury in the military service, he has necessarily been compelled to live a life of retirement, but no one enjoys himself any more, and no one is more independent and respected. Mr. Held, of course, receives a pension for his injury. He works a little, as he is able with his one arm. He is a republican. When asked regarding his politics, he said that he voted as he shot. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is faithful and diligent in his profession. George W. Helfenstein was born in London, Ohio, March 20, 1836. His father moved to Jackson, Ohio, when he was a child. He came to Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1854, and became a clerk with R. Bell & Co. Then he clerked for Jefferson & Kepner, C. D. Elden, and James M. Ramsey, and was for a short time at Jackson Furnace. He went into the employment of C. A. M. Damarin & Co., and remained with them for over twenty-one years. He became a member of the First Presbyterian church on locating in Portsmouth. He was superintendent of its Sunday school for many years. On January 28, 1863, he married Miss Frances E. Spry, daughter of Richard Spry. They had one daughter, Grace, born in 1864, who grew to young womanhood and died December 25. 1887. He entered the 173 0. V. I. Company D, as First Lieutenant, and was appointed Adjutant December 21, 1863. He was mustered out June 26, 1865. About 1878, he went into partnership with John Richardson in the grocery business, and remained in that until his death. No truer man ever lived. His great-grandfather. Peter Helfenstein, was Major of the 8th (German) Virginia regiment, in the Revolutionary war. He had a son William, and his son Henry, was the father of our subject. The revolutionary ancestor died February 4, 1778, from the hardships of the service, and is interred at Winchester, Va. Here under the green grass of the lovely valley of Virginia rests the mortal part of the brave and good major, guarded by the hazy wall of the Blue Ridge on one side, and the towering Alleghany on the other with the Massanutten looking over from the south. And in the valley of the Ohio, guarded around by the silent, everlasting hills, with the river like a thread of yellow gold between. lies the mortal part of his grandson, our subject, whose life was likewise cut short by his service to his country. George Helfenstein lilted a pure, honest and honorable life. His whole career illustrated his religious profession. No one could know him without respecting, admiring and loving him for his noble qualities of mind and heart. It could never be 1006 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. said that his profession and his life were inconsistent. He was f the salt of the earth, and all his life he acted on principle and conscience. Emil John Helt was born January 29, 1875, in the city of Portsmouth, Ohio. His father is George Helt and his mother was Barbara P. Herder, a daughter of John M. Herder. His parents were both of German ancestry, but born in Scioto county. Emil attended the Portsmouth schools until he was f the age of eighteen. He dropped out of the B class in the High School, and went into the grocery business, at 513 Chillicothe street, in 1893. He did not like it and gave it up in six months. He clerked in the same business for C. Masters & Company and F. B. Clark, and then engaged in the wholesale commission business until 1896. Since that year, he has been in the huckster business, buying and selling produce. Mr. Helt would never be selected for a handsome man. In fact, he is the very reverse, but he knows everybody and is generally liked. He is not ashamed to work and to keep at it. He is a hustler and has a voice just modulated for the crying of his wares on the street. He is a republican, a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, and an Odd Fellow. He was married December 30, 1897, to Miss Norah Lewis, and has two sons, Emil C., and George 0. He is a whole-hearted, whole-souled, liberal minded citizen and believes in doing his best every day in the week. George Allen. Henry was born May 9, in Gallia county. Hi s father was Charles W. Henry, and his mother's maiden name was Susan Burnett, daughter of James Burnett. He received a common school education in Gallia county. At the age f twelve years he went to work on his father's farm, and continued that until he went into the army. He enlisted in the 2nd Ohio Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Company F, February 25, 1864, for three years, and was mustered out with the company August 23, 1865. After he came home from the war he went to work on his father's farm, and continued that until September, 1868. He was married April 12, 1868, in Mason county, W. Va., to Miss Jane Kyle, daughter of George and Nancy Kyle. They have had eight children: Albert F.. married, resides in Green township on a farm; Mary Ellen, married Albert Feurt, a farmer, resides on the Chillicothe pike; Florence married John Butterfield, a farmer, resides near Haverhill, in Green township; Nannie J., married Henry Goddard, a farmer, resides near Wheelersburg; George P., a farmer; Millard, clerk in a hardware store at Ironton; Perry, at home; Willie, died at the age of five years. In 1868, he rented a farm and farmed in West Virginia for nine years. In 1877, he went to Kentucky and farmed a year. He then moved to Scioto county, Ohio, and rented a farm near Haverhill, and is still engaged in farming. He is a republican, and a member f the Methodist church. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge at Wheelersburg, and of the Gand Army of the Republic. Meshech Herdman was born January 5, 1836, near old Steam furnace, in Adams county, where his father Michael Herdman. who came from Pennsylvania, had settled. Michael was in the war of 1812. He received a land warrant which he traded for a piece of land in Adams county. The mother f our subject was Jemina Downing, of near Locust Grove. Ohio. His brothers and sisters were: Philip, William, Rebecca, Susan, John, Sarah, Joseph, Elizabeth, Robert and Ruth, all of whom grew to maturity, were married and raised families. Our subject lived with his father on the farm until he was twenty years of age, when he came to Nile township, where he has since resided. On coming to Scioto county he learned the carpenter's trade. Besides working on houses, he built flat boats for A. F. Givens. For seven or eight years, he worked at that boating for Givens. He afterwards became a contractor and built several wooden bridges' for the county and a number of school houses. He formed a partnership with D. C. Givens in 1883, in the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1007 saw mill business. After several years, he bought Givens out and has since been in business by himself. He built a saw and grist mill near McGaw P. 0. in 1889, and buys timber and saws it into lumber. He was a trustees f Nile township from 1884 to 1887, and served a number f terms as school director. He is a democrat of the "dyed in the wool" sort. He was married February 1, 1866, to Mary J. Givens, daughter of William and Elizabeth Givens. Their children are: Nora, died June 5, 1883; George; Alfred; Elizabeth, wife of Robert Jeffreys; Clara; Fred; Harry; John and Clyde. Mr. Herdman has the natural qualifications f a good citizen, honesty, industry and thrift. He always stands for the right, is a firm believer in religion and has raised a large family of respectable children. He possesses a large amount of mechanical genius. Rev. Joseph D. Herron was born in Kirtland, Lake county, Ohio, November 4, 1853. His father was Samuel Herron, a native of Scotland, and his mother's maiden name was Martha Dunkley. She was born in Northampton, England, and her early home was in London. The Dunkleys were originally Norman-French. The subject of this sketch was the last f five children, and the only son. When he was six years of age, his parents moved to Carrollton, Missouri, where he lived until their death in 1864 and 1865. For six years he made his home with a married sister in Newcastle, Pennsylvania, and in Marietta, Ohio. During this time he completed the upper grades of the public schools at New Castle, attended St. John's Academy, Camden, New Jersey, for one year, and clerked for three years in the dry goods store of Bosworth, Wells & Company, Marietta, Ohio. At this time, his talent for music, which he inherited from the Dunkleys, played an important part in his career. Through a former classmate at S. Johnls Academy, he was offered the position of organist at St. Stephen's College, Annandale, New York. He accepted, as a way was thus opened to secure a college education. He was graduated, with the degree of B. A., in 1876, secundus, and metaphysical prizeman of his class. He then entered the General Theological Seminary, New York city, graduating in 1879 with the degree of S. T. B., and receiving the degree f M. A. in course from his alma mater. During this time he was a member of the New York Choral Union, a musical society of 300 voices which was led by P. S. Gilmore. He was also choir master at the Church of the Transfiguration (The little church around the corner). He was ordained to the diaconate at his final graduation, by Bishop Horatio Potter, on Trinity Sunday. His first ministry was in Trinity Parish, New York city, as curate of S. Augustine's. In 1882, he was called to Trinity church, New Castle, Pennsylvania, where he served for fifteen years. Here, for three years, he was a member of the Standing Committee f the Diocese and for six years, chairman f the Committee on the state f the Church. In 1897, he was called to All Saints church, Portsmouth, Ohio, his present charge. Here he organized and drilled a vested choir of boys, girls and young men, which now numbers sixty voices, and is one of the best in the diocese. While an opponent Of state rights, and a "stalwart" in the days of Grant and Conkling, he has voted the Prohibitionist ticket since 1884. Mr. Herron is a clear, easy and fluent sneaker. He is one of the best sermonizers in his diocese. His words are well chosen and easily understood and his thoughts are carefully considered before expressed in words. Whatever he has to say is interesting and instructive. He is a teacher in the very highest sense of the word. He is an earnest and persistent worker, always active and full of nervous energy. He is passionately fond of music and of teaching it. He has composed and published a number of pieces of sacred music. Mr. Herron's sole aim and object in life, to which everything bends, is to do his whole duty in the position he occupies. Harry D. Hibbs was born November 15. 1865, in Portsmouth. Ohio. His father's name was Jacob C. Hibbs, and his mother's name was Barbara Ann Williamson. He attended the public schools f Portsmouth until he was fifteen years of age. 1008 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. He then engaged in the hardware business with his father, and has been engaged in it ever since, except one year. From 1880 to 1889 he was connected with Hibbs, Angle & Co. From 1889 to 1890, he was connected with the Woolen Mills Company at West Superior, Wisconsin. In 1890, he returned to Portsmouth and again engaged in the hardware business. In 1899, the firm became a corporation, and he became general manager. He was married January 26, 1888 to Miss Sadie Watkins. They have one child, Marjorie. In his political views, he is a republican. He is a member f the following Masonic bodies: Knights Templars, Council, Chapter and Blue Lodge, and f the Elks. In social life he is an excellent entertainer. His humor is ever bright and sparkling. He is the soul f any social function. As a business man, he is energetic and tireless. He has built up a large and successful business and understands every detail f it. While he has done wonderfully well in his own matters, he has at the same time done well for the public. He always favors and promotes public enterprise and will always be found in the front in every measure for the public good. Jacob C. Hibbs was born April 3, 1830, in Union township, Scioto county, Ohio. His father, Jacob Hibbs, was a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother’s maiden name was Rebecca Lucas, a native of Virginia. Our subject was reared in the county and attended the common schools. He took a partial course at the Dennison University, Granville, Ohio, in 1852. He resided on his father's farm until 1860, and in that year he entered the service of his brother, Gen. Joseph Lucas Hibbs, as salesman in a hardware store at Portsmouth. He remained with him as an employe until 1866, when he became a partner. In January, 1870, he went into the hardware business on his own account and continued until 1873, when he took in Mr. Wm. H. Angle as a partner, and the business was conducted as Hibbs, Angle & Co., for a period f twenty-one successful and prosperous years. In 1894 he bought out his partner Wm. H. Angle, and continued the business alone. In the spring f 1899, the business was incorporated as The J. C. Hibbs Hardware Company, capital stock, $60,000. He became the president of the corporation, and has remained such ever since. Owng to Mr. Hibb's poor health he is compelled to spend the winters in a warmer climate, usually El Paso; but his business is successfully attended to by his son Harry D. Hibbs, in his absence. He was married April 30, 1857 to Barbara Ann Williamson of Washington township, Scioto county. They have the following children: two died in infancy, and those surviving are: Flora E., wife of Edward R. Peebles, a salesman in the city f Portsmouth; Lou Grace, wife of Alva Agee, a lecturer f the Farmers' Institutes; and a son, Harry Dixon, conducts the J. C. Hibbs hardware store in Portsmouth. Mr. Hibbs was brought up a democrat and remained as such until 1860, when he became a republican. The same year he joined the Baptist church, and has been a faithful and active working member ever since. As a business man he has had a wonderfully successful career and has richly earned that leisure in his old age which he is now enjoying. William Lois Hitchcock was born in Muscatine, Iowa, December 12, 1866. His parents were Charles and Alma (Lee) Hitchcock. His father died before William was seven years old and he came to Sciotoville and worked in the Fire Brick Works before he was twelve years of age. He received a common school education in the Sciotoville schools. In politics, he has always been a republican. In 1886, he married Lily Purdy. He has served in nearly every capacity as a firebrick worker, beginning at the bottom of the ladder and working his way to the top. He is now superintendent of three yards: Scioto Fire Brick Company, Webster Fire Brick Company, and the Blast Furnace Fire Brick Company. To begin as a day laborer and at thirty-six to be a superintendent of three separate businesses is a career to which any young American could proudly aspire. It demonstrates what can be attained by a close study of and application' to business. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1009 John Hagan was born March 3, 1843 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father was Cornelius Hogan, who lived and died a resident of New Orleans. His mother's maiden name was Mary J. Lee, a native of New York state. His parents emigrated to New Orleans from the state of New York in the early thirtys. Our subject was the oldest child of the family. His father died when he was twelve years old, and his mother died when he was thirteen years of age. His father had been a soldier of the Mexican war from Louisiana, had been wounded in the knee, in one of the battles, and died from the effects of the wound. Our subject attended school in New Orleans. One John Adams was his guardian, and he sent him and his sister to the Ironton schools about 1856. Their aunt Catharine Payne came along and took charge of him. He went to school in Ironton about two years, and then ran away from his home and located in the French Grant and worked for Travis Herrel. From there he came into the Scioto valley and worked among the Noels, as a farm hand, until the war broke out. He enlisted August 5, 1861 in Company "A," 33rd 0. V. I., and served until July 12, 1865. He was promoted from private to Sergeant November 1, 1864, in the Atlanta Campaign. July 2, 1863, he was wounded twice at the battle of Stone river. In the same battle he was lying down and a ball struck his right elbow, and then passed into his right thigh where it has since remained. July 5, 1864, at the battle of Chattahoochee river, he was wounded in the right thigh in the same place as the other wound, only the ball went through. March 16, 1865, when the war was almost over he was wounded in the left foot at Averysboro, North Carolina. He was the first man to be inside the line at Savannah, Ga., and he was at the surrender of Gen. Joe Johnson. He was mustered out July 12, 1865. December 6, 1865, he married Maria J. Noel, a daughter of Peter Noel, the oldest son of Philip Noel, who died in 1850. Our subject has had seven children, four of whom died in childhood. His surviving children are William Everett, a practicing physician at Frederick, Mahoning county, Ohio, who married Abigail Groniger; his daughter Martha Jane, who married Frank Ford of Portsmouth, Ohio; his son Edwin Winfield is a farmer residing near his father. Mr. Hogan was a democrat until 1877, when he became a repubican, and has continued such ever since. He belongs to the Aurora Lodge, Mt. Vernon Chapter, Solomon Council and Calvary Commandery, Masonic bodies in Portsmouth. He was a school director in his district for nineteen years, and trustee of the township for sixteen years. Mr. Hogan is one of those who can always be depended on. He gravely considers before he gives his word, but once given, he will live up to any agreement made by him. He is always good company and knows how to entertain his friends. George Willis Holman was born August 1, 1851. His father was John Holman. a native of England. His mother's maiden name was Laura Curtis a native of New York. Our subject was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, went through the schools of Portsmouth and was graduated from the High School in 1870. At the age of twenty he started in as a clerk in Peter Brodbeck's dry goods store and remained there two years. In 1873, he went to Keystone furnace in Jackson county, and clerked in a store. He remained there two years. After this he was one year in the milling business in Portsmouth, Ohio with Dr. C. C. Fulton. In 1876 he went to Quinnimont, West Virginia, and was clerk in a furnace store. In 1880 he went to Longdale, Virginia, Alleghany county, and became a store keeper and purchaser of supplies for the furnaces and has been engaged in that business ever since. He was married Dec. 15. 1851 to Sadie Wait, daughter of John H. Wait, an old resident of Portsmouth. The names of his children are: Natalie and George. He is a republican in his political views, and a member of the Methodist church. Mr. Holman is esteemed by all who know him for his high character. He is one of the most genial and companionable f men, valuable in church, lodge and community and one who can always he depended on to do his share of work and do it to every one's satisfaction. 1010 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. John Henry Holman was born August 9, 1860 at South Webster, Scioto county, Ohio. His father was Herman Holman and his mother's maiden name was Isabel Mittendorf. He attended the common schools until he was sixteen years of age, when ha went to Delaware for a year. At the age of nineteen he went to Sciotoville and worked in the store of the Sciotoville Fire Brick Company where he remained two years. He went west in 1882 and was gone about a year. In 1883 he engaged in the brick business in Sciotoville and was there until May 16, 1892 when he went into the employment of J. F. Davis druggist and remained there during his life. When the business was incorporated he became secretary and treasurer. For two years before his death, he traveled for the company. He was taken sick May 12, 1901 and died July 8, 1901 of typhoid fever after one relapse. He was married June 2, 1886 to Lilias Seva Smith, daughter f the late L. P. N. Smith. They had one son David Harmon who died in infancy and one daughter, Stephanie S. Mr. Holman was a member of the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias and a member of the Commercial Club. He was a republican in his political views. As a clerk and as a manager he has developed wonderful business ability and had he survived, would have made as great a success in the business as his predecessor, J. F. Davis had done before him. His death was one of the saddest events which ever took place. He was so full f life, so full f energy, with wonderful capacity and ability for business, it seemed the irony f fate that he should have been taken away in the flower of manhood. All f his friends loved him and could not say too much in his praise. Cornelius Honaker, M. D., was born in Bath county, Kentucky, October 11, 1831. He is the son f Charles Wesley Honaker, a native of Virginia, and Sarah (England) Honaker. His father was a Judge of Carter county, Kentucky. His boyhood and youth were spent in Carter county Kentucky, where he obtained a common school education. He studied medicine with Drs. W. England and Samuel Ellis of Lewis county, Kentucky. He took a first course in the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, in 1859 and 1860. He came to Nile township, Scioto county, Ohio, in 1861. He attended a second course in the Ohio Medical College in 1883 and 1884 and graduated on March 7, 1884. He has been a farmer and has practiced medicine in Nile township ever since 1884. He was married June 8, 1863 to Emily J. Storer. They have two children: Morris Simpson, killed in a wreck on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad in 1890 and Lucy, wife of A. King Veazey. He was a democrat before the war, a republican in 1864 and until 1876, when he became a democrat, but he voted for McKinley in 1896. He is a member of the M. E. church and for ten years was a class leader and Sunday school superintendent. He is a very excellent citizen and is so esteemed in his own community. Hermann Huels, Sr., was born October 31, 1834, at Rhede, Westphalen, Prussia. His parents were Hermann and Elizabeth (Knipper) Huels. He attended the schools of Gronau, Westphalen until he was fourteen years of age, when he was apprenticed to learn the dyer's trade and served an apprenticeship for three years. He remained one year after his apprenticeship with his master, and traveled as was customary, in his country. until 1863, working in a great many towns in Germany, France, Switzerland, and Austria. Then he determined to go to the United States. He left Bremen, July 31, 1864 and landed in the United States the August following. He went to Springfield, Illinois, and remained until the following October, when he went to Cincinnati and followed his trade for one Year. In October, 1865, he went to Chillicothe where he worked for a Mr. Dueber, and on September 10, 1866 he married his daughter, Pauline. On February 15, 1870, he came to Portsmouth and purchased the dye house belonging to F. Zeliner. He enlarged the business, and purchased machinery for dyeing with steam. He has been very successful in business. He has been a member of the German Benevolent Society for over thirty years, and is a member of St. Peter's Benevolent Society. He is a director of the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1011 German Building and Loan Association. He was a member of the City Council from the Second ward from 1899 to 1901, and is now president of the non-partisan Fire Board of the city of Portsmouth. He is a democrat, and a member of St. Mary's church. He has the following children: Hermann, born in 1869, at Chillicothe, Ohio; Emil J., born in 1872, a druggist, now in Brooklyn. New York; Charles, born in 1875, who served in the Spanish War in the 6th United States Infantry; Anna, the wife of Dr. J. E. Bickle, of Fort Wayne, Indiana; Otillie, at home; Albert, born in 1886, now in Brooklyn, New York, learning the drug business with his brother Emil. Jesse Clough Hurd was born December 1, 1839 at Jackson Furnace. His father was Jacob S. Hurd, who was born near Concord, N. H. His mother's maiden name was Sarah E. Clough, a daughter of Dr. Abner Clough, who is buried at Franklin Furnace. His grandfather's name was John Hurd, who came to the French Grant, and is buried at Portsmouth, 0. His grandfather Clough came to Scioto county in an early date. John Ricker Hurd was the oldest child. The other three are: Jesse C., Alice Riggs and Joseph H. Our subject remained at Jackson Furnace until he was five years of age. His father was book-keeper and clerk at Jackson Furnace. In 1884. the family moved to Franklin Furnace, where he was a partner in the furnace with the Goulds and was clerk. A few years later the family moved to Junior Furnace, where he went on the river as captain. In 1852, the family moved to Portsmouth, where they remained until 1870. Our subject enlisted in Company F, Second Kentucky V. I. May 17, 1861 as a private for three years. He was appointed Sergeant May 17, 1861, promoted to 2nd Lieutenant January 25, 1862; First Lieutenant February 6, 1862; and then was made Captain of Company I, June 13, 1863, and was mustered out with the company June 19, 1864. This regiment was in West Virginia, and at the battles of Shiloh and Murfreesboro, and Chickamauga. He came to Jackson in the fall of 1864. and has lived there ever since. He was engaged at the Diamond furnace as clerk until 1869. He was at Orange furnace, as a clerk until 1874, then went into the coal business until 1887, when he went into the Iron Bank as a partner and assistant cashier. He afterwards became president, which position he has had for three years. He was married in September, 1866 to Julia Dungan, daughter of Levi Dungan. They have six children. Jesse, superintendent of the coal mines at Jackson; Alice C., at home; Levi Dungan, a medical student at Columbus; Harold H., a student at Ada. Ohio; Ethel H., and Bertha at home. Mr. Hurd is a republican, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In the town f Jackson. Captain Jesse C. Hurd is held in the very highest esteem. He possesses all the qualities that make a good citizen, father and husband, and is above reproach in every respect. Colonel John Richer Hurd was born January 4, 1838 at Jackson Furnace, Jackson county, Ohio. His father was Jacob S. Hurd and his mother's maiden name was Sarah E. Clough. Until he was 14 years of age, he lived in the furnace region near Portsmouth. Part of the time he attended the furnace schools, and the remainder, he played and hunted. When he was 14 years f age, the family moved to Portsmouth, and he attended school there a short time, and then went to boating on the western rivers, and was out on the plains and in the mountains of New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. He returned from there, and went into the employment of Joseph M. G. Smith in the construction and operation f his distillery in Greenup county, Ky., and remained there until the war broke out. When the war began, he entered the service May 17, 1861 as Captain of Co. F, in the Second Kentucky Infantry. He was promoted to Major January 25, 1862, and was made Lieutenant Colonel January 13, 1863. He was mustered out with the regiment June 19, 1864, (see Co. F., 2nd Ky. Infantry, page 226.) He was captured by the enemy in July, 1861, and incarcerated in Libby Prison at Richmond, Va., from which he lescaped with Col. W. H. Raynor and a Lieutenant Murphy in September, 1861, an account of which was published in "Harper's Monthly Magazine." Col. Hurd was in the battles of Shiloh, 1012 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. Stone river, Chickamauga and many smaller affairs. He was appointed Colonel of the 173 regiment 0. V. I., September 18, 1864 and served as such until June 26, 1865. Col. Hurd returned to Portsmouth directly after the war. He was married October 13, 1867, to Miss Alice R. Tracy, daughter, of Charles 0. Tracy. In the same year, he was a candidate for representative on the republican ticket against the late Hon. James W. Newman, and received 2,290 votes; Newman received 2,547 votes and a majority of 257. That was the year, in which the Republican party suffered a Waterloo defeat in Ohio, on account of the advocacy of Negro suffrage, but Col. Hurd has no regrets for the part he took in that campaign. He canvassed the county, and spoke in almost every school district. He made a most active and creditable canvass, and was defeated only because the entire ticket was defeated. In January, 1868, Col. Hurd moved to Albia, Iowa, where he resided for a number f years; from there, he removed to Fort Dodge, Kansas, and from there to Pueblo, Colorado, where he now resides. Col. Hurd has two children, Tracy S. Hurd f Newton, Kansas, and Mrs. John H. Shaw of Pueblo, Colorado. He was the beau ideal of a soldier and it would have been better for his country if he had made the prfession of arms his life vocation. Adolph Hurth was born June 17, 1838, in Germany. He came to the United States in 1854 and was thirty-five days crossing the ocean. His father, Jacob Hurth was a carpenter and died in Portsmouth in 1856. His mother died when he was very young. He attended the common schools in Germany until he was sixteen years old. In the meantime, he learned the bakerls trade and worked a short time at that before he came to America. On arriving at Portsmouth, in 1854 he commenced, at once, to work for M. & S. Timmonds and worked for them until 1862. He then began work as a clerk in Cutler & Brown's liquor store. He remained in this same place under different employers until December, 1895. He commenced business for himself December 1, 1895. He is a democrat. He is a member of St. Mary's church and a trustee f the same and has been for twenty-four years. March 28, 1864, he was married to Elizabeth Reitz, daughter of John and Amelia Reitz. They have three sons: Edward, Adolph and Lewis. Andrew J. Hyland was born April 11, 1863, on Pine creek in Green township, this county. He is the son of John and Mary (Doyle) Hyland, both natives f Ireland, who located first in Cincinnati and afterwards in Scioto county. Andrew was raised on a farm and educated in the country schools until he was sixteen. He attended school two years after he became of age. He went to Montana in 1884, and was given charge of the machinery in the concentrator of a mining plant near Gregory. After eighteen months f mining experience, he came back home and learned telegraphy. He was employed by the Norfolk & Western Railway Company as agent at Franklin Furnace until 1901, when he resigned his position to turn his attention to a mercantile business which he had been carrying on for some years as a side line, and which had grown so as to demand his undivided attention. His store at Franklin Furnace burned in 1898, causing a loss of $2,000, but he rebuilt immediately and now handles a large line f general merchandise as well as machinery and farm implements. He has been postmaster at Franklin Furnace for three years past. He is a republican and a member of St. Peter's Roman Catholic church near Wheelersburg, Ohio. He was united in marriage with Myrtle Eakins, daughter of W. C. Eakins of Sciotoville, September 22, 1892. By this union three children have been born: Orville Ray and Stanley, boys; and Dein, a girl. Mr. Hyland is a citizen highly valued by all who know him. He is upright and straightforward in all things. He is a true friend and an untiring worker in any cause he espouses. He is a positive working factor in everything with which he is connected. John W. Jackson was born in Bloom township, near Bloom Furnace, Scioto county, Ohio, in 1836. Hit father, Evan Jackson, came from Fayette county, Pennsylvania, to Ohio, in BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1013 1815. After living in Adams county about four years, he. removed to Scioto Furnace and then to Bloom Furnace. His mother’s maiden name was Rebecca Whuey a native of Kentucky. Her parents both died in Louisville, Kentucky. Our subject received a common school education and when nine years of age, removed to Kentucky and remained there until he enlisted in the 14th Kentucky Infantry, Company E, October 15, 1861. He was discharged January 31, 1865. After his return from the army, he came to Scioto county and has been a farmer in Madison township since. He was elected a Justice of the Peace in Madison township in 1898 and was re-elected and is now serving on his second term. He was a whig until 1854 and then became a republican. On October 29, 1859 he was married to Josephine Smith, daughter of David and Rebecca Smith, natives of Virginia and Kentucky. They have six children: Emily, the wife of Andrew McWilliams of Rush township; Caroline, late wife of William Allen; Charlotte, wife of Monroe Lambert of Lawrence county; Ella, deceased, wife of I'. K. Martin; John of Jackson county; and Albert at home. Archibald W. H. Jamieson, our subject was born in August, 1862, at Movanagher Castle, near Kilrea, county Derry, Ireland. His father was Hugh Jamieson, a gentleman farmer, and his mother was Elizabeth Henderson, aunt of Mrs. Capt. N. W. Evans, of Portsmouth, Ohio. He was started out in the cold world with the name of Archibald William Henderson, as a prenomen and has managed to struggle along with it to the present time. He attended the national schools in Ireland from five to eighteen years of age. After that he was dubbed a gentleman farmer, but in reality spent most of his time in athletics and won several Medals. Football was his particular vanity. In 1887, he quit the business of farming and in 1889, came to the United States on a visit. He really came, like the spies in Canaan, to view the land. Soon after his arrival, he made up his mind that the United States was the best country for him and remained. He thought he could make a better citizen to study one year and did so at the Normal School at Lebanon. In 1890, he went into the employment of Lowry & Goebel, in the carpet trade, in Cincinnati, and remained there until 1892. In July, 1892, he started in the oil business with the Standard Oil Company, and remained with them till 1893, when he went into the employment of Charles H. Moore & Co., manufacturers and dealers in oil, in Cincinnati, and has been with them ever since. In 1893, he revisited Ireland and spent the three summer months. In June, 1895, he revisited Ireland, and voted for a Member of Parliament, the day after his arrival. On June 5, 1897, he visited the Probate Court f Hamilton, and declared his intentions to become an American citizen. At the same time he concluded to attend to some other business, in the same court, and took out a license to marry Miss Nellie Haight, a daughter of the late Jared Haight, of the firm of Burbeck & Haight, who furnished the "hard tack" in the late civil war. On the next day, June 8, 1895, he was married to Miss Haight, and the two started to Ireland for a three month’s honeymoon trip. He spent that time visiting his mother, brother and sister at Kilrea, Ireland, and in traveling in Ireland and Scotland. On his return, he went to housekeeping at 1575 Pullen Avenue, Northside, Cincinnati, where he has since resided. He has one child, Elizabeth Henderson, born June 8, 1896, on the first anniversary of his marriage. He and his wife visited Ireland in 1900. While he would like to spend every summer in "old Ireland," yet he is at heart as loyally American as if he were born of six generations of citizens of the United States. In his political views, he as a republican, and in his religious views a Presbyterian. His mother, brother and sister reside in a home in Ireland on the river Bann, on the site of Movanagher Castle. A portion of the castle tower and walls are still standing, though the castle proper was destroyed by Cromwell in 1649. Within 500 yards of his birthpace was an old Danish Fort, Coneybery. The river Bann in the vicinity of his former home, is noted for its eel and other fisheries. Mr. Jamieson's home in Ireland has been in the family for over two hundred years and there is no wonder at his attachment for it which takes him back every few summers. But one in each generation of his family became an American citizen and he is the representative of the 1014 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. third generation. His uncle, Joseph Henderson and his great-uncle of the same name, represent the two former generations. Mr. Jamieson is of that class of north of Ireland Irishmen, descended from Scotchmen, who located in Ireland in the seventeenth century which makes the world go, and he proposes to do his share of that work. Where Alexander Stewart and Alexander McDonald, men of his nationality, succeeded, he thinks he will not fail. We predict a successful and prosperous future for him. William Henry Washington Jenkins was born at Harrisonville, Scioto county, Ohio, September 15, 1830, and was the only son f William Jenkins, who died September 5; 1855. His motherls maiden name was Polly Shumway, born at Reading, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1816, and died September 9, 1892. His early life was spent near his childhood home. He was married September 9, 1871, to Samantha Robertson, youngest daughter of Samuel S., and Jane (Taylor) Robertson. He obtained a good common school education and taught in the public schools of this county from the fall of 1869 to December 23, 1881. He studied surveying and in January, 1884, was appointed deputy County Surveyor, and has held that position, or special deputy, a great portion of the time since. He served one term as clerk f Madison township from April, 1881, also one term as assessor of Harrison township, from April, 1890. Having studied civil engineering, he entered the city civil engineer's office under B. C. Bratt, city engineer, on July 13, 1895, and served as rodman and assistant civil engineer until May 1, 1899. Though of different political views, he was retained as assistant city civil engineer by Mr. Bratt's successor, Major John I. Hudson, during his entire term f service, ending January 4, 1900. During Mr. Hudson's term the sanitary sewer was built, Gallia street was paved from North Waller street to Young street, Offnere street was paved from Gallia street to Twelfth street and Second street from Market to Chillicothe street and Chillicothe street was re-paved from Second street to Ninth street, making the largest amount of public improvements ever done by the city in any one year. A flood defense commission was appointed by the City Council in the spring of 1901, to make surveys, plans and estimates and embody the same in a report to said City Council for placing valves in the sewers, building dykes, pumping stations, etc., for the protection f the city from all floods in the Ohio river of sixty feet or less. Mr. Jenkins was selected as civil engineer for the flood defense commission, and under their instructions, made the surveys, plans and estimates for the same. The report of the commission was adopted by council and made the basis for all future improvements in that direction and districts Numbers 1 and 3 have been practically completed according to said plans. At present he is civil engineer for the Ohio Valley Traction Company, having charge of the improvements f the old line and building the new extension eastward. Mr. Jenkins is a faithful and conscientious officer and a good citizen. Sanford Bundy Jennings was born in Vinton county, Ohio, near Hamden Furnace, July 3, 1846. He was named for the Hon. Hezekiah Bundy. His father, Enos Jennings, was born in Juniata county, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1794. His mother, Catharine Murphy, was born December 25, 1802. They were married April 2, 1820. His father died May 4, 1857, near Hamden Furnace, and his mother died at the same place August 15, 1868. They are buried at the Bundy cemetery, near Wellston, Ohio. Our subject attended the public schools near his home, and for a short time at the Ohio University at Athens. At the age f seventeen he enlisted in Company G, 7th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, September 16, 1862, for three years, and was made Commissary Sergeant of the Company. He gave his age as nineteen, though in reality he was in his seventeenth year. After the battle of Nashville, December 15, 1864, his company was detailed as body guard to Gen. John M. Schofield. He served until June 22, 1865. After the war he received an appointment as express messenger on the Portsmouth Branch of the Marietta and Cincinnati railroad, and afterwards on the main line. On January 20, 1870, W. H. H. Cadot resigned as the Adams BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1015 Express agent at Portsmouth, and Mr. Jennings was appointed in his place. In April, 1872, he and Pat Prendergast took the Biggs House, under the tirm of Prendergast and Jennings. June 8, 1873, they leased it for five years and run it until 1876, when Mr. Prendergast died, and Mr. Jennings conducted the hotel alone until January, 1879, when W. H. Williams went into partnership with him, under the firm of Jennings and Williams. This continued until December, 1881, when Mr. Jennings sold out to Mr. Williams and left Portsmouth in March, 1881. He was married March 29, 1881, to Miss Emma Johnson, daughter of the late George Johnson. His health had given signs of breaking down, and in the summer of 1881, he managed the Manitou House at Manitou Springs, Colorado, and spent the winter in Portsmouth. On May 2, 1882, he started west. At Kansas City, July 3. 1882, he was taken very sick. He got better, but was found dead in his bed July 17, 1882. He was a Knight-Templar Mason. As an express agent and as a hotel landlord he was very popular with all with whom he did business. The hotel business was successful in his hand. Albert Tracy Johnson was born May 18, 1857 in Portsmouth, Ohio. His father was George Johnson, and his mother’s maiden name was Mary Ruth Tracy, a daughter of Samuel M. Tracy. Our subject attended the public schools of Portsmouth through the Grammar grades, went to Kenyon College for four years, and left at the close of the junior year. In 1875 he came back to Portsmouth and engaged in business with the Scioto Fire Brick Company at Sciotoville, as assistant in the store. He remained there two years and then went into the Portsmouth National Bank, where he remained until 1883. Then he went into the First National Bank of Portsmouth as cashier, where he remained until 1892, when he became president of the Portsmouth Fire Brick Company. On June 1, 1901, the Portsmouth Co., the South Webster Fire Brick Co., the Blast Furnace Fire Brick Company and the Kentucky Fire Brick Company, were incorporated as the Portsmouth & Kentucky Fire Brick Company, and Mr. Johnson has since been its president. He was married October 25. 1882, to Miss Margaret F. Tewksbury, daughter of Moor R. Tewksbury. Their children are: Ruth Baird, a graduate of Harcourt Seminary in June 1901, now a student at Smith College, Northampton, Mass.; George Tewksbury, now a senior in the University School at Cleveland; Jean T., a student in the public schools at Portsmouth. Mr. Johnson is a member of the First Presbyterian church f Portsmouth, 0., and is a republican in his political views. He is a 32nd degree Mason, and a member of the Syrian Temple of the Mystic Shrine in Cincinnati. He has well filled every position held by him. He has shown great executive and administrative ability in all business entrusted to him. He has been successful, financially and socially, and is one of the most popular men in Portsmouth. Isaac Johnson was born March 6, 1838 in Scioto county, Ohio, the son of James 0. and Phoebe (Jeffords) Johnson. His grandfather, Henry C. Jeffords, was a pioneer of Scioto county. He moved to Portsmouth in 1822 and in 1832 he kept the Scioto Inn. Our subject received a common school education and was raised a farmer. In 1892, he sold his farm f 236 acres in Scioto county and removed to Fayette county. In March, 1893, he located on a farm near Bloomingburg, Ohio and remained there until 1896, when he sold this farm and removed to Washington. C. H. Ohio, where he has resided since. He has been township trustee and held various other township offices at different times. He was made a Master Mason in 1873, and has been a trustee of Lucasville Lodge, No. 465. He is a republican. In February, 1864. he was married to Fannie L. Yeager, who died in January, 1866. In 1867, he was married to Rachel Kendall, daughter of Milton and Ruth Kendall of Portsmouth. They have three children: Idora B., the wife of Frank B. Thomas, who resides in Del Norte. Colorado; Elmer E., is a telegraph operator fo the Midland division of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. and resides at home; Bessie Maude, a graduate of the Washington C. H. High School in the class of 1901, resides with her parents. Mr. Johnson is an excel- 1016 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. lent citizen, one who always does his part in toe community, and who leads rather than follows. He is a man of positive force wherever he is placed and his influence and acts always count for the best for himself and those about him. Jesse Johnson was born October 26, 1849, at the mouth of Bear creek. He is the son of Isaac Newton Johnson and Sarah Cockrell his wife, daughter of Jesse Cockrell of Lucasville. His grandparents Isaac and Jane (Clark) Johnson were natives of Hampshire county, Virginia. They were married February 28, 1805 and came to Scioto county, in 1807, and located near Scioto Inn, where Clifford now is. Their son, Isaac N. was born August 16, 1821. Isaac Johnson died February 18, 1832 and his wife July 11, 1845. The first was of English descent and the latter of German descent. His grandfather Cockrell was of English descent and his grandmother of Scotch descent and her maiden name was Anna Marsh. Our subject was raised on a farm and attended a country school. Later he attended the Iron City Commercial College, at Pittsburg. He commenced farming in 1873 for himself and has been engaged in farming in all of its different phases ever since. He would be rated as a first class farmer judging from his industry, methods and success. Although not an active politician, he holds to the democratic faith and has never sought offrce. He was married February 12, 1873, to Miss Rebecca Simpson, youngest daughter of Elias Simpson of the West Side. John Jones (Plumber) was born in Wales in 1844. His father was Henry Jones and his mother's maiden name was Jane Thomas. When he was three or four months old, his parents came to this country and located near Oak Hill, Gallia county. His father was a farmer, and remained near Oak Hill for a short time, when he purchased a farm near Gallia Furnace. There, Jones went to school until 1862. On September 20, 1862, at the age of eighteen, he enlisted in Co. D, 1st regiment, Ohio Volunteer Heavy Artillery, as a private, but was mustered in Co. H. He did duty with Co. D from the start and was transferred to Co. D, April 1, 1863, and was mustered out with the company July 25, 1865, at Knoxville, Tennessee. He was captured by the enemy February 23, 1865, with twelve companions at Mosier's Mill, East Tennessee, but he was a prisoner only eighteen hours, just long enough to render him eligible to join the "Society f the Prisoners of the Civil War." He and five companions escaped from their captors on the night after they were captured; the other six who were captured, were taken to Richmond, Virginia. After his discharge, Mr. Jones went to Louisville, Kentucky and started to learn the plumber's trade in March, 1866, with the Angell & Cochran foundry and machine works. He worked for them for a few months. After this, he became a street car driver, for a time and then went to Cincinnati and afterwards to St. Louis, where he took care of horses for the Adams Express Co. He again went to Louisville and from there took a plumbing job at Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He came to Portsmouth, on November 1, 1866 and has been here ever since. He worked for Richard Spry, the plumber, until August 1, 1870, when he went into business for himself. On June 1, 1895 he sold out to E. S. Jenkins, and he has not been in any business since. When he occupied the Gerlach building, he carried the largest supply of plumbing goods f every kind and mill supplies ever carried in southern Ohio. Mr. Jones was a coppersmith. He worked in sheet-iron and set boilers and engines whenever required by any of the furnaces. He has acquired a competence and is trying to live easy. He is one of the few soldiers of the Civil War who never applied for or obtained a pension. He has greatly preserved his youthful appearance, and proposes to put off old age just as long as he can. John Jones (Ex-Postmaster) was born January 1, 1848 at Mt. Sterling, Ky. His father was David E. Jones and his mother Elizabeth Edwards, daughter f the Rev. John Edwards. His father and mother were both born in Wales. He lost his mother when he was but eight months old. His father, David E. Jones enlisted as a private in BIOGRAPHICAL, SKETCHES - 1017 Company A, 12th regiment, Connecticut Infantry, September 18. 1862, at New Orleans. He was captured October 19, 1864 at Cedar creek, Virginia and died November 25, 1864 in prison at Salisbury, North Carolina. Our subject came to Portsmouth in 1853 and spent his boyhood and received- his education in the public schools of the city. He commenced business by clerking in the hat store of J. H. Johnson, in 1866. In 1870, he started a men's furnishing store on West Second street, Portsmouth, and was engaged in that business for thirty years. Mr. Jones, though f Welsh descent, was always a democrat in his political views and a very strong one. He always took a great interest in the affairs of the party. He was a member of the Board of Education from 1888 until 1894. From 1892 to 1894 he was president of that board. He was Postmaster of Portsmouth from 1894 to 1898, and a member of the City Council from 1899 to the present time. He was president of the council for two years, 1899 to 1901. He was elected president of the Board of Education when his party were in the minority. On June 2, 1902 he was appointed a member of the Board of Review for the city of Portsmouth for three years. He was married November 4, 1873 to Miss Maggie M. Shaw, daughter of William and Ellen Lynn Shaw. They have two children, Ralph W., a salesman in Columbus, Ohio, for the C. J. Craig mens' furnishing store, and Blanche Thomas, wife of A. E. Thomas, of Columbus. His son, Ralph, is married to Miss Irene Jordon, daughter of the late William Jordon of Portsmouth, Ohio. Mr. Jones was very popular and very successful as a business man. All of his acquaintances are his friends and strange to say, some of his very best friends are his political opponents. He has always been a leader in the affairs of the Democratic party, and is usually a delegate to the county, district and state conventions of the Democratic party. If there is any hard work to do among the democrats of his county, it is usually put on him and he does it just the same as if it was the most important thing that he had to do in this world. Since 1900, Mr. Jones has not been actively engaged in any business but has been taking life easy. He is a model citizen, always in favor of public improvements and anything for the benefit of the public. Lafayette Jones was born in Brush Creek township. October 26, 1852. His father was Paul Karr Jones and his mother was Elizabeth (Clark) Jones, daughter of James Clark. Our subject received his early education in the common schools and afterwards attended the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, where he was graduated in 1880. He began teaching in 1872, and continued to teach until 1896. While at Lebanon, he studied surveying and civil engineering. In the fall of 1880, he began work as a surveyor and has continued it since. He was deputy surveyor of Scioto county from 1888 till 1891. He was elected County Surveyor in 1897, and took the office in September, 1898. He was reelected in 1890 and is the present incumbent. He was married October, 1881, to Margaret McDermed, daughter of David McDermed. They have two children: Mary Winifred and Ada. He is an enthusiastic republican and an active politician. He is a member of the Methodist church known as McKendreels Chapel near McGaw, Ohio. He is a good plain, common, every-day American citizen with a well-developed and highly educated conscience which he tries to live up to. He tries to do every duty apparent to him. Thomas Hart Benton Jones, son of Andrew B. and Vienna (Williams) Jones was born on his father's farm on Scioto Brush creek, four miles west of Otway, March 5, 1838. His father was a son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Cain) Jones. Andrew Jones was a soldier in the War of 1812 and came to Adams county, Ohio, from Virginia. His father was a native of Wales. The maternal grandparents of Mr. Jones were James and Elizabeth (Murphy) Williams. James Williams was a soldier in the Revolutionary war (see Revolutionary Soldiers) and was one f the pioneers of Adams county. He died July 5, 1842 and his wife November 11, 1855. The subject f this sketch was reared on the farm on which he was born and attended the district school. In 1859, he received a certificate to teach. 1018 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. He taught school three winters and then went back to farming, at which he has been engaged up to the present time. In 1860 and 1861, he was Assessor of Brush Creek township. He was then elected Trustee and served until 1865 and was elected township Clerk the same year, and re-elected in the succeeding year. In 1867, he was again elected Trustee and served several terms thereafter. He is now one of the Trustees of the township and has been a member of the Board of Education for several terms. He is a democrat and his office holding would indicate that he has been prominent in local politics and that his friends have much confidence in his integrity. Mr. Jones is a member of the Christian Union church. He was married to Elizabeth H. Freeman, daughter of Moses and Margaret (McCormick) Freeman, April 12, 1863. They have six children, as follows: Emma Estella born January 5, 1864, married William H. Davis of Farragut, Iowa, December 23, 1896; James Moakley born August 1, 1865, married March 5, 1891 to Martha A. Liston; Bertha Ethel born March 24, 1872, married William E. Brown and resides at McDermott this county; Thomas Carew born June 16, 1874 is at home; Edwin Watson, born January 2, 1878, at home; Alva Burton born April 6, 1882 is a teacher in the country schools. He is progressive in his ideas and has most excellent judgment in all matters of the practical affairs of life. He is always interested in questions of social, moral and educational improvement. He is hospitable in his home, prudent in home affairs, temperate and industrious. He is generous on all occasions where such quality is in demand. Captain John Kaps was born November 2, 1835, in Bavaria. His father was Kasper Kaps, and his mother's maiden name was Margaret Heiman. They had six children, f whom our subject was the second. His parents left Germany when he was six weeks old, and located at Buffalo, New York. Soon afterwards the family came to Piketon, because Michael Nessler, who resided there, was a cousin. Mr. Nessler recommended him to locate in Portsmouth, and he did so in 1836. In 1845, he went to reside with George S. Pursell and to learn the brick business, and while there he attended the Portsmouth schools until the year, 1856 when he formed a partnership with Mr. Pursell, as Pursell and Kaps. He remained with him until 1858, when he went to Virginia and engaged with the Kanawha Company, working at his trade until January, 1860, and then returned to Portsmouth. He enlisted April 16, 1861 in Company G, 1st 0. V. I. and was mustered out August 1, 1861. On his return from the first three monthsl service, he went into the grocery business at Portsmouth, with Philip E. Hard, as Hard and Kaps. He continued in that until 1862, when he entered Company C, of the 91st 0. V. I., as First Lieutenant. He served as such until July 6, 1864, when he was transferred to Company D, as its Captain, and was transferred again to Company C, on the 1st f September, 1864. He was mustered out June 24, 1865. On March 1, 1866, he entered into partnership with Peter Kaps, his brother, in the manufacturing of brick and in building, continuing in that until April, 1894, when the firm was dissolved. This firm of Kaps Brothers was known for its integrity and reliability, and it built most of the important structures in Portsmouth during the time it was in business. Since 1894, Mr. Kaps has been engaged in the manufacture of brick. From January, 1887, to January, 1893, Mr. Kaps was one of the County Commissioners of Scioto county. For the five years last past he has been a member of the County Tax Commission. He was married February 13, 1873, to Jennie McIntyre, daughter of Daniel McIntyre. They have had two sons: John D., a lawyer in New York city. His second son, Harry, is engaged in the brick business with his father. Mr. Kaps is a republican and a member of the Bigelow Methodist church. For integrity Mr. Kaps stands second to none. He is perfectly reliable and is always certain to meet any and all obligations. Peter Kaps was born in Bavaria, May 19, 1833. His father was Kasper Kaps, a stock dealer, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Heiman. Both were natives of BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1019 Germany. In 1836, he came to Scioto county and Located in Portsmouth, Ohio. He received a common school education and learned the brick layer's trade. While a boy he worked for Daniel Parsley, at farming and brickmaking. He made hay on the land above Court and Seventh streets. November 9, 1861, he enlisted in the 15th Kentucky Infantry, and served three years and three months. He was made First Sergeant April 3, 1862. He was promoted to First Lieutenant July 13, 1863, and was mustered out January 14, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky. He served in the City Council of Portsmouth from 1872 to 1873, and from 1875 to 1878. He was the author of the city garbage and hog ordinances. He has always been a republican. January 1, 1871, he was married to Elizabeth Evans. They have three children: James E., George P., and Henry H. Mr. Kaps is a typical working man. No man was ever busier than he or has done more hard work in the same length of time. He is one of the most kind hearted and obliging of men. He has always possessed the respect and confidence of those in his employment and he has had the good will and friendship of every person for whom he ever worked. He has built as many brick structures as any man who ever worked in Portsmouth, and has given satisfaction in every case. For six years he has been living on a farm on. the west side and has carried on farming there and at the same time has worked at his trade in Portsmouth. Lieutenant Zenis Keller was born July 30, 1841, in Madison township, Scioto county, Ohio. His father was Francis Keller and his motherls maiden name was Delilah Culp. He attended school in Madison township until he was sixteen year of age. From that until he was twenty he worked on his father's farm. On August 5, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, 33d 0. V. I., under Captain Samuel Currie. His brother, Sylvester, who has a sketch herein, was a member of the same company. He was wounded on November 25, 1863, at the battle of Mission Ridge. He was shot through the right wrist and right hip with a minnie-ball. This wound disabled him from further service. He was in the hospital, in consequence of it, until August 27, 1864, when he was discharged. He entered Co. H, 191st 0. V. I., as Second Lieutenant March. 8, 1865. He served until August 27, following. The regiment served in the valley, near Winchester, Va., all its time. The officers and soldiers of the 33d Ohio recommended him to be commissioned in the last named regiment. As soon as he left the army, he went to Kirksville, Missouri, and took up the occupation of a farmer. He remained there fourteen years when he located in Johnson county, Kansas, in 1879, as a farmer. He remained there twelve years, till 1891, when he went to Winfield, Cowley county, Kansas, where he has resided ever since. He was city marshal of Winfield in 1900 and 1901, and has followed various occupations there. He was married in 1869, at Kirksville, Missouri, to Mrs. Christina McGill (born Curry) widow of James McGill. He has three children: Martin Luther, in the harness business, residing in Newton, Kansas; Julius Curry, engineer on the New York Central railroad; Oliver Perry, a book-keeper. Mr. Keller made an excellent record as a soldier. As such his conduct was all that could be desired. In his service to his country he had the entire confidence of all the officers and comrades. Having fought for his country and received honorable wounds in its service, he knows its value of citizenship, and conducts himself at all times as a law abiding and patriotic citizen. Captain Sylvester Keller was born July 5, 1845, in Scioto county, Ohio. He was the son of Francis and Delilah Keller. His mother’s maiden name was Culp. His great-grandfather was Francis Keller, who came to West Virginia before 1800. He made salt at the Kanawha salt works and took it to New Orleans to market. He also took many boat loads of pork. He made much money and invested it in lands in Scioto county. Jacob, the grandfather of our subject was born in Pennsylvania, and located in the southern part of Jackson county, Ohio. He started to Missouri in 1865, and died on the way. Francis, the father of our subject, Was born in 180$ and lived in Greenup county, Kentucky, on Tygart, until 1020 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. 1806 when he came to Scioto county. He died in 1881, at the age of 'seventy-three years. School facilities were very meager when our subject was a boy and his education therefore was limited. He enlisted in Company A 33 Regiment 0. V. I. August 5, 1861, and was mustered in at Camp Morrow, Ohio. He was appointed Sergeant September 19, 1863, First Sergeant August 26, 1864, promoted to First Lieutenant January 28, 1865, Captain May 23, 1865, but was not mustered. He re-enlisted at Chattanooga, Tennessee, .January 12, 1864. He resigned January 27, 1865. Mr. Keller has been twice married. His first wife was Elizabeth C. Welch, of Jackson, Ohio, whom he married December 6, 1867. Their children are: Ida Alice, died at the age of thirty-two, wife of Joseph Crabtree; Mary Frances Stephen and William. His first wife died May 4, 1884. He was married a second time to Mrs. Polly Alexander, September 3, 1885. She was a daughter of John Rockwell. The children by this second marriage are: Merton E. aged fourteen; Bessie Florence, age twelve, Isa Edith and Ida Ethel twins, age eight years. His second wife died October 3, 1894. Mr. Keller cast his first vote for John Brough, for Governor of Ohio, and has ever since been a stanch republican, and an active member of the party but has never held any office. He has been postmaster at Koran, Ohio for the past twelve years. He is a member of the United Brethren church. Philip H. Kelley was born April 9, 1823, in county Tipperary Ireland. His father was Timothy Kelley and his mother's maiden name was Bridget Maher. His father, a stock raiser and buyer, died when he was eighteen. He had one sister, Mary, but no brothers. He learned the trade of a stone cutter in Ireland. In 1848, he brought his mother to the United States and located in Auburn, New York. Four years after their arrival his mother died. In 1849, he went to Cleveland, Ohio and followed his trade. In 1851, he began working on the railroad and continued that for two years. In 1853, he determined on beginning for himself and became a contractor for railroad work and on other public structures, usually bridge masonry. In 1855 he was married to Miss Anna Hayes of Delaware, Ohio, sister of Captain Thomas Hayes of the 30th 0. V. I., who has a sketch and picture herein. They had eight children, eight of whom survive: John, Timothy, James, Joseph, William, Edward, Mary and Mrs. Will S. Myers. Thomas and Philip are deceased. Mrs. Kelley died November 24, 1887. Mr. Kelley first came to Portsmouth in 1857. He came to Portsmouth to build the piers of the Suspension bridge at the mouth of the Scioto and concluded to remain. He purchased the Massie block in the sixties and owned it for many years. In 1863, he purchased the home on Jackson street. In 1871, he built the Portsmouth water works and was one of its first board f trustees for three years. In 1871, the Biggs House fire destroyed the Massie block and he rebuilt it at once. In 1881, he built the abutments of the great railroad bridge over the Ohio at Point Pleasant. In 1883, he built the piers of the Cincinnati & Eastern railroad bridge across the Scioto river, two miles north of Portsmouth for $26,000 and lost every dollar of it. He was a devout communicant of the church f the Holy Redeemer and in his political faith, he was a democrat. He was for many years a director of the Farmers' National Bank of Portsmouth, Ohio, but was entirely innocent of any knowledge of the facts of its management which led up to is failure. He was a heavy loser when it went down. He also lost in the failure of the Citizens’ Savings Bank and of George Davis. Mr. Kelley was strictly honest in all his dealings and believed every one else was. Because of his unlimited faith in his fellow men, he suffered many financial losses, but he never repined, nor regretted, nor lost faith in humanity. He knew his trade well and could figure up well in any stone work, and beyond that he did not claim extensive knowledge. He was most candid in his feelings and expressions, always being himself and never assuming any character which was not his own. He was affable and courteous to all. As a neighbor, he was obliging respected and liked. As a citizen, he was liberal minded and public-spirited. His faith in his party and his church was child- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1021 like and admitted of no doubt, or question. He was always ready to grant every favor asked of him. He was incapable of hating any one, and simply pitied those who robbed him. His losses by fire and failures, he bore with the utmost composure. He always met disaster with honor. He died June 15, 1900. In his dying hours, his faith sustained him. He was one f the purest, most simple-minded men who ever lived in Portsmouth. If he had any enemies, he never deserved them. He always did the best he could under any circumstance and never worried about results. No more truthful, sincere, honest, or upright man and citizen ever dwelt in Portsmouth. Andes Jones Kellogg was born in the French Grant, near Haverhill, November 21, 1845. His father, Hiram Kellogg, was born at Franklin Furnace July 28, 1816, the son of William W. and Nancy (Lamb) Kellogg. William Kellogg came to Franklin in 1815 from Vermont, of which state he was a native. He died in 1844. The mother of our subject was Luna (Jones) Kellogg, daughter of Andes and Lucy Jones, natives of Kentucky. Our subject was one of a family of seven children. The wife of Stephen Winkler, of near Hanging Rock, is one of these. Mr. Kellogg received his early education in the district school and later spent three years at the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio. He entered the teaching profession and continued for a period, of ten years, and during that time was considered one f the best educated and most practical teachers in the county. Though he has been a farmer for many years, he has never lost his interest in schools and education. Besides, he is a thoroughly practical and up-to-date farmer and gardener. He is an interesting writer and speaker on subjects of this nature, and takes a delight in doing so. He was married to Alice Bumgarner, in June, 1876. The children of this marriage are: Laura, deceased, Roy, Amy, Hubert, deceased. Grace and Claire. His first wife died in 1893. He was again married. October 26, 1897, to Sarah Bumgarner, a sister of his former wife. Mr. Kellogg is a member of the republican party and has been one of the workers in the party for a number of years. He was elected Clerk of Green township in 1893, and has held the office continuously to the present time, and he makes a most efficient official. He is a member of the Haverhill Grange, the only order of the kind in the county. Captain Alva Vinton Kendall was born May 28, 1832. His father. Jefferson Kendall, was the oldest child f William Kendall and Rachel Brown Kendall. Jeremiah Kendall, the father of General William Kendall, served as a private in Captain William Washington's company, 3rd Virginia regiment. commanded by Colonel Thomas Marshall, father of the Chief Justice, in the Revolutionary war. He enlisted February 23, 1776, to serve two years; was transferred in August, 1777, to Captain G. B. Wallace's company, same regiment; was wounded in September, 1777, and was discharged in January, 1778. Jefferson Kendall enlisted in Battery L, First Ohio Light Artillery, on August 19, 1861, at the age f fifty-four, and was discharged September 27, 1862. on surgeonls certificate of disability. Our subject was born at Junior Furnace, Ohio, while his father was storekeeper there. As a boy he lived at Clinton, Buckhorn and Franklin furnaces, where his father was engaged as book-keeper and store-keeper. The family moved to Wheelersburg, Ohio, prior to 1840, where his father kept a hotel, grocery and drug store. Wheelersburg at that time was a place of considerable importance. as it was the business center for Clinton and Buckhorn furnaces. In the spring of 1849. our subject went to California overland, with a party made up at Wheelersburg. Among them were William McKinley. Worthington Enslow, William Crichton, Dr. Thomas Moxley, William Red-dick, William Fenton, Thomas Burt, and Garrel Duke. They had three wagons, made at Haverhill by Lenninger. The party sent their wagons to St. Joseph, Mo., by steamboat. They bought four yoke of oxen in Illinois for each wagon. They left St. Joseph, Mo., in April, 1849, and drove from ten to twenty-two miles a day. They were four months and four days on the way. Mr. Kendall says there was a continuous procession of wagons all the way to Califor- 1022 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. nia. Their journey was stopped at Deep Hollow, California, where they dug for gold. They found plenty of gold, but spent it. Our subject came back to Portsmouth, in 1853. He returned to California in 1855, and remained until 1859. He was mining during his first four years in California. The latter four years he drove a team and kept store most of the time. He returned from the first trip by way of the Isthmus of Panama. and on his second trip west went by way of Nicaragua, and came back through Mexico by way of the Gulf. From 1859 to 1862, he kept a grocery in Portsmouth for George Oldfield. On the sixth of August, 1862, he entered the service as First Sergeant of Company F, 91st 0. V. I. On December 2, 1862, he was made Second Lieutenant of Company F; and on May 1, 1863, was made First Lieutenant of Company F; May 26, 1864, he was transferred First Lieutenant of Company B. On December 28, 1864, he was transferred to Company F, as First Lieutenant. On March 29, 1865, he was made Captain of Company G, of the same regiment. He was mustered out October 16, 1865, by order of the War Department. During a considerable part of the service, he was acting commissary of musters of the department of West Virginia. On his return from the army, he went to clerking on a steamboat on the Ohio river until October, 1866, when he went into the revenue service as assistant assessor to Colonel John A. Turley. When Colonel Coates was appointed Collector f Internal Revenue, he was made a deputy collector. He was out under Cleveland's two terms, but with that exception he was in the revenue service until his death. At the time of his death, he was a deputy under John C. Entrekin, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Eleventh District of Ohio. He was in the collectorls office twenty-seven years, handled over $30,000,000 and never lost a cent. His books always balanced. His father and mother moved to Portsmouth in 1850. His father kept a store on the southeast corner of Seventh and Chillicothe streets until he enlisted in Battery L. Our subject was married in 1870, to Miss Louisa Koen, and resided till his death on Ninth street in Portsmouth. He died September 28, 1901. Charles Kendall was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, November 3, 1839, the son of Thomas Kendall and Anna M. Glover. his wife. His father was the son of General William Kendall and Rachel Brown, his wife. and his mother was the daughter of Elijah Glover and Catherine Jones, his wife. His father has a separate sketch herein. He spent his childhood and boyhood in Portsmouth and obtained his education in her public schools. He attended the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, one year. Mr. Kendall was in business at West. Liberty, Ohio, for 'several years, but in 1868, returned to Portsmouth, where he has been in the shoe business ever since. He has always been a republican in politics. He has been a member, of the city Board of Education. He is a member of the Second Presbyterian church of Portsmouth, Ohio. On November 19, 1861, he was married to Miss Emily H. Lloyd, daughter of Thomas G. and Lola Lloyd. They had four children: Addie L., who married Henry Padan, Lola married Albert G. Padan, and Charles Franklin Kendall married to Laura V. Gilbert, daughter of the late Martin B. Gilbert. He has a son, Thomas L., a young man at home. Mr. Kendall had the misfortune to lose his wife, December 8, 1890, and his daughter Addie, Mrs Henry Padan, lost her husband, October 1. 1895. She has two children, Charles Franklin and Henrietta Craig. Mr. Kendall, his widowed daughter, her two children, and his son Thomas L. make their home together, and it is one of the pleasantest homes in Portsmouth. His daughter, Mrs. Albert G. Padan, and her husband, live in Los Angeles California. His son, Charles Franklin, has three fine boys, Gilbert, Richard and Charles Franklin. Surrounded by his children and grandchildren, and kept employed in a good business, life is very pleasant to Mr. Kendall. He is known well and favorably to every one in the county, for his agreeable manners and genial disposition. In the enjoyment of the esteem of all his neighbors, old age has no terrors for him. It is to him like the evening of a long summer day. He has had his troubles, hut Christian fortitude and patience has enabled him to bear them and live through them. No one in Ports- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1023 mouth has pleasanter family surroundings than he, and no one enjoys them more, or is more deserving of them. Captain Chase Wilmot Kennedy, is the son of Milton Kennedy and Josephine Hutchinson, his wife, and was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, January 4, 1859. His paternal ancestors are of Scotch-Irish and Scotch extraction. His father died July 10, 1896. His maternal ancestors are of Irish and German descent. The great-great-grandfather of our subject, Hugh Kennedy, was the first immigrant of this branch of the Kennedy family in America. The boyhood and youth f our subject was spent 'in Portsmouth. His first schooling was at a school conducted by Mrs. Crichton on Sixth street. He completed the course in the public schools and graduated in the class of 1875. After graduation he entered the employment of the Portsmouth Tribune and continued therein until the spring of 1879. In May of that year, he received the appointment of cadet to the United States Military Academy at West Point, as the result of a competitive examination held at Portsmouth, Ohio. He entered the United State Military Academy June 19, 1879, and graduated therefrom June 13. 1883. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 3d United States Infantry and served in Montana, Dakota and Minnesota until the spring of 1898, participating in the expeditions and campaigns against the Kootenai, Crow and Sioux Indians during that interval. He was promoted First Lieutenant. 3rd Infantry, November 13, 1889; Regimental Adjutant, 3rd Infantry from March 13, 1891, to March 12, 1895. During the Spanish-American war he took part in the campaign against Santiago, Cuba, being in command of Co. C, 3rd Infantry; was present at the Battle of El Caney, July 1, 1898, and at the subsequent attacks on Santiago from July 2 to July 11, 1898. He returned to the United States in August, 1898. and participated in the campaign against the Leech Lake Indians in the fall of that year in Minnesota. In the meantime he had been promoted captain and assigned to the 8th United States Infantry. He joined that regiment in Huntsville, Alabama, in November, 1898, and accompanied the regiment to Havana, Cuba. in December, and was present at the formal transfer of the government of the island of Cuba from the Spanish to the American authorities, January 1, 1899. He remained on duty in Cuba until July, 1900, when the regiment was transferred to the United States, en route to the Philippine Islands. He arrived there October 25, 1900, and was on duty there from that date to July 28. 1902. He is now on duty with his regiment at Governor's Island, N. Y. He was appointed Adjutant, 8th Infantry. June 13, 1900. He was married November 13, 1889, at Fort. Snelling. Minnesota, to Elizabeth Lord Jewett, daughter of Colonel Horace Jewett, United States Army. Wade Stanton Kennedy was born March 11, 1867, in Portsmouth, Ohio. the son of Milton Kennedy and Josephine Hutchinson, his wife. His father has a separate sketch herein. His son above named was given his two front names in honor f those great statesmen, Benjamin Wade and Edwin M. Stanton. Wade, as he is best known, was always a sturdy boy and has made a sturdy man. He attended school in Portsmouth until he was twelve years of age. His father then moved to Clay township and he attended there for two years. At fourteen years, he went into the employment of Henry Vincent to learn the butcher's trade, and served at it for three years, but did not like it. In 1884, he went into the employment of Drew, Selby & Co., and has made the shoe business his life's work. He commenced as a cutter and worked at that for eleven years. He then became foreman of the cutting department and a buyer of upper leather, and held that position with Drew, Selby & Company for seven years. On April 12, 1902, he went into the Star Shoe Company, which has since become the Irving Drew Company. He is a stockholder in the company and its vice president. He and Mr. Will Gates are superintendents under Mr. Irving Drew, who is general manager. Mr. Kennedy has the oversight of the cutting department and is a buyer of upper leather for the new company. He has mastered all the details of his department, and is a force and power in the shoe business. He enjoys the entire confidence f all his former employers and present business associates. 1024 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. He was married September 30. 1890, to Miss Sylvia Flowers McKeehan, daughter of T. J. McKeehan, of Sinking Springs, Highland county, Ohio. He has one child Mary Terese, aged eleven years. He had the misfortune to lose his wife May 26, 1902. Mr. Kennedy is a member and trustee of the Second Presbyterian church of Portsmouth. He is a republican in his political views. He is a man of strong and earnest conviction. He has a fine sense of duty, and meets every obligation—business, social or religious—upon his conscience. He has all the elements to make a good citizen and makes one. No one values good citizenship more than he, or lives closer to his ideals. Edward John Henrick was born in April, 1835, in county Limerick, Ireland. His father, John Kenrick, was a farmer. His mother's maiden name was Katharine Killey. He received all his education in Ireland and when he was thirteen years of age, he came to America with his father, mother, brother Patrick, and sister Nancy. They landed at Quebec, where his father suffered a sun stroke and died, later, at Niagara Falls. The family then removed to Black Rock near Buffalo, and remained there two months. They then went to Cleveland and from there to Portsmouth, Ohio, by canal, landing there October 28, 1849. Edward first work on the farm of William McColm below town. He continued to work at farming for a time and then was employed as receiving clerk, watchman and train dispatcher for the Scioto and Hocking Valley railroad at Portsmouth. He was in this employment one year and then went to weighing iron at the lower mill. In 1855, he went to work for Horace Leet, in the lumber business and continued that for five years. Then he was on the police force for four years. February 1, 1863, he was married to Miss Eliza Mulligan, daughter f Edward Mulligan, and sister of Edward Mulligan, Jr. Mrs. Kenrick died February 13, 1867. They had two children, John and Kate. In 1864, he went on the river. In 1866, he went into the mineral water business with Edward Mulligan, Jr.. and they continued that for three years. Then J. P. Albert Cramer bought out Mulligan and the firm became Kenrick and Cramer. They were together thirteen years when Mr. Cramer died. Kenrick carried on the business alone until 1882 when he went into the wholesale grocery business, which he is still engaged in. In 1892, he was appointed a director of the First National Bank and has held that office since. In politics, he is a democrat. In his religion, he is a communicant of the Mother Church. He is also a member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Pat Kenrick was born in 1839, in the parish of Kilcommon, county Limerick, Ireland. His father was John Kenrick and his mother's maiden name was Katharine Killey. His father was a farmer. His parents had three children: Edward, now doing business in Portsmouth and residing on Ninth street. Nancy, who afterwards married a Wm. Boswell and resides in Cincinnati and our subject. The family emigrated to Canada, in the summer of 1849. There in the city of Quebec, the father received a fatal sunstroke. From that city, the family went to Black Rock, N. Y. near Buffalo. They remained there two months and went from there to Cleveland. Prom there, they came to Portsmouth by canal. They landed at Portsmouth, Ohio, October 28, 1849, and the remainder of our subject's life was spent there. It was necessary for the boy to work and he went into the employment of T. M. Patterson to learn the book-binding business. He did learn it, but it did not suit his taste and he gave it up. It was, however, a consolation to him that he had a trade on which to fall back if necessity required it. On April 16, 1861, he enlisted in Co. G. 1st 0. V. I. first three months service and served till August 1, 1861. He made a good soldier and was much liked by his comrades. On June 10, 1862, be was made Quartermaster of the city of Portsmouth and of the several militia companies stationed there and held the position so long as such an officer was required. The city had quite a supply of military stores and equipments. After the war, he followed the river and was very popular with all who met him and knew him. In 1867, he started BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1025 the St. Charles Exchange, on the east side f Market street and conducted it for 17 years. He was a very popular landlord and restaurant keeper, and served as good meals as were ever put up in Portsmouth. Every one liked him and he had a pleasant welcome and a gracious adieu to all who visited him. He was one of the most liberal and sympathetic of mankind. A woman or child, a crippled or disabled person, always called forth his sympathies. If any one had a tale of woe, he had a sure listener in Pat, and if ministering to the poor and needy constituted the best Christian, he was the best in town. Pat was always a democrat and in 1889, he was a candidate on that ticket for County Commissioner against John Kaps on the Republican ticket. The vote stood, Kaps 3,683; Kenrick, 2,949. Majority for Kaps, 734. James E. Campbell, the Democratic candidate for Governor, was elected and Pat was one of the dead and wounded to be taken care of. He wanted the stewardship f the Penitentiary, but in the division f the spoils, obtained the superintendency of the kitchen, a very good place. He had numerous opportunities for making money, but insisted on honesty and integrity and required that the state should be justly served. However he did not like the place and in eighteen months gave it up. On October 28, 1875, he married Miss Sarah J. Rhodes, daughter of John Rhodes, and his married life was a very happy one, though not blessed with children. When he left the employment of the state, he located in New Boston, on the Rhodes place and lived there almost all the time till a few days before his death. He died Sunday, November 13, 1898, at his residence on the southeast corner of Washington and Seventh streets, of Bright's disease. He died in the communion of the Roman Catholic church, in which he had been reared. Pat Kenrick was a man of emphasis in all he did. He had a heart full of sympathy for all mankind. He was always fond of children and never could do too much for them. He loved to be surrounded by them and to minister to their pleasures. He never, from his standpoint, injured any human being. His life was spent in Portsmouth and he was a familiar figure in it for thirty-four years. William Sanford Kent was born in Madison township, Scioto county, Ohio, July 22, 1866. He is the son of Vincent L. and Celina D. Bondurant Kent, the former of Meigs county, and the latter of Jackson county. Our subject's paternal grandfather and grandmother were John and Jane Longshore Kent, and his maternal grandfather was Thomas Bondurant. The boyhood and youth of our subject was spent on the farm in Madison township, and in attending the district, schools, where he obtained a fair education. He married Una Bennett, daughter of Rolla E. and Sarah A. Pool Bennett, February 5, 1897. They have three children: Irma Avanel, Louis Warden, and Essel Selma. For the past six years, Mr. Kent has been engaged in the lumber business, and is now conducting a general store, in Pike county, where he does a large amount of business. He is a democrat and a member of the Knights of Pythias. Rev. Heber A. Ketchum, D. D., was born in Ripley township, Huron county, Ohio, May 27, 1836. His father's name was Isaac and his mother's name was Anna. He studied preparatory for college at Hayesville and Hudson, Ohio. He entered Western Reserve, now Adelbert College, in July, 1862. The day following matriculation he enlisted as a private in Company B, 85 0. V. I. for three months. He was honorably discharged September 27, 1862 at Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from college in July, 1866. In the fall of that year he entered Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati and graduated in the spring f 1869. He was installed pastor of the Presbyterian church of New Richmond, Ohio June 10, 1869. On August 25th of the same year he was married to Miss Ansley J. Blackman of Hudson, Ohio. He remained at New Richmond three years and in the summer of 1872 he resigned his pastorate at that place and accepted the co-pastorate of the First Presbyterian church at Portsmouth, Ohio, Rev. E. P. Pratt being the regular pastor. In February, 1875, he was installed pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of Portsmouth, the membership of which consisted of 1026 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. one hundred and ninety members from the First Presbyterian church. He continued as pastor of this church for almost ten years, when he resigned to accept a call from the Second Presbyterian church at Urbana, Ohio, where he was installed pastor April 28, 1885. During this pastorate he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from his Alma Mater. In the spring of 1891, he received a unanimous call to become the pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Berkeley, California, where he was installed pastor October 18, 1891. This pastorate continued for six years when he accepted a call to the First Presbyterian church at Salem, Oregon, and was installed pastor October 28, 1897, where at the present writing July, 1901, he is near the close of his fourth year as pastor of that church. Mr. Ketchum has four daughters and one son, William F., born August 15, 1870; Mary E., born December 17, 1872; Bertha. born February 7. 1875; Edith, born February 8, 1878; and Marguerite Ruth, born September 4, 1886. Rev. Ketchum has been successful in all his pastoral work, all of which has been characterized by the most intense zeal, great earnestness and deep piety. Frederick Charles Ketter was born at Gephart's, December 15, 1873. His parents were William H. and Mary E. (Crosser) Ketter. His grandparents came from Germany. He spent the first nine years of his life at Gephart's and then his father removed to Harrison township and located on the old Dan White farm, where they lived for twelve years and then returned to Gephart's. During this time he worked on the farm and attended school in the winter. In 1894, he and his brother William commenced a general store at Gephart's and Fred continued in this business until 1897. He then learned telegraphy with William A. Tripp at South Webster. He worked with him for five months, and went to work with Walker Marsh at Eifort where he remained for two years. He was Assessor of Bloom township in 1895. In 1898, he was elected a member of the county Republican Central Committee. In 1899, he was appointed Deputy Sheriff, under Sheriff Williamson. In the Republican primary in March 1902, he was nominated for Sheriff and was elected in November. He is a republican and a member of the German M. E. Church, also a member of the A. 0. U W. of Portsmouth. He was married June 16, 1898 to Theodosia B. Cross, daughter of Doctor P. B. and Eliza (Howell) Cross of South Webster, Ohio. They have one boy, Eugene. Mr. Ketter is a popular officer and citizen. He aims to do his full duty in every relation in life, a fact which is appreciated by all who know him. He is earnest and serious in all he does and will succeed in anything he undertakes. William Ernst Ketter was born at Gephart's, November 21, 1871. His father was William Henry Ketter, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Crosser. He went to School at Gephart's, and such times as he was out f school, he worked on the railroad as a section man, with his father. In 1891, he engaged in the general merchandise business with F. C. Ketter his brother at Gephart's, and was in business there until 1898. Since then. he has been engaged in mining fireclay. He ships the clay to Massillon, Newberg and to the companies near Portsmouth. He has twelve men in his employ all the time and ships from one to two cars a day. He married Lucinda Jenkins, December 20, 1885. He has three children, Grace, Wells, and Marie. He is a republican in his political views. Charles A. Kiefer was born in Alsace, France, now Germany, March 5, 1814. He was reared on the Roman Catholic church and remained in that faith till after his marriage. He was married in 1832, to Elizabeth Rosenmyer, who was reared a Protestant. She was a native of Hanover, and two years her husband's senior. They had five children: Mary, wife of Louis Blomeyer, Louis, Edward, and Frederick, of Portsmouth, Ohio, and Amelia, wife of William Campbell, f Columbus, Ohio. He emigrated to the United States in 1848 and located at Pine Grove Furnace and followed his trade of stone cutting. He worked two years each at Hanging Rock, Ohio, and Ashland, Kentucky. He came to Portsmouth in 1863, and BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 102 was employed at Gaylord's mill until it shut down and then worked at Wait' furniture factory and at Johnson's hub and spoke factory. He joined the Ger man Methodist Episcopal church in 1850 and became a local preacher. He was noted for his honesty and his sincere piety. His faith was sublime and his life was a benediction. The children of his acquaintance revered and loved him They lovingly called him, "Grandpa Kiefer." He died March 13, 1889. His wife died August 30, 1894. Charles Kinney, son of Charles and Elizabeth (Cox) Kinney, grandson of Washington Kinney was born in Springville, Kentucky, July 7, 1850. His grandfather, Washington Kinney, has a sketch herein. After the death of his father, in 1861, he re moved with his mother to Columbus, Indiana, where he received his primal.: education in the public schools. When sixteen years of age, he entered the of Tice of the Columbus (Indiana) Bulletin, to learn the printer's trade. He was employed there for a term of nine years. In 1871, he returned to Portsmouth and was employed in Reilley's book store for four years. He afterwards became a traveling salesman for the Cabinetmaker's Union, holding this position until he accepted the appointment as Deputy Treasurer of Scioto county in 1876. In 1883, he was elected Treasurer of Scioto county, by a majority of 481 votes, and upon the expiration of his term, was chosen as his own successor, this time by the very flattering majority of 1,347. Upon the expiration of his second term as County Treasurer, he accepted the position of Chief Assistant to Hon. Daniel J. Ryan, Secretary of State, at Columbus, Ohio, and served from 1889 to 1892. In that year he served as secretary of the Board of Ohio Commissioners at the World's Columbian Exposition. He was also chief clerk under the Hon. S. M. Taylor, Ryan's successor, as Secretary of State till 1896 at which time he was elected to that office by a handsome majority. He was re-elected in 1898, In June, 1901, he formed a law partnership with George H. Jones, under the firm name of Jones & Kinney, at Columbus, Ohio. He was chairman o his county committee in 1888, and has been a delegate to numerous state conventions. In his fraternal relations he is identified with the Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias, having attained the Knight Templar degree in the former. He was married October 8, 1879, to Letitia H. Yoakley, daughter of John Yoakley, of Portsmouth, Ohio. In all his public stations Mr. Kinney has de ported himself as becomes a public servant. He has been faithful, capable ant upright. His actions have merited the approval of all people, irrespective o party affiliations. Captain Thomas Waller Kinney, son of Washington Kinney and Mary Waller, his wife, was born March 19 1842, the youngest child of a family of nine children. He grew up in Ports month, left the Portsmouth schools at the age of sixteen and went into the State Bank of Ohio, as an errand boy. He was there until he was nineteen years of age, when he enlisted in Company G, 56th 0. V. I., October 30, 1861, fo three years. He was promoted to Sergeant-Major the same day. He was mad Second Lieutenant of Company H, June 11, 1862. He was made First Lieutenant December 27, 1862. and Captain February 14, 1863. He was mustered ou May 15, 1864, at New Orleans, La., on expiration of his term of service. On his return from the army, he went into the W. Kinney & Co. ban' and was in that bank and its successors, until the bank failed in November 1877. Directly afterwards he became the first agent of the Scioto Valle: railroad at Portsmouth. and served one year. Then in 1879, he moved to Kansas, located near Connell Grove and engaged In farming, for a period f thre years; but he concluded that his old home was the best place for him, and i 1882, came back and engaged with the Portsmouth Fire Brick Company, in sup plying fire clay for the company. The company merged into the Kentucky Fir Brick Co., in 1901, and he has been with the two companies ever since 1882, 1s the same capacity. In April. 1872, he was married to Miss Lida Adams. The have one daughter. Julia. He is a Blue Lodge Mason, and holds his member ship in Pogue Lodge, Ashland, Ky. 1028 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. Mr. Kinney is a great collector of curios and old relics. His collection is referred to, and a part of it mentioned, elsewhere. He is a gentleman who despises notoriety in any form. His tastes are quiet and he prefers the social enjoyment of his own immediate Circle. He is fond f history and historical reminiscence, and would have made an excellent historian. He is an amateur geologist. He has studied the subjects theoretically and practically all his life, and the editor of this work is indebted to him for a contribution on that subject, which wil be found herein properly accredited to him. He is content to be simply inscribed on the good citizen roll and otherwise to follow his own inclinations. Like Diogenes, all he asks is, that no one shall stand in his sunshine. He will take care of the rest. Wellington R. Kinney, son of Henry Richie Kinney and Mary McNairn, his wife, was born November 30, 1847, on Font street. in Portsmouth, where Hibbs' hardware store was. His mother was born in Scotland and was the daughter of Joseph McNairn, who conducted a harty, are business in Portsmouth for many years. Mr. Kinney was educated in the public schools of Portsmouth and first entered business with Frank L. Gilbert in the wholesale grocery business in 1868, as a clerk. He remained here only a year and then went into the hardware business with his father on Chillicothe street as H. R. Kinney & Son. He retired in 1875 on account of ill health and traveled in Nevada and California for two years. In 1877, he returned to Ohio and since then has been engaged in raising small fruits. On October 9, 1889, he was united in marriage with Miss L. Epworth Briggs, daughter of Samuel C. Briggs. Two children were born to them: Wells Pearl, born December 19, 1890, died October, 1898; Briggs Richie, born February 17, 189L Mr. Kinney lines up with the principles of the Democrat party, and is a communicant of All Saints church in Portsmouth. He takes the part of a good citizen in the play of Human Life and fills out the character. William Kinney, son of Washington Kinney. was born October 26. 1835, at the old home on Second street, Portsmouth, Ohio. He went to school to Miss Birge in the Fourth street building. He attended Kenyon College and was a member of the class of 1854, but did not remain to graduate. He left Gambier and went first as a clerk for S. R. Ross and then into his father's bank. He was First Lieutenant of Company E, 140th 0. V. I., from May 2, to September 3, 1864. Directly after the war, he made the tour of Europe. He remained in the bank until his father's death in 1871, and then conducted the bank under the same name until it was' merged into the Iron National Bank in 1872. He was cashier of that bank until January 23. 1876, when it surrendered its charter. The 1ron National Bank was succeeded by W. Kinney & Company, composed of our subject and his brother. That continued until November 17, 1877, when it made an assignment. Afterwards all the claims against the bank were settled and released. From 1871 to 1874, Mr. William Kinney was one of the County Commissioners and made a most excellent officer. Since 1877, Mr. Kinney has resided most of the time in West Virginia. He is a gentleman of rare literary culture and taste and could grace any circle in the land. All his friends who know him best regret his determination to live in retirement. Captain Isaac Kirby was born at New Bedford, Massachusetts, November 19, 1802. He attended school there and at the age of twenty-three years, he went to sea as a common sailor in the coasting trade. He arose in the service until he became master and owner f a vessel. His vessel, a freighter, struck an iceberg on the New Foundland banks, and sunk in twenty minutes. He saved only his spy-glass. His vessel was bound from New Bedford to Glasgow, Scotland. He was seven days in an open boat and was brought back to the United States. His snip-wreck determined him to be a landsman. He started west and went to Cincinnati, and there he met Dr. McDowell, who persuaded him to locate at Portsmouth. He had two daughters with him, Isabel and Catharine. Isabel mar- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1029 ried John Renshaw, and Catharine died single. He started in the grocery business at Portsmouth, and in the making of brick with Eben Dole. He had married in New Bedford, and had three children, George and the two daughter; mentioned above. On December 14, 1841, he married. Rosina Dole, daughter of Eben Dole, born March 2, 1825. Their children were as follows: John Renshaw, who resides at Watseka, Ill., a farmer; Henry, died at the age f thirty-three. He had been a soldier in the civil war; William, died at the age of thirty-eight, and left a family; James A., in the marble business at Portsmouth, with the Bode Granite Company; Edward J., a grocer, and Ida May, who died at the age of eighteen years. Capt. Kirby died May 9, 1865, and his wife January 29, 1888. He was a Whig and a republican. He was a member of the Methodist church, and was a Justice of the Peace in Washington township a number of years. He was highly esteemed as a good citizen by all who knew him. James Albert Kirby is the son of Captain Isaac Kirby, a native of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Rosina Dole, the daughter of Eben Dole, one of the pioneers of Portsmouth. He was born September 3, 1852, on his father’s farm in Washington township, and attended school there. He started out for himself in 1865, in the employment of George W. Cole. There he worked on a farm for three years. He then went to Watseka, Illinois, and was a farmer's boy there for three years. In 1871, he returned to Portsmouth, and became an apprentice with Charles C. Bode, in the marble business. He learned the business in three years, and then he and his brother-in-law, Joseph Bowman, set up in the marble business as Bowman and Kirby, and continued it for twenty years. In 1894, Mr. Kirby tried the confectionery business and continued in it for four years. In 1898, he re-entered the employment of Charles C. Bode in the marble trade and continued it till the latter's death. Since the last mentioned event, Mr. Kirby and Mr. Charles J. Bode formed the Bode Granite Company, which they conduct. Mr. Kirby married Leona, the daughter of Joseph Bowman, September 29, 1874, and has had five children: Katie, the wife of Thomas Crooks, of Portsmouth; William, Grace, Edward and Lloyd, shoe cutters at Heer's. Mr. Kirby was a democrat till 1884, when he became a republican He never held any political office, but that of councilman. Frank Kleffner was born in Niedermashberg, Province Westphalia, Germany, May 9, 1832. His father died when he was a child and his step-father’s name was Anton Willike. His mother’s maiden name was Elizabeth Brange. He attended the elementary schools until he arrived at the age f fifteen years. Having left school, he went to Paderhorn, Westphalia, where he went into the business f baking, and served in that for three years, and then for this purpose he went through other parts of Germany and several countries of Europe. In about a year after this, he established a bakery for himself at Neidermashberg, where he conducted it until September, 1854, and from there he went to Buffalo, New York, where he found employment in a brewery for about four months. Then he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and was employed in the bakery business for five months. He heard of Portsmouth and went there and engaged in business. In 1857, he visited Germany and remained a year. On December 29, 1861, he was married to Miss Barbara Adams, widow of Thomas H. Muehl. He then went into the brewery business in Portsmouth and was engaged in it for twenty years. He served as a councilman for two years. His wife died August 11, 1871, leaving three children: Lizzie, Frank and Anna. He was married a second time to Anna Hatman, of Indiana, January 25. 1872, and the children f that marriage are: Otto, Josephine, Edward and Catharine. From this time till 1896, he followed his trade successively in Cincinnati, Sciotoville ,Hamden and Columbus. 0. He again returned to Hamden, where he has since been engaged in the liquor business. He is a democrat in his political views, and a. communicant of the Roman Catholic church. He has always conducted himself as a good citizen, obedient to the laws, and faithful in the performance of all his civic duties. 1030 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. Frank Anthony Kleffner was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, January 2, 1868. His father was Frank Kleffner, and his mother was Barbara Adams. He went to school in Portsmouth till 18S1, when he finished up in the A Grammar, and then went to the Saint Francis Gymnasium in Cincinnati, with the idea of becoming a priest of the Roman Catholic church, but after remainng there for one year, he came to the conclusion that he was not fitted for the work. He says he was in jail four days and nights, in 1884, on account of the Cincinnati Court House riots, but was discharged after examination, as an innocent man. He was clerk in the Galt House at Cincinnati, for two years. He then worked for the Western Union Telephone Company, in Kentucky. In 1887 and 1888, he worked for his father in Sciotoville. From there he went to Hamden and was employed, with his father, for four years. He was in Columbus for a while in 1894, and visited New Orleans, but finally concluded that Portsmouth was the best place. He is engaged in the liquor business at 16 West Sixth street. He was married to Catharine C. Eal, of Columbus, Ohio, July 28, 1897. He has three children: Francis Gregory, Sylvester Emmett, and Helen Cecilia. He is a communicant of the church of the Holy Redeemer. William S. Klink was born December 13, 1871, at Piketon, Ohio. His parents were John and Amelia Klink, natives of Germany. His father was a bridge contractor and worked with Philip Kelley, in Pike county. Our subject attended the Piketon schools in winter and did farm work in summer. He worked for James English until he was ten years of age. From 1886 to 1892, he was engaged in Portsmouth at Moeller's butcher shop. He then worked as a shoe cutter for about a year in Portsmouth. Then he labored at a packing house, Tokee & Son, in Dayton, Ohio. He conducted a butcher shop here one year, came back to Portsmouth in 1896, and commenced working again for Moeller. He continued with him two years and in 1898, he commenced business for himself in Portsmouth, and continued for three years. In June, 1901, he took a partnership with Edward Moeller in the meat business, as Moeller & Klink. On February 16, 1898, he was married to Emma Voelker, daughter f Lewis and Eliza Voelker. He is a republican. He is a member f the United Brethren church. He is active, industrious, energetic and does the best he can to honorably fill the position in life in which he finds himself. Louis Knapp was born in Hanover, Germany, September 8, 1840. His father's name was Henry Knapp, and his mother's maiden name was Caroline Schukky. He came to this country with his parents in 1845, who located near Chillicothe on the old Adams farm, where they remained two years. In June, 1847, they moved to Clinton Furnace, *here his father dug ore at the furnace. They remained there seven years, and in 1853, moved to Center Furnace, in Lawrence county, where his father engaged in digging and mining ore. In the fall of 1855, the family moved to Clinton Furnace, where they remained until 1859, in the spring f which year they moved to Empire Furnace. His father resided there until his death in January, 1884, and his mother died in 1888. At Empire Furnace our subject began or contracting, and continued this until 1860. He also took contracts of hauling charcoal. In 1860, he took a contract of ore for Empire furnace, which in 1861, he turned over to his father, and enlisted in the army July 20, 1861, with a recruiting officer, at Empire furnace. The organization first intended was abandoned. On August 10, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, 5th Virginia regiment, hut was not mustered in until September 2, 1861. He was in the battles of Trout's Hill and Cross Keys, where one color bearer was shot on his right side and a soldier on his left. Two men were wounded near him, and he had several holes shot through his clothes, but he was not touched. There were thirty-seven men killed and wounded out of his regiment in this battle. He was promoted to corporal in 1862, and was made Sergeant in July, 1863. He was in the battles near Culpepper, C. H., and Cedar Mountain, Virginia, and Was under fire for thirty days. The members of his company were the sharp- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1031 shooters of the brigade and were with the advance guard at the beginning of the second battle of Bull Run. He took part in the battle at Lynchburg, Va., and shortly after at Winchester, Va. He was with General Crook and later under General Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley. He took part in the battle of Berryville, September 2, 1864, and was mustered out October 15., 1864, at Wheeling, W. Va. After he came home he engaged in teaming at Empire furnace, contracting and delivering ore, and in 1868, he went to Buckhorn furnace and took a contract hauling iron and ore, where he remained until 1870, when he went -to Center furnace, and took a contract hauling charcoal. On January 1, 1871, he bought a tract of Empire furnace, consisting f 107 acres of land. He has improved it extensively and added about 370 acres to it and has now over 400 acres in one body. He engaged in general farming until about 1890, when he turned his attention to raising fine stock and cattle. He raises black Aberdeen Angus cattle, and has about fifty head of full stock and grades. Mr. Knapp was married January 25, 1865, to Miss Mary Fitzsimmons, at Empire furnace. She lived until December, 1881. There were seven children of this marriage: Lizzie,. married Vinton Andre, died at the age of twenty-seven; May, the wife of Frank E. Hudson, traveling salesman for the Murphy Shoe Company. of Portsmouth, O.; Anna, died at the age of twenty-four; Joseph, died at the age of twenty-eight, married; Charles, died at the age of one year; Ruby, aged twenty-four, at home; James L., now teaching school, was in the Spanish-American war, 2nd United States Infantry in Company L. Mr. Knapp was married the second time in August, 1882, to Miss Hannah C. Fitzer. To this union two boys were born: John L., and Oliver W. He has always been a republican, and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Henry Chapel, M. E.. from 18'74 to 1898, since then he has held his membership at Wheelersburg. He has been class leader and steward since 1875. He is a member of the Grand Army. In the county generally, Mr. Knapp has long been recognized as one of the most substantial, successful and progressive farmers. He belongs to that wing of agriculturists who seem to know instinctively how to dig money out of the ground. This implies accurate perceptions-good judgment, industry, caution and. the ability to manage well. He is one of those men who would have succeeded in any vocation. He is skillful in adapting means to ends, is a shrewd dealer, plans carefully and usually accomplishes what he undertakes. He is correct in all his habits and has a military record during the civil war of which he has a right to be proud. His moral and religious life is exemplary. Frank Vincent Knauss was born December 22, 1850 in Monroe county, Pennsylvania. His father was Joseph Knauss, and his mother's maiden name was Katharine Ann Mansfield. His father was born December 22, 1823, and was a country merchant. He was a member of the 77th Pennsylvania Infantry during the whole war. He was Sergeant Major of the regiment. He died December 23 1901. Our subject received a common school education in the vicinity where he was born at White Haven, Pennsylvania. In 1869 he became a moulder in the shops of the Pennsylvania railroad at Altoona, where he remained but a few months. From there he went to the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad shops at Zaleski, Ohio, as a moulder. He did the principal part of the work there. In 1873 he came to Portsmouth and worked a short time with Murray, Moore & Co., but was invited to go to Jackson, by Peter Pickeral, to work in the foundry there. In that place he did most of the heavy work. While in Jackson he built a home; as a result of the panic of 1873 he sold his property in Jackson and bought a half interest in the foundry in Hamden. Not satisfied with that arrangement, he bought a flour mill in Zaleski, trading his interest in the Hamden foundry to H. S. Bundy. He remained in Zaleski in charge of this mill from 1879 to 1881. In the latter year he took charge of the Staiger Stamped Ware Factory at Washington, C. H., and remained there two years. In the fall of 1883, he came to Portsmouth, Ohio, and went into the employ of the Ohio Stove Company. In 1889, he organized the Portsmouth Stove 1032 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. & Range Works, and has been president and general manager, since January 1890. The original capital stock was $50,000, and it now has a considerable surplus. This factory is the most steady running factory of its kind in the United States, having never closed down, except for repairs. It employs 150 men, having begun with forty. The buildings have been doubled since the start, and the concern uses up fifteen tons of iron a day, making as good goods as any factory in the United States. These facts are mentioned in connection with Mr. Knauss, simply to illustrate his wonderful business ability. Mr. Knauss was married in September, 1872, to Miss Frances Beeching, a daughter of John Beeching of Cincinnati, in the wholesale, produce and commission business. He has the following children: Frank M., aged twenty-eight. John D., aged twenty-five and Harry A., aged twelve. He has been a republican all his life, as are all of his family. He was a member of the City Council for two years, and has been president of the Commercial Club for two years. He is now treasurer of the Gratz Lead Mining Company in Owensboro, Kentucky. He has been president of the Portsmouth Shoe Company for four years, and was first president and chairman f the Board f Trade. A business associate says of him: "He is a man who can be depended upon under all conditions. He is a practical, competent business man, and thoroughly familiar with all the details of the business with which he is connected. He is energetic, has been very successful in his ventures, and knows no such word as fail. His word is as good as his bond, and he stands high in financial circles. He is an enterprising citizen, who has always been .willing to devote his time and money towards any movement that is for the best interests of Portsmouth." William Knowles was born in Swaith, East Riding of Yorkshire, August 28, 1833. His father was John Knowles, a shoemaker, and his motherls maiden name was Jane Micklethwait, a sister of Joseph Mickrethwait, an ancestor of the Micklethwaits of Portsmouth. His parents had ten children, five sons and five daughters. William was the third son and child. He attended school in England, learned the shoemaker’s trade with his father, beginning at the age of fourteen years, and worked until he was twenty-one, then he came to the United States. William Raynor had married his aunt and located in Portsmouth, so he determined to come to the United States. Joseph Micklethwait was already located here, and young Knowles made the voyage. He came over in the "Robert Kelley," a sailing vessel. At that time there were only two steam vessels on the Atlantic Ocean, "The City of Philadelphia" and "The City of Glasgow." The "City of Philadelphia" was lost on a voyage she was making at the same time young Knowles crossed in the "Robert Kelley." He was eight weeks on the ocean, and the vessel encountered great storms. Twenty-nine passengers were lost on the way, washed overboard or died. The Captain of the ship was a personal friend of his, and he remained in New York a month as his guest. He went up the Hudson to Albany, and traveled by rail to Cleveland. Then he came to Cincinnati, and came up the river on the "Old Scioto," in May 1854 with Capt. Bernard Kepner. At that time Wm. Raynor was conducting a shoe business in Portsmouth, and young Knowles went to work for him for a short time. Then he went to work for Robert Bell and worked for him for several years; then for Richard Lloyd several years, then he kept a shop of his own for a number f years. He made the first shoe that was made by machinery for Robert Bell, and he has been connected with the shoe business ever since. When Mr. Irving Drew first went into the manufacture f shoes, Mr. Knowles began to work under him, and has worked up to the present day. He is the oldest employe in the Drew-Selby factory, and the oldest shoe worker now living in Portsmouth. He works at any and every part of the business. He is sixty-nine years old and works every day. He married Mary Katharine Kizer, daughter of Isaac Kizer, Sept 27, 1858. They have the following children: Lydia J., widow of Philip I orey; Lucy, Floyd. Sallie, I aura, Mary, John, Robert, Ralph. He and his family are members of the First Presbyterian church of Portsmouth, and have been for a great many years. Mr. Knowles and his family are highly respected in Ports- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1033 south. He works hard every day, and when his Sunday and holidays come no man enjoys them more than he. He is a typical Englishman in his physical constitution and in his habits and manner f thought. He believes in doing the duties of every day on that day, and not postponing anything until ,,he next. He lives in such a manner that if called away at any time, he would have nothing to regret. He keeps his conscience clear every day in the week. Mr. Knowles is a frank, candid man, and is just what he seems to be, nothing more or nothing less. Louis Frederick Korth, was born in 1844, at Stettin, the largest seaport of Prussia. His father's name was Fred W. Korth and his motherls name was Amelia Gesleau. His mother was descended from French Huguenots, who had located in Pomerania in 1687. He was educated at the Ecole Francaise in Stettin and learned the French language as well as his mother tongue. At nine years, he attended the City Gymnasium and at fifteen years of age the Nautical Academy at Stettin, until he was seventeen years old when he came to the United States, having fixed on Cincinnati as his destination. In Germany he had learned the English language. His father was a ship chandler at Stettin and many English and American sea captains did business there. Our subject is the only one of his family of six brothers and a sister who ever emigrated, though his brothers have visited this country. He landed in New York in May, 1861, and took up newspaper work. He enlisted in the 8th. N., Y. Vol. Infantry, July 6, 1861 for two years. His regiment was then in Virginia and he joined it at Arlington Heights some time in August. In a month after, he was detailed for topographical work and served in that capacity in Washington until his regiment, which was in Blenker's division f Sumner's corps, was sent across the mountains into West Virginia to join Fremont. He was in Fremont's campaign in Western Virginia and at the battle of Cross Keys on June 8, 1862. He went through the first Rappahannock campaign under Pope and Sigel and was in the second battle of Bull Run on the 29 and 30 of August, 1862. He was in Hooker's Rappahannock campaign and at Chancellorsville on May 24, 1863, on division staff service. At Gettysburg, his command fought along the Mummasburg road on the first day of July, 1863, and captured forty men of Rhodes' division. He was sent back with a guard detail in the afternoon, but the rebel prisoners got away in the melee in the town and he rejoined his command that evening at the cemetery gate. During Early's attack on the Federal right center late on the afternoon f the second day his command went to the support of Rickett's and Wiedrick's Batteries. During the night of the same day, they were rushed to the right of Culp's Hill to the support f Gen. Green against Johnson's attack on the Federal extreme right. In the afternoon of the third day, his command was subjected to the terrific concentrated fire of the entire Rebel artillery on Cemetery Hill during Pickett's charge. Mr. Korth's two-years' time expired on July 8, 1863, but he remained with the command during the pursuit of Lee as far as Warrenton, Va. He then concluded to go to Cincinnati and remained there until Kirby's raid when he assisted in laying out one of the redoubts south of Covington, Ky. He fell in with the 16 New York Artillery and enlisted in Company G for three years. Soon after he was 'sent to Gloucester Point at the mouth of York river. In the spring of 1864, his Battery joined the army of the James in the active campaign on Richmond under Butler. He was at Drury's Bluff, Dutch Gap Canal, Fort Harrison, Fort Brady, Darleytown, etc. In December, 1864, he was attached to the staff of Gen. Weitzel as topographer and served in this capacity until Grant's finishing campaign against Richmond. He went into Richmond with Battery C, 3rd R. I. Artillery on the morning of the 3rd of April. He was discharged late in July, 1865. In October, 1865, he went with his former captain, who was appointed Indian Agent, to Fort Smith, Arkansas. In the fall of 1866, he located at Quincy, Ill., and later took up the editorial charge of The Daily German "Tribune." He remained there seven years, and in St. Louis one year, where he worked on both English and German dailies with Carl Schurz and Joseph Pulitzer. 1034 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. In 1873, he visited Germany and resided there and in Liverpool England, about one year. In the fall of 1875 he returned to the United States for the Centennial Exposition, and took an editorial position on the Philadelphia "Daily Democrat," where he remained ten years. In 1885, he was called to Cleveland where he edited the German Daily "Waechter" four years. In 1889, he went to Springfield, Ohio, and started the "Adler," Republican. In 1895, he returned to Cleveland and took charge of the Cleveland German "Post and Press," (Republican), and published and edited it until 1899, when he came to Portsmouth and purchased the "Correspondent." Mr. Korth was married the first time in 1870, to Rose Lambur of Quincy, Ill. He had two sons by this marriage; Frederick, at Tacoma, Washington, and George, connected with a New York Publishing House. His first wife died in 1878, and he was married again in 1886 to Caroline Raff, at Cleveland. Mr. Korth is a valuable addition to any community. As his sketch indicates, he comes of good German stock. With all his acquirements and experience, he is a gentleman of modest demeanor. His education fits him well for the position he holds. George Engelbert Kricher was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, December 19, 1858, the son of Matthias Kricker and his wife, Margaret Myers. His father has a spearate sketch herein. He attended school at the parish school of the Holy Redeemer, and the public schools of Portsmouth, Ohio, until 1874, when he began for himself as a clerk in the store of Rudolph Brunner for three years. Then he clerked in a store for J. N. Leedom for a year. In 1879, he went to Waverly and clerked for Em-mitt, Myers & Company. Myers was his uncle. He remained in this employment until 1881 when he clerked in a dry goods house in Springfield. In 1882, he was in Columbus, in the employment of R. G. Dunn & Company. In 1884, he returned to Portsmouth and kept books for Stanton & Balmert. From 1885 to 1887 he was deputy United States Collector under the late James W. Newman. In 1887, he resigned the office to become manager of the Spring Lane Distilling Company. In 1889 he was elected to the City Council of Portsmouth, and served six years. In 1892, he organized the Central Savings Bank and began business with it in 1893. He has been its cashier from the start. He was married in 1884 to Miss Isabel A. Dunn, daughter f William Dunn, and has eight living children: Helen, Sadie, George, Seva, Louis and Leo, (twins) Edmund, and Paul. He has lost two children, one an infant son and another son, William at five years. He is a communicant of the church of the Holy Redeemer, and a democrat in politics, with the proviso that he is for the gold standard. Mr. Kricker is thin and spare, f a dark complexion and very earnest in his manner. He has been very successful in his management of the Central Savings Bank and has built up an institution of which he may be proud and of which the community is proud. He is one of the best business men of the city. He has the banker’s faculty f taking one look at a man and then telling him what he wants, without the man's ever speaking. He possesses the confidence of the entire business community and has demonstrated that he deserves it. John Kriick was born in Rhenish Bavaria, near Worms, January 14, 1853. His father was George K. and his mother’s maiden name was Ella Andone. His parents had three children: Andrew, John and Barbara. His father was a farmer and died in 1869, at his home in Germany. John learned the cooper's trade, and served as an apprentice for three years. He began his apprenticeship the year his father died, and left Germany on January 14, 1872, and went to Antwerp in Belgium, where he took a ship for this country; he crossed the English Channel, went to Liverpool and then came to New York. The entire voyage from Antwerp occupied fifteen days. He went from New York to Cincinnati, remained there two weeks, and then came to Scioto county and located on Dogwood Ridge, where he had an uncle. He went to work on the B. & 0. railroad as a section hand, and worked at it for fifteen months, when he was made a foreman for nine years-near Jackson for two years and near 'Gephart's, for BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1035 seven years. He then was a farmer on Little Scioto, on the old William Marting farm, until 1890 when he went to Gephart's, and engaged in a general store. He also has a grist mill there. He was married December 5, 1875 to Mary Marting, daughter of William Marting. His children are: Henry Marting, who lives with his father; Charles engaged in milling at Gephartls; Nellie, Carrie, Katie, and Hilda, at home. He is a democrat in his political views, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Gephart's. Mr. Kriick is a citizen of the most sterling character. He is industrious, energetic, liberal-minded, and of broad and charitable views. He is one f the strong elements in the community where he resides, and would be an important factor in any community where he chose to reside. He makes all enterprises he takes up succeed. He is a prosperous and successful farmer and keeps up with the most advanced notions in farming. He is successful as a country merchant. His neighbors believe in him and he enjoys their confidence to the fullest extent. William Kugelman was born September 29, 1856, at Portsmouth near the mouth of Lawson’s Run. His father was Jacob Kugelman, a native of Eidenkopen, Bavaria. His mother was Anna Margaret Deinser, a native of Mergnes, Bavaria. He grew up in Portsmouth and went to the city schools until he was twelve years of age, when his father removed to the Hatch farm, now known as the Peebles farm, east of Portsmouth. He lived the life of a farmer there for two years, when his father purchased a farm near Powellsville, Ohio, now owned by William Duis and resided there from 1870 to 1896. Our subject farmed for Dan Harwood on the Marsh farm from November 24, 1878 till May 1, 1880. Then he worked for Milton Buck, on the Damarin farm for awhile. He went to Texarkana and came back from there to Illinois and Indiana, where he worked until August 1, 1880. Then he came to Portsmouth and went to working for Gilbert Stewart and worked for him until September 1, 1881. At that time he went into the employment of McFarland, Sanford & Company, as a salesman, and remained with them until August 1, 1885. He was then employed by the Chicago house of Miller, Cissna & Company, and was there until July 1, 1889. He was then employed by Clement, Vane & Company, of Chicago, till December 15, 1889, when he came to Portsmouth and was employed by Sanford, Varner & Company, where he remained until February 1, 1900. He then tried the insurance business for one year. On February 10, 1901, he purchased a grocery at 205 East Third street. He later sold out and took employment with Haas, Schwartz & Co. He was married to Kate A. Buck, daughter of Milton Buck, March 8, 1882. He has a son, Charles Wynn, born May 18, 1883. His daughter Alice Stewart, was born February z5, 1886, and died January 31, 1889. He has a son, J. Emerson, born June 8, 1889. He is a member of Bigelow M. E. church. Prior to 1880, he was a democrat; since that time he has been a republican. He is a member f the United Commercial Travelers. Mr. Kugelman is one of the most active and energetic business men of his age. He found his true career as a salesman and if he cannot sell goods, no one can. Simon Labold was born in Covington, Kentucky, December 20, 1855. His father was Henry Labold, a resident of Portsmouth, and his mother's maiden name was Fannie Rosenfeld, a native of Bavaria. His father was a native of the same place. Our subject attended school in Covington, Ky., and Cincinnati. At the ,age of fourteen he was in the High School of Covington, and his father wished him to continue going to school and get a good education; but the former having met with reverses, Simon determined to do something for himself and to go into business. He quit school and engaged in buying wool, hides, country produce and anything to which he could turn his hands. His very first venture was to buy $500 worth of goods on credit, when he had but $30. He followed this business in and about Covington and Cincinnati until 1875. From 1875 to 1884 be traveled continuously in the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee, buying 1036 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. produce. In the summer be bought country produce and in the winter he bought furs. When he was at the age of seventeen, he clerked for a year at Vincennes, Indiana. He came to Portsmouth in 1884. He then began to carry on the business of S. Labold & Co., buying hides, wool, etc., and is still a member of that firm. In 1894, he became a director in the First National Bank of Portsmouth; and in 1896 he was elected its cashier, and has been that ever since. He was married June 23rd 1886 to Miss Lena Riesman, daughter of David Riesman. They have one child Leona, a daughter. Mr. Labold is president of the Chicago Fire Brick Co., Chicago, Ill., a director of the Portsmouth and Kentucky Fire Brick Co., of Oak Hill, 0.; of the Davis Fire Brick Co., at the same place; and of the Davis Drug Co., of the Excelsior Shoe Company and f the First National Bank, all of Portsmouth, Ohio. He is president of the Star Fire Brick Works and director and treasurer of the Portsmouth Savings and Loan Association. He is a director of the Board of Trade, and of the Commercial Club. He was a member f the City Council for two years, from 1895 to 1897. He was chairman f the Finance Committee during the time that the debt was reduced by $35,000, when the city built the new engine house and paved Market street without borrowing money. He is also a Director of the Black Fork Coal Co., which is developing coal mines in the vicinity of Washington Switch. Mr. Labold is a gentleman of wonderful executive, administrative and financial ability. He knows what to touch and what to let alone and he knows it instinctively. His judgment is made up instanter on a case being presented to him, and like the Rothchilds, he makes no mistakes. If he backs an undertaking, it will be accomplished. If he declines to endorse a measure, it is because it has the element of failure. In all he has undertaken, he has been successful. It is his labors which have largely contributed to make the First National Bank of Portsmouth, Ohio, the strong, financial institution it is, and his skill and judgment have been f great benefit to all other businesses with which he is connected. Professor John Powers Lacroix was born near Haverhill, Ohio, February 20, 1833. His father was Alexander Lacroix, son of the French emigrant, Andrew Lacroix, who has a sketch herein. He attended the common schools of his vicinity until the age of eighteen when he entered the preparatory department of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. Two years later he entered the college. In 1857, he graduated, one of a class f twelve. He was a member of the Athenian Society and was noted for his literary productions. During his college course, he was very fond f Chaucer and Spencer and the early English authors. He composed many poems which were published in the Cincinnati papers. In the winter of 1857, he went to New Orleans and for two years was engaged in teaching, and spent much of his time in the study of the French language and literature. Some of his correspondence with his college friends was in Latin. In 1860, he returned to the North and was made a minister of the Methodist church, and preached for three years. In 1863, he was elected tutor of Modern Languages in the Ohio Wesleyan University and was later made assistant professor. In August, 1863, he was married to Corintha A. Irwin. She was born near Irwin station, Union county, Ohio, September 19, 1837 and died October 5, 1878. She translated "Gustavus Adolphus" from the French of L. Abelous. She was the mother of five children, four of whom survive her. In 1865, he made a trip to Europe and studied at Berlin and Halle. He returned in the fall of 1866 and was elected Professor f Modern Languages and History, which chair he held until his death, September 22, 1879. He was a constant contributor to the Western, Pittsburg, Northern, Central and California Advocates; and he wrote occasionally for the Transcript, Independent, Zion's Herald, Methodist Recorder, Ladies' Repository, Southern Quarterly, Bibliotheca Sacra and the Methodist Quarterly Review. A list of his books will be found under "Bibliography of Scioto County." Physically, he was a man of weak constitution, but he performed a wonderful amount of labor. He was all mind and no body. It is said not a day BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1037 passed that he did not write something for publication. He was a constant contributor to the papers of the Methodist Episcopal church. It was a favorite work of his to review French and German books of great length. President Payne said of him: "No man ever wrote more or better. He was one of the most productive writers of the day. I never met from his pen a weak or puerile sentence." He maintained an extensive correspondence with men of learning mid fetters, in German and French. Doctor Merrick said of him: "As a scholar his learning was various and correct; as a thinker, he was independent and profound; as a writer, ready and forcible; as a preacher, eminently instructive; as a teacher, successful; as a Christian, profoundly devout and sincerely pious. He believed the Bible to be God's word—God's teaching to him. His religion was not a mere form, but a life; that life had its roots in God and was nourished by communion with God. His addresses before Godls throne were peculiarly impressive. He was remarkably conscientious. As a friend he was open and frank; no scheming about him. He was what he seemed to be, perfectly open, a friend, a true friend. Many of us found him such." While a student at Delaware in his Junior year, he prepared a number of articles on the early French inhabitants f southern Ohio. To do this he traveled over Scioto, Lawrence and Gallia counties and interviewed all the old French settlers then living. Prom the material he gathered he prepared a series of sketches which appeared in the Ironton Register in the fall of 1855. These sketches were republished afterwards by James Keyes in his pioneer record, herein noted, and all of them have been used in this work as the basis of the sketches of the French settlers. The Editor desires to say that in his researches he has been able to find but very little to add to what Professor Lacroix prepared and found in his investigations that he had exhausted the material accessible. Frank B. Lair was born in Harrison township, Scioto county, Ohio, June 5, 1866. Nis father was William Lair, and his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Welch. They had five sons and five daughters. of whom Frank was the second child. His father enlisted in Company F, 56th 0. V. I., November 20, 1861, at the age of twenty-tive years. He was transferred to Company A, January 26, 1861, having re-enlisted for three years. He was captured April 8, 1864, at Sabine Cross Roads, and mustered out June 30, 1865. Frank, his son, obtained his education in the common schools of his vicinity, and at South Webster. He has been a farmer all his life, excepting in 1898, when he was a clerk at Hoskinson Furnace in Logan county. He is not married and makes his home with his father. He has been a member of the Township and County Republican Committee many times. He has always taken an active interest in the Republican party, f which he is a member. He is connected with the Free-Will Baptist church at Bloom township, and is highly esteemed by all his neighbors. Constant Lake was born May 29, 1849, at Wooster, Ohio. His parents were Constant Lake and Eleanor Jones, his wife. His grandfather was Constant Lake. The name "Constant," as a baptisimal name, was constant in the family for seven generations back. The family came from England to the United States in 1638. In that year, William George Lake settled in Massachusetts from England. His wife was Mary Gardner. They had two sons, Elijah and James, and a daughter Mary. In 1679, Elijah married Rebecca Ellerton. They had five children: Constant, Ellerton, Jane, Elizabeth, Annabell and Marty. In 1703, Constant Ellerto n Lake settled on the eastern shore of Maryland, and in 1709, married Eliza Willis. Their children were: Chloe, Winnifred, Constant, Eliza, Mary, Martha and Norton. Constant married Mildred E. Mont, of Annapolis. This Constant was a Major of the Maryland state troops in the Revolution. He served in Carolina with General Greene. Their children were: Mary, Ann, Hannah, Joseph and Constant. In 1756, Constant, son of the Revolutionary Major, married Anna Weir. Their children were: Contsant and Joseph. This Constant settled in the Shenandoah Valley. In 1796, he moved to Penn Yan, 1038 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. New York, where he married Anna Straughn. He removed to Trumbull county, Ohio, and then to Wayne county, Ohio. His children were: Joseph Straughn, Mary, Elijah W., and Constant, the father of our subject. Later he went to Wooster. The present Constant went to school at Wooster until he was sixteen years f age. He then attended Bethany College, Virginia, for one year. From 1867 until 1872, he was a planter in Yalobusha county, Mississippi. In the year last named he returned to Wooster and was in the livery business until 1887. He spent two years in the Ontario Veterinary College in Canada and graduated there in April, 1888. In May, 1888, he located in Portsmouth, where he has since resided and has practiced the profession f a veterinary surgeon. September 12, 1871, he was married to Anna Nachtrieb, daughter of Jonas and Nancy (Punghes) Nachtrieb. He has three children. One daughter died in infancy. His son Joseph F. is a veterinary surgeon in Ironton, Ohio, and his daughter Ella, is the wife of John Bell Woods. He is a democrat in his political views, but more inclined to be independent. He lives up to the traditions of his New England ancestry and consequently is a most excellent citizen, highly esteemed for all the civic virtues. Willard Lamb, son of Reuben and Lavina (Chaffin) Lamb was born June 28, 1844, on the Lamb farm just below Franklin Furnace. His great-grandfather, Reuben Lamb, emigrated from Massachusetts about 1815, and settled on what has since been known as the Lamb farm. The farm is still in the possession f his descendants, one of whom is our subject. One of his sons, Willard, was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Reuben Lamb, Sr., died May 10, 1838, in his seventy-second year. Willard Lamb, Sr., died October 2, 1840, aged fifty. Reuben Lamb, Jr., died January 19, 1854, aged thirty-six years, ten months. Persis Lamb, the great-grandmother, died January 17, 1854. at the advanced age of eighty-six. The mother f our subject is still living at the age of eighty-one. Mr. Lamb received his education in the "Ball" school house in Green township. He enlisted August 23, 1864, as a private in Company D, 173d 0. V. I., at Nashville, Tennessee, and was honorably discharged June 26, 1865. He has been a merchant for over fifteen years. He is a member of the Wheelers-burg Baptist church, and has been one of its Trustees since 1896. Politically he is a republican. He was president of Green township School Board from 1899 till 1901. June 18, 1868, he was united in marriage to Rebecca May Stumbaugh, daughter of Jacob and Lucetta (Courtright) Stumbaugh. To them have been born twelve children, only eight of whom are now living. The children are as follows: Emma May, deceased; Reuben Thomas, married Eyle V. Mooney, is now living in Bradford, Pa., and is a train dispatcher; Clara Etta, married John A. Oakes and lives on Pine Creek; Lucinda Oma, married Henry J. Barrett, who is principal of the High School at Toronto, Ohio; Hattie Marcie, is a time-keeper for Drew, Selby & Company, Portsmouth, Ohio; William Walter, is studying telegraphy at Bradford, Pa. The others are: Bessie Alice, H. Harrison, Amanda Lois, Mary Lavinia, (deceased), Persis Lena, (died in infancy) and Luther Leonard, (deceased). Winfield Scott Lambert, son of Jeremiah and Eliza (Bandy) Lambert, was born in Greenfield township, Gallia county, Ohio, December 9, 1849. His father's maternal great-grandfather, John Harper, was born in England, in 1740, and came to America in 1770, and settled in Maryland, near Chesapeake Bay. His father's maternal grandfather, Hamilton Harper, was born in Maryland in 1777, and emigrated to Logan county, Virginia, in 1804. His fatherls mother Jincy (Harper) Lambert was born in Logan county, Virginia, in 1806, and came with her parents to Greenfield township, Gallia county, Ohio, in 1810. Our subject's paternal great-grandfather, Philip Lambert, was one f the early settlers of Gallia county. His grandfather, Pearson Lambert, was born in Wythe county, Virginia, in 1805, and came with his parents to Greenfield township, Gallia county, Ohio, about 1810. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1039 When Mr. Lambert was six years old, his parents moved from Gallia county to Richland Furnace, Vinton county, remaining three years. They moved from there to Monroe Furnace, Jackson county, where they remained until 1872, when they moved to Madison township, Scioto county. In 1862, he entered school at Ewington Academy at Ewington, Gallia county, Ohio, where he attended four terms, after which he attended school at the Wilkesville Academy, in Vinton county. He commenced teaching in 1872 in sub-district, No. 9, Madison township. He taught continuously during each consecutive school term until 1899. During this time he taught in Scioto, Lawrence and Jackson counties, and in Stafford and Reno Counties, Kansas, and in Dent county, Missouri. He served as assessor f Madison township in the year 1895-6. He was appointed Supervisor of Census for the Tenth Congressional District in the taking of the twelfth census in 1900. He has always been a republican and may be counted on at all times to work for the success of his party. He is a member of the United Brethren church, of South Webster, where he resides. He was united in marriage to Tenie Miles Allen, daughter of James M. and Matilda (Sargent) Allen, September 28, 1873. They have one son, James N., who has reached his majority and is a telegraph operator at Jamestown, Ohio. John Herman Lange was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, November 17, 1866. His father was Joseph Herman Lange and his mother's maiden name was Adelheid Fisher. She was the daughter of Joseph Fisher. Both were natives of Hanover, Germany. He received his education in St. Mary's school of Portsmouth, up to the age of fourteen, when he went into the hardware business as a clerk for one year. He worked two and a half years with J. L. Hibbs & Company, and then went with John B. Rottinghaus and kept books until 1890, when he was engaged as book-keeper in the Citizen's Savings Bank and remained there until 1893. He worked for the assignees of the bank until 1894. On April 1, 1894, he became assistant postmaster of Portsmouth, under John Jones, and served as such until March 31, 1898. On April 23, 1898, he went with the Burgess Steel and Iron Works and remained with them until they sold out, August 1, 1900, and was then employed by the Crucible Steel Company until December 15, 1900, at which time he was elected secretary and treasurer of the Mingo Coal Mining Company and remained with it until in February, 1902. when it sold out. He was then elected secretary and treasurer of the Portsmouth Street Railway and Light Company, succeeding Samuel B. Timmonds, and is now holding that position. He was married October 18, 1892, to Theresa Snyder, daughter of Joseph Snyder, and resides at 14 East Second street. He is a democrat, and a member of St. Mary's church. As a book-keeper, there are few more expert, and he is regarded as one of the best business men of Portsmouth. He is faithful to every duty and trust imposed upon him. Captain Henry Lantz was born February 22, 183L in Athens county, Ohio. His father, Aaron Lantz, was a descendant of a German emigrant who came from Scotland to Athens county, Ohio. in 1790, where Aaron was born in 1793. The father of Aaron was George Lantz, one of three brothers who emigrated from Scotland. His mother, whose maiden name was Leah Claypool, was born in Greenbrier county, Va., in 1803, and was married to Aaron Lantz and settled in Jackson county in 1818. They soon after removed to Athens county, where our subject was born. Aaron Lantz died in 1842, and his widow died at McArthur, Vinton county, in 1890, at the age of eighty-seven. Our subject continued to reside in Athens county until 1851 when he came to Bennett's mills which he undertook to operate. His father had been a maker of millstones. On December 21, 1852 he married Lovina Bennett a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Mills) Bennett. Joseph Bennett was the son of Thaddeus Bennett (see his sketch in this volume). Joseph was a soldier in the war of 1812. After his marriage Capt. Lantz located three miles froth McArthur, and engaged in milling. He was there until 1857, when he moved to McArthur. In the year 1857, he returned to Scioto county. 1040 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. On April 27, 1861, he enlisted in Company G, 22nd 0. V. 1., at the age of thirty, for three months. He was made a Sergeant and mustered out August 19th 1861. He entered Company F, 56th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, November 21st 1861, as First Lieutenant. He was mustered out November 21st 1864, at New Orleans, on expiration of his term of service. March 14th 1865, he was appointed Captain of Company K, 194th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for one year, and served with the Company until October 24, 1865. This Regiment was organized at Camp Chase, 0., in March, 1865. It was first ordered to Charleston, W. Va., and assigned to General Egan's Division, composed of one Brigade of Eastern and one of Western troops. The surrender of Lee's army caused the Division and Brigade to be broken up, and the Regiment was ordered to Washington City, where it remained performing garrison duty until October 24, 1865, when it was mustered out. After his discharge, Captain Lantz went to McArthur, and engaged in the undertaking business. In the year 1866, he went to Bennett's Mills, Ky., and spent four years there as an undertaker and a carpenter. In 1873, he returnee to Harrison Township, and has lived there for twenty-eight years last past. His business in that time has been that of an undertaker. His children are: Henry Clay, married and lives in Harrisonville; Mary Edna, wife of Alexander Shuter, who lives in Harrisonville; Benjamin Franklin, aged thirty-two, married, a merchant in Harrisonville; Thomas C.. aged thirty, a teacher, living at Portsmouth. All of his children are married and have children of their own. He never was sick during his army service, and never had wounds of any consequence. Up to 1856, he was a democrat, after that he became a republican, and has remained such. He is a member of Delta Lodge, F. and A. M. at McArthur, Ohio, and an Odd Fellow. Henry Clay Lantz was born at Scioto, Ohio, September 10, 1863. He is the son of Henry and Lovina H. (Bennett) Lantz, (see sketch of Henry Lantz). The boyhood of our subject was passed at Scioto, except four years from 1869 to 1873, which were spent in Greenup county, Kentucky. He obtained a good education and commenced teaching in 1881. He followed the profession, with one intermission of two years, until 1900. He spent two terms at the National Normal University, at Lebanon, Ohio. He went west in the spring of 1887 and remained till the fall of 1889. For several years he was engaged in the mercantile business at Harrisonville. He was Clerk of Harrison township from 1885 to 1887 inclusive. He was Treasurer from 1896 to 1898 and School Examiner of Scioto county from 1894 to 1900 inclusive. He is a republican and very liberal in his views. He married Emma J. Samson the adopted daughter of David and Susan Samson, of Harrisonville, February 9, 1893. Her parents were William and Martha J. (Fox) Dalton, of Pomeroy, Meigs county, Ohio. Her mother died when Emma was a little child and she was reared by Mr. and Mrs. Samson. Our subject has three children: Wenona Goldine, Gladys Sylvia, and Clay Dalton. Mr. Lantz is one of the best qualified of the teachers in the county. He was always bright and quick, ready to take up new ideas and make them his own. He is noted for his sincerely and straightforwardness. This quality in him is pronounced and has made him both enemies and friends. As a public official, he has always acted without fear or favor. He is true to his convictions and to the right as he sees it. Thomas C. Lantz was born near Bennett's Mills, Greenup county, Kentucky, October 8, 1871. He is the youngest son of Henry and Lovina (Bennett) Lantz. He spent all his early life in Harrisonville except the frrst two years which were spent in Kentucky. He attended the schools of Scioto county until 1889, when he commenced teaching which pursuit he has followed continuously since. From 1892 to 1900 he conducted a series of normal schools at Scioto. In 1901, he conducted a normal at Sciotoville. He was for six years a member of the firm of Lantz Bros., merchants, at Harrisonville. He is a republican, a Past Chancellor of Ives Lodge No 472, Knights of Pythias, a Past Captain of Lois Camp, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1041 No. 16, Sons of Veterans, and a member of Lucasville Lodge, No. 465, F. and A. M. He married Rosa B. McKinney, daughter of William and Rachel (Odell) McKinney, December 19, 1892. They have three children: Lowell Liston, Leroy Marcus, and Lyle Ray. He possesses rare gifts, or endowments, of an artistic nature, being one of the best native pencil artists in the county. He is one of the most successful teachers in the schools of the county. His efficiency as a teacher is due to the untiring efforts he puts into the work; and in all other vocations in which he has been engaged, the same energetic spirit characteristic to himself, has clearly shown itself. He stands for those lofty principles which characterize every true American citizen. Mr. Lantz ranks among the best teachers in the county, judged both by his scholarship and his uniform success. Delos Velos Larkin was born in Galena, Delaware county, Ohio, August 20, 1826. His father Stephen Larkin was from Albany, New York, and his mother from Essex county, New Jersey. His mother's maiden name was Mary Jane Rosecrans and she was a cousin of General and Bishop Rosecrans. When a lad, his parents moved from Fairfield county, and as a youth he drove cattle to the Eastern markets. It took from twenty to sixty days to make the trip. September 18, 1850, he married Miss Sarah Margaret Johnson of Ross county and shortly after came to Scioto county and located on the McArthur farm. He returned to Ross county in 1851 and remained until 1853. He returned to Scioto county in the year last named and leased 40 acres of the New York land. Subsequently he leased 300 acres for twenty-three years. On May 2, 1864, he enlisted as a private in Company I in the 140th regiment 0. V. I. for one hundred days. He was mustered out with the Company, September 3, 1864. In 1865, he purchased the farm on which he resided until his death, January 31, 1884. He made a specialty of raising broom corn and in 1886 had 100 acres all of which he manufactured into brooms. He was at one time a Trustee of Washington township. His children are the following: Charles, Effie, wife of John A. Williamson, Harry, Catharine, Mrs. Alice Stephenson, of Columbus and Mrs. Charles McFarland, of Los Angeles, California. They had six other children now deceased. He was a Universalist in faith. He was originally a whig and a republican but afterwards acted with the Democrat party for a few years. He was at all times a good citizen, generous and kind with all his neighbors, a believer in good fellowship, a lover of his country, and a devoted friend to all the soldiers of the Civil War. Gordon Frank Lauman was born in Fleming county, Kentucky, November 17, 1840. His father was George Mim Lauman, born in York, Pennsylvania, in 1805. His father was a tanner and was taken to Chillicothe, Ohio, by his father, Barnet Lauman, at the age of four years. His great-grandfather was Christopher Lauman, a soldier f the Revolution. His record will be found in the article entitled Revolutionary Soldiers. George M. Lauman was reared at Chillicothe and learned the tanner's trade there. He followed the same trade after locating in Fleming county, Kentucky, and was there married to Anna Shanklin, a native of Kentucky. There were eight children of this marriage, three sons and five daughters, of whom our subject was the seventh. The family left Kentucky in 1845 and went to Aberdeen, Ohio, where Mr. Lauman worked at his trade. In 1846, he went to Chillicothe and remained there following his business of tanner until 1849. In that year, he located in Waverly and carried on a tannery for G. and G. L. Armstrong, and remained there until his death. Our subject went to school for one year in Chillicothe and a short time in Waverly. In 1850, he went to work at Emmitt's Mills tending gate at $5.00 per month. Then he was a cob-picker at the Distillery for three years and in the meantime was advanced to head Sheller. He was taken into Emmitt's store and worked there ten years. 1042 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. He enlisted April 17, 1861, in Company G, 1st 0. V. I., for three months. He was wounded June 17, 1861, at the battle of Vienna. He was standing up on a flat car, when the moving train was fired on by a masked battery. A solid shot struck his gun and completely mangled his hand. The same shot struck and tore away the clothing and accouterments on his left side and bruised his side so badly that he was unfit for further service. He was discharged at Washington, D. C., at expiration of his service. On his return from that service, he re-entered Mr. Emmitt's employ and remained there until 1864, when he became Provost Marshal and served as such until 1865. He then went to Jasper and clerked for Peter B. Hayes until 1872. In that year he came to Portsmouth and worked in the grocery store of Thomas Brown for four months. He heard f a store at Bear Creek and purchased it and carried it on till 1900. After he located at Bear Creek, he engaged in buying and selling railroad ties and made a fortune at it. He has always beeen a republican and is a member of the Masons and Elks. He was married first, October 6, 1864, to Mary Lucretia Watkins, daughter f John Watkins. She died October 22, 1892. November 28, 1895, he was married to Elizabeth Dever, daughter f Joseph and Rebecca Wales Dever. Mr. Lauman is a liberal minded, public spirited citizen. He is always ready to aid in any good cause. He always regretted he could not serve his country during the war, but his honorable wounds received at the outset, prevented. No man has a kinder regard for his comrades of the Civil war, than he. Thomas Benton Lawson was born May 16, 1843, in Portsmouth, Ohio, the son of Thomas Lawson and Rebecca Jane Tillow, his wife. His grandfather, William Lawson, was one of the original proprietors of Portsmouth. Thomas B. received his education in the old brick school house on Fourth street. He enlisted April 16, 1861, in Company G, 1st 0. V. I., commanded by Captain George B. Bailey. He served three months and was mustered out with the company August 1, 1861. He then enlisted in October, 1861, in the 75th New York Infantry, Company A, and served two years. He re-enlisted again in Company A, 160th New York Infantry, for three years and served until the close of the war. He was in the grand review in Washington in May, 1865. After the war he went to work as fireman on the New York Central railroad and tired a locomotive for three years. Then he came to Kentucky and fired a locomotive on the old Kentucky Central railroad running from Covington to Lexington, Kentucky. He received his promotion to engineer. One day he had a little mishap and knocked some cars off the track. The company stopped his pay and laid him off. He got angry, quit railroading and returned to Portsmouth, Ohio. He worked for T. M. Lynn as book-keeper and collector for two or three years. He also worked a year or two for Yeager and Dice, who were engaged in the livery business. In March, 1872, he went into business for himself at Middleport, Meigs county, Ohio. He went into the mercantile business in which he was very successful. He remained there in the same business for twenty-three years, or until 1892, when he returned to Portsmouth, Ohio, where he has since resided. He had always had a strong love for his native place and returned to spend the remainder of his life here. On July 22, 1873, he was married to Miss Ada Eliza Horn. They have three children living, two sons and a daughter: Earl Benton is a shoe cutter; Ernest Charles travels for Biggs, Watts & Company, f Huntington, West Virginia, and Maude is a student in the High School. His oldest daughter Ina, died at the age of seventeen, and his youngest daughter, Frieda Marie, at the age of eleven. Mr. Lawson was a member of the council of Middleport, Ohio, for two years. He is a democrat, a member of Bigelow M. E. church, of the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Elks, Bailey Post, G. A. R. and of the Mystic Circle. Horace Leete was born in 1818, in Tioga county, Pennsylvania. His father was Uriah Leete, and his mother's maiden name was Polly Ives. They lived on a farm and Horace was brought up to be a farmer. At fifteen, he went into a printing BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1043 office in Wellsboro, and worked there for three years. .He afterwards carried the mail from Belfont, Pennsylvania, to Olean, New York, a distance of 126 miles through the wrlderness. He made one trip a week. The winters were severe and there was danger from wild animals. He was a chain carrier when the Pennsylvania railroad was surveyed through to the lakes. Their work took them through a dense wilderness, inhabited by deer, elk, bear and panthers. There was much hunting and the streams were full of fish. There were fifty engineers in the party and many were related to distinguished men. While on this business, Mr. Leete met Thaddeus Stevens, then Canal Commissioner of Pennsylvania. He clerked for a while for an uncle in Potter county, Pennsylvania. He was also editor of the first paper ever published in that county. His tirst vote in 1840, was for Martin Van Buren. He has always been a democrat. He was one of the auditors of Potter county, Pennsylvania, and resigned the office to come to Ohio. In the spring of 1850, he landed at Catlettsburg, Kentucky, with a raft of lumber. He remained there until November, 1850, and came to Portsmouth. He engaged in the lumber business in Portsmouth with his brother Ralph Leete, for a partner. Their office and lumber yards were west of his present residence on Sixth street. Later his brother retired and his nephew, Horace L. Chapman, went into the business with him. The first bill of lumber he sold in Portsmouth was to James Pursell, then a dry goods merchant. In the fall of 1864, Mr. Leete quit business in Portsmouth, and went to Alleghany county, New York, where he bought a stock farm. He operated this until May 18, 1869, when he returned to Portsmouth, and re-engaged in the lumber business with Daniel McIntyre, as Leete & McIntyre. They had a lumber yard and ran a planing mill on West Fifth street. In 1870, they were burned out, but immediately rebuilt at Ninth and Washington streets. From 1870 until 1880, Carl Lehman was his partner. In 1874, he was elected a member of the School Board for two years. In 1881, he was a candidate for Water Works Trustee, but was defeated by John I. Mercer. The vote stood: Mercer, 1,212, Leete, 996, majority, 216. In 1883, he was a candidate for Cemetery Trustee, but was again defeated. His opponent, Wilson, received 1,267 votes to 1,229, for Leete, majority, 38. In 1858, he was married to Miss Ellen Weatherby, of Coudersport, Pennsylvania. They had four children, two of whom are living: Mrs. Mary Small, and Phelps Leete. On his eightieth birthday, he was notified that all his employees wanted to meet him, that they had decided to work no longer at their present wages. He met them and began to explain why he could not pay more, and they cut him short and presented him with a gold headed cane. Though eighty-four years of age, he works every day and still holds all the threads of his business in his own hands. He is considerate of every one's opinions and feelings. He enjoys the respect and affection of all those connected with him in business, and is highly esteemed by the general public. The article on the Leete family in the Pioneer Record, shows that he is from a long line of sturdy ancestry, of men who have been important factors in the world's work, and is a good example f the old adage that blood will tell; but Mr. Leete is essentially a modest man and never speaks of his ancestry. His enviable position in the community has been obtained by a long life of living up to correct business and social principles. Charles Joseph Legler, the son of Frederick Legler, was born December, 1857, in the Eagle hotel, on Front street, and has resided on that street all his life. He was the eldest of his family. He attended St. Mary's Parish school and the public schools. He engaged in business for himself, in 1890, in conducting the Legler house, formerly managed by his father. lie continued this until 1893, when he started a shoe store on Second street. After a year he sold out his business to W. A. Connolley, an entered the Central Savings Bank as a bookkeeper and served as such in 1894 and 1895. In 1895, he purchased the Hotel Portsmouth and renovated it and has conducted it ever since. It accommodates one hundred guests and Mr. Legler has proven a very popular landlord. His house is as well patronized as any in the city. 1044 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. He was married October 5, 1882, to Anna Maria Schwartz, of Portsmouth. He has had three sons born to him: Harry, his second son, died at the age of three years and two months, and Clifford and Ralph are still living. Mr. Legler was originally a democrat but when President McKinley ran for his second term for Governor of Ohio, he became a republican and has continued as such every since. He is a member f St. Mary's Roman Catholic church. He is noted for his honor and his integrity and for his excellent qualities. As a business man and good citizen, he possesses the confidence of the entire community. Frederick Legler was born June 27, 1832, in Baden, Germany. His father was Joseph Legler. His mother died when he was a boy. His father brought him to this country when he was only six years of age, in the year 1838, and he located in Scioto county. He had a brother James, now deceased, and a sister Mary now living near Pana, Ill. He began the hotel business in Portsmouth, in 1855, with a Mr. Wolford from Mt. Joy, the Eagle hotel on Front street, near where Fred Brodbeck now resides. In 1863, he took the White Bear, and kept it until 1866, when he purchased what is now the present Legler House. 1n 1867, he started a restaurant in the building and was so well patronized, that he turned it into a hotel. In 1867, he rebuilt the house at a cost of $7,000. He purchased the lots in the rear of the present Hotel Portsmouth, which fronted on Second street, and kept stables and wagon yards there for his patrons. He opened the Legler House on June 20, 1868, as a hotel, having previously conducted it as a restaurant. On January 8, 1867, he was married to Elizabeth Eck, daughter of Adam Eck, an old citizen of Scioto county. The children of that marriage were: Charles J., Fred and Frank, both living in the city of Portsmouth; George who is a resident of Berwyn, Ill.; and William. who died at the age of three. His daughter, Clara, is the wife of Albert J. Reitz. In 1875, he was appointed a member of the City Annual Board of Equalization and re-appointed in 1876 and 1879 and was a member of that board at the time of his death. In April, 1880, he was appointed a member f the Decennial Board of Equalization and was appointed a member of the Board of Health at the same time, for a period of three years. On April 29 1880, he died in his forty-eighth year. He began without anything and amassed a competence for his family. He was a democrat in his political views and a member of St. Mary's church, in Portsmouth. Mr. Legler was a man of quiet and retiring disposition. He made a good impression on all who knew him. He was honest to the value of a pin and honorable in all his dealings. When he made a friend, that friend remained such. He was liked by the public generally and was very successful in his business. William H. Leive was born in South Webster, Ohio. March 22, 1870, in the house where his parents still live. His father and mother are Henry W. and Mary (Sudbrook) Leive. William's father came from Southern Germany to South Webster in 1856, and learned, the trade of wagon-maker. He served in the Civil War in Company B, 10th 0. V. I. from June 3, 1861 to June 17, 1864, and was at the seige of Chattanooga, battle of Chickamauga and other important battles in which his company was engaged. William's education was received in the South Webster schools. He taught school for two terms, but did not like it and quit to become a carpenter and funeral director. He qualified himself for the business by a course of study. He was graduated from the Portsmouth Business College in book-keeping, July 13, 1897. In politics he has been a republican and has always taken an active interest in local affairs. He held the offrce of Township Clerk in Bloom from September, 1896, to September, 1900. He is now Clerk of the village of South Webster, having been elected April, 1901, for a term of two years. He is a member of the Evangelical St. John's church of North America and also f South Webster Lodge No. 724. Knights of Pythias. He was married to Miss Nan Zimmerman, August 14, 1901. Mr. Leive is a promising young man, honest, industrious and upright. He enjoys the confidence and respect of all who know him. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1045 John Lemon was born September 1, 1844 in Jackson county, Ohio. His fatherls name was Lemuel Lemon, who came to Portsmouth in 1832 from Belmont county. His mother’s maiden name was Rebecca Stuffier. His grandfather’s name was George Lemon. When our subject was seven years of age his parents moved to Scioto county, where his father died Jan. 14, 1900, at the age of eighty-four years, and his mother died six years prior rn 1894. Our subject received a common school education. He was raised a farmer, and is a farmer still. At the age of eighteen he enlisted in Company D, 1st 0. V. H. A., Sept. 8, 1862, for three years as a private. He was promoted to Corporal in April, 1864, and mustered out June 20, 1865, at Knoxville, Tenn., by order of the War Department. He was married August 5, 1866 to Mary S. Boren, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth Boren of Pennsylvania. They have the following children: David F., married, living in Vernon township, a farmer; Rebecca Jane, at home; Amanda married John Somers, residing in this county; Cora A., married Edwin G. Turner, residing in this county; Effie, a school teacher; Florence, at home; Louis F., John W., Ida and Amelia all at home. Mr. Lemon is a member of the Christian church at Lyra. He is a republican in his political views, and has always been such. He owns a farm at Lyra of about 400 acres, where He has resided since 1867. Charles Leonard was born December 12, 1839, at Alleghany City, Pennsylvania. His parents were Patrick and Laura (Crosby) Leonard. His father was a native of Scotland and his mother was a native of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, He 'was the youngest of seven children. He went to school in Alleghany City until he reached the age of sixteen, when he worked in a foundry and learned casting. He was there two years and then went to learn the trade of a carpenter at which trade he worked until he was twenty-four. He enlisted in Company K, 13th Pennsylvania Infantry, three months service, at Pittsburg, Pa., April 26, 1861, and was discharged August 6, 1861, at the expiration of his term. He re-enlisted in Company I, 102d Pennsylvania Infantry, August 15, 1861, to serve three years. He was honorably discharged June 24, 1862, at Philadelphia, by reason of a gun shot in the left arm, which he received in the battle of Williamsburg. This was his first battle and the shot which struck him was a canister shot. He then went back to Pittsburg where he remained a year and then came to Portsmouth, afterwards going to Scioto Furnace, where his sister, Mrs. George Williams, resided at that time. He has been a resident of Scioto Furnace ever since, with the exception of the two years from 1866 to 1868, when he was at Brownsport Furnace, Tennessee. He was connected with the Scioto furnace as part owner until it blew out on December 25, 1890. He has been postmaster at Scioto Furnace since 1868, and agent for the Baltimore and ,Ohio railroad from 1868 until January 31, 1902, when he resigned. He has always been a republican and is a Blue Lodge Mason of the Western Sun Lodge of Wheelersburg. He is a member of the G. A. R. at South Webster. Mr. Leonard is a man highly appreciated by those intimate with him. He has a heart to take in the whole world and is charitable to a fault. And yet with these qualities, he is most modest and retiring. His qualities alone proclaim the man. Richard Gregg Lewis was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, February 28, 1850. His father was Thomas Cotton Lewis, Jr., and his mother was Nancy Anderson (Gregg) Lewis. He was graduated from the High School in 1867 and attended the academy at South Salem, Ross county, Ohio. He also taught school in Kansas and graduated with honors from Marietta College in June, 1876, and from Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, in May, 1879. The Presbytery of Chillicothe ordained him an Evangelist in September, 1879. He was stated supply for the Hamden Junction, McArthur and Wellston Presbyterian churches in 1879 and 1880, and for Mona chapel, Ross county, Ohio, in 1883 and 1885. From 1883 to 1046 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY 1893, he was president of the Union Shoe Company, of Chillicothe, Ohio. From 1886 to 1891, he was proprietor and part of the time editor of the Scioto Gazette. He was for years one of the trustees of the Chillicothe Presbytery, also of Salem Academy. In 1898, he moved to Missouri and was graduated in June, 1900, as Doctor of Osteopathy from the American School of Osteopathy, at Kirksville, Missouri. At once he begun the practice of Osteopathy in Cincinnati, where he is located at this date. Harvey Oscar Lindsey is the eldest son of the seven children of Barton B. and Tamer Elizabeth Lindsey. Barton B. was the oldest son of William J. Lindsey, born at Blue Lick, Kentucky, in 1821. William J. was the son of John Lindsey, who emigrated from Scotland in 1810, and afterwards served in the war of 1812. He settled in Virginia and removed to Blue Lick, Kentucky, in 1824. The mother f our subject was the eldest daughter of Peter Cooley Aldred and Sarah Ann Freeman, his wife. Peter C. was the son of David Aldred, f near Manchester, Ohio, and served in the 182nd 0. V. I., Company G, and afterwards was transferred to the 64th 0. V. I. David was the son of Henry Aldred a soldier of the. Revolution. Sarah Ann Freeman Aldred, the grandmother of our subject, was the daughter f Tamer Freeman, of Cedar Mills, Ohio. A history of the Freeman family can be found in the Portsmouth Public Library. Our subject was born July 4, 1878, at Manchester, Adams county, Ohio. He received a common school education from the schools f Monroe township, afterwards graduating from the Weft Union High School in 1896. He moved with his parents to Pond Run, this county, that year, and began teaching the following year. He followed this profession for two years, and then located in Portsmouth, and engaged as a clerk for M. Lehman & Brother for a year. From there he went to Burt, Hall & Company's, where he was salesman until May, 1901, when he entered the employ of J. Eisman & Company, in the same capacity. later he became traveling salesman for the latter firm for southern Ohio and West Virginia, which position he now holds. He was married July 2, 1902, to Miss Florence Weghorst, daughter of Christopher Weghorst, of Portsmouth, Ohio. Mr. Lindsay is a young man f more than ordinary intelligence. He possesses a good amount of business ability, although yet a young man, and has a promising future before him. He is honest, upright, and energetic, and by his congenial ways has won a host of friends. William Liston son of John Liston and Sarah Robinson his wife, was born April 2, 1821, on Brush creek, in Scioto county, Ohio. His father was a son of Perry Liston, who came from Wales to Maryland and afterwards removed to Philadelphia. Shortly afterwards he came to Scioto county, and settled on Scioto Brush Creek, near Otway, being one of the first settlers in that vicinity. At that time the country was still inhabited by Indians and some of them came to see him often. Our subject never went to school until he was eighteen; and he helped to build the first school house in which he was a pupil. It was built of logs and greased paper was used for windows. He was married in 1850, to Nancy Thompson. She died in 1855, and he was married the second time to Eliza Jane Cox, a daughter of Jacob Cox and Cynthia (Smith) Cox, January 17, 1856. By this second marriage there were ten children, six boys and four girls. Of these five boys and two girls are living: Margaret, William Jasper, Allen T., Nancy J., William Sherman, Charles Wesley and Firman M. Margaret married William Brown. Nancy J. married John A. Davis. Our subject enlisted in Company I, 28th 0. V. I., under Captain William Hessin, and Colonel G. F. Wyles, September 27, 1864. He was attached to the Second Brigade, Third Division, Seventeenth Corps. He was with Sherman on his march to the sea. He was honorably discharged at Washington, D. C., May 30, 1865. He was a whig and afterwards a republican. He was a Methodist during a greater portion of his life, and afterwards united with the Christian Union church. It was said, he never swore an oath in his life nor took a drink of intoxicating liquor. He lived a devout Christian life and gave freely BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1047 to the building of churches and the support of them. He died November 7, 1898, and is buried in the family cemetery, near the old homestead, on Scioto Brush Creek. James Little was born in Stirling, Kilsythe, Scotland, August 26, 1838. His father’s name was James Little, and his mother’s maiden name was Margaret Cameron. Both of his parents were natives of Scotland. Our subject came to this country alone at the age of fourteen. His parents came afterwards. He located in Cumberland, Alleghany county, Maryland, and attended school there. In 1860, he brought his parents to this country. In this vicinity he was engaged in mining coal, and at the age of twenty-two he became a boss master miner, which occupation he continued until he left in 1881. He then went to Piedmont, West Virginia, and became a mining superintendent for the Big Vein Coal Co., and remained with this company sixteen years, until 1897. He then went to Dingess, West Virginia, and operated for himself in mining coal. He left there in October, 1899, and located in Portsmouth, and is conducting a business under the firm name f Little & He was married April 23, 1863, to Janet Stewart, a native of Scotland. They have had five children: John Stewart; William C. was killed at the age of thirty-two in a railroad accident in July, 1901; Margaret, married Frederick Fredlocke, residing in Portsmouth; Mary, died in infancy; Mary, married H. T. Wilson, residing in Portsmouth, of the firm of Little & Wilson. Mr. Little is a republican in his political views, and has always been. He is a Blue Lodge, Knight Templar, Chapter and Council Mason. He is also an Odd Fellow. Smith S. Littlejohn was born at Diamond Furnace, Jackson county, Ohio, June 18, 1858, the son f James and Cynthia (Smith) Littlejohn. His father was a native f Porter township, Scioto county, Ohio, born in 1820. His mother was a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Gray Smith, born in Greenup county, Kentucky, April 22, 1824. The maternal great-grandfather of Mr. Littlejohn was Godfrey 'Smith, a soldier of the Revolution, who has a sketch in the article, "Revolutionary Soldiers." Our subject received a common school education and afterwards attended the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, for one year. When nineteen„ he began to teach and followed that occupation for six years. In October, 1887, Mr. Littlejohn moved to Steece, Lawrence county, Ohio, where he now resides and has been employed by the firm of E. B. Willard & Company, at that place until the present time. He is a member f the Lawrence Lodge, F. and A. M., No. 198, Ironton Commandery, Knight Templar, No. 45, Ironton, Ohio. He is also a member of the Syrian Temple A. A. 0. M. S. of Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1881, he was married to Amelia Ranshahous, a native of Portsmouth, daughter of William and Augustia (Fisher) Ranshahous. They have one daughter, Addie A. Charles Perry Lloyd, son of Richard and Anna Canfield, his wife, was born June 10, 1840. He attended the schools of Portsmouth until fifteen years of age, and then entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, and was graduated in June, 1860. He read law six months with Colonel 0. F. Moore, and then concluded the law did not suit him. In the spring of 1861, he went to Iowa, and was a farmer for three years. In 1864, he returned to Portsmouth, Ohio, and entered the shoe business with his father as R. Lloyd & Son. The firm was afterwards changed to Lloyd, Tracy & Company and then to R. Lloyd & Company. On February 26, 1863, he married Miss Laura Jane Bentley. They had two children: Richard Bentley, who lived to young manhood and died Jan. 18, 1889, aged twenty-five years, and Genevieve, now a young lady. In 1877, Mr. Lloyd became president and superintendent of the Scioto Fire Brick Company. He was for a long time a director of the Portsmouth National Bank. He was a Mason, a republican, and a member of the Sixth Street Methodist church. He was an excellent business man, a pleasant neighbor and devotedly attached to his home and family. He died suddenly March 27, 1893. 1048 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. Margaret Lloyd went into the millinery business in Portsmouth, Ohio, in April, 1866, and has been in it ever since. She is now located at No. 308 Chillicothe street. She is a member f the Bigelow church. As a member of the business community, she is favorably known to flab public and has been very successful. No one is esteemed higher than she. Her word and obligation, in a business way, or otherwise, is better than gold, because the gold may be lost or stolen, but her promise or obligation will be met to the moment, without any question. She has demonstrated the fact that a woman can go into business and succeed, and do as well, or better than any man. Lucien, G. Locke, M. D., was born at Haverhill, Ohio, September 11, 1866, the son of Delmont and Elizabeth (Trumbo) Locke. His ancestry is directly traceable to John Locke. His boyhood and youth were spent on the farm. He attended the district school. He spent two years, 1885 and 1886, at Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio. He taught school for two years, (1890 and 1891,) and in 1892 entered the University of Michigan and took up the study of medicine. He remained there until 1896, when he was graduated. He located in Haverhill, Ohio, the same year, and has practiced there since. On June 24, 1896, he was married to Miss Ella L. Murray, at Milan, Michigan. They have one child, Cranston, a son. As a man, Dr. Locke enjoys the respect and esteem of his neighbors and of the community at large. As a citizen, he is public-spirited and progressive, always ready to help when the public good is concerned or private charity necessary. As a professional man, he has the confidence of the entire community in which he works and he applies himself assiduously to his duties and to his own advancement in his profession. Robert Warren Lodwick Was born September 15, 1866. He attended the Portsmouth public schools till 1881. He was compelled to leave school to earn his living. He began working for John B. Nichols as a varnisher. Afterwards he worked for the Whiteley Company, at Springfield, Ohio. He returned to Portsmouth in 1888, and became stage manager at the Opera House, and continued that occupation for ten years, when he engaged in business for himself, as city bill poster. He became a member of the Ohio State Association and the International Association of Distributors and operated one of the best plants in the state. He had been a member of Company H, 14th 0. N. G., and was on duty at the miners' strike in 1894. He was a republican, a charter member of the Elks, and a member of the Portsmouth Board of Trade. He was in all respects a self-made man, and had built up a character and business for himself of which he and his friends had just cause to be proud. He was married December 2, 1892, to Mrs. Nellie Reiniger, widow of Louis Reiniger, and eldest daughter f the late Judge Martin Crain. He died December 27, 1901, of acute Bright's disease, after a two week's sickness. Silas Oscar Losee was born July 18, 1830, at Troy, New York. His father was Isaac Losee, a native of Scotland. His mother's maiden name was Roxana Jarray, daughter of Anthony Jarray. The family went to Detroit when Silas was five or six years f age. In 1838, they left Detroit and his father went to work as a stone mason on locks f the Ohio canal, between Potsmouth and Cleveland. He built the "elbow" lock. Mr. Jarray was also a stone-mason, and worked on locks of the Ohio canal. He died f the yellow fever in 1840, in the northern part of Ohio. Elizabeth, his widow, died in 1860, in Portsmouth, and was interred in Greenlawn. Anthony Jarray came from France prior to 1812, and went into the war of 1812. Silas Losee came to Portsmouth in 1838. His father died in 1845, and he was reared by Moses Wilson, who taught him the brick mason's trade. He was married June 30, 1859, to Sarah E. Weatherwax, daughter of Jacob Weather-wax, and Louisa Wilson, daughter of Moses Wilson. Mr. Losee enlisted July BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1049 12, 1861, in Company A, 39th 0. V. I., and was made a Sergeant. He was promoted Second Lieutenant, October 6, 1862, and First Lieutenant May 9, 1864. He was mustered out, October 28, 1864, on the expiration of the term of service. He was shot in the right foot with a minie ball July 22, 1864, before Atlanta. His children are: Jennie E., wife of Eugene Herbert Clare; Nellie I., book-keeper at the Hibbs Hardware Company; Silas 0., resident of Portsmouth; and Ada B., wife of Algernon McBride. Mr. Losee made an excellent soldier and offrcer. He was a quiet, industrious and law-abiding citizen respected and liked by all who knew him. George Washington Lowry was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, December 2, 1856. His parents were George and Eliza (O'Neil) Lowry. His mother came from Ross county, Ohio. His father's people came from Virginia, in 1837, and settled at Portsmouth. Our subject's father, George Lowry, married Eliza O'Neil, in 1842, and lived on Ninth street, where their son George, was born. He attended the Portsmouth schools and secured a fair education. He worked in the Maddox woolen mill from 1870 to 1875. He gardened for Mr. Ward till 1878, and then farmed until 1884. He then engaged in the grocery business and contract carpentering. He and his wife continued the grocery until 1895, and since that time he has followed carpentering. One f Mr. Lowry's paternal ancestors was in Washington's army. Mr. Lowry is a republican and has done good work for the party. He is quite a politician, but never has had any important positions. He is a member of Scioto Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., and also a Forester. He married Carrie Isabel Noel, daughter of Isaac H. and Mary E. (Jones) Noel, October 29, 1879. They have six children living: Edwin Earl, Bessie May, Pearl Isaac, George W. Jr., Clifton and Erma I. The deceased are: Maude and Blanche. Mr. Lowry is an industrious, painstaking workman, of a genial, social turn, a good talker and an agreeable companion. Shadrach Chaffin Lummis was born at Bloom Furnace, Scioto county, Ohio, March 16, 1862. His father was John W. Lummis, born near Vineland, Cumberland county, New Jersey, September 15, 1813, and has a separate sketch in this work. His mother was Elizabeth Chaffin, daughter of Shadrack Chaffin, one of the pioneers of Scioto county, and a farmer of Vernon township. Our subject lived on his father's farm until he was nineteen years of age when he went to Iowa in 1881, to learn the grocery business with Boggs Brothers & Company at Vinton. He did not like it, it was too humdrum for him. He returned to Ohio, in the fall of 1881, and entered Oberlin School of Telegraphy March, 1882, and graduated in June, 1882. He then accepted a position with the Scioto Valley railway at Ironton, Ohio, and was there until 1888, when he resigned and took a position with the Chesapeake & Ohio, at Hawk's Nest, West Virginia, and stayed there a year. Then he took an attack of the western fever, resigned and accepted a position with the F. E. & M. V. railway in Nebraska, and was afterwards transferred to Buffalo Gap, South Dakota, where he remained until 1898. He was elected Treasurer of Custer county, South Dakota, for two years at the November election, 1898. He was re-elected in November, 1900, for two years. He was married June 24, 1891, to Emily D. Buck, daughter of Nathan Buck, of Suffolk, Virginia. He has one son, Jacob Chauncy Lummis, born August 7, 1894. He says he has always voted the straight republican ticket, and always will. He is a member of no church, but a Protestant in his views. He is a member of Lawrence lodge and LaGrange Chapter, F. and A. M., of Ironton, Ohio, and of Deadwood Consistory. He resides at present at Custer, South Dakota, As Mr. Lummis is in no way responsible for this sketch, and will not see it until it appears in print, the editor purposes to do as he pleases with him. Physically, Mr. Lummis is one of the finest looking young men who ever grew up in Scioto county. He is a most agreeable companion, a good man, and liberal in all his views. There is no limit to his industry and perseverance. Whatever he takes up, he does with a determination to succeed. His friends in Ohio expect great things from him in the state of South Dakota, and if they do not hear from him as one of the most prominent men in the state, in the