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George Follansbee Abbott
was born January 6, 1875, at Utica, New York. His father was John T. Abbott, a traveling salesman, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Johnson. He was the eldest of four children, two sons and two daughters. He attended school at Utica, New York, until he was ten years of ago, when his father moved to Columbus, 0., and he attended school there until he was nineteen years of age. He then engaged in the paint business with his father, in Columbus until 1898 when he came to Portsmouth, and engaged in the same business at 208 Chillicothe street, with the chief office at 34 east Town street, Columbus, 0. Mr. Abott is politically a republican. He is a member of Massie Lodge Knights of Pythias and of Scioto Lodge of Odd Fellows. He is a young man who believes in conserving all his forces and making the best use of his time and natural abilities. His course merits success and he will achieve it.
James Crichton Adair
was born at Buckhorn Furnace, Lawrence county, 0, April 30, 1856. His father was Smiley Robert Adair, and his mother's maiden name was Lucy C. Whitcomb. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, and was of Scotch-Irish descent. Our subject was reared on a farm and received his education in the Wheelersburg schools. He was married to Mary A. Shaw, daughter of Joseph Shaw, of Ironton, Ohio, June 11, 1881, and became a farmer on "Dogwood Ridge." In 1891 he left the farm and engaged in merchandising in Wheelersburg. He removed his business to Lynchburg, Highland county, Ohio, In 1894 and in 1898 removed to Columbus, Ohio, where he is now engaged in the wholesale notion business at the corner of Third & Spring streets. In politics Mr. Adair is a democrat. In 1893, he was a candidate of that party for Probate Judge of Scioto county and received 2,994 votes to 4,488 for his opponent, George M. Osborn. This was his first and only venture in the political field. Mr. Adair's maternal grandmother was Susan Vincent, a daughter of Antoine Vincent, one of the French settlers. His grandfather was Daniel Young Whitcomb, whose mother was a sister of Dan Young. Susan Vincent married Dan Young Whitcomb August 28, 1825. J. C. Adair's children are Earl W., Frank H., Chester S., Alice L.,
Donald C. and Dortha.
Mr. Adair is a prosperous and successful merchant. He is a man of high character and excellent business ability, and is respected by all who know him.
Hiram Butcher Adams
was born November 9, 1867, in Madison township, Scioto county, Ohio, one mile from the Pike county line near California, on the farm and in the house in which his father was born and reared, and on the farm in which his grandparents first settled when they came to this county. His father was Hiram Adams. and his mother's maiden name was Diana Butcher. The Adamses were New Yorkers. Two brothers came to this county, one settled on the Little Scioto, and one, George Adams, the grandfather of our subject, settled in Madison township.
Our subject worked on the farm until eighteen years of age and attended the district school in winter. When eighteen years of age, he began teaching and taught in the immediate district for twelve successive years. He wag very successful as a teacher. He graduated from the Commercial College of the University of Kentucky in 1889. He never held or asked for any offices. He was appointed Census Enumerator of Madison township in 1890.
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He is a republican, true blue, and always works for what he thinks for the best interests of the republican party. He is now Deputy Clerk of the Courts under Andrew J. Finney. He was born and raised a Baptist, married a Methodist and afterwards united with Manley M. E. church. On August 1, 1890, he was married to Anna E. Jones, daughter of George 0. and Marjorie (Crull) Jones of Lucasville. They have two children: Gladys, age eleven, and Grace age six. Mr Adams located in Portsmouth in 1892 where he now resides. Mr. Adams is the most obliging, accommodating official who ever held a public office in Scioto county. His good temper is inexhaustible.
Amos Barrett Alger,
son of Sylvester and Harriett P. (Monroe) Alger, was born at Wooster, Wayne county, Ohio, June 11, 1838. He attended the common schools and received only such education as they afforded. He enlisted in the 11th Independent Battery Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery September 17, 1861, promoted to 2nd Lieutenant May 4, 18e2, participated in all the battles the battery was engaged in, up to and including the battle of Iuka September 19, 1863, where he was captured with his battery. He was taken to Vicksburg, Miss., and paroled one week later. The 11th Independent Battery ,lost more men in killed and wounded—eighteen killed and twenty-eight wounded out of fifty-four cannoneers—in this one battle than any other battery did in any one battle during the entire war.
On February 9, 1863, he resigned his commission, and with H. M. Neil, of Columbus, Ohio, raised a new Battery—the 22nd Ohio, afterwards known as Alger's Battery. With this Battery he served until the end of the war. At the battle of Jonesville, Va., on the 3rd day of January, 1864, he was again captured and held as prisoner of war at various rebel prisons—Libby, Macon, Charleston. Columbia and Charlotte. From the latter place he was paroled March 1, 1865, having been confined fourteen months. Returning to his Battery at Knoxville, Tennessee, he assumed command as Captain to which office he had been promoted a month after his capture. He was mustered out of service with his Battery July 13, 1865. and returned to his home at Mansfield, Ohio. where he remained until December 8, 1875, when he came to Portsmouth and has been engaged as an architect ever since.
He was appointed trustee of the Portsmouth public library in 1882, and has served continuously as trustee and secretary up to the present time.
When he entered the United States service at the beginning of the war, he was a democrat but immediately changed his politics to correspond with his views and became a republican, with which party he has since affiliated. He was married May 22, 1867, to Julia M. Wharton. daughter of the late Col. James E. Wharton, the founder of the Portsmouth Public Library. He has four children: Edwin Neal, an architect located in Huntington. W. Va., Barry. an architect in his father's office in Portsmouth, Ohio, married; Francis Harter, superintendent of the Mingo Coal mines at Hatfield, W. Va., Richard W.. a student of civil engineering. His wife died July 15, 1897. His sons Francis and Barry were members of Company H, 4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the Spanish American war.
William Royal Allard
was born on Brushy Fork in Madison township, June 23, 1853 He is the son of Thomas and Harriet (Brown) Allard. His father was born in Sheffield, York county, England, January 27, 1829. He enlisted in Company H, 176th 0. V. I. September 2, 1864, and was mustered out with his company, June 14, 1865. His grandfather, Joseph Allard, came to America in 1834 and located in Madison township the next year. He was six weeks, in crossing the Atlantic. When William was two years old, his parents removed with him to Pike county. His early life was passed in working on a farm and in attending the village school. At the age of seventeen. he began teaching, which profession he followed continuously for twenty years. Fourteen years of this time he taught in Pike county and six in Scioto. He is a republican and voted for Hayes in 1876. He is a member of the Methodist Protestant church at California. He married Louisa Isabel Dever. daughter of William Dever, September, 1881.' They have two children: William Thomas and Lorenzo Dow, Jr.
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Andrew David Allen
was born in Madison township, Scioto county, Ohio. His father was William H. Allen, and his mother's maiden name was Hannah J. Pinteer. His grandfather, Henry Allen, was a native of Greenbriar county, Virginia, and settled in Scioto county in 1848. His grandmother, Abigail Massie, was from Virginia. She was said to have been a relative of Henry Massie, the founder of Portsmouth. His grandfather, Henry Alien, was a shoemaker by trade, but in Scioto county followed farming. The father and mother of our subject are both living. His father was brought up to the carpenter trade. He entered Company "A" of the Thirty-ninth 0. V. I. August 25, 1862 for three years. He served until July 9, 1865, and was never wounded nor a prisoner. He died January 20, 1902. The father and mother of our subject had nine children, of whom he is the eldest. He has lived in Madison and Harrison townships all his life. He never had any thing but a common school education and has made the most of it. He has been a teacher. of common schools by profession since 1879; and has taught in Madison, Harrison and Bloom townships in Scioto county. In the summer he has a farm and does farming. In the year 1890, he kept a store at Lois, Ohio. He married September, 1883, Amanda C. Bonzo, daughter of Joseph Bonzo, of French descent. His wife's grandfather came from France. He is a republican, and is a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He was a Justice of the Peace from 1890 to 1893 of Madison township. He has seven children: Louis Alva, Mary Hannah, Charles William, Ora Ida, Augusta, Prasconia, Gertrude and Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Allen is a man of strong mental qualities and is known in his community as a well informed man. He has attained this measure of proficiency by constant application to his studies urged on by his strong will and desire to excel. His natural fitness for a teacher has won him success in that profession.
Alex Altsman
was born in Alleghany City, Pennsylvania, January 11, 1844. His father was Abraham Altsman and his mother's maiden name was Nancy McFeely. His father was a native of Lancaster county, and his mother of Fayette county, Pennsylvania. His parents had fourteen children, five of whom are living, four sisters and himself. He attended school in the second ward of Alleghany City, but quit at the age of fourteen. He engaged first in a carriage factory, but not liking that followed various other employments until 1861, when he went into the shoe store of R. C. Loomis & Company in Pittsburg. He was there eight years. He enlisted in Company C, 123d Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry July 26, 1862, as a private. He was wounded in the right hip at the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, by a minie ball. This wound disabled him so that he was unfit thereafter for military service. The ball imbedded itself in his body and was not extracted until January 29, 1863. He was married August 2, 1866, to Victoria La Clair from Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Her parents were natives of France. After his army service, Mr. Altsman was promoted to be salesman for his employer, traveled in Scioto county, Ohio, and became acquainted with the people of this county in that way. Mr. John G. Peebles was a friend of Mr. Loomis, visited his store in Pittsburg and became acquainted with Mr. Altsman and it was in this way our subject came to Portsmouth. R. C. Loomis discontinued business in 1869, and on the recommendation of Mr. Peebles, Mr. Altsman went with R. Bell & Company, the same year, and remained with them until 1875, when they closed out their business. In 1876, he became a salesman for C. P. Tracy & Company and has remained with them ever since. Mr. Altsman has had three children: Minnie L., the wife of Earl Clare; Alice D., and Will B., who married Miss Mattie Varner. Mr. Altsman is a member of Bigelow M. E. church. He is an Odd Fellow, a member of the G. A. R. and of the United Commercial Travelers. He has always been a republican.
Frank Amann
was born March 13, 1860, at Portsmouth, Ohio. His father was Charles E Amann. His mother was Ruan Wynett. His father was a native of Baden,
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Germany, and his mother was a native of Ohio. He attended the schools in Portsmouth until 1874, and then became a clerk in Daniel Spry’s drug store. He remained there until 1880, when he went into business for himself at 208 Market street, and has been there ever since. He also conducts another drug store at Eleventh and Offnere streets. He was married November 21, 1883, to Mary Ella Ridenour of Cincinnati, 0. Mr. Amann is not attached to any particular political party, nor any fraternity. He is a member of the First Presbyterian church. He is a first class citizen in every respect, is one of the best business men in Portsmouth, and he attends strictly to his own business.
Eugene Graham Anderson
son of George W. Anderson and Annie H. Warwick, his wife, was born February 10, 1873, at Council Grove, Kansas. At the age of two, he was brought to Portsmouth, Ohio, by his parents and has lived here ever since. He attended the public schools of Portsmouth until 1889, when he began the mercantile business with his father. He has been engaged in the same business until July 23, 1894, when he took a position with Louis A. Crossett a prominent manufacturer of wens shoes, traveling through the south and southwest, filling this position successfully until January 18, 1896. After the death of his father, who died in October, 1895, he formed a partnership with his brother Wm. B., and mother Mrs. Annie H. Anderson, January 1, 1896, and the firm was changed to G. W. Anderson & Sons.
He was married February 2, 1897, to Ruhama Halderman, daughter of Doctor S. S. Halderman, of Portsmouth, Ohio, and they have two children: Mary and Charles.
He is a republican and a communicant of All Saints church and is superintendent of All Saints Sunday school. He is an Elk. Mr. Anderson believes in everything that is good and true. As yet his life is before him and his prospects are brilliant. He has high ideals in religion, in social life and in business, and those who know him best believe he will live up to them. As it is now, he is respected and admired for those qualities of character which most adorn the life of a young man, and his course promises distinction and success in every field of effort.
William Beverly Anderson
Was born January 22, 1859, in Montgomery county, Kentucky. His father was the late George W. Anderson. His mother is Annie H. (Warwick) Anderson who is still living.
While a boy, Mr. Anderson was taken by his parents successively to Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, Portsmouth, Ohio, Council Grove, Kansas, and back to Portsmouth where he has resided since 1874. He received his education in the public schools of these several places. He had some experience in farming while on his father's farm near Council Grove, Kansas. He worked at farming for two years and the grasshoppers ate up every thing they raised. Consequently Mr. Anderson does not have much of a hankering for farm life. His sympathy for the fermer is exceeded only by his desire to keep out of the business. When he came to Portsmouth in November, 1874, he entered his father’s shoe store. From this on, he continued in business with his father until his death in 1895.
When Mr. Anderson was only eighteen, his father's health became poor and the responsibility of the business fell largely upon him. He became a partner with his father under the firm name of G. W. Anderson & Son in 1878, and was the chief support of the business till his father's death when he assumed complete control. A more complete history of the business will be found under the sketch of G. W. Anderson. In 1900, the large department store corner of Third and Chillicothe streets was established under the old firm name of G. W. Anderson & Sons. Our subject is the moving spirit in this immense enterprise and is its business manager. He is a republican, but devoting all his time to the management of his business, he finds no time to , spend in politics. He has been a member of the Sixth Street Methodist church Since he was thirteen years old, excepting the short interval he was in Kansas, and has been a steward of the church for twnty-five years. He has been superintendent of the Sunday school for the past ten years arrd is one of the chief workers in the church as well as a libral contributor.
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Mr. Anderson was married, February 2, 1886, to Ida Russell, daughter of William B. and Rebecca (Hibbs) Russell. William B. Russell was a son of the Hon. William Russell and Governor Robert Lucas was an uncle of Mrs. Anderson’s mother.
George Washington Anderson
was born in Bath county, Kentucky, June 18, 1830. His father, William Anderson was from Virginia. His mother was a daughter of Judge Graham of Virginia. At the age of sixteen he went into the business of store keeping as a clerk for his uncle in Mercer county, Kentucky, and remained there two years. He was clerk on the steamer "Blue Wing" between Frankfort and Louisville for six months. He went back into Mercer county and from there to Cincinnati in 1856. He took a business course at Bartlett's Commercial College, and remained as a teacher. In 1857, he went to Howard's Mills, Montgomery county, Kentucky, and kept a store there till the winter of 1859 and 1860. That same year he went to Camargo and remained two years. He removed to Mt. Sterling and remained there until 1866. In June, 1864, his store in Mt. Sterling was robbed by John Morgan’s band. He was. a Union man during the entire war and was outspoken. On the occasion of another raid, he secreted his stock in the coffins of an undertaker who was a rank rebel but who was willing to aid his neighbor. The coffin scheme was successful as the rebels did not want to steal coffins and did not dream of them being used as places of concealment.
In February, 1867, Mr. Anderson came to Portsmouth and opened a store in the Huston corner where he remained until fall. Then he moved to 109 West Second into a building erected for him by the late Dan McFarland, and remained until 1871, at which time he sold out and went to Council Grove, Kansas, and tried farming, also being interested in the firm of J. F. Warwick & Co., doing a general merchandise business in Council Grove. In November, 1874, he returned to Portsmouth, having purchased the shoe store of R. M. Lloyd of Chillicothe street., He afterwards removed to Second street, and occupied the west half of the building now occupied by the Hibbs Hardware Company. While here his son, William B., was admitted to the business under the firm name of G. W. Anderson & Son. At the end of three years they removed to a building which stood where Ben Davis' clothing store now stands where they remained about a year, and then moved to the Huston stone front on Second street, where they did business for nine years. In 1886 by goods were added to the stock. They removed to the Brushart building, No. 134 West Second street in 1888. and were doing business there at the time of Mr. Anderson’s death, October 8, 1895.
Since his death the business has been conducted and managed by his son. William B. Mr. Anderson was a republican, but took no active part in politics. He was a member of the Presbyterian church until his marriage, and then transferred his membership to the Methodist church, and was a member of the Sixth Street Methodist Episcopal church of Portsmouth until his death. He was always connected with the Official Board of the church as steward and was treasurer for a number of years. He took an active part in church work.
He was married October 22. 1857, to Miss Annie H. Warwick, daughter of B. G. Warwick, then living in Cincinnati, but who afterwards came to Portsmouth. By this marriage thirteen children were born to them, two of whom died in infancy. Those who grew up were: William Beverly, a sketch of whom is found elsewhere in this book; Maggie M.. wife of Dr. J. N. Crawford, now residing in Newport, Rhode Island; Sallie J., wife of Dr. F. H. Williams at Portsmouth, died in Cincinnati. October 13, 1901; George B.. died in Cincinnati, January 13, 1902; John Frank; Charles N., a member of the shoe firm of Anderson Bros., Eugene G., a member of G. W. Anderson & Preston H., employed in the department store of G. W. Anderson & Sons; Warwick W., manager and buyer for the house furnishing department of G. W. Anderson & Sons; Nelson R., and Crawford W., now in the first year of the, High school.
Lexey Clayton Debo Anderson
was born in the state of North Carolina on November 7, 1855. His father was Sandy Freeman Anderson and his mother's maiden name was Mary Jane.
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Taborn, free persons of color. They moved from the south to Fayette county, Ohio, before the civil war, and there our subject was educated ill the common schools. He has acquired a higher education, but it was secured by self study. He and his parents remained in Ohio, until 1866, when they returned to their former home in North Carolina, where our subject attended the public schools at Oxford until 1870. At that time his parents became satisfied that the opportunities for the colored race in the south were not equal to those in the north and returned to Fayette county, where our subject attended school until 1874, when he began teaching. He was the principal of the colored schools in Washington C. H., from 1874 to 1883, then he tried the hotel business in 1883 and 1884 in the same place. The latter year he went to Jacksonville, Florida, and taught music in the public schools for a period of six months. In 1885, he returned to Washington C. H. and taught there until 1886. In 1886 and 1887, he was in business in Washington C. H. in house furnishings. He went to Ripley in 1888 and took charge of the Fourth street school and was there as principal of that school for five years, until 1893. He returned to Washington C. H. in the latter year and until 1895 was in business there in selling house furnishings. In 1895 he came to Portsmouth and was the principal of the Eleventh street school for two years at the end of which time, he went into business in the sale of house furnishing goods and dress making at No. 1130 Findlay street. He was married in 1818 at Bowersville in Clinton county to Miss Madie Catharine White, daughter of Mrs. Cynthia White. He has a family of three children; one daughter, Pearl Beatrice who is a teacher of the Portsmouth public schools, two sons Cecil, aged 13, years and Leon A., aged 10 years. Mr. Anderson is the best educated person of his race in the city and is a gentleman of integrity and excellent reputation in the community.
Balser Horn Andres.
the veteran engineer of the Portsmouth branch of the B. & 0. railroad, was born February 14, 1836, at Norwalk, in Huron county, Ohio. His father was a native of Baden, Germany, and was a clockmaker. He concluded America was a good country for him and came here and peddled clocks. His wife was Mary Elizabeth Horn. They were married at Wilmington, in 1834. When Basler was four weeks old, his parents moved to Piketon. When he was four years of age, they moved to Jackson. He went to school at Jackson and obtained all of his schooling there. Among his teachers was Judge Longbon. At the age of sixteen, he carried water for the men who graded the Scioto & Hocking Valley railroad. After that, he went to work grading about the station under his father. At seventeen, he went on the road as brakeman. At the age of eighteen, he got a place as a fireman and held it for two years. In 1859, he began to run an engine and has continued it for forty-two years.
He ran on a freight until May 30, 1863, when Richard Burns, then an engineer of the road, entered Co. K of the 2nd Ohio Heavy Artillery. He was engineer on the mail until August 23, 1865, when Dick Burns came back from the army and he went back on the accommodation, and was on that for seven years, except six months when he ran on the main line between Cincinnati and Chillicothe. In the spring of 1888, he became engineer on the mail train, the one leaving Portsmouth in the morning and returning in the evening. He has been employed on the branch between Hamden and Portsmouth steadily since 1859.
During these years he has stuck to his post and has traveled 1,717,170 miles, or more than 68 times around the world. He has never lost a day for pleasure or recreation. The longest time he was away from his engine was when he was hurt in a wreck; that time he was off eight weeks. This wreck occurred on Hayes-Tilden presidential election day in November, 1876. His train ran over a broken rail and was ditched. He was buried under his engine and they had to dig him out of the earth. This occurred two miles south of Hale’s creek.
On February 14, 1863, his train was ditched near Sciotoville at the "narrows" and it was prevented from going into the Ohio river by the engine burying its cow catcher in the ground. Once in a wreck, he had his engine turn a complete somersault down an embankment and escaped with only a scalded hand. Another time his engine left the track and ran out into a
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field with him. One night near Chillicothe, on the Scioto river bridge, his engine collided with the hind-end of a freight train, the lights of which had frozen out. His engine plowed through this train and was badly wrecked and he didn't get a scratch. He has always remained at his post ever mindful of the lives behind him. His fastest run was on the main line when he made 110 miles in 1 hour and 30 minutes. He has a remarkable record. His engine has killed two men only. Both of them were walking on the track and one was a deaf Mute. He ran over a woman at Wait's station. She was a deaf mute.
He was married February 21, 1862, to Mary E. Clark, in Bigelow chapel, the second marriage which occurred in that church. His children are: William Shackleford, a General Press Agent and Grace C., a music teacher. He moved to Portsmouth in 1856 and has lived there ever since. He resides at 64 west Seventh street and has resided there for thirty-eight years. He is a member of Bigelow chapel and has been since 1868. He voted for Steven A. Douglas for President in 1860, and for Abraham Lincoln, in 1864, and has been a Republican ever since. Mr. W. C. Draper has known him since 1863 and says that he is as reliable as the government and can be depended on with the same certainty.
He is as regular in his habits as his father’s old clock which he has owned for thirty-eight years. He is sixteen years older than the road he has worked on since 1853. The road has changed owners five times since that date but Balser was sold with the road-bed and franchises every time. At the age of sixty-five, he is hale and hearty, has a good conscience and good digestion. Each week day he goes to Hamden Junction in the morning and returns in the evening. He is always in his place at church every Sunday. When the Good Angel who is sent to bring mortals to the Better Land, calls for Balser Andres, he will know just where to find him, for he will always be found at the same place, the same hour each day, and doing his duty all the time.
George Brinton McClelland Andre, M. D.,
of South Webster, was born in Powellsville, Ohio, June 18, 1864. His father was Peter Andre and his mother's maiden name was Mary L. Huston. They now live on a farm in Vernon township near Chaffin's Mill.
Dr. Andre's boyhood history is much the same as that of any other boy who was raised on a farm. He was very fond of horses and even now has his roadsters and takes great delight in driving. He attended the common schools and prepared himself to teach. He began teaching in 1885 and taught for seven years. He then attended Miami Medical College from which he was graduated April 1, 1897. Doctor Andre soon after began the practice of medicine in South Webster, where he has since resided. He has built up a lucrative practice and is a promising young physician. He was married to Miss S. A. Gifford, November 7, 1901. Her parents live on their farm in Vernon township. Doctor Andre is and always has been a democrat. He is not a member of any church, but is straightforward, honest and energetic. His many friends will best remember him as a "threshing machine man," having traveled over Pike and Scioto counties several summers with machines from 1888 to 1897. He is very ambitious to succeed and has already won the confidence and esteem of the citizens of Bloom township and has shown rare skill in his profession. He is possessed of a cheerful disposition which he takes with him in the sick room. He is a member of the Western Sun Lodge F. and A. M. No. 91 located at Wheelersburg and of South Webster Lodge, Knights of Pythias No. 724. He has the highest standing for morality and integrity.
Peter Duteil Andre
was born September 24, 1825, in the French Grant. His father was Jacob Andre, who was born July 23, 1797. His father married Jane Duteil, in 1822. She was born May 17, 1804, and a daughter of Francis Charles Duteil, a French emigrant, who drew lot 32 in the French Grant. Peter Andre grew up in the French Grant, and had such an education as the schools of the vicinity afforded. He married Nancy Caroline Tong, February 6, 1854. He went
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to house-keeping on the Andre farm, formerly known as the Hurd farm, on tot 34 in the French Grant. He lived there all his life.
His eldest son was Wayne W. born May 14th, 1852. He was married in 1876, to Margaret J. Boren, a native of Iowa county, Iowa. They had tour children. He died at the age of thirty-eight years.
The second son of Peter Andre is Orin C. Andre, a physician at Waverly. He was born April 29, 1856. He attended the common schools at Wheelersburg, until 1873, when he became a clerk for M. B. Gilbert & Co. in Portsmouth, at which place he remained a year. Then he began the study of medicine with Dr. A. B. Jones and afterwards with Dr. P. J. Kline. He graduated from the Ohio Medical College, in Cincinnati, in 1877. He first located at Buchanan, Pike county, Ohio, and practiced there one year, and then located in Piketon where he remained until January, 1894, when he moved to Waverly, in Pike county, where he has since been located. He was first married to Mary E. Sargeant, February S, 1883. She died April 15, 1884. He was married a second time to Miss Martha J. Wessenstein, October 30, 1890. They have three children: Robert G., Harold E., and Peter D. Dr. Andre is a republican, a Royal Arch Mason, Lad a Knight of Pythias. He is a member of the American Medical Association, of the Ohio State Medicat Association, of the Hempstead Memorral Academy of Medicine of Scioto county, of the Pike county Medical Society, and an honorary member of the Ross county Medical Society. He is a student in his profession. He patronizes its literature liberally, and keeps right up with all the modern ideas in it.e is regarded as one of the best informed physicians in southern Ohio, and amongst the most skillful. He possesses the confidence and respect of all his medical ,brethren and of the community in which he dwells.
The first daughter of our subject, Ella, is the wife of John T. Wells, a rancher, of Anaheim, California. The second daughter of our subject, Ruba, has been a teacher in the Ironton high school. She has a remarkable career. having tirst taught at Washington, D. C., taught the languages two years in Wichita, Kansas, and in Ironton three years. The third son of Peter D. Andre was Dan Young, named for the well known minister. He lives in Dixon. Illinois. He married Stella Wilcox, December 26, 1888. He follows the occupation of a photographer. The third daughter, Elonia, is a teacher in the Detroit High School. Her subject is Zoology. She has been engaged there for six years.
Peter D. Andre was a member of the Methodist church all his life. He lived up to it, and was a man noted for his conscience. He was superintendent of the Sunday school near his home for many years. In his political views, he was a whig and a republican. He did not belong to any fraternities. At one time he was township trustee. He was highly regarded by all his neighbors.
Though not an emigrant himself, Mr. Andre embodied in a high degree the emigrant soirit,—that spirit born of ambition, energy, thrift, and high ideals, which inspired the great body of pioneers with a desire to better themselves in evry moral and material way. It was this spirit, sustained by an iron will to meet and overcome all obstacles, which raised the average population of this country to the highest plane of any civilization which the world has yet seen. Mr. Andre exemplified these qualities as shown in his model farm, his successful management, his beautiful home, the esteem of his fellow citizens and transmitted them in an unusual degree to a respected and talented family of children.
Frank Appel
was born September 15, 1868. His parents were Theodore and Mary E. (Brant) Appel. His mother was the daughter of Joseph H. Brant of Lucasville. Our subject received a common school education and graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1894. in the classical course. He began teaching in 1885. in Jefferson township and taught there and in Clay township until 1891, when he was appointed superintendent of the Lucasville schools. He remained there two years, and in September, 1894, went to Wheelersburg. where he was superintendent until 1899. In June, 1899, he went to Piketon and was superintendent of the Piketon schools until January 1. 1900. when he was appointed superintendent of the Ludlow, Kentucky, schools and has been there since.
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He has twelve schools under his charge at present. He taught summer school at Wheelersburg, in 1898, and at Lucasville, in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1902. He received a state common school life certificate in December, 1899. and a High School life certificate in June, 1900. He also received the degree of A. B. from the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. On June 15. 1895. he was married to Martha Jane Cook, a daughter of George Cook. They have one child, Ralph Franklin. Mr. Appel is a republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
He is honest, energetic and thorough in everything he undertakes. As a superintendent, he is fearless and efficient in the discharge of his duties. As a county school examiner, he did much to raise the standard of scholarship among the teachers of Scioto county. He was a leader among the teachers of Scioto county while he was one of them, and has made a permanent impression in his institute work in the county. He was regarded as one of the brightest teachers ever in the county.
George M. Appel,
President of the Gilbert Grocery Company and Treasurer of the Port mouth Shoe Company, is the sixth of the eight children of Philip Appel and Katherine (Bender) Appel and was born December 20, 1859. in Portsmouth. to which town his parents had come from Germany. in 1847. both having been born in Sandhofen, Baden on the Rhine. His mother was born in 1827 and his father in 1820.
His father was a member of the liberal party in the movement among the German states for increased liberties and for a constitution in which these liberties should be embodied and sacredly guarded. The success of the movement seemed doubtful owing to jealous dissensions and not wishing to remain longer under the tyrannies of his native country, he determined to adopt a country where liberty abounds, and came to America.
What education Mr. Appel received was in the schools of Portsmouth before he reached the age of fourteen. At this age he was compelled or rather felt it his duty to go to work for himself. His father had died when be was only four years old and his mother had a large family to care for. He was employed by B. R. Brown, a plumber, and worked at plumbing for three years, after which he was employed by W. H. H. Cadot. who was then carrying on a wholesale and retail grocery business. After a year here, he entered the service of M. B. Gilbert and was given charge of one of his ice wagons. This was in May 1878, and he served in this capacity for five years when he was transferred to the grocery department and was given the position of billing and shipping clerk. He soon became book keeper and continued in this capacity until Mr. Gilbert’s death in November, 1887. Then the firm of M. B. Gilbert & Co. was formed. composed of Mrs. M. B. Gilbert. Mr. Appel and Mr. Joseph S. Gaston. The letter member of the firm died in 1892. leaving the business in the hands of the former until 1894, when George A. Goodman was taken into the firm. On January 1. 1899, the businesss was re-organized and incorporated under the name of The Gilbert Grocery Company and Mr. Appel was made its president. It is to his careful management and constant oversight that the business owes its prosperous and rapid growth and its present immense proportions. Mr. Appel is also interested in the Prtsmouth Shoe Company and is its treasurer.
He was married July 23, 1890, to Miss Lena Zoeliner. daughter of Philip Zoeliner, the jeweler. Two daughters have been born to them. Margaret. aged nine, and Katharin. age four.
Though a democrat, Mr. Appel does not allow party lines to interfere with his voting when it is a question of his country's welfare or its business interests. Being a thorough business man he looks at politics in a businesslike way.
Theodore Appel
was born September 2, 1841, at Sandhofen. Baden, Germany. His father's name was Theodore Appel, and mother's maiden name was Eva Margaret Katzmaier. Our subject attended school in Germany until he was ten years of age. In July, 1852, his parents came to this country, and located at
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Mt. Vernon Furnace where his father died in August, 1852. In September of the same year, his mother moved to Portsmouth, where she was re-married to Jacob Clopine. While our subject was in Portsmouth, he worked for the Doerr Bros. in the cigar factory. In the spring of 1853, the family moved to Harrison Furnace, where he worked in the ore banks until he was fifteen years of age. He then worked for a farmer by the name of Moore for six months, after which he went to work for Ephraim Bennett, a farmer in Madison township, where he worked for two years. In 1859 he went to work on the Miller farm, where he remained for about a year, and then worked on the Dugan farm for three years. In 1864, he rented a farm on Millar's Run, where he remained until 1866, when he moved to the upper Thomas farm in Valley township. He remained there nineteen years, and in 1885 he went to the lower Thomas farm in Clay township, where he remained fourteen years. Then Joseph H. Brant and himself bought the Johnson farm at Clifford in valley township, where he has remained ever since.
He was married August 20, 1863, to Mary E. Brant, daughter of Joseph Brant, of Valley township. They have the following children: Joseph Henry, married, living at Lucasville; George William, married and farms on the Joseph W. Fulton farm in Valley township; James Benton, married, lives on the Bannon farm; Frank, married, is superintendent of the public schools at Ludlow, Ky.; Margaret, married T. C. Beatty, an attorney at Portsmouth, 0.; David, married, lives on the lower Thomas farm in Clay township; Charles T., married, lives on a farm in Valley township; Louise at home; and Edgar, a student at the Ohio Wesleyan University. Mr. Appel is a republican in his political views and a member of the Methodist church.
He is a gentleman of excellent habits, honest, industrious and frugal. He is the father of a family of whom any man should be proud. He is a model farmer and devotes all his time to this pursuit. He is conscientious and fair in all his relations with his fellowmen. Above all he is an earnest, sincere and devout Christian.
Joseph Ashton
was born June 1, 1805, at Old Town near Newcastle, Pa.. His father Joseph Ashton was a major in the Revolutionary army and a very prominent man in his time. His record will be found under Revolutionary soldiers. Our subject had only a common school education. After finishing school, he went to Pittsburg where he was apprenticed to Samuel Walker, a steamboat builder, and learned that trade. In 1847, he left Pittsburg and went to New Richmond, Ohio, and lived there till 1855, teaming for David Gibson, who had a distillery there. In December, 1855, he came to Portsmouth, Ohio, and went into partnership with his brother-in-law Milton Kennedy in the feed business, in a three story building on the site of the Huston Stone front on Second street. They occupied the first story, the second was a concert hall, and the third was occupied by the Odd Fellows. In 1856, he went into business with Henry Densmore in making mineral waters and remained in that business one year. He was then appointed Canal Collector by Governor Chase. During the war he removed to Rapid Forge on Paint creek, Ross county, and made his home there for ten years. In 1864, he received an appointment as treasury clerk at Vicksburg and other points in the south, from his old friend Salmon P. Chase, then Secretary of the Treasury. At one time he was taken prisoner at Goodrich's Landing, La.
After returning from the south, he lived in Ross county and afterwards in Pike county. In 1870, he was given charge of the City Hospital of Portsmouth, a position he held for several years. He was elected a Justice of the Peace in Wayne township, Scioto county, in April, 1878, and was re-elected annually until June 1, 1891, when he resigned his office and removed to Sinking Springs in Highland county, where he remained until his death. He was a member of the Methodist Protestant church. He was an abolitionist, but acted with the republican party after it was formed.
He was married October 13, 1830, to Miss Matilda Kennedy, sister of Milton Kennedy, in Alleghany, Pa. He had seven children, three of whom survive him: viz.. Mrs. Pauline McKeown of the Portsmouth schools; Mrs. Martha M. Gall, of Sinking Springs, 0., and John Q. Ashton, of San Diego, California. He was a man without antagonisms and at the same time no one
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had a stronger will than he. His attachment to the views of his church and his views on the subject of slavery were of the very strongest. As a Justice of the Peace, his decisions were well considered and were correct. He was honorable with all men and content to do his duty in the sphere in which he was placed.
Walter Atkin
was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, April 20, 1837. He is the son of Frank C. and Jane (Duval) Atkin. His mother was of French descent and came from Maryland. His father came from England. His boyhood and youth were spent In Portsmouth where he received a common school education. He lived in Kansas from 1856 to 1858 and learned the baker's trade with Hugh Stewart of Portsmouth, Ohio. He enlisted in Company G, 2nd Colorado Cavalry, September 20, 1862, and was mustered out after three years service. Most of his service was in Kansas and Missouri. He was one of the many who went to Pike's Peak looking for gold, but was not fortunate enough to find any. He was in the saw mill business for several years and then run a threshing machine and molasses evaporator. For the past five years, he has been a merchant and huckster near Stockdale, Ohio. Within the past three months he purchased the California mills and is at present running them. He is a republican and a member of the Baptist church and of the G. A. R. He was married in December, 1865, to Sarah M. (Bennett) Adams, daughter of Ephraim Bennett.
Bernard Augustin,
wholesale grocer, was born December 26, 1830, in the kingdom or Hanover, at Meppen, a town of about four thousand people at that time. His father, Joseph Augustin, born in 1792 and died in 1857, was a wholesale grocer of that town and a man of wide political influence. He served two terms as mayor of the town of Meppen. Our subject’s grandfather was Karl Augustin, a dry goods merchant and a well educated man. His mother was Margaret Drexler. She died when he was only six years of age. Her father was Joseph Drexler. Mr. Augustin attended the common schools till he was fourteen and then studied in the gymnasium at Meppen for the next five years. He was reared a Catholic. It was the intention of his parents to educate him for the priesthood, but seeing his natural inclination for the fair sex, they abandoned this project and he was taken into his father's store until he was twenty-five, when he started a glass manufactory of his own.
He sold out to his mother at the end of five years and came to the United States in 1868. He stopped first near Catlettsburg, Ky., and went from there to Pittsburg with the intention of getting a position in the glass factories there; but owing to his inability to speak the English language he could not secure a position which his education and knowledge of the business would have commanded in his native country. He came to Portsmouth the next year. He was first employed here by Valentine Rheinhart. manufacturer of candy. He worked for Rheinhart for three years and saved his money, and at the end of that time started a candy-making business of his own. To this he added a small line of groceries and kept branching out and adding to his stock until he is now doing a large and exclusively wholesale business at the corner of Front and Court streets.
He is a democrat but does not mix in politics. He is a communicant of St. Mary's Roman Catholic church. Portsmouth, Ohio. He was married to Anna Schleinhege. daughter of Bernard Schleinhege, November 5, 1858. They have had seven children, four living and three dead. Two died in infancy and Adolph was drowned in the Scioto river in 1881. Those living are: Bernard, Jr., now in business with his father; Joseph M., a wholesaler of fancy groceries In Portsmouth; Marv: and Anna, married to Carl Streuber.
Mr. Augustin is an example of what can be accomplished by strict attention to business methods. He became employed in a candy manufactory and soon after took the business onto himself. I ater finding that manufacturing candy was not profitable, he undertook the wholesale grocery business and in that has been very successful and has made and accumulated a fortune. His standing as a business man in the community is the very best. It is always good for a man to have a failure in early life, that is if there is
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any outcome in him. Mr. Augustine had one in the glass business in Germany and thereby learned how to retrieve his fortune and has done so in a wonderful degree. He is one of the most substantial citizens of Portsmouth.
John Maximilian Augustin
was born March 6, 1864, in Hanover, Germany. His father was Bernhard Augustin, who has a sketch herein. His mother's maiden name was Anna Schleinhege. He was the third child of his father's family. When he was four years of age, his father left his family in Germany and came to the United States, first going to Pittsburg, then to Big Sandy, and then to Portsmouth. In 1870, his father sent for the family to come over and they located in Portsmouth. John attained his education in St. Mary's Parish school in in Portsmouth. He left school at the age of twelve years, and started to work in his father's candy factory. He mastered the business in two years. From the age of 14 to 16 he worked at his trade with his father. At the age of 16, he began to trawl and sell groceries. He remained in this business from 1880 until 1891. From 1891 to 1892 he was a salesman for his father for the city trade. February 1, 1892, he started in business for himself at 17 west Front street. and has remained in that business ever since, but he changed his location in 1894, and removed his business to Seventh and Chillicothe streets. In 1898, he removed to Gallia street, where he is now. He was married September 20, 1887 to Anna B. Snyder. He has three children, one son and two daughters. His son and one daughter died in infancy. His surviving daughter is Madeline, aged eight years. He is a communicant of St. Mary's church and a member of the Young Mens' Institute. He is a good citizen, has the best business ability and has been very successful in business.
Charles Moore Ault
was born at Harrisonville, Ohio, February 1. 1875. His father was John Ault, and his mother's maiden name was Agnes Boren, daughter of James Boren. His parents had four children, of which he was the oldest. His grandfather, Henry Ault. was born November 30. 1820, in Breidenbach, Hessen-Nassau, Germany. He came to the United States in 1845 and located in Beaver county, Pa. He married Barbara Brame in 1847. came to Scioto county in 1852, where he has since resided except a short time in Jackson county. Their children were: John, born March 6, 1848; William, born January 13, 1851; Callie, born November 1. 1857. His first wife died directly after the birth of the last named child, and he was married in 1861 to Christina Shear, of Jackson county, Ohio. They had three children: Mary (Mrs. Robert McAleer). born 1864; Maggie, born September 21, 1867; Frank, born May 14, 1874. William Ault, residing in Columbus, Ohio: Mrs. Callie Burke, of Wheelersburg, Ohio, with whom the father lives at present.
Our subject received a common school education, and one term at the Rio Grande College. He attended several normal schools, began teaching in 1892. and has been engaged in it for ten years in Scioto county. In his political views he is a free-silver democrat, not a member of any church, or any fraternal societies.
Walter J. Bagby
is the son of William Bagby. He was born in 1841 and is a grandson of John Bagby, born in 1819. and a great-grandson of Robert Bagby who emigrated to Lewis county, Kentucky, about 1800. from Virginia. His mother is Mahala Isabella (Bruce) Bagby, a daughter of Thomas Bruce and a granddaughter of John Bruce who was also a Virginian, belonging to a family which originally came from Scotland in the ante-revolutionary days, and has a common origin with the family of Bruces to which Robt. Bruce, King of the Scots belonged. The paternal grandmother of our subject was Sarah Thompson. daughter of Anthony Thompson, a member of the Thompson family of Lewis county, Kentucky. The Bruces settled originally near where Vanceburg now stands and the Bagbys in what is now known as "Ferman's bottoms" near Quincy. The Bagbys came to Virginia from England before the revolution.
Our subject was born September 21. 1867, at Springville, Kentucky, and was raised at St. Paul, Kentucky, to which place his parents removed when
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he was still a child. Here he received his schooling. At the age of twenty-one he began railroading, working most of the time at bridge carpentering, and continued at this occupation till 1897, when he was employed as a clerk by W. A. Hamilton, grocer, in Portsmouth. At the end of two years he bought out Hamilton and is now conducting the business himself at the corner of Gallia and John streets.
He is a socialist in his views and votes with the social democrat party. He is a member of the Christian church of Portsmouth and is an active worker. At present he is an elder in the church. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Modern Woodmen. His father served in the 2nd Ky. regiment, CO. F, Union army. His grandfather Bruce's brother was a Captain in the 22nd Kentucky regiment. Union army, and his cousin was a member of the Confederate Congress from the Louisville district.
Mr. Bagby was married April 30, 1895. to Emma Eastham, daughter of Robert and Mary (Davis) Eastham of Boyd county, Kentucky. They have one child, Paul T., born June 30, 1901.
The subject of the sketch affords a splendid opportunity for one to emphasize those qualifications which go to make a man in the highest sense of the word. As to honor, no citizen has a Better or higher sense of the same than Mr. Bagby; in honesty, his record is known well to all those who have been placed in a position of contact with him; considering duty, sacrifice tells better than any word his unswerving loyalty to a well educated conscience; as to purpose, any success he has attained to, so far in life is due very largely to the secret of this word.
Lewis William Baker
was born October 24, 1852, in Portsmouth, Ohio. His father was Henry Baker, and his mother's maiden name was Louisa Pelhank, both natives of Germany. They had four children. three now living. Our subject is the eldest. A daughter. Louisa,: married Andrew Biegel. and Fred is in .the cigar business. Our subject attended school until he was fifteen years of age, when he went in with Stemshorn and Engelbrecht grocers as a clerk. He was with them for two years. In 1869. he began to work for H. Eberhart & Company. foundry- men, and clerked and traveled for them until 1873. On July 22, 1873, he went Into the Ohio Stove Company, as a salesman, and was with them until 1890. In that year he became a director in the Portsmouth Stove & Range Company. and its vice president. F. V. Knauss, W. S. Todd and Mr. Baker took $10,000 stock in it when it started and it is now owned by Knauss and Baker. Mr. Baker has been the vice president ever since the business started. Mr. Knauss is the president. and R. A. Bryan, the secretary and treasurer. Mr. Baker married Eva Servey, of Lawrence county. April 2, 1873. and has one son, Frank J.. in the retail shoe business at the former stand of R. L. Gilbert on Chillicothe street, opposite the post office. Mr. Baker is a member of the First Presbyterian church and was a trustee for fifteen years. In politics, he is a Republican. He is a member of the Aurora Lodge, Mt. Vernon Chapter, Solomon Council and Calvary Commandery of the Masonic bodies in Portsmouth. He is the founder and author of his own fortune and one of the most successful business men in the city of Portsmouth. He has made his business career a success by the observance of correct economic principles.
Cornelius Hyatt Barbee
was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, January 18, 1843. His parents were Elias and Mary Hyatt Barbee. She was a niece of the late C. C. Hyatt. Mr. Barbee's father came from Culpepper county, Virginia, and his mother from Long Island. New York. He passed his boyhood and youth at Portsmouth in attending school and clerking in .T. K. and 0. A. Lodwick's dry goods store. He was employed there altogether sixteen years. He enlisted as third sergeant in Company E. 140th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. May 2, 1864, and was discharged September 3, 1864. He was a democrat till 1876, and after that has been a republican. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Aurora Lodge.. Number 48 F. and A. M., Scioto T odge Number 31. I. 0. 0. F., Portsmouth Lodge, 154, B. P. 0. E., and Bailey Post, G. A. R., Portsmouth, Ohio. He married Eliza Jane Bowman. January 20, 1864. He has two children living:
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William H. in business with him at Union Mills; and Alice May, wife of James Mitchell. He has two daughters deceased: Nelly, late wife of William Malone and Bertha, late wife of Albert Turner.
Mr. Barbee has been in business at the same place for the past thirty-one years. He conducted the store for Mr. Davis until his death and then he purchased the stock and continued it in his own name. He has been canal collector the past ten years. Mr. Barbee is one of the reliable citizens of the county. He is as near a fixture as the "sugar loaf" hill near his place of business. He can be found at the same place each hour of the twenty-four, year in and year out, and his habits are as regular as those of a Thomas clock. Not to find him in his store, in the business hours of the day, would be remarkable and alarming.
He is about the best illustration of steady and good habits of any subject in this book. His very admirable qualities have endeared him to his whole community and he is as good a specimen of the model citizen as can be found anywhere in this Republic.
Stout St. Leger Barklow
was born February 15, 1822, at Enterprise Furnace, Greenup county. Kentucky. His grandmother was Ruth Stout of New Jersey, who heard the guns at Trenton. His maternal grandfather was Job Foster, a revolutionary soldier. His father Benjamin Barklow kept a grocery on Second street, on the western part of the school lot He was one of the founders of the Methodist Protestant church. In 1827, his parents moved to a farm in Kentucky opposite Sciotoville and lived there until the flood of 1832 reached them when they came back to Portsmouth. In 1838 our subject went to draying in Portsmouth. In 1841 he went into the Gaylord mill as a shingler, that is, to manage the trip hammer. The boss shingler was Peter Gardner. The elder T. G. Gaylord was then at the head of the mill. John Gould and Mr. Morrell held positions in the office. John Critzer was the engineer. A small nail mill was connected, in charge of Abraham Springer and William Miller. Miller got to be manager of the mill and Springer went to California in 1850. There were six knobbling fires, one boiling furnace and one scrap furnace. In 1844, more furnaces were built and the mill enlarged. While learning to shingle, our subject lost one eye. A spark from a muck ball when the hammer fell upon it, destroyed it. He kept at the work until he became boss Shingler.
In 1852, he went to California with John Sturgeon, David Price, Thomas Williams, Captain W. B. Williams, Andrew Robinson, William Sidney, Thomas Richardson. William Delaney and Thomas McAuley. They were joined by Captain John Clark, father of Mrs. P. C. Kinney, Giles Thornton, William Morton, Thomas Thompson Leonard Alexander and Frank Johnson. Their wagons were made in Portsmouth and shipped to St. Joseph, Missouri. Barklow remained for two years and made money. In 1855, he went again and remained nearly five years. He owned very valuable property while out there the second time. In 1859, when he returned from California, he went back to the rolling mill and was a boiler for several years. Then he boated iron for several more years. For fourteen years of his life at different times, he was on the police force of the city. He was married August 15, 1844, to Sarah Jane Jeffords, daughter of Ezra Jeffords, and brother of Henry Jeffords. He had three children: William, Agnes. the widow of B. E. Roe and Margaret Jane. He died February 3, 1898. Stout Barklow was like King Saul, head and shoulders above his fellows, and the tallest man in the county, being six feet three and a half inches high. He was a man of the highest courage and of strong will.
Richard Barry
was born in the city of Wicklow, Ireland, January 24, 1843. His father was Robert Barry and his mother's maiden name was Bridget Bryan. His father first went to Australia and then to California. He died before he could return to his family. In 1848, his widow and children, James and Richard, came to Canada and located in Kingston. In 1856. they came to Chillicothe and from there they went to Hanging Rock in 1859. In 1860, Mr. Barry was employed at a boiling furnace as a helper and was soon made a boiler. He has
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worked as a boiler for forty-two years. He afterwards learned to be a heater and worked for Richard Mather in Ironton.
He enlisted in Company E, 18th 0. V. I., three months men, May 26, 1861, at the age of 20, and served until the 28th of the August following. He re-enlisted in Company A, 2nd Virginia Cavalry directly after his tirst service but was taken out on account of his minority. For the whole of 1862 and a part of 1863, he drove a team for the United States army and worked on the army roads under contract.
In March, 1863, he came to Portsmouth and went to work in the Gaylord mill and worked one year. In 1864, he went to work in the lower rolling mill for the Haydens and was connected with that mill till it was burned He worked with the Burgess at Yorktown until it was sold out to the trust and has not worked any since. He was married July 4, 1864, to Ann Bargin, a native of Kings county, Ireland. They have had eleven children: Jennie B. who died in infancy; Margaret a dressmaker in Portsmouth; Richard died, aged eleven, from an accident; Charles, a machinist at the Norfolk & Western shops at Portsmouth; James, a foreman of the Hanging Rock machine shops of the Norfolk & Western R. R.; Daniel, died in infancy; Agnes died in infancy; Mary, a stenographer with H. S. Grimes & Company; Loretta died at eleven years of age; Joseph, employed at the Norfolk & Western shops; Richard 2nd. aged fifteen. Mr. Barry enjoys good health and endeavors to take life easy. He is a member of the Holy Redeemer church and in his political views is a democrat.
Charles A. Bartell
was born in Sidney, Maine, Sept. 3, 1824. He was the third son of Rufus Barton and Susannah Wyman, the grand-son of Flint Barton of Worcester, Mass. The years of his minority were passed under his father in the business of farming and lumbering, and his opportunities for education were exceedingly meager. At the age of twenty-one he started in the world for himself, and for several years was engaged in the lumber districts of Maine, New Brunswick, Pennsylvania. and New York. He was subsequently employed for a couple of years at the trade of millwright. In the spring of 1854, he made his way to Ohio, rafting lumber down the Alleghany and Ohio rivers to Ironton. and the next year located in Portsmouth and engaged with Messrs. Riggs & Thompson in the lumber trade and manufacture. in which business he continued until the breaking out of the late Civil War. He then entered the army in Company G, 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and at the expiration of the three- months' service, re-enlisted and went out as First Lieutenant of Company B of the 13th Ohio, which was afterwards changed to the 22nd Ohio, serving until after the battle of Shiloh, when he resigned on account of failing health. In the fall of 1862. he raised an independent company of sharp shooters, and took them into the service. In November, 1863, he was attached to Gen. Thomas' headquarters for general duty and so remained until mustered out on July 25, 1865. Returning home, he resumed the lumber trade for a short time, and then engaged in civil engineering and surveying, which for the most part he continued to the time of his death.
He was for a time employed on the turnpikes of Scioto county in connection with Captain Gibbs, and with that gentleman prepared a very excellent map of the county. In 1872 and 1873, he had charge of the survey of the Ohio University lands, and after they were ready for market was engaged in selling them, and also in various other matters pertaining to his profession. On February 25, 1858, he married Miss Mary Jane, daughter of William Maddock of Portsmouth, but originally from Wales. Captain Barton was a Master Mason, and has been connected with the order for a quarter of a century. In politics, he was a strong adherent to the principles of the republican party.
In 1867. he was the republican candidate for county Treasurer. He was defeated by Aaron Noel and contested the election. Noel won in the contest. In 1873. he was elected to succeed Andrew O'Neill as a member of the Water Works Board. The latter had been removed by impeachment. Captain Barton was elected to take his place and re-elected in 1875, serving tive years. For the same length of time he was a member of the city council and was its president in 1881. He also served as a member of the Board of Education. He was a useful man and citizen wherever placed. He served on the city Board of Equal-
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ization of Portsmouth for several years. He was a member of the city Board of Trade and took great interest in it. He was its secretary at the time of his death. He and Captain F. C. Gibbs laid out the Barton and Gibbs addition to the city, and in 1883, they published a map of the county. He was agent for the Ohio State University lands for several years. He was a public spirited citizen, and highly esteemed by all who knew him. He was a man who should have had no enemies. If he had them, they did not make themselves known. He was always in favor of public improvements and laboring to secure them. He died June 28, 1888.
James G. Basham
was born April 11, 1862, near Empire furnace. Scioto county. Ohio. He is a son of John W. Basham and Florence Hansford Basham. His parents were born and reared in Kanawha county, West Virginia, came to Scioto county in 1861 and settled near Empire furnace. His mother was of English descent and his father of Irish descent. He was reared on a farm until he was ten years of age. His mother died when he was hardly a year old and he was reared by his grandparents. He moved to Sciotoville. Ohio. in 1872, started to school at the age of ten, and received a teacher’s certificate at the early age of sixteen; but continued in school until eighteen years of age, when he accepted a position as clerk in a grocery store in Ironton. Ohio. This position he held for three years. At the age of twenty-one, he purchased a grocery store at Ironton. Ohio, but owing to the depression of business generally, discontinued business at the close of the same year. Soon after, he came to Scioto county, and taught school, until 1885, when he was appointed postmaster at Sciotoville, Ohio, under President Cleveland’s administration. During his term as postmaster, he was elected clerk of Porter township by the largest majority (98) ever given a democratic candidate. In 1898. he was elected Justice of the Peace in Porter township by a majority of 53. His prominence as a democrat gradually grew. until he was selected by that party. as their candidate for Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas against F. L. Sikes, but was defeated. 1n 1899, he was the democratic candidate for Probate Judge; bnt was defeated by Harry Ball.
He is a prominent member of the Church of Christ at Sciotoville, Ohio, at various times, holding the most important offices of that church. He married Rose E. Evans. October 2. 1892. who died December 27. 1894. He was again married to Lula Pierce, January 8. 1898. by whom he has two children: J. Frank born March 10, 1899. and Bertha M. born May 30. 1900. Mr. Basham is well informed and keeps in touch with current events. He enjoys the confidence of the community in which he resides to the fullest extent and is regarded as one of the best citizens of the county. His example and influence is uniformly for the public good and for progress.
Thomas Jefferson Basham
was born January 3, 1842, where he now lives near New Boston. His father John Basham, was born near Gepharts. Scioto county. His grandfather. Anderson Basham, came to Gepharts from the salt regions of West Virginia near Charleston. His mother was Mary Moore. daughter of William Moore who lived in Sciotoville, Ohio.
Our subject received a common school education. He attended school three months in the year from the time he was ten years until he was thirteen and set on the old style benches made of a slab with legs to it. He has been a member of the Board of Education of Clay township for the last twenty years with the exception of three years, and secured the construction of what is known as the Star yard school house. He has never been active in politics and has never held office, but is a "dyed in the wool" democrat. He is not a member of any church.
He was married December 16, 1862, to Nancy Rowley. Five children were born to them, all boys. Four of them died before reaching the age of five and one is now living: Thomas Edgar, born May 20, 1868.
Captain George Anderson Batterson
was born in Harrison township, September 19. 1874. He is the son of John Batterson and Sarah (Richardson) Batterson. His paternal grandfather was
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Franklin Batterson and his grandmother was Mary (Stockham) Batterson. His great grandfather was Abijah Batterson. His maternal grandfather was Edward Richardson and his grandmother Mary (Blair) Richardson, born in Ireland.
Our subject is one of five children: Edward R., Frank J., attending the Drew Theological Seminary and is going to Montevidio, South America, as a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal church; Mame A., teacher of the Haverhill High School; and Sallie L. at home. The father died when our subject was five years old and the mother still survives a widow. He was raised on a farm and attended the country schools until 1894. when he entered the Ohio University at Athens, Ohio. He completed the junior year and entered on the senior year and continued with his studies till the Spanish war broke out, when he enlisted in Company B. 7th 0. V. I. at Athens, Ohio, April 1. 1898, and was transferred to Company E, 4th 0. V. I. at Columbus, Ohio. and nerved during the war as a Corporal. He took part in the capture of Guyama, Porto Rice and another engagement in the mountains; and was discharged February 1, 1899.
In 1900, Mr. Batterson raised a company of infantry for the Ohio National Guard in Portsmouth and it was mustered in July 27 of that year as Company K of the Seventh regiment. He was chosen its Captain and is at this time the head of the company. (See page 627.)
In March, 1899, he registered as a law student with George M. Osborn of Portsmouth, Ohio. He attended the law school at Ann Arbor during the winter of 1899 and 1900 and again the following year, and is still a student. He went in as a partner with his brother in the Ed. R. Batterson Dairy Company, in the spring of 1900, became sole owner of the business 'October 15, 1901 and conducted it until 1902, when he sold out. He represented Ohio University in a debating contest in 1896 and was commencement orator in 1897. He was president of the Webster Literary Society at Ann Arbor. While yet at the threshold of his career Mr. Batterson has that persistent determination that insures success. His inheritance combined the habits of industry with several generations of cultivated intellect of much more than ordinary power. He is by nature a leader of men and has been at the front in all organizations and movements with which he has been connected. He gives promise of becoming a leader in his chosen profession.
John Christian Bauer
was born February 17, 1863, in Portsmouth, Ohio. His father was John Frederick Bauer, and his mother's maiden name was Anna Wolf. His parents came from Hanover, Germany, of which place they were natives. They had eight children, of whom John C. was the third and only son. Our subject attended the schools of Portsmouth until seventeen years of age. He then went into the Burgess mill and worked until he was twenty years of age. After that he worked at Zottman's soap factory. From 1885 to 1888, he was employed in the Portsmouth Wagon Stock Company as book-keeper and salesman. In September, 1888, he went to work for M. B. Gilbert as a salesman, and has been in the employ of that house from then until the present time. The business was incorporated January 1, 1900, and since, he has been its secretary and a director.
He was married June 4, 1890, to Mary Zoeliner, a daughter of Philip Zoeliner. They have two children, Irma and Marie. Mr. Bauer is a democrat in his political views. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum and the United Commercial Travelers. He is highly regarded by all who know him as a first-class business man.
An associate in business says of him: "He is an honorable. energetic and reliable man, perfectly familiar with his business, and he has been very successful in his undertakings. During the time he was connected with the Gilbert Grocery Company as traveling salesman, he succeeded in working up a trade that placed him far in the lead of his competitors. This was accomplished by his courteous treatment to every one, and close attention to his business. He is of a very jovial disposition, has excellent habits, and has hosts of friends in this and surrounding counties."