(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE)

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1277 CHAPTER IV. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Colonel John William Barger was born October 9 1851, near Piketon, Ohio. He comes of a long line of honorable German ancestry. His father was Franklin Barger. his grandfather, Jacob Barger, his great-grandfather, Jacob Barger, and his great-great-grandfather, Philip Barger, who was killed by the Indians in Virginia, in 1700. His great-grandfather, Jacob Barger, was a Revolutionary soldier from Augusta county, Virginia. His mother was Mary Lawrence, daughter of Gabriel Lawrence. John attended the common schools in Pike county and the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, from 1868 until 1870. He then went to Bloomingdale, Illinois, and engaged in the mercantile business. He was there from 1871 to 1872. He came to Portsmouth on September 30, 1872, and entered the employ of J. M. Rumsey & Company, and remained with them until 1875. In 1876, he took up the mercantile business in Piketon with S. C. Sargent, under the firm name of Sargent & Barger and remained there until 1884. In 1875, he was married to Miss Kesiah Corwin, daughter of John Corwin, one of the popular farmers of Pike county. He has always been a republican and was a member of the legislature from Pike county from 1888 to 1890. He was a candidate the second time for the legislature but was defeated. He was a candidate for Governor at the same time Governor Bushnell was nominated. He was known as the "corn-stalk" candidate but did not reach the nomination. Governor Bushnell appointed him aid-de-camp with title of Colonel and he served during both of Bushnell's terms. Colonel Barger is a man of the most agreeable address, kind and courteous to all and easy of approach. His personal magnetism and pleasant social qualities have made him one of the most popular men in this section of the state. His most striking characteristic is his fidelity to those who have his friendship and faithfulness in their cause. While a man of large business interests, be keeps in touch with local affairs and cordially supports all that. goes to conserve the welfare of the people of his county and home. Captain James Q. Barnes was born at Waverly. Ohio, January 29, 1836, the son of Major General William Barnes, who was the son of Captain John Barnes, a Revolutionary soldier. Our subject's mother was Nancy Ann Talbot. His father served as an Adjutant in the War of 1812. His boyhood days were spent in Waverly and on a farm now owned by Samuel Hibbens. His mother died January 5, 1846, and his father the following day. His brothers, William T. and John R. T., were of sufficient age to take care of themselves, the others were reared by relatives. Our subject lived with his brother William and attended school. He also assisted in his brother's store from time to time. He entered the Ohio Wesleyan University in the fall of 1857, and took a scientific course. He attended school until the war broke out in the spring of 1861. When his brother, John R. T. Barnes was killed at the battle of Vienna. Virginia, June 17, 1861, he left the University for Washington D. C., and entered the camp of the 1st 0. V. I., June 22, 1861, five days after the battle. The faculty sent him a diploma as a scientific graduate. He went to the company with the view of taking his brother's body home, but gave that up and took his part as a member of the company, though he was never mustered as such. He was in the battle of Bull Run without being a regularly enlisted soldier, being simply a volunteer citizen. On October, 15, 1861, at the age of twenty- (1277) 1278 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO. five years, he entered Company D, of the 73d 0. V. I., as First Lieutenant. He was promoted Captain of Company I, September 22, 1862. He was wounded September 29, 1863, at the battle of Lookout Valley, Tennessee, through the right arm with a minie ball. He was mustered out December 30, 1864, by reason of expiration of term of service. In reality he served until the 5th day of January, 1865, though his mustering out related to December 30, 1864. He was in the following battles: McDowell, Va., Cross Keys, Va., Freeman's Ford, Va., Second battle of Bull Run, Va., Chancellorsville, Va., Gettysburg, Pa., Lookout Valley, Tenn., Resaca, Ga.. Cassville, Ga., New Hope Church, Ga., Lost Mountain, Ga., Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., Peach Tree Creek, Ga., Atlanta, Ga., and Savannah, Ga. In addition to this he was in a number of small engagements. He was appointed Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue in Pike county, Ohio, by Gen. S. H. Hurst, in the fall of 1869, and served until the spring of 1871, when the office was discontinued. He has always been a republican. He and his family belong to the Methodist Episcopal church. He was married October 25, 1865, to Ma y Rachel Emmitt, daughter of David and Rebecca Emmitt, of Waverly, Ohio. They had three children: Annie Emmitt, May Elizabeth and Edward Talbott Barnes, all of whom are married. He has four grand-children. Thomas Ellison Bradbury was born March 21, 1874, at Kyger, Ohio. His father was Horace Reed Bradbury and his mother’s maiden name was Anna Ellison. She was the daughter of James Ellison. Her father and mother were married March 20, 1873. They had two sons: Thomas E. and George Earl, age fifteen. Our subject was educated in the Gallipolis schools and graduated in 1891. He attended the Cincinnati Law School and graduated in 1893, and was admitted to the bar on his birthday, March 21, 1891. He has practiced law in Gallipolis ever since. He was elected City Clerk of Gallipolis in 1895, and held that office until April 10. 1901, when he was elected mayor of Gallipolis. He was appointed Referee in Bankruptcy in 1898, and has held the office since. He was Major of the 17th 0. V. I. in the Spanish American War. He was made Major and Ordinance officer in the Ohio Militia June 24, 1900, and still holds that position. On November 25, 1896, he was married to Alice Lupton, daughter of John Lupton. They have one daughter, Alice. James Buckingham was born October 22, 1831, at Zanesville, Ohio. His parents were Alvah and Anna (Hale) Buckingham. He was educated at Marietta, Ohio, and Brown University, Rhode Island, leaving the latter place in February, 1852, on account of ill health. A part of the winter of 1852 and 1853 he was in his father's elevator in Chicago. In June, 1854, he invented the cogs placed on the outside of the driving wheels used in all mowing and reaping machines, but did not patent it. In September, 1863, he removed from his farm at Duncan's Falls, Ohio, where he had lived since April, 1853, to the house in Zanesville, where he was born and here he still resides. He enlisted May 2, 1864 in Company A, 159th 0. V. I. and was mustered out with the Company, August 22, 1864. From February, 1865, to January, 1873, he was a director of the Ohio State Agricultural Society, four years of the time its Treasurer and one year (1872) its President. He was also one of the Trustees of the Central Lunatic Asylum, at Columbus, Ohio, to finish, furnish and open it. He was President of the Zanesville & Ohio River Railroad, from its beginning to completion. He has been interested in farms, ranches and wild lands in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. He was married November 5, 1856, at Chillicothe, Ohio, to Jane P. Wills, who was born October 8, 1832, in Chillicothe, Ohio, the third child of Doctor David and Eliza (Peebles) Wills. They have had five children: Elise Wills, the wife of F. G. Darlington of Zanesville, Ohio; Mary Humphreys, the wife of E. A. Greene of Zanesville, Ohio; Philo Hale, died August 19, 1869; Ellen Wood the wife of William Young, died November 12, 1890; and Julia, the wife of S. M. Pinkerton of Zanesville, Ohio. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1279 Colonel William Edgar Bundy was born in Jackson county, Ohio, on the site now occupied by the city of Wellston, October 4, 1866. His father, William Sanford Bundy, was wounded while in the service of his country, near Bean Station, Tennessee, as a private soldier, and died from the effects of his wound, January 4, 1867. His mother, Kate Thompson Bundy, was killed in an accident two years later, and their young son was raised and educated by his grandfather, Hon. H. S. Bundy. He graduated from the Ohio University in 1890 as a Bachelor of Arts, and has since attained the degree of Master of Arts. For two years he was editor of the Wellston Argus, and then came to Cincinnati, attended the Law School, and was graduated therefrom in 1890. During the years 1890 and 1891 he was Secretary of the Board of Elections of Hamilton county. He has been four times elected Solicitor of Norwood, and has a beautiful home in that thrilling suburb. Mr. Bundy was Commander of the Ohio Divisions. Sons of Veterans, in 1900, and was Commander-in-Chief of that order for the United States in 1894-5. He has always taken an active and practical interest in politics. In 1898, he was President of the Ohio Republican League, and during that year was appointed United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio for a term of four years. Through his own efforts and industry he has attained a leading position at the Hamilton County bar. He was married May 8, 1890 to Miss Eva E. Leedom, daughter of the late Ex- Congressman, John P. Leedom, of Adams county, and they have one son, William Sanford Bundy, named after the child's martyred grandfather. Major Jeremiah Davidson was born January 24, 1834, at Burlington, Lawrence county, Ohio. His father was James Davidson, born at Brownsville, Pa., March 4, 1801, and died at Burlington, Ohio, December 27, 1894, aged ninety-three years. His mother's maiden name was Mary Frances Combs, married to his father in 1829. She died March 11, 1888. His parents had nine children of whom six lived to maturity. our subject being the eldest. James Davidson was a farmer and also carried on the wool carding business at Burlington. Jeremiah's grandfather, John Davidson, came to the Northwest Territory in 1801 and settled where Burlington now. stands. William Davidson his great-grandfather, had already come to what is now South Point in 1799. Jeremiah Davidson attended the public schools of his vicinity and from 1850 to 1853 was a student at the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware. Ohio. From 1854 to 1856 he taught school, and from 1856 to 1867 he was engaged in the book and stationery business in Ironton almost continuously, it being carried on for him by others when he was in the military service. April 22. 1861, the enlistment rolls for volunteer service in the Civil War were opened in Jeremiah's bookstore in Ironton, Lawrence county, and he was the tirst man to volunteer, which he did in Company E. of the 18th Ohio Infantry. John P. Merrill was Captain. Seth Sutherland was First Sergeant, Richard P. Rifenberick was Second Sergeant and our subject was the Third Sergeant. Timothy R. Stanley was Colonel of the Regiment and William M. Bolles was Lieutenant Colonel. The day Jeremiah's time expired, August 28, 1861, he enlisted in Company G., Second Virginia Cavalry. of which he was elected Second Lieutenant and afterwards promoted to Captain. His tirst service was along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He was in the Lynchburg raid, the two Wythville raids and Sinking Creek raid, where one hundred and fifty prisoners were taken. He helped to drive Jenkins out of Guyandotte and on July 24, 1864, he made a charge in the battle of Winchester which almost cost him his life. He was wounded in the chest, above the left lung. had two horses shot from under him, and while on foot, was shot in the thigh and left on the field for dead. For seven days he was a prisoner in a but near by, then by the aid of an old negro man he escaped and crawled out to the pine forest the night before the wagons were to come along to take him to Andersonville. He lay in the pine forest for nine days, when he worked his way to the railroad and to his regiment. Col. Powell. of the Second Virginia Cavalry, detailed a sergeant to take him home and spoke of his bravery in the very highest terms, both in public and in 1280 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO; private. By order of the War Department, at the request of Governor Dennison of Ohio, he was discharged from the Second Virginia Cavalry, September 7, 1864, to receive a promotion in a new regiment. He was appointed Major of the 173rd Ohio Infantry, September 21, 1864 and was in the Nashville fight, under Thomas, and in other engagements against Hood. He served until June 28, 1865, thus covering the entire War as follows: 1n the 18th Ohio Infantry, four months and six days; in the Second Virginia Cavalry, three years and nine days; in the 173rd Ohio, nine months and fourteen days, making a total of four years, one month and twenty-nine days. On retiring from the Army, he engaged in the book and stationery business until 1866, when he was Treasurer of Lawrence county, one year. He retired from that office and continued in the Book and Stationery business from 1868 to 1877. From 1880 to 1883, he was Treasurer of Lawrence county agaip. At one time no candidate was nominated in opposition to him as County Treasurer. He was a dealer in real estate from 1884 to 1895, and since 1895 he has been secretary and treasurer of the Ironton Gas Company. Major Davidson was married to Mrs. Clara C. Thomas, October 24, 1867, the widow of Lieutenant E. A. Thomas. She had one son Edward A. Thomas, born October 24, 1864, now engaged in the Lee Hardware Company at Shreveport, Louisiana. Major Davidson has three sons: Fred, born September 24, 1869, engaged in the Lee Hardware Company, at Shreveport, La.; Hugh C., born August 21. 1871, engaged in the Dental Laboratory at New Orleans, La.; James, born August 20, 1873, engaged in the First National Bank at Shreveport, La. Major Davidson is a member of the Lawrence Lodge of Masons and has been for forty years, and a member of the Odd Fellows. He has been a member of the Dick Lambert Post, G. A. R. since the organization of the Grand Army. He Is a modest gentleman respected by every one who knows him for his excellent qualities as a man and a citizen. He has been a life-long republican. His. Scotch-Irish characteristics have carried him safely over many a hard place in life. People said when he was taken prisoner at Winchester, "If Major Davidson isn't killed, he'll outwit the Rebs and escape," and so he did. General John Clay Entrekin was born in Ross county, near Kingston, February 11, 1844. He attended the schools in the vicinity and the Ohio Weslyan University. On August 12. 1862, at the age of 18, he enlisted for three years in Co. A. of the 114 0. V. I. and was with his regiment the entire time. He was in the battles of Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post. Seige of Vicksburg, Graham's Plantation, Yellow Bayou and the seige of Fort Blakely, Alabama. He very near escaped honorable wounds, but on April 8, 1865, the very last day of the war, he was wounded twice at Fort Blakely, and was, in consequence, honorably discharged at New Orleans, January, 1865. After his return to his home, he entered the Ohio Weslyan University at Delaware and was graduated in the classical course in 1867. For two years he was engaged in teaching and from 1869 to 1870 he was Professor of Mathematics in the Central Wesleyan College of Warrenton. Missouri. During that time he read law and was admitted to the bar in the Circuit Court of Warren County, Missouri in January, 1870. Directly after he returned to Chillicothe, and in September of that year, he was admitted to the bar of Ross county, Ohio. He began the practice of law in the office of Judge T. A. Minshall, afterwards of the Supreme Bench, and remained there three years, in which time he built up a good business. He has since practiced successfully and has been connected with much of the important litigation which has been conducted in the courts in his part of the state. He has a keen, analytical mind, a comprehensive knowledge of the science of jurisprudence and never loses sight of any point of vantage ground which may advance the interests of his clients. He has always taken a great interest in political affairs. Even as a boy he was active in the Fremont-Dayton Campaign, and when he attained his majority, he allied himself with the Republican party and voted for Abraham Lincoln in 1864 while stationed at Morgan's Bend, Louisiana. In January, 1872, he was appointed City Solicitor of Chillicothe to fill a vacancy and was elected to the same office in 1872 and re-elected in 1874 and BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1281 1876. He was a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney of Ross county in 1872 before the people, but was defeated by 60 votes, although he ran 200 ahead of his ticket. In 1875, he was elected to represent Ross county in the House of Representatives to serve two years. He was a candidate for re-election in 1879 but was defeated by a small majority by the Hon. Wm. H. Reed, a very popular democrat. A month later, Senator Allison Brown died and Mr. Entrekin was nominated as his successor in the Sixth Senatorial District and was elected by 1,500 majority over Hon. Milton McCoy. He served two years. In 1885, he .was again a candidate for the House of Representatives and was elected by 500 majority over Dr. Nathaniel Potter. During this term he was chosen Speaker of the House. While in the Legislature he voted twice for Hon. John Sherman for United States Senator and for James A. Garfield and Stanley Mathews for the same office. He was twice a candidate for nomination for Congressman in this District, but was defeated. His service in the various official positions to which he has been called has been marked by patriotic devotion to duty and fidelity to the best interests of the people whom he represented, and as one of the law makers of Ohio he has borne a conspicuous and honored part. Our subject enlisted in the Ohio State Militia on June 8, 1873 as a private in Co. A, but was at once elected Lieutenant of the Company, after which he was elected and commissioned Captain. On June 21, 1876, he was elected Colonel of the 6th Regiment, Ohio National Guards, to which position he was three times re-elected, serving in all fourteen years. During this time, he performed the most arduous and important service for the State in 1878. In 1878 was the time of the great railroad strike at Newark, Ohio, when the military aid was invoked to quell the riotous men. He was called on to defend the City Building and the Music Hall in Cincinnati at the time of the riot when the court-house was destroyed in April, 1884. He had his regiment on the field within ten hours after notification of the trouble had been, received. He was also in command of his regiment at the time of the strikes in the Hocking Valley coal regions and in Jackson county. As commander of the 6th Regiment, Ohio National Guards, Col. Entrekin was a prominent factor in suppressing the disturbance. In commanding his troops, he displayed firmness, tempered by justice, power, limited by discretion and force, and force was used only to protect life and property. His course commanded the respect of his troops and the admiration of all, and increased the confidence of the public in the military forces of the country. In 1892, he was appointed by Gov. McKinley to the position of Judge Advocate General on his staff and re-appointed in January, 1894. He is now on the retired list of military officers of Ohio with rank of Brigadier General. He was appointed by Governor Foraker in November, 1889, a member of the Board of. Trustees for the Central gate Asylum for the Insane, at Columbus, and served two months, but the Senate refused to confirm any of Governor Foraker's appointments, and his successor was appointed by Governor Campbell. In the councils of his party, General Entrekin has been very prominent and his opinions have been received with much respect and consideration. He served two years on the Republican State Central Committee, 1882-3, and has served annually as a delegate to the county, District and State Conventions, while for twenty years he has been a member of the Ross County Executive Committee. In 1892, he was elected a delegate from the Eleventh Congressional District to the National Convention at Minneapolis and cast his vote for William McKinley as did all the Ohio Delegates. He was Chairman of the Congressional Convention at Athens, Ohio, which nominated the delegates to represent his district in the Republican National Convention at St. Louis in 1896. He was a very active worker for his party during the last presidential campaign and delivered many addresses in support of the dominant measures of the tariff and sound money. He is a logical, fluent and forceful speaker and his addresses leave a lasting impression upon his auditors. He served as Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions in the Republican State Convention at Toledo, Ohio, in June, 1897. He was appointed Collector of Internal Revenues for the 11th District of Ohio, by President McKinley in July, 1897, and is still an incumbent of that position. He is a Mason and an Odd Fellow and has passed all the 1282 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO. chairs in both lodges. He is a member of the Elks and an honored member of the Grand Army of the Republic. General Entrekin was married July 15, 1875 at Chillicothe, Ohio, to Mary F. Bethauser. They have two children, Helen G., and John C. Jr., both grown. John C. Jr. is now Deputy Collector under his father in this district. John A. Eylar, one of the prominent members of the bar of Waverly, Ohio, is a native of Adams county, having been born at Youngsville, February 16, 1855. He was the fourth son of John Eylar and Ann A. Wilkins, his wife. His paternal grandfather, Joseph Eylar, of Winchester, was an Associate Judge of Adams county from 1835 to 1842. His maternal grandfather, Daniel Putnam Wilkins, was a lawyer of West Union, Ohio, but was born and reared in New Hampshire, the bluest of New England blue blood Yankees. Our subject graduated from the West Union schools, and afterwards took a course in the Adams county Normal Schools. He taught for a time n the West Unon schools and read law under John K. Billings He was admitted to practice law at Portsmouth, April 20, 1876. He at once located in Waverly for the practice of the law and ever since has resided there. In politics, he has always been a democrat. In 1880, be was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Pike county, and was re-elected in 1883, serving six years in that office, in which he acquired a reputation for industry, zeal, and ability in his profession. In the time he held the office, he drew no less than four hundred indictments, only one of which was ever held defective. In the same time, he collected and paid into the county treasury more fines and recognizances than any of his predecessors. Since he retired from the Prosecutor's office, he has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession and is retained in all the important litigation of his county. He was one of the attorneys for the defense in the famous case of the State vs. Isaac Smith, indicted for murder in the first degree, of Stephen Skidmore, and distinguished himself in the conduct of that case. He was nominated for Common Pleas Judge in 1883. He was married February 16, 1887 to Lucy, daughter of John R. Douglas, and has four children: Kathleen, Melville Fuller, Alverda Louise and Helen. In his practice, he first obtains a full knowledge of the facts of the case, both from his client's and his opponent's standpoint. He then investigates the law applicable to each and all theories the court might assume. He goes into Court with all his cases thoroughly prepared as to law and facts, and will not file a case for a client unless he believes the chances for success are largely in his favor. Like the famous Luther Martin, of Maryland, he is "always sure of his evidence." He is naturally eloquent and one of his contemporaries says he is the most eloquent member of the Waverly bar. In his arguments to the jury, he is magnetic. In his arguments to the Court, no point escapes him. He always understands his case fully before bringing it to trial. He is as zealous for a poor client as a rich one. He is of a benevolent disposition and very charitable. He is a brilliant cross-examiner. He conducts a cross-examination rapidly and pleasantly, but always with a denouement in view. Following these principles, he has already established a reputation as a lawyer and bids fair in the course of a ripe experience to be as able as any in the state. Hon. Joseph Benson Foraker, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was born July 5, 1846, on a farm near Rainsboro, Highland county, Ohio. He enlisted as a private in Company A, Eighty-ninth Regiment 0. V. I. on July 14, 1862, with which organization he served until the close of the war, at which time he held the rank of First Lieutenant and brevet Captain. He was graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, July 1, 1869. He was admitted to the bar and entered upon the practice of law at Cincinnati, Ohio, October 14, 1869. He was elected Judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, in April, 1879 and resigned on account of ill health May 1, 1882. He was the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio in 1883, but was defeated. He was elected to that office in 1885 and re-elected in 1887. He was again nominated for governor and defeated in 1889. He was Chairman of .the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1263 Republican State Convention of Ohio for 1886, 1890, 1896, 1900 and 1901, and a delegate at large from Ohio to the National Republican Conventions of 1884, 1888, 1892, 1896, and 1900. He was Chairman of the Ohio delegation in the conventions of 1884 and 1888, and presented to both of these conventions the conventions name of Hon. John Sherman for nomination for the Presidency. In the conventions of 1892 and 1896 he served as Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, and as such reported the platform each time to the convention. He presented the name of William McKinley to the conventions of 1896 and 1900 for nomination to the Presidency. He was elected United States Senator January 15, 1896, to succeed Calvin S. Brice, and took his seat March 4, 1897. January 14, 1902 he was re-elected to succeed himself in the United States Senate for the term beginning March 4, 1903. [The foregoing is taken from the Congressional Directory.] Susanna Margaret Davidson Fry was born in the village of Burlington, Ohio, the daughter of James Davidson, who is sketched herein in the Davidson Family in the Pioneer Record. She was a woman of unusual natural ability. At fourteen years, she had completed all the common schools had for her. She attended the Western College, at Oxford, and graduated at eighteen. After her graduation, she began as a teacher at $15.00 per month, and afterwards taught in the Grammar and High Schools, at Ironton, Ohio. In 1$67, she was married to the Rev. James D. Fry, a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University, and at that time a member of the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. In the fall of 1873, she accompanied her husband to Europe, for a years study and travel. Her first literary production appeared in the Ladies' Repository. The titles were "Ancient and Modern Deaconesses" and "Ancient and Modern Sisterhoods." She furnished letters of travel, history, biography and art from the old world. She is the author of a book entitled "A Paradise Valley Girl." From January, 1876 until June, 1890, Mrs. Fry filled the chair of belles-lettres in the Illinois Wesleyan University, at Bloomington, and during the most of that time was President of one of the best working literary clubs in the state. In 1877 the Ohio Wesleyan University conferred upon her the degree of A. M. She took a non-resident post graduate course with the Syracuse University of Syracuse, New York, and upon examination received the degrees of Ph. D. for work in history, philosophy and aesthetics. In 1891 and 1892 she 'had charge of English Literature in the University of Minnesota. She was one of the Judges in the Liberal Arts Department at the World's Fair. In 1894 she was elected President of the W. C. T. U. of Minnesota and served two years. In 1895, she was elected Managing Editor of the Union Signal, which place she held until 1898, when she became Corresponding Secretary of the National W. C. T. U. She is a member of the Philosophical Society of Great Britian. She applies herself with great devotion to everything she undertakes and never lets go of a subject or a situation until she has mastered it. The motto most frequently quoted by her is "This one thing I do." She is now Corresponding Secretary of the National W. C. T. U. and resides at Evanston, Illinois. General Charles Grosvenor was born at Pomfret, Windham county, Connecticut, September 20, 1833. An outline of his ancestry will be found under the head of "Grosvenor Family" in the Pioneer Record of this book. His father was Peter Grosvenor and his mother Ann Chase Grosvenor. They removed from Connecticut to Ohio in 1838, locating in Athens county. His father served in the War of 1812 and was raised to the rank of Major of the Militia. Our subject's early education was acquired in the district schools of Athens county, supplemented by private study. His mother assisted very much in instructing him as a child. He was early thrown upon his own resources and in order to obtain means to further prosecute his studies, he taught school for a number of terms in the various district schools of Athens county. He studied law while teaching school, attending store and working on the farm. He was admitted to the bar in Athens county in 1857 and at once entered upon the active practice of his profession. In 1858, he formed a law partnership 1284 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO. with Hon. S. S. Knowles, which lasted until the breaking out of the war. Returning, he went into partnership with S. M. Dana, under the firm name of Grosvenor & Dana. The firm continued for fourteen years. Afterwards he formed a partnership with Jones of Athens and Vorhes at Pomeroy. He has always had a large practice in Southern Ohio and was very successful in civil and criminal cases. He was presidential elector in 1872 on the Grant ticket, and was selected to carry the returns from Ohio to Washington. He was again an elector at large in 1880 and made over seventy speeches in the campaign in five states. General Grosvenor entered the army as Major of the 18th Ohio Regiment in.the three year's service in July, 1861. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel March 16, 1862, and to Colonel April 8, 1865. He was brevetted Brigadier General March 16, 1865, and mustered out with the Regiment October 9, 1865. The regiment was in thirteen different battles and engagements beginning with Bowling Green, Kentucky, February 16, 1862 and ending with Decatur. Alabama, December 27, 1864. At the battle of Nashville, he commanded a brigade and for gallant services in the field, was recommended for promotion by General Steedman. General Thomas said of him: "He has served under my command since November, 1862, and has on all occasions performed his duties with intelligence and zeal." At the close of the war, he returned to Athens and resumed the practice of law. In 1871. he was nominated for the State Senate, but did not secure an election. In 1873, he was elected to the General Assembly from his county and was on the Committee of Judiciary, Insurance and Revision. 1n 1875, he was re-elected to the House as a Representative from Athens county and made Speaker of the House. He has great oratorical powers, indefatigable industry and is a most formidable antagonist in debate. He is always called on to make canvasses in the Presidential years in other states. Our subject was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors' Orphan Home of Xenia, Ohio, April, 1880 to April 1888, and President of the Board for 5 years. He was a delegate at large to the National Republican Convention at St. Louis in 1896 and again to the National Republican Convention at Philadelphia in 1900. He was elected to the 49th, 50th, 51st, 53rd, 54th. 55th and 56th Congresses, and re-elected to the 57th Congress. He is a member of the Committee on Ways and Means, and has been for a number of years; a member of the Committee on Marine and Fisheries. Hon. Marcus A. Hanna, President of the Union National Bank of Cleveland, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, September 24, 1837. His parents Dr. Leonard and Samantha Hanna removed with their family to Cleveland in 1852, where the Doctor became a merchant, being a senior member in a large wholesale firm of Hanna, Garretson & Co. M. A. Hanna attended the public schools and graduated from the Cleveland High School. At the age of twenty he entered into his father's business. After the decease of his father in 1861, he assumed control of his interest. He continued in the business until 1867, when he entered the firm of Rhodes & Company, successors to Rhodes, Card & Co., the great coal and iron firm of Cleveland, of which firm he is now a senior member. He is largely identified with the vessel transportation, manufacturing and banking interests of Cleveland. In 1872, he organized and equipped the Cleveland Transportation Co., one of the largest on the lakes. Of the Chopin Bolt and Nut Co., one of Cleveland's important manufactures, he is a large share-holder, and is Vice-President of the Hubbell Stove Co., of Buffalo, New York, President of the West Side Street Railway Co., of Cleveland and President of the Herald Publishing Co. of Cleveland. The Union National Bank of Cleveland was organized in February, 1884, and at a meeting of the Directors in March, he was elected its President. This Bank is one of the largest in the State with a Capital of Ten Million Dollars. Its share holders and directors comprise the solid business men and capitalists of Cleveland. In politics, Mr. Hanna is a republican and al- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1285 ways takes active part in the more important political moves among the business men of the city. He was married September 27, 1864 to Miss C. Augusta, the estimable daughter of Dan P. Rhodes, Esq., one of Cleveland's foremost Mr. Hanna is a man who stands high in the estimation of his associates for his marked ability, tact, foresight and integrity. He is a man of fine deportment, calm, easy and agreeable manner, of good personal appearance and a courteous gentleman. In his various undertakings he has been uniformly successful. Under his management and presidency the affairs of the various companies have been conducted in a highly satisfactory manner, and have developed and assumed immense proportions. He is a man of versatile and general ability, equally at home in all of his multifarious affairs, whether it be mining, shipping, manufacturing or banking. To the development of her interests as a city, it is to such men as Mr. Hanna that Cleveland is largely indebted. Of her charitable institutions, he is a stanch upholder and liberal donator. Senator Hanna has always taken an active part in public affairs, but did not become a prominent national figure until he took up the cause of Major McKinley, conducting a preliminary campaign, which resulted in his nomination for the Presidency at St. Louis in 1896. Prior to that time Senator Hanna had been a delegate to two national conventions. 1n March, 1897, he was appointed by Governor Bushnell to fill the vacancy occasioned in the Senate by the resignation of the Honorable John Sherman to accept a place in President McKinley's cabinet. Mr. Hanna was subsequently elected by the State Legislature to fill Mr. Sherman's unexpired term and for a full term of six years. This will expire March 4, 1905. Mr. Hanna’s career in the Senate has been marked by those same qualities which gave him success in the business world. He has been actively identified with most of the important measures considered by Congress since he entered the Senate. There is scarcely an important piece of legislation of which he has not been an active advocate and a substantial contributor to its success. Adna Romulus Johnson was born at Sweet Springs, Missouri, Dec. 14, 1860. His father was Spencer Johnson and his mother's maiden name was Persis Stivers, a daughter of James Stivers of Meigs county, Ohio. His parents had six children and he was next to the youngest. His father died when he was but three years old, and six months later his mother went with the family to Oak Ridge Furnace in Lawrence county, and our subject resided there until he was twenty-one years of age. He then removed to the City of Ironton. He was reared as a farmer and attended the common schools. He never had any education except such, as he obtained himself. He was a country school teacher from the age of seventeen to twenty-four and taught continuously every winter, and sometimes the year around. He says that in the year 1884, he taught twelve and one-half months in the year, but he counted the months at four weeks. He began the study of law in 1883, but in 1885 he went to Ann Arbor and took a law course. He graduated from there June 30, 1887. June 1, 1886 he was admitted to the bar in Ohio. He began practice, but returned to Ann Arbor in the fall of 1886 and remained there until June, 1887. He has been in the practice of law at Ironton ever since. He was Prosecuting Attorney of Lawrence county, from 1890 to 1894. He was married October 16, 1890 to Miss Dora B. Ricketts, a daughter of John Ricketts, deceased. They have two children: Adna Romulus, aged nine and Newton Halsey, aged four. He has always been a republican in his political views. Mr. Johnson is one of the ablest lawyers of Southern Ohio. He enjoys an extensive and lucrative practice. The confidence which juries of Lawrence county have in him is something wonderful. He possesses the confidence of all the business men of Lawrence county to a remarkable degree. Mr. Johnson dares to do anything in a business venture but is active and is guided by consummate judgment and the highest legal skill. He has been uniformly successful all his life. 1286 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO. Robert Johnson was born in Patterson's Valley, Hampshire county, Virginia, now Mineral county, West Virginia, October 27, 1824. His father was Joshua Johnson, and his mother was Nancy Sheets, daughter of Frederick Sheets, who built Sheets' mills near Headsville. His father's farm lay in Patterson's valley, seven miles north of the main line of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. His father had twelve children, of whom our subject was the eldest. He worked for his father until he was twenty-two years of age, and then began the world for himself. He had heard of the Ohio Valley and determined to visit it. He came to Greenup county, Kentucky, and became acquainted with the family of John Lawson, who also had emigrated from Hampshire county, Virginia. He married his daughter, Catharine, November 5, 1850. She was born March 24, 1824. For further particulars as to her ancestry, see the Lawson Family in the Pioneer Record. After his marriage, he returned to Hampshire county, Virginia. He tried farming there, but in 1852 returned to Kentucky, near the vicinity of his wife's home, and rented land. In 1858, he began to purchase land, and has added to his purchases from time to time, till now he has 1,000 acres in the vicinity of his present home. He lived in the north portion of his present farm till 1869, when he removed to his present location. He and his wife have had six children born to them. Their eldest son, John William, died in 1873 at the age of twenty-one years. Their third child is Mrs. Nancy Sheets, wife of Volney Thompson, of Portsmouth, Ohio. Their fourth child, Joseph Frederick, died in infancy, in 1860. Their daughter, Clara Virginia is the wife of Newton Horr, a resident of Portsmouth, Ohio. Their youngest, Robert Taylor, born in 1865, is a farmer. In his political views, Mr. Johnson is a democrat. Mrs. Johnson is a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are liked, admired and respected by all who know them. They are good citizens- and good neighbors: Mr. Johnson is noted for his integrity and fair dealing. He has always kept himself on the credit side of the ledger of life. He has been very successful as a farmer, and he and his good wife are enjoying the fruits of years of toil, and no two persons deserve ease and pleasure in fheir old age more than they. Hon. David Warren Jones is the son of David Jones and Maria Bothwell, and was born in Vinton county, Ohio, October 16, 1855. His great-grandfather. John Potter, was a Captain on one of the. New Jersey Continental Regiments of the Revolution. His grandmother, Charlotte Bothwell, was one of the leading pioneer women of Southern Ohio, well known in what is now Vinton county. He attended fhe public schools at McArthur until 16 years of age when he was appointed to a cadetship at the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, which he entered in June, 1872. He remained there till 1876, when he resigned and began the study of law with his brother the late Homer C. Jones, of McArthur. He was admitted to the bar in 1879, having taught in the public schools at McArthur while studying law. In June, 1880, he located in Gallipolis, Ohio, and began the practice of law. He met with early and marked success, and in 1883, formed a law partnership with Hon. S. A. Nash, as Nash & Jones, which continued until Judge Jones went on the bench in 1897. In 1886, he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Gallia county, which office he held for six years, making a fine record. Retiring from the office of Prosecutor, he continued the practice of law, the failing health of his law partner throwin the entire work of the firm upon -him. From that time until hise elevation g to the bench his firm enjoyed a large practice, being engaged in all the important litigation in the county. In January, 1897, he was appointed by Governor Bushnell Common Pleas Judge to fill the vacancy created by the election of. Hon. H. L. Sibley to the Circuit bench. The following summer he was nominated without opposition to fill the remaining year of Judge Sibley's unexpired term, and also the full term following, as the full term would begin before the election of 1898. His work on the bench has been such as to win the esteem and confidence of the entire bar of the sub-division, as is testified by the fact that in April, 1902, he was again nominated without opposition, and as the sub-division has a Republican ma- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1287 jority of between 5,000 and 8,000, his nomination is equivalent to an election. He is the first Common Pleas Judge that Gallia county has had since the late Judge Simeon Nash, some fifty years ago. Judge Jones is a republican in principle and by inheritance, being a son of David Jones, one of the leading old-line whigs in the southern part of the stat, and a member of the 35th General Assembly from the counties of Athens ande Hocking, and of the 36th General Assembly from Athens and Meigs counties. Judge Jones is the principal owner of the Gallipolis Journal, the leading Republican paper of Gallia county. He became interested in it in 1890, buy ing an interest of the late Wm. Nash, who had been the editor and owner for many years. Judge Jones had business and editorial charge of the paper for several years, and still directs its policy, and frequently contributes to its columns. On June 25, 1889, he was married to Miss Laura R. Shober, of Gallipolis, by whom he has four children now living. Their happy married life was suddenly interrupted by the death of his wife in child-birth, on July 8, 1900. Judge Jones is highly esteemed by his many acquaintances and friends. He is a hard student and his work on the bench as well as at the bar has been marked by a thorough study of all questions submitted to him; and his train mid and powers of analysis of all matters has made his career as lawyer and judge highly successful. Edwin Jones, of Jackson, Ohio, was born December 11, 1863, in Jefferson township, Jackson county. His father was Eben Jones, and his mother's maiden name was Ann Williams, daughter of Morgan Williams, of Newark, Ohio, a native of Wales. His grandfather was Thomas T. Jones, born in Wales, as was his son Eben; and the latter's wife was also born in Wales. Thomas T. Jones built Jefferson furnace in the early fiftys. He was the largest stock holder in it. He was connected with it for years until 1878, when his active connection ceased. Our subject was educated in the common schools, until and he was fifteen year in of the store age. He then went to Buckeye furnace, Jackson county, was there for four and one-half years. He was in the insurance business one year in Jackson. In 1886, he went to Springfield, Ohio, and went into the wholesale and retail clothing business, where he remained one year. He returned to Jackson and kept books for the Emma Coal Company for eight years. He then engaged in the coal business for himself, which he still continues. He is in the Emma, Buckeye and Cornelia Companies. He is general manager of all these companies, and has been in them since 1888. He is the chief owner of the Buckeye Mill & Lumber Co., at Jackson, and has been in that since 1888. He began as a small stock-holder and now owns the chief interest. He is also a stock holder in the Globe Iron Company. He controls 4,100 acres of coal lands in Jackson county, four mines, and three stores. What he has, he has made himself, except a small sum. He thinks good business property is the best investment. In June, 1900, he bought the old Isham House in Jackson. fronting 75 feet on Main. He is building a modern hotel to cover the whole grounds, five stories high. Our subject was married June 10, 1887, to Lola Williams, daughter of Dr. W. S. Williams, of Centerville, Gallia county, Ohio. They have three children. Donald, Lillian and Dwight. Mr. Jones is a republican, and a member of the Presbyterian church. He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias lodge. He is one of the shrewdest, safest, and ablest business men in Ohio. He is sagacious, far-seeing, energetic, resolute and persistent in the prosecution of whatever he undertakes. He is public spirited and takes a lively and generous interest in whatever affects his city, county, or state. He is always ready to contribute his money, work and influence to every movement which makes for social improvement and progress. His character is a strong one from any point of view. He is fair and honorable in all contracts with his fellow-men. He employs more men and is developing more coal territory than any operator in his county. He does everything effectively and successfully. His name is ever on the tongues of his fellow-citizens of Jackson, and he is always spoken of in terms of admiration and respect. He has every reason to be proud of the place he holds in the hearts of his fellow-citizens. He is a most useful citizen 1288 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO. and will accomplish for his fellow-citizens more than any predecessor or contemporary. Major Frank Johnston Jones was born in the city of Cincinnati, April 22, 1838. His father was David Jones and his mother, Elizabeth, daughter of Col. John Johnston, Indian agent of the Northwest Territory and United States Government factor for 45 years at Fort Wayne. His mother was born September 22, 1847, in Fort Wayne. Col. John Johnston was a contemporary with General Lewis Cass and William Henry Harrison. David Jones was a native of Berks county, Pennsylvania, and died in 1814. He had been a financial agent for the Governor of Pennsylvania. His great-grandfather, Col. John Jones, was a member of the 6th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during the Revolutionary War. His father lived to be 81 years old and his mother 71 years old. They died in August and November, 1878. They were members of the Episcopal church. They had thirteen children. Major Jones' brother, William G. Jones, graduated in 1860, at West Point. He Was a Colonel of the 36th 0. V. I., and was killed at the battle of Chickamauga. His brother, Charles Davis Jones, graduated at Annapolis Naval Academy, in 1860, and died in 1865, at the close of the war. Our subject was graduated from Yale College in 1859 and later studied law with the Hon. Rufus King. He enlisted April 19, 1861, as a private in Co. A, 6th 0. V. I.; was transferred to the 13th 0. V. I. in May, 1861, and made Second Lieutenant of Co. E, January 21, 1861. He was promoted to First Lieutenant of Co. K, January 1, 1862. He was made captain of Co. H, January 1, 1863. He was made Assistant Adjutant General, March 11, 1863. After the battle of Shiloh, he was acting as Assistant Adjutant General on General Rosecran's staff, Gen. Chitlenden's corps. He was captured at the battle of Perryville. He was assigned to duty as Acting Inspector General on the staff of Major McDowell, commanding the 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland on detached service at the battle of Chickamauga, and resigned in 1864. He was brevetted Major at the close of the war. He was admitted to the bar in 1866. In May, 1866, he was married to Francis Fosdick, daughter of Samuel Fosdick. They have the following children: Anna F., married to E. H. Ernst, Assistant Secretary of the Cincinnati Equitable Insurance Company; Charles Davis Jones, a lawyer with his father; Samuel F., a student of the Medical College, New York; Francis L., and Edward, a graduate of Yale College, in 1901, and is now secretary of the McDonald and Kyle Shoe Company, of Cincinnati. Major Jones is president of the Little Miami Railroad. He is a director of the Equitable Insurance Company, of Cincinnati, and a director of the Spring Grove Cemetery, of the Cincinnati Street Railroad Company, and a trustee of the University of Cincinnati. Here is what an intimate friend says of the Major, "Frank Johnson Jones has led a busy, useful life. He has given the best a man can give-himself-to his country, his city, and his church, while much has been given to him, in a most lovable, amiable wife and bright, attractive children, an ideal home. Major Jones served with distinction in the Civil War, in the line and on the staff. His service to his city has ben a continuous service, on many boards, the more helpful, as he is a ready speaker and an able writer. He has served his church upwards of a quarter of a century as vestryman and of late years as senior warden. Considering the strenuous life the Major has led, and the year he was born, there is a suspicion, he has located the fountain of youth and years are therefore of no consequence to him, except to extend and accentuate his usefulness." General Wells S. Jones was born in Ross county, Ohio, August 3, 1830. His father was Robert Pennibaker Jones, a native of Berkeley county, Virginia. His mother was Nancy Smith, a native of the same county and state. His grandfather, Robert Jones, came to Ross county, in 1810. He was a follower of the Quakers in England. His grandfather Jones married Susannah Pennibaker. She was a native of Berkeley county, Virginia. Her father was a Revolutionary soldier from start. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1289 to finish, with seven of his sons, two of whom lost their lives in the service. He is said to have built the first house in Martinsburg, Virginia. Our subject was reared in Ross county in Martins and attended the common schools only. farmer and brought him up as such, and he now owns the f His arm on which father was a he was reared and on which his father was reared, in Paxton township, Ross county. When our subject was twenty-one years of age, he went to McLean county, Illinois, and engaged in teaching and stock-raising, and made enough money in two years to pay his expenses while studying medicine. He began the study of medicine in 1853, with his brother, Joseph S. Jones, M. D., at Jasper, Ohio. He graduated at Starling Medical College Columbus, in 1856, and located at Jasper for practice. He organized the first company in Pike county, for the war, Co. A, of the 53rd 0. V. I. He entered the service in that company October 3, 1861. He was appointed Captain the next day and served as such until the 18th of April, 1862, when he was promoted to the Colonelcy of the regiment. He served as Colonel to the end of the war when he was brevetted Brigadier General, March 13, 1865, for gallantry and merit. In the last year of the war he commanded a brigade, the Second brigade in the 2nd Division of the 15th Army Corps. He was wound in the assault on F. McAlister, being shot in the breast. He was in the Atlanta campaign and with Sherman to the sea. He was in the Grand Review in Washington. He was mustered out with his regiment August 11, 1865, and returned to Waverly where he has since resided. He was a candidate for Congress on the Republican ticket in the 12th Ohio District, in 1866, but was defeated by Philadelphia Van Trump. In 1867, he was a candidate for State Senator in the Seventh Senatorial District of Ohio, against James Emmitt, but was defeated. Emmitt received 8,145 votes and General J Jones received 7,103. He was a Trustee of the Deaf arid Dumb Asylum of Ohio, for some years, his original appointment being made by Governor Foster. He was elected a member of the Board of State Public Works in 1885, an re-elected in 1888. He has alway been a republican. He is a member of the Methodist church of the Loyal Legion, the Masons, and the G.A.R. He was married in 1866 to Miss Elizabeth A. Kinkead, daughter of William M. Kinkead, of Piketon. She died in 1876, and he was married June 20, 1880, to Miss Mary F. Wetmore. They have three children, Robert R. aged 20, teacher; Willard T., aged 18, engaged in the Insurance Department in Columbus, and Mary Catherine, a school girl. As a soldier, General Jones, had a record for bravery and faithfulness to duty, which was not surpassed during the Civil War. He has always been devoted to his party, and as a republican. he was willing to be a candidate for office when such candidacy meant defeat. He was always willing to uphold the standard of his party under adverse circumstances. He is a gentleman of great business qualifications, active and energetic and a good citizen. He is a student and is largely self-educated. He is a citizen of whom his country may well be proud. He has been true to every duty he assumed and has never disappointed the expectations of his friends in any respect. Charles H. Ketter was born January 4, 1853, near Scioto Mills Harrison township Scioto county, Ohio. His father was Henry Ketter and his mother's maiden name was Mary Hormeyer. His parents came from Hanover in Germany, his grandparents on both sides remained in that country. His father was married twice and had ten children. He belonged to the children of the second wife, and was the fifth of the whole number. His father was a farmer. He went to the common schools in Harrison township, and Berea College in 1872, where he remained one year, then he took a course in the Nelson Business College, Cincinnati, 0., In 1873 and 1874. In 1874, he located in Ironton, Ohio, and clerked in the furniture store of David Nixon for two years. In 1876, he started in the grocer business at Third and Adams street, and has been in that business ever since. 1n 1880, he erected the business block at Third and Adams streets, and from that time conducted a wholesale and retail grocery. He conducted the business alone until 1885, when his brother Frank L., was associated with him; since then the firm name has been The C. H. Ketter Grocery Co. 1290 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO. He was a director of the Eagle Iron & Steel Co., and retained that position until 1898 when that company sold out to the Republic 1ron & Steel Co. engaged in the clothing business in 1901. He was a member of the Board was incorporated in the fall of 1898. In 1900 he erected the Ketter Block 132 feet square between 2nd and 3rd streets, Ironton Ohio, corner of Adams. He engaged in the clothing business in 1901. He was a member of the Board of Education from 1886 to 1898 and two years of this time he was president. He was elected to the City council of Ironton in 1899 and is President of this body at the present time. He is Treasurer of The Farmers' & Mechanics' Saving, Building & Loan Association and has been for six years past. He has been a republican all his life. He is a member of Spencer M. E. church, Ironton, 0. He was one of the leaders in having the new church built in 1894 and has been a trustee of fhe church since 1891. He was married first to Rosina Duis, March 4, 1876; there were eight children of this marriage as follows: Lilian M. wife of Harry S. Rea; George D. and Earl W. are with their father in the clothing business in the Ketter Clothing Co.; Harold C. is in the regular army located near Baltimore Md. He enlisted in Co. 40 of Heavy ArArtillery August, 1901, for three years and has since been promoted to Corporal. Otto E. age seventeen is a student in the Ironton High School. He has three daughters, Helen, Mabel and Gladys, all school girls. His wife Rosina died in 1893. In 1895, he was married to her sister Anna. They had two sons of this marriage, Duis age four, and Bernard age two. Mr. Ketter is one of the most successful business men of Ironton. He is favorably known to the whole community for his honor, integrity and correct business methods. He is a living power and force in his city and in every organization with which he is connected. When he is connected with a measure or movement its success is assured. He is careful in all his judgments and hence insures the completion of his work before it is begun. When the list of men who have made Ironton is made up, his name will be found near the top of the column. James Kilbourne was born in Columbus, Ohio, October 9, 1841. He comes of a family noted for its patriotism and good citizenship. His grandfather, Col. James Kilbourne, was one of Ohio's earliest pioneers, and the first to represent his county in Congress. His father, Lincoln Kilbourne, was the leading merchant of Columbus. James Kilbourne graduated with high honors at Kenyon College in 1862, and two years later received the degree of Master of Arts. The day after he passed his examination, he enlisted as a Private in the Eighty-Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was transferred to the Ninety-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served with distinction from the beginning to the end of the war, being promoted through the various grades fo that of Captain, and being brevetted Major, Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel of the United States Volunteers. During a part of this period Col. Kilbourne served on the staffs of Gen. J. M. Tuttle and Gen. John McArthur. His war record is one of great gallantry. After the close of the war Col. Kilbourne entered the law school of Harvard University, where he graduated in 1868. He was admitted to the bar, but his health having been undermined by his army service he decided on the advice of his physician to take up a more active occupation than law, and entered business with his father. A few years later he founded the Kilbourne & Jacobs Manufacturing Co., the largest corporation of its kind in the world, and of which he became President and General Manager. He was the Director, and in 1895 was President of the Board of Trade of Columbus. He has been a Director of the Columbus Club and four times its President. He was also one of the earliest Presidents of the Arlington Country Club. He is a Director of the First National Bank. of the Clinton National Bank, of the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo and of the Columbus, Cincinnati & Midland Railways, and of many private business corporations and political and social organizations. For many years he has been President of the Board of Trustees of the Columbus Public Library and largely instrumental in the growth of that institution. He is the President of the Kenyon College Association of Central Ohio, and also President of the Central Ohio Harvard Club, He is a life member of the Ohio Archaeological Soci- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1291 ety and Vice-President of the Old Northwestern Genealogical Society. His tondness tor children and his sympathy for them led him to construct the Columbus Children's Hospital, of which he was President for five years. He is the Vice-President of the Columbus Neighborhood Guild Association, and a member of the Board of Managers of the Associated Charities of Columbus. As an eloquent, persuasive speaker, Col. Kilbourne is called upon by his party to address the people and has often been urged to serve as a candidate for Mayor, Governor, Congressman and Senator. He was a delegate from .the Twelfth Ohio Congressional District to the Democratic National Convention in 1892, and in 1896, and at the Ohio Democratic State Convention, receiving 237 votes for nomination for Governor. He was delegated at large from Ohio to the National Democratic Convention at Kansas city in 1900. and one Chairman of the Ohio delegation. He was appointed by Gove Campbell, the Commissiners of Ohio, to the Columbus Exposition at Chicago, but was compelled to decline from the stress of business cares. Besides being a member of the Grand Army, the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. the Union Veteran Legion and the Loyal Legion, Col. Kilbourne is the Vice-President of the society of the Army of the Tennessee. At his home also was organized the Columbus Cuban League, which accomplished much in aid of the people of that island. Since its organization, he has been Trustee of the League. When the Spanish-American war broke out, his services were tendered immediately to the Government, and the loyalty of his family was further attested by the offer of three of his sons. Of the sons and grandsons of Col. Kilbourne's father, ten offered their service and seven were in the army, all but one, seeing active foreign service. Col. Kilbourne is one of the largest employers of labor in Ohio, and his relation with his employees have always been ideal. Neither against him nor the Company managed by him has there ever been brought a suit at law, and never have the wages of any man employed by him been reduced. In 1898. he was appointed a member of the Ohio Centennial Commission, and although the majority of the Commission were republicans, he was by a unanimous vote elected President. He attends the Protestant Episcopal Church and is a Vestryman of St. Pauls. Col. Kilbourne was married October 5, 1869 to Anna B. Wright, eldest daughter of Gen. George B. Wright, and has four children,, three sons and one daughter. John Metz Lawson was born June 25, 1859, in Greenup county, Kentucky. His father was Jacob Lawson, andn his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Rawlins, daughter of John Vanbebbe Rawlins. His grandfather was Thomas Lawson. John M. was reared in Greenup county, Kentucky, near Portsmouth and lived there all his life. He is a farmer by occupation. November 18, 1882, he married Mary H. Gammon, daughter of John Gammon. They have six children: Elmer T.. Denver R. G., Ettie, Howard, Grace, and Merle. Mr. Lawson is a democrat, a mem- ber of the Southern Methodist church, a member of the Modern Woodmen, Springville Camp. Hon. Ralph Leete was born January 12, in Tioga county. Pennsylvania. His lineage is given under the Leete family in the Pioneer Record of this work. His education was in a subscription school first, and then in the public schools in New York, across the line from Pennsylvania. The family fortunes were lost by the father by endorsements for others, and Mr. Leete's father had to begin the world over. Our subject left Potter county, Pa. in 1840 and went to Erie county, Pa. and there from there he went to Austinburg, Ashtabula county, Ohio and remained at a Manual Training School till 1842. In the winter of 1842 and 1843, he taught school at Jersey Shore, Pa. He came down the Ohio in a skiff in 1843 and landed at Louisville, Kentucky. There George D. Prentice, to whom he had letters, sent him back to Ohio. He went to Buckhorn Furnace and taught school. In 1846 he taught at Vernon and then taught at Burlington nearly a year. was admitted to the bar in February, 1847, at Pomeroy, Ohio and began practicing at Burlington, Ohio, in 1848. 1292 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO. On November 28, 1848, he was married to Miss Harriet E. Hand of Grantham, England, a daughter of William Thomas Hand. He resided at Burlington until 1852, when he removed to Ironton, Ohio. He was Prosecuting Attorney of Lawrence county, Ohio, from 1849 to 1853 and a member of the Ohio Legislature in 1858-1859 and 1868-1869. He was a Trustee of the Ohio State University from 1872 to 1879 and at one time President of the Board. He was originally a "free-soil" democrat. He voted for Polk in 1844. for Van Buren in 1848, for Pierce in 1852, for Buchanan in 1856, for McClellan in 1864, for Seymore in 1868, and in 1872 for Greeley. He was Secretary of the Military Committee of Lawrence county, Ohio, during the Civil War. His wife died July 14, 18'79. He remarried November 20, 1880 to Jane Wilmot Bancroft of Wisconsin. She died October 16, 1894. His children are: William Hand Leete, of Lima, Ohio; Edith Ives Hamilton, wife of John Hamilton of Ironton. Ohio; Fred Guilford Leete of Ironton, Ohio; Ralph Herman Leete of Prestonsburg, Floyd county, Kentucky. Hon. William T. McClintick was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, February 20, 1819. His father was James McClintick, Sr. and his mother was Charity Trimble. Our subject was educated at the Chillicothe Academy until his fourteenth year. He was then sent to the Ohio University, and from there he went to Augusta College, Kentucky, where he graduated in the summer of 1837. In November of the same year, he entered the law office of Creighton & Bond, a distinguished law firm of his native town. In 1840, at the February term of the old Supreme Court held in Portsmouth, he was admitted to the bar. Theodore Sherer was admitted at the same time. They returned to Chillicothe together and were called into a case then called for trial wherein Wm. S. Murphy and Judge Thurman were opposing counsel, and from that time until Mr. McClintock retired in March, 1890, he has been steadily engaged in his profession. In 1843, he joined the law firm of Creighton & Green, of Chillicothe and continued with them for one year. On October 1, 1845, Mr. McClintick was married to Miss Elizabeth M. Atwood, of Harrodsburgh, Ky. Six children were born to them, two of whom survive: Petrea, resides at home with her parents; Anna, wife of Edward W. Strong, an attorney of Cincinnati, Ohio; Elizabeth Atwood married Charles L. Pruyn, of Albany, New York, in the year 1877. She died in 1884, leaving two daughters now living and unmarried; Elizabeth McClintock and Jane Ann Lansing. In 1852, he took into partnership Mr. Amos Smith, a nephew and former pupil of Hocking H. Hunter, of Lancaster. This tirm continued until July 26, 1888, when it was dissolved. The firm held the most prominent position in the profession in Southern Ohio. In politics, Mr. McClintick was a whig while that party was in existence, and when the Republican party was organized, he went into that. In 1860, he became general counsel for the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad Company as reorganized and continued to act as such for that Company and its successors, until his retirement from the bar in 1890. He was president of the Cincinnati & Baltimore Railroad Company in 1868 and remained in that office until 1883 when it was succeeded by the Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore Railroad Company, and he held the offrce of president from 1876 to 1879. Mr. McClintick is regarded among his professional brethren as one of the ablest lawyers who ever practiced in Southern Ohio. Mr. McClintick published in this year 1902, a small volume of poems of which he is the author. They were composed at different times between 1840 and 1902, a period of sixty-two years. The work was only published for private circulation, among his friends, and the volume is gracefully dedicated to his wife to whom he has been married for over sixty-six years. There are fifty- one poems, all of which but one, were composed by himself. The tirst, "A Winter scene" was written in Chillicothe in January, 1840. Then his muse was silent till October, 1856, when it produced "Autumn." In 1876, he became a summer poet, and composed "Summer Friends at the Ocean side" at Atlantic City. In August, 1879, he wrote "Lake George" at that famous place. From that time PICTURE OF EMERSON MCMILLEN BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1293 on, most of his poems were composed in his vacations, at well known summer resorts, in the Virginia Mountains, on the Atlantic Coast and along the Great Lakes. Mr. McClintick never did anything in his life, but he did it well. He is a scholar and has always been a student and will be all his life. He was successful as a lawyer and business manager and his efforts on the poetic field is not an exception. Most of his later effusions have been penned at Harbor Point, Michigan. The writer undertook to select a gem of the collection, but they are all so replete with excellences that he could not do it. Mr. McClintick could not pen an uninteresting thought and the "verses" as he modestly calls them teem with admirable sentiment. Most of them, written in inspiring surroundings breathe the thoughts suggested by the beauties and grandeurs of Nature before the eyes of the poet at the time. Mr. McClintick's friends were at all times endeared to him, but the publication of the verses has given those who admired him for his learning and scholarship, another and stronger claim to their affection. The poetry of his soul has been revealed to them and they now know that their friend heretofore regarded by them as a learned lawyer and a scholar, is a poet as well and has touched their heart strings by the pathos and harmony of his verses. Emerson McMillin was born in 1844, the son of William R. McMillin, of Buckeye furnace, Jackson county, Ohio. He was one of a family of fourteen children, of whom six were sons. He was next to the youngest son and was brought up in the vicinity of the furnace. He attended the public schools until he was ten years of age, when he began life on his own account. in working at the furnace. He was always energetic, studious and earnest. He never wasted any of his time, or his physical or mental capital, as a boy, and thought out all matters for himself, and that habit has followed him all his life. As soon as he was able to reason on political matters he worked it out in his own mind that the Republican party was one of correct principles and he became a republican, though at the time of the announcement of his political views as a boy, the family traditions would have led him into the Democratic party, but he adopted the republican faith as a boy. When the Civil war broke out. he felt it his duty to offer his services to his country, and did so. He enlisted in Company I, 18th 0. V. I., in the Three Months' Service, May 6, 1861, and served until August 28, 1861. He gave his age as 18, when in fact he was a year younger. His brother, Murray, next older than himself, enlisted in the same regiment and served with him. On the 1st day of September, 1861, three days after he was discharged from this regiment, he enlisted again in Co. H, 2d West Virginia Cavalry. His two brothers, Andrew and Murray enlisted in the same company and regiment at the same time he did. Later in the war, two other brothers Milton and Harvey volunteered in the same regiment and when Marion, the youngest, was old enough he enlisted in Co. H, 2nd West Virginia Cavalry, December 1. 1863, and was killed June 23, 1864, by an explosion of a caisson at Cove Gap, Virginia. Our subject was a fine soldier. He tabooed the use of intoxicating liquors in the service. He could always be depended upon for any duty or service, and the word "fear" was not in his vocabulary. He was made a corporal in his company and afterwards sergeant. He was transferred from Co. H, November 23, 1864, to Company C. He was promoted to Second Lieutenant, December 1, 1864. and appointed Regimental Quartermaster. He served until June 30, 1865. Lieutenant McMillin was wounded near Hagerstown, Maryland, in the fall of 1864. His regiment participated in the Grand Review at Washington, at the close of the war. Soon after the war, he and Captain Coleman Gillilan, of Portsmouth, Ohio, undertook the conducting of a country store, in Gallia county, but the adventure was not a success. He tried the vocation of a commercial salesman but found it was not his forte. He turned his attention to the chemistry of gas and that was the alchemy of his fortune. He was untiring in the study of the methods of manufacturing gas and made himself familiar with the entire business from start to finish. Mr. McMillin is a born organizer and has unmeas- 1294 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO. urable executive ability. Within the scope of this work, lt is impossible to give a sketch of his wonderful career. The people of Southern Ohio remember best his early history and in view of his remarkable record as a youthful patriot, they have always taken a deep interest in his subsequent career. There is no one doing business in New York city in whom more interest is taken in Southern Ohio than the subject of this sketch. He is now a member of the firm of Emerson McMillin & Co., bankers of No. 40 Wall street, New York. This firm is composed of himself and Henry B. Wilson, formerly of 1ronton, Ohio. He and Mr. Wilson are among the leading business men of the city of New York. Mr. McMillin is known for his daring and courage in business matters, and for his wonderful insight in commercial affairs. His success has been phenomenal, and all his old friends and especially his soldier friends in Southern Ohio, are proud of his career. John Means the eldest son and child of the late Thomas Williamson Means, was born September 21, 1829 at Wert Union, Adams county, Ohio. His mother was Sarah Ellison, a daughter of John Ellison, Jr. of Buckeye Station. He was named John for his grandfathers, Col. John Means and John Ellison, each of whom were, at different times, members of the legislature from Adams county. At the time of his birth, his father was carrying on a merchandising business in West Union. John Means spent his boyhood at Hanging Rock, and at school at Athens and Marietta, Ohio. He attended the College at Marietta, Ohio, but did not graduate. He left Marietta College in 1848 and soon after became the store-keeper at Ohio Furnace, in Scioto county, then owned by his father and David Sinton. He was afterwards book-keeper for the same furnace. In 1851, he went to Buena Vista Furnace, first as book-keeper and then as manager. In 1855, he removed to Catlettsburg, Kentucky, and in 1857, to Ashland, Kentucky, where he has since resided. In 1856, he became one of the charterers of the Portsmouth, Big Sandy & Pomeroy Packet Co., better known as the White Collar Line. In 1856, he became a director of the Kentucky Iron, Coal and Manufacturing Company organized to build up the city of Ashland. In the same year he was one of the founders of the Bank of Ashland, which in 1872 became the Ashland National Bank of which he is now the president. In 1856, he was elected one of the trustees of the town of Ashland and continued as such, and as Councilman, for a period of thirty consecutive years. In 1872, he was appointed by the Governor of Kentucky as one of the five commissioners to memorialize Congress to improve the navigation of the Ohio river. Seven other states had similar Boards of five persons for the same object. He was one of the organizers of the Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad, Eastern Division, now known as the Ashland Coal & Iron Railway Company. He was one of the firm of Means, Kyle & Company at Hanging Rock, Ohio, owning Ohio, Union and Pine Grove furnaces. In 1873, he took part in organizing the Low Moor Iron Company of Virginia. For some years, he was a director in the Norton Iron Works at Ashland, Ky. He was its treasurer in 1872. In 1874, he was the Republican candidate for Congress in the Tenth Kentucky District. He has always been a liberal patron of all educational projects and a prominent advocate and supporter of the common school system of the country. While not a member of any church, he has been a liberal supporter of those about him. He was married first to Harriet E. Perkins, of Marietta. Ohio, October 25, 1834. The children of that marriage are: Thomas Hildreth and Harold of Ashland, Kentucky; Ellison Cooke, of Low Moor, Virginia; Eliza Isabella, wife of W. B. Seaton, of Ashland, Kentucky; Lilian, wife of W. E. Maynard, of Brooklyn, New York and Rosalie, wife of Dr. E. L. Bullard, of Mendota, Wisconsin. Mr. Mean's wife died March 13, 1895, and he was married a second time to Miss Mary P. Seaton, June 3, 1896, daughter of Samuel Seaton, of Greenup, Kentucky. Col. Douglas Putnam says as follows of Mr. Means: "No man stands higher in his community and wherever he is known, as an all round, reliable man, who can always be depended upon. He is a man of strong opinions BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1295 and he has always been found upon the side of right and justice. As a citizen. his impress has been felt in his home town in a most vigorous manner. He is a strong believer in education and has made his faith manifest by works, in a late donation of an eligible site, on which has just been erected a large, commodious building for the use of the colored children of the town. His labors, years ago, in laying off and platting the beautiful cemetery of Ashland will be remembered long after he has been laid to rest there. To a friend remonstrating against his labor and exposure in doing this work, his reply was, ‘I want to leave something by which I may be remembered when I am gone.' As a public official, his record is one worthy of emulation, in these days, especially, when men shrink from serving on the town councils and other municipal bodies, on account of the sacrifice of time necessary, and the criticism that they will incur. Mr. Means served faithfully for a long term of years, in his town council and his place was never vacant, unless absent from the city. or prevented by illness. No man has a better record as a business man. He is broad in his views, far reaching in his plans, and comprehensive in his decisions. His advice in business and other matters has been of great value and his undertakings crowned with Success. He is calm in hours of panic or disappointment and is never unduly elated in times of prosperity, a most admirable equipoise. All his transactions are governed by a just consideration of the rights of others." Anderson Miller was born at Millersport, Lawrence county, Ohio, March 12, 1831. His father Robert Miller, was born at the same place. His grandfather, Joseph, came from the South Branch of the Potomac. in Virginia. He was one of the first settlers at Millersport, in Lawrence county. They came to Lawrence county in- about 1795. Our subject had four brothers and two sisters. He grew up in Millersport, and went to school but three months. He started at the age of sixteen, and with but twenty-five cents capital, engaged in farming and has been a farmer all his life. He owns a part of the farm which was owned by his great-grandfather. He married Elizabeth Michline. daughter of Jacob Michline. a blacksmith and gunsmith. and a native of Lewis county, Virginia, in February, 1852. He established the family altar in his household when he was first married and has kept it up ever since. He makes this the chief duty of the day and all else is subordinated to it. No matter how busy a time it might be all employes are called into family worship. They had nine children, five sons and four daughters as follows: Anna, wife of Milton Watson of Labelle, Ohio; Louis W., a Methodist minister, now stationed at Hilliard. Ohio, in the Ohio Conference: Jane, married Robert Eaton, residing at Proctorsville, Ohio; Augusta married James 0. Gillett and now resides at Labelle, Ohio; Robert Benton, Attorney of Ironton. Ohio: Rev. William H., a Methodist minister stationed at Portsmouth, Ohio, from 1898 to 1901; Ida married B. F. McConn, living near Proctorsville, Ohio; Kenton. a lawyer in Ironton, Ohio and Cecil See, a lawyer in Portsmouth, Ohio. Mr. Miller always regretted his want of suitable education and resolved that his sons should not be deprived of that benefit. He sent all five of them to the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio and all graduated there. He did this on the income of a small farm in Lawrence county, Ohio. All his sons and daughters are now living and in good health. He also educated one of the daughters at the Ohio Wesleyan University and gave each one of the others a common school education. He has twenty-one grand children and six deceased. He was a County Commissioner of Lawrence county from 1881 to 1884. He has always been a republican and has been a member of the Methodist Church for forty-five years and also a member of the Official Board of his particular Church all that time. He never was in debt and all his property has always been kept clear. He is a man noted for his charitable and cheerful disposition. He is never idle but always busy; and he gives the most minute attention to all details of his affairs. A man in moderate circumstances like him, who could give five sons a complete education, and have two of them honored and influential ministers and three successful lawyers, deserves to he remembered by posterity. 1296 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO. Robert Benton Miller was born January 22, 1859 at Millersport, Lawrence county, Ohio. His father was Anderson Miller, who has a sketch herein. He attended the public schools at Millersport until he was twenty years of age. He then went to the Ohio Wesleyan University and graduated there in the classical course in 1884. He studied law in Cincinnati Law School and one year under Mr. Julius Anderson. He was admitted to the bar in October, 1886, and located in Ironton. He remained as a partner with his preceptor one year, then was alone in the law business until 1896, when his brother Kenton went in the partnership with him and the firm assumed the name of Miller & Miller. He was City Solicitor of Ironton from 1889 to 1892. He was Prosecutng Attorney of Lawrence county, Ohio, for one term from 1894 to 1900; and those who know him say that he was one of the ablest men who ever filled the office. He was married May 4, 1887 to Miss Birdie E. Wilson, daughter of John E. Wilson of Burlington, Ohio. They have four children: Evelyn Gay, aged twelve; Bernard, aged ten; Ruby aged eight and Robert aged six. Mr. Miller is one of the able and forceful members of the bar of Lawrence county. All he does is characterized by earnestness and purpose. He does all his work well and thoroughly. He deserves the success he has achieved and will succeed still further. Such men as he are a power in the community of which he is a part. Moses Morgan was born in Jefferson township, Jackson county, Ohio, in September, 1840. His father was Daniel Morgan, a native of Aberystwyth, Wales, and his mother was Catharine Morgan. His parents emigrated to the United States in 1837, having spent ninety days crossing the Atlantic. They settled at Pomeroy, Ohio. His father worked in V. B. Horton's coal mines two years and moved to Jackson county in 1839. From there they moved to Hewitt's Fork, where his father farmed and where both died. They had five children of whom our subject is the eldest. Moses attended the common schools in the winter, and worked on the farm during the summer. In 1856, he entered the Ohio University at Athens and attended there for two terms, when he became qualified to teach the common school and beginning in 1857 he taught four consecutive years in Scioto county and one year in Jackson county. In 1864, he was store-keeper at Jackson furnace. He enlisted on August 12, 1864 in the 173rd 0. V. I. and served as Sergeant Major of the Regiment till December when he was promoted to Second Lieutenant and assigned to Company K. He was mustered out with the regiment in July, 1865. For the next three years, he remained on the farm, teaching' in the winter. He then left farming for teaching and taught in Jackson and Lawrence counties. In 1870, he became book-keeper at Jackson furnace and served one month, when he was elected Manager, which position he held till February, 1872. He then became manager and agent of the Hope Manufacturing Company, at Mason City, West Virginia. He remained with this company for six years, during which time he married Miss Martha L. Jared, daughter of Lemuel Jared, September 29, 1875. In 1878, he became interested in developing coal in Jackson county, and has continued in that. He is also interested in the Iron Furnace and the Fire Brick Manufacturing Company. Mr. Morgan had five children: Lemuel, who died in childhood; Daniel F., who was educated at the Wooster University at Case School of Applied Science and is chemist of the Star Furnace Company; James W., who was educated at Wooster University and is vice-president and secretary of the Hitt Frisbee Coal Company, at Toledo, Ohio; Katherine, who died in Childhood; and Sarah E. The latter is attending the public schools at Jackson, Ohio. Mr. Morgan is a republican, and a ruling elder of the Presbyterian church. Colonel Douglas Putnam was born August 21, 1838, at Marietta. Ohio. His father was Douglas Putnam and his mother Mary Ann Hildreth. daughter of Doctor S. P. Hildreth. His grandfather was David Putnam and great-grandfather Israel and his great- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1297 great-grandfather was General Israel Putnam of the Revolutionary War. He graduated at Marietta College In 1859, and went in to the grocery business in Cincinnati, Ohio, with E. T. Baker. In 1861, he left that and went in the Commissary in the State Service, and in the fall of 1861 became a Paymaster's clerk. At the battle of Shiloh. he was a volunteer aide of General Grant. He entered the military service in the 92nd 0. V. I., July 25, 1862, and was made Adjutant. He was promoted to Major, February 1, 1863, at the request of all the Captains of the regiment. He was made Lieutenant Colonel March 22, 1863. He was wounded September 20, 1863 at Chickamauga by a ball which cut out the fleshy part of his leg. He was also wounded three times at Mission Ridge, Tennessee, while going up the hill, and was disabled permanently, so that he was on crutches for one year thereafter from the wounds. He resigned April 11, 1864 because he was unfitted for further service. After leaving the army, he went to Hope furnace, Vinton county, Ohio, and was manager there until the spring of 1869, when he went to Ashland, Kentucky, where he has been manager of the furnace department of the Ashland Coal & Iron Company ever since. He has been president of that company since 1890. He has been president of the Merchant's National Bank, of Ashland, Kentucky. since September, 1901. The Ashland Iron & Mining Company was organized in October, 1901 and succeeded the manufacturing departments of the Ashland Coal & Iron Company. He has been president of the former since its organization. He is a member of the Cincinnati Commandery of the Loyal T egion. Society of the Army of the Cumberland and also of the Sons of the Revolution of Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been a member of the Presbyterian church and an elder since 1869. For fifteen years he has been a member of the Board of Education and he was a member of the City Council for fifteen years. He was married January 12, 1864, to Miss Valonia Reppert, daughter of Louis Reppert, of Marietta, Ohio. She died in April, 1900. He has two sons: T ewis R.. treasurer of the Ashland Steel Company and secretary of the Ashland Sheet Company; Douglas Gaylord. general superintendent of the Ashland Coal & Iron railroad and general manager of the Mining Company. A friend who knows Mr. Putnam long and well says, "He is a careful reader and good thinker, always an entertaining and agreeable companion. He has always taken great interest in the welfare and advancement of the community wherein he lived as shown by his holding the municipal offices heretofore mentioned, in both of which he was active and influential. He is always earnest and conscientious, holding advanced ideas on any subject he considers. He is diligent, methodical and careful in business. of the strictest integrity, honorable in his dealings and highly respected by all who know him. George Claypool Rittenour was born in Ross county. Ohio, March 11, 1825. His father was Jacob Rittenour, born February 15, 1787, in Frederick county, 'Virginia, and his mother's maiden name was Ann Claypool. His grandfather, Abraham Claypool was from Rockingham county, Virginia. His grandfather, Anthony and his great-grandfather John Rittenour were both of Frederick county, Virginia. John Rittenour emigrated from Germany. Anthony Rittenour settled in Ross county. Ohio, in 1800. He died in 1835, in his eighty-third year. He was a devout and pious Methodist, as was his son, Jacob, who connected with the church at the age of fourteen. He married Ann Claypool, April 3, 1812. He died October 13, 1882 at the age of ninety-five years and eight months. His father located in the Northwest Territory in 1800. Abraham Claypool was a member of the first State Senate, which convened in Ohio, from Ross county. He was also a member of the Senate from Ross county and Franklin also, in the second and third Legislature, 1803 to 1805. He was a member of the Senate at the fifth and sixth Legislative Sessions in 1806 to 1808 representing Ross, Franklin and Highland counties. He was also a member of the House of Representatives from Ross county, at the ninth Legislative Session, in 1810 and 1811. Jacob Rittenour had four children, of whom James, born May 23, 1813, married Ellen Hempstead, the first time, and George Pancake's widow, the sec- 1298 - PIONEER RECORD OF SOUTHERN OHIO. and time; Margaret, never married; 1saac N., born July 3. 1818. married Sarah Ore; and George C., above. The latter had a common school education and at the age of twenty-two went to selling goods at Richmonddale. He sold goods there for three years and then he and his father .established a hardware store in Chillicothe, Ohio, and carried on that business, but at the same time George was conducting a farm. He married Elizabeth Sargent, the daughter of Thornton W. Sargent, a Pike county farmer, September 1, 1857. He has had three sons: Thornton Sargent Rittenour, born May 31, 1859, at Richmonddale, who was brought up a farmer. He located in Piketon in 1885 on the old Judge Reed place consisting of 700 acres. He married Jennie Norton, daughter of John W. Higby, a nephew to S. N. Higby, and has one son, George Willey, aged sixteen. He is a republican and a member of the Methodist church. James Milton Rittenour was born at Richmonddale, October 30, 1861. He married Alnerta Norton, who resided near Richmond, Virginia; they have one son, two years of age, George Norton. Henry Francis was born August 8, 1865. He married Eliza Alice De Boice of Ross county. They have one son five years of age, Everett Francis. They reside in Chillicothe, Ohio. John Henry Sellers was born June 1, 1856, on a farm one mile north of Greenfield, Ohio. He is a son of John Henry Sellers, Sr., born June 27, 1821 in Delaware county, Ohio. His mother was Julia Ann Wells. She was Born December 12, 1824 at Galena, Ohio. He is the fifth of his father's seven children, five sons and two daughters. His brother William H. H. Sellers enlisted in the Civil War in Company H, 27th 0. V. I. and died at Corinth, Mississippi, May 18, 1863. At the age of seventeen, our subject entered Denison University, and was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1879. In 1880, he entered the Citizen's Bank, of Greenfield, as messenger, and assistant book-keeper and was promoted through the various positions until he was made Cashier in 1884. He held that position until 1886, when he went to Wellston and started the first bank in that place. He became Cashier. On October 11th of the same year. this bank was closed and the First National was organized. Our subject was made Cashier which position he still holds. On March 4, 1881, he was married to Miss A. A. Wood, of Leesburg, Ohio. They have two children: Jolia May, now in her sophomore year in Denison University and John Paul, aged ten. He has been a member of the Baptist church since a young man and superintendent of the Sunday school for almost twenty years. He has been a member of the Royal Arcanum Grand Council for five years, and has held the position of City School Examiner of Wellston for ten years, and Water Works Trustee for three year's. Rodney Metcalf Stimson was born in Milford, New Hampshire, October 26, 1822. His parents, Phineas Stimson and Rhoda Metcalf, were both born in Ashburnham, Worcester county, Massachusetts, and married there in 18.16. Both were children of men who were soldiers in the War of the American Revolution. One of his ancestors, Andrew Stimson, was in Boston as early as 1639, only nine years after the first settlement of the New England Metropolis. He was an Englishman. The Metcalf family also were English. His mother died when he was nine years of age. His first school was a private school, which continued several years, kept by Daniel Russell. In 1840, he began reading Latin—Cicero's Orations. He attended Phillips Academy from 1842 to 1845. On September 13, 1845, he came to Ohio, and entered the Junior class, Marietta College. He graduated on July 29, 1847. In the winter of 1841 and 1842 he taught four common schools, three months each, in New Hampshire; in 1845 and 1846 he taught at Belpre, Washington county, Ohio; in 1847 to 1848 he taught in Pike county; in 1849 and 1850, he taught in Scioto county. He also taught a family school on a cotton plantation, Lowndes county, Mississippi, fifteen months, 1848-49. He read law and was admitted to the bar at Marietta, in October, 1849. On November 1, 1849, he went to Ironton, Lawrence county, and there pettifogged one law case before a Justice of the Peace, and gained the case. August 1, 1850, he founded the Ironton Register. He edited it twelve years but sold BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1299 out in 1862, and bought the Marietta Intelligencer and the Marietta Home News, combined the two offices, and issued the first number of the Marietta Register, June 30, 1862. He worked hard for ten years, and in 1872, he had to sell fhe Register, the regret of his life, owing to hemmorrhages of the lungs and threatened consumption. He was married July 23, 1851, to Miss Juliette B. Hurd, in Ironton. She died January 19. 1861, leaving one son, Milford, who died in Cincinnati in 1890. On October 28, 1862, he married Miss Julia I. Sheppard, at Marietta. They bad one child, Elizabeth Gillet, who married a Mr. Corwin, who, with her two children, Julia Stimson and Rodney Stimson Corwin, are living with him. He was a whig candidate for the Ohio State Senate, District of Lawrence, Gallia, Meigs, and Vinton counties in 1853. He was an Ohio delegate to the first National Republican Convention, which nominated John C. Fremont for the President of the United States, at Philadelphia in June, 1856. Hg was delegate again for the Marietta district: to the National Republican Convention at Chicago, June, 1880, which nominated James A. Garfield for President. He was the Ohio member of the Committee on Resolutions. He was delegate from Washington county to the Ohio State Republican Conventions, between 1862 and 1880, for seventeen times, always without opposition, and was the author of the Ohio Republican State Platform, in 1873, adopted unanimously, without the change of a word. He was elected to the Ohio State Senate, in 1869; re-elected in 1871, and in the Ohio General Assembly in 1872, and 1873, declined the chairmanship of the Finance Committee of the Senate because of physical inability, a posifion tendered to him without his knowledge or consent. He was Treasurer of the State Republican Committee in the campaigns of 1877 and 1878. He was Presidential Elector of the Marietta District, in 1884. He was Librarian of the Ohio State Library from 1877 to 1879. He never actively sought any public position. In March, 1881, he became Treasurer and Librarian of Marietta College. He resigned as Librarian in 1892, but still continues as Treasurer. He has been Trustee of Marietta College since 1895. He has given to the College Library his collection of books, Americana, the specialty, and out-of-the-way books, numbering full 20,000 volumes, all in fine condition, only one other collection of the kind equal to it in the Great Mississippi Valley. He is spending the evening of his days in honorable retirement. Samuel Young Wasson was born November 5, 1841, at Cherry Fork, Adams county, Ohio, the son of Thomas Campbell Wasson and Martha Campbell, his wife. He was reared on his fatherls farm. He attended the common schools of his district and the North Liberty Academy. He entered Miami University in the fall of 1861, and graduated in 1866. The same summer he went to Gallipolis and he and Captain M. V. B. Kennedy, late of Zanesville, Ohio, purchased the Onderdonk book store and continued the business under the firm name of Wasson & Kennedy. On September 3, 1867, Mr. Wasson was married to Miss Jennie Henderson, of Middletown, Butler county. In 1872, he dissolved partnership with Capt. Kennedy and continued the business alone. In the fall of 1877, he was elected a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Gallia county, as a republican and served one term. He declined a re-nomination and election, as he had changed his residence to near Middletown. Butler county, where he engaged in farming, and where he continued to reside until 1889, when he removed to Hamilton, Ohio, where he has resided ever since. He has always been a staunch Presbyterian and was an elder in the church at Gallipolis. On his removal to the city of Hamilton, he and his family connected with the United Presbyterian church in which he is a ruling elder, Mr. Wasson has a son, Clarence C., a physician in Hamilton, and a daughter, wife of Joseph L. Blair, manager of the Niles Tool Works of Hamilton. Mr. Wasson is fond of reading and study, and keeps abreast of the times. While he would not like to be styled a gentleman of leisure, he has the full command of his own time and devotes himself very largely to work in his church. He is a gentleman of the highest integrity and enjoys the respect and confidence of all who know him. His wife died July 3, 1899. She was a woman of the most estimable character, devoted to her family and good works. Since that fime he has made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Blair.