Scioto County, Ohio - Chapter 4: Scioto County in the Legislature, 1903 (part 2 of 3)

Adams County, Ohio, but what is now Red Oak, in Brown County, located on. the tract entered by his brother, Captain Abraham Shepherd. In 1799, our subject married Margaret Moore. He was at that time living at Red Oak. Soon after this he bought a part of Captain Phillip Slaughter's survey No. 588 on Eagle Creek and built a brick house on it, now owned by Baker Woods. Here he also built and operated the mill afterwards known as Pilson's Mill. In October, 1803, he was elected one of the three representatives of Adams County in the Lower House, and took his seat December 5th, 1803. He continued to represent Adams County in the House by successive re-elections until February 4th, 1807. He remained out till December 4th, 1809, when he again represented Adams County and continued to do so till January 30th, 1811. In December, 1809, he received two votes for U. S. Senator, but Alexander Campbell was elected. From December Ist, 1806, to February 4th, 1807, he was Speaker of the House. At the same time Thomas Kirker, also from Adams County, was Speaker of the Senate. He seems to have dropped out of the Legislature from January 30th, 1811, to December 4th, 1815. He was then in the War of 1812, as Captain of a Company, and had two of his men shot by Indians, as they were returning home in 1812. In 1813, he was Captain of a Company in Major Edward's Battalion, Ist Regiment, Ist Brigade, 2nd Division, Ohio Militia. From December 4th, 1815, to February 27th, 1816, he was a member of the Senate from Adams County. He was a member of the Senate from Adams County in the fifteenth legislative session; and was Speaker at the same time Ex-Goy. Kirker was speaker in the House, he and Shepherd having exchanged offices from the fifth legislative session. In 1816, he was one of the eight presidential electors of Ohio, and cast his vote for James Monroe. Brown County was set off from Adams and Clermont by the Legislature December 27th, 1817; and Abraham Shepherd procured the passage of the act in the Senate. In 1818, the first court was held in Brown County; and he was appointed Clerk and served for seven years. In 1825, he was sent back to the Senate from Adams and Brown. During this twentyfourth legislative session, from December 8th, 1825, to February, 3rd, 1826, he was appointed a member of the State Board of Equilization for the sixth district, the first State Board appointed. From December 4th, 1826, to January 31st, 1827, he was again in the Senate for Adams and Brown, and was again its Speaker. He was a Presbyterian in faith and practice; and was a ruling elder in that church. The records of the Chillicothe Presbytery show that he attended, as a delegate, in 1823, 1830 and 1832. He was a prominent Mason and Master of the lodge at Ripley in 1818. In 1815, he built and operated Pilson's Mills on Eagle Creek then in Adams County, now in Jefferson township, Brown County. He held this until about 1817, when he sold it and went to Ripley. He built the Buckeye mill on Red Oak, and operated it with steam as early as 1825. While engaged in this he was a pork packer. He had a pleasing appearance, and was large and portly. No picture of him was preserved or can be~obtained. He was popular with all sorts and conditions of his fellow men. He was possessed of unbounded energy and wonderful perseverance; and naturally became a man of influence and importance in his community. As a legislator and as presiding officer of the two houses, his services commanded the respect and commendation of his constituents and his fellow members. In farming, he excelled his neighbors; and he made more mprovements on his farm, and did it more rapidly than any of them. As a miller, he did more business than his competitors; and the same is true of his pork packing. In 1834 he met with financial reverses, and in consequence removed to Putnam County, Illinois where he lived until his death, on January 16th, 1847. When the slavery question came to be agitated, he became strongly anti-slavery. While he acted with the Democratic party in his earlier career, he abandoned it later on account of slavery and became an Abolitionist. His influence was always on the side of justice and right.

was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in the year 1744. He served in the early part of the Revolutionary War, the first two years in the Pennsylvania Militia. He was a locksmith and gunsmith by trade, and as such, his services were in great demand. About 1778, while he was burning a coal pit near his-home, he was captured by the Indians. He had left his coal pit to go past some brush and timber to his potato patch to gather potatoes. He gathered the potatoes and was returning to his coal pit when a party of fifteen Indians, secreted behind a fallen tree top, took hima prisoner. They took him down the Ohio River to the mouth of the Wabash River, and up that river some distance. They kept him with them about a year, and then took him to Detroit and sold him to the British. He was kept a prisoner about Detroit for some time, and one day some man wanted a gun lock repaired. 'There was a person at Detroit who pretended to do that work but was not able to do it, well. McKinney saw him at work and offered to help. It was then discovered that McKinney was a gunsmith; and the British then required him to make guns for the Indians, their allies in fighting the Americans. | They gave him $2.50 a day to make gun barrels and to finish the guns; but he was shut up in prison every night. He made the guns; but he spoiled every gun barrel so that they could not be relied upon to shoot his countrymen. It is supposed that he made about 250 guns and spoiled them all but one. 'There was one Indian who knew 'what a good gun was, and he got on to McKinney's scheme; he told him he would not betray him if he would make him a perfect gun ,which McKinney did. It is said, that the Indians used one of McKinney's guns and shot seventeen times at Gen. Washington, but could not hit him once. McKinney remained a prisoner at Detroit until about 1783 when he was released. He went back to Pennsylvania and was married to Millie Doutheet. They had the following children: Theodore born 1785; Daniel, jr., born 1787; and Cynthia born 1789, who married Nathaniel Skinner? The second wife of Daniel McKinney, Sr., was Mary Hodnett. She had the following children, Solomon, James, 'Thomas, _ Charles and Willam. Daniel McKinney, Sr., was a member of the Legislature from Scioto County from December 4th, 1809, until Febtuary 21st, 1812. He was a very active, energetic man and citizen. He died June 17th, 1816. Daniel McKinney, jr., his son, was the father of Lorenzo Dow McKinney, who has a separate sketch herein. Daniel McKinney, jr., was married June 25th, 1808, to Kate Sampson by Thomas Waller, Justice of the Peace. They had the following children: Cynthia, married Jacob Bennett; Randolph, Benjamin Franklin, Lorenzo Dow, born June 17th, 1816, and Susannah, his twin sister, who married David Hahn, a famous stage driver.

Daniel McKinney, jr., was a Commissioner of Scioto County, from 1824 to 1827. He died at the age of 44, but his wife survived until 1875. He was a farmer all his life. He was buried in the Squires graveyard in Madison Township.

The date of his arrival in Portsmouth is not precisely known, but it was probably about 1810. He was a native of Vermont and came to .Portsmouth, already married. He never had any children. His wife Abigail, died in advanced life, February 6th, 1838, as the papers stated, after a lingering illness. His first official appearance in Portsmouth was in 1813, when he was elected a Justice of the Peace in Wayne Township.

In 1816, he was elected to the Legislature and re-elected in 1818 and 1819. On August 5th, 1819, he was appointed President Judge of the Common Pleas and served until February 6th, 1820, when he was elected by the Legislature. February 9th, 1826, he retired and in March, 1826, he was elected a Justice of the Peace of Wayne Township, and was re-elected, and served continuously until his death in 1840. In the fall of 1826, he was a candidate for the Legislature, but did not reach the office.

He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and a leader in it. He was a faithful Sunday school teacher. He must have been a man of-property and substance, since he was often received as surety on Treasurers' bonds. His home was on the south side of Second street, where the Adams Express office stands. | When elected Justice of the Peace in 1826, he had 71 votes and John Brown had 48. In 1829, when re-elected, he had 27 votes, all that were cast. In 1830 he was an Overseer of the Poor in Wayne Township. On February

In 1837, ie was Deputy Treasurer. In 1816, he was allowed $4.00 for listing the property in Portsmouth. He was a short fleshy man, of an easy temperament, and, in his personal appearance, he much resembled Judge Towne.

As a lawyer he had no particular ability; but he was a good citizen, and a consistent Christian. His tastes and inclinations were all for the humbler duties of the profession. He was probably better suited for the office of Justice of the Peace, than that of President Judge of the Common Pleas.

He had a stroke of paralysis in the fall of 1839, which disabled him. He survived till April 18th, 1840, when he died. His burial place is unknown. William Hall was his administrator and settled his estate.

was born in Maryland, on December 11th, 1780. He was the eldestson of James Collings, a Revolutionary soldier, whose record, as such, is given herein. His mother's name was-Christian Davis, of the same family as the Honorable. Henry Winter Davis. 'They were married February 20th, 1780. His father emigrated to Ohio and bought 400 acres of land just south of West Union, O., where he died in 1802 at the early age of forty-eight: He is interred in the Collings Cemetery just south of the village. William moved to Scioto County, soon after his father's death and located in that part afterwards set off to Pike. He at once took a prominent position in Pike County; and was its first Sheriff, 1815 to'1818. In 1824, he was elected a member of the House of Representatives to represent the Distret composed of Lawrence, Scioto and Pike Counties. During his membership, William Henry Harrison was elected United State Senator. Mr. Collings was in the war of 1812 with a horse company under Col. Barnes. He was well informed and was a thorough business man. He was a Federalist and later a Whig. His home was on a farm three miles south of Piketon. It is still known as the Collings farm.. William Vulgamore resides on it. Our subject was married to Priscilla Guthery, a daughter of one of the early settlers of Pike County. He had three daughters and one son. His daughter, Lydia married John Chestnut and left issue, William Chestnut, who resides in Cleveland. His daughter, Louisa, married William Sargeant and left no issue. His daughter, Minerva married Charles Sargeant, and left no issue. His son, James Collings, was born in 1815 and married Ada Jane Cole, daughter of James Cole. He died in 1856, and she resides in Piketon. They had children, Guthery, and William Cole; a son died in infancy, a daughter, Kate Ellen, married J. W. Lang and resides in Waverly; a daughter, Nancy, married Lorenzo Dow Philips and resides in Piketon. William Collings died, March rith, 1826, aged forty-five years and three months. His wife was born July 16th. - 1777, and died October 21st, 1878, aged ninety-five years, nine months and five days.

was born in 1767. In his childhood he was on the frontier in Pennsylvania and was accustomed to assist the men who were protecting the mills against the Indians, during the Revolutionary War He had a - taste for hunting and back woods life, and became a very expert hunter and woodsman. At the age of sixteen he was employed as a guide and hunter for a surveying party in the back woods of Pennsylvania. He became such an expert hunter and woodsman that he could no more be lost in the forest than an Indian. In the spring of 1795, he was selected by a party of would be emigrants to visit the Northwest Territory and select a location for settlement. He went alone, on foot, with nothing but his rifle, blanket and such equipment as he could carry. He crossed the Ohio river and wandered along the north bank of the river, until he reached the east bank of the Little Scioto river. He had marked out a piece of ground with his tomahawk, supposing that he would be entitled to it by priority of discovery and locality, and by marking it out. At that time there was no settlement on the north side of the river between Gallipolis and Manchester.-. Bonser-camped out alone on this trip. When he was ready to start back, he met the surveying party under Mr. Martin who had just finished surveying the French Grant lots. They were returning to Marietta in a canoe. Mr. Bonser found them in a bad predicament. They had exhausted their stock of provisions, their powder had become damp, and they were in danger of starving. Mr. Bonser took in the situation at a glance. He proposed to them that as he was going up into Pennsylvania, if they would take his baggage into their cance, he would travel on shore, with nothing but his rifle to carry, and supply them with all the game they needed. He would kill a deer or turkey, bear or buffalo as occasion offered, and they could carry the game in the canoe 'The first night they were together Bonser examined their powder, and showed them how to dry it out. He dried it out by sticking a forked stick in the ground a safe distance from the fire, on which he hung the powder horn, - after taking out the stopper, and let the steam from the powder pass out slowly. He left the powder horn in that postion until morning, when the heat of the fire had completely dried it out.

The party traveled in this manner to Marietta where Mr. Martin reported to General Putnam; and Bonser continued his trip to Pennsylvania. Isaac Bonser was the first white man to viSit Scioto County with the view of settlement. He saw the whole country before the banks of the river had been disturbed, or any timber cut down by white men. 'The next year the five families, for whom he had made the trip, set out to locate in Scioto County. They went to the Monongahela river, and built a boat large enough for them and their families. They arrived at the mouth of the Scioto, August 1oth, 1796. and took possession of the ground Bonser had staked out the year before. The men in the party were Isaac Bonser, Uriah Barber, John Beaty, William Ward, and Ephriam Adams. They found two families ahead of them, Samuel Marshall and John Lindsey, who had moved up from Manchester a few months before. Isaac Bonser located above the mouth of the creek and built the third cabin in Scioto County. He cleared a field and fenced it, preparatory to raising a crop the following season. He had a field of eight or ten acres prepared in which he planted corn and such other vegetables as were needed. This was the first attempt to cultivate the soil in Scioto County. He built a water-mill one mile from the mouth of the Little Scioto, in 1798, at the mouth of Bonser's Run. In the summer of 1798, when the Ohio River was very low and he was engaged in building his mill, having all the men from the settlement helping him, five bears came to the settlement where the women were at work. They made it so hot for the bears that they took to the trees, and Barney Monroe came along and shot all five of them. As soon as the land office was opened in Chillicothe in 1801, Isaac Bonser secured the land on which his mill was built and kept a mill there until his death.

Bonser built a house and planted an orchard. Some of the apple trees he planted out are still living. In 1803, Bonser and Uriah Barber and. another party took a contract to make a wagon road to Gallipolis from Portsmouth. In June, 1804, he was a grand juror. On July 4th, 1808, there was a great celebration on the farm of Major. Bonser. It had been announced before hand and parties came from Gallipolis, West Union, and other points. For want of a cannon, they bored out a log and banded it with iron but it burst during the firing. Robert Lucas read the Declaration of Independence.

Mr. Bonser took an active part in organizing the militia of this - county. 'There were ten companies and he was elected a Major of the Militia. In 1813, he went out in the general call as Major of the Militia and went as far as Sandusky. | He was County Commissioner ~ from 1814 to 1820. In 1817, he built an overshot mill, the only one of the kind ever built in Scioto County. He was a member of the Legislature from 1826 to 1828, He was very fond of tinkering with mills. 'This mill he kept until his death. He had some peculiar ideas. He thought the price of wheat and corn should never vary, and corn should sell at twenty-five cents and wheat at fifty cents per bushel. He was a very industrious man, and worked diligently, no matter what the condition of the weather was, whether cold or warm. He worked at his mill until he was upwards of eighty years of age, and his last sickness lasted but a week. He died in Scioto County in 1849, aged eighty-three years. While he was fond of hunting, he would not kill game for sport. He would only do so when it was required for meat; and it was a common thing for him, on account of his being such an expert hunter, to hunt for other families as well as his own. In his politics he was always a Democrat. He voted for Jackson, in 1824, when there were few men of his kind in the county. He was never a member of any church, but his wife was a Baptist. Her name was Abigail Burt. She was born in New Jersey in 1770. 'hey had four children before they came to Ohio. 'Their oldest son, Joseph, was killed by the premature discharge of a cannon, in 1836, when he was attempting to fire a salute in honor of General Jackson. She died in 1853, near Sciotoville, in her eighty-third year.

The four children born in Pennsylvania were: Joseph, Jane, Hannah and Samuel. The six born in Ohio were: Isaac, Sally, Jacob, Uriah, John and Nathaniel.

was born in Cumberland County, Pa., Dec. 7th, 1787, the only son of Andrew and Mary Duncan Rogers. His father emigrated from County Tyrone, Ireland, at the close of the Revolution. When James was a child, his father removed to Washington Co., Pa. At sixteen our subject was apprenticed to John Rhodes to learn the trade of a millwright; and he served his time till the age of twenty-one. He then took a flat boat of merchandise to Nashville, Tenn., in the fall of 1799, and wintered there. He returned to Pennsylvania and worked at his trade with the Pittsburg Steam Engine Co. In May 1813, that Company sent him to attach steam power' to the Brush Creek Furnace in Adams County, which he did; and that was the first at- 'tempt to blow a blast furnace by steam in this country. His next work was to put up a steam engine, for a saw and grist mill, at New Albany, Ind. He built Steam Furnace in Adams "County, in 1816, and with Andrew Ellison and the Pittsburg Steam Engine Co., as partners under the name of James Rogers & Co., he run it until 1826. In that year he went prospecting in Lawrence County, and as a result, on the 4th of July of that year, he began the erection of Union Furnace, the firm again being James Rogers & Co., but composed of himself, John Sparks and Valentine Fear. This was the first blast furnace in Lawrence County. He represented Adams County in the Legislature, in 1825, and 1826, with Col. John Means as his colleague.

From 1830 and 1832, he represented Scioto and Lawrence Counties in the House. In 1837 to 1839, he represented Athens, Meigs, Gallia and Lawrence in the Senate. In 1849, arid 1850, he again represented Scioto and Lawrence in the House.

" Gen. Edward Hamilton was the Chevalier Bayard of Portsmouth. He was a gentleman by instinct and by culture, and was always self-possessed. As a lawyer,

He was a citizen of Portsmouth from June, 1826 to October, 1849, a period of twenty-three years. The date or place of his birth is not known; but he came from Wheeling to Portsmouth, and was married after coming here. He first published his card June 18th, 1826, in the Western Times.- In his day, Justices of the Peace were usually elected at special elections. On December 20th, 1826, he was elected a Justice of the Peace for Wayne Township. 112 votes were cast. He had 59, while John Noel had 51. January Ist, 1831, he became the editor of the Portsmouth Courier. Elijah Glover being the publisher. He remained the editor one year. July 4th, 1831, at the famous celebration of the day, he delivered the oration. In 1833 and 1834, he represented Scioto County in the legislature.

ine, having purchased the Courier of Mr. E. Glover. In 1839, -Silman Clark took an interest in the paper and the name was changed to the Portsmouth Tribune. February 14th, 1840, he and Silman Clark retired from the Tribune, and were succeeded by Hutchins and Blinn.

From 1838 to 1842, he was Mayor of the Town of Portsmouth. On August 12th, 1842, he announced that he would thereafter devote himself exclusively to the practice of the law; but he did not stick to his promise; for in a short time he returned to the Tribune as its editor, and continued to. be such until he went into the Mexican War.

south of Captain William Moore's / residence. A» door entered the dining room from the alley. This room he used. for an office for sometime. That door has long since been bricked up, but its location can be noticed.

1846, he formed a law partnership with E. W. Jordan, as Hamilton and Jordan. He resigned July 6th, 1846, to go into the Mexican War. . He was-a strong Whig; yet he raised a Company to go into the Mexican War. It was Co., D. Ist Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Edward Hamilton was appointed Captain, June Ist, 1846. May 2nd, 1846, he was a Major General of the Ohio Miltia. His Company was made up almost entirely from the County and about the furnaces. The regiment was in the battle of Monterey, September 21st, 1846, and saw some hard service. It lost 66 men by death, 24 killed and 42 died of disease. From October 15th, 1847, to October 6th, 1849, he was Town Clerk. On February 16th, 1849, he was one of the committee of Council to receive and welcome General Taylor, on his way up the river to Washington to be inaugurated President.

General Taylor, who remembered him in Mexico, gave him a most cordial welcome and had him remain on the boat and go up the river with him some distance. It is believed that, on this trip, he promised Mr. Hamilton the office which he gave him the next October.

President Taylor had appointed him Secretary of the Territory of Oregon and he had accepted. He left with the Council the flag he had carried through the Mexican War; and the Council accepted it by proper resolution.

Mr. Hamilton possessed excellent literary tastes. He frequently gave public lectures on educational subjects. He was never prominent as a lawyer. His income as such in 1830 was rated at. $300.00, and never above $800.00. He preferred the quieter walks of the profession. He was a communicant of All Saints Church and he and Mr. Burr were great friends. When Monterey was captured, Gen. Taylor appointed him Military Governor of the place; and in discharge of his duties, he greatly pleased the General. It was a Red Letter day in Portsmouth, when he and his Company returned from the Mexican War. 'They were given a public welcome. 'Those who knew him best, say he was entitled to better success as a lawyer than he obtained; that he was too high toned to obtain much practice.

When he began as a Justice of the Peace, some of the members of the bar thought to make a guy of him. 'They got up a sham lawsuit. One of them sued Wm. V. Peck, in trover, for the conversion of a pen knife. A very strongly contested law suit was held before Esq. Hamilton. He presided with great dignity. | Witnesses were examined and arguments made. The value of the knife was taxed at $1.50 and Peck was found guilty and adjudged to pay: the value of the knife and costs. 'The lawyers left the Court in high glee, thinking they had perpetuated a great joke. Soon after, Hamilton issued execution; and Lawyer Peck had to pay the judgement and costs in full.

Prior to 1842, Mr. Hamilton resided in a frame house on the Judge Towne lot. It was destroyed by fire. The citizens raised a fund and tendered him, but he declined it. He had a daughter, who was grown in 1849. He and his wife and daughter left New York for Oregon in a sailing vessel, the "Supply," around Cape Horn. Aaron Kinney, who was in love with the daughter, went along. On board there was an Army Officer who fell in love with this daughter, Genevieve, on the long voyage; and afterwards married her. Aaron Kinney remained a bachelor. After Oregon became a State, Hamilton is said to have been a Supreme Judge and to have made quite a Judicial reputation. He is said to have lived to about the age of 80, but his life after leaving Portsmouth is mere tradition and we have been unable to communicate with his family,

He was slender, fine appearing, and carried himself with great dignity. His father lived with him in Portsmouth and wore the old style apparel. He had his hair braided in a queue, and always wore it that way.

Governor Hamilton while a resident of Portsmouth, was poor in pocket, but rich in integrity. He was a gentleman from every point and is affectionately remembered by all who knew him.

was born near Newmarket, Highland County, Ohio, April Ist, 1808, and was the seventh of twelve children. His father-was George W. Barrere, a very prominent citizen of Highland County. He was a deputy surveyor, Justice of the Peace, member of the Ohio Senate nine years, and an Associate Judge of Highland County for fourteen - years. He fought in the Indian War, and participated in St. Clair's defeat and Wayne's victory. He wads also in the War of 1812 at Hull's surrender, and was in évery public enterprise in Highland County until his death in 1839. His son Nelson, lived on the farm until eighteen years of age and attended school in the winters. He spent a year in the Hillsboro High School, and in 1827, entered the Freshman class at Augusta College. He graduated from there in 1830, finishing a four years course in three and one half years.

In 1831, he began the study of law in Hillsboro with Judge John W. Price and was admitted to the bar on December 23rd, 1833. He opened an office in Hillsboro and remained there nine months. He located in West Union in 1834, forming a partnership with Samuel Brush. This partnership continued for a year. He remained in West Union eleven years altogether, and had a large and lucrative practice. He had the confidence of the people. He represented Adams Scioto and Brown Counties in the Lower House of the Legislature at the thirty-sixth Legislative session from December 44th, 1837, to March sth, 1853. In 1853, he was the Whig candidate for Governor, but was defeated, receiving 85,847 votes, while his competitor, r: Wienublican aiiiektration. In 1870, he was a aidedate for Congress on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated. He was the Democratic candidate from Highland County for member of the Constitutional _ Convention, in 1875, and was defeated by one vote. He never martied. He continued in the active practice of law until his' death, which occurred August 20th, 1883.

In Adams County, during his residence there, he was very popular. He was always conspicuous for his public spirit. As a lawyer he was energetic and industrious. He was a safe and reliable counselor, and an eloquent and successful advocate. He was always agreeable and courteous in his manners. In West Union, he formed many warm friendships, and he, Joseph Allen Wilson, Davis Darlington, and others had a club at Darlington's store to which they re- ___ sorted of evenings and spent many pleasant hours. Joseph West é Lafferty and John Fisher, of Cedar Mills, were two of his most particular friends in Adams County. The author of this work received his name Nelson, in honor of Mr. Barrere.

was born April 7th, 1783, in Grafton County, New Hampshire. His father was Jesse Young, an officer from Massachusetts in the Revolutionary War, who was born and reared in Massachusetts. His mother, Ruby Richardson was a native of Connecticut. His ancestors on both sides were from England. Dan Young was the third child of his parents. He first heard of Methodism when he heard Rev. Jesse Lee in 1798. When twenty-one he was a school teacher, and soon after became a local preacher in the M. E. Church. In his twenty-second year, he was admitted to the New England Conference of the M. E. Church; and went to the New Grantham Circuit as Junior preacher. In 1806, he was sent to Barre Circuit, in Vermont. The same year he began the study of Latin. In 1807, he was assigned to Athens Circuit, Vermont. In 1808, he went to Hanover Circuit, New Hampshire and while there studied Hebrew at _ Dartmouth College. In 1809, he attended Conference at New London, Conn.; where he and his brother James were ordained elders. He was sent to Lynn, Massachusetts. He was in the Legislature of _ New Hampshire from 1812 to 1813. At that time it was customary to treat the electors to whiskey. Dan Young refused to do this and _ gave the money to the School Fund. After election he introduced a a Bad to suppress the custom, and it became a law. He was in the _ Senate of New Hampshire from 1816 to 1821. He introduced a bili in "the Senate to forbid the levying of taxes for the support of the 4 SS pa ama a At the first session it failed to pass and received but two votes, one besides his own. He introduced it four times before it passed. In 1820, he formed a company and started for Ohio. He was a member of the New Hampshire Senate and resigned. His company went to the Alleghany River in wagons, thence down the river in flat boats from Orlean, New York. They landed at Hayport and located at what is now Wheelersburg, Ohio. Dan Young called it Concord, for the capital of his native State. He built a cotton factory there:and sent his brother South to buy cotton to manufacture. October 29th, 1824, he preached the funeral of Daniel Corwine, at the Presbyterian Meeting House in Portsmouth, Ohio. In March, 1825, Dan and James Young were engaged in wool carding at Wheelersburg, Ohio. Soon after Dan Young located at Concord, he learned there was iron in the hills northeast of there, and he determined to utilize it. He organized the Ohio Iron Company. It was incorporated by special act of the Legislature, passed February 18th, 1830, Vol. 28, O. L:, p. 106. He was President of the Company. The capital stock was $100,000 and shares were $500 each. He built Franklin Furnace in 1827. He, John Young, Jesse Y. Whitcomb, Josiah Merrill, John Hurd, Martin Ruter, all from New Hampshire, were proprietors. It was the first blast furnace in Scioto County. It ceased operation in 1860. Dan Young went to Franklin to reside. He and his Company built Junior Furnace also. In 1828, he was Secretary of the Sunday School Union of the County. In 1832, he was a candidate for State Senator. That year Franklin and Junior Furnaces made $300 worth of iron per day. Franklin Furnace burned in 1836, and the stack at Junior gave away. 'These two furnaces made from 10 to 20 tons of iron per day; but one would out sell the other and the Company broke up. In 1840, and 1841, he represented the Counties of Gallia, Lawrence and Scioto in the Ohio House of Representatives. In 1809, he was married to Miss Clough of Northfield, New Hampshire. The children of this marriage were: Maria, wife of Doctor George B. Crane; Flora, Jesse and Charles G., who became distinguished as a Railroad President in Texas, and was killed in a railroad accident, leaving a large family; Electa, the wife of Doctor Pryor of Missouri; Dan; Martin became a lawyer and died in Shreveport, Louisiana; John; Eliza, the wife of Joseph Glidden; Augustus, died young of consumption; and Catharine married her cousin, Jefferson W. Glidden. In 1832, Dan Young. went back to' New Hampshire and married his second wife, a Miss Clough, a sister of his first wife. His daughter Flora, the widow of a Mr. Clough returned with him. She had two sons, nearly grown, and three daughters, two of whom were young women. 'The canal at that time was only finished to Chillicothe; and Mr. Young hired carriages there and took his party home with him. At Chillicothe ori this occasion, he met Doctor George B. Crane, who afterwards. married one of his daughters. He married a third wife and raised a half dozen more children. Mrs. Clough had two sons and four daughters when she married Dan Young. Jesse Young married one of them, Mary Clough. Dan Young died March 30th, 1867.

In his pilgrimage to Ohio, he came from Lisbon, New Hampshire in wagons. With the party were Sophia Ely, Ruby Whitcomb and Narcissa Whitcomb. The three girls rode horseback from Wheeling to Wheelersburg landing. It took a week. In the party were Dan Young, his brother John Young, Josiah Merrill, the widow Preston with her two sons, Nathaniel and Ira, Nathaniel Whitcomb and Mrs. Sarah Smith, a widow.

Right at the outset we are called upon to determine which is the highest title Colonel of the Militia, or Associate Judge. As the editor of this work is the Tribunal, he unhesitatingly gives the preference to Colonel over Judge. Our subject was both a Militia Colonel and an Associate Judge, and was entitled to either title. He was born December 30th, 1790, in the State of New York. He came to Portsmouth, in 1814. The first we have on record of him in Portsmouth was in 1816, when he was married to Maria Hempstead, November 16th, 1816.

' In 1820, he was a candidate for Sheriff. It was before the day of conventions and the race was free for all. The vote stood John Noel, 229; Elizah McInteer, 170; Marcus Bosworth, 128; Elijah Glover, 100; William Oldfield, 96; Joseph Bonser, 9.

In 1823, he was a Trustee of Wayne Township and the same year on July 4th, was elected to the Town Council to fill a vacancy. On the 23rd of October, 1823, he was one of the committee appointed by the Council to go to law about the front of the Town. In 1824, he was one of the committee to print twenty-five copies of the ordinances of the Town. In the same year on August 7th, he was elected a Justice of the Peace of Wayne Township, but resigned October 12th, 1826.

In 1826, he was appointed Associate Judge to fill a vacancy. He was elected by the Legislature on January 22nd, 1827, for seven years. He succeeded David Mitchell, who resigned and was succeeded by Joseph Moore.

In 1829, on February 6th, he was appointed with Kennedy Lodwick as a committee to select a new Cemetery. It was purchased May 6th, following. On July 4th, 1831, he presided at one of the greatest celebrations ever held in the county. October 13th. 1832, he was Marshal on the occasion of the opening of the canal.

Tn 1839, he was Colonel of the Militia. In 1844, and 1845, he represented Scioto and Lawrence Counties in the Legislature. During the one session he served, the State Bank of Ohio was incorporated and Thomas Corwin was elected U. 5. Senator. In 1851, he was a candidate for Mayor, when Benjamin Ramsey was elected. He and Cornelius McCoy were candidates. The vote stood Oldfield, 387; McCoy, 203. In 1857, he was appointed Jnfirmary Director and served a few months.

He at one time owned three acres of land on the south-west corner of Sixth and Chillicothe streets; and had a distillery there. He then put up a mill near the Salladay place on the Chillicothe road and operated it a long time. Then he built the residence on Sixth street now owned by Robert Richardson, and occupied by John T. Breece. He resided there until his death, September 30th, 1861.

was born June Ist, 1816, at Moorefield, Hardy County, Virginia. His father was Doctor Charles A. Turley, and his mother's maiden name was Fannie Harness. For twelve years he attended school and studied Latin under Professor Alexander Wallace. His father was a graduate of William and Mary College. Our subject inherited the Davis farm in Valley Township. He came to Ohio, in 1836, and located near Chillicothe. In 1838, he came to Scioto County and located in Clay Township. From 1840 to 1843, he was a Justice of the Peace in that Township. From December 2nd, 1846 to February 8th, 1847, he represented Scioto and Lawrence Counties in the House, being elected as a Whig over Judge Batterson. He remained on his farm until 1856. He was appointed Assessor of the United States Internal Revenue by President Johnson, but the appointment was not confirmed. He organized the first School Board in Clay Township - in 1851. On April 27th, 1861, he enlisted in Company G., 22nd O. V. I1., for three months service, and was made Captain of the Company, at the age of forty-five. May 8th, 1861, he had a third Company ready for the war. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel May 23rd, 1861, and mustered out with the regiment August roth, 1861. He was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 81st O. V. L. August 19th, 1861; and resigned December oth, 1861. August 22nd, 1862, he was appointed Colonel of the gtst O. V. I., and was discharged November 4th, 1864, for wounds received June 17th, 1864, in the battle of Lynchburg, Virginia. He was breveted Brigadier General March 13th, 1865, for gallant conduct in battle. He has been a member of the School Board in Portsmouth, a member of the City Council, Assessor of the United States Internal Revenue for seven months. In 1868, he ran as a candidate for Assessor in the Third Ward on the Democratic ticket and was defeated. In,1872, he was a candidate for Sheriff on the Republican ticket, and was defeated by John W. Lewis, by 207 votes, he being the only Republican defeated. From 1871 to 1873, and from 1887 to 1889, he was May-.

Biographies Of Representatives

His sons were Augustus R. Turley, Hon. Henry Clay Turley and Leslie C. Turley. The two latter have sketches herein. His onlv daughter, Charlotte, married Hon. A. C. Thompson, Judge of the United States District Court of the Southern District of Ohio. Colonel Turley was born rich; and at one time owned one of the finest farms in the Scioto Valley, but lost all before his death. He was a good friend, but sometimes tried his friends by his ungovernable temper. He was a Whig while that party lasted and after that was a Republican. He was a patriot in the intensest sense of the term. He Joved his country and would have sacrificed his all for it. He was a brave man and never knew what fear was. His temperament made him an ideal soldier; but his age was against him; and his wound disqualified him for further service. He was a great sportsman, and dearly loved hunting and fishing. In the last fifteen years of his life. he had retired from all business or employments and took life easy. His wife survives him, the last survivor of the children of Joshua V. Robinson.

: Colonel Elias Nigh was born in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1815, and grew up there. His parents were of German ancestry. His grandfather was one of the early settlers of Connecticut. His father was Samuel Nigh. He was raised as a boy with William Tecumseh and John Sherman, and was always on the most intimate terms with them. He was educated in the common schools at Lancaster and studied law with the Hon. Thomas Ewing. He located in Lawrence County in 1845, at Burlington, Ohio,.to practice law, and there he married Miss Alice Henshaw. He was a Whig as long as that party was in existence and then became a Republican. In October, 1847, he was elected a member of the 46th General Assembly to represent the Counties of Scioto and Lawrence, and-attended the Legislature from December 6th, 1847, to February 25th, 1848. In the fall of 1859, he was elected a mémber of the 54th General Assembly as representative from Lawrence County, and served from January 2nd, 1860, until May: 3rd, 1861. In the fall of 1875, he was elected a member of the 62nd General Assembly to represent Lawrence County and served from January 3rd, appointed Captain and Acting Quartermaster, United States Volunteers, August 5th, 1861, and was assigned to the Department of Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky. He was appointed Chief Quartermaster by General Buell, and was afterwards appointed Inspector General, Department of the Army of,the Ohio, General Wright Commanding. January Ist, 1863, he was assigned Chief Quartermaster of the 16th Army Corps, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. On March

17th, 1864, he was commissioned Captain and Assistant Quartermaster in the regular army. He resigned both commissions June 28th, 1864. He supplied General Thomas' expeditionsto Mill Springs by wagons, from Lebanon, Kentucky. - He was with Buell in the march to Pittsburg Landing; and had charge of the transportation of his troops from Savannah to Pittsburg Landing. | When Buell's armyretreated to Louisville, he was in charge of the Quartermaster's Department. He built bridges and removed stores across the Ohio river. After Rosecrans succeeded General Buell, he served as Inspector General of the Army of the Ohio, until January 1st, 1863, when he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and -was assigned Chief Quartermaster of the 16th Army Corps. During the time of his last serving in the Legislature, he was greatly interested in the Ohio State University and had a bill introduced and made law to teach civil engineering in that institution. He was always prominent in the General Assembly. He removed to Ironton from Burlington in 1851. After the war, he began, in connection with Colonel Kingsbury, the Sheridan Coal Works in Lawrence County, Ohio. From March 20th, 1867, to May 20th, 1873, he was Assessor of Internal Revenue for the 11th District of Ohio. In all his views and conduct, Colonel Nigh was conservative. He considered every subject carefully and acted only after the gravest consideration. He was a great friend of the colored race and did much for its advancement. After the war, he brought many of the colored families to the North and found them homes and employment. He had seven children: Reese, Samuel H., Julia, Mary, Elizabeth, Alice and William. He died in Ironton, Ohio, ~ February 3rd, 1899, and is buried in Woodland Cemetery, near that city. Captain Samuel Huston was born at Winchester, Va., on September 2nd, 1801. His father, William Huston, was one of the pioneers of Portsmouth and moved into Wayne Township in 1802. William. Huston built the fourth cabin in Portsmouth. When that Township was organized in 1800, he was one of the Trustees) In 1811, our.subject saw the first steamboat pass down the Ohio river; and he saw the Aaron Burr expedition go down on bateaux. He also saw the Lewis and Clark expeditions go down in boats. In 1823, he married Elizabeth Leonard, daughter of Adam Leonard.

In 1824, he voted for General Jackson and was always a Democrat. Asa youth, he learned the trade of making spinning wheels and worked at it several years.

In 1831, he kept a coffee house and grocery in Portsmouth. In 1832, he began building steamboats at Portsmouth, Ohio, and continued the business till 1848. He built the following steamboats, '"'T'ransit," "Sylph," "Eighth of January,. 3° Belvidere," "Drana,"" "Ineneis "Eureka" and "Home." Some he built and sold; and some he built for Dowell and Davis. He also ran a number of years, as Master, on steamboats on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in the "Golden Days" of steamboating. He made a great deal of money in steamboating and kept it. He built the fine home, which stood on the southwest corner of Second and Court streets; and maintained a generous hospitality there for years. 'The leaders of his party were entertained there, whenever they came to Portsmouth.

In 1833, he was supervisor of the East ward in Portsmouth. In 1838, he was a town Councilman, and in 1841, was elected as Councilman from the Third ward. In 1847, he built and ran a saw mill for some time.

In 1852 to 1854, he was wharfmaster of Portsmouth, and in 1854 to 1856, he represented Scioto County in the State Legislature. In 1856 to 1857, he was City Treasurer of Portsmouth.

In 1860, he took part in the Union Meeting, and was strong for the war. His wife reared James M. Ashley and was the founder of his fortunes. He was the father of fourteen children. His son, James was a naval cadet, and died in 1864. His son, William S. attained prominence as a lawyer, and at the bar, and died comparatively young.

His daughter, Miss Irene, who cared for him and made his last years comfortable and happy, still resides at the old homestead on the Chillicothe. Pike, endeared to all her friends by her most generous hospitality. His wife died January 14th, 1873 and he survived until February 27th, 1893. In his years of activity, he was one of the most active men of Portsmouth. He never feared to make a business venture and his business. career was crowned with success. During the war he retired from all business and lived in dignified, honorable retirement the remainder of his life.

was born in Baltimore, Maryland, September 3rd, 1825. His father was Daniel McFarland and his mother Rachel Owen. They emigrated to Columbus, Ohio, in 1832, where our subject was raised. The father was a shoemaker. Our subject had a _ brother, Albert, and a sister, Mary, who married Jonathan Siler. Albert learned the trade of a printer, and went to Circleville and ran a newspaper there. Daniel served three years: in Columbus learning the carpenter's trade, and worked for his board and clothes. A. C. Tyler was his employer. September oth, 1853, John Hanna sold the Tribune to A. McFarland who continued to publish it up to April ist, 1854,

3ishop's store on Front street. -He~represented Scioto County in the Legislature from January 2nd, 1856, to April 17th, 1857. He was elected as a Know Nothing and the paper was a Know Nothing empted lands and built a Court House on a town site. He lost his time and money in trying to secure a county seat at Parsons. Hiawatha finally secured it. He was broken down by sickness and misfortune, and then returned to Ohio. When he came back he went to work for his brother as a printer. Just before the war broke out, Albert, his brother, secured an appointment to Washington as Secretary to Sherman. In 1861, Daniel McFarland bought the entire paper from his brother, who, since the dissolution in 1857, had been sole editor and proprietor of the daily and weekly Tribune. | At this time the daily

Smith and David Elick. Our subject was appointed Assessor of Internal Revenue and served all of President Lincoln's term for the 11th Congressional District. It was worth $2,000 per year and McFarland had it for four years. After the death of President Lincoln Mr. McFarland refused to Johnsonize and was succeeded by a man who had no such scruples. November 20th, 1868, W. A. Hutchins, Thomas Dugan and Dan McFarland were appointed a Committee to go to Columbus and lobby for a new penitentiary.

On July roth, 1872, Dan McFarland was serenaded at his home on East Second street, and declared for Greeley and Gratz Brown. He told the crowd they had not mistaken the place; that he would vote for Greeley if they would vote for the Railroad question under the Boesel law. He was agent for the Portsmouth Dry Dock Company for twenty years. He had 500 acres of land in his charge to attend to and cultivate for twenty years. 'There was enough sold to satisfy the mortgage by the company; and 100 acres were left after closing the mortgage. Captain Riley was President of the Company and John O'Brien was secretary. Mr.. McFarland took charge of the land in 1861. He was Canal Collector at Portsmouth, Ohio, for twenty-one years, commencing in 1861. He again represented Scioto County in the Legislature from January 2nd, 1882, until April tgth, 1883. He was Chairman of the Committee of the Board of Public Works and did much to prevent the canals from being appropriated by private corporations. He was married in Columbus, Ohio, in 1849, to Lydia McCulloch. He died June 1st, 1900. He has one son Charles, a prominent attorney at Los Angeles, California. Mr. McFarland was a philosopher. After he returned from the Legislature in 1883, he lived a life of retirement. He was very fond of fishing, and would spend many days successively in fishing.camps. No one ever enjoyed the ease and retirement of old age more than Mr. McFarland. He took all things easy and never permitted anything to worry him. He was just and punctual in all his dealings. Asa citizen, he was always in favor of public improvements. He did more ° to secure the Scioto Valley Railroad than any citizen of Portsmouth. He was active in securing the car shops of that railroad at Portsmouth. He gave a large and liberal subscription to the Portsmouth Hotel Company which built the Washington Hotel and directed its payment in his last illness, when he knew it would never do him any good, and he would not live to see its completion. He was as public spirited and liberal a citizen as ever lived in the city of Portsmouth. He was a good public speaker and in a political campaign could not be excelled. While he was in politics, he seemed to enjoy its excitement, turmoil and clash. While engaged in the political field, among the people, he was known as "Black Dan," on account of his very dark complexion. The name was given to him by one in one of his audiences at Scioto Furnace, in an exciting political campaign. The name stuck to him and was adopted generally. As a promoter of public enterprises or a politician, he could always reach the hearts of the people and without any apparent effort.

Mr. McFarland suffered much in his last illness but as he had always done his best, he met the last enemy without any regrets or repinings. He knew his time had come and submitted to the inevitable like the philosopher he was.

was born June 12th, 1815, in Washington County, Pennsylvania. His father was James Ray and his mother's maiden name was Phebe Johnson. They were both born in Washington County, Pennsylvania. His father, James Ray, was a miller and distiller. Our subject had two brothers and seven sisters. His middle name, Boone is for the redoubtable Daniel. When he was seven years of age, his parents came to Ohio and located near Salem, in Jefferson County. He received his education in the common schools there and then followed the occupation of a country school teacher. He began the study of medicine in that county under Doctor Matthew Crawford. He came first to Jackson, but remained there but two weeks. He visited Portsmouth in 1843, and stopped at the McCoy tavern. He met Doctor Vogelsong and declined a partnership., In 1844, he located at Harrisonville and that winter attended lectures at Starling Medical College, in Columbus, Ohio. He practised medicine in Harrisonville for a few years and then retired. He represented Scioto County in the Legislature from January 4th, 1858, to April 6th, 1859. April goth, 1844, he was married to Hannah Dunlavy, daughter of Andrew Dunlavy in Steubenville, Ohio. They had six children. Doctor James B. Ray, jr., at Harrisonville was the eldest. They lost three in childhood. Their son William, lived to be a young man and died while a law student in Cncinnati, Ohio. Their youngest daughter, Jennie is the wife of J. H. Wyatt of Bell Center, Logan.County, Ohio. Doetor Ray is a believer in the Christian religion, but is not a member of ' any church. He is a Democrat and always has been. He cast his first vote for Martin Van Buren; in 1836, and from that time to the present, has voted for every Democratic candidate for President. He died May 26th, 1g9or. John Wesley Collings.

His father, Elijah Collings, was born March 5th, 1786, in Maryland. His father, James Collings came from Maryland in 1794 and located in Adams County, first in the stockade in Manchester, and in about 1796, on a tract of 400 acres of land just south of West Union, where he died in 1802, at the age of 48 years. He served three years in the Revolutionary War from 1777 to 1780. Elijah Collings, his father, died March 16th, 1865. Our subject was born in Monroe father's farm and knew all about poverty and hard work. He was at one time, in his youth, a deck hand, on steamboats; and he never got entirely away from the profanity and uncouth manners he learned in that occupation. He had only a common school education and his want of a better one was a draw back to him all his life. He studied law in Adams County, Ohio, under the late Edward P. Evans,

He was reared a Democrat and that was the political faith he fell back on, when he grew tired of others. He was a Democrat, a Whig, a Know Nothing, a Republican, and at last a Democrat. In 1857, he was the candidate for Probate Judge as an American, though the Republicans and Americans ran a fusion ticket.

In 1859, he was elected Representative from Scioto County, as the Republican candidate. He had 1,858 votes to 1,349 for Stephen Smith. He went over to Bell and Everett in 1860. | While in the Legislature, Governor Chase was elected to the United States Senate; and his constituents expected Collings to vote for him: but he voted for Thomas Corwin, as did Col. Moore, who was then in the Senate from Scioto County. This was the mistake of his life. In 1862, he appeared in the celebrated Cat Case, an account of which is herein given elsewhere. In 1863, in April, he was elected City Solicitor as a Democrat, defeating Henry A. Towne, who ran as the Union and Republican candidate. The vote stood Collings 583. Towne 433. 'The salary during his one term was $50.00 per year. In the fall of that year, he supported Vallandigham for Governor and made speeches for him, though in 1859, he had addressed Republican meetings throughout the County and declared-his undying hostility to the Democracy. He had an iron constitution and was a man

| sg pty He always wore a black suit, with a dress coat and a silk hat; and presented a fine appearance in public. He was - o to the use of expletives, and was often abrupt and unin his manners. He was not a brilliant lawyer. Judge Mar- Crain was fond of telling anecdotes illustrative of his peculiarities speech. No doubt Crain invented many details of the anecdotes, ol they fitted Collings, and were just what Collings would likely have said. Crain was the wit and humorist of the bar. He exercised s humor on all the members of the bar, but Collings was his best subject. The following is told by Crain when Collings was on the Probate Court bench and had jurisdiction of minor criminal offenses. named Currie was tried for stealing chickens and was found a the Jury. The moment the verdict was announced, Collings ri "Stand up; chicken thief, and receive your sentence. You hats been charged with the meanest offense known to the law, that of stealing your neighbor's chickens, when he was asleep in the peace of - God, st ae entitled to the full protection of the law, in his innocent _ slumbers; yet you violated the sanctity of his chicken coop, and ap- _ propriated his feathered chattels to your own use. This deserves the ~

_-and found guilty. On inquiry by the Court, you have offered nothde 'omega It is the sentence of this Court that you be taken hence to the County Jail, and there be confined for a period of thirty : pitas oo which shall be in the stp While in the pera eee aig are ever brought before this Court again and found hp of - offense, it will hang you, G - d d - m you." Here is an- __ A party had been charged with an assault on Blash Lodwick. assault consisted in trying to cut him with a knife, in the abdomen. Collings was assisting to prosecute and in arguing to the jury, _ said, "The defendant's conduct has been most reprehensible s trying to carve Blash Lodwick's belly, and only failed because _ he was prevented ; but the evidence shows he intended to do it. Such 1 offense deserves the highest sentence of the law, and ought to reit. If his conduct receives the slightest approval, this town will guts from end to end; and the Court should express its al in the strongest terms the law will permit." e Collings, was never married. He said he knew that each had the right to starve one woman to death, but he did not pro- : his privilege. Ww "four years, prior to his death, he was in the habit of sleepoffice'in the Massie Block. 'The windows reached to the the ceiling and he had them open. He was a sleep walker ner night, in his sleep, he walked out of a window and ee sixteen feet below. His jaw, his hip and legs were fractured and he was otherwise fearfully injured. Owing to his wonderful constitution, he recovered. But -the-after result was consumption, of which he died. When he saw death inevitable, he retired to Adams County, and there died July 16th, 1872, at the age of 48. Had he properly taken care of himself, he would have lived to be 90 years old and upwards. He was interred in the Fenton Cemetery in Monroe Township, among his own people. In his will of record in Scioto County, he made a bequest to a sister and it reads about like this, ""To my sister, - -- - - - - - - - - - - - _, married to an infernal scoundrel by the name of - ------ - - - - - , I give and _ bequeath, etc.,'' Collings knew well enough that this record would be perpetual, but he was willing it should be so. One day when visiting another sister, she was showing him her baby and said, "John don't you think this is the finest baby you ever saw?" Collings replied, "Oh Chrissy, don't bother me about babies, they all look alike to me."

Collings was an agnostic. | He said he did not believe a man had any more of a soul than a horse or cow; and that when he died that | was the end of him, and he died so professing. He disliked an elective judiciary ; and condemned it in the most severe terms. He said the elected judges were all politicians and he did not like to practise before them. Had he made a suitable marriage, and taken due care of his - health, he might have lived to a great age; and his career might have been more successful. In politics he was a failure because he changed too often. 'To make a political success one must stick to one party. His father was a Democrat, but his uncle, the Hon. George Collings, was a Whig and Republican. He had a great admiration for his uncle George, as the latter well deserved. Raised a Democrat, but admiring and believing in his uncle, he might well hesitate in opinion btween the two leading parties. There is no doubt that when Judge Collings identified himself with the Republicans, had he remained there, he might have had any political preferment he desired, but he was raised to pro-slavery views and, apparently, could not get away from them. Whatever he professed he was candid about, sometimes brutally so. He died in poverty, and, after his injuries from his fall, life turned to bitterness for him.

The lesson of his life is: that a man had better marry at a suitable age; and that he had best cast his fortunes with one political party and remain with it.

At the outset we are called on again to determine whether the title of Colonel or Judge is the highest. It is our rule to give each subject the title of the highest office he attained, and'as in the case of William Oldfield, we gave the military title the preference, we shall do so here. Our subject was born Sept. 22nd, 1822, in Alexandria, of an old family, noted for their integrity and steady habits, and for being the swarthiest family in Scioto County. Martin Crain was as dark as an Indian, with deep set black eyes, and very dark hair. He was a large man, broad shouldered, over average height, and with considerable embonpoint. Asa boy, he was active and mischievous. He had only such education as the common schools afforded; but became a teacher of common schools and taught several years. He made a number of trips down the Mississippi River. In 1848, he entered public life as a Constable of Wayne Township. One year of that office satisfied him. He was reared as a Whig, and as such, at thirty years of age, entered the office of Andrew Crichton, Recorder. as a clerk. He remained there until the next year, when he was a candidate for the same office on the Whig ticket. His opponent on the Democratic ticket was B. F. Cunningham. Crain received 1,275, votes to 1,169, for Cunningham.

On May tst, 1854, he married Ellen Gibbs, sister of Captain Frank C. Gibbs, and she died the following year. On January 8th, 1857, he married Miss Maria Hall, daughter of Octavo Hall, and by her eight children. In May, 1856, he was admitted to the bar and began practicing law in October, following.

In 1854, the Whig party dissolved, and Recorder Crain trimmed his sails for a Democratic breeze. In 1857, he ran on the Democratic ticket for Prosecuting Attorney and was elected. As _ the election returns for that year have been destroyed, the vote cannot be given. In 1859, he was a candidate for a second term and was elected. 'The vote stood Henry A. Towne, Republican, 1,423; Crain, 1,611, majority, 188. In 1861, he felt the need of a change in his political associates and went into the Republican camp. The Republicans nominated him for representative and he was elected. 'The vote stood, Crain, 1,676, Uri Nurse, Democrat, 1,359, majority, 317. In 1862, Colonel Crain received the title of Colonel by reason of being made Commandant at Camp Morrow. He was a great advocate of the war. While a member of the Legislature, he spent much of his time writing to the newspapers for the- instruction and amusement of his constituents. In 1863, his war fever had abated, and he was back in the bosom of Democracy. He went over the County and made speeches for the Democracy. In a speech made at Lucasville, in 1863, he said he had been deluded into joining the war party. But Colonel Crain made the great mistake of decrying a popular war. If a young man has political ambition, he must always join the war party. In 1867, the Democrats put him on their ticket for Common Pleas Judge. Hon. W. W, Johnson of Ironton had resigned because he was the only Judge in the State receiving $1,500, while all the others were receiving $2,500. He was a candidate for re-election for the fractional term, expected to be elected and ordinarily would have been. The Democrats put Crain on their ticket, not expecting him, or anyone on their ticket to be elected. He received 2,542 votes in the County and Johnson, 2,312. The Negro Amendment to the State Constitution defeated the Republicans and-made the Democrats victorious. In December, 1870, John J. Glidden resigned as City Solicitor and a special election was held. 'There was no other candidate but Crain and he was elected. He held the office until the April election following. He was a candidate for the full term, but was defeated by N. W. Evans. The vote stood Evans, 970, Crain, 806. This was the last time he was a candidate for a public office. Crain had a great penchant for partners in the practice of law. In 1860, he was a partner of John J. Glidden. The firm was Crain and Glidden. In 1866, it was Crain and 'Thompson, (Hon. A. C. Thompson, Federal Judge.) _ In 1870, it was Crain and Pursell, (F. S. Pursell of Logan). In 1874, it was Crain and Fullerton, (H. H. Fullerton). In 1879, it was Crain and Huston, (Samuel J. Huston). In 1870, it was Crain and Haney.

On May 22nd, 1882, he fell dead of apoplexy at his own door. He was a free liver and died poor. He was a good mixer, and could be agreeable with the hoi polloi, to their entire satisfaction. He was a great reader of standard and classic romance, and remembered all he read. He was the greatest wit and humorist ever at the Portsmouth bar., He could tell humorous anecdotes better than any of his cotemporaries. If it lacked details, when it reached him, he always furnished them. He had fancy names for all the members of the bar. 'The firm of Moore, Johnson and Newman, was "Quirk, Gammon and Snap". Harper and Searl were "Dodson and Fogg." 'Towne and Farnham, were "Sampson, Brass and Sally." Searl, was "Cockle Burr." N. W. Evans, was "My learned friend" and the "Chancellor." Duncan Livingstone, was 'The Scotch Thistle," and the "Duke of Argyle." William H. Reed, was "Hiawatha" and "Mudgekewis."

Once he had a suit before Squire Samuel P. Nicholls and N. \V. Evans, was on the other side. Mr. Evans quoted some Latin in his argument to the Justice and Crain' complained that he had no show, because Evans and the Squire talked Latin to each other, and he did not understand it. Crain was a man of generous impulse and was popular, but he never understood what the term of political consistency meant. He had an inexhaustible fund of anecdotes, and never tired of telling them. He could always entertain and amuse a jury or an audience. It has been said of him; that, when any county Democratic speaker was to make his first political speech, he was put in charge of Crain, and sent to Brush Creek Township. If the fledgling orator made any mistake, it would not lose any votes in that Township; and, if he failed, Crain always made the closing speech, and when he was through the audience was in such a laughing mood, that it had forgotten the blunders of the fledgling. If any acquaintance of Crain had any peculiarities or eccentricity, Crain could illustrate them was born May 1ith, 1811, in Portsmouth, the son of Elijah Glover and Catharine Jones, his wife. He had only such education as the common schools afforded. From the age of sixteen he was a great reader. At twenty-one he began life, as the editor of the Portsmouth Courier, an organ of the Whig party. He conducted that journal six years. For a few years subsequent he conducted the book business in Portsmouth, Ohio. In 1839, he published an Elementary Spelling-book. On January 17th, 1833, he married Sarah J. Offnere, daughter of George Offnere, and that was the best thing he ever did for himself in all his life, as he often admitted himself. In 18 40, he was elected County Auditor on the Whig ticket and was re-elected twice and held the office six years. During this time he read law with Samuel M. Tracy, and in 1847, he was admitted to the bar. In 1849, his practice was assessed at $800.00, in 1850 and 1851, at $1,000.00. In 1853, he was defeated for State Senator by Thomas McCauslen. 'The vote in the County stood, McCauslen, 1,622, Glover, 708. From 1864 to 1867, he represented Scioto County in the Legislature. While there he obtained the passage of the Acts for free turnpikes in Scioto County, and was chairman of the committee on Finance at one session,

On March 29th, 1867, he was appointed Register in Bankruptcy for the Eleventh Congressional District of Ohio, and served until January, 1870, when he resigned to take his seat in the Legislature. After returning from the Legislature, in 1871, he held no public office. ;

On March 6th, 1869, he was struck from behind while walking up Second street on his way home in the evening, at a point opposite John P. Terry's home, and was robbed. He never fully recovered from the injury, and the perpetrators were never discovered. If Mr. Glover had one hobby, it was temperance. He was a member of all the temperance societies which were organized, in his time, in Portsmouth. For a time he published a temperance paper, called the "Life Boat.'' As a public speaker on temperance, he was always in demand and never excelled, and yet owing to a disease of the skin of his face, he would have been taken for the worst toper in the land. He was very fond of telling stories on himself, on account of this peculiarity of his appearance; and some of them will appear under the title of "The Bar of the County." Writing biographical sketches is a serious matter and they cannot appear here.

In 1870 and 1871, he was a member of the 59th General As-' sembly. 'The vote at this election stood Glover 2,312, James W. Newman, 2,289, majority, 23. In politics Mr. Glover was first a Whig. He cast his-first Presidential vote for Henry Clay, in 1832, and remained a Whig as long as that party lasted. He then became a Republican and continued such all his life. -As.a campaign speaker, Mr. Glover was in great demand. He could amuse and entertain an audience second only to Thomas Corwine; and the less preparation he had the better speech he made. The reason of this, was that he was a great reader; and when he got on his feet to speak, all he ever read was at his tongue's end; and he had the full command of it. If he attempted to arrange his speech, he failed to do his best. He had an unlimited command of language; and of anecdotes and repartee, he had an unlimited supply. He never indulged in personal abuse, but pleased and instructed his audience. Rev. Dr. Pratt said of him; "He is one of the readiest man for a speech, on any subject, I ever knew. | have heard him called on, on different occasions, in political, moral and literary questions, and I never knew him to make a failure. His stock of knowledge was always at his command." Mr. Glover never made a dollar in the sense of saving it, or accumulated anything, but always lived well, enjoyed himself, and was a highly respected citizen. In his life he always stood for purity and decency. He never compromised with the liquor interest or any form of public vice, but always stood for morality. He was not an eminent or prominent lawyer, but succeeded well in what he undertook. He died September 17th, 1880. He belonged to one of the first families of Portsmouth as did his wife, who survived him until April 12th, 1889. She was born in Winchester, Virginia, in 1816, a daughter of George Offnere, who was a brother of Dr. Jacob Offnere. She was the mother of seven children. 'They were: Mrs. Laura E. Watkins, wife of J. L. Watkins; Samuel C. Glover, of Grand Haven, Michigan; Mrs. Mary L. Hope; Mrs. Lizzie Ross; Mrs. Harriet Taylor, wife of Rev. Alfred R. Taylor of Marion, Ohio; and Frank C. Glover, who died a young man in South America. The,Old-Glover homestead stood on the property Mrs. Glover inherited from her father, George Offnere, who died comparatively young; and there a generous hospitality was extended to their friends through a course of many years. It was a delightful place to visit, either for the young or the old. Many of those on the shady side of fifty have pleasant memories of the young people who met there; and Mr. and Mrs. Glover both contributed to the young folks' enjoyment, as they were always young in spirit. John C. Malone was born in Vernon 'Township, Scioto County, Ohio, November 5th, 1832. His father was Isaac Malone, born June 5th, 1802, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Perry, daughter of Samuel Perry. His grand-father, was Richard Malone, born in. the year of 1776, in 'Loudon County, Virginia.. He was married in 1797, to Susannah Weaver, of German ancestry. They moved from Loudon County, Virginia, to Greenbriar County, Virginia, where Isaac Malone, the father of our subject was born. Richard Malone's father came from

Captain John C. Malone

Our subject received his education in the common schools of his township. His practical education was on the farm, in the ore-banks and-coal mines of Scioto County. He was piously disposed; and at the age of eighteen years, became a member of the Vernon Baptist Church. In the Spring following his majority, he was elected Assessor of Vernon Township, and was re-elected again the next year.

In the Fall of 1856, he was married to Eunice Chaffin, daughter of Reuben and Sarah Chaffin. There were seven children of this marriage: Cynthia C., William L., John E., Lency E., of Tacoma, Washington; Charles $., of Otway, Ohio; Eunice A. and Ernest, both deceased.

In the Fall of 1856, our subject moved to Warren County, Iowa. and remained there for five years. In 1857 he was elected Justice of the Peace in lowa and from 1858 to 1860, he was Township Clerk. He was a member of the militia of the State of Ohio from 1862 to 1864 and was engaged in the pursuit of the rebel General John Morgan when he invaded Ohio, but did not capture him.

On August 5th, 1864, our subject enlisted in Co. D., 173rd O. V. I. and was made a Captain September 17th, 1864. The Company was mustered out on June 26th, 1865.

In the Fall of 1866,he was nominated and elected Sheriff of Scioto County, Ohio, on the Republican ticket, and was re-elected in 1868. In 1866, the vote stood 2,600 for himself and 2,148 for John J. Mc- Farlan, Democrat. His majority was 452. In 1868, the vote was 2,817 for himself to 2,325 for John J. McFarlan, his Democrat opponent. Mr. Malone's majority was 492.

In 1871, he was a candidate on the Republican ticket for Representative and was elected by a vote of 2,518 for himself to 2,407 for ~ Robert N. Spry, Democrat. His majority was I11.

In 1880, our subject removed to Granville, Ohio, where he has since resided.. He served as Justice of the Peace in Granville for twelve years.

In 1886, his second wife died, and in 1897, he married Mrs. Inez C. Ellis, daughter of Nathan P. and Mary Caldwell, of Seneca County, Ohio, who survives.

From 1890 to 1894, he was postmaster at Granville. He was the Republican candidate for Sheriff of Licking County, in 1888, but the County was Democratic and he was defeated. He ran 210 votes ahead of his ticket.

Captain Malone began his career as a Republican.. His first vote was cast for Salmon P. Chase for Governor in' 1855. He voted twice for the immortal Lincoln, twice for Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Blaine and Harrison, and was a McKinley man up to the St. Louis Convention in 1896, when he left the party and voted for Bryan. He also voted for Bryan in 1900. He was a candidate for the nomination as member of the State Board of Equalization before a Democratic convention at Zanesville in 1900, but was defeated. He received 94 votes and 97 was necessary to elect him. Mr. Malone is and always has been a religious man. He has had his ups and downs in business and in politics, but in all of his life he has been a consistent pillar in the Baptist church. He has always been a good citizen.

was born in Washington County, Pa., August 7th, 1815, and died at Portsmouth, Ohio, April 14th, 1875. He graduated at Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pa., in 1834. He read law with Russell Marsh at Steubenville, Ohio, and was admitted to practice in 1837. He began first at Steubenville, but went to: Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1841. He was alone till November 4th, 1855, when he formed a partnership with Col. Moore, which continued during his life. He was a Whig and in 1844, was Secretary of the Clay Club. In 1846 to 1850, he was Mayor of the town. At his first election in 1846, he had 266 votes and Isaac Kirby, 88. In his 'second election in 1848, he had 372 votes and William P. Camden, 5.

He was taxed as a lawyer in 1844 at $500, and rose to $1,000 in 1849. From 1854 to 1856, he was Prosecuting Attorney. He was a candidate for a second term in 1855 as Independent and the vote' stood E. Glover, 1,200; George Johnson, Independent, 1,167; majority 39. 3

In 1864, 1865 and 1866, he was president of the City Council. In 1874 and 1875, he was a member of the Legislature, as a Republican. He was a Director in the Portsmouth National Bank and its predecessor for over twenty-eight years. He was president of the bank at the time of his death and had been for several years. He was married August 24th, 1847, to Mary R., daughter of Samuel M. Tracy, and had four children. Mrs. Emma Jennings, widow of Sanford B. Jennings, Samuel Miles, a lawyer in Portsmouth, Albert Tracy, manufacturer of fire brick and Tracy Bradford, a member of the firm of C. P. Tracy & Co.

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port and Covington and finished his course in Covington in 1843. His father had been a dry goods merchant in Newport; and when he was 1s seventeen, his father started him in business in Letart Falls, Meigs Ei: _ County, Ohio. He was there eighteen months, then his father started ___ - s«him a dry goods store in Missouri and he was there eighteen months, but he could not stand the climate and had to come home. He was sick for a year and then he took three flat boats and went to New Orleans. Two of the boats sank on the way. They were loaded with aye whiskey. In June, 1847, he was: married to Elizabeth Fairi man, daughter of Doctor Loyal Fairman. He then went _ into the dry goods business for himself in 1847; and was in _ it in Newport for eighteen years. His health failed and he sold out and came to Scioto County with his family. He had been very successful in the 18 years in the dry goods business, and made lots of money. - He bought the Cole farm and resided on it until 1871, when lhe removed to Portsmouth. In 1882, he built a commodious residence near Kinney's Lane. His first wife died May oth, 1863. He married Mrs. Ellen Sharpless. She died June 3rd, 1890. Mrs. William Bierly was her daughter. Mr. Hayman had four children: a, 4 _ Mary, the wife of Dr. William D. Tremper; Floyd, who died at the _age of twenty-two, and two boys who died in infancy. Our subject

_ there for two years. He was a member of the Legislature of Ohio _ 'tor Scioto County at the sixty-third session. In the election of 1877, John 'T. Sellards was on the Republican ticket and our subject on the Democratic. The vote stood as follows: Hayman, 2,923; Sel- Jards, 2,586; Hayman's majority, 337. In 1879, he was a candidate for re-election, but was defeated by Amos B. Cole. Cole received 3,321 votes to Hayman's 3,071, majority 250. In 1893, he was again i. the candidate for his party against Charles E. Hard and was defeated. _ Mhe-vote stood 4,253 for Hard and 3,242 for Hayman, majority ~ 4011. Mr. Hayman ran away ahead of all his party associates on the a ticket. While he was a member of the Legislature, he procured the ss passage of the bill for the Portsmouth Library Board. He origimated the bill and deserves great credit in connection with the founding of the Library. The acts creating and regulating the Public Library in Portsmouth will be found in the City Legislative Article. Mr. _ Hayman was the author of the measure creating the Tax Commissioner for Scioto County. He was originally appointed on the _ board, and has been on it ever since the law passed. The law will be _ found on another page of this work. Mr. Hayman is highly esteemed for his honor and integrity. Be has the confidence of the entire and his mother, Honora Ryan, were born in Ireland and came to this country about 1850, and settled in Cincinnati. They afterwards removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, where young Ryan received his education in the public schools, passing through all the grades. He was graduated from the high school in 1875. For a year before leaving school he was entered as a law student in the office of Judge James W. Bannon, where he continued his studies after graduating. In February, 1877, he was admitted to the Bar by the Supreme Court at Columbus. He at once commenced practice alone at Portsmouth, and in the following April was elected City Solicitor; was re-elected in 1879, serving until the spring of 1881. In 1883 he was elected. a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, and was re-elected in 1885. During this service he was speaker pro tem. and chairman of the committee on public works. At the expiration of his legislative duties he resumed practice. In 1888 he was elected secretary of State of Ohio, and in 1890 was re-elected for a second term. He resigned this office, however, in 1892 to accept the appointment of commissioner in chief for Ohio of the World's Columbian Exposition, the duties of which required his services until May, 1894. While secretary of State he assisted in the compilation of Smith & Benedict's edition of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. He has since been engaged in the practice of law at Columbus. He has always been a Republican; was the first president of the Ohio Republican League, and presided at New York over the first convention of the National League of Republican Clubs which met in 1887. For ten years Mr. Ryan has been one of the trustees of the Ohio Historical Society. He was appointed by the Exhibitors' Association at the World's Fair as one of the commissioners to the Antwerp Exposition in 1894. He was appointed by Governor McKinley as delegate to the National Water Ways Convention which met at Vicksburg in 1894. At the present time he is president of the Ohio Canal Association. Mr. Ryan is well and" fayorably known throughout the State as a man of high character and a lawyer of ability. He has been identified with many important cases in Ohio which have attracted general attention both in and out of the State, among which might be mentioned the case touching the constitutionality of the abandonment of the Hocking canal, and litigation relating to the food department of the State: On the roth day of January, 1884. Mr. Ryan was married to Myra L. Kerr, of Portsmouth, and by this union five children were born, two of whom are living, Julia E. and Elinor. Joseph Pancoast Coates, son of Benjamin F. Coates and Elizabeth (Patterson) Coates, is.a native of West Union, Adams County, Ohio. During infancy, together with his parents, he became a resident of Portsmouth, where he has since almost continuously resided. His education was obtained in the public schools of his home city, and at Kenyon College, of which latter institution he is a graduate. He subsequently taught in the High School, at Chillicothe, Ohio .Upon abandoning the profession of teaching and returning to Portsmouth, he was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio. He has served as a member of the Scioto County Board of School Examiners. He was elected as a Republican to represent Scioto County in the 68th and 69th General Assemblies, of Ohio, his last terms as such expiring in 1892. Since that time, he has held no public office and has resided in Portsmouth, engaged in the practice of his profession.

was born November 19th, 1846, a son of John Ewing and Mary Mathews Holcomb, at Vinton, Gallia County, Ohio. His mother was a daughter of Colonel Phineas Mathews. His paternal grandfather was General Samuel R. Holcomb. His grand-parents on both sides settled in Gallia County as early as 1800. He attended the schools at Vinton and Ewington. He assisted his father in a country store. He entered Ohio University in 1863 and graduated in 1867. While attending the University, he studied law with the Honorable Reed Golden, at Athens, Ohio. Directly after the Civil War, his parents removed to Butler, Bates County, Missouri. After his graduation in 1867, Mr. Holcomb continued the study of law with his uncle, General Anselm Tupper Holcomb. In this period he taught school at Vinton and Rodney, in Gallia County and at Moorefield, Kentucky. In 1870 he went to Bates County, Missouri and was admitted to the bar. He formedapartnership with Hon. William Page and practiced law in Bates County till 1875 when the firm of Page & Holcomb was dissolved and our subject associated himself in the practice of law at the same place with his brother, Phineas with whom he remained until the summer of 1878, when he cam to Portsmouth, Ohio, and formed a law partnership with the Hon. Albert C. Thompson as Thompson and Holcomb. This terminated in 1881, when his partner was elected Common Pleas Judge. In September, 1884, Judge Thompson resigned as Common Pleas Judge and the partnership was resumed: James Madison McGillivray was made a third partner in the firm and it had offices both in Ironton and Portsmouth. In about one year Mr. Holcomb resided at Ironton. From 1886 to 1891 Mr. Holcomb practiced alone. In the latter year he formed a partnership with James M. Dawson (who had just retired from the office of Probate Judge) as Holcomb and Dawson which continued until 1894. In 1891 he was elected to represent Scioto County as a member of the Seventieth General Assembly. He was a member of the Judiciary Committee and that on Municipalities and he served with ability and distinction. He declined a second term. In 1893, he became one of the assignees of the Citizen's Savings bank, one of the most complex trusts ever administered in Ohio. In 1894, he became Administrator of the estate of the late George Davis, another intricate trust. On June Ist, 1897, he formed a partnership with Frank B. Finney;as Holcomb and Finney, which continued until just-2 years-later since which time he has practiced law alone. He is a man of wonderful energy and activity. While practicing law in Bates County, Missouri, he completed an abstract of title of all the lands and town lots in the county. Since his residence in. Portsmouth he has been connected with almost every new business enterprise organized. He has been President of the Portsmouth Board of Trade and while holding that position the Board of Trade addition was made to the city which brought the Portsmouth Stove and Range Works, the Wait Furniture Company and Harsha & Caskey into business in the east end of the city. He induced the building of the Portsmouth Street Railroad and the Portsmouth opera house and is now one of the four owners in the latter. He is President of the Raccoon Coal and Fuel Company which is building a branch railroad of three miles to connect with the Hocking Valley Railroad. He bought the Scioto Furnace Lands and is opening coal . mines on the same. He is one of the original stockholders and promoters of the Buckeye Fire Brick Company. He is one of the largest stockholders, a Vice President and Director of fhe Portsmouth Shoe Company. He is President of the Portsmouth Veneer and Panel Company. He is a stockholder in The Washington Hotel and in the Scioto Fire Brick Company. He is Secretary of the Fluhart Coal and Mining Company of Wellston, Ohio. He is engaged in the coal business in Missouri. He was an original stockholder in the Portsmouth Fire Brick Company and the Portsmouth Wagon Stock Company. He and Mr. Leonidas H. Murphy were more than any other citizens of Portsmouth, instrumental in inducing the Editor of this work to undertake it, and if it should be approved by the public, for whom it is intended, the credit will be largely due to him and Mr. Murphy. Mr. Holcomb not only has a taste for promoting business enterprises, but he is a fraternity man as well. He is one of the charter members of the Portsmouth Commercial Club. For fifteen years he has been a member of Massie Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He is a Blue Lodge, Chapter Council and Knights Templar. Mason, and an Ek, . When one of his friends persuades himself he is an enemy, Mr. Holcomb can only express himself like Ceasar did when exclaimed, "et tu Brute", 'There is one part in Mr. Holcomb's character above all praise, persons may cherish enmity to him but he holds none in return. He has a good feeling for those who believe themselves his enemies, as well as for his friends. So far as Mr. Holcomb himself is concerned, he has no enemies, though there are some who regard themselves as such. This quality he possesses, above all men known to the writer, and had he lived in the days of the Early Christian Saints it would have qualified him as one, but living in these days, when all men are sinners, his benign disposition, shines out like a beacon light. Mr. Holcomb is the soul of power in all his dealings. George Washington could not be and Mr. Holcomb could not be guilty of anything dishonorable. To do so he would have to deny the record of a long line of honorable ancestry and violate the intuition of his own soul, which he could not do.

It is commonplace to say that Mr. Holcomb is a good lawyer. He is much more. He is a fluent and able advocate. He is courteous with all with whom he comes in contact and is willing to accord to every man all he is entitled to.

He is kind hearted and sympathetic, and these traits in him are often taken advantage of. He is wonderfully enthusiastic in everything he undertakes. He is ever courageous and hopeful. No more public spirited citizen ever resided in Portsmouth. He favors every project for the public good. He possesses confidence in everything he undertakes, and inspires it in others.

He is a Republican without guile. He is true to his party regardless of himself. He has always taken a prominent position in his party councils. In 1876 in Missouri he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention for his Congressional District. He has been a delegate to the Convention in his district in Ohio almost every year. Twice he has been presented by his County for Congress, but other combinations prevented his nomination. | He was married October 14th, 1876, to Miss Grace L,. Breare, of Gallia County, Ohio, and has two sons Anselm Tupper, Jr., and Robinson Breare. His eldest son is a student at the University of Virginia and will graduate in 1903.