Scioto County, Ohio - Chapter 4: Scioto County in the Legislature, 1903 (part 1 of 3)

Chapter 4: Scioto County in the Legislature

Table of State Semators, with Sessions, Terms, Districts and Politics Biographies of Senators Scioto County in the House of Representatives Table of Representatives, with Sessions, Terms, Districts and Politics- - eer as of Representatives.

Table Of State Frna Ors Session Term Name. District

was born July roth, 1765, within four miles of Winchester, Virginia, on a plantation owned by his father, Meredith Darlington. It was a pleasant home with delightful surroundings, as the writer can testify.

He was the fourth of seven children, six sons and a daughter. He grew up on his father's farm, getting such education as the times afforded. He was too young to have been a soldier in the Revolution, but old enough to imbibe the spirit of the times. When he was twelve years of age, six hundred of the prisoners, British and Hessians, taken at the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, were kept on his father's plantation, from that time until the close of the war. A part of them were lodged in his father's barn and he spent much of his time listening to their wonderful stories of travel and adventure. These stories filled him with a desire to see the world and when he was twenty-one, he begged his father to give him money that he might travel. He went to Philadelphia, and from thence took a sea voyage to New Orleans, and returned by way of the Ohio river. He lived very extravagantly and spent his money freely, while seeing the world. On his return trip from New Orleans, he met Miss Sarah Wilson, at Romney, W. Va., and promptly fell in love with her. She was an heiress and owned slaves and a great deal of land. She had many suitors, but Darlington was the best looking and won the lady. They were married at Romney, March 18th, 1790. At the ceremony he was dressed in a ruffled shirt, coat, waistcoat, knee breeches, silk stockings, great shoe buckles and had a wonderful suit of hair, pomaded and powdered, and done up in a queue as long as a man's arm. They resided in Romney until about the close of 1790 and then went to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where his wife owned a farm. There they united with the Presbyterian Church, and there two of their sons were born. While in Fayette County, General Darlington was a County Commissioner, and began his long career of office holding. In October, 1794, he and his wife and their two children came to Limestone, Kentucky, where they lived until 1797. He went from there to the mouth of Cabin Creek, where he kept a ferry. In the spring of 1797, believing that the county seat would be at Washington, below the mouth of Brush Creek, he moved there. When the county was organized on July roth, 1797, he was appointed its Judge of Probate, by Governor St. Clair. In 1803, he removed to West Union and built a double hewed log house in the hill opposite Cole's spring. He was a member of the Legislature from Adams County from November 24th, 1799, until January 29th, 1801. He also represented the same county from November 23rd, 1801, until January 23rd, 1802. He was one of the three members from Adams County in the first Constitutional Convention which sat from November Ist, 1802, until the 29th of the same month. At that time he was a Republican and opposed to Governor St. Clair, and, on November 3rd, he voted against listening to a speech from Governor St. Clair. On November-6th, he was appointed on the committee to prepare the second article of the constitution, and on the 8th of November, he presided over the committee of the whole. He was on the committee to prepare the third article on the judiciary, and on the committee to print the journal of the convention. He was present at every session in the first Legislature of the state. He was in thé Senate and served from March Ist, 1803, until April 16th, following, at which session Scioto County was organized by an act of the Legislature. On the 16th of April, 1803, he was elected one of the first three Associate Judges of Adams County, but resigned February 16th, 1804, as the work was too slow for him. On September toth, 1804, he was commissioned by the Governor, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Ohio Militia, and thus became Lieutenant-Colonel Darlington. This Brigade was commanded by General Wiliam Lucas of Scioto County, who departed this life, September 1oth, 1805. He had been appointed on the 22nd of October, 1804. He is buried in the Lucas burying ground in Rush 'Township. March 17th, 1806, Colonel Darlington was made a Brigadier General to take the place of Gen. Uiucas. He was appointed a Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Adams County, August 3rd, 1802, and held this office by successive appointments until August, 1847. He was appointed Clerk of the Supreme Court from this county about the same time, and held that office until his death on the 2nd of August, 1851. He served as Recorder of Adams County from 1803 to 1810, and again from September 1813 until 1834. Any one examining the old records in the Recorder's office and Clerk's office of Adams County will find whole volumes written out in his old-fashioned copper plate style. He always used a quill pen and a soft piece of buckskin for a penwiper. In 1885, he became an elder in the Presbyterian Church at West Union and held that office the remainder of his life. His personal appearance would attract notice anywhere. He was above average height, somewhat corpulent, had fine regular features, dark - brown eyes with heavy brows, and a large head and forehead. He had a manly bearing which impressed all who knew him. 'The business of his office was admirably systematized and all his habits of daily life were regular and methodical. It is said of him that he did the same thing every day and at the same hour and moment for fifty years. His neighbors set their clocks by him, as he went and returned from his office with such exactness as to time. He had a habit of winding his watch at a certain hour every day, and while writing in the Clerk's office, he would lay it down beside him, and when the hands pointed to that hour, he would take it up and wind it. He was a man of excellent judgment and many matters of his neighbors were submitted to him, and when he decided, his disposition was acquiesced in as satisfactory to all sides. When the Whig party was formed, he became a Whig. While not anti-slavery in "his views, he was opposed to the war with Mexico. He was an entertaining talker and always had something useful and instructive to say. He had much dignity, his life was on a plane above the ordinary and the people who. knew him well felt that they were looking up to him. His whole soul, conscience, principles, opinions, worldly interests and everything in his life was made subservient to his religion. His life made all who knew him feel that there was truth and reality in the Christian religion, and he lived it every day. In his opinion his crowning earthly honor was that he had served fifty years in the Presbyterian Church. Four years before his death, he had retired from all public business. All his life he had had a dread of the Asiatic cholera. | When that pestilence visited West Union in the summer of 1851, the first victim died June 26th. By some irony of fate, he was the last and died of the dread disease on the last day it prevailed, August 2nd. There were but four persons present at his interment. Had he died of any ordinary disease, the whole county would have attended. General Darlington was a fair example of the good and true men, who built well the foundation of the great state of Ohio. Governor Thomas Hirker was born in Ireland in 1760, and lived in that country until he reached the age of nineteen. His father then emigrated to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His father died soon after their removal to America. He remained in Lancaster County until 1790. Nothing is found of his life in that period, but in that year he married Sarah Smith a young woman of excellent family and great worth. She was several years his junior. Soon after his marriage, they removed to Kentucky, running the gauntlet of Indian hostilities as they floated down the Ohio river. In 1794, they crossed the Ohio and settled in Manchester, Adams County, Ohio. In 1796 he removed to Liberty Township, Adams County. At that time he had a wife and several children. They were the first settlers to locate in the county outside of Manchester. He was a member of the first Court of Quarter Sessions held in the County under the Territorial Government at Manchester, in September, 1797. He was also a County Commissioner under the territorial government. He was the leading man in that settlement and was usually the foremost in public matters of all kinds. By common consent he settled quarrels among his neighbors who looked to him for counsel. He had a reputation for good judgment. When delegates were elected to the first Constitutional Convention in 1802, he was sent as one of them. He was a member of the lower house of the Legislature from Adams County from March Ist, 1803, until April 16th, 1803. He entered the Ohio Senate at the second legislative session, closing February, and served in that body continuously until the thirteenth legislative session, closing February 16th, 1815. In that time he was Speaker in the Senate in the fifth, sixth, seventh, iinth, tenth, eleventh and thirteenth sessions. From November 4th, 1807, to December r2th, 1808, he was acting Governor of the State by reason of a vacancy in the office of Governor and his then being Speaker of the Senate. At the fifteenth legislative ses- sion December 15th, 1816, until January 28, 1817, he was a member of the House and its Speaker. At the twentieth legislative session, beginning December 3rd, 1821, he was again in the Senate form Adams and served in it continuously until February 8th, 1825. On January 17th, 1821, he was appointed an Associate Judge from Adams County, and served until October 30th, 1821, when he resigned. In 1824, he was presidental elector and voted for Clay. From 1808 until his death, he was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in West Union, O., and his son William, was also an elder in the same church from 1826, during his father's lifetime. He sat in the Legislature longer than any one man except John Bigger of Warren County, who served in 21 sessions. Mr. Kirker was not a brilliant man, but he was honest, conscientious and possessed of sound judgment and integrity that was unselfish and incorruptible. He was respected, esteemed, and exerted an influence that was felt in the entire circle of his acquaintance. He died February 20th, 1837. He reared a family of thirteen children, and has a host of decendants, in different parts of the United States. He succeeded Governor Tiffin, March 4th, 1807, when he resigned to enter the United States Senate and served to the end of his term. He served as Governor one year, or until December 12th, 1808, when Samuel Huntington succeeded him. The vote stood Huntington, 7,293; Worthington, 5,601; Kirker, 3,397. Jean Pierre Roman Bureau (De Montrou) was born at Beton Bazoche, Canton de Villier, St. George Arondisement de Provins, Department de Seine et Marne, March 2st, 1770. Roman Grandjean was his god-father and Francoise nee le Vicaine (Fromonte), was his god-mother. His father was an officer who served with distinction in the army under the reign of Louis XV., returning home only to have a severe quarrel with his father. He left home, and, being very angry, vowed never to return and to go where he would never be heard from. His mother's maiden name was Marie Romaine Cruchet. She was the daughter of a distinguished and wealthy surgeon of Paris. In addition to one brother, Toussaint, who was in the army and died an old bachelor, he had four sisters: Angelique, the wife of M. Clars; Genevieve, the wife of M. Galbot; Romaine, who died young; and Marie Rose, the wife of Doctor Naret. Playing one day with two companions young Bureau attempted a high jump from a tree and paid the penalty for his recklessness with a fractured hip. Although he received the utmost skill that love and the science of the best surgeons.of Paris could bring to bear, his injury was pronounced a compound one and hopelessly incurable. His mother, a woman of great piety and force of character, was not dismayed ; placing the suffering lad on a well padded pillion securely fastened upon the back of a sure-footed ass, this valiant woman made, on foot, a pilgrimage to the shrine of our Lady of Liesse, walking beside her stricken son. At the end of nine days, their fervent prayers were answered, and miraculously cured, the boy left his crutches on the walls of the little chapel and returned to Paris. He always had a slight lameness, a reminder, no doubt, of the favor granted him by Heaven. The medal given the lad at Liesse after his cure is in the possession of the family of one of his grand-daughters, the late Mrs. Madeline Vinton Dahlgren. Witnessing with dismay some of the excesses of that awful French Revolution, young Bureau emigrated to America. His passport was executed and delivered February 14th, 1790, and was signed by Louis, King of France, and the Comte de Montmarin. Embarking February 19th, 1790, he arrived at Alexandria, Virginia, May 3rd, 1790, and the same year went to Gallipolis, Ohio, w here already a few French emigrants had settled. Enduring his share of the toils and sufferings incident to a new settlement but not having the physical strength nor inclination for manual labor he changed his location to Marietta, where his fine education enabled him to open a French school for the youth of the place, which he conducted with great success, giving satisfaction to both patrons and scholars. In December, 1792, he returned to Gallipolis, Ohio, where he remained and became a successful merchant, occupying at different times the positions of Clerk of the Court, Justice of the Peace, Postmaster, etc. Very few men filled so many offices, conferred by their fellow-citizens, with so much credit to themselves and so much satisfaction to their constituents, as Mr. Bureau. He was Major in the first regiment of militia organized in Gallia County, hence his title. He was naturalized February 1oth, 1806, and was Postmaster at Gallipolis from Arpil rst, 1806, to October 3rd, 1807. From December 7th, 1807, until February 22nd, 1808, he represented Washington, Muskingum, Gallia and Athens Counties in the House. He was then elected to represent Gallia and Scioto Counties in the Senate, and served from December 5th, 1809, to February 12th, 1812, during the eighth, ninth and tenth sessions. © At the fourteenth legislative session, from December 3rd, 1832, until March 9th, 1835, he represented Gallia and Meigs Counties in the House. In the great question which arose at that time relative to the right of the Legislature to instruct Senators from Ohio in Congress, Bureau advocated the right to instruct and again showed his grasp of affairs, and that he possessed a true and broad concepton of a Republican form of Government. He retired from public life and engaged in the business of merchandising, which he continued as long as he had the physical ability to attend to the labors thereof. When salt was discovered in Virginia, in the valley of the Kanawha, he at once commenced borings which resulted in his becoming a very successful salt manufacturer. February 19th, 1799, he married Madeline Francoise Charlotte Marret, third daughter of Joseph and Madeline Marret, who had been of the same party as Bureau when, in 1790, he fled from France, and had also gone to Gallipolis. She was at the time of her marriage, a pretty, witty and vivacious young girl of fifteen, slight, of medium height, with dark brown eyes and black hair, and straight, well-cut features. At-that time there was no Justice of the Peace in that part of Ohio, and being obliged to obtain one from Point Pleasant, the ceremony was performed in a boat on the Ohio river so as to be within the jurisdiction of Virginia. She died on June 22nd, 1834. The children of this marriage, were: Madeleine Romaine, born November 20th, 1799, married Doctor Francis Julius Le Moyne of Washington, Pennsylvania; Romaine Madeleine, born January 6th, 1802, became the wife of the Hon. Samuel Finley Vinton, one of Ohio's most distinguished men and whose daughter was the late Mrs. M. V. Dahlgren; Marie, born February 26th, 1810, and died April 2nd, 1810; and Charles Louis Valcoulon, born August 25th, 1812. The latter spent some years in Athens College, Ohio, and later studied medicine and practised his profession. Major Bureau's daughters were given every educational advantage at that time to be obtained, going to school in Chillicothe, Gallipolis, and finally to Mme. Grileau's French boarding school in Philadelphia. The journey to the latter place was made by the young girls on horseback from Wheeling, accompanied by their father and the negro man servant following in a wagon with the baggage. Major Bureau died in Gallipolis, December 31st, 1854, aged 81 years and 10 months. He was buried in the same enclosure with his wife, daughter Mary, Mr. and Mrs. §. F. Vinton and their son, John, in the old graveyard at Gallipolis. He was of medium height, broad shouldered and very strong. He was fair, and had blue eyes, rather heavy eyebrows and close trimmed hair and beard, full forehead and head. He had all the quick wit and observation of a Frenchman, and' was exceedingly vivacious and polished in manner and bearing. He was a devoted and generous parent, husband and friend. He made money and, although he spent it freely, he left quite a large property. He was one of the most esteemed, popular and useful men of Gallia County and respected by all who knew him. It may well be said of Mr. Bureau that he was well fitted to be a leader to his countrymen, and in no instance was he ever known to betray the confidence reposed in him. 'To such men, its founders, the State of Ohio owes much. By their hardships and bravery it was reclaimed from the wilderness and savages, and their wisdom and untiring zeal gave it the solid foundation upon which its greatness and stability now depend.

was born at Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, Virginia, April Ist, 1781. His father was William Lucas, born in 1742, in Virginia. He was a Revolutionary soldier. He enlisted February 13th, 1777, for three years in Captain Nathaniel Welch's Company, also known as Captain 'Taliaferros' Company and as Captain Thomas Minor's Company in the Second Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel Wil-

He is said to have owned lands and negroes, but to have been hostile to the institution of slavery. He had five sons and three daughters. His sons were Joseph, Robert, John, William and Samuel. William and John came to the mouth of the Scioto in 1796, and located land at the mouth of Pond Creek. Their father voted for Jefferson, in Virginia, for President in 1800, and at once started for Adams County in the Northwest Territory. He located near Lucasville. His wife died May 4th, 1809, and he died in July, 1814. Both are buried at Lucasville and their graves marked. His daughters all married, one a Buckles, one a Creamer, and one a Sternberger. Joseph Lucas, through a daughter, is an ancestor of the Hibbs family. Robert Lucas, our subject, was the most distinguished of the family. He was but nine years old when he came to the Northwest Territory. He had a private tutor who taught him mathematics and surveying, and he was an excellent surveyor before his 'majority. That occupation enabled him to keep busy and make money. He was Surveyor of Scioto County in 1805, and was Justice of the Peace in 1806. -On April 4th, 1810, he married Eliza Brown, daughter of John Brown, the first citizen of Portsmouth. The ceremony was said by William Crull, Justice of the Peace. She died in two years, leaving an infant daughter. On March 7th, 1816, he married Miss Friendly A. Sumner, the ceremony being performed by William Power, Justice of the Peace. Robert Lucas had a great deal of military spirit and soon became prominent in the Ohio Militia. As early as 1804, he was a Bridge Inspector with the rank of Major. In 1807, he had a Militia Company in Portsmouth and was its Captain. In 1808, he was elected.to the House as Representative of Scioto County. In 1811, he was lister of Wayne Township.

He went to the War of 1812 and was in Hull's surrender. He managed to escape when the surrender was made and showed such military ability that he was made a Captain in the regular army, and is said to have been made a Colonel, but he was out of it in 1814, and in that fall was elected to the Ohio senate, in which he served continuously until 1822. In 1820, he appears to have been a Presidential elector for Monroe, and in 1828, for Jackson. He was again in the Senate from 1824 until 1830, except in 1829. From 1832 to 1836, he was Governor of Ohio. In 1832, he was chairman of the Democratic National Convention.

In 1824, he removed from Scioto to Pike County, where he resided until 1838, when he was appointed Governor of the Territory of Towa by President Van Buren. In his youth he was a boisterous fellow, fond of all kinds of mischief and deviltry, but when he reached Iowa he joined the church and favored religion and morality. He worked for temperance and against gambling and associated vices,

His influence is said to have made lowa a prohibition state. In 1841, President 'Tyler removed him, and he took up his residence on a farm near lowa City. He was a member of the~Constitutional Convention, which met in Iowa City in 1844, from Johnson County. He was made Chairman of the Committee on Executive Department, and a member of the Committee on Boundaries. He was the first governor of lowa Territory. He was the first Brigadier General of Militia in Scioto County. He delivered the oration at the farmers' celebration held July 8th, 1808, on Major Bonser's farm on Little Scioto. His private secretary in Iowa, Theodore Parvin wrote and published a sketch of his life in pamphlet form.

He died February 7th, 1853, and his grave is suitably marked in the cemetery at lowa City. While territorial Governor of Iowa no one who was a gambler or drinking man could receive an appointment from him. He stood for all that was good and true with all the ardour of his intense nature. He was a man, very much the same kind as General Jackson whom he admired and followed. He was a shrewd politician or else he could not have remained in the Ohio Senate eight years successively representing such counties as Pike, Gallia, Scioto and Jackson, and from 1824 to 1828, he represented Pike, Scioto and Lawrence. He never failed to make the most of a political situation, and he knew when to be silent, a faculty rare in political life. He was a true blue Democrat all the time and was never a trimmer or changing. When he once adopted a policy he would go through fire and water to carry it out. He resolved to stamp out intemperance and gambling in Iowa Territory and he did it. In that territory he became a Methodist exhorter and was always pleased to exercise his functions.

He died at the age of 72, but his work was done and well done. It will reward the student of history to study the story of his life in a much more extended form than can be given in this work.

was of Revolutionary stock. His father, Jeremiah Kendall served in the Revolutionary War and the following is his record from the War Department: 'Was a private in Captain William .Washington's Com+ pany, Third Virginia Regiment, commanded by Colonel Thomas Marshall. He enlisted February 23rd, 1776, to serve two years. He was transferred in August, 1777, to Captain S$. B. Wallace's Company, same Regiment. He was wounded at Brandywine and was discharged on January, 1778." His wife was Rhoda MelIntire, and their home was in Fauquier County, Virginia. There on November 23rd, 1783, our subject was born. His father moved to a farm in Pennsylvania directly after the close of the war of the Revolution.

Jeremiah Kendall made a trip to New Orleans on a flat boat directly after his arrival in Pennsylvania, and was accompanied by Samuel Lewis and Lewis Wetzel. They were attacked by Indians in ca- noes below Louisville, but they drove them off with a blunderbuss loaded with 36 rifle balls. He served with General Anthony Wayne in his campaign against the Indians in 1794 and was wounded several times in the battles and skirmishes. He was at the treaty of Greenville.

Our subject was his oldest son and settled on Paint Creek in Ross County, but visited the site of Portsmouth and was there with Henry Massie, before the town was laid out. He stopped with Captain John Brown, the first inn keeper in Portsmouth and fell in love with his daughter Rachel and married her, May 29th, 1806. Robert Lucas, a Justice of the Peace, who had married another daughter of Captain John Brown, performed the cefemony. 'There were eight children of this marriage.

General Kendall kept a dry goods store in Portsmouth, the first of its kind. He at all times did surveying whenever called upon, and during almost the whole of his life in Scioto County, was deputy surveyor of that part of the Virginia Military District in Scioto County, Ohio. His books as Deputy Surveyor are still extant and are in the possession of Mrs. John W. Overturf. In 1809, he was appointed Associate Judge, but the place was too slow for him.

He declined the honor. In 1812 his public career began. He took a company of horse into the war. 'The muster roll.of that company is still preserved. 'The same fall he was elected to the Legislature as the Representative of Scioto County and was re-elected in 1813. He was re-elected to the House in 1821, 1825 and 1837. He was elected to the Senate in 1822, 1828, 1834 and 1847. He was always a Whig. He was Treasurer of Scioto County from 1815 to 1818, and again in 1841. He was the first Auditor of Scioto County, 1820 and 1821. He was one of the first nine city fathers in 1815, and drew the three years term. He was re-elected in 1818, and in 1821 and ° served until 1824. About his first official act as councilman was to contract for a public school house in 1815. In the same year he was on a committee to bring in a bill on executions. In 1816, he was allowed $9.00 for printing corporation bills. In the same year he brought in a bill in regard to keeping hogs. In 1819, he was on the committee on streets. In 1820, he was appointed town surveyor. He served in this capacity until June Ist, 1838, and again in 1849, just prior to his death.

In township matters he was prominent and useful. He was Township Treasurer in 1812. In 1810, he was Overseer of the Poor. In 1845, he was a Justice of the Peace. In 1831, at the famous 4th of July celebration, he responded to a toast. In 1835, he took the contract to erect the present court house of Scioto County at $12,650.00. He began it September 18th, 1835, and finished it September 11th,

In 1825, he made a map of Scioto County. In the same year he assessed the entire County of Scioto in 57 days at $2.00 per day. He was public spirited in every way.

After the death of his wife, Rachel Brown, November 26th, 1820, he married Christina, eldest daughter of William Lawson, October 12th, 1821, and by her he had seven children, or fifteen in all. His second wife died August 2nd, 1840, and he married Mrs. Ruth Claypool of Chillicothe, for his third wife and she survived him.

Serving as long as he did in the Legislature he could not escape the fate of being a Major General of Militia by joint resolution of the Legislature and he was compelled to take this title.

Nothing went on, in or about Portsmouth, unless he had something to do with it. He hada saw mill and grist mill on Brush Creek and built steamboats at its mouth. He was Postmaster in Portsmouth from February, 1842, to September, 1845. He was a director of the Commercial Bank for several years. He was popular and was always available as a candidate for office. After being nominated, he took care to be elected. He was a safe and sure man. He was large hearted and hospitable. He was active in his habits. His disposition was mild. and he was always calm and deliberate. He never sought to obtrude his views on any one, but was tolerant of the views of others and a good listener. He had uncommon equanimity. He was seldom disturbed in mind or conduct and possessed a sound judgment. He was tall and spare, nearly six feet high, complexion between light and dark, blue eyes, and active in his movements.

He took hold of many enterprises and was very popular. No more active or energetic citizen ever lived in Scioto County, and none was more intimately connected with public affairs. He did not profess any form of religion. He died August 2nd, 1849, of consumption, but held office and served the public up to the time of his death.

By his first marriage he was the brother-in-law of General Robert Lucas, to whom he was unalterably opposed in politics. Kendall was a Whig and Lucas a Democrat. They often contested against each other for the Legislature. Some of the old families of Portsmouth have disappeared, but the Kendall family is still well represented in the third and fourth generation from General Kendall.

was born April 4th, 1774, in the State of Pennsylvania. His father, David Mitchell, was born in 1733 and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He or his father came from the north of Ireland where his ancestors had high standing. His father's record in the Revolutionary War will be found under the title of Revolutionary Soldiers. He came to the Northwest Territory as early as 1797, and located in what is Nile Township, Scioto County, Ohio. In 1798, he was a Collector of Union- 'Township, Adams County, Ohio, appointed by the County Commissioners, for Union Township, which extended on the river from Salt Creek in the present Adams County and ran up the river east to the mouth of Little Scioto and north about twenty miles, the same width. David Mitchell, Senior, was an important citizen as early as 1798. His wife Sarah Mitchell died September roth, 1801, aged sixty-eight years. He died November Ist, 1805. Both are buried in the Mitchell cemetery on the Morrison farm in Nile Township, Scioto County, Ohio. The following can be said of the children of David Mitchell, Senior. Sarah named for her mother, mar- 5 ried a Mr. Tucker; Mary, married a McBride. His son David married Mary Stockham. No others of the children of David Mitchell, Senior, can now be given. Judge David Mitchell, our subject, must have been married prior to coming to the Northwest Territory. His wife was Mary Stockham, said to be a sister of Colonel Aaron Stockham. It is said he went to the Salt Licks at Jackson, Ohio, and made considerable money there, but if he remained there anytime, it was after his father had located in what is now Nile Township in Scio- to County, Ohio. From December 5th, 1814, to February 27th, 1816, he represented Scioto County in the House. In 1818 he was" a Justice of the Peace in Nile Township. From-December 6th, 1819, to February 26th, 1820, he represented Scioto and Lawrence in the House. From December 4th, 1820, until February 23rd, 1821, he represented Scioto, Pike and Lawrence in the House. On February 18th, 1820, he was appointed one of a commission to locate the County Seat of Meigs County. Elnathan Scofield of Fairfield County and John J. Martin of Pike County were his associates. After this he submitted to the usual fate allotted to prominent laymen retiring from the Legislature. In 1824, he was made an Associate Judge of Scioto County and seryed until 1831. In 1829, on. July 18th, General William Kendall resigned from the Senate on account of private business. On August 15th, David Mitchell became a candidate for the Senate; Doctor G. S. B. Hempstead, also became a candidate. Each thought he was the best man for the place, and neither would give up for the other. Both were Whigs and depended on Whig support for election. The district was composed of Lawrence, Scioto, Pike and Jackson Counties, and had a Whig majority. Up to this time the contest for office had been free to all.- There had been no party convention. If the Whigs had but one candidate, the Democrats could not hope to elect. There was a newspaper controversy ; there was pulling and hauling, but neither of the two Whigs would retire for the other, and General Robert Lucas stood for the Democrats. The following was the vote: -

This was an object lesson the Whigs never forgot. After that the candidates were nominated by the Whig Central Committee, or a. County Convention. Judge Mitchell had a large farm in Nile Township, lately owned by Albert R. Morrison, his grandson, and resided there. In 1831, he had a great craze about silk culture, and published many articles in the newspapers but nothing ever came of it. His daughter Martha, born in 1813, married David Morrison, from whom comes the well known Morrison family of Nile Township. Judge Mitchell died November 19th, 1833, aged 59 years, 8 inonths and 15 days. He is buried on the hill overlooking his farm. Judge Joseph Moore and William Givens, also Associate Judges, are buried in the same spot. Judge Mitchell's widow survived until September sth, 1852, when she died in her 73rd year. Judge Mitchell was what the late Homer C. Jones of McArthur, Ohio, would call a "knowledgeable man." He knew a great deal more than his neighbors, and thought he knew more than any of them. He was an investigator and student and when he once made up his mind on any subject, he could not be changed. He was a Federalist and Whig in his political views. He had no use for Democracy. He was one of the charter members of the Sandy Springs Presbyterian Church in Green 'Township, Adams County. On September 2nd, 1826, when that church was organized, he was made one of the three ruling elders. He was a man of strong will power and great force of character. The same traits have manifested themselves in his grandsons, a most excellent inheritance. He was one of the most influential men of his time. He liked to have things go his own way, and, where he could control, things did so. He was a good business man and was successful in whatever he undertook. John Patterson was born in Pendleton County, Virginia, November 23rd, 1793, and died in Wilkins, Union County, Ohio, February Ist, 1859. His parents were James Augustine Patterson, of English descent, and Ann Klizabeth Hull, of Dutch descent. The family lived on the South Branch of the Potomac river. Patterson Creek in Mineral and Hampshire Counties, West Virginia, is named: for the Pattersons original settlers there. James A. Patterson removed from Alexandria, Virginia, to land now in the heart of the city of Pittsburg. John Patterson was but eight years of age when his father died, in 1801, and in 1804, he was..apprenticed to Z. A. Tannehill for a_ period of ten years to learn the trade of watchmaker and 'silversmith. His employer died in 1813, leaving his apprentice' on his own resources. He enlisted in a Pittsburg infantry regiment, serving in General Adamson 'Tannehill's Brigade in what is historically known as the "War of 1812." He was made a corporal. In the autumn of 1817, he went down. the Ohio river on a keelboat to Manchester, and thence overland to West Union. Here he opened a jewelry store, made and repaired watches and clocks and manufactured articles of silverware. He afterwards established a tannery, and then one of the first wool-carding and combing factories erected in Southern Ohio. He was elected a Justice of the Peace for 'Tiffin Township, Adams County, on April 13th, 1820, and served for nine years. He was a tax collector for Adams County for several years. In 1826, he was elected as Representative from Adams County to the twenty-fifth General Assembly; in 1828, to the twenty-seventh ; in 1829, to be joint representative with Hosea Moore in the twenty-eighth General Assembly. He was always an ardent Democrat. In 1833, and again in 1834, he was for the fifth and sixth times elected as representative in the Legislature. In 1836, he was elected as State Senator from Adams, Brown and Scioto Counties to the thirty-fifth General Assembly. He was a member of the Legislature longer than any one member with the single exception of Hon. Thomas Kirker. He was a firm friend of all public improvements, and heartily supported the "National Road" and all the various canal projects which were before the Legislature during his eight terms of service. In 1834 he was one of the three commissioners appointed by Governor Laieas to settle the boundary between Ohio and Michigan. On March 21st, 1838, he was appointed United States Marshal for the state of Ohio, to succeed John Patterson, of Belmont County, who, though he bore the same name, was not a relative. He served until July roth, 1841. He took the census of 1840 and 1841. He returned to Adams County, living at York Township, Union County, where he lived the remainder of his life. He was married three times. His first wife was Mary Brown Finley, daughter of Major Joseph Lewis Finley. His second wife was Celia Prather, daughter of Major John Prather of West Union. His daughter, Matilda Ann, of his first marriage, married Mr. John Smith and is the mother of Mrs. C. J. Moulton, of Lucasville. His third wife was Mary Catherine McCrea, a relative of Jane McCrea, whose tragic massacre by the Indians near Saratoga, N. Y., is narrated in the annals of the Revolution.

was the oldest son of Elijah Glover, Sr., and Catharine James his wife. He was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, about 1806, and was the third child born in the town. As he grew up he learned the hatter's trade of his father, and followed it to some extent, but became a dealer in furs and followed that business extensively. He early developed a liking for trade and merchandising. He had four brothers, Samuel G., Elijah B., Nathan and Azel. In 1831, he owned a lot on Sixth street near the site of the present Court House and was asked to donate it for Court House purposes. In the same year he and Jacob P. Noel were conducting a general store in Portsmouth and in the French Grant. In 1831 he and Jacob Noel undertook to build the upper rolling mill. They completed it in 1833 and carried on a foundry in connection with it. It did not prove a successful venture to them and they sold it out in 1837 to Thomas Gaylord. In 1836 he married Miss Eliza Nourse of the French Grant and she survived him with four children, three daughters and one son. His four brothers were all Whigs, but he became a Democrat. In 1836 he was elected to the Legislature as a Democrat to represent Adams, Brown and Scioto Counties with James London of Brown. 'The vote in Scioto County stood Glover 488, James London of Brown, 599, Whig, Gen-: eral William Kendall 981, James Pilson of Brown 924. Adams and Brown overcame the Whig vote of Scioto. In 1837, he was defeated for re-election in the same district by General William Kendall. 1837 was a year of disaster to the Democracy. General Kendall had 897 votes ard Nelson Barrere 845 votes in Scioto County as the Whig candidates and General James London 427 and Doctor John Glover

408 votes as the Democratic candidates for the Legislature. From 1839 to 1841, he represented the same counties in the Senate. In 1855 he went to Bennett, Nebraska, with his family. In his old age he lost his eyesight. His children were Mrs. Cora Lytle, Mrs. Anna B. Stout and Ella B. Glover all of Nebraska. His daughter, Mrs. Kate Mcllvann, resides at West Liberty, Ohio. He died June roth, 1885. Mrs. Stout died June roth, 1887.

He studied medicine in Portsmouth, Ohio, and thereby obtained the title of Doctor, but he never practised either in Scioto County or in the state of Nebraska. He said médicine was a humbug and its practice was guess work. He was a man of fine appearance, tall and slender, over six feet tall, with blue eyes and dark curly hair. As a, young man he was quite a beau, and when in the full dress of his time, with cambric ruffles, edged with thread lace on his sleeves and ruffled shirt and all other parts of his dress in the highest style, he was the beau of the town. For awhile he lived the life of a farmer in the French Grant but it palled on him and he returned to town life.

was born at South Hadley, Massachusetts, September 21st, r804. In 1825, he entered - Amherst College and was graudated in 1829. He studied law two years and, in 1831, located in Gallipolis, Ohio, at the instance of the Hon. Samuel F. Vinton, then the only lawyer residing in Gallipolis. Mr. Nash completed his law studies under the Hon. Samuel F. Vinton, and was admitted to the bar in 1833. He lived in Gallipolis all his life. He was a great collector of the books appertaining to his profession. He was two years in the State Senate, from 1841 to 1843, and represented Gallia, Lawrence and Scioto Counties, as a Whig. After the demise of the Whig party, he became a Republican. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1851, and occupied the Common Pleas bench ten years, February 9th, 1852 to February oth, 1862. He prepared and published Nash's Pleadings in two volumes directly after the adoption of the Civil Code. It is large a criticism on the Civil Code of Ohio. He also prepared a Digest of the Ohio Reports. He published a work on "Morality and the State," and another entitled "Crime and the Family'. He was a fine French scholar. He was never a member of any church or secret society. He died January 2oth, 1879. / Moses Gregory.

Moses Gregory was one of the most active citizens who ever resided in Portsmouth. He was before the public as often and held as many, if not more, offices than any other Portsmouth citizen, except John R. Turner.

He came in almost with the century. He was born March 24th, 1801, near Chillicothe, Ohio, and never knew the care of a father, for the latter, David Gregory died when he was an infant, and his mother

Klizabeth Hays, married Henry Sheeley. He, his mother and stepfather, came to Portsmouth from Chillicothe, Ohio, on a keel boat in 1805, when there was nothing but log-houses in the town.

His stepfather was a tailor by trade and the first of the craft who located in the place. All Moses Gregor y's youthful ideas were acquired in Portsmouth. As soon as he was of a suitable age, he was apprenticed to Aaron Kinney, to learn the tanner's trade, However he did not like the consineciene len surroundings, and became a keelboat man and boated salt from the Kanawha Salt Works down the Ohio river.

After some experience in this line he ventured and took cargoes to New Orleans. In 1823, he was back in Portsmouth and carried on the butcher business. He had two stalls in the Portsmouth Market House. In 1825, he became Deputy Sheriff under William Carey. In 1826, William Carey died three days before the October election and Gregory became a candidate for the place. He distributed his tickets over the country and was elected, receiving 689 votes to 234 given to Washington Clingman. In 1828, he was re-elected without opposition, receiving 887 votes.

The records of the election of 1830, have been destroyed, but he was then elected Auditor of Scioto County, and re-elected every two years thereafter until 1840, when he retired from the office. While this period was the beginning of the county he was undoubtedly the most efficient Auditor the County ever had, as an inspection of his records with the records of those who preceeded and followed him is convineing proof. That the people of his time thought likewise is shown by the fact that he held the office longer than any one ever held it, before or since.

In December, 1841, he took his seat in the Legislature as the representative of Gallia, Lawrence and Scioto Counties. He attended the special session July 25th to August 12th, 1842, and was one of the thirty Whig members who left on the latter date, and thereby prevented the passage of the congressiotial districting bill. In the fall of 1834, he was elected to the Senate, from the district composed of the same counties he had represented in the House, and served one term of two years. At the second session the Senate refused the repeal of the Black Laws, but Mr. Gregory did not concur.

In 1846, he was made a member of the First Board of Infirmary Directors of Scioto County, and served two years. In 1840, he became a ee -niner"', and went to California for gold. He returned in a year, - but had not made a fortune. In 1851, he took the contract but owing to slow and partial payments by the company was very nearly overtaken by financial disaster. After this venture he retired to his farm on Turkey Creek, and resided there for several years. But he soon tired of rustic life and returned to Portsmouth. But we have not told near all the offices held by Mr. Gregory. For several years he was a school trustee and visitor in Portsmouth, and a most efficient one. He was an active and consistent member of the Bigelow Methodist Episcopal Church, and was one of its Trustees as early as 1834. He was for several years a member of the town council of Portsmouth, and one of the Committee on Claims. That meant that he conducted the affairs of the town, and he seemed to have done it with general satisfaction. He was Recorder of the Town from April, 1845 to April, 1846, and again form April, 1847 to April, 1848.

In 1843, he was elected fence viewer of Wayne Township. This was quite a compliment as at that time it was customary to elect the most prominent citizen to that office to remind him that no American Citizen was too high or proud to accept the humblest office.

From 1864 to 1870, he was Justice of the Peace of Wayne 'Township. He retired at the end of the second term on account of failing health, and died of consumption December 15th, 1871.

In Mr. Gregory's case, while he enjoyed the responsibilities of public office, he could not be said to have been an office seeker. He preformed the duties of every office he held on his conscience. He was faithful to every trust. He was as fond of political management as a cat is of cream, and injoyed the manipulations of politics. He was a zealous and ardent Whig and never flagged in his devotion to his party.

He managed to leave the Legislature without being made an Associate Judge or a Major General of Militia, the usual fate of retiring Legislators under the Constitution of 1802, and so was plain Moses Gregory all his life; but no man was more useful than he in the many offices he held. As a member of the community, he was aways in favor of progress and improvement. He was a member of the Common Council at a time when all the aristocracy and chivalry of Portsmouth either held Coffee House Licenses or were in favor of them, yet he and Benjamin Fryer invariably voted against each and every Coffee House License. He did this from high temperance principles, and lived to see the practice of issuing these licenses abolished -and condemned.

Moses Gregory was a remarkable example of the model American citizen; always ready to serve the State in any way, and doing it to the satisfaction of his constituency.

Mr. Gregory was a member of the Aurora Mosonic Lodge, and one of'the charter members of Cavalry Commandery Knights- ei emplar. Among the Masons he is esteemed as one of their Saints, with Drs. Hempstead, Offnere and Burr.

was born in Clermont County, Ohio, in 1805. He went to Gallia County in 1826." He began to publish the Weekly. Journal in 1831, and in 1834, took in Alexander Vance as a partner. He was Clerk of the House of Representatives in 1830 and 1831. In 1833, he began the practice of law.. In the Forty-second General Assembly, December, 4th, 1843 to March 13th, 1844, he represented Gallia, Lawrence and Scioto Counties in the House. In the Forty-fourth General Assebly, December Ist, 1845, to March 2nd, 1846, he represented "the same Counties in the Senate. In the Forty-fifth General Assembly, December 7th, 1846 to February 8th, 1847, he represented the same three Counties and Jackson in the Senate. He was a Whig in politics. He made quite a reputation as a lawyer in Gallia County. He married a Miss Lesby at Gallipolis in 1846. In 1849, he went to Washington and became a clerk in the Interior Department and was Chief Clerk under Secretary Thomas Ewing. In Mr. Lincoln's administration, he became a Patent Examiner. Hon. S. F. Vinton secured him the appointment of Chief Clerk of the Interior Department under General Taylor's administration, aided by General Thomas Ewing. He died' April 29th, 1886, in Washington, D. C., of paralysis. He was one of the best and most successful political managers ever known. His plain practical sense and honesty captivated the people. Hon. Samuel F. Vinton had the utmost confidence in his political management.

was born August Ist, 1786, in Fayette County, Penn. So many stories are told about him, that it is difficult to determine the truth. As a young man, he came to the salt works of Jackson County as agent of a company at Uniontown, Pa., which sold salt kettles. He remained long enough to see that there was money in making salt and engaged in it. .He was a regular devil, as a young fellow. He always carried a deck of cards and a bottle of whiskey with him and was very fond of playing cards for money. He was usually a winner. He was such a constant winner that the men with whom he played suspected unfairness and it became dangerous for him to remain there. After many personal encounters and hairbreadth escapes, the place became too warm for him, and he went back to Pennsylvania. There he ventured into politics and was elected Sheriff of Fayette County, at a time when the office was paid in fees, and when fees were plenty. In 1829, while he was Sheriff, he escorted Gen. Jackson through the County. The General was traveling in his own carriage on the way to Washington to take the presidental chair. Sheriff Salter had an escort of militia along. Each County through which the Presidentelect passed, showed him the same courtesy. In 1831, after retiring from the Sheriff's Office in Fayette County, he came to Portsmouth. He invested some of his money in Scioto Furnace. He was a long time manager there and was very successful. He was County Commissioner from 1838 to 1841, while a resident of Scioto Furnace. He removed to Portsmouth in 1847 and built a house where the Bigelow Church now stands. It was burned down before he occupied it. He then owned and occupied the Eustace Ball residence. After that, he bought the High School property and built there. In December, 1813, he married Miss Francis Mason. They never had any children. She died May 27th, 1872. He became a member of the Meth-

On January 2nd, 1844, he was elected an Associate Judge of the County and served until 1851. From December, 1849, to March, 1850, he was in the State Senate, representing Adams, Pike, Lawrence and Scioto Counties. In 1842, he was one of the Commissioners of the Surplus Fund of the County, and in 1849, he was a Commissioner of Free Turnpikes. He died October 6th, 1876, aged go years, 2 months and 5 days. At the time of his death he had $60,000.00 on deposit in one of the City Banks.

He made a great deal of money in the period of his activity. He was successful in all of his undertakings, and kept his own counsel. While a man of great decision of character, he was a pleasant and agreeable neighbor. His talent was for accumulation of wealth, and he exercised it well.

was of Scotch-Irish descent. He was a native of Jefferson County, Ohio, born March 16th, 1819, the eldest son of Hon. William Mc- Causlen, a Congressman of Ohio. He attended the district schools of his home and Scott's Academy at'Steubenville. In the academy he was a good student, and from there he went to studying law in the office of Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, afterwards the great war Secretary. In 1844, he was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Warren County, and located at West Union the same year. He was liked by the young people, and was popular with all classes. As a lawyer, he was diligent and attentive to business and a fluent advocate. He filled the office of Prosecuting Attorney of Adams County, for three terms, from 1845 to 1851, and did it with great credit to himself. In 1853, he was elected to the Ohio Senate from the Seventh District, composed of Adams, Scioto,' Pike and Jackson Counties, and served one term. He participated in the election of the Hon. George E. Pugh to the Senate. During his term, the Supreme Court of Cincinnati, was created, and the Judges' salaries were fixed at $1,500, and the circu- _lation of foreign bank bills of less than $10.00 was forbidden in the State. This Legislature must have had a sweet tooth, for, by joint resolution, it asked Congress to repeal the duty on sugar and molasses. It also favored the construction of a Pacific Railway. He declined to be a candidate for a second term. In 1856, he was one of the at- _ torneys who defended William Milligan, indicted for murder, in the first degree. Milligan was undoubtedly guilty as charged, but the jury brought in a verdict of murder in the second degree, and he spent the rest of his life in the penitentiary. In 1857, Mr. McCauslen remoyed to Portsmouth, where he resided and practiced law until 1865, when he removed to his native county, and located at Steubenville. He continued in the active practice of his profession in Steubenville until 1883, when he retired. He, however, left his business to his eldest son, William, born in West Union, and who has succeeded him. He was married in West Union on February 19th, 1851, to Mary Jane Sparks, daughter of John Sparks, the banker of West Union, and neice of David Sinton, of Cincinnati, Ohio. At his present home, within one-half mile of Steubenville, he spent thirteen years of dignified and honorable retirement in the enjoyment of the society of his family and his friends. He had four sons and four daughters, all of whom grew to maturity. He died February roth, 1896. As a young man, Mr. McCauslen was jolly, good natured, and fond of outdoor sports. In politics, he was a staunch Democrat, but with no particular taste for party work. In religion he was a Presbyterian. As a lawyer he was active and energetic and a fine speaker before a jury. He enjoyed a legal contest, and would throw his whole soul into it. He was an honorable gentleman, an excellent conversationalist, and a delightful companion. His manners were uniformly cordial, and it was always a pleasure to meet and converse with him. While he grew old in years, he preserved the 'pec spirit of youth. "In his years were seen A youth ful vigor and an autumnal green." was born near Sharonville, now Omega, Pike County, March 18th, 1817. His parents were Samuel Corwine and Mary Wilson. He was raised a farmer, and he had a common school education. He attended school at Dennison University, at Granville, Licking County, Ohio. He was Clerk of the Common Pleas Court of Pike County, Ohio, from 1843 to 1854. He was a member of the 53rd General Assembly from Pike, representing the Seventh Senatorial District In 1858, and 1859, he was elected as a Democrat. He was treasurer of Pike County, Ohio, from 1860 to 1864. He was married in 1844 to Lydia McCollister, daughter of Charles McCollister, an associate Judge of the Common Pleas Court of Pike County. He removed to Missouri in 1871, where he resided on a farm until his death in1808. His wife and seven children survive him. All his children reside at Carthage and Joplin, Missouri.

uary, 1807, the son of William and Catherine Ott Newman, who had removed from Virginia to Pennsylvania.His boyhood years were spent at Harrisonburg, Virginia. He came to Ohio in 1827, and cast his first vote at Newark, Ohio, for Andrew Jackson for President. He returned to Virginia, and on the 20th day of February, 1834, was married to Catherine Ott Williams of Woodstock, Shenandoah County. They resided at Staunton until 1838, where Ann M. (now Mrs. Joseph G. Reed), and George O., were born. In March of the latter year, they came to Portsmouth, where they resided ever after with the exception of a brief period of residence in Highland County in 1841. Five children were born to them in Ohio - Wm. H., James W., J. Rigdon, Charles H., and Hervey M., who died in infancy. The others still live, except Rev. Charles H. Newman, who was an ordained minister of the Episcopal Church. He was sent as a missionary to Japan in 1873. For years his health was impaired; he retired from the ministry and died in St. Augustine, Florida, May 30th, 1887, where he had gone with his wife to try the effect of its mild climate

William Newman was, by occupation a contractor and builder. Many of the larger and finer buildings erected in Portsmouth from 1840 to 1847, were his work, including churches and school-houses. Among these are the First Presbyterian Church, All Saints, the two Catholic Churches, the Massie Block, the George Davis residence and many others.

Mr. Newman served as a member of the Board of Education of Portsmouth several terms and for a number of years, he was an active member of the city council. In 1847, he was a Democratic candidate for the State Legislature from the Lawrence-Scioto district, these two counties then constituting one legislative district. In 1859, he waselected totheOhio State Senate fromthe Seventh Senatorial District, composed of Adams, Scioto, Pike and Jackson Counties. He served _in the same Senate with Garfield, who afterward became illustrious in the Nation's annals, and although different radically in politics, a warm personal friendship sprang up between those two men, as a correspondence several years after testified. He died in Portsmouth - on the twenty-third day of July, 1847, aged 67 years.

William Newman was a man of strong character and earnest convictions. To any cause that he espoused, he stood true to the end. He believed. in the principles of Jefferson, Madison and George Mason, of his native state. He was a Virginian in all that the word implies, and the doctrines taught by its early statesmen and leaders were planted deep in his heart. He was noted for his honesty. Integrity was the very corner stone of his character. As his old friend, the well known editor, Walter C. Hood, once wrote. "William Newman is an honest man, a strong stocky man of the people. He would rather stand up, assured with conscious pride alone, than err with millions on his side." was born June 23rd, 1827, near Wilmington, in Clinton County, Ohio. His father was Aquila Coates, born in 1799, in-Chester County, Pennsylvania. His mother was Rachel Pidgeon, born in 1801, near Lynchburg, Va. His maternal grandfather, Isaac Pidgeon, was the owner of 1,600 acres of land, about five miles north of Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, which he divided among his children. General Coates' father and mother, and his-grandfather Pidgeon were Friends, and were married accérding to the formula of that faith at Hopewell Meeting House, near Winchester, Virginia. They came to Ohio in 1823. 'They had eight children, six sons and two daughters. General Coates was reared on his father's farm, and attended the common school in Clinton County. He also attended an Academy at Wilmington, conducted by Oliver W. Nixon. He studied medicine with Dr. Aquila Jones at Wilmington, and took his first course of lectures at the Ohio Medical College, of Cincinnati. His second medical course was taken at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He began the practice of medicine at Mowrytown, in Highland County, in 1815, and remained there two and one half years. He located in West Union, Ohio, in 1853. In 1857, he was married to Elizabeth J. Patterson, a daughter of John Patterson, a former resident of Adams County, and a prominent politician. In Adams County, General Coates was a Democrat, and as such was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1861, to represent the present Seventh Senatorial District. George'A. Waller, of Portsmouth, was his opponent, and Coates' majority was twenty-three. In the Legislature he found himself at variance with his party, and acted with the Republicans on all questions relating to the Civil War. On August t1oth, 1862, he entered the Volunteer Army as Lieutenant Colonel of the - gist Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. From Jan. 6th, until April 24th, 1863, he was granted a leave of absence to attend the adjourned session of the fifty-fifth General Assembly. He was wounded August 24th, 1864, at the battle of Halltown, Virginia. He was promoted to the Coloneley of his regiment December 9th, 1864, and was brevetted Brigadier-General March 13th, 1865. He was mustered out of service June 24th, 1865. He made an excellent officer, and was highly esteemed for his ability and bravery by his superior officers. He located in Portsmouth, Ohio, July Ist, 1865, as a physician. On July 1st, 1866, he was appointed Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, under Col. John Campbell, of Ironton, Ohio, and on October Ist, 1866, was appointed Collector in the eleventh district of Ohio, in place of John Campbell, and held the office until July rst, 1881, when he resigned. He was a trustee in the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home from 1868 until 1871. . He was Receiver of the Cincinnati & Eastern Railway Company from September rst, 1885, to February Ist, 1887, and as special Master Commissioner, sold the road to the Ohio and Northwestern Company.He has served on the Portsmouth City Board of Equlization one or more terms. In 1897 he was appointed a member of the City Board of Elections for aterm of four years.

Since 1862, General Coates has been a Republican. He left the Democratic parfy, on account of war questions. During the time he _held the Collector's office, he was the leader of his party in the county and congressional district. He had a wonderful insight of human nature, and could tell before hand how the public would form opinions of men and measures. He had great executive ability and always had the courage of his opinions. He was a pleasant and agreeable companion, and had hosts of friends. He had been unwell' some two weeks prior to his death. On Saturday evening, May 6th, 1899, he went to the Republican primary meeting in his precinct and voted. On returning he lay down for a few moments, and then arose and undertook to walk to his chair. He sank between the bed and the chair, where he breathed once or twice, and then died of heart failure. He left a widow and three children; his son, Joseph, and daughters Lillian and Sarah. The latter is engaged in Boston, Mass., as a teacher. General Coates made quite a reputation as an officer, and his memory will always be cherished by the survivors of his regiment and by all who knew him.

James Emmitt. His grandfather came from Ireland where he had been a merchant. -He and his wife emigrated to this country during the Revolutionary War from Dublin. He settled in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania near Kittaning. His grandfather became a miller and a merchant. His father George Emmitt was born in 1804, and when nineteen years old married Addie Stanford, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. James Emmitt our subject was the first child, born November 6th. 1806. In 1816, five families started from the Emmitt settlement to the Ohio Valley. Abram Stanford and wife were among the party, Mr. Emmitt's grandparents. Emmitt, then fourteen years of age, came down the Ohio on a raft with the party. 'The party stopped at Steubenville, while the elder Stanford went on and bought 160 acres of land near Waverly. In the fall the party left Steubenville and went down the river. They encountered a myriad of squirrels on the way down. The party landed at Portsmouth. From there they went to their land by wagons. A road was made for them in advance of the wagons by cutting trees and filling ruts, etc. They traveled four miles the first day and lodged with Colonel Jacob Noel, all of whose family had the ague. Piketon had only been laid out in 1815, and Abram Stanford met them there and took them to two log cabins, two miles north of Waverly. Panther, deer and wild turkeys were abundant and their nearest neighbors were two miles away. Emmitt became a good shot with the rifle. In 1819, he worked out at $6.00 per month and board. He wore moccasins in the winter and went barefoot in the summer. His clothing was made of buckskin. In 1820, he spent five weeks in learning the blacksmith's trade and the knowledge thus acquired stood him well the remainder of his life. In 1824, he was employed as a wood chopper at $4.00 per month. In.1825, he became a teamster for Hugh Cook at $6.00 per month between Portsmouth and Chillicothe. He kept at this till August 1828. Freight by wagon was 50 cents per hundred and a full load from Portsmouth to Chillicothe made Hugh Cook $15.00. A round trip between Portsmouth and Chillicothe was made in one week. _In 1828 he had the ague so bad he quit Cook's employ. He saved $10.00 in the three years he worked for Cook, became a capitalist and went into partnership with Henry Jeffords in the dry goods business at Waverly. The store was burned out in January 1849. Jef-' fords was a mail carrier at that time. The beginning of the partnership with Henry Jeffords was the foundation of Mr. Emmitt's fortune. Among other things he bought shoes of Murtaugh Kehoe which had been made by hand, in Portsmouth. Emmitt bought goods on time of Josiah Lawrence in Cincinnati. They were sent to Portsmouth by boat and wagoned to Emmitt's store. June 11th, 1829, he was married to Miss Louise Martin, daughter of Joseph J. Martin, Clerk of the Courts of Pike County from 1815 to 1822. Mr. Emmitt's house built in what is now Waverly in 1829, was the first house there. His first cooking was done on a fire outside of the house. In 1831, he was made the first Postmaster at Waverly. He kept a hotel in 1831 and 1832 and took the first canal boat to Portsmouth. In 1832, the first stages were run between Portsmouth and Columbus and Emmitt had the contract to board the drivers. Neil, Moore & Company owned the line. Mr. Emmitt called his hotel, "The Coach and Four." It was on the site of "the Grand" in Wayerly. The first freight shipped by canal from Chillicothe was a barrel of whiskey for Portsmouth. Who got it? Mr. Emmitt went to New Orleans with a fleet of flat boats in November, 1833. In 1837, when everyone was breaking up, Emmitt made $10,000 profits in selling corn from the valley in Cleveland. In 1845, he and Christian Schultz started a distillery at Waverly. He very nearly ruined himself in this venture, not understanding the business. He had to pay his partner $20,000 or fail. He borrowed the money of James Davis and saved himself, though at this time he owed $80,000. The firm became Emmitt & Davis and made money. It cleared $100,000 in five years and he bought out his partner for. $100,000. Mr. Emmitt first traveled on a railroad in 1843 from Cumberland, Maryland, to Baltimore. Robert Montgomery and William Hall of Portsmouth accompanied him. In 1856, Mr. Emmitt purchased the distillery just below Chillicothe and while operating it, contributed $20,000 towards building the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad. In 1861, he secured the removal of the County Seat from Piketon to Waverly. In the same year his Chillicothe distillery burned with a loss of $80,000. He rebuilt the distillery in sixty days. Before the war tax, whiskey sold at 15 cents per gallon. When the tax was to be put on the distillers got a stay for 60 days. Emmitt's share of the lobbying to secure this was $10,000. Emmitt's distillery ran night and day, during the 60 days grace and had a great stock of liquors on hand when the tax went on.. In 1858 and 1859 was the great County Seat contest. He determined the County Seat should be moved to Waverly. He offered to build the Court House and jail and a road to Wayerly and donate them all to the County. His petition to the Legislature outnumbered the remonstrants. Alex Sands lobbied for the bill. William Newman then in the Senate from Scioto County, favored the bill as did Cockerill from Adams. Will H. Reed, the attorney worked for Piketon, but his opponents took advantage of his weakness and kept him out of the way most of the time. General Wells S. Jones worked for Jasper. _Colonel Higgins also worked for Waverly. When the bill finally passed, the campaign was a nine days wonder. Emmitt canvassed the County with a band wagon and band and with speakers galore. The vote of the people gave 309 majority for Waverly. The contest cost Mr. Emmitt at least $40,000. Mr. Emmitt built up. Waverly. He built the Emmitt House, organized and conducted in Waverly a bank, a sawmill and grist mill, a furniture factory, a lumber yard and a large general store. He was engaged in other enterprises in Chillicothe and elsewhere. At one time he paid 1-3 of the taxes of Waverly and I-10 of Pike County. He was instrumental in the building of the Springfield, Jackson & Pomeroy Railroad and was its first President. He built the first bridge across the Scioto river in Pike County. In 1865, he took a trip to Europe and was gone nine months. Mr. Emmitt invested $3,000 in the Muskingum Valley Railroad, $6,000 in the Scioto Valley Railway and $90,000 in the Springfield, Jackson and Pome- . roy Railway. The Beaver pike cost him $15,000 and the bridge across the Scioto $20,000. John Morgan burned it. He built sixteen miles of the Waverly and Sunfish turnpike, at a cost of $40,000. In 1867, Mr. Emmitt was elected to the State Senate from the Seventh District, composed of Adams, Pike, Scioto and Jackson. The vote stood as follows:

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Majority for Emmitt 1342. Mr. Emmitt was re-elected to the Senate in 1869 defeating Doctor A. B. Monahan of Jackson. Em- ~ mitt received a majority of 565 in Adams and 428 in Pike. Monahan

Mr. Emmitt owned over 7,000 acres of farm land in Pike County: He owned a great deal of real estate in Waverly, Chillicothe and elsewhere. One of the most interesting and readable books ever published is the "Life and Reminiscences of Hon. James Emmitt as reviewed by himself," by M. J. Carrigan, published at Chillicothe, Ohio in 1888. It is history and romance happily combined. It is written in pure literary style and the interest is maintained throughout. For historical reminiscences of the Valley nothing equal to it has ever been published. As to books and literature Mr. Emmitt's knowledge was like the darkness of Egypt, but in seventy-five years from now that book will hand him over to posterity as a man of great literary acquirements. Mr. Emmitt knew men and he knew business. He had wonderful courage, will power and force of character, and that made up for the lack of early advantages, for which he was not responsible. While the ideas in the book are Mr. Emmitt's, they are clothed in the language of Mr. Carrigan; a happy combination making a book of local history priceless in value and interest. Mr. Emmitt died January 5th, 1895.

James W. Newman, of Portsmouth, Ohio, was born in Highland County, Ohio, March 12th, 1841, the son of William and Catharine Ott Newman. His father has a separate sketch herein.

Soon after the birth of our subject, his parents removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, where he has since resided. He was educated in the Portsmouth schools, graduating there from in the year 1855. Afterwards he attended the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, where he graduated in July, 1861. In November of that year, when but twenty years of age, he began the publication of the "Portsmouth Times," which he continued for thirty years, and his talent and ability, as displayed in its publication and management brought him reputation and fame. That newspaper is now one of the most influential in the State and its columns in the thirty years he managed it show Mr. Newman's ability as a journalist. In 1894, the "Times" property was turned into a corporation, in which Mr. Newman still retained an interest. '

In 1867, Mr. Newman was elected on the Democratic ticket to represent Scioto County in the Legislature, defeating Col. John R. Hurd, the Republican candidate for that office. In 1869, he was a candidate for re-election, but was defeated by Hon. Elijah Glover, by a majority of twenty-three votes. In 1871, Mr. Newman was a candidate of his party for the State Senate in the Seventh Senatorial Dis- | trict, composed of Adams, Scioto, Pike and Jackson Counties, and was elected and re-elected over the late Benjamin B. Gaylord, to the same office in 1873. During his second term he was chairman of the

Committee on Finance, and also of Benevolent Institutions, and conducted the affairs of these committees with recognized ability. In 1882 he was elected Secretary of State on the Democratic ticket, by a majority of 19,117 over Major Charles Townsend, of Athens County. In this electon he came within forty-one votes of carrying his own County, strongly Republican, and carried Hamilton County by _ over 10,000 majority In 1884, he was defeated .for re-election as Secretary of State by General James S Robinson, by a,majority of 11,242. It was a memorable campaign year in which Grover Cleveland was first elected President. Mr. Newman headed the State ticket in the October contest, and received the highest vote that has ever been cast for a Democrat in Ohio. In his first annual report, as Secretary of State, he recommended a system for taxing corporations, in the granting of articles of incorporation, and drafted the bill carrying out his ideas. This measure was that winter enacted into a law by the Legislature, and the system has since developed until it now produces a very considerable revenue to the State. On June 2oth, 1885, Mr. Newman was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Eleventh Collection District of Ohio, and held the office four years.

He was always prominent in his party, served on its stage, central and executive committees, and aided it in its councils and on the stump in every campaign for the past thirty-five years.

He was a prominent and active Elk, and served two terms as Exalted Ruler of the Portsmouth Lodge. He was called upon to deliver addresses on numerous occasions in connection with that body. He was a public speaker of high order, and his addresses on these occasions, as well as on others, were eloquent and well received.

In all public enterprises in the city of Portsmouth, Mr. Newman took a leading and prominent part, and was known as a public spirited citizen. He was fond of good literature, and kept well informed on all current topics.

On October 24th, 1871, he married Miss Kate Moore, a daughter of Colonel Oscar F. Moore, who has a separate sketch herein. 'They had one son, Howard Ott Newman. Mr. Newman died Jan. Ist, one of the principal farmers of Pike County, was born July 13th, 1845, on the farm where he now resides. His father, John Gregg, was born October 15th, 1808, in Pennsylvania, and emigrated to Ohio, in 1818. He came to Ohio to make a fortune and succeeded. He worked on the canal when it was being built through Pike County. Our subject had only a common school education and was reared to the occupation of farming and stock raising.

He was married November 8th, 1866, to Miss Minnie C. Downing whose parents were among the first settlers in Pike County. They have five children, John W., aged 32, who isthe Recorder of Pike County; George A., who is a book-keeper at Washington Court House; Edgar M., who is a book-keeper in the bank at Waverly, and two daughters, Ada Belle and Minnie E., who are at home with their parents.

Mr. Gregg represented Adams County as a part of the Seventh Senatorial District in the sixty-sixth and sixty-seventh General Assemblies, from 1884 to 1888 and did it ably and well. Mr. Gregg was in the dry goods business in Waverly from 1864 to 1866 and, with that exception, has always been a farmer. _ He resides in Seal Township, two and one-half miles east of Waverly. His two oldest sons are married and have families. He has always been a Republican, served on the central committee of his county many times, and has often been a delegate to district and state conventions.

Mr. Gregg is a man of generous and genial disposition. His heart is full of kindness and sympathy. It is said of him that no deserving person ever applied to him in vain. To the poor he has always been kind.

In politics he is one of the strongest of strong partisans. He never fails in an opportunity to aid his party or advance its interests as he sees them.

In business he is a man of the highest integrity and honor, and for those qualities he enjoys the confidence of all with whom he has any business relations. As a'legislator, Mr. Gregg made 'a most creditable and honorable record.

was born December 13th, 1827, in Portsmouth, Ohio. He was reared ona farm. In 1846, he went to the Mexican War and served until 1848. On August 22nd, 1862, he became Captain of Company F. ist Ohio Heavy Artillery, and served until December 19th, 1864, when he was discharged for physical disability. After leaving the army he was an insurance agent with James Lodwick and W. H. Bonsall. He was Clerk of the Courts of Scioto County, Ohio, from 1873 to 1879. He represented Scioto County in the House of Representatives from 1880 to 1882. He was in the State Senate from the Seventh District, composed of Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto Counties, from 1888 to 1892. In 1851 he married Miss Martha E. Orme. 'They had six children: J. Orme Cole, O. V. Cole, Charles C. Cole, A. Spencer Cole, Mrs. Ida Anderson and Mrs. Lollie L. Du-- duit. He was a Republican at all times. | He was raised in the Methodist Church. He died September 3rd, 1897, and was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery.

was born in Angelica, Alleghany County, New York, May 25th, 1829. His father was Lester Crandall, a native of Connecticut. The family removed to Warren County, Pennsylvania and later to Newport, Washington County, Ohio, in April, 1858. Lester Crandall was an old line Whig, a Justice of the Peace for a number of years and a soldier in the war of 1812. To him and his wife seven children weré born, four sons and three daughters, of whom the subject of this sketch, and William L. of Iowa, are the only survivors. Elias' mother's maiden name was Mary Tracy.

Our subject attended only the schools in the district where he resided until the age of sixteen years when he engaged in business for himself. He was a resident of Scioto County from 1853 to 1872. when he removed to Jackson County, where he has since resided. He was a part owner and manager of Empire Furnace in Scioto County, from 1861 to 1872.

On the 6th of January, 1861, he was meariied to Nancy Ford Forsythe, the daughter of James Forsythe, one of the proprietors of Empire Furnace. Our subject was the first store-keeper, then bookkeeper and then manager of this furnace. Since removing to the town of Jackson, he has been the general manager of the Globe Iron Works. His daughter, Elizabeth, married Benjamin Bentley, a grocer in Jackson; his daughter Carrie, married Edward McGee, a bookkeeper at Globe Furnace, Ky.

Mr. Crandall has been connected with the iron business in Scioto and Jackson Counties for forty-five years. When he first went to Jackson he bought an interest in Fulton Furnace, and afterward became a member of the Globe Iron Company, which has been manufacturing stone-coal iron. This plant has a capacity of twenty tons a day and is one of the leading pig iron manufactures in the Jackson iron and coal fields. Mr. Crandall is one of the principal business men in his section of the State, and has a wide acquaintance with the commercial as well as the political world. He was always a Republican. He voted for Fremont in 1856 and has voted for every other Republican candidate for President from that time since.

In 1895, he was the Republican candidate for Senator against James S. Thomas, Democrat, and was elected by a plurality of 4,189 votes. He was again a candidate and was re-elected in 1897 by a large majority. During his first term in the Senate he was on the Committee on Corporations, Chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining. He was also on the Committees of Agriculture, Medical Colleges and County Affairs., In his second term, he was chairman of the Fish and Game Committee and of County Affairs, and was a member of the Agricultural, Medical Colleges and Turn-pike Committees. In his own County he has been on the Executive Committee many years, and has been a delegate to the State, Congress- ional, Judicial and Senatorial Conventions in many years. He believes in protection, reciprocity and the gold standard, but gives most of his attention to his extensive business. He ts a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is not a fraternity man, not belonging to any lodges. He commands the confidence and respect of every one who is acquainted with him. .

Samuel Lincoln Patterson, who now represents the Seventh Senatorial District, is a great-grandson of Judge Joseph Lucas, who represented Adams County in the First Legislature of Ohio, and a sketch of whom is found elsewhere in this book.

He was born September 7th, 1860, at Piketon, Ohio, son of William Patterson and wife, Hannah Brown, who was a daughter of John R. Brown and his wife Levisa Lucas, daughter of Judge Joseph Lucas.

Our subject's father was born near Philadelphia. His father Thomas, died when his son William was quite young. The father of John R. Brown, named above was a Captain in the Revolutionary

Joseph Lucas. Mr. Patterson, the father of our subject, was a wagon maker and blacksmith. His wife had a farm adjoining Piketon and he operated that in connection with his trade. He died June 11th, 1879, and hs widow still resides in Piketon. Our subject attended school in Piketon until 1879, when he went to Lebanon. - He began the occupation of a school teacher in 1881, and followed it until 1886. In Piketon, he taught in 1884, 1885 and 1886, having the position next to the superintendent. |. He was Mayor of the village of Piketon from 1882 to 1890, and was a Justice of the Peace of Seal Township from 1883 to 1886. He was a member of the School Board in Piketon from 1889 to 1897. He was elected State Senator in the Seventh Senatorial District composed of Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto in the fall of 1899. At the organization of the Senate he was made Chairman of Finance, and was placed second on the Judiciary Committees and on the Committees on Public Works and Insurance. In 1901 he was re-elected to the Senate in the same district. He was married May 18th, 1882, to Miss Lizzie M. Bateman, daughter of Rev. Samuel Bateman, of Piketon. They have six chilren, two boys and four girls. In his political faith Mr. Patterson is an earnest Republican, and was chairman of the Republican Executive Committee for the first three years Pike County went Republican. - He is a man of strong convictions, but cautious and conservative in the expression of them. While among his friends, he is gentle and reserved in his manner, at the same time he is one of the most positive men, and firm in his purposes. As a lawyer; the longer he devotes himself to a cause; the stronger he becomes in it. He has great reserve force,.he always appears to have something reserved for then he prepares his pleadings which are models of accuracy. gives great promise as a lawyer. he has already taken a high position amongst his fellow Senators. bids fair to make an enviable reputation as a Legislator.

A Table Of The State Representatives

'Thomas Wall and... Abraham Shepherd. Daniel Collier........... . Abraham Shepherd and... Phillip Lewis, Jr. PRS DWE 5 ois caverens James Scott and........ Abraham Shepherd.. Alex. Campbel Andrew Ellison and.. Phillip Lewis, Jr...

was born in Virginia, in 1771, His father, William Lucas, was born in 1742, and served throughout the Revolutionary War, raising to the rank of Captain He belonged to one of the proud families of Virginia. THe owned extensive lands and negroes. His son, Joseph, was married in Virginia, in 1792, to Hannah Humphreys. He and his brother, William, came to the Northwest 'Territory in 1797, to locate their father's land warrants. 'They located at the mouth of Pond Creek in what is now Rush 'Township, Scioto County, then Adams County. In 1800, Captain William Lucas, father of our subject, sold his possessions in Virginia, and came to the Northwest Territory, and joined his sons. He had a son, John, who laid out the town of Lucasville in Scioto County, and his son, Robert, was Rep- resentative and Senator in the Ohio Legislature for nineteen years; Governor of the State 1832 to 1834; and Territorial Governor of Iowa from 1838 to 1841.

Joseph Lucas was one of the three Representatives from Adams County, in the First Legislature of Ohio, which met in Chillicothe, March ist, 1803, and continued its sessions until April 15th, 1803. This is the Legislature which met under a sycamore tree on the bank of the Scioto River.

Joseph Ljicas was well educated, and took a prominent part in public affairs. His colleagues from Adams County in the House were: William Russell and Thomas Kirker; in the Senate General Joseph Darlington. At this session, Scioto County was. organized and Joseph Lucas was made one of its Associate Judges, in which office he continued until his death in r808. In politics he was a follower of Thomas Jefferson; and 'in religion he was a Presbyterian. Dying at the early age of thirty-seven, a most promising career was cut short. He left three sons and three daughters. His daughter, Rebecea, married Jacob Hibbs, Sr., and was the mother of General Joseph L. Hibbs and Jacob Hibbs of Portsmouth, Ohio. His daughter, Levisa, married Jacob Brown, of Pike County, and became the mother of several well known citizens of that County. His sons, Joseph and Samuel, located in Muscatine, Iowa, and died there. Harry Hibbs, of the firm of J. C. Hibbs & Company, of Portsmouth. Ohio, is a great-grandson. 'The Hon. S. L. Patterson, of Waverly, Senator for the seventh district, is his great-grandson.

Judge Joseph Lucas was one of the active characters of Adams County, but fell a victim to the untried climate which the pioneers found in their first settlement.

came to the Northwest Territory in 1794. He was born in January, 1764, and died on his large farm on Ohio Brush Creek, where he was buried, April 17th, 1835. Colonel Collier selected the site of his future home on Ohio Brush Creek while surveying in that region with Nathaniel Massie and others. The lands, five hundred acres, were purchased from General William Lytle, who held military warrants of Jonathan Tinsley, John Shaver and George Shaver, Virginia Line, Continental Establishment.

Colonel Collier was prominently identified with the public affairs of Adams County in his time. 'The Second Legislative Session was from December 5th, 1803, to February 17th, 1804. The General _ Assembly was the Constitutional term for the Legislature, and met on the first Monday of December in each year. At this session, Daniel Collier, of Tiffn Township, John Wright, of Sprigg, and Abraham Shepherd, of Byrd 'Township, represented Adams in the Lower House. At the fourth legislative session under the second appointment, De- cember 2nd, 1895, to January 27th, 1806, Phillip Lewis, Daniel Collier and Abraham Shepherd were representatives from Adams and Scioto Counties. He was commissioned Colonel.of the Third Regiment, First Brigade, Second Division, of Militia, by Governor Samuel Huntington, December 29th, 1809. He served in the war of 1812, and was in the engagement at Sandusky. On May 2nd, 1814, Acting Governor Othniel Looker, endorsed Colonel Collier's resignation as follows: 'The resignation of this commission is accepted on account of long service, advanced age and bodily infirmities." Among Colonel Collier's old tax receipts in possession of on¢ of his grand children, is one dated September 8th, 1801, for one hundred and 'seventy-five cents, his land tax for that year and subscribed by John Lodwick, Collector for Adams County. In 1811, the tax on the same land was nine dollars, as shown by the receipt of Thomas Massie, Collector. His wife was Elizabeth Prather, born December 9th, 1768, and died August 4th, 1835. He had twelve children: James, John, Thomas, Daniel, Joseph, Richard, Isaac, Sarah, Elizabeth, Katherine, Luther and Harriet. Abraham Shepherd came from Virginia's best blood. His grandfather was Captain Thomas Shepherd; and his grandmother was Elizabeth Van Meter, daughter of John Van Meter. His father John Shepherd was born in 1749; and in 1773 he was married to Martha Nelson, born in 1750. They had seven children, six of whom were born in Shepherdstown, Virginia, and one at Wheeling Creek, Ohio. Captain Thomas Shepherd, his grandfather, died in 1776; and among other property he left a mill, which fell to his son, John, (father. of our subject), who was a soldier. He was a private in Captain William Cherry's Company, - 4th Virginia Infantry, from April, 1777, to March, 1778. The regiment was commanded by Colonel Thomas Elliott and Major Isaac Beall. His brother, Abraham, was a Captain of the rith Virginia Regulars. Captain Abraham Shepherd on August 13th, 1787, entered 1,000 acres of land, Entry No. 1,060, at Red Oak, Brown County, Ohio on Virginia Military Warrant, 290, for his own services. This was surveyed November 3rd, 1791, by Nathaniel Massie, deputy surveyor ; Duncan McKenzie and Robert Smith being chain carriers and Thomas Stout, marker. Our subject was born August 13th, 1776, at Shepherdstown, now Jefferson County, Virginia. Next year his father was in the service and so continued most of the time during the war. Fraom 1781 to 1787, his father operated a flour mill; and his son Abraham learned something of the business. It is said Abraham received a liberal education, for his time and surroundings. The details of that education we do not know; but we do know that he learned the operations of his father's mill, and the art of land surveying. In 1793, John Shepherd removed to Limestone, Kentucky, where he remained two years. In 1795, he removed to what was then