Scioto County, Ohio - Chapter 9: The Bar of Scioto County, 1903 (part 1 of 2)

Chapter 9: The Bar of Scioto County

General Observations Table of the Attorneys now Practising Law in Portsmouth Resolutions as to Judge Samuel Crull - Bar Meeting of November 21, 1885-Biographies of Members of the Bar who were not Congressmen,

The first lawyers who practiced in the county wére Thomas Scott of Chillicothe, and John S. Wills. Judge Scott has a sketch elsewhere. He practiced in Scioto County as late as 1840 although he never resided in the county. Thomas Scott and son maintained an office in Scioto County for several years. Judge Scott had four daughters out of his fifteen children residents of Portsmouth, Mrs. Howells, the first Mrs Col. Graham, Mrs. O. F. Moore and a Miss Kate Scott, who never married. He attended the courts in Adams county and in fact traveled the circuit. He practised before the Supreme Court in Washington and traveled back and forth on horse back.

John S. Wills was also one of the first lawyers. He was Prosecuting Attorney in 1804. He was born in Virginia in 1793 and admitted to the bar in 1804. He located first in Cincinnati, then practised in Adams County under the Territorial Government. He never lived in Scioto County though he attended its terms of court. He was living in Ross County in 1798. He was clerk of the Territorial Court in Adams County a short time. In 1809 he removed to Franklinton in Franklin County, and resided there until Brown County was organized in 1817, and he moved first into Ripley and afterwards to Georgetown where he died in 1829. He was prosecutor of Ross County in 1807- 1808.

Jessup N. Couch, of Ross County, 'was prosecutor of Scioto County in 1805. He acted as prosecutor of Scioto County as late as 1810 at the August term, and at the December term resigned. He was born August 3, 1778, at Reading, Conn., and graduated at Yale in 1802. He was admitted to practice in 1805. He was of literary tastes. He was appointed Supreme Judge in 1816 and served until 1821 when he died in office, at the age of 48, a bachelor. He was an uncle of Mrs. Dr. Burr, of Portsmouth, Ohio. His law library he bequeathed to his friend Judge John Thompson, of Chillicothe, and his general library to Mrs. Burr, of Portsmouth.

February 19, 1819, Samuel M. Tracy hung his banner on the outer walls. He announced that he had succeeded to the business of Judge Osborn, who had at that time begun a seven years term as President Common Pleas Judge. Samuel Miles Tracy practised at the Portsmouth bar thirty-seven years and in that period enjoyed the confidence of tthe public to a greater extent than any other lawyer who has ever practiced in Portsmouth. For years no public business was transacted by the city or county except under his advice. The juries in Scioto County believed in him implicitly. Whatever bore his stamp as law, both with courts and juries. No important case was ever presented to the courts at Portsmouth while he was at the bar unless he was on one side or the other. Yet he never aspired to any office higher than that of Prosecuting Attorney. He never sought any legislative office, although his ability would have suggested it. He was a high toned gentleman, reserved and dignified. His manner warded people away from him and yet he was the most successful lawyer in the county, in his time, or at any time subsequent.

Ezra Osborn came to Portsmouth about 1813. He was from Vermont. He was a good man, a good citizen and a good Christian, but a very indifferent lawyer. After being the President Common Pleas Judge for seven years he accepted the office of Justice of the Peace and held it for a number of years, and seemed to be more at home in that office than on the bench. He died in 1840 and left no descendants.

Joseph Sill of Chillicothe, practised in Portsmouth in 1821. It is not known whether he had an office in Portsmouth, but he never resided in the town.

In 1824, Clough & Osborn were partners. Henry Brush of Chillicothe, practised in Portsmouth but never resided in the town. On May 9, 1826, Ezra Osborn announced in the ""Western Times" that he had recommenced the practice of law and that he would attend to the business of N. K. Clough when the latter was absent in the circuit.

June 18, 1826, Edward Hamilton made his bow to the public. As we have told all the good things about him in his sketch, we will not repeat them here. He was a high toned gentleman above all things. He was too sensitive for the contests of the court room. His fine nature shrunk from it and he followed the quieter walks of the profession, but he knew the law.

The lawyers were, when he came, inclined to under estimate his ability. They had him elected Justice of the Peace and made up a fictitious case - one of them sued Peck in trover and conversion for the value of a pocket knife, Ali the lawyers were in the case, either as counsel or witnesses. An effort was made to turn the case into ridicule, but Justice Hamilton would not permit it. He conducted the case with the utmost decorum and gravest dignity, and at the conclusion of the trial found Peck guilty, and fixed the value of the property at $1.50. The lawyers were in high glee and had lots of fun. Ten days after the trial the Justice presented Peck with a formidable bill of costs. Peck pleaded it was all in fun, but the Justice was in earnest and made him pay the whole bill, damages and costs. Whether the bar called for their witness fees is not related, they probably did not, but Hamilton collected them. After that, the bar tried no more experiments on Hamilton.

' August 30, 1828 was when William V. Peck first appeared in Portsmouth. He was only at the bar-19 years, but was as able a lawyer as was ever in Portsmouth. While he resided in Portsmouth 50 years, the remainder of his time, over 19 years, was spent on the Common Pleas or Supreme Court Bench, or in retirement. Peck taught the public in Portsmouth that there were other lawyers of equal ability to Sam Tracy. When the commissioners sued David Gharky, ex-auditor, for overcharges, they employed Sam Tracy, and thought the case won. Gharky, the shrewd old German, employed Peck, who lost in the lower court but won out in the Supreme Court and got his client off free. Then the county officers for the first time appreciated the fact that there were other lawyers than Sam Tracy.

been appointed by the court to audit administrators, executors and guardians accounts, and that no accounts would be considered unless they had been audited by him. , February 25, 1830, N .K. Clough published that he had removed to Front street and that he had $2,000 to $3,000 standing out and wanted the money. At that time he was building the residence lately occupied by Dr. Arthur Moore on Fourth street. :

In 1832 both Peck and Hamilton advertised lots for sale. In the same year Joseph W. McCormick hung out his shingle in Portsmouth but did not remain over six months. His father was Adam McCormick of Adams County, an Irishman. and his mother was Margaret Ellison, daughter of Andrew Ellison, one of the pioneers of Adams County. He was a magnificent specimen of physical manhood, an Apollo Belvidere. He left Portsmouth and went to Cincinnati and from there to West Union. He was the second Attorney General of

~ Ohio, serving a few months by appointment in May 1831. He was prosecuting attorney for Adams County after he left Portsmouth and was a member of the

Benjamin Ramsey came to Scioto County in 1838. He was a bachelor and so remained while in Portsmouth. He has a sketch herein. He was a lazy man and left Portsmouth in 1858 to rest on a farm in Pennsylvania.

In 1842 Wells A. Hutchins came and formed a partnership with one Blinn. On June 8, 1842, the partnership was dissolved by Hutchins, instanter, and so announced in the papers, and then Ramsey and Hutchins were partners.

In 1846 Hamilton and Jordan advertised as partners. Hamilton afterwards became Secretary of the Territory of Oregon, and Jordan solicitor of the Treasury.

In 1852, John T. Flint advertised as a lawyer in Portsmouth. He was a northern man by birth, but went to Texas, where he became a southerner, and a Confederate and died there after the Civil War. He married Lavinia Feurt, daughter of Gabriel Feurt of Scioto County.

On February 28, 1854, George Fitzgerald came as a lawyer to Portsmouth, he remained but a short time, and so far as Portsmouth is concerned, oblivion has claimed him for his own.

On April 5, 1854, John W. Collings came to Portsmouth. He advertised as Collings and Collings, Attorney. The senior Collings was his uncle, George, former Common Pleas Judge in Scioto County, but whose connection with the business was merely nominal. j

On November 14, 1855, Whitney and Whitney advertised as attorneys-atlaw. They were brothers, George and John R.; George only remained a few months, John R. remained several years and then went to Warren County, where he has since resided.

In 1858 Jordan and McCauslen advertised as attorneys; McCauslen had removed from Adams County in 1857. He removed to Steubenville in 1865 where he resided until his death in 1876.

Edward F. Jordan, his partner located in Portsmouth about 1847. 'In 1861 he was appointed Solicitor of the Treasury and held the office eight years. He then located in New York City where he remained until his death.

In 1858 John Vanmeter was an attorney-at-law in Portsmouth. He remained long enough to be Mayor of the town and then left. He is now living at Salt Lake City, Utah.

In 1859, Hutchins and Guffey were in partnership. Guffey was in Portsmouth a number of years. He was its Town Clerk a number of times. He left Portsmouth during the war and came back afterwards, but did not remain long.

On April 30, 1864, Robert N. Sory and James W. Bannon were admitted to the bar; and on Sept. 24, 1864, McCauslen and Spry advertised as partners.

On January 23, 1867, the firm of Harper and Jones advertised and in April, 1867, Nelson W. Evans was practising alone. On November 27, 1867, he was appointed United States Commissioner and held the office until June 30, 1897.

May 20, 1874, Karl F. Thieme was a lawyer in Portsmouth. He was first a professor at the Young Ladies' Seminary, then a lawyer, and afterwards a elergyman. He is still living and preaching the gospel. He has a large and interesting family.

April 26, 1876, the firm of Thompson and Turley was announced, composed of the Hon. A. C. Thompson, Federal Judge and his brother-in-law, Henry Clay Turley now postmaster at Natchez, Mississippi.

September 3, 1882, the firm of Harper and Richards Was formed. It was composed of John J. Harper and John K. Richards, the present Solicitor General of the United States.

November 26, 1884, James M. McGillivray moved to Portsmouth, Ohio, and went into the firm of Thompson, McGillivray and Holcomb. The latter moved to Ironton.

The foregoing is taken from the several newspapers published in Portsmouth. It is published merely to show when lawyers located or first advertised in Portsmouth. Every lawyer of the slightest consequence dead, or living, has a notice or a sketch in the part of this chapter following.

The Portsmouth Bar never had any permanent association and never maintained a library till 1901, both of which facts are to be much regretted. The bar of Scioto County has furnished three Congressmen, one secretary of a territory, one Territorial Judge, one Solicitor of the Treasury, one Solicitor General of the United States, one Supreme Judge, seven Common Pleas judges, and one U. S. District Judge (Thompson) and its capacity for this is only lim-

Nathan K. Clough

To the Honorable William V. Peck, President Judge, Samuel Crull, Edward Cranston and Jacob P. Noel, associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Scioto County.

The undersigned members of the Bar and ieee of said Court, respectfully request, in view of the final adjournment of this Court and of the termination of the present Judicial system, to put upon your Recor\s an expression of our sentiments.

Judge Crull has with short intervals been upon the Bench for forty- 'three years. He has servedwith every President Judge except one. His early brethren are all gone. Few of the lawyers who first practiced before him are now alive. Not one of them is here. When he looks at the present Bar, he sees a majority who do not number as many years of life as he does of official service. The other members of the Bench have served comparatively a short time.

With each of you the most friendly relations have ever existed. The Bench under your administration has enjoyed our full confidence, and that confidence has enabled us to discharge harmoniously and satisfactorily the various and complicated duties growing out of our official and professional relations and each individual member of the Court retires from the Bench with our hearty approbation of his judicious course and our warmest wish for his welfare and

And thereupon the foregoing is by the Court ordered to be entered upon the Journal Record. And it is further ordered that this Court adjourn without. day. ' On November 21, 1885, at a bar meeting on account of the death of Col. O. F. Moore, Mr. Hutchins said, "I located in Portsmouth December 21, 1841. At that time John HE. Hanna was presiding judge, Richard Tomlin, Samuel Crull, Abijah Batterson were Associate Judges. The members of the bar were Samuel M. and Charles O. Tracy, Wm. V. Peck. Edward Hamilton, Archibald Hamilton, Richard H. Tomlin, Major D, F. Heaton, H. Goodwin Blinn, Benjamin Ramsey, Oscar F. Moore, and myself. Since that time there became members of the bar, Geo. Johnson, E. B. Cone, Cyrill H,. Bracket, J. M. Nelson, B. F. Conway, J. V. Robinson, Jr., Joseph M. Glidden, Elijah Glover, J. M. Whitney, John W. Col-, lings, Wm. H. Reed, Wm. S. Huston, Martin Crain, Henry E. Jones, George H. » Gaffey, E. Jeffords, George Turner, Robert N. Spry and James 8S. Pollitt, none of whom are now living. Those who became members of the bar but removed from Portsmouth and are still living are: Edward F. Jordan, Thos. McCauslen, James W. Davis, Joseph McDowell, W. A. Whitney, John W. Glidden, James T. Douglas, Perry J. Dunham, J. C. Hughes, James Culbertson, John E. Harper, George H. Jones and A. T. Holcomb."'

"When I made my first speech in court twenty-two of the present members of the bar had not been born, and the judge on the bench was but three years old." was born in 1778 in Francistown, N. H. The name was originally Cluffe. 'The first one of the family to emigrate was John Cluffe, who came over in the ship "Elizabeth" in 1635. He settled in Salisbury, Mass. He had two brothers who came over soon after. The ein is Welsh. and can be traced to the Twelfth Century, to a

Knight, from whom the title descended. 'Their coats of arms was a lion rampant, a lion couchant with a sword in the right paw, with a Latin motto, which translated reads, "Purity without spot or blemish," and the family lived up to it. The Cloughs were well known jin New England for their integrity. Nathan K. Clough attended Dartmouth College and graduated in 1806. His diploma of graduation is in the posession of his grand-daughter, Mrs. H. P. Pursell, of Portsmouth, Ohio. He studied law after his graduation and was admitted to the bar in New England. He located in Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1810, at the age of 32 years. He soon married Clarissa Hempstead, daughter of Hallam Hempstead, Sr., and sister of Mrs. James Lodwick and Mrs. William Oldfield. He was the Prosecuting Attorney of the county from December, 1814 to July, 1821, when he was succeeded by Samuel M. Tracy.

On March 15th, 1815, he was elected one of the nine first councilmen of Portsmouth. 'The nine were elected without reference to terms and then they were to draw for classes, three for one year, three for two years and three for three years. He drew one of the three years' terms and was re-elected in 1818 and 1821. On March 14, 1823, he resigned from the Council, He was elected the first Recorder of the town and re-elected annually until February 4, 1820, when he resigned and was succeeded by Jacob Clingman. While Prosecuting Attorney, he received allowances to the amount of $100.00 per year. In 1830, his professional income was estimated at $500, per year and his tax on it was $4.00.

His first residence in Portsmouth was on Second street where Steindam's three story brick building now stands and his office stood on the site of the Zoellner building now occupied by A. M. Glockner. In 1830, he moved his office to Front street. In 1820, he had a partner in the law business by the name of Wilkinson. In 1818 he was a School Trustee in Portsmouth. 'The school was conducted in the Methodist Church and seems to have been a private enterprise. In 1830, he built the residence on Fourth street recently occupied by Dr. Arthur Moore as an office. At that time he advertised he had out $2,000 to $3,000, and wanted payment.

In 1826, the county allowed him $8.00 for defending the defendant in State vs. David Vaughn. 'The services had been rendered in_ 1824, and he waited two years to obtain payment of his bill. As to his history in the town Council, we have a few traces. In 1815, he was on a Committee to lease school lands. In 1816, he was on a Committee to report regulations for the wagoners for using the streets and alleys with their wagons. On August 20th, he was fined for leaving Council without permission. At the same meeting John R. Turner and David Gharky were fined for being late. On September 17, 1822, he and Daniel Corwine were on a Committee. to buy

In 1831, he was one of the Commissioners to organize the Portsmouth and Columbus turnpike. In the fall of 1833, he removed to Piketon, Ohio, where he continued to reside until his death in June 1853. He made the Portsmouth Town duplicate in 1817, and received $4.00 for his service.

He was a Presbyterian in his religious faith and was at the meeting, when that church was organized in Portsmouth. Mrs. Mary Barrow Clough, wife of our subject, died in 1869 in Piketon. She was a cousin of Dr. G. S. B. Hempstead and traced her ancestry to Sir Robert Hempstead, who came to this Country in 1820, and was one of the founders of New London, Connecticut.

Our subject had five children, three of whom lived to Ae Dr. G. W. A. Clough of Chillicothe; Jane who married John Wesley Dunham, long a citizen of Portsmouth, and a daughter Mary, who died at the age of twenty-three years, unmarried.

In his political views, Mr. Clough was a Whig. As a lawyer, he was well read and did a great amount of business, but was prolix and tedious in his arguments. He was a safe and good counselor and possessed the confidence of the community.

was born at New London, Connecticut, in September, 1785, and came to Ohio in the winter of 1808-9, on an intended voyage to New Orleans. On reaching Chillicothe he came to the conclusion to remain there and he finished a course of law reading, which he had begun in Conrecticut; in the office of Colonel Henry Brush. He was admitted to the bar in 1809, and immediately published his professional card in the Scioto Gazette, of December 23, 1809, as follows:

Douglas

He got something to do. . In fact, he did a great deal before he ceased to practice law. Mr. Douglas stuck closely to his professionat work. We know of only two or three times in his life in which his months into the military service under General McArthur, and held the rank of Lieutenant, performing the duties of quartermaster and chaplain of the First Regiment of Ohio Volunteers. He was a member of the Eleventh Legislature, which met December 7, 1812, and adjourned February 19, 1813. He represented Ross and Pickaway Counties. While a member of this Legislature he participated in the election of Jeremiah Morrow to the United States Senate. In 1831, he was nominated by the Whigs for Congress, but William Key Bond and his personal friends claimed that Douglas' nomination was unfairly and irregularly made, and Bond announced himself as a candidate also. As this would'mean defeat to the Whigs, Bond and Douglas withdrew, and Governor McArthur was adopted as a Whig candidate, and was defeated by William Allen, who afterwards was his father-in-law. During his youth Mr. Douglas spent six years as a sailor in the whaling trade, and studied law one year before he came to Chillicothe. Colonel Wm. E. Gilmore says that he possessed such an extraordinary gift of seeming to know anything and everything, that no mortal man was able to gauge his real attainments. He was - a great reader and had a wonderful memory, and was able to quote from all current literature and all the classics, both English and Latin. ~ Colonel Gilmore relates having heard him in a temperance address to a hill-top audience, quote a page and a half of the seventh book of "'Paradise Lost," beginning with the first of the book, to reach the lines: "But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers."

He had a wonderful fund of humor, and could assume the style of most any of the well known poets or essayists ; and in making addresses could use long paragraphs apparently quoted from English classics. His wonderful knowledge of the titles of real estate in the Virginia Military district gave vast trouble to many a land owner among his contemporaries. .It is reported that some timid ones would not purchase any land unless the conveyances included a quit-claim deed from Douglas. He was a life long member of the Episcopal Church. In his personal appearance, he was short and stout. His eyes were gray, small and deep set in his fleshy face; and always twinkled with merriment. His brow and upper head were large, well arched and suggestive of intellect.

was born in Grandville, New York, in 1784. He graduated: from Middlebury College, Vermont, and entered upon the study of law, which he completed by graduating from the Philadelphia-law school.

He came to Chillicothe in 1810 and after the completion of one year's residence in Ohio, began the practice of law which he continued for half a century, although he survived a number of years after having relinquished his business. bans

Mr. Sill was an accomplished scholar. He ranked second to B. | G. Leonard, of all the men who have practiced at Chillicothe, in his 'attainments in history, mathematics and the classics; although in lawlearning a number have equalled and some excelled him. It was his habit throughout his very long life, to review daily some parts of his

A marked deficiency in Mr. Sill's make up was his want of confidence in his own powers. He would scarcely ever try a case unless forced to do so and then would seek the assistance of other lawyers much inferior to himself in learning and ability.

His conversation was often strikingly brilliant with genuine wit. and his frankness in the expression of his opinions was in marked contrast to his timidity in his practice in the courts.

Mr. Sill was very frequently appointed prosecuting attorney by the court, under the old constitution, and was elected prosecutor once after the adoption of the present constitution. He declined a re-nomination. He practiced law in Portsmouth, Ohio in 1821.

He was elected to the legislature in 1818 and in January 18109, offered a series of resolutions, which were adopted by the general assembly, and were the real initiative of the system of canals afterwards constructed in Ohio. He was an enthusiastic Whig in politics, and a zealous Republican and Union man after the Whig party became disorganized; but we believe he never sought political preferment from either party.

He saved a small competence only from his large practice; and when he became very old he exhibited a little, but only a little, of the avarice which is said to be the "vice of age." A notorious old dead beat who never paid any body anything, but was unknown to Mr. Sill, applied to him to rent one of his little tenements, and inquired what the rent would be. ''Four dollars and a half per month in advance," said Mr. Sill. Dead Beat reflected for a while and replied, "I can't afford it sir. I will give you four dollars and a shilling, sir, and no more." ! "Sir, you shall have the house," responded Mr. Sill; and he afterwards told his wife, he certainly was an honest tenant, whom he could depend on; for he counted so accurately what he could and could not afford to pay as rent. 'That shilling did the business. Dead Beat got in and staid six months, for which Mr. Sill, of course did not get one cent, besides having the expense of a "forcible detainer"' case to incur.

He was rather under medium size and weight. He had regular and pleasant features and expression of face. His eyes were dark hazel in color, and he had a curious habit of closing them while talking to any person. His hair was originally very dark, but began to turn gray at forty years before his death. . He began dying his hair and kept it up the remainder of his life, and sometimes with ill success, almost equal to that of '"Tittlebat Titmouse." fourth son of Hon. Rufus King, of-New York, minister of the United States at the court of St. James,United States Senator, and Federal Candidate for the Presidency in 1804, 1808 and 1816. He was born in Albany, New York, March 13, 1795. He spent his early boyhood with his father in London, England. Upon his return to this country, after proper preparation in a grammar school, he graduated from Columbia College. He finished his professional studies in a law school at Litchfield, Connecticut. In 1815 he came to Ohio and established himself at Chillicothe where in 1815 he was admitted to practice. In the same year he married Sarah, daughter of Hon. Thomas Worthington, Governor of Ohio. He was a member of the House in 1823, 1824, 1825, 1826 and 1827 and was Speaker at the last session. In 1827, 1828 and 1829 he was again in the House and at the last session was again Speaker. In 1830 and 1831 he was Senator from Ross County, but only served one session from December 6, 1830 to March 14, 1831. After his location in Chillicothe he soon acquired business and was very popular with all classes of the people. ''Ned" King is yet spoken of by all of the citizens of Chillicothe, who were old enough to have known him personally, with positive affection. He did the first legal work ever performed by. an attorney for the town of Portsmouth. This was on March 14, 1823 and the services were rendered in a suit of the Corporation against one Moore. He attended the Courts of Scioto County while a resident of Chillicothe. In 1831, he removed to Cincinnati, where he remained until his death and obtained a good practice in his new theatre of action, very steadily, and retained it as long as his health permitted him to attend to professional duties. In | 1833, in connection with three other gentlemen of Cincinnati, he was efficient in organizing a law school, and was one of the lecturers in it the following winter; and upon the establishment of the Cincinnati College in 1835, he was' appointed by the Trustees to a chair in the Law Department, but ill health prevented him from assuming this position. He was the father of Hon. Rufus King, who became a prominent lawyer of Cincinnati and lived to a good old age As early as October 1834, he was attacked by a dropsical disease; in the following winter he went to the South, in hope that the change would benefit him, but he did not realize any advantage from the journey. He returned greatly depressed, and thence forward grew feebler until his death, which occurred on the 6th day of February, 1836. 'There was a great deal to admire in Edward King's ability and a great deal to love in his character. He was quick and acute in perception, of active and vivid imagination, abounded in good natural wit, was fluent and pleasant in speech, graceful and often forcible in declamation and always gentle and polished in manners. He was generous to a fault, if that *be possible; cheerful, frank, cordial to all acquaintances, high or low, learned or ignorant, rich or poor. No wonder then "that his praise was in all men's mouths.'"' One little anecdote of him before we quit this sketch; "Joe! Joe!" called out King, one day in the court room; meaning to attract the attention of the very venerable Joseph Sill. "Well, what is it Ned?" replied Mr. Sill. '"Ned?' - who the devil authorized you to call me Ned?" tartly replied King.

was born in Chenango County, N. Y., 1798. He graduated at Hamilton College in 1815. He studied law and was admitted in 1818, and in the fall of that year visited Portsmouth, traveling horseback. He was looking for a location to practice law. He had relatives in Portsmouth, and made a lengthy visit. He had it in his mind to ride on to Lafayette, Ind. He lingered about Portsmouth, visiting all the shops, stores, etc. One William Dailey kept a store in Portsmouth at that time, and had a pretty grown up daughter who assisted in the store part of the time.

Tracy found himself visiting that store oftener than any other place, but he could not just tell why. However, he had made his visit in Portsmouth as long as he felt it proper and thought he must be moying on. So he mounted his horse and started for Lafayette, Ind. Along the way, every day, he kept thinking of that attractive Miss Dailey. He could not drive her image out of his mind, though he made no particular effort in that direction. Every day he rode west the remembrance of Miss Dailey grew stronger. Finally, when he was a few days' ride west of Cincinnati, he made up his mind he was in love with Miss Dailey and would return to Portsmouth, locate there and marry her. Once he formed the purpose he returned to Portsmouth.

On February 19, 1819, he published his card in the papers, and stated he would be happy to attend to any business entrusted to his care. He announced that he had succeeded to the business of Judge Osborn, who became presiding Judge February 6, 1820, and served one term. Until he was married, Mr. Tracy boarded at the Portsmouth Hotel, of which John Peebles was the landlord. He was married to Miss Mary Dailey October 13, 1822. She died November 5, 1845.

John Collins was an Associate Judge of Scioto County from 1803 to 1832. He took a great fancy to young Tracy, and had him appointed Prosecuting Attorney. We find he drew his first pay in this office June 22, 1821, when he was allowed $33.33, or at the rate of $100.00 per year. Judge Collins was so strong a friend of Tracy that he declared that he, Tracy, should be Prosecuting Attorney as long as he sat on the bench, and he kept his word. Collins retired in 1832, and Tracy held the office as Prosecutor until January, 1850. He was appointed by the Court of Common Pleas until 1833, when the office became elective for two years, and he was elected every two years from that time until October, 1849. No record of the elections of 1833, 1835, 1837, 1839 or 1841, 1843, 1845 or 1847 have been preserved, and we can give no figure; but we are told he was elected without opposition. In 1849 Mr. Tracy received the regular Whig nomination as usual Many felt jealous of him, and this encouraged E. W. Jordan, then a young lawyer and a Democrat. to stand against him. Jordan hesitated, but, being encouraged, finally concluded to run, and, at the election, Mr. Tracy received 933 votes to 961 for Jordan. The Whig majority was 350, and Mr. Tracy was the only candidate on the ticket defeated. Mr. Tracy was again a candidate for the same office as the regular Whig nominee in 1851. and was again defeated. This time the vote stood - E. W. Jordan, 1,434; Tracy, 731; Jordan's majority, 703. The Whig majority was about 4oo. Mr. Tracy felt much chagrined at this result, and justly so, for he had made a most efficient officer. In 1833, at Tracy's first election, he received seventy-eight votes in Wayne township, to fortythree for Ransom Odle, a seng-digger in the hills of the West Side. The persons who voted for Odle had sons who had stolen bee-hives and were prosecuted by Mr. Tracy.

In 1839 and 1&40 he was Corporation Counsel at $50.00 per year, In 1837 he was a School Visitor, and served as such most of the time till 1853

In 1827 he was employed i in the celebrated controversy about the Front of the Town, and perpetuated the testimony in relation thereto. In 1829 he and Washington Kinney were a committee to purchase the Front of the Town from Henry Massie. In 1839 he was a Director of the Commercial Bank, and in 1843, became one of its Assignees.

ed twice. His second wife was Mrs. Thurston. Mr. Tracy was a gentleman very proud and always on ae dignity. He was perhaps the best lawyer who ever practiced in Ports- - rary with him'and of the business men of his period of active life. He had an influence in the county possessed by no other lawyer before or since. 'The juries always believed in him and he never failed to convict a defendant when he made up his mind to do it. The County Officers, during the time he was Prosecuting Attorney would take no action without his advise and would follow the latter in every respect. With the County Commissioners, whatever Sam Tracy said, they did. He was engaged in all the principal litigation of his time. Captain James W. Davis, one of the leading business men of Portsmouth, said Samuel M. Tracy was the best lawyer he ever knew or heard of.

He had three daughters and one son by his first marriage. His daughter, Mary R., married George Johnson. Another daughter married M. B. Ross, and the third, Emily, married Mr. Julius C. Guthrie. His son, Samuel, died a young man.

It seems Mr. Tracy never had any ambition to be a Judge or a Congressman, but was content with being the leader of the bar to which he belonged. We doubt if there ever was another instance in the State of Ohio of the same lawyer holding the office of Prosecuting Attorney for 29 consecutive years.

was a younger brother of Samuel M. Tracy. He was born August 4, 1804 at Oxford, N. Y. He came to Portsmouth, Ohio in 1826 and located as a lawyer. He married Dec. 20, 1827 to Maria Kinney, a daughter of Aaron Kinney and had a family of two sons and three daughters. His son, Uri Tracy is living in Columbus. His son, Van Der Lyn Tracy, born in 1829, died a young married man. His daughters are Mrs. Frank Oakes, Mrs. Mary Camnitz of Goshen, Ohio and Mrs. Alice Hurd, wife of Colonel John R. Hurd of Colorado. In 1830, he built the home on Washington street just south of the German M. FE. Church and resided there until his death.

In 1830, his income as a lawyer was estimated at $300.00 and arose to as high as $1500.00 in 1851. From March 6, 1830, until March 7, 1831, he served as Auditor of Scioto County, Ohio by appointment, but never was a candidate for any office. He left all of that to his brother, Samuel. In 1832, he was the Supervisor of the East ward in Portsmouth and received $3.25 for one vear's services. He was an eloquent advocate, but a lazy lawyer. It took considerable to rouse him up, but once aroused, he was as good a lawyer as any at the bar. He was wittv, eloquent. courteous and kind to every one. As an advocate he was clear, logical and cogent. He was fond of hunting and fishing and never was happier than when with a hunting or fishing party, and.a three weeks hunt or fish was the acme of his enjoyment.

He often said that the only meat fit to eat was that killed and dressed in the woods, and eaten there. He had a fund of anecdotes apparently inexhaustible. Hon. James W. Ashley, afterwards Con- gressman from the Toledo District, was a law sttdent under him. As a companion, Charles Oscar Tracy was one of the most agreeable and entertaining of men.

must have come to Portsmouth in 1837. The first notice we have of him in Portsmouth was in 1838, when the Ward Assessor found him and listed his income as a lawyer at $300. The next three years he dropped $100 off that and in 1843, he went up to $500, in 1847 to $800 and in 1851 to $1,000, which was the high water mark with him. March 11, 1851, he was elected Mayor of Portsmouth and served two years, defeating James M. Ashley. In 1851, he was elected Probate Judge, the first elected. He took his set February 9, 1852, and served till November, 1853, when he resigned. He then got on to a stage coach and went to Western Pennsylvania, where he came from. He was a bachelor while he lived in Portsmouth. . He was a Whig but would not join the "Know Nothings." If he ever had any religion, it never materialized. As a lawyer, he was only moderately successful. He was a large man, lazy and indolent. In 1838, he was in partnership with one William S. Murphy, as Murphy and Ramsey. In 1842, he was in partnership with Hon. Wells A. Hutchins, in his first year in Portsmouth. The firm was Ramsey and Hutchins. In 1846 he was in partnership with Sterret Barr as Ramsey and Barr. In 1842, he delivered a lecture to the Franklin Institute. These are all the vestigia he left in Portsmouth. He pulled out November 8, 1853.

Andrew Crichton was born August 8, 1819 in Perthshire, Scotland. With his father's family he emigrated to this country in 1833 at the age of fourteen. Most of his education was acquired at Perthshire, where the schools - like those in Scotland generally - were good. At an early age he assisted in the Clerk's office in Portsmouth and remained there for many years with John R..Turner. In 1841 he was elected County Recorder on the Whig ticket. He had 1,459 votes and his opponent, Daniels, 1,058. He was re-elected in 1847 and again in 1850. In 1853 he went on the bond of Martin Crain as Recorder. He was a lawyer in 1845 and was taxed as such on an income of $500, in 1851 he was taxed on $1,000, his income varving between these two dates from $250 to $1,000. He was a practicing attorney in this county until he died on March 14, 1855. In - he married Virginia McCoy by whom he had four children: Miss Kate Crichton of Portsmouth being the only survivor. The work by which Mr. Crichton was best known among this people was the admirable methods employed by him in the Recorder's office. E'verthing there under his care was a model of neatness and order. Any point which the records were designed to show could be found in a moment, and the information was always accurate and reliable. For many years after his incumbency, it was common for the older attorneys to refer to the methodical accuracy which characterized everything committed to the care of the Recorder's office under Andrew Chrichton.

was born in Messina, St. Lawrence County, New York, October 6, 1820. His father was Elijah Jordan and his mother Betsey (Frazee) Jordan. His father was a Baptist minister of repute for unusual eloquence, with a talent for many useful things such as cooper, watchmaker, carpenter, flute player and verse maker, by turns. As a boy, Edward Jordan had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and was a great book reader. He at one time tried to leard the blacksmith trade, but found that he had no taste for the work. Having received the rudiments of an education, he concluded that the next best thing for him to do was to teach school, and he started out on a career for himself: He was very fastidious in his personal habits and was always neatly dressed. He had fine black hair and black eyes. He was always close shaved, and his linen was always immaculate. At that time he had a taste for athletics, being a good horseman, an excellent shot, and could row and manage a sail boat. As a youth, he never smoked or drank, and refused to gather with men in saloons, but was very fond of attending picnics, political gatherings, torchlight processions, barbecues, and demonstrations of that character. He was a young man of great personal courage. He came to Portsmouth in 1844 and entered himself as a law student with Samuel M. Tracy. He was an intimate friend of Ralph Leete, who was a pupil of Judge W. V. Peck. He maintained himself by teaching school. He taught at the old Red School House near Portsmouth, Ohio.

He and Leete were great friends and use to spend their Sunday afternoons together in Jordan's office, reading and criticising one another. James M. Ashley was with them part of the time. Mr. Jordan was admitted to the bar in 1846 and immediately formed a partnership with Edward Hamilton which dated from the 15th of February, 1846. In 1845, he was rated as a practicing lawyer in Scioto County and his income was assessed at $500. He and James M. Ashley at one time edited and conducted a Democratic newspaper in Portsmouth. In 1847, his practice was assessed at $400, in 1848, at $600, in 1849, at $800, in 1850, $1,000. In 1849, he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Scioto County, Ohio, on the Democratic ticket, being the only Democrat elected. He had 961 votes and Samuel M. Tracy 936. The Whig majority that year was 549. Mr. Jordan had no expectation of election. Samuel M. Tracy had been Prosecuting Attorney for the County for twenty-nine consecutive years and some one induced Mr. Jordan to place his name on the Democratic ticket merely to see what could be done. In 1851, he was re-elected against the same competitor. receiving 1,434 votes to 731 for Mr Tracy. His majority was 703.

April 26, 1851, he was elected City Clerk. He-had 223 votes to 207 for J. L. Watkins. In 1856, he changed his politics, before that he had been a Democrat, but became a Republican on account of his antislavery ideas. Between 1856 and 1860 he became an intimate friend of Salmon P. Chase, and this friendship caused his appointment in Washington, hereafter mentioned.

He removed to Lawrence County in 1854 and was Prosecuting Attorney of that county from 1856 to 1858. He took an active part in the campaign of President Lincoln and after his cabinet was formed, he was made Solicitor of the Treasury and held that office for eight years, serving from 1861 to 1869. At the close of his term of service as Solicitor of the Treasury, he took his family to Flushing, Long Island, where he lived until 1872, while practicing law in New York city. His partners in New York were: Grosvenor P. Lowry, William Mellen, Daniel G. Thompson. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church while in Portsmouth. During Cleveland's administration, he left the Republican party and became a Democrat again. This was largely on account of the tariff question.

He was patient and deliberate and nothing could hurry him. Ralph Leete says he could control his temper better than any man he ever knew. He was industrious and energetic in his profession. He was courteous to all and a good advocate He was slow to form his purposes, but sure to carry them out. He had great force of character and good judgment in legal matters. On October 27, 1852, he was married to Augusta Ricker, at Franklin Furnace, Ohio. Their children were: Mary Augusta, Professor of English, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts; Susan Elizabeth, now Mrs. George Dimock of Elizabeth, New Jersey :Emily, now Mrs. Henry C. Folger of Brooklyn, New York; and Francis who married Harriet F. Abbott, daughter of Rev. Lyman Abbott of Brooklyn, New York. Our subject retired in 1872 to Elizabeth, New Jersey, where he made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Dimock until his death on September 22, 1899, surviving his wife eighteen years. He and his wife are buried in Woodland Cemetery near Ironton, Ohio.

was born in a suburb of Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 24, 1822, son of John Clinton and Mary Ann (Kirkpatrick) Ashley. His colonial ancestor was Capt. John Ashley of London, England, whose name appears in the second Virginia charter of 1707. His great grandfather, William, . was master's mate in the navy during the Revolution. His grandfather. Rev. Benjamin Ashley, was a Baptist minister, and his father (b. 1800, d. 1855) was also an itinerant minister and a follower of Alexander Campbell. His mother was born in Alleghany City, Penn., in 1800, and died in Matamoras, Ohio, in 1861. The family, then consisting of husband, wife and three children, removed to Portsmouth, -

Ohio, in the spring of 1826. James M. Ashley was educated at home under the stern discipline of his father, whose rigor clashed with the spirited and fun-loving nature of the youth, so that at the age of fourteen he left home. He never received much school-education. His mother sympathized with her spirited son, and her letters followed him in all his wanderings. After leaving home he became a common laborer on a flat-boat, then cabin boy, then clerk of a river steamer. He later engaged in freighting on the Ohio, with a flat boat of his own. During his first voyage down the Mississippi he left the steamer at Memphis, to call on his boyish hero, General Jackson, at the ''Hermitage,'' where he was received very kindly.

In February. 1841, he visited Washington to witness the inauguration of President Harrison, and while there Col. Richard M. Johnson, the retiring vice-president, introduced him to President Van Buren and other distinguished men. Some years after, he again visited Washington, and was introduced to President Tyler and John C. Calhoun, whom he found personally a very pleasing man. He attended the Democratic convention at Baltimore in 1844, and through Colonel Johnson had a seat on the floor of the house with the Kentucky delegation. Beginning active systematic work as an abolitionist when but eighteen, he spared neither time nor labor to understand the position and tendency of every public man of prominence in the South, and also the exact status of as many of the men of intellect in that section who were not in public life as could be induced to answer his letters. These facts show how, through correspondence and personal acquaintance he was enabled later clearly to comprehend the power and purpose of those who menaced the national life. During his life on the river he saw much that horrified him with the slave system. In later years he used to relate how free negroes employed to work on the same steamer with himself would be kidnapped. At landing places where the steamer would stop to take on freight they would go ashore to help with the work, and would be arrested on the charge of being runaway slaves, and being unable, without money or friends, to make a defense, and no owner appearing, would finally be sold to pay the _expenses of apprehending them. Returning to Portsmouth while still young he studied medicine for a time, and then drifted into the newspaper business, conducting a Democratic newspaper for a time.

The Democratic Inquirer was started in Portsmouth by James M. Ashley and Edward Jordan, two prominent Democrats. , The first publication of the paper was April 6, 1848. They published another issue April 13th, and then the enterprise broke down. Neither of them had a cent of capital. Captain Francis Cleveland bought them out and continued the Inquirer as a Democratic paper, gotten out every week until 1849, when it became a daily paper. After the failure of the newspaper, young Ashley began the study of law with Charles -O. Tracy and in 1849 he was admitted to the bar. In January 1851, he was assessed as a lawyer upon an income of $1,000 but it is doubtful if he earned that amount of money. However as the tax was only $5.00, Mr. Ashley, rather than admit that he had not earned it, paid it. On April 7, 1851, our subject was a candidate for Mayor as a Democrat against Benjamin Ramsey as a Whig and he was defeated. The vote stood: Benjamin Ramsey, Whig, 261, James M. Ashley 201, William Oldfield 97. If Judge Oldfield had kept out of the race Ashley might have been elected and his wonderful career belonged to the Portsmouth instead of the Toledo District. But it was "kismet" that the electors of Portsmouth were to make this mistake. If the citizens of Portsmouth had known of what greatness and talent Mr. Ashley was possessed, probably this would not have occurred as Ramsey was a man who attained no distinction whatever and he was too lazy to live. But this discouraged young Ashley with Portsmouth and justly so.

While in Portsmouth he became connected with the "underground railway," and at great risk to himself assisted aynumber of runaway slaves in their flight to Canada. In those days it was, of course, very necessary to be secretive about this; otherwise, with the state of sentiment that then prevailed along the Ohio Valley, he would have been sent to the penitentiary. At one time he met a Quaker on the street who said to him, ''James, I think thee needs this," at the same time handing him $20.00. , Knowing that the Quaker was of anti-slavery sentiments he came to the conclusion that this money was given hin: to aid in the operation of the underground railway, and thinking that if the Quaker knew of his activity in that direction many others must. he decided to leave Portsmouth and in 1851 removed to Toledo, Ohio, where he engaged in the wholesale drug business. From the first he was very active in politics. In 1852 he at first supported Franklin Pierce, but later seeing the pro-slavery drift of the Pierce campaign, he changed his mind and voted for Hale and Julian. In 1854 he participated in the first Republican Convention of Lucas County held in the Court House at Maumee. During the Fremont-Buchanan campaign of 1853 he delivered many speeches of remarkable ability and boldness, declaring among other things, "that there was no escape from a revolution that must end either in the destruction of the Union, or in the abolition of slavery' - thus anticipating Lincoln's celebrated declaration "that a house divided against itself cannot stand." to Illinois and at Alton first met Mr. Lincoln and heard his last speech in the famous Lincoln-Douglas debate. A very warm friendship followed, which lasted until Mr. Lincoln's death. Mr. Ashley soon became a prominent figure in the Republican ranks, acting with the most radical Abolitionists, many of whom he had long known. Dur- ing the first session of Congress, after Mr. Lincoln became president, he introduced a bill for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, which met with no support and was finally replaced by another bill, the joint work of Mr. Ashley and Hon. Lot M. Morrill, which was finally passed April 11, 1862. It appropriated $1,000,000. with which to compensate the owners for their slaves, but was supported by Ashley and his friends as the precursor to emancipation. He had no faith in compromises, but from the outbreak of the Civil War believed that the Union would be preserved. To that end his first re-construction bill was prepared in June, 1861, before leaving home to attend the extra session of Congress, convened by President Lincoln July 4th of that year; but his colleagues were not prepared for it.

At the regular session, December 23, 1861, he introduced a successful resolution instructing the Committee on. Territories, of which he was chairman, to inquire into the legality and expediency of establishing territorial governments within the limits of disloyal states. On March 12, 1862, a majority of the committee reported his bill, but it was laid on the-table. Mr. Ashley introduced a bill for the organization of the Territory of Arizona, and aided in securing a law prohibitivg slavery in the territories. On December 14, 1863, he introduced a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, but on June 15, 1864, this proposition was defeated in the house. On his motion to reconsider Mr. Ashley succeeded in converting twenty-four horder-state and northern Democrats and secured the passage of the measure. On January 31. 1865, the 13th Constitutional Amendment was passed. and of this vote..Mr. Ashley said later: "I knew that the hour was at hand when the world would witness the complete triumph of a cause, which at the beginning of my political life I had not hoped to live long enough to see." On his re-election to Congress in 1864, Mr. Ashley was tendered a banquet, at which. Hon. Salmon P. Chase said: "To him, more than to any other man, do we owe the consecration of all the new states to liberty by irrepealable provisions of fundamental law.". March 7, 1867, Mr. Ashley introduced the resolution for the impeachment of President Johnson, ard on May 29, 1868, a constitutional amendment proposing the election of president by direct vote of the people. In 1869 he was appointed territorial governor of Montana, which territory, with Arizona and Idaho, he had organized and named while chairman of the committee on territories, but he re- -mained only about a year on account of a difference with President: Grant. In the presidential campaign of 1872, Mr. Ashley supported Horace Greeley and favored the restoration of all rights, dignities and privileges forfeited by the rebellion, claiming that by so doing the republic would be elevated toward heiehts of moral grandeur.

ciation which he received |The colored people did everything in their power to honor him while living and to perpetuate his memory when dead, making a souvenir volume of his addresses. He left public life in 1870 with depleted finances, but observing that a railroad extending north from Toledo, across the peninsula of Michigan would furnish an outlet for about 300 miles of country, then largely without such facilities, he purchased valuable terminals at Toledo entirely on credit and proceeded to build the road north to Lake Michigan; there, with his eldest son, J. M. Ashley, Jr., constructed a fleet of train-carrying ferry boats, operating them to and from Gladstone, Wis., - the first vessels to carry trains across so wide a body of water. This made the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan an important line. In connection with this great enterprise, Mr. Ashley again indulged his philanthropic impulses by schemes of industrial profit-sharing.

When the disciples of John Brown, who had, encouraged him to make his raid on Harper's Ferry, all deserted him, Mr. Ashley had the courage to go into the midst of the angered south and visit the friendless old man in his prison, procured permission for the wife to visit the husband, and the tragedy over, asked for the body of the dead martyr and sent it north among the Adirondack hills. Meeting the stricken wife he said, with tears streaming down his face: "Dear Madam, Virginia has hung your husband, but Virginia will, some day, erect a monument to his memory,and his name will live among the martyrs of freedom and the race when all the rest of us aré forgotten." Mr. Ashley was married in 1851 to Emma J. Smith, of Portsmouth, Ohio. They had three sons, James M., Henry W., and Charles S., and one daughter, Mary, wife of Edward Ringwood Hewitt of New York City. 'To his family he was remarkably kind and liberal, giving all his children college educations at a time when the financial strain was hard to bear; and in every other way he was kind and indulgent to an unusual degree. Governor Ashley died September 16, 1896.

Gov. Ashley always considered that his want of education was a very great handicap to his success in life. He never learned in school how to spell well or to express himself with perfect grammatical correctness. | His mind was so made that while capable of long and intense labor on matters that interested him, he found it very difficult to do dry detail work of uninteresting sort, and for this reason he never made up the deficiencies of his early training. This characteristic followed him in business and in politics. His methods of business, while characterized by great foresight, and a large ability in appreciating the factors of enterprises of magnitude, seriously lacked carefulness of detail. He was extremely good at working out his own ideas, but had small inclination to put much time or study upon the | suggestions of others. When putting up buildings he would plan them himself rather than invite the best skill of an architect. When moving the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1867, he put no time or study upon a precedent. It is quite in accordance with this general trait that he is reported to have been somewhat averse to manual labor when he was a young man, although considered very bright mentally.

Perhaps his most remarkable quality was the extraordinary courage with which he would pursue his designs regardless of serious obstacles. His railroad enterprise was prosecuted and over $6,000,000 obtained and expended by him on a very slender private capital. This involved him in very heavy liabilities and for fourteen years he was under a continuous financial strain. The failure of the railroad he had built with so much effort, after he had ceased from active control of it, was a very great grief to his last years, although he uttered no word of complaint. In social life he was a delightful reconteur having a very large appreciation of humor and loving to entertain his friends with stories and narratives that interested himself. If these had been preserved they would make no small addition to the history of the period in which he lived.

was born 'June 1, 1808, near Northfield, New Hampshire. His father Charles Mills Glidden -was a successful stock raiser in this state. He moved with his family to Scioto County, Ohio, about 1820; where he followed the same vocation until his death, which occurred a few years later. Joseph Glidden was one of a family of seven sons : John, who died in young manhood, Miils, Jefferson, Obadiah, Galusha and Dan, all of whom were successful iron furnacemen. Our subject graduated with high honors at Dartmouth College in 1829 and wrecked his health by hard study in his course. Directly after he graduated, he took a three years voyage in a whaling vessel and came home a well man physically, but his mind was never what it was before his arduous study at college. He studied law at Portsmouth with Judge Peck, was admitted to the bar of Scioto County, but practiced but little. In 1845, Mr. Glidden was elected Marshal of Portsmouth, but resigned December 5, 1845. He was at one time a Justice of the, Peace in Portsmouth. He was married first to Mary Donaldson of Highland County about 1835. She died and left one child, Charles Henry, now living at Lincoln, Illinois. In 1844, he married Eliza Emory Young, daughter of Rev. Dan Young, who was so prominently identified with early Methodism in Scioto County. Eliza Young, his wife, was born near Northfield, New Hampshire, October 3, 1810, and came with her parents, when a babe, to Scioto County, Ohio, She was one of a very numerous family of sons and daughters. . At the age of sixteen, she taught a country district school. After that she taught in a private family, the Pogue's in Kentucky. She began teaching in the Portsmouth schools in 1839 at the age of twenty and taught till her marriage in 1844. She began teaching again in 1852 and taught continuously till June 1878. She taught the colored schools a part of the time. She had the reputation of being one of the best teachers in Portsmouth. Of this last marriage there were three chil+ dren: Jefferson, Kate and Flora, now Mrs. John E. Williams, all residents of Williamson, West Virginia. Joseph Glidden died May 7, 1865, at Portsmouth. His wife died September 29, 1881, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John E. Williams, at Syracuse, Meigs County, Ohio.

was born on the South Branch of the Potomac River in Virginia, about 1810. His father and mother brought their family, a large one to Adams County and they settled near Loudon. There Mr. Reed was educated in the common schools. After he came of age, he went to Sinking Springs and engaged in merchandising. He concluded law was best for him and carding law in West aint under Nelson Barrere. He was admitted to the bar in 1846, and located in Piketon, where he very soon attained distinction in his profession. He was on one side of every case of importance in Pike County for years, even after he left there and located in Portsmouth, which was in 1863. He was most highly esteemed as a lawyer in Pike County. Every one had confidence in him and believed in him. As a lawyer, he was disposed to be technical. He could always make a good argument to the Court or jury. While in Pike County, he was a partner in the banking business of T. Sergeant & Co., which failed. He also took an interest in Pioneer Furnace, which turned out badly. May 17, 1849, he married Mrs Catharine Penn, a daughter of Judge Johnson of Hillsboro. They had one child, Charles A., who grew to manhood. graduated at Marietta College and studied law. His health failed and he went to lowa, where he died August 2, 1878. Mr. Reed never obtained the confidence of the people of Scioto County, or Adams, to the extent he had obtained that of the people of Pike County. That was not however, because it was not deserved. Mr. Reed was not of a pushing disposition. He never went after business, but let it come to him. Judge W. W. Johnson of Ironton passed a high compliment on him. He told of him that when a certain enterprise he was in failed and the partners were sued and judgments were obtained, others sought to conceal and dispose of their property, but he never tried to avoid the payment of any obligation and let his property be seized and applied to the debts of the concern.

Mr. Reed became addicted to the drink habit in- Pike Christe! and it ruined his life. He had enough troubles to drive one to drink. He never told them himself, or talked of them, but his acquaintances did. He died at about the age of 68 and was interred at Loudon in Adams County, where his grave is unmarked. He was an honorable man and a faithful, able and honorable attorney. He was no man's enemy but stooped in his shoulders. The top of hjs head was bald and around the sides of his head he had a fringe of brown hair, as fine as silk, and which never turned gray- His voice had a squeak in it. owmg to am injury to his palate m middie life Had he sat for Renan's pen pacture of St. Paul im the latter's life of the Great Apostle, the descrip tion would not have been more true to himself. Mr. Reed was 2 Whig, while the Whig party was m existence. He afterwards became a Republican. He was never a candidate for amy public office. His | great strength lay im defending a case. - It was customary with him to file a ger denial whenever it would lie and to require the plaintiff to make full proof. If he failed to prove any necessary fact. then Reed demanded a non-suit. He was never a member of any Church. at least. not in his latter days His religion consisted of his honesty and m-

- a ei William S. Heston . was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, Jamuary 21. 1824. the eldest son and child of Captain Sammel J. and Elizabeth (Leonard) Huston. He was in 1857 on the $58. to February 9, 1861. He was appoimtof the 56th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Ocee < George Ott Newman ; in Stanton. Virginia. November 9. 1836, the eldest of stx 4 He attended the public schools of Portsmouth and m

1853, entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at~Delaware, Ohio, and graduated in 1858. He entered the office of Moore and Johnson as a law student directly after his graduation. On August 1, 1860, he was admitted to the bar by the District Court of Morrow County, Ohio, and began practice in Portsmouth. In April, 1861, he was First Sergeant of Company A, 15th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Militia. This Company responded to the first call for 75,000 troops in 'the Civil War and became Company G, 1st O. V. I. It served from Apri! 16, 1861, until August 1, 1861. It reached home 3 a. m. August 16, 1861, and every one was out to welcome it. Hon. Wells A. Hutchins delivered the welcoming address. Mr. Newman replied for the Company. Mr. Newman was elected in 1861 Prosecuting Attorney on the Democratic ticket, J. J. Harper being the Republican candidate. In 1863, the same two were opposed for the same office and Harper was elected. In 1868, Mr. Newman was the candidate of his party for Common Pleas Judge but was defeated. Mr. Newman was married September 1, 1866, to Miss Clay B., eldest daughter of Colonel O. F. Moore. Their children are Oscar William, a member of the Portsmouth Bar; Mrs. Kate Alger, wife of Edwin N. Alger of Huntington; W. Va.; Mrs. Fannie Shaw, wife of Edward H Shaw, and Charles Russell. Mr. Newman is a good and well read lawyer. He is uniformly correct in preparing all legal instruments, a wise and prudent counsellor, and always takes the safe side. He has been President of the Portsmouth Library Board since its creation and has been a member of the Board of City Elections since 1880, its first organization. In politics, he has always been a Democrat. He is not a member of any Church, but prefers the Episcopal. He has fine literary tastes, and is popular with all who know him. He carries his years lightly. In 1870, he became a member of the firm of Moore and Johnson and Newman. After the death of Mr. Johnson in 1873, the firm continued Moore and Newman, until the death of Colonel Moore in 188s. Since then Mr. Newman has practised alone. In September, 1go1, at the organization of the Portsmouth Bar and Law Library Association, he was made its President.

was born September 19, 1840, at Junior Furnace. His father was Jefferson Wadley Glidden and his mother, Catherine Wolfe Young. His grandfather, Charles Glidden, came from New Hampshire in 1820 and his father in 1826. There were ten children in his father's family, although but three lived to maturity, John, Carlos and Mrs. Anna Houts. His father built the Goddard house at Junior Furnace in there by our subject's mother in 1844. In 1850, his father removed to Dayton, Ohio, on account of the schools and lived there three years. In 1854, he built the present Peebles residence on the north-east cor- ner of Second and Washington streets, in Portsmouth, Ohio. His father lived there until 1858 when his wife died of consumption at the age of 48. In 1858, his father went to Junior Furnace and made his home with Jesse Young until his death in March 1863.

In 1856, our subject attended the Collegiate and Commercial Institute at New Haven, Conn., for two or three years. In the fall of 1851, he went into the law office of the Hon. Wells A. Hutchins in the Massie Block, as a law student. He entered the Cincinnati Law School in 1859 and graduated in 1860. As he was not then of age, he took a post-graduate course in 1860 and 1861.

On April 16, 1861, he enlisted in Company "G," 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, three months men. He was made a Corporal April 29, 1861, and mustered out August 1, 1861. He was admitted to the bar in 1861 in Columbus.and located in Portsmouth. He formed a partnership with Martin Crain, the firm being known as Crain & Glidden, which continued for two years. After that time he practiced alone. In the Spring of 1869, he was elected City Solicitor of Portsmouth, Ohio. The vote stood, John Glidden, Republican, 787; Robert N. Spry, Democrat, 736; majority, 51 votes. In regard to his election Mr. Glidden said that he did not ask anyone to vote for him and did not expect to be elected. In December, 1870, he resigned his office as City Solicitor and located in La Porte, Indiana, and remained there until March, 1872, when he removed to Cincinnati and began the practice of law and has continued it ever since. He is located in the Atlas Bank Building on Walnut Street. He has always been a Republican.

He was married to Mary A. Bell, daughter of Robert Bell, Esq., in October, 1862. They had three children, two of whom died in infancy. His son, Bruce, of this marriage, is now a prominent lawyer in Denver, Colorado He was married to Elizabeth Montgomery, and they have one child. Mr. Glidden, our subject, was married a second time to Miss Ruth Hall Glidden, daughter of Obadiah Glidden, December 20,1870. The children of this marriage are Ellen, the wife of Walter W. Clippenger, an attorney of Cincinnati, Ohio; Hope S., who graduates this Spring in the Cincinnati Medical College, and Ruth, who resides in Brooklyn and has 'charge of a kindergarten. Mr. Glidden has had distinguished success in his chosen profession of the law. -He has assiduously devoted himself to it and has been connected with some of the most important litigation in the courts, and his reputation could safely rest on his conduct of two or more important cases. His ability in these shown has sufficiently fixed and established his reputation as a most able lawyer.

tion, but always thirsted for one. At the age of twenty, he went to Maysville, Kentucky and studied law with the Hon. Wm. H. Wadsworth for whom he always professed and expressed the greatest admiration and friendship. At 22 years of age, he was admitted to the bar and located at Clarksburg, in Lewis County. He afterwards moyed to Vanceburg, the County seat, and was elected County Judge, July 3, 1865, to succeed Socrates Holbrook who had resigned. August 24, 1866 he was elected for a term of four years, to the same office. He resigned October 20, 1868 and came to Portsmouth and formed a partnership with William H. Reed which continued until 1871. | He was madly fond of politics. Nothing made him happier than to be in a political contest. In 1873, he received the Republican nomination ~ for Mayor. He defeated George W. Flanders-in the convention. Flanders ran independent and beat him before, the people. The vote stood : Flanders 972, Pollitt 867. In 1873, he was a candidate for City Solicitor on the Republican ticket and defeated by Duncan Livingstone. The vote stood, Livingstone 1,061, Pollitt 1,039. In 1881, he was a candidate for Common Pleas Judge and carried the County, but it was taken away from him. In 1883, he was again Republican candidate for Mayor against John J. McFarlin, Democrat, and was defeated by the following vote: McFarlin 1,361, Pollitt 1,129, majority 232. These votes in which he was defeated are given to show that he stood well with his own friends and that he was never discouraged or appalled by defeat.

His Republicanism was of the purest and most zealous kind. _He never sulked in his tent. No matter about his misfortunes, he always supported the ticket. He always controlled the negro vote. They | were his friends and stood by him. He had an extensive practice in Scioto County, and was something of an orator. He believed in exercising his gifts as an advocate, and did so. He was a thin, slender man of very dark complexion, black full beard and long black hair, and was a typical Kentuckian. He never could tolerate anything Democratic. When the Cincinnati Daily Gazette and the Commercial were printed as separate papers, he regarded the Gazette as Orthodox and the Commercial heterodox. He never could bear to see a Republican read the Commercial. He was fond of talking of his fixed principles. While he never swore a profane oath, his favorite, so called oath was "Dod burn it.' His enthusiasm for his party never flagged, and he could not tolerate political luke-warmness in others.

He was honest to the core. He was a victim of consumption. A week before he died he proposed to go to Florida and take his son - Orville with him, but when it was apparent that he must die, he called Orville to him and told him that he would take a longer and farther journey and go alone. He was married June 26, 1865 to Miss Lucy C. Parker of Vanceburg, Ky. They had two children: Arthur Wadsworth, born June 4, 1869, died June 28, 1871 and Orville Preston, born

September 18, 1871, now County Clerk of Lewis County, Kentucky. He died November 2, 1885, with the greatest calmness and composure. He was buried at Hill Crest Cemetery, just west of Vanceburg, Kentucky, and his widow and her son took up their residence in Vanceburg, Kentucky, where they have remained since. James S. Pollitt's ambitions were not great, but they were very dear to him, and yet he was thwarted in them all, and compelled, when but 46 years of age, to depart to the land of spirits, but in all his reverses and disappointments he acted the part of aman. His was a noble soul in a frail casket, but his memory is honored by all who knew him well.

Here is a'subject whose father, a great reader of Prescott's Conquest of Mexico, compelled him to bear the name of a Spanish general ail his life and yet he has done well and prospered and in the course of his long life has demonstrated what the Spanish General ought to have been. 'Then our ideas of Spaniards in the course of years have changed. While we admired the characters portrayed by Prescott, when his books were new, now that the doctrine of humanity has forged to the front, the characters of the Spaniards have been relegated to the background. The name of our'subject in its origin, in the far misty past was of Scandinavian origin. The Searls went from Sweden to Normandy several generations before William the Conqueror, and when he went over to England on his free-booting expedition, they packed their traps and went along, ready for fighting or plunder, or both. Our subject's great-grandfather came from England with a brother, Gideon. His son, Reuben was born in New England. His son, Nathan- _iel, father of our subject, was born in Middleton, Rutland County, Vermont, February, 1788. 'The same year the Searl family moved out of the house where Nathaniel was born and the White family moved in and Rebecca White, afterwards the wife of Nathaniel Searl, was born there in 1797. Her father, Abel White was a Revolutionary soldier from Steuben County, New York. He and his wife, Comfort, died in Scioto County, Ohio.

Nathaniel Searl and his wife Rebecca were married in Steuben County, New York, March 26, 1806, and had eight children. Miranda was the eldest of the family and was seventeen years older than our subject. The family moved to Scioto County in 1813, from New York, prior to the birth of our subject, who was born July 18, 1825, on the Searl farm, in sight of Chaffin's Mills, Vernon Township. He was a thinker and reasoner from boyhood. He would discuss matters with his father at the early age of eight years. So persistent was he that to get rid of him his father would send him to bed, as evening was always their time for discussing. His father was pro-slavery and young Searl would take the side of anti-slavery. He was an abolitionist at eight years and had reasoned the matter out for himself. He went to school but little till the age of fourteen, when he attended for three months. At fifteen years of age, he went to school for five months. He was very industrious and had a knack of doing anything. He could be a carpenter, blacksmith or machinist as occasion required. At the age of sixteen, he became a teacher in the public schools and began by teaching in a district in Madison Township, where his uncle John White lived. At the age of eight he read an account of the murder of Lovejoy in Illinois which confirmed his views as an abolitionist. -He was not slow to announce his opinions, formed when a child, and there was an effort made to deprive him of his school on account of his antislavery opinions. He continued to teach from time to time until he was thirty-five years of age. He taught in South Webster from 1853 to 1859. In 1855, he tackled Kansas. He took a pre-emption claim but came home for his wife and never went back. He was an Assessor in Vernon Township for several years. He was Justice of the Peace in Vernon Township from 1849 to 1852, and afterwards in Bloom. In 1855, he began the study of law under Jordan and McCauslen. He had canvassed the County with Jordan for the Republican ticket. He came to Portsmouth in 1858, to accept the position of Deputy Sheriff under John L. Ward, who was Sheriff from 1859 to 1863. John L. Ward thought to make a politician of him, but he was born one, and the: pupil was more apt than his teacher. In 1859, Deputy Sheriff Searl tried his virgin hand on politics. He was a candidate for Justice of the Peace in Wayne Township and defeated Cornelius McCoy by 65 majority. Squire McCoy was an easy subject but Searl's victory made him eager for more. In 1860, the Repuhlican party was a weak and wobbly affair, but young Searl was one of them. 'The American party had been all powerful and held sway in Scioto County. Searl, Joseph Ashton and Milton Kennedy had stood for the Republican party when none others would. Searl was placed on the ticket for Probate Judge against William S$. Huston, a popular Democrat and Searl was elected by a majority of 57 votes. The poll was, Searl 2,186 and Huston 2,129. John L. Ward, his political godfather was on the ticket too and was re-elected for Sheriff. On April 19, 1861, there was a great Union meeting at the Biggs House and Searl was one of the speakers. His devotion to the Union never waivered. In 1862, he was a Commissioner of the Draft. On May 8, 1863, he was admitted to the bar. In 1863, Searl was re-nominated Probate Judge and the vote stood, Searl 2,273, Franklin Patterson 1,743, Searl's majority 530. In 1866, he was a candidate for a third term and was elected. The vote stood Searl 2,615, J. T. Douglas 2,158, Searl's majority 457. He was Deputy Sheriff under John L. Ward for two years and in that time was a member of the County Board of School Examiners and its clerk. In February, 1864, he went into the 140th O. V. L., as First Lieutenant of Co. F, and served until September 2nd. He was at home three weeks of the time to attend to

, business of the Probate Office and while with his regiment served as Judge Advocate on Court Martial. During the war he was Chairman of the Military Committee of the County and had powers equal to that of a dictator. He supervised the enlistment of volunteers and as a friend of the negroes, he believed in recruiting them for service and did so. He put them into the service and secured them bounties from $150 for single men to $250 for married men. He was a member of the City Council for four years and its President in 1876. In 1865 and for several years, he acted as a Goverment Claim Agent. He began the practice of law in 1870 to 1872 in the partnership of Harper and Searl. From 1873 to 1880, the firm was Searl and Dever and in 1880. it was Searl and Briggs. In 1884, the partnersip was Searl and Milner and the same year became, Harper, Searl and Milner. Afterwards in 1890, it was dissolved and since then Judge Searl has practised alone. He was married March 12, 1884,. at the age of nineteen, to Julia Schoonover, and had one son and three daughters. His eldest daughter Minta, is the wife of Rey. J. C. Vananda of Morganhill, California. Helen is the wife of a Mr. Fleming and resides at Cheny near Wichita, Kansas. His daughter, Mrs. Morton is deceased and his son, Orpheus A., is the postmaster at Sciotoville. His wife died August 1, 1876. In 1878, he married Catherine A. Shoemaker, and has four children : Clinton M., a lawyer in Portsmouth; Bertha M. Loyston, aged twentyone, Beecher aged sixteen and Katie aged fourteen. Judge Searl is not aware of it but he is a man of many idiosyncrasies. He is a firstclass poet. He wrote the "Shanghai Rebellion," "Ukawabbewein," "The Story of the Bald Crag in Kentucky," and many others. He can write poetry-on any subject. He is a man of extraordinary good common sense and judgment and that is the Yankee part of him. He never belonged to any secret order but the Sons of Temperance which maintained its organization but a short time. In a newspaper controversy he is sure to get the best of his opponent. There is one remarkable characteristic of Judge Searl and that is, that he has always acted on his convictions. He was a Whig until the Republican party was formed and then he joined that and has adhered to it all his life.

He never went off after strange political gods at any time, and his strict adherence to one party made him a political success. His excellent business sense has enabled him to acquire a fortune which he knows. how to take care off. He, John L. Ward and Thomas T. Yeager are the only ones who ever went into politics and at the same time succeeded in business; but they would have succeeded in anything.

was born at Norwich, New York, March 10, 1840. His father was Richard Spry, who located in Portsmouth, Ohio, July 27, 1844. He attended the Portsmouth schools and graduated in the Portsmouth High School. He then attended the Ohio Wesleyan University at

Delaware, O., for two years, but owing to defective-eyesight, gave up his course. He enlisted in Captain John R. Hurd's Company in the Second Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, but was rejected for imperfect vision. In 1862, he began reading law with Hon. Thomas McCauslen, and was admitted 'to the bar in April, 1864. He was Second Sergeant of Company E, 140th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served from May 2, to September 3, 1864. In the Spring of 1865, he was elected City Solicitor of Portsmouth, as a Republican, over George H. Gaffey, Democrat, by the following vote. Gaffey, 468; Spry, 551, majority, 82. In 1867, he was re-elected to the same office on the Republican ticket. The vote stood Spry, Republican 732; Hutchins, Democrat, 651; majority 81. , In 1869, he became a Democrat. On November 10, 1868, he was appointed Prosecuting Attorney in place of A. J. McFan, resigned, and served till October, 1869. In 1869, he was the Democratic candidate for Solicitor and was defeated. The vote stood: John J. Glidden, Republican, 787, Spry, 736, majority, 51, In October, 1869, he was on the Democratic ticket for Prosecuting Attorney against Colonel H. FE. Jones. The vote stood Jones, 2,440, Spry, 2,212, majority 228. We give these votes to show Mr. Spry's popularity where he 'was known. On June 29, 1870, he married Miss B. Inez Davis, who survived him. They had one daughter, Roberta, now the wife of Edward Whitelaw of 106 Cannon street, Charleston, South Carolina. In 1871, he was the Democratic candidate for Representative, and was defeated by John C. Malone; the vote stood: John C. Malone, 2,518, Spry, 2,407, majority, 111. In 1873, he defeated William B. Grice, Republican, for Prosecuting Attorney. The vote stood: Spry, 2,534, Grice, 2,271, majority, 263..-In 1875,-H. W. Farnham defeated him for a second term for Prosecuting Attorney, by the following vote: Spry, 3,044; Farnham, 3,213, majority, 160. Mr. Spry was a well read lawyer. His pleadings were always carefully prepared and were scarcely ever open to motion or demurrer. For a lawyer, he wrote a readable hand. Mr. Spry's whole life was tinged with sadness. From his manhood he felt "the sword of Damocles," in the shape of consumption, hanging over him. He resisted its inroads for years, but at last succumbed June 10, 1877, at the age of thirtyseven. He was much liked by all who knew him intimately and well. He was of a retiring disposition, but there was no more agreeable companion than he. 'To all the lawyers who knew him, his memory is ever fragrant. He was a lover of music and his soul was attuned to its harmonies. He had a fine sense of honor and was uniformly true to his friends. 'The latter were always ready to do anything for him. If any one ever possessed more of the manly or heroic virtues, the editor never knew them. Nelson Wiley Evans, a lawyer practicing in Brown and Highland Counties. His mother was Amanda Jane King, born June 20, 1824. His father resided in Sardinia until April, 1847, when he removed to West Union, Adams County, to practice his profession. Our subject resided in West Union from that time until the fall of 1860. He went through the usual experiences of boyhood, enjoyed all its pleasures and endured its sorrows. As a schoolboy he showed a disposition to take life seriously, which has followed him ever since. In the fall of 1860, he attended the North Liberty Academy, and in January 1861, he entered the Freshman class of Miami University, half advanced. He remained in that school until June, 1863, when he enlisted in the 129th NV,

He was made First Lieutenant of Company G in that regiment, and with it marched to Cumberland Gap, which was taken by capitulation from the Rebel General Frazier on September 9, 1863. His regiment was attached to the Second Brigade, Second Division, Ninth Army Corps, under General Ambrose E. Burnside. He participated in the campaign in East Tennessee against Longstreet. On March 4, 1864, the regiment was mustered out, and he returned to Miami University, where he was graduated in June, 1864. On the eighteenth of September, 1864, he was appointed Adjutant of the 173rd O. V. L. and joined his regiment at Nashville, Tennessee. The regiment performed duty about Nashville until the time of the battle, when it was placed in the second line for the attack on Montgomery Hill. Owing to the first line moving the rebels, his command was only exposed to a dropping fire. Prior to the battle of Nashville, Mr. Evans was promoted to a Captaincy in his regiment, and during the seige of Nashville by Gen. Hood, and during the battle, was Adjutant of a brigade. After the battle of Nashville, his regiment was sent to Columbia, Tennessee, and from there to Johnsonville, Tennessee, where it performed the duty of gathering stragglers from the Rebel army, and taking them to Nashville as prisoners of war. During the time the regiment was at Johnsonville, Captain Evans was detailed as Acting Assistant- Adjutant-General.

At the close of the war, he resumed his studies of the law and in October, 1865, he entered the Cincinnati Law School. He remained there until April, 1866, when he was admitted to the bar by the District Court of Hamilton County. He located in Portsmouth, Ohio, on August 1, 1866, and has remained there ever since. On September 9, 1868, he was married to Miss Lizzie Henderson, of Middletown, Ohio. He was a School Examiner of the county for two and a half years from 1867. He was a City Solicitor of Portsmouth, Ohio, from 1871 to 1875, 'Register in Bankruptcy of the Eleventh District of Ohio from 1870 to 1878, and a member of the Board of Education of the city of Portsmouth for ten years. He is one of the Trustees of the Miami University, and a vestryman of All Saints Episcopal Church.

For nine years he has been a Trustee of the Children's Hospital of the Protestant Episcopal Church, at Cincinnati. He has two daughters, Gladys and Muriel. In politics, he is and always has been a Republican. A friend who has'known Mr. Evans since 1871, speaks of him as follows: "Captain Evans is one of the foremost attorneys at the Portsmouth bar, and has a large and lucrative practice. He is an indefatigable worker and in the preparation of his cases for trial, makes himself thoroughly familiar with every detail and fights to the last in the interest of those he represents. He is a good counsellor, a safe and a careful business and commercial lawyer. In his intercourse with his fellow men he is frank, open, courteous, accommodating and always true to his friends. | His intimate associates like him best. Socially he stands high and his honesty and integrity make him respected by all." was born at Nashville, Tenn., September 28, 1836. His father, David D. Jones moved to Portsmouth, Ohio, when he was seven months old. He was educated in the Portsmouth schools and then attended Dennison University at Granville, Ohio, where he graduated in 1860. He then took up the study of law with Hon. Wells A. Hutchins. In 1860, he was First Sergeant in a Militia Company at Portsmouth, belonging to the 15th Regiment, O. V. M. In 1861, he volunteered in Company G, First Ohio Regiment of Volunteer Infantry and was made Second Sergeant. He entered that regiment April 16, 1861, at the age of 24 years and was mustered out January 1, 1861. September 18, 1861, he entered the 56th O. V. I. as Adjutant. He was made Captain of © Co. A, February 6, 1863. He was transferred to Co. D, August 8, 1863. He was detached on Brigade and Division Staff until May 8, 1864, and was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel January 18, 1865. He was not mustered out till April 25, 1866. He was appointed Colonel May 25, 1866, but not mustered. He was wounded in the first three months service, at Vienna He was admitted to the bar in 1866 and January 23, 1867, formed a partnership with Hon. J. J. Harper as Harper & Jones. In 1867, he was a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney on the Republican ticket, but in that year of Republican disaster, he was defeated by A. J. McFan. The vote stood McFan, 2,560; Jones, 2,440. In 1869, he was again elected. The vote stood Jones, 2,440; - Spry, 2,212; majority 228. In 1871, he was re-elected. The vote stood Jones, 2,542; Huston, 2,365; majority 177. On July 9, 1873, he formed a partnership with Hon. A. C. Thompson as Jones and Thompson. He was a well read lawyer, a pleasing speaker and an excellent advocate He married Miss Harriet Timbrooks and they had four children, Edith, Gertrude. Henry and Wells, who was in the Spanish war. Col. Jones, died September 13, 1876, of apoplexy. His widow and one son, Henry have since died.

Col. Henry E. Jones

No man in Scioto County gave more to his Country than he, and he was as true a patriot as ever breathed. In every position he held whether military or civil, he discharged his duties with great ability and to the satisfaction of the public and those concerned. He had a constitution which would ordinarily have lasted him till the age of ninety: He was a large man, physically, and of great strength. Had he lived he, no doubt, would have attained as much distinction in civil life as he did in his military career, which was most brilliant as the history of his regiment discloses.