Scioto County, Ohio - Chapter 7, 1903 (part 2 of 8)

On December 10, 1806, he married Rachel Beard and the issue of this marriage were: Sarah, born July 15, 1808; Maria, March 5, 1811; Michael, February 13, 1813; William E., August 17, 1817; Nancy, February 4, 1820; Laura, November 22, 1822; Joseph, November 25, 1824. Major Barber and both of his wives believed in the eleventh commandment to multiply and replenish the earth and the result of it is, that one can hardly throw a stone in the city of Portsmouth now without hitting one of his descendants. He made considerable money in keel boating and purchased 50 acres of land, then outside of Portsmouth, but now in it, and built him a home on the site of the George Ball residence, now occupied by Mr. Halderman. While he visited Chillicothe, he became acquainted with Thomas Scott. He had one fault which we will tell, even if he has been dead 55 years. He was too easy about putting his name on the notes of others. He endorsed for Scott and lost-most of it, but not all of his property.. He became a Major in the Militia and hence his title was such, In 1809, he was a trustee of Wayne Township. He was out in the general call in 1812, but in what rank we are not advised. He was a Jacksonian Democrat in 1824, but afterwards became a Whig. He was elected Coroner in 1812, and served most of the time until 1837. In the election of 1820, when elected, he had 411 votes. Ebenezer Corwine, 213; and H. Sumner, 68. In the election of 1825, he had 140 votes and Ruloff Whitney 15. In 1827, he had 487,-all the votes cast. In 1829, he had 559 votes, no others cast. In 1831, the votes on this office stood Barber 360, David Enslow, 147; Samuel Gould, 88. In 1837, he had 351 votes and William Jones, 210.

When he lost his fifty acres of land, now the Glover and Damarin addition, be bought some land east of Lawson, now adjoining Martin Funk, and died there. He died: Friday, June 26, 1846, and was buried in the Kinney graveyard the following Sunday, with the honors of war. One thousand people were present. Colonel Peter Kinney, then a militia Captain, with his Company, conducted the mil-. itary ceremonies of the funeral and three volleys were fired over his grave. his was the first military funeral in Portsmouth. - We have expressly refrained from mentioning his descendants, who are all respectable good people, because we could not spare the space necessary in this book. Many of them will be mentioned in their own sketches.

was the son of Christian Brant and Elizabeth Ritter, both from Germany who came to Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1804, from Pennsylvania. Here our subject was born January 13, 1813, and raised until he was nineteen, when his parents brought him to Scioto County. His father was a mill wright and was very ingenious. His father died _ in 1836 and his mother died in 1865, aged 97 years. She had recollections of the Revolutionary War. Joseph, Senior, was the first clerk of Valley Township and was a Jacksonian Democrat.

He was married in 1836 to Mary Vannort, by whom he had two children: Robert, deceased, and Mary Elizabeth, wife of Theodore Appel of Clifford, O. The first wife died in 1838 and he was married again to Susan Wilson, August 14, 1862, by whom he had eight children, as follows: William A., resident of Chillicothe, Missouri, was a soldier m the 33rd O. V. I. and was wounded in the battle of Resaca; Catherine, deceased, married Isaac Williams; George W._ resides at May, Woodward County, Oklahoma; David, married Josephine McNeal and lives near Lucasville; Sarah C., married Frank Winter; Thomas J. resides at Haddam, Kansas, a farmer and married; Rachel J., married Benjamin Yeager and lives at Lucasville; and Joseph H., a merchant at Lucasville, who has a sketch herein.

Joseph Brant, senior, was a farmer most of his life. He owned a small farm of hill land and several lots in Lucasville. At one time, in the forties he bought the old tavern at Lucasville and conducted it for ten years. At the time he bought this tavern, it was the chief distributing point, in Lucasville, for whiskey and other intoxicating drinks, when Lucasville was seeing its "wild and woolly" days for which it had gained quite a notoriety throughout the lower Scioto Valley. The sale of drinks was stopped when Mr. Brant took charge and immediately, the morals of Lucasville began to improve and have continued to improve up to this day, when not a drop of liquor can be bought; and it is largely a community of Christian and law-abiding people. In the latter years of our subject's life, he lived in retirement and died October, 1893. He was a man of low stature, weighing about 200 pounds and seldom was troubled with ill health. He inherited his father's ingenious nature and could work with any kind of tools and sometimes tinkered at blacksmithing and woodworking, as a matter of pastime and accommodation to his neighbors. He was liberal to a fault, not seeming to appreciate the value of money and was always ready to assist his neighbors, always refusing compensation. As a companion he was entertaining. His observations and anecdotes were always interesting. He had a fund of stories and reminiscences which seemed exhaustiess and when he and his old cronies got together to swap stories, it was an-enjoyable time to all the listeners. All they had to do was sit still and be entertained, and no one had to be requested to be present or to keep order. Uncle Joe's stories never lacked spice or humor. Since his death, he has had no successor in this direction, and Lucasville has been more of a serious place.

was born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1796, the son of Ezra Bradford and Sarah Curtis, his wife. Ezra Bradford was the owner of a plantation and slaves near Norfolk, but had a conscience. He thought that slavery was wrong, freed his slaves and removed to Ohio in 1805. He purchased 300 acres of land on Turkey Creek and remained there until his death. His son, Lyttleton, succeeded to his father's land. He married Abigail Samson, daughter of David Samson, one of the early settlers. They had six sons and three daughters, of whom three sons still survive. They are Ezra, William and Henry. Lyttleton died in Scioto County, on the land his father had purchased. He named the Post Office, at Friendship, and the land he formerly owned is now owned by George Vaughters, Leonidas Pyles and Alex. Cole. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

child. In his childhood, he was a verger and bell ringer at one of the French churches. He had a good education as cempared with his fellow emigrants. While he was one oi the French Colony in 1790, he did not cross the ocean with the emigrants. He drew lot 16 of the First French Grant, but on the record his name is entered as Jean Baptist Berthone, when it should read Bertrand. Lot 16 was patented to him by his correct name. He also puschased lot 10 French Grant of Michael Mazure on the 31st of July, 1804, for the consideration of $434.00. The deed recites that Michael Mazure was one of those who had drawn one of the ninety-two lots of the first French Grant. Our subject became a miller at Gallipolis. One day when he was requirded to be absent from the mill, he employed a substitute. On that day, the Indians made a raid and killed his friend, and: his friend's body was found mangled in the grass when Bertrand returned.

He lived aolne in the Grant until he was about 40 years-of age, when he went back to Gallipolis and brought him a young wife. She died January 11, 1827. His eldest son John, was born in 1804, and the others were Julie, Felicite, Henry, Rosalie and William. In 1811, be built a large brick residence on his lot 16. Monsieur Bertrand was one of the industrious enterprising and energetic Frenchmen. His farm was covered with apple trees and peach trees, from which he distilled the fruit. He was very jolly in his nature, was always courteous and in a good humor. He uniformly greeted his friends with a> low bow and a pleasant smile. It was a great pleasure for him to sit up all night over his cups with his French associates, very oiten to the annoyance of his family. He was one of the best gardeners in the Grant. In the language of Artemus Ward, gardening was his forte. In the latter years of his life, he would work in the garden of mornings till 9 or 10 o'clock, and read the remainder of the day. In all his long life he never learned to speak English. He was one of the few Frenchmen who had fixed religious beliefs and views. He was an earnest Catholic, and never retired without saying one or more of the prayers which he had learned as a child. He succeeded in all his business affairs. He was temperate and regular in his habits; and was not off his feet until six weeks before his death. He died March 21, 1855, in his ninety-fourth year.

John Belli was a citizen of the world. His father was a Frenchman, his mother a native of Holland, and he was born in Liverpool, England, in 1760. _ He received a good education in England, and in military school. When he came of age, he was in Amsterdam, Holland, and received his coming of age papers from the estates of Holland and West Friesland. When he conceived the idea of coming to the United States, he was in Paris, France. He had been study-

'PIONEER SKETCHES. - 653 we ing about the United States and had become filled with the extreme - Republican notions of that time. In the theory of government. he ' was a rabid republican: m his own personal relations. he was an

| aristocrat, though he was hardly conscious of the fact. So he pro- 'cured a letter of recommendation from the American Minister. John Jay. who, in his letter, described him as a young man worthy of 'trust He came over with Mr. Francis Bowers. of Ostend. 2 merchant who was bringing over goods. His letters of mtroduction were fo Mr. Josiah Watson. of Alexandria. V2. - He came alone, _ without any members of his family. and landed at Alexandria. V2. _ im May 1783. which was then an important seaport. He engaged im __-__ - ' business there. first as a clerk. and afterwards as a merchant. and revl mained there until the spring of 1791. a period of eight years. Of - his life in Alexandria. we have no account, but he formed a number of valuable and important acquaintances in that time, among whom were Col. Alexander Parker and Gen. George Washington.

In October, 1791. Gen. Knox, then Secretary of War. sent him to the Northwest Territory on public business. What his functions were does not clearly appear. but they were of a confidential char- - a Soe acter.

2 cn On April 18 1792. when he was in the Northwest Territory, Ca * President George Washington sent him a commission as Deputy == Quartermaster on the General Staff of Wayne's Legion. This com mission is in the hands of John Belli Gregory. his grandson. at _ Fontana, Kentucky. It is on parchment. illustrated. and bears the _ origimal signature of President Washington and Secretary of Wat. _ Henry Knox. "The commission does not state his rank, but it was _ that of Major - hence-his title. He went by way of Pittsburg. then allied Fort Pitt. and down the Ohio River to Fort Washington. Be 5 > Gen. Knox gave him a letter. dated September 30. 1791. directed

__ have transportation down the Ohio River. as he was on public bust- Bess of great importance. He went direct to Fort Washington. 1 it appears he was stationed until the time of Wayne's expediay There is preserved a list of the Quartermaster's stores he had

Fort Washington under a good escort, commanded by Major Hughes and they were not to be delayed at Fort Washington more than fortyeight hours, to be loaded with tents, intrenching tools and axes. Also he was to send such hospital and ordinance stores as he had been provided with, together with all the hunting shirts, or shirts and tools that were in his possession. Also, that his own private stores were to be forwarded under a select guard, which he will request Major Hughes to furnish from his department.

He was directed to use as many private teams as could be obtained which, with the use of the water transport, when a favorable rise should occur in the Miami, would enable him to forward the grain to Fort Hamilton, which the Quartermaster General had required. He was not to lose a moment in mounting the dragoons and furnishing all the necessary accoutrements. He was also to be furnished with $2,000 in specie, and $8,000 in good bank bills to be replaced by his department. He was told that every arrangement would be made by his department for a forward move by the first of July. He wished the Major every success in his purchase and supplies of every nature, in the line of his department and signed himself, "T am, sir, your most ob'dt humble serv't, Ant'y Wayne."

As soon as the expedition was successful, Major Belli, went east and settled his accounts with the department. He returned with some $5,000 and bought one thousand acres of land at the mouth of Turkey Creek and placed a man named Wright upon it, who cleared up a part of it, built a log house and planted an orchard. This was the first settlement in Scioto County, though the historian, James Keyes, disputes it, and says the first settlement was near Sciotoville, by the Bonsers and Burts.

He laid out the town of Alexandria, at the mouth of the Scioto River and gave it the name of Alexandria, for that city in Virginia, where he had first landed in this country, and had spent eight years. He spent considerable time in and about Alexandria, N. W. Territory, as the agent of Col. Alexander Parker, for whom he located much land in Scioto County. In Septemebr, 1797, he was appointed Recorder of Adams County, and held the office until October, 1803. He was a Justice of the Peace for Adams County, appointed by the Judges of the General Court, April 28, 1801, and his commission is in existence.

It seems he spent a great part of his time in Kentucky. He evidently did not and could not attend personally to the duties of the office of Recorder of Adams County.

On the twenty-first of March, 1800, he concluded some very important business in Kentucky, for on that date, he was married to Miss Cynthia Harrison, a cousin of Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison. Her father, Samuel Harrison, was a prominent man in Kentucky, and a large slave holder. He owned the site of the town of Cynthiana, Ky., and laid it out. He named it for his twin daughters, Cynthia and Anna, born just before the town was platted. On his marriage, Major John Belli moved to his land at the mouth of Turkey Creek. He named his home, "Belvidere," and kept a carriage and horses and traveled in style. In every county of the territory, there was a Colonel of the Militia and a Major. Nathaniel Massie was the Colonel of the Adams County Militia and John Belli, the Major.

On August 29, 1804, he was commissioned by Edward Tiffin, Governor of Ohio, Major of the Second Battalion, Second Regiment, First Brigade, Second Division Ohio Militia.

During the time that the town of Washington was flourishing as the county seat of Adams County, Major Belli was not there much of the time. When he was absent it is not known who attended to the duties of his office as Recorder, but very likely it was General Darlington, who was always ready to do anything to accommodate his neighbors.

* Major Belli had five children - four daughters and a son. His daughter, Eliza, was born December 3, 1809. She married Moses Gregory, October 20, 1826. Her son, John Belli Gregory, who was a citizen of Scioto County for many years, at one time member of the Board of Public Works in this State, and afterwards its Engineer, resided at Fontana, Ky., and kindly loaned the editor of this work the papers of Major Belli. His son, Hiram D. Gregory, is a lawyer at Covington, Ky. His daughter, Hattie, is the widow of Ariel Barney, and resides in New York City.

Major Belli, after 1803, devoted his whole time to the improvement of his land on Turkey Creek, though he was a land owner in many places. He at one time owned a large tract near New Hope, in Brown County. - In 1806, he built him a large two-story frame house on his land at the mouth of Turkey Creek, but did not live to enjoy it. In October, 1809, he was taken with one of those fevers against which it seems the pioneers could not contend, and he died and was buried on the river bank near his home: His widow continued to reside there until 1838, when her home, built by the Major in 1806, was accidentally destroyed by fire. She removed to Illinois, where she died in 1848. In 1865 the Major's grave was washed by the river, and Mr. Gregory had his remains exhumed and reinterred in the cemetery at Friendship. A picture of sthe Major is in the possession of Mr. Gregory. It represents him with powdered wig and a Continental coat faced with red. A cut from this picture ap-_ pears herein. 'a

Major Belli was a gentlemen of the old school. He never changed his dress from the style during the Revolution. | While he lived among backwoodsmen, he always had his wig and queue, wore a cocked hat, coat with facings, waist coat, knee breeches, stockings and shoe buckles. His queue was carefully braided and tied with a ribbon, and this was his style of dress at all times.

While he believed himself to be a Republican, as the term was understood in his time, he had pride enough for all the aristocrats in the neighborhood. He was a disbeliever in slavery, .and it is thought his location in the Northwest Territory and his maintenance of his residence here was on account of his repugnance to that peculiar institution., His wife's slaves were brought to Ohio and freed, and this through his influence. He was the agent of Colonel Alexander Parker and General Thomas Parker in making their location in the Virginia Military District.

was born near Wilkesbarre, Nescopeck Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1794, a son of John and Hannah Clingman Briggs. His mother was a daughter of John Michael Clingman, a Captain in the Revolutionary War from Pennsylvania in 1778. He is mentioned elsewhere in this book. Our subject came to Portsmouth at the age of twenty-one and made his home with his Uncle Aaron Kinney for seven years. On June 23, 1817, when the Parish of All Saints Church was organized, he was one of the original signers of the Constitution. July 27, 1820, he was' baptised by the Rt. Rev. Philander Chase and confirmed by him December to, 1820. He afterwards left the Episcopal Church and connected himself with the Bigelow M. E. Church. In 1852, he assisted to organize the Spencer Chapel, was Stewart and Trustee and held a prominent place in the Church up to the time of his death. He purchased what is known as the Briggs farm, the prircipal part of which is now owned by John Richardson. July 1, 1824, he was married to Elizabeth Smith; a daughter of John eniehe by Jacob P. Noel, Justice of the Peace. She lived only a few months. On Dec. 30,1825, he married a Miss Rebecca Timbrook. Their children are as follows: John K., Aaron K., William H., Elizabeth, Henry, Mary and Hannah, now Mrs. Sweet of Shipman, Illinois, and Rebecca, wife of Telemachus P. Noel living near Spring Lane Distillery. Of the daughters, Elizabeth and Mary died in infancy. Aaron K., died October 26, 1871; John K., died November 27, 1893; Henry resides in Jameson, Missouri; William lives in Kansas. In 1840, Mr. Briggs' second wife died, and he married Miss Sarah Barber, who died suddenly a few months after the marriage. He then married her younger sister, Marinda Barber, December 27, 1843. Their children are Joseph C., living near the old home; Sarah Smith, wife of Firman Smith of

PIONEER SKETCHES. 657 lington R. Kinney, who resides on the old homestead. - July 1, 1860, Mr. Briggs died. He left a fine farm of over 200 acres to his family. He was a man of the strictest honesty and integrity. He was energetic and industrious. He tried to fulfill every duty in every relation of life. He was highly esteemed by his church people and all was born October .6, 1826, the son of Samuel Clingman Briggs, and Rebecca Timbrooks Briggs, his wife. He was born at the old Briggs Homestead on the Chillicothe Pike now occupied by Wellington R. Kinney. He obtained his education in the district school and was brought up a farmer. He was married three times, first in 1850, to Miss Mary Miller. 'The children of that marriage were: Louisa, who died in childhood, Laura, who died at the age of sixteen, Aaron Anthony, Charles C., and Frank. 'The fourth child of this marriage was Margaret, now the wife of Dr. George W. Osborne, of Dry Run. The fifth child, Anna Bell, died at the age of two years. 'The first, Mrs. Briggs, died November 14, 1865, and on December 6, 1867, our subject married Miss Melinda Jane Smith, daughter of Hamlet Smith. 'The only child of this marriage was Bertha A,, who died at the age of sixteen years. Mr. Briggs' second wife died November 22, 1867, and he married her sister, Margaret Smith, July 17, 1870, who survived him. On March 4, 1861, he located in Washington Township, where he spent the remainder of his life. Mr. Briggs was noted for his integrity and uprightness. He always enjoyed the confidence of his neighbors. He was Treasurer of his 'Township for fourteen years. Tle was a Republican, but never aspired to a county office, and had no political ambitions. He was a member

John Boynton, the three times great-grandfather of our subject, was born at Knapton, Wistingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in 1614, and came to Massachusetts and settled at Rowley 1630. He was a tailor and married Helen Pell of Boston. He died February

Captain Joseph Boynton. We was born in 1644 and married Sarah Swan by whom he had eleven children. He died December 16, 1730. One of his sons, Sergeant Richard Boynton, was born November 11, 1675, and married Sarah Dressler and had seven children. He died December 25, 1732. One of his sons, Nathaniel, the father of our subject, was born August 18, 1712. He married Mary Stewart, 1736, by whom he had twelve children and Asa was the eleventh in order of their births.

April 10, 1781. She was born in Lynn, August 9, 1762. They resided first at Lynn and then moved to Grafton County, New Hampshire at Piermont. In 1806, he came to the French Grant for the purpose of looking out a location. | He went back to New Hampshire and negotiated the purchase of 3,800 acres of the Gervais Tract, and 650 acres outside, from Rosewell P. Hunt, brother of Samuel Hunt and executor of his last will and testament, for the sum of $9,000. Samuel Hunt had purchased the 3,800 acres of John G. Gervais and had given a mortgage for the purchase money. The mortgage was assigned to Karl Sproat. Samuel Hunt died July 27, 1807. The mortgage was foreclosed and the 3,800 acres were. sold to Earl Sproat at Sheriff's sale for $5,700, April 18, 1810. Boynton got a warranty deed from Rosewell P. Hunt, dated January 15, 1810. He afterwards, June 25, 1811, received a warranty deed from Earl Sproat for the same premises, the consideration being $8,000. From this we would infer that he paid $8,coo for the Gervais tract and $1,000 for the other 650 acres. In 1812, he deeded the 650 acre tract to Lawson Drury, Senior, Lawson Drury, Junior, Ruth Drury and Charles T. Drury. On January 9, 1811, he deeded 850 acres to Peter White for $1,400. About the same time he conveyed 176 acres to James Abbott for $522. On July 17, 18}2, he commend 100 acres to Zelotes Tucker. On Januaty 13, 1812, he conveyed 131- 34 acres to Adam Proebster and Jacob Linch. He sold altogether

Mr. Boynton was an industrious and enterprising man and did much to develop the new country and toward furnishing the necessary conveniences for his friends and neighbors. He built a mill for grinding wheat and corn, The mill was run by horse power and the bolt was turned by hand. Often those who came to get grinding done would furnish the horse power, thereby saving toll. He built another mill back of where Ironton now stands, at which both grinding and sawing were done. In those days it was difficult to get money for market products and upon one occasion, Boynton built a flat boat and took a cargo of produce to New Orleans, and came back on the Steamer "Congress." He was successively a Federal, a National Republican and a Whig. He was treasurer of Green Township during 1819 and 1820. He died February 21, 1837 and his wife died July 23, 1823.

son of Asa Boynton and Mary Edmunds, his wife, was born in Piermont, Grafton County, New Hampshire, in 1800, and came with his parents to French Grant in 1810. His boyhcod was spent on his father's farm and his education was meagre. He was married on January 1, 1822 to Nancy Feurt, who was of direct French lineage, and whose father Peter Feurt, was one of the first white inhabitants of Scioto County, having come to Alexandria shortly after it was laid out. 'To them were born seven children: Mary, (deceased), married Doctor Mussey; Cynthia, (deceased,) married Samuel Skelton, and at his death married Alva Jaynes; Peter, married Eliza J. Cadot; James, deceased; Henry, lives at Powellsville, Ohio: Asa, deceased, and William who lives in Florida. His father gave him 4oo acres of land, a part of the Gervais tract and he afterwards added several hundred acres to this on Pine Creek. When the Furnaces flourished he dealt a great deal in live stock and supplied the furnaces with meat.

He was active in politics and was a Whig until the founding of the Republican party and then became a Republican. He was appointed 'Township Trustee in 1839 to take the place of Jacob Andre and was elected the following year to the same office. He was Justice of the Peace from 1844 to 1847. He was Commissioner of Scioto County from 1840 to 1846 and was a prominent man in the County. He was not a member of any church but held the Universal doctrine. He died July 12, 1870.

Peter Feurt Boynton was born near Franklin Furnace, Ohio, October 17, 1822. He is the son of William L. Boynton and Nancy Feurt, his wife. His father was of direct English lineage and his mother of French descent. He was quite an active boy and liked boyish sports. | When a young man he was very fond of dancing and many a pleasant evening the Boyntons spent together dancing and playing the old fashioned games. His schooling was very meagre and. he attended one school when he was twenty-one. He offered his services to his country at the breaking out of the Civil War but was rejected on ac- count of a crippled hand. He was a Whig and is now a Republican. He was a trustee of Green Township in 1856-7~andNin 1858-9, serving two terms.

He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church when he was thirty years old and has missed but three quarterly meetings since. He has always been an active and enthusiastic worker and has held some office in the church all the time. He is a member of the Haverhill M. FE. church.

He was married to Eliza J. Cadot, January 10, 1848. She was the daughter of Claudius Cadot. To them were born three children; Orin, (deceased), married Urania Bush, now Mrs. George M. Clary, of Ironton, Ohio; Asa of Haverhill, married Margaret, daughter of Henry and Mary A. (Winkler) Feurt; and Carrie married H. W. Farnham. After he was married he bought the farm just south of Haverhill now owned by Samuel Krickenberger. He sold this and bought a fourth interest in Raccoon Furnace in Greenup County, Kentucky; but the war breaking out immediately afterward, he sold this and resided with his father two years. He then rented the Hamilton farm between Hanging Rock and Ironton. Next he bought the Ironton ferry and conducted it for a while. He then moved to Haverhill and bought his present farm in 1866. Nearly all the time since, he has owned and run a threshing machine-in addition to his farming. He has been a hard worker and is now eighty years old and is as straight as an arrow and as active as most men at fifty. Mr. Boynton is just in all his dealings. He is a good citizen and a conscientious Christian and is respected by all who know him.

was the first man to leave Alexandria and locate in Portsmouth. Uriah Barber had built a two story log house on Front street on the first alley above Scioto street, and intended to keep hotel in it, but his wife dying, he gave up the idea, and induced Mr. Brown to take his house and open it as a tavern. The tavern keepers were the aristocrats of those early days, and they answered all the purposes of bankers, as they obtained all the currency which was afloat. John Brown was about the beginning of things in Portsmouth; he was first in almost everything. He was among the first settlers, he kept the first tavern, he built the first school house, the first grist mill, (a horse mill), the first ware house, and he was the first Justice of the Peace who ever administered the office in the town of Portsmouth. He was the first Postmaster Portsmouth ever had, and he aided in digging the first well. He opened the first road from the - top of the bank down the grade to the river edge, opposite the Vincent Brodbeck property on Front street. There was no other road down the river bank until 1810. At that time there was not a wagon or dray in Portsmouth, and the goods were hauled on sleds, pack horses, or carried on men's backs. John Brown owned and used the first cart ever used in Portsmouth. From 1807 until 1812, he was the principal citizen. He was the first commission merchant who ever did business in Portsmouth. He appeared to have performed all his duties well. The first court held in the town was held at his house. He was one of the first nine councilmen of Portsmouth, and was one of the three to draw a two years term. On March 10, 1817, he was elected for three years, and that same year was the town supervisor. His son, John Brown, Jr., was elected councilman in 1817 and held that office for two years, while at the same time his father was a councilman. He seemed to be fond of pleasure, as balls and dances were frequently held at his tavern. He was a small man, and slender, with sharp visage. As a Justice, he administered his office with severity. He had a rough class to deal with and he dealt with them according to their deserts. Mr. Brown built the first market house in Portsmouth. On one occasion when he was administering justice one John Cutright, was brought before him. As soon as he told his name, John Brown, said, "Well, John Cutright, you have cut wrong this time." When a supervisor of the road, he announced that "God willing" they would work the road Monday and Tuesday, but they- would work it on Wednesday anyway. It was in 1806 that he took the contract to build the first school house in Portsmouth.

He was a native of dear old Ireland, and was born not later than 1760. He stopped in Harrisburg, Pa., long enough to get him a wife, and floated down the Ohio river with her, the same as everyone else did at that time. We know his wife's name was Hannah, but her maiden name has not been preserved. He had one son, John Brown, Jr., and two daughters: Rachel, who married General William Kendall, May 29, 1806, the ceremony being performed by Robert Lucas, a Justice of the Peace, and Eliza, who was married to General Robert Lucas, April 4, 1810. Both of them raised large families, as did John Brown, Jr.

Our subject was a very active citizen; he was connected with almost every enterprise started in Portsmouth and was one of the charterers of the Commercial Bank. He owned the site of the present post office in Portsmouth, where his son, John Brown, Jr., kept a tavern. He was post master of Portsmouth from July 1, 1808 to March 7, 1812, and was succeeded by Dr. Thomas Waller.

was born December 9, 1783, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the son _of John Brown, Sr., who has a sketch herein. His father and his grandfather, Adla Brown, were natives of Ireland. His father came to the United States and located near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

'There he married his wife, Hannah, whose maiden-name is unknown. John Brown, Jr. must have been about ten years old when he came to Portsmouth. He went out in 1813, in the War of 1812, in the troop of horse commanded by his brother-in-law, William Kendall, better known as General William Kendall. He belonged to a brigade commanded by his other brother-in-law, General Robert Lucas. His name is numbered seventeen on the original roll, now in possession of Mrs. John W. Overturf, of Columbus, Ohio. He entered the service July 28, 1813, and served one month. His pay was $8.00 per month for himself, and 40 cents per day for his horse. He was paid for one month and one day, $21.05. His age was put down as eighteen on the muster roll, which was a mistake of two years too young. While stopping at Chillicothe he had his picture painted on a board and sent to his mother. It is now in possession of Mrs. Charles P. Kehoe, of Portsmouth, Ohio, his grand-daughter, and looks as well as when it was painted seventy-eight years ago. A cut from it is shown on the opposite page.

John Brown, Jr., was a very active citizen. He was elected a member of the town council, in 1817, to fill a vacancy, and for two years he and his father were members at the same time. Two ninths of the town Council were Brown. In 1818, he was re-elected to Council, but in 1819 he resigned and moved out to the William Kendall place. On June 1, 1818, he was appointed County Treasurer for one year and gave bond of $4,000, with John R. Turner and William Kendall as sureties. On September 9, 1818, he had an advertisment in the only newspaper in Portsmouth, stating that '"'a stitch in time saves nine,' and calling on those who owned him to come and settle, and if they did not, on October 1, 1818, he would put his accounts in the hands of Ezra Osborn, J. P., for collection.

He was once notified that he had a large estate in Ireland, near Dublin, which he could enter into possession of by swearing allegiance to the then king of England. He declared he would not do that for all of Ireland for an inheritance.

He was a Democrat in his political views, and a Methodist in religion. In 1826 he was a candidate for Justice of the Peace of Wayne 'Township, but was defeated. The vote stood, Ezra Osborn, 71, John Brown, 48. He married Charity Johnson, of Mason County, Kentucky, February 2, 1815. She was born August 19, 1793 in Hampshire County, Virginia. Their children were: Ist, Eliza, born February 1, 1816, married John F. Day, April 2, 1835; 2nd, John Johnson, born August 5, 1817, married a Miss Monroe of French - Grant, and went to California; 3rd, Hannah, born January 19, 1820, married Franklin Bliss, of Wheelersburg; 4th, Isaac Brown, born

April 15, 1822, married Susan Rickey, of Jackson, C. H.; 5th, William Washington, born September 3, 1824, died in 1826; 6th, Benjamin Franklin, born February 17, 1827, married Susan Calvin, and located in Greenup, Kentucky; 7th, James Lawson, born September 23, 1830, married Ann Salisbury; 8th, Thomas, born December 22, 1823, and resides in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Our subject was wharf-master in Portsmouth in 1839, and realestate appraiser it 1840. As the latter he served 145 days and his compensation was $295.00.

In 1834, he was a partner in Watson's Hotel with William Watson, Sr., for eighteen months. He attained the rank of Major in the State Militia. At one time he obtained the boot hooks of General Anthony Wayne; they are now in possession of Mrs. Charles P. Kehoe, before mentioned.

He was a useful and prominent citizen, but in obtaining municipal distinction was largely overshadowed by his father, John Brown, Sr., who has an interesting sketch elsewhere.

was born April 11, 1811, 1n Vermont. His father was David Brown, a native of Massachusetts, and his mother's maiden name was Sarah Hubbard, born in Connecticut, daughter of Wm. Hubbard. Our subject remained im Vermont three years, and in 1816, came to Portsmouth on a flat boat, with his father who had twenty-five cents in money left when he landed. Royal was then five years old. His father located on theeast side of the Scioto river above Portsmouth. On account of fever and ague he left there and moved in Madison Township, and took part of the Dow McKinney farm now owned by his grandson. After residing here a few years he sold out, and bought lard in Marion Township, Pike County, Ohio. He survived his wife. He was a Whig, and a member of the Methodist Protestant Church. He was a stock dealer as well as a farmer and owned a 200 acre farm. He lived an honorable and respectable life, but never made or accumulated money, as his sons, who made their own way, made money and became substantial farmers. His son, Royal Brown, before mentioned, married Rachel Beauchamp, August 18, 1833, whose mother was a native of England, but of French ancestry, daughter ot John Beauchamp and Elizabeth Prettyman. Royal Brown began with a farm of eighty-three acres and afterwards acquired more land. He was a stone cutter,and built a great many chimneys for his neighbors. He was an ordained preacher of the Methodist Protestant Church and very active in his work. The.children of Royal Brown were as follows: Harriet, married Thomas Allard, father of Dr. Allard, ot Portsmouth, born June 27, 1834; Milton Wesley, born September

2, 1836, has a separate sketch herein; Francis Asbury, born Nov. 5, 1838, a minister in the Methodist Protestant Church; Elizabeth, born March 16, 1841, died in infancy; William, born August 23, 1842, died September 20, 1860; John Shepherd, born August 18, 1844, resides at Stockdale, was in Company "G'' g1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Royal Benton, Born Jan. 12, 1847, resides at Stockdale; David Tipton, born May 18, 1849, lives at Stockdale; William Beauchamp, born December 12, 1860, also lives at Stockdale; Rachel Ellen, born January 28, 1848, married James Wallace, August 10, 1876. - Royal Brown. was the organizer of the Methodist Protestant Church at | Stockdale. He was a lover of mutual rights, and claimed that the laity in every church should have the same privileges as the Clergy. He died December 31, 1894, aged 83 years, 8 months and 13 days.

was born in Suffolk County, New York, April 1, 1817. He was the son of Joseph and Amy (Smith) Brush. His father was a native of New York and his mother of Connecticut. His parents located at Haverhill, Scioto County, Ohio, in 1822. Benjamin's early life was spent on the farm and in attending a subscription school, where he received a meager education. He worked at the shoe maker's trade and earned the money which enabled him to attend Dennison University, at Granville, in Licking County, where he fitted himself for a teacher. He taught school several years but finally gave it up and began farm- ~ ing, which occupation he followed until his death, November 5, 1893. He served as Justice of the Peace six years and as Township Clerk twenty-five years. He was a Republican although he favored Prohibition. He was a member of the Methodist Church for over forty years. In 1846, he married Ellen Butterfield, daughter of Benjamin and Mary Butterfield of Scioto County. He has five children living. Charles, Amy, Ida and William A., of Gervais and Benjamin of Durango, Mexico. He was a just man, a good Christian and a good citizen. Henry Buchanan was born in Kentucky, of Scotch parents, about 1800. His parents removed to Chillicothe, Ohio, while he was young. He received such education as he could obtain there. His elder sister married John Woodbrige, a banker of Chillicothe, and as he grew up he obtained a position in Woodbridge's bank, where he learned the business. In 1828, he married a Miss Woods, and removed to Portsmouth to take charge of the Commercial Bank as Cashier. His wife died at childbirth, the child, John Buchanan, lived to be fifty years of age, and died at Yellow Bud, Ross County. In 1834, he was elected a fence viewer of Wayne Township. 'This was evidently intended as a joke by those who voted for him, as it was customary to elect the most prominent men of the Township to that office. None of the

March 22, 1837, he was married to Elizabeth Belt, the daughter of Judge Belt of Chillicothe then a resident of Washington City. She died March 16, 1838, aged 19 years, 9 months and 17 days, in childbirth. Her daughter is now the wife of Lyman Perrin of Cincinnati, Ohio. This second wife of Mr. Buchanan's is buried at the foot of a large tree in Greenlawn cemetery, and the growth of the tree has broken the slab covering her grave. In 1842, he married the third time to Maria Louisa Nixon at Mobile, Alabama. Her parents were Irish, and she was the mother of six children, three boys and three girls. Of the sons, Harry and Austin are deceased, Frank is now living at Newport, Kentucky. Of the daughters, Alice and Kathleen are deceased, and Florence is the wife of one Dewitt, of Baltimore. Mr. Buchanan was prominently connected as financial agent and correspondent of the New York Company through the Stetsons, Bankers of New York. He attended to their business in Portsmouth, he also took quite an active part in the publication of a History of Ohio by Caleb Atwater, of whom he was an intimate friend. He visited West Union and other places with the author in the interest of the work. Mr. Buchanan was connected with the Commercial Bank of Portsmouth during its existence, and afterwards conducted business as a broker in Portsmouth. In 1843, he was Councilman of the town, and on the Committee to receive Ex-President John Quincy Adams, on the occasion of his visit to Portsmouth. He was Recorder of the town from November 15, 1844 to April 4, 1845. He was again Recorder of the town from March, 1846 to April, 1847. On July 20, 1849, he resigned his position as Councilman and left the city. He was always honorable in ail his dealings, and had considerable property. He and all his family were communicants of All Saints Church. In 1849, he was in partnership with Thomas Dugan for a short time, as Buchanan & Dugan. He was also an Insurance Agent, and was agent of the Protection Insurance Company of Columbus. During this same year, he returned to Ross County and went into partnership with John Woodbridge, his brother-in-law, then a banker of Chillicothe and owner of the Rapid Forge Iron Works, to further improve the Rapid Forge property; but after failure to secure a sufficient dam across the Rocky Fork, a few hundred yards above the Rapid Forge dam in Paint Creek, the enterprise was abandoned, after the loss of many thousand dollars. In 1852, Henry Buchanan with his family moved to Newport, Kentucky, and took charge of the interests of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company of Cincinnati. When this institution was closed under the State Banking Law, Mr. Buchanan was elected President of the Newport Safety Fund Bank, which was successfully managed by him, and ceased to do business only after the U. S, Banking Law went into effect. During the clos- ing years of his life, Mr.«Buchanan with his sons, Harry and Frank, managed the interests of the Hartford City Life Insurance and Trust Company in Kentucky as State Agents. He died in 1872 in Newport, Kentucky, and is buried there. He left a wife and five children. He was a man of fine personal presence. His weight was seldom less than two hundred pounds. He was six feet and two inches high. In politics, he was'first a Whig, but during his later years he voted with the Democrats, though he was never prominent in politics.

Of all those who ever lived in Portsmouth, there is no finer or more admirable character than the subject of this sketch. His history and life is largely the history and life of the community in which he dwelt and spent his life. If ever there was a life spent in Portsmouth which was illustrative of the excellences and nobilities of human character, it was this one. It makes no difference from what point of view the life and character of Doctor Burr be viewed, the result is the same; there is ever some noble element to call out admiration. And yet Doctor Burr's life was nothing but a round of simple every day duties, which every clergman is called on to observe and perform, but he elevated and ennobled them. Doctor Burr never made any show of goodness, such a thing never ocurred to him in the course of his long and useful life. He simply lived to do each day what was before him, to do it well and on his conscience. He was a man of extensive learning, of broad scholarship, but he never attempted to display it. As a matter of course he could not conceal it, for it was part of his life. He was a beacon light to all those about him. He was a man of most excellent judgment, and it served him on all occasions. He was never perturbed or excited. There was nothing nervous or excitable about him, and he always said, advised and did the best thing to be advised, said or done; and his advice, his statements and his actions, on or about any subject, seemed to be conclusive. His diction in public speaking was perfect. He never violated the rules of syntax, never used slang and his qualifying words of every subject of which he spoke, seemed to be perfect. While his delivery was slow, his thoughts and ideas were always instructive and interesting. At the conclusion of his career, when the memory of his life was most vivid, it was said of him, that the loved clergyman and citizen had passed away. He was at that time revered and respected above any citizen of Portsmouth. When discussing goodness and excellence in the community he was always placed first. He was a man of broad views on every subject. He was always.conservative, never impetuous or inconsiderate. He was never carried away by new ideas or notions, never adopted extreme views or followed extreme courses in respect to any subject. He was wise in the best and broadest sense of the term. Where his advice was sought and followed, the recipient always found he had adopted the very best course.

Rev. Erastus Burr

He was born at Bridgeport, Conn., April 15, 1805, of a long line of honorable ancestry. At the age of thirteen his father settled in Worthington, Ohio, and here, in 1820, he began his preparations for college under Bishop Philander Chase. He attended school in Worthington until 1825, when the school was removed to Gambier, Ohio. He attended the school there until 1828, when he entered Trinity College at Hartford, Conn., where he graduated in 1830. On his return from Hartford, he went to Nashville, Tenn., and studied theology, though he really went on account of his health. On January 6, 1833, at Lexington, Ky., he was ordered deacon, and on August 29, 1834, he was ordained priest by Rey. Dudley Smith, Bishop of Kentucky. This was Bishop Smith's first ordination of a priest. In April, 1833, Dector Burr took charge of the St. John's Church at Worthington, Ohio, and remained there until he came to Portsmouth. On February 7, 1833, he was married to Miss Harriet Griswold at Worthington. On November 9, 1838, he became Rector of All Saints Church at Portsmouth, and there he spent the remainder of his life. On November 9, 1873, he retired froom the Rectorship of All Saints Church, and on that occasion preached his thirty-fifth anniversary sermon. 'The writer heard it, and it is one of his cherished memories. Again on November 9, 1891, fifty-three years after taking the Rectorship, and at the ripe age of 86, he again addressed the All Saints Congregation. He stood on his feet and spoke for one hour and twenty minutes and no one was restless. He held the strict attention of all his hearers, and his mind was bright and clear as in his youth. He desired the Congregation to consider that address his last words, and so they proved. He stood on the brink of eternity and gave his people tender and affectionate advice and counsel, and words of loving farewell. :

He was an examiner of the Public Schools of the city from 1839 most of his life. He was County School Examiner for forty years continuously, and had the confidence, respect and affection of the teachers. In the duty of granting certificates, he was always just, and he invariably gave the teacher the benefit of the doubt. He resigned the County E-xaminership in 1888, but held the City Examinership till his death, because his colleagues insisted on it. In the Councils of his own Church no clergyman was better known or more highly respected. In the Convention of his own Diocese, he was always on the most important Committees. From 1856 to 1887, he was on the Committee on Canons, which dealt with the laws of the Church and had the best talent and learning of the Convention. The Bishop frequently called on him as temporary chairman, and he was the Bishop's own counselor. The Bishop always sought his advice and it goes without saying, followed it. In the discussion of all questions in the Convention, after Dr. Burr spoke, the body was ready for a vote, and his views were nearly always adopted. After he had spoken on a question, the members wondered why they had not seen it that way before. Doctor Burr's influence in his own church was not limited to the Diocese. He was a Trustee of Kenyon College and of Bexley Hall for 48 years, and his labors on those Boards were most highly appreciated by his colleagues. He attended each General Convention of his Church from 1840 until 1877, and was most favorably known in that body. This was the highest honor his Diocese could confer.

In his prime, he could have been a Bishop, but discouraged all advances of that kind. All the honors he ever held came to him. He sought none. He had very few, 1f any enemies, and yet a man more positive in his convictions never lived. He had a way of enforcing his ideas on all subjects, which convinced those about him that he was right and his way was best. Everyone conceded he was the best man in the city. His life was pure and noble. It was set to high. ideals, conscientiously followed. | He was modest, sincere, sympathetic, and his type of Christianity was the best. He died in perfect peace December 19, 1891.

was a prominent citizen in Scioto County in the early times. He was a Supervisor in Wayne Township in 1810. In 1812, he was a Lister in Wayne Township, and in 1813, 1814 and 1815 a Trustee. He was one of the first nine city fathers and drew a three years' term. On May 1, 1815, he and William Kendall were on a Committee to bring in a bill on executions. In 1815, he built a school house. In 1817, he removed from the city into the country on the West Side. He was elected a County Commissioner in 1818, 1821 and 1826. He was a Lister in Nile Township in 1818. In 1829, he was elected 'County Commissioner for three years, but removed from the County in 1830. Nothing further is known of him.

was born in 1803 in Scioto County, near Sciotoville, Ohio. He was a Health Officer of Portsmouth in 1836. He was one of the Executive Committee of the Portsmouth Clay Club which was organized May 23, 1844. He was elected Wharfmaster April 5, 1844 and served until December 1, 1855, when he resigned. He was County Commissioner from 1861 to 1867. In 1826, he was married to Ann Buffington. She was born at White Post, Loudon County, Virginia, March 13, 1809. She came to Portsmouth with her parents in 1814. Thomas Burt had six sons and five daughters. The four surviving sons are: William, John, Charles and Henry. Lewis and Thomas are deceased. Thomas Burt died February 26, 1871, in Vicksburg,

Mississippi, while on a visit there. His wife died February 13, 1892, in Chillicothe, Ohio, at the residence of her son, Henry, and was brought to Portsmouth for burial.

was born in Bedford County, Virginia, in 1820. He was brought up there until he was eighteen years of age. His mother was a sister of Col. T. J. Graham. At the age of eighteen, he came to Greenup County, Kentucky, and became a clerk in a store. He became acquainted with J. V. Robinson there and by him, was induced to come to Portsmouth, Ohio, and engaged as a clerk for him. He remained with Mr. Robinson for a number of years. In 1846, he engaged in the wholesale grocery with Frank J. Oakes as a partner, under the firm name of Oakes and Buskirk. This firm continued until 1868 when Frank J. Oakes retired and Geotge Davis took his place in the business. Mr. Buskirk remained with Mr. Davis until he sold out to William R. Stricklett in 1872. Mr. Buskirk then went in partnership with Sam Hempstead at Hanging Rock. In 1878, he started a Stove and Tinware House in Portsmouth, and in 1883, he retired from all business. He was married to Josephine Oakes, June 4, 1845, by Rev. Gould, in Gallipolis. They had six children. His son, Frank Whitney, was born March 24, 1846. Harry Henderson was born May 22, 1848; Floyd Oakes, born May 1, 1850 and died November 21, 1879. They had one daughter, Aileen, now the wife of George Gilliland, of Washington, D. C. They also 'had a son, Charles Tracy, who died when he was about thirty years of age, and Fred, now residing in Cincinnati. Mr. Buskirk resided in Portsmouth from his retirement until his death on the 6th of July, 1808. His wife survived until August 4, 1891. Mr. Buskirk was a member of the City Council of Portsmouth for a number of years, also - a member of the City Board of Equalization, and had been for several years prior to his death. During the entire Civil War he was a member of the County Military Committee. In his business career, he was noted for his integrity and fair dealings. He is a valuable citizen and highly esteemed in every relation of life.

was born February 17, 1793. His father was Claudius Cadot, and his mother Jane Bastine, both of France. "They were married in Paris in 1790. Right after their marriage they started as emigrants to Gallipolis. They arrived there in the fall of 1790. Three children were born to them. 'The first was Maria Louise, born Januaty 28, 1791 she married Francis LeClercq, October 21, 1809. They had two children, a son and a daughter, Claudius Cadot, our subject was the second child; the third was Lemuel Cadot, who was born two years subsequent to Claudius. In 1795, Claudius Cadot, senior, fell a victim to the climate and died. In three months his widow married Francis Charles Duteil. They located in the French Grant in 1797. Duteil first came down aloneto the Grant and built him a pole 'cabin, on lot number 32 in the French Grant which he had drawn as one of the emigrants. Three months later he brought his. wife and step-children down. Young Claudius worked on his stepfather's farm and learned the art of distilling fruits and grains. He had altogether about eleven months schooling. In the spring of

812 he volunteered in Capt. John Lucas' Company for one year to go into the war of 1812. He went as far as Urbana, and there his Company joined Col. Duncan McArthur's Regiment, rst Ohio Volunteers. -

General Hull took command of the army and marched to Detroit where he surrendered on the 16th of the August following. Before Hull surrendered our subject was engaged in the battle of Brownsville and after the surrender he and his companions were sent to Cleveland. From there they walked to near Pittsburg, and then floated down the Ohio river. Cadot got off at Gallipolis to visit his sister, Af ter that he engaged in keel boating on the Ohio river, in connection with the celebrated Mike Fink, and earned about 50 cents per day at first and afterwards 62 1-2 cents per day. He followed this four years and saved enough money to buy a quarter section of land. On March 24, 1818, he had patented to him from the United States, the southwest quarter, Section 15, Township 3, Range 21, and afterwards bought 57 acres out of the northwest part of the northwest quarter of the same section, township and range from his brother Lemuel for $150.00.

On December 17, 1819, he married Nancy Ball and in 1820, he moved onto his land. Ih 1820, he built him a commodious frame house. June 9, 1835, he lost his wife who was born December 30, 1709. He afterwards married Cynthia Stockham whom he survived. After the death of his second wife, he broke up house-keeping and resided with his daughter, Mrs. Mary Hayward, first in the vicinity of Wheelersburg and afterwards in W heelersburg. He was the last survivor of his Company in the War. of 1812, and drew a pension under the law of 1878.

Hayward, and is now his widow: Charles F., born October 12, 1822; Eliza J.. born March 4, 1825, married Peter F. Boynton; John Claudius, born June 20, 1828, married to Mary A. Winkler, who died July

April 1, 1830: Madeline, born May 1, 1832, married Asa Boynton, and is deceased. Ruhama, youngest daughter, married Charles Pixley of Ironton. as ; knew him best: In Claudius Cadot the elements which most contribute to the thrift and general prosperity of the French people as a nation were pre-eminently united. He had great industry, untiring energy, a rare capacity for good management, and the ideas of frugality which had been inbred in the French colonists who located on the Ohio. These qualities, united with a frame of iron, insured for the little man the success which his life exemplified. By good fortune, too, he invested the hard earnings of his youth, made at keelboating and other laborious pursuits, in land located'near the iron furnaces of the Pine Creek country in the Hanging Rock region, and thus realized a ready market for all his produce and Claudius Cadot always had something to sell. If his neighbors - who also lived on farms - tran short of feed, or fruit, or truck, or young stock, Cadot could nearly always supply them. As he continued-to prosper he added to his holdings until his farm grew to comprise hundreds of acres. He was prudent and cautious withal - and came to be widely recognized as a solid, safe, substantial, reliable man. At the end of life, when his surplus securities were unrolled and were found to net nearly $60,000, in addition to his real estate holdings, it presented a valuable object lesson as to what the young man in this country, starting with his bare hands, and working without speculative methods, may achieve, if he is animated by "the right spirit. And_ besides his worldly accumulations, he left not only a worthy example to the community, but the record of a pure life and honorable name to his family.

was born in Gallipolis, Ohio, July 4, 1794, the son of Claudius Cadot, one of the 500 French who formed the settlement at Gallipolis. His father died in 1795 when he was but a year old and his mother took him and-his brother Claudius and his sister Mary to the French

Grant to live. His sister who afterwards married Francis Le Clereq was the first child born in Gallipolis. When a boy our subject worked at keel-boating. From 1817 to 1827, he was thus engaged and would go with a keel-boat from Pittsburg to Nashville, Tennessee, and sometimes walk back. In 1827, he purchased a farm from the government and followed farming until he died, still residing on his original farm. He was married Jul y 28,-1828, to Catherine Baccus, daughter of James'S. Baccus. To them were born nine children, six sons and three daughters. Mary Jane, wife of Harrison H. Fullerton, died in 1873. One daughter died in infancy.. Nancy M., wife of Dr. Thomas McGovney, died some years ago at Ironton, O.; William Henry Harrison and C. $. Cadot of Portsmouth, John Julius and Lemuel Zenas, both deceased; Seymour Sydney of Fredricksburg, Virginia, and James Claudius, deceased. Our subject was a township officer for a number of years, but held no other offices. He was industrious and an honorable citizen, a good neighbor and a careful and close business man. In charitable matters he was born in Prince William County, Virginia,"September 15, 1805. When he was-a child his father died and his mother came to Ohio with her family and located in Scioto County in the vicinity of Ports- - mouth. For many years young Calvert was in the employ of the late Captain Cleveland, as manager of his farm, now known as the "Infirmary Farm." He was also engaged for a time as a contractor on the Ohio canal, having charge of a section between Portsmouth and Jasper. When the canal was finished, he purchased some land in the neighborhood of Portsmouth, to which he afterwards added as his circumstances permitted; and at the time of his death he was the owner of a very large and valuable farm in the Scioto Valley. In the latter part of his life he was engaged in farming.

In 1833, he was married to Miss Mary Emma Dent Hoskinson, daughter of the Rev. Josiah Hoskinson, of Scioto County, but formerly of Virginia. Mrs. Calvert died April 1, 1852, of lung fever, at which time Mr. Calvert was very sick 'with the same disease. They had six children, five of whom survived; Frank W., formerly a groceryman in Portsmouth, now deceased; Robert A., attorney-atlaw, Portsmouth; Thomas E., farmer of Scioto County, and Eva A., wife of Silas Clark.

was born December 7, 1823, in Porter Township, Scioto County, Ohio. His father, Phineas B. Chaffin, was a brother of Shadrach, Reuben and Daniel Chaffin. His father came from New Hampshire in 1812, and married his mother, Almira Wheeler in 1820. She was a daughter of Nathaniel Wheeler, a Revolutionary soldier, whose record as such will be found in the article on Revolutionary Soldiers in this work. Levi and Luther Wheeler, and Nathaniel Wheeler, Jr., well known in Scioto County, were her brothers. - Of the children. of Phineas: Chaffin, Sr., there were: Lovina and Vilena; Lovina married Reuben Lamb in the French Grant and had a family; Vilena married Horace T. Hall, and had a family. | Phineas B., our subject, was the next child, and then there were two who died in infancy.

He had a brother John who married Rebecca Patton, and reared a family. Another brother Frances M., married Susan Perry, and reared a family. Another brother, William Brackett, married and has two sons living in Huntington, W. Va. 'Their names are Clarence and William. Another brother, Thomas B., is married, has a family, and lives in Portsmouth, and George a brother also lives in Portsmouth, and has a family. Abigail, a sister, married Francis Andre. Both are deceased. Another sister, Calphurnia married Augustus Andre, and lives in Huntington. Our subject married Persis Lamb, January 18, 1848. 'They have five children living, two sons and three daughters. 'The sons, Albert Byers and Frank Morey, reside in Morgan Township. Of the daughters, Ruby married Thomas Hartman and resides at Wheelersburg; Ida May and Ina Belle are unmarried. Our subject lived on the Lamb farm, one and one-half mile below Franklin Furnace, from 1848 to 1875; and then bought the Montgomery Mill on Pine Creek and lived there until April 5, 1882, and then moved to Crabtree, Morgan Township, where he has since resided. He was a Whig until the Republican party came into existence, and acted with them until 1896, when he voted for Bryan. He learned the shoemakers trade, but never followed it after his marriage. The Lamb family came from Vermont and the Chaffin family came from New Hampshire. His wife died the rst of September, 1800.

was born at Piketon, Ohio, June 18, 1808. He came to Scioto County in 1834, and settled in Washington Township, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was married April 3, 1836, to Eliza Orme, daughter of John Orme, who with his sons, Silas and John, and daughter, Mrs. Lovey J. Carlin survive him. He was a Democrat all his life. At one time he was was worth considerable money, but three Scioto floods in five years lost him all he had. In 1878, he was the candidate of his party for sheriff, and was defeated. He died June 15, 1899. Uncle Aaron, as he was generally known, was always willing to do everything for everybody, even to the neglect of his own affairs. He was an easy going citizen anda good neighbor, but utterly lacked the talent of accumulation. His widow, the youngest child of John Orme and the only survivor of his family is living near Dan Harwood's in Morgan Township. She was born September 12, 1817, in a log house near the great mound which formerly stood on the Heinisch lot on Gallia street.

was born in Ireland, County Tyrone, near Fintona, November 6, 1829. His father's name was John Crawford, who came to this country in 1840, landed at Manchester, and went from Manchester to West Union. He bought a little farm on Brush Creek and moved out there. He resided there until his death, August\23, 1873 at the age of eighty-five. His mother's maiden name was Jane McClung. She died November 7, 1855, aged 63 years. His parents had ten children, all of whom they brought to the United States. They came over in the ship, Napier to Philadelphia, and were six weeks on the ocean. The youngest child, two years old, died on the ocean and was buried at sea. :

Our subject received his education in Ireland, but attended pay schools all the time, as they had no free schools there in his time. He helped to build the Maysville & Zanesville Turnpike through West Union to Aberdeen. His father, his oldest brother Samuef and himself worked on the pike. In the spring of 1841, his brother Samuel and he went to Bloom Furnace and. worked there. In 1842, they went to Jackson Furnace and part of the time at Junior Furnace. They dug ore and filled the furnaces. In the spring of 1843, Joe Smith put him in the store at Junior Furnace, as storekeeper, and his brother Samuel worked in the coal mines. In additfon to keeping the store, he attended to taking up the charcoal. In 1844, he was put in the office at Junior Furnace, as book-keeper, and remained there until March 1, 1851. He was married December 26, 1849, to Mary Young Glidden, daughter of Samuel Mills Glidden. They went to housekeeping at Junior Furnace, but moved to Clinton Furnace in March, 1851, where he still resides and expects to-die.

Joseph' W., Charles N., O. H., and Daniel H. Glidden, four brothers, bought Clinton Furnace in 1848. Our subject went in with them first as a book-keeper. Then Stephen' Glidden, his brother-inlaw and he rented the Furnace, and operated it until 1854. At the end of three years, he bought the interest of Stephen Glidden and bought 1-24 from each of the other owners. 'The furnace contin-' ued under the firm name of Glidden, Crawford & Co., until the fall of 1867, when Mr. Crawford bought the entire property. He took in with him Wm. J. Bell. They operated the Furnace as Crawford & Bell, until the fall of 1870, when he sold out to Wm. J. Bell, who operated the Furnace individually. Our subject then moved to Portsmouth, and after ten years lawing about the title of the Furnace, Mr. Crawford bought it back. The Furnace went out of blast in the fall or winter of 1873 for good. 'There were 5,000 acres of the Furnace property at that time. Mr. Crawford sold about 3,000 acres of the land to G. W. Kelley. His son owns 2,500 acres around the whole furnace site and Mr. Crawford resides there.

His wife died April 22, 1891. Their children are as follows:. Mary Ellia, died at sixteen months; George W., formerly Mayor of Portsmouth; Charles M., died at the age of eight years; Dr. John N, W., residing i in New York oy Doctor Mrs. M. A: G. Dwight, at Boston.

Mr. Crawford was a Whig while that party lasted, and since then has been a Republican. He is a typical Irishman. Though the infirmities of age have worsted him somewhat, he is hale and hearty for his years. He is as full of business as he was at the age of twenty. Care acts on him like water on a duck's feathers, Time was when he was-in a sea of troubles in the business world, but now he is a spectator and enjoys seeing the procession go by. He has outlived all his contemporaries in business, but yet life is sweet to him and he disagrees with the poet who wrote the hymn, "I would not live always." was born at Norwich, Conn., December 24, 1796. He was a brother of the father of Ex-President Cleveland. He received a very liberal education and when it was complete, he went to New York City and engaged as a Clerk for his uncle. In 1817, he went to Zanesville, O., where he taught schoool one year. Here he married and two children were born to him, a son and a daughter. His wife died in 1823. His sister, Mrs. Lewis F. Allen of Black Fork, New York, took the infant daughter and reared her till she was fourteen years of age, when she died. His son Francis lived in the east with relatives until he was eighteen years of age, when he came to Portsmouth, Ohio, and lived with his father one year or more. He went from Portsmouth, Ohio to Indiana. From there he went to California, where he soon after died.

In 1832, our subject went into business in Zanesville with one, Charles Hill, as jewelers. They bought a large stock of high priced goods in the east and could not sell them. As a result, they failed in business. This was in 1824, and he obtained work on the Miami Canal as an Assistant Engineer. He developed a talent for the work and in 1825 was made an Engineer on the Ohio Canal.

In 1828 and 1829, he located on the Ohio Canal from ten miles north of Chillicothe to Portsmouth, Ohio. Captain Cleveland had complete charge of the building of the canal for this distance. He was given the naming of the new town to be located in Pike County and he named it Waverly, for Sir Walter Scott's "Waverly." The Captain was a great reader of standard fiction and was especially fond of Scott. He possessed excellent literary taste and was a great collector of books. When, he located in Portsmouth, in 1828, he was the best educated person in the town, excepting Dr. G. 5. B: Hempstead. He and his assistants worked all winter in locating the canal and the wonder is he did not die from the effects of it. From the 'spring of 1828 until his death, his home was in Portsmouth. On July 4, 1831, Portsmouth had the greatest celebration of Independence Day in its history. Captain Cleveland read the Declaration of Independence, after which a salvo of artillery was fired as a defiance to King George. He also responded to one of the toasts at the pub- lic dinner on that day. In 1832, he was one of the lecturers before the Portsmouth Lyceum. In 1833, he was overtaken by financial failure a second time by reason of this connection with the New York Company. In 1834, he married Miss Margaret Waller, the daughter of Dr. Thomas Waller. In 1835, he went to Indiana and located the Whitewater Canal. Soon after this he bought what is now the Infirmary farm and' built the stone house residence where he resided for some time. In 1845, he had a ferry at the mouth of the Scioto river for which he paid $25.00 per annum. In 1844, he edited the Portsmouth Enquirer and continued that till 1852, when he sold out. In 1848 he was the Democratic candidate for Congress and was defeated. J. L. Taylor was his opponent. In Scioto County, Taylor received 1,530 votes and Cleveland 1,064. In 1851, he was the Democratic candidate for State Senator in the new Seventh District, against Col. O. F. Moore and was defeated. 'The vote in Scioto County stood, Moore 1,348, Cleveland 928. He adhered to the Democracy till about 1861, when he became a Republican and remained as such the remainder of his life.

On October 26, 1848, his wife died leaving no issue. He never re-married. In 1849 to 1851, he was an Examiner and Inspector of the public schools. From 1851 to 1853 he was City Clerk. He was also City Clerk from April 24, 1865 until November 6, 1872. He was 'Town Surveyor from 1854 to 1860. In 1855, as a member of the City Council, he offered a resolution to build the first sewer in Portsmouth and it carried. In 1856, he was appointed engineer to, construct the 'Third street sewer and controlled the entire work. From 1852 to 1872, he was Secretary of the Aurora Lodge of Free Masons. He was very fond of Masonry and attained the 33rd degree.

In 1870, he was one of the Infirmary Directors of Portsmouth. He was the most efficient City Clerk the town ever had. 'The Committee on Claims was a great power in its time, but Captain Cleveland was equal. to the Committee on Claims, and the whole Council besides. He knew every detail and department of the city's affairs. He knew the city's financial condition all the time. The writer knew of his work from April, 1871, to November 4, 1872. On Monday morning, November 4, 1872, he was found in his office speechless. He seemed to be as well as usual in every respect, but his voice was utterly gone. He could not even make a sound, though he could see, hear and understand everything said to him and move about as usual, He could not write, and hence was cut off all communication with his fellows. His minutes from October were all complete and were in the same firm hand as he always wrote in. A few days after his affliction, the council passed resolutions in regard to his official career, in which it was stated that he was always found at his post of duty and ready to furnish in- formation as to city matters. He was ever watchful of the city's welfare and was truthful and honest. Council resolved it had lost the best and most efficient clerk it ever had, and that he had the sympathy of the council. His salary was ordered paid him to date and that a copy of the resolutions be given him. As long as council had the election of clerk, Captain Cleveland was re-elected unanimously, regardless of the political complexion of council.

Well might. the Council have spread this testimonial on its journal. For years the Captain had done the work of the committees of Council and they had only to sign their names to a report. Moreover when Captain Cleveland did this work for the members, it was done better than they could have done it themselves, and they knew it. His mind was a most perfect repository of the city's business.. He knew every document and every book in his office and could find anything called for at once.' It was a good, clean, easy job to be a councilman while Captain Cleveland was clerk. Ifa councilman, did not know everything about city affairs (which was usually the case) all he had to do was to ask Captain Cleveland and he was informed at once.

In 18609, the City Clerkship was elective by the people for once and Captain Cleveland was on the Republican ticket and Thomas G. Howell on the Democratic. The vote stood Cleveland 893, Howell 663, a majority of 238, the largest majority of any one elected.

No doubt every Democratic Councilman and city officer voted for the Captain. He was not a religious man. All his religious emotions evidenced themselves in his Masonry. He did more work for the City of Portsmouth in the administration of its affairs than any officer-who-ever held office under its municipal organization.

As City Civil Engineer, he was the best qualified who ever held the office. The sewers-he built stand as well today as when he finished them. The Captain was very fond of reading standard works on science and literature. He wrote out the manuscript of a scientific work which was never published. It is in the possession of his niece, Miss Clara Waller.

He survived until June 26, 1881, more than eight years after his stroke of paralysis, but he never recovered his power of speech or ability to write. He could see and could go about, but the world was dead to him and he to it. When stricken with paralysis he had been making his home with Robert Montgomery and he continued his home here until his death. His Masonic brethren and his wife's relatives looked after his comfort, but it seems the irony of fate that he should be compelled to live over eight years shut off from the world. No more useful citizen ever lived in Portsmouth.

father, was born in Somerset, England, April 25,1794. He, with two brothers, John and Charles, came to this country in 1817 and settled in Gallia County. John Chick for years was superintendent of Mt. Vernon Furnace. William Chick in 1828, purchased a farm of five or six hundred' acres in the French Grant and removed his family there, Ile built the stone house on his farm which stood until 1900 when it was destroyed by fire. He had learned the trade of stone mason at the Portsmouth, Mngland, Navy Yards. He also built the stone church near Powellsville which was torn down about i8y2, LHe was baptized in the Church of Hngland, but there was no I"piscopal church near him and he gave his strong support to the Baptist chureh, which he built on id farm with his own hands and contributed very liberally to its founding. His children were: John, who died on "the Isthmus' while on his way to' California; Charles, the subject of this sketch; William, aged seventy-seven, who resides at Walton, Indiana; Mlizabeth, wife of John Shope, who died at Powellsville; rank, who died at his home in Illinois; George, aged seventy-five, of Newport, California; Hiram, aged seventy-three, of Sierra street, Los Angeles, California, and Vashti, aged seventy-one, the wife of James Davis, of Walton, Indiana. William Chick's wife died in 1845 and in 1846 he purchased the farm on the river east of the city which is now the site of the Burgess Mill and of Yorktown. The farm contained 237 acres for which he paid $5,000. In March, i847, while the family were preparing to move to the river farm, he was taken sick and died. Charles and Vashti, the two children who were still at home, moved to the new farm. Charles bought out the other heirs and spent the remainder of his life there. In 1854, he was married to Sarah Lawson, daughter of Squire John Lawson, oldest son of William Lawson, pioneer of Scioto County and oldest son of 'Thomas Lawson of Hampshire County, Virginia, who was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, Sarah Lawson was also the greatgranddaughter of Michael Watson, pioneer of Adams County, who was born in Maryland and emigrated to Mason County, Kentucky, in r7go, and to Adams County, Ohio, in 1804.

The children of Charles and Sarah Lawson Chick are: Elizabeth, wife of Henry Amberg, Stephen @., Ida M., wife of W. D, Horr, Clara B., John W., Harriet, wife of William W, Gates, Jr.; Mila 1., Laura R., Walter A,, and Pearl. One child Henrietta died when three years of age. All the children live in this city with one exception, John, resides on the Peebles farm at New Boston. Charles Chick died June 8, 1877. His widow. resided on the farm until 1898 when she sold the Pert and moved to this city. © She had lived in the same house for forty-four years, having gone there when a bride, She and four children; Clara, Ella, Laura and Pearl now reside at 229 Gallia street, Charles Chick was,a man of sterling qualities and the soul of honor; ever ready to lend a helping hand or do a kindness to a neighbor; he was honored and respected by all who knew him. The "Golden Rule" was the rule of his life and whatever he did was characterized by thoroughness. His farm was one of the model farms of the county.

was a native of Perthshire, Scotland, where he was born February 10, 1821. His father was David Crichton and his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth MacKFarland. The father with one daughter came to Porter Township in 1832, leaving the family to settle up affairs at home and come over the following season. When the mother and children arrived, they found that the father and daughter had lately died, and they were thus thrown among strangers to wage life's battle, as best they could.

The children were: John, who early emigrated to the Pacific coast where he lived, unmarried, though in prosperous circumstances ; Andrew, a notice of whom appears in this volume; James who became partner in Buckhorn Furnace with Seeley, Willard & Company, married Ruby Whitcomb and left two children; Ernest and James, the former a partner, Secretary and 'Treasurer of a navigation company in Portland, Oregon and Amelia who married a Presbyterian minister, Rey. Gamaliel Beaman and lived in Croton, lowa, whose only son David C. Beaman is a practicing attorney in Denver, Colorado; Elizabeth who married Doctor Josiah Haines, a practicing physician in Keokuk, Iowa; Janet now living in Wheelersburg, Ohio, unmarried, and William, the subject of this sketch, who died unmarried at the old home, in October, 1894.

When the gold fever broke out in 1849 Mr. Crichton caught it and became an Argonaut. He went overland to California with the party made up at Wheelersburg and a full account of his trip will be found under the article ''Forty-niners.'' While in California Mr. Crichton turned to the carpenter's trade and worked in the erection of buildings in San Francisco. He soon tired of California and returned, by the Panama route. He concluded Scioto County was good enough for him and settled down to the life of a farmer. 'This occupation was to him a study, a pleasure, an esthetic recreation, as well as a source of profit. 'The first reaper introduced in Porter township, if not in the county, was one of the old, heavy McCormick reapers which he bought soon after it began to be manufactured. His tastes ran to wheat culture. It was he who first demonstrated, even before the days of commercial fertilizers, that there was money in wheat raising. His wheat yields ran up to twenty, twenty-five and sometimes thirty bushels an acre, in favorable seasons. So his neighbors began to take observations. And largely through Crichton's pioneer work in this direction, this section has become one of the famous wheat producing districts of the State.

As a man he was far above the average in-culture and intelligence. His reading was varied and extensive and few subjects came up that he was not competent to discuss intelligently. In 1869, he revisited relatives in Scotland and made a tour on the continent. He began keeping a diary at that time, in which he made entries daily thereafter up to the time of his death, so that on referring to this he could tell in a moment about the weather and seasons and all the occurrences of any importance on any day referred to. He was a good talker and a charming companion. A complete file of Harper's Magazine from the first number' issued down to the time of his death had a place in his library. Flowers of many kinds, gorgeous beds of them in season, adorned his yard, kept fresh by a perennial- spring in their midst, and in the cultivation of these, he took great pleasure and spent a large part of his later years. And witha1, he wielded a facile pen and, on occasion, could write an idyllic sketch, or an ironic, biting screed. Not many knew that an occasional editorial from his pen would sometimes appear unsigned in the local press. A fine sense of honor, to those who knew him, formed the ineradicable substratum of his character. In matters of principle he was uncompromising. A trust of any kind was absolutely safe in his keeping. When abolitionism was a-reproach he was one of two in his township who voted his principles. And he permitted no questions of expediency to dim or blur his perceptions of what was honorable and right. He was a fair type of the Old World country gentleman transplanted to the New.

was born in Chenango County, New York, August 2, 1797. He received a common school education and in 1819 he went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in teaching English in a German school. In the summer of that year he walked to Pittsburg. On leaving there he with two others went in a skiff to Portsmouth, Ohio, where he landed and which place he afterwards made his home. Asa youth he had been brought up to the trade of wagon maker. He located in Washington Township, and followed. that trade there and in Portsmouth until about 1825. On November 22, 1822, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Huston, daughter of William Huston, and settled in the town of Portsmouth, on the southwest corner of Second and Court streets. He continued to reside in Portsmouth until 1839, and from that year until 1840, he lived on a small farm along the canal on the West Side. In 1826, he was Supervisor of the east ward of Portsmouth, and the same year, he was Overseer of the Poor in Wayne Township. In 1827, he was one of the Health Officers of the Town, and in 1830, he was the Clerk of Wayne Township. In 1832, he was made an additional member of the Board of Health, in Portsmouth, on account of the cholera. In

1833 and 1834, he was a member of the Town Council and one of the committee on claims. Thus he became one of the aristocrats of the town. In 1835, he was President of the Council. In 1836, he was allowed $100.00 for his services, caring for the streets. In 1837, he was elected street commissioner of the town of Portsmouth, when that office was first created. He served in the same office the following year. In 1844, he was elected a County Commissioner and served one term. In 1837, he was elected County Infirmary Director. He was re-nominated in 1867, on the Republican ticket; but went down in the great disaster to the Republicans in that year. However, he was re-elected in 1869 and served another term. In 1861, his wife died. In 1864, he married Mrs. Antoinette Squires, who survived him.

The following were the children of his first marriage: George W., who lives at Dry Run, this county; William Crayton, who resides -at New Windsor, lllinois; Charles Oscar, living at Cheshire, Ohio; Amos Burnham, deceased; Caroline, the widow of William Barber, who resides in Portsmouth, Ohio; Joseph H. hereinafter mentioned ; Silas, living in Washington Township; John, who lives on the Gable farm in-Clay Township and James Madison of Hulett, Wyoming.

In politics, he was a Whig and Republican. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for fifty years and a consistent one at that. His son, Joseph H. Cole, entered Co. FE of the 33rd Ohio as a private, and was appointed Sergeant, promoted to Second Lieutenant in 1863, and on September 19, 1863, was killed at the battle of Chickamauga.

Mr. Cole was a man of severe manners and of great dignity. He was one of the plain Methodists. Had he lived in the time of the Puritans, he would have been a Chief among them. He was always frugal and industrious. He was regular in all his habits and positive in his opinions. Sometimes he appeared to be abrupt and cold, but with all he was a most excellent man and citizen and a very earnest Christian. With him religion was no loose sentiment, but a set of principles to be lived every day. He held many times the offices of Steward and Trustee in the Church. He died on the 6th of January, 1875, honored and respected by the entire circle of his acquaintance. }