Scioto County, Ohio - Chapter 7, 1903 (part 3 of 8)

Captain Samuel Cole, son of Benjamin and Hannah Coles, (Quakers) was born at Glen Cove, Long Island, June 8, 1808. His father was a farmer, came west at an early day, settled in Rising Sun Indiana, then rernoved to Franklin, Ohio, where he was engaged for a time in building a part of the Ohio canal. In 1830, he went to Portsmouth, where with his brother-in-law, Lemuel Moss, he superintended the construction of the terminus of the canal; and also the excavations for the present channel of the Scioto river at its mouth. In 1835, he commanded the steamboat 'Fairy Queer.'' Later he built the steamboat 'Home' and ran her on the Ohio atid Mississippi rivers. He was married, October 6, 1836, to Nancy Ellen Peebles, a daughter of Robert and Jane Peebles of Newville, Penn. She came to Chillicothe with her mother in 1828, and to Portsmouth with her sister, Mrs. Lemuel Moss. From 1837 to 1849, he was one of the owners of Moss's Mill near Portsmouth. With J. V. Robinson, he built the tannery at Springville, Kentucky, opposite Portsmouth; also in the firm of Robinson, Waller & Coles, carried on a commission business for many years. In 1854, he moved to Hanging Rock, haying purchased an interest in Hanging Rock coal works and Pine Grove l*urnace, and managed the coal works. In 1864, in company with his former associates and others, he purchased the eastern division of the Lexington and Big Sandy R. R., and moved to Ashland. Ile was president of the company and had supervision of all its interests until his death. He was stricken with paralysis in July, 1869, and never recovered. He died March 8, 1871, leaving a wife and ten children. His son 'Thomas Kk., was killed November 19, 1864, near Bunker Hill, Va., fighting in defense of the flag of his country. His -oldest daughter, Mrs. Martha M. Derby, died at Omaha, December, i871. His wife survived him fourteen years. She was a woman of remarkable character,. was the mother of thirteen children, of whom one son, Col, Frank Coles, and eight daughters survive her. | was born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, March 13, 1785. In his father's family there were twelve sons and one daughter. Our subject came to Portsmouth, Ohio, in the year 1811, at the age of twenty-two. He was then married, but the name of his first wife was not preserved. 'here were two children of this marriage; John and Mary Ann, the wife of Judge Wm. V. Peck. Mr. Cook' s first wife died May 20th, 1822, at the age of thirty-seven years and twenty-nine days. He married the second time on the 8th of October, 1822, to Mercy Smith, the widow of John Smith, and the mother of Luke P. N. Smith, Charles N. Smith and Joseph W. Smith. 'The following are the children of the second marriage: Alpheus; Margaret, married Wm. Salter, died in August, 1901; Wim, 'Thaddeus, born October 15, 1828; Mercy, married Valklow, and Robert Hugh. Hugh Cook was elected Appraiser of Wayne 'Township in 1813 and 1816; and a 'Trustee of the 'Township in 1818. In 1819, he was elected Supervisor of Portsmouth, Ohio, but declined the office, and Nathan Wheeler was ap-. pointed in his place. From 1827 to 1830, Mr. Cook carried on a very extensive teaming business between Portsmouth and Chillico- > the. James Himmitt and Samuel C. Briggs were among his drivers; and James Mimmitt claims to have laid the foundation of his fortune by working for Hugh Cook, as a driver of one of his teams. Mr,

Cook was engaged in this business very extensively and must have had six or eight teams. In 1828, 1829 and 1830, he served as Court Constable. He was market master of the city in 1833. He was a man of substance and standing in the community, as he was accepted as one of the securities on Isaac Noel's bond, as contractor for the jail in 1834. He was jailer of the County in 1843 and 1844, and when John Cook was Treasurer in 1852, he was one of his bondsmen. He was always a Democrat, and was one of the seven Democrats in Scioto who voted for General Jackson in 1828. He was a carpenter by trade, but never followed it. He at one time owned the McDowell building on Front street, and afterwards owned .property near the north end of Market street. At one time, he owned the property now occupied by the J. F. Davis Drug Company. He owned six acres on what is now the north side of Gallia street in the vicinity where Wm. Connolley now resides. He also owned what is now the George Ball Addition on the northeast corner of Gallia and Offnere.

Mr. Cook died at Portsmouth, Ohio, August 25, 1858, aged seventy-three years, five months and twelve days. His wife, Mrs. Mercy Cook, survived until February 2, 1885, when she died at Hamden Furnace. Her maiden name was Mercy Stratton. She united with the All Saints Church in 1822, and was confirmed by Bishop Chase.

Henry Core was born on Twin creek, Ross County, Ohio. The name was Geraman originally, Kohr. He married Effie McDonald, daughter of Colonel John McDonald, and was in the War of 1812. He was a Whig. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Church and during the old circuit riding days, his home was the minister's home. He and his wife had six children: Doctor James Core, of Homer, [llinois, a prominent physician and a member of the Legislature from that district, deceased several years ago; Catherine, wife of James A. Gunning, died in 1856, she was the mother of Mrs. John R. Foster: Elizabeth, widow of James Steele, formerly of Ross County, Ohio, but for many years resident of Marshall, Missouri, was another daughter. John Core died long since. He was long a resident of Red Rock, Iowa. Clay Core, another son, married and spent a long life in IIlinois and Anna Core, still living, is a resident of Tennessee. Henry Core came to Portsmouth in 1817, the year of his marriage. He opened a hotel on Front street called the Ohio hotel.. It was said to have been built by Colonel McDonald. From Portsmouth, he removed to Frankfort, Ross County, Ohio, in November, 1829, and kept a hotel there. From there he removed to Bloomingburg, Fayette County, Ohio, where he engaged in farming and dealing in horses. He shipped droves of horses to the southern markets. In 1851, he sold his Fayette County farm and removed to Ross County where he rented a farm. In 1853, he bought a farm near Bourneville. He was a son of Elias Coriell, a native of New Jersey, who came to Scioto County in 1818. His wife was a Lucretia Covert. They had nine children: Isaac was the eldest, Daniel was the second, Eliza, who married Isaac Schoonover, the third; the fourth was Celia; the fifth Peter; the sixth, Ira; the seventh, Fannie, who married William Brown; and the eighth was a daughter drowned at the age of two years in the Alleghany river, as the family were emigrating to Portsmouth, The boat in which they were traveling sank and they were unable to rescue the child. 'Their youngest child was Abraham, our subject, born July 28, 1818, in the town of Portsmouth, on Front street. Elias Coriell was brought up to the trade of hatter, but never followed it for, when he reached Portsmouth, he concluded that there were too many of his trade in the town. In the spring of 1819, he moved to the country, on Little Scioto, where our subject remained until he was fourteen years of age. At the age of sixteen he went into John Clugsten's jewelry store and served there as an apprentice until he was tw enty-one years of age. On reaching has majority he went to Chillicothe and worked there one year in the jewelry store of A. J.

Clarke. He then came back and worked with Mr. Clugsten till about 1842, when he started up in business for himself in Portsmouth, and continued until the year 1896, a period of fifty-four years. August 5, 1892, he was married to Mary White, a daughter of Daniel White. From the time of his marriage he resided in the city of Portsmouth. His children were: Electa Ann, wife of Peter J. Honaker, died in 1886; Henry Otterbein, died at the age of eight months; Ira Frank, died in 1898; Alice, wife of William Hancock; and his son Edward, is Secretary of the Scioto Building Association; and a daughter, Ella died at the age of five years. Mr. Coriell was a Whig as long as the Whig party lasted, and then became a Republican. In his early life he was a member of the Methodist Church, but about 1861, he became a member of the Christian Disciple Church, and has continued such ever since. His wife died May 17, 1895, and since then he has made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Hancock.

widow of Martin Cox, was born October 18, 1815. When a girl she attended school three months a year, and stated that the teacher did not know more than a ten year old boy does now. 'The school house was of logs. She had to walk through wet swampy ground and would often sit with cold damp feet on wooden benches, nothing more than a board with legs. She thinks the boys and girls of today could not stand that. The teachers of her childhood whipped their pupils frequently, and the girls as well as the boys. She attended church about once a month but attended Sunday School every Sunday. Abner Ewing conducted it. Her father, Recompense Murphy, was not a member of any church until after he married his second wite. Her mother was an old school Presbyterian.

She saw the second steamboat go down the Ohio river. It was named the "William Putnam." When she was a girl, the banks of the river were inclined at about an angle of forty-five degrees, and did not begin to cave until the steamboats began to run regularly. The waves washed the sand out of them and then the banks began to erumble and this process has been going on ever since. This second boat which she saw was a stern wheeler.

The articles of table-ware in her time were all pewter. She relates that her father, Recompense Murphy, walked all the way from Adams County to New Jersey to get money to pay for his lands. He had bought six hundred acres and agreed to pay one dollar an acre for it. When she was a child, wolves were howling around her father's house every night. There was an old man who bought six hundred acres of land 'ack of Vanceburg, in the hills and undertook to start a sheep farm. He brought hounds with him and these hounds caused the wolves to leave the neighborhood. One night her father awakened her and her brothers and sisters*and told them that it would be the last time they would hear the wolves, and so it proved. The hounds in Kentucky would run the deer into the Ohio river, and the people on the Ohio side would take them.

There was a young woman in the neighborhood named Blakemore. When she was about sixteen years of age, she left her home in Kentucky, crossed the Ohio river in a canoe and walked through the woods from the landing place opposite Vanceburg, to the cabin which stood where James McMasters now lives, more than a mile. She started in the afternoon to return home with a package she had obtained at the house where Simon Smith then lived. The wolves followed her through the woods and she was compelled to undo her package and throw its contents on the ground, and afterwards, her bonnet and shawl and apron to delay the wolves. They would stop long enough to ascertain what was thrown down and to tear the articles up, and then they would follow. She managed to get to the river before they did and jumped into her canoe and pushed out into the, water. The wolves followed as far as they could wade, but went back rather than swim.

Mrs. Cox's father used to go to West Union to buy tea when it was four dollars a pound. She was married November 19, 1834, to Martin Cox. In that year, he built ninety flat boats and took them to Cincinnati. 'These boats were from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and twenty-two feet long, and five to six feet deep. They were taken to Cincinnati where they were loaded and taken to New Orleans. 'There they were broken up and the lumber used to build houses. In 1834, was the first year MartinCox engaged in the building of flat boats; and he continued it for about five years, and then went to farming. Martin Cox employed eight men in boat building, and séld most of his boats to Thomas Redden.

was one of the foremost citizens of his time in the city of Portsmouth. He was one of the most enterprising, - one of' the most successful. He was a man of the very strongest purpose. He never undertook anything execpt he had carefully "considered it before hand, and approved it. He would undertake nothing unreasonable, nothing he did not believe he could accomplish, and when he undertook it, he succeeded. 'The word ''failure" was not in his copy of the dictionary. He was a Frenchman, but without the excitability of a Frenchman. He was always calm, cool and collected. He never lost his presence of mind, or equipoise. He maintained a supremacy over other men . in business, because he had the genius and talent which deserved it. ~ He was born in Paris, France, April 10, 1797. His father was

2, 1817, and went to Gallipolis, Ohio. He went into the employment of John Peter Romaine Bureau, as a clerk; and subsequently he became a partner in the business.

In 1830, he returned to Fr ance, and was in the city of Paris at the time when Charles X was dethroned. He brought back his mother and sister with him. He felt that he wanted another field than in Gallipolis, and in 1831, located in Cincinnati, and engaged in business. In 1833, he was induced by Captain James W. Davis to locate in Portsmouth, Ohio, and did so. He embarked in the grocery business and expanded it till he became a wholesaler. Part of the time he had as partner Charles Henking of Gallipolis. He took the lead in his business in Portsmouth and maintained it all his life. While he was in active business, which was the Avhole of his life in Portsmouth no enterprise of any public consequence was undertaken unless he was in it, and at the first of it. He was one of the founders of the Commercial Bank and one of its directors. He was one of the first to start the Scioto Rolling Mill, afterwards the Burgess Steel & Iron. Works. If he and J. V. Robinson had not endorsed the Scioto & Hocking Valley Railroad, it would never have been built. He was also in the Portsmouth Insurance Company and its President. |

In 1853, he built the Hamden Furnace. 'To show the character of the man, in 1835, when he had only been in Portsmouth two years, he was selected to obtain a loan of $10,000 to build the present Court House. The Commissioners left the money with him and checked it out as they needed it, preferring to do that rather than trust the County Treasurer on his bond or any Bank. Mr. Damarin amassed a fortune; as he deserved to. He had four sons, and three daughters. Two of the sons died in infancy, and one in youth and one is surviving, Augustus M. Damarin. Of his three daughters, two survive, Mrs. Mary E. Voorheis, wife of A. B. Voorheis of Cincinnati, and Mrs. Harriet, wife of George D. Scudder of Portsmouth.

Mr. Damarin .wanted a lateral canal to Portsmouth, a dam at Bear Creek and the canal on the east side. He planned for a great basin, or canal boat harbor, where the Burgess Mill stood at the west end of the city. It was a wonderful plan and had it succeeded, Portsmouth would have been a city of 75,000 people today. But it was turned over to the State and dropped. Had it been turned over to Mr. Damarin, the enterprise would have been carried through. Had he lived in our day, with his business talent, for organization, he would have found ample opportunity for their employment. He had a strong will, great powers of endurance both mental and physical. His integrity shone above all his other qualities. He was public spirited to the highest degree, and his energy knew no limits except time in which to act. He was charitable and benevolent, and was pleased with opportunities to display those features of his character, His native French courtesy made him courteous to all whom he met. He had a wide business acquaintance and enjoyed the confidence of its entire circle. His credit was as good away from home as at home. Had he offered to buy the town and council had accepted the offer, he would have been ready to pay the money down at the time appointed. He never made a business proposition, which he did not mean to be accepted, 'and, if-accepted, he always had the means to comply with it.

He did as much as any man who ever lived in Portsmouth to contribute to its growth and prosperity. The writer and no one else is responsible for the idea, but he believes that C. A. M. Damarin and J. V. Robinson made Portsmouth what it is: that they laid the foundation for the town's prosperity and_ success.

was a fine subject for the story tellers. He was born in 1788, but where is now unknown, probably in Philadelphia. He was one of the very first settlers in the town of Portsmouth.

He bought a whole inlot, No. 95, 82% feet front on the corner where the Gilbert Wholesale Grocery now stands, for $50.00, of Henry Massie in 1809, and the inlot immediately south of it, fronting the same width on Front street, No. 96, for $100. He built a small log house on the Front street lot and rented it out. He built a two story log house on Second street. 'There was a door toward Second street, but no windows fronting either street. Te had an opening on one side of the door to enable him_to observe any one who approached. At the same time, -hebeught an outlot on the southwest corner of Third and Chillicothe streets, No. 540, for $50.08, of the County Commissioners. It contained three acres and he used it for a cow pasture. He owned another outlot on Third and Washington streets. It also contained three acres. His business was making oars and selling poles for keel boats and skiff oars, and he was kept busy. He carried on his business in the lower story of his log house on Second street. His Second street lot he had fenced with pickets twelve feet high. ;

He was a bachelor and his own cook and housekeeper. He was extremely frugal and parsimonious in his habits. It is said that he once fell in love with a widow, who had two children, but never declared his love. »He at one time prepared a meal and set his table for four. He helped each plate, one for the widow, whom he tnagined to be present, and one for each of the two children and one for himself. He then took a survey of the table and then said to himself, it would not do, that he could not afford to maintain such a family. He gave up the matrimonial project and the widow never heard his declaration of love.

After rejecting. the project, he lived and died a bachelor on September 16, 1825. The newspaper announcing his death, said he died of a lingering disease, and of the infirmities incident to old age. He was 59 years old when he died and yet Captain Shackford who came to Portsmouth at the age of 68, lived twenty-five vears afterward. He never held any office, except that of fence viewer. In April, 1811, | he was a fence viewer of Wayne Township and Martin Funk was his colleague. He was a member of the Methodist Church, very industrious and strictly honest. He died four years before Greenlawn cemetery was opened and the place of his sepulchre is not known. His relatives in Philadelphia obtained his property. The hermit business was much overdone in the. pioneer days. It was then out of f lace, because people were so dependent on each other: but now it would be a blessed thing if a large number of the community would seclude themselves from their fellows. But with all the conveniences, comforts and luxuries of modern life, the hermit business has been abandoned and there are no more Sanders Darbys to write about.

was born near Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio, in October, 1818. When a boy he was apprenticed to David Ammen and learned the printer's trade on the "Castigator," published in Georgetown. In ~ the office was Captain Daniel Ammen, afterwards Commodore Daniel Ammen, and Reeder W. Clark, afterwards Congressman from that district. After finishing his apprenticeship, he worked in the office of the "Western Advertiser," at Cincinnati, as a hand, when George

E. Pugh, afterwards United States Senator, was employed in the office. From Cincinnati, he went to Hillsboro, Ohio, where he worked in the newspaper offices of the "Ohio News" and "Hillsboro Gazette." From Hillsboro, he removed to Wilmington, Ohio, where he established the "Western Whig," since changed to the "Clinton Republican." In the winter of 1840 and 1841, he commenced the publication of the "West Union Intelligencer," at West Union, Ohio. He published this, a Whig paper, until the winter of 1845 and 1846, when he removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, and published the "Portsmouth Clipper," in which he purchased a half interest of Mr. Drouillard. He afterward purchased the other half of the "Clipper" and united it with the "Tribune," then owned by Silmon Clark. The "new paper was called the "Tribune and Clipper." Afterwards the word "Clipper" was dropped. He and Clark sold out to John Hanna and subsequently he bought back one half of the paper from Hanna and they started the "Daily Evening Tribune." In 1852, he began the publication of the "Tribune." In 1858, he removed to Jackson, Ohio, _and was connected with the "Jackson Standard" for one yéar. He then removed to Madison, Indiana, and published a daily and week- + Jy paper there. In 1860, he began the publication of the "Clipper," at Ironton, Ohio, and continued it until October,- 1862, when he enlisted as a private in the 2nd Virginia Cavalry. About December 14, 1864, he was captured and murdered by his captors. He left a wife and two children, Robert and Louisa.

_ was a well known character in Poftsmouth from 1821 to 1835. We do not know when he was born or when he died or what place holds his ashes. We know that he was a butcher by occupation. He lived

Ss In 1821, he was lister in Wayne Township and was allowed 7 $6.00 for his services. In 1822, he held the same office. Jn 1823, Bk he had charge of the Court House, and for the period from December - 28, 1821, until March 4, 1823, fourteen and one-seventh months, he 7 _ was allowed $30.00, for taking care of it. On the last named date, for his services. In 1824, he was the jailer and was, allowed $22.25, _ for boarding a horse thief (so entered on the Commis$ioners' Record) for 89 days. -This was at the rate of twenty-five cents per day. In the same period he charged and was allowed fifty cents for washing for the horse thief. In 1824. at the July term he was allowed for attending the term as Court Constable. The term lasted days and he was allowed fifty cents per day. On December tin bucket, one glass tumbler. He-was ordered to buy two sets of small andirons and one set of large ones for the Court House. The Court House had but one writing desk, two tables and 29 chairs.

In 1825 and 1826, he was Court Constable at fifty cents per day, and in 18 it had charge of the Court House. In 1830, he was jailer. In 1831, he took charge of the Court House for $16.00 for the entire year, payable four dollars each quarter. _He was Town Marshal in 1822, and on March 26, it is recorded on the Council Journal that Simon De Long, being sick, asked to go home. He was Town Marshal from 1828 to 1834. In 1822, he served as Town Marshal the whole year for $8.00.

was born October 20, 1825 in Hamilton 'Township, Jackson County, Ohio. His father was Solomon Dever who lived to the ripe age of eighty-nine years, and enjoyed good health all his life. . His mother' s maiden name was Chloe Mault, and she lived to the age of eightyeight in good health. His grandfather Mault, lived almost to the age of one hundred so that our subject was born with a most excellent constitution. He was one of a family of twelve children, the second child. He was reared in Jackson County, and attended first

. subscription school and afterwards a public school; but the educaone facilities in his boyhood were most meager. The joys of his boyhood were chiefly in attending the general musters under Col. Aaron Stockham. He was married in March, 1848, to Louisa Mc- Dowell and has had twelve children. Three of them died in infancy

His children in order of their ages are as follows: Noah J., a resident of Portsmouth, Attorney-at-Law; Mary, married Samuel Wade, residing at Chetopa, Kansas; Abigail, married William R. Micklethwait, residing in the suburbs of Portsmouth; Ellen, married Stephen B. Kearns, residing at Oak Hill, Jackson County; Elizabeth Emily, married William Butcher, living in Scioto County, Ohio; Louisa Isabel, married Royal William. Allard, residing in Scioto County, near Flat Postoffice; Ida Josephine, married Edwin Stone, in Pittsbures Pennsylvania; Dolly Alice, married Everett E. Johnson, lives 1 Pike County near Flat Postoffice; Jane, married Morton M. JohnsonVand resides in Jackson County, near Flat Postoffice in line of Jackson from Scioto County. He has lived there twenty years, since April 10, 1881. Prior to that he lived in Madison Township, Scioto County from the time of his marriage. In_political views, Mr. Dever was first a Whig, afterwards a Republican.

Always aggressive and out-spoken. He is not a member of any church; but his wife is a member of the Free-Will Baptist. Wil- 'liam Dever's life has flown along in smooth currents all the time. He has never been sick. He is not troubled with the infirmities of age. He was never in politics. He never sought office. He was never in any war. He never had any exciting or wonderful incidents in his life. He is a plain farmer and has lived in the same neighborhood all of his seventy-six years and yet, notwithstanding all that, he is a remarkable man. He possesses great force of character. He has wonderful will power and when it is complete, good judgment. When one comes in contact with him, he feels his will power and personal force. Mr. Dever was never a man to follow. He always led. Living all his life in a locality poor in agricultural resources, he has followed farming all his life and has made and saved a great deal of money; and besides that he has reared a family of nine children and sent them out in the world, a credit to him and themselves. How mafhy men at seventy-six are able to make such a showing? Huis children are all healthy and strong. His daughters are all fine looking women, - all mothers; and his grandchildren, thirty-three in number, are all in the enjoyment of as fine health as their parents. In the evening of his days Mr. Dever is taking things easy. While his home is on his farm in Jackson County, he and his wife visit among their children much of their time, and, though old, enjoy life as much as they did when young. 'They have grown old happily and have no regrets. Mr. Dever is about the best illustration of a sound mind in a sound body, that could be found anywhere. If there are any principles he has lived up to more than others, they are these: to be just, to pay his debts, to*keep his word and the Bible command, that one should take care of his own, - the latter term referring to the person and his family. Mr. Dever has done these things well. He can be proud of his fulfillment of his duty to his family, and so can was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1806. His wife was Lima Burris, daughter of Horatio Burris of Flemingsburg, Kentucky. Our subject was born in Virginia and spent his boyhood there. He came to Portsmouth in 1820. He was married in Portsmouth in May, 1830. He kept a harness shop on Jefferson street, in the Grimes Building, where Harry Grimes was born. John Cooley and George Metz were his workmen. 'he latter afterwards became a Representative in the Legislature of Illinois. William Nixon was also in his employment. His children were Amanda who died five years of age, accidentally burned to death at Mrs. Ashley's school, the first day she attended! Robert, who lives at number 2, Taylor street, Covington, Ky.; John, who died in rg02 in Chicago ; Benjamin yy died in 1878 at Hot Springs, Arkansas; Mrs. Anna Daniel, the wife of James Daniel, resides at 7142 Harvard avenue, Chicago; Mrs. Irene Morrison, the wife of Armor Morrison; who* also resides in Chicago.

Abner Doty died in September, 1844, after ten days illness of inflammatory rheumatism. His widow survived until April 6, 1885. She died in Cincinnati. They are both buried at Greenlawn Cemetery, with other members of the family. The name Doty is of I*rench origin.

was born at Neustadt, near Marburg, Hesse, in Germany, January 12, 1817, a son of Henry and Catherine Eifort. In 1832, the family left Germany and settled at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where Sebastian served an apprenticeship in-a confectionery, and was a fellow citizen with Thaddeus Stevens and James Buchanan. He left for the west in the spring of 1837 and came to Massillon, Stark County, Ohio, engaging in the furnace business, making castings and pig-iron. In 18309, he went to Scioto County, Ohio, working at Jackson, Scioto and Bloom Furnaces, at the last named being founder and manager. In 1842 he married Rachel Jackson, daughter of William Jackson of Scioto County. In 1852, he, with others, built' Harrison furnace Scioto County, Ohio, and in 1855, sold his interest and moved the next year to Carter County, Kentucky, where he built Boone furnace and successfully managed it until the breaking out of the rebellion. Being a strong Union man, he called a meeting, in April 1861, of the citizens of Lewis, Carter, Boyd and Greenup Counties at Boone Furnace, where the old flag was. raised and speeches made by excongressman, George M. Thomas, and others, in favor of supporting the government. 'Then and there a plan was made to raise a regiment of Home Guards for the protection of property. This was fully organized during the summer and sworn into the service by Mr. ifort, who was elected Colonel. In 1863, he was sent to the state legislature where his strong Union sentiments made him conspicuous during that stormy period of conflicting opinions. After peace was restored in 1866, he sold his interest in Boone furnace and in 1869 became manager of Hunnewell furnace, for the Eastern Kentucky Railroad Company, where he remained thirteen years. In the meantime he, Mr. Stoughton, and K. B. Grahn bought 10,000 acres of land near Olive Hill, Carter County, Kentucky, intending to build a furnace, but pig-iron becoming very low, the project was abandoned and the property divided. From 1882 until t890, he lived at Olive Hill, where he, assisted by his son, Joe, mined and shipped large quantities of a high grade of fireclay which was found to be very . abundant on his land. His health failing he retired from all business and with his wife removed to Greenup, Kentucky, at which place he died, December 11, 1893. His remains were interred in Portsmouth,

Colonel Sebastian

He was a strong Republican in politics and a Royal Arch Mason. His widow still lives in Greenup. Nine children were born to them, three of whom died in infancy. William Henry whose sketch will be found in this book, was killed in the Civil War, James died at the age of twenty-eight, and Mrs. Kate Warnock died at the age of fifty-four, in California. Mamie, wife of Charles Hertel, of Greenup, Kentucky, F. S. Eifort and Joe B. Eifort of Ashland are still living. Colonel Eifort was 'a citizen of great force of character, strong will power and superior executive ability. He was a born leader and manager. His convictions on any subject he had investigated were strong and, when required, he would carry them out at any and all hazards. Andrew JacKson Enslow was born October 24, 1824, near Wheelersburg, Scioto County, Ohio. His father was Rezin Enslow, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Sebring, a daughter of Thomas Sebring. His grandfather, David Enslow, originally settled in Scioto County, and purchased a large farm near Wheelersburg. The family originated in Flanders before the time of William the Conqueror. An ancestor of that time carried a banner in the army of William the Conqueror, on which was emblazoned the word "Onslow", which in the Norman French of that day meant "to hasten slowly," the same as the Latin term "Festina lente.' Mr. Enslow as a boy attended the common schools of Porter Township and learned "'out" there. In addition, he received instructions at Wheelersburg, under the late Hon. Edward W. Jordan, privately. The latter taught school at Wheelersburg, and gave young Enslow lessons in the advanced branches. Mr. Enslow became a school teacher himself; and afterwards became a book-keeper at a furnace in Kentucky, and took an interest in it. It was the furnace owned by Seton, and he-was engaged in this furnace two years. He was married December 3, 1846, to Nancy Marie Bliss, daughter of Theodore Preston Bliss, a native of New Hampshire, who came to Scioto Coun- + ty in 1819. Her mother was Nancy Dunton Dean, a native of Maine. Our subject learned the cabinet makers trade with Stephen Cameron. He served as postmaster at Wheelersburg many years. He was a County Commissioner of Scioto County from 1859 to 1863, and was County Auditor from 1863 to 1865, elected each time on the Democratic ticket. In 1866, he was a candidate for Auditor on the Demo- 'cratic ticket, but was defeated by Philip W. Noel. The vote stood Noel 1,599, Enslow 2,147. After leaving the Auditor's office, he became manager of a furnace in Tennessee for Stephen Glidden. In 1850, he went to California and was there two years. He was mining in the American Valley, but his health broke down, and he returned. He was Justice of the Peace of Porter Township, Sciota . County, Ohio, from April 14, 1870, until October 11, 1870. He moved to Huntington, West Virginia, in March, 1874, and while there he was a magistrate for a numberof years. ~ He left Huntington in 1878, and from there he went to Cumberland County, Illinois, and remained there until 1881. 'Then he located near Richmond, Virginia, where he resided for ten years, and from there he went to California, where he died in 1894, on October 27. His wife resided in California with her daughter until 1897, and has since resided with her son, Frank B. Enélow, of Huntington, West Virginia. Mr. Enslow's children are: Frank Bliss, born August 4, 1853, a prominent attorney of Huntington, West Virginia; Edward Bliss born May rt, 1858; a resident and insurance agent of Huntington, West Virginia: a daughter Alice born July 23, 1849, and married Richard Peckham, of Richmond, Virginia, March 23, 1877, in the city of Portsmouth. She died in California, May 17, 1897. Our subject also has a son, Linn Bliss, born February 1, 1860, who resides in Richmond, Virginia, and is auditor of the Chesapeake and Ohio R. R. Mr. Enslow was a most excellent business man, a correct book-keeper and accountant and very highly esteemed by all his business associates.

was born in Scioto County, Ohio, March 2, 1816. His father was Gabriel Feurt and his mother Lydia Hitchcock, daughter of Jesse Hitchcock, one of the first settlers of the County. His father was born in 1780 and died September, 1850. His mother was born February 6, 1793 and died January 10, 1864. (For further particulars, see Feurt Famil ly in the Pioneer Record.) His father was out in the general call in the war of 1812. Mr. Feurt was brought up a farmer and followed it all his life. He 'died near the spot where he was born and had always lived. In 1839, he was married to Maria Oldfield, daughter of Judge William Oldfiela. They had a family of nine children: Caroline C., wife of Henry Clinton Feurt, of Franklin Furnace; Lydia, wife of John Lindsey; Harriet E., first married to William H. Peters and after his death to T. J. Brown: Nettie, wife of George-M. Salladay; Frank B., wife of John F. Noel; John F., now of Canada; and William Oldfield who resides on his home farm. Mr. Feurt was a Whig and a Republican. He was a Justice of the Peace of his township for ten years and held other township offices, but only because he felt it a duty. He never aspired, but sought to be a good citizen, and as such he was esteemed by all who knew him. He was an exemplification of all the civic virtues. He was a good father, a good neighbor, a good Christian and to sum up all, a valuable citizen.

John Davidson

and whose will was dated in 1534. For five generations the Foullsams appear to have been large land owners there in Besthorpe, Windham, Burwell, Hackford and Hingham. Coming down to 1638, John Foullsam, the first of the Anglo- American line, and his wite Anna Gilman emigrated from Hingham, England to Hingham, Massachusetts. _ The immediate cause of their coming to America was ecclésiastical troubles and persecutions at home. 'They came for conscience sake, selling their lands at half their value. John was a sturdy character, well fitted to stand as the progenitor of the many thousands who have since born that name, or sprung from that source through collateral inheritance, now scattered through every part of the United States. Every Folsom in America, except one tamily in Georgia, is descended from this John of whom it was said, "He was enterprising, courageous, prominent in the communities in which he lived, a leader in public affairs, determined on simplicity in religious worship and equity in the State, a solid, independent, righteous and true man." While most family names which are distinetive tend to disappear, this one on the other hand has multiplied exceedingly, until it embraces all manner and qualities of people, from the dead level of humanity, up to a great body of useful and respectable citizens, including members of all the learned professions, editors, authors, capitalists, inventors, railway magnates, naval and military officers, legislators, judges, congressmen, governors, and on up to Frances, the charming wife of Grover Cleveland. The emigrant John was an officer, and the Gilmans, his wife's people, were also prominent military men. And the military spirit thus prominent in the progenitors-has been faithfully transmitted to all succeeding generations, every war from the Indian and the French Wars down to the late Spanish war, having enlisted numerous representatives of this family. The records down to 1882 show more than 700 different surnames, other than Folsom, derived from female marriages into other families, some of the more common names embracing as many as forty or fifty individuals. Thus does the stream from a prolific, stock continue to widen down the centuries.

James Smith, the subject of our sketch, appears in the sixth generation in the line of descent from John, having been born at Point Harmar, Ohio, April 1, 1804. His father Samuel. who married Catharine Smith, bought the home in French Grant in 1805, moved down on a flat boat from Marietta, in 1806, and died there in 1813. Besides James S. there were born in this county, Samuel, Melissa and Mary, all of whom married and had large families. James S. married Sarah Bennett of Baltimore, in 1827, and had the following children: William, Catharine, Melissa, Mary, Albert, Minerva, Sarah and Henry. All his life, except a brief period spent at Portsmouth learning the cooper's trade, was passed at the old home farm which he bought in early manhood. Junior and Empire furnaces, located a few miles back, had a tramroad to this place, and for many years he kept their landing, shipping-iron, earing for the freight, and doing their receiving business. At the same time he farmed and merchandised and prospered apace. During the Civil War, the sales from his retail store became so large that he was required to take out a wholesale license. Just before the war he took a large quantity of pig iron in a settlement with the furnace companies at from $14 to $15 a ton. Later he disposed of it at $70. Yet he was not given to speculating. His favorite way of investing his surplus was in buying farms, which resulted in his becoming a large land owner. In 1852, he was elected a County Commissioner to fill a vacancy, by a vote of 1,407 to 1,069 for his opponent. He served about one year. He had no taste for politics except to be conversant with the affairs of the nation, and to maintain high fealty to his political party. From a previously written biographical sketch we reproduce the following which characterizes him suitably: "The one predominant trait which gave form and texture to his whole character was his utter detestation of everything which savored of insincerity. Not a grain of dissimulation infected his nature. No motives of worldly policy could induce in him the slightest departure from an honest conviction. His loyalty to truth was ingrained and incorruptible. He would face the whole world in defense of his convictions. However much one might differ from him in -belief, there was that in the man which proclaimed that in his inmost heart he felt himself impregnable in his position. Hypocrisy or shams of any kind or what he believed to be such, he would denounce before all mankind if need be. And his clear steadfast eye carried the strong assurance that here at least was a man who had the fullest courage of his convictions. This was the one overmastering trait in his character which commanded the respect of every man who knew him. 'The other prominent characteristic for which he will perhaps be longest remembered, was his unfailing readiness to help the poor. No one in distress, that was worthy, ever appealed to him in vain. His benevolence to any about him who might be in need was as steady as the flow of an unfailing fountain. "Those whom he befriended will carry the remembrance of his cheerful acts of kindness long after the fitful fever of this life is o'er." In many respects he was a unique character. His disregard of conventionality not always diplomatic, was sometimes almost suggestive of eccentricity. Withal, his perceptions were exceedingly clear, the processes of his mind logical, and his confidence in conclusions arrived at was immovable. In all business transactions he was the soul of honor, positive in manner, truthful in statement, energetic in action, prompt in decision, the possessor of executive ability in a rare degree. Among those who knew him his word was a guaranty, without future quibble or evasion, And in possession of the highest respect and confidence of his was born in February, 1762, at-Stephenson, Frederick County, Virginia. His father came to Pennsylvania from Germany in 1712, and afterwards located in Virginia. We cannot give the names of his parents, but believe that he was related to Captain John Funk, who was prominent in Frederick County, Virginia, eleven years before his birth; and also to Joseph Funk, another prominent citizen of that county. Joseph Funk,.on June 12, 1751, entered 205 acres on the river of Shenandoah within Josh Hite's claim. Capt. John Funk, on November 10, 1751, entered 341 acres on Cedar Creek and 150 acres on the south side of the Shenandoah under the Three 'Tops mountains. We have reasons to believe that our subject was of the same family. When he was a year and one-half old, his parents moved to Hagerstown, Maryland. At the age of nine years, they moved to Westmoreland County, Pa. While here in this county, he performed service in the Revolutionary war, which is officially given under the title of Revolutionary Soldiers. During his two months service he was a substitute for Robert Wallace. In his four months service, December, 1776, he was in New Jersey, and was reviewed by General Washington. It is said that on the review, he forgot the etiquette of the occasion and personally addressed General Washington in broken English. He relates in his application for pension, that when he was serving in New Jersey, the British in small bands were traveling through the country robbing the people. He and his party took four prisoners, a cart and horse, and two dead hogs, which the British had taken from the people. He relates that in 1778, while scouting he was chased by seven Indians to the Fort. Twenty-five went out and fought one hundred Indians, and nine of his company were killed. Mr. Funk in his application for pension gives the list of names of those killed and stated that the survivors had to fall back to the Fort. He further relates that in October, 1778, the Fort in which he was then stationed, was besieged by 110 Indians for thirty hours, and forty-five men, the garrison, repelled the attack of the Indians. He was married in 1789, in Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Studebaker, who was born in 1772. He emigrated to Oldtown in Scioto County, and arrived there June 25, 1798. His daughter, Catharine, was born ten days after their arrival at Oldtown. His eldest son, John Funk, was born in Pennsylvania in 1790. He married Margaret Glover, a sister of Elijah B. Glover, and raised a large family. His sons were Thornton, John, Melvin and Melvira, twins, Azel Glover, Samuel Martin and Margaret. Martin Funk's daughter Mary was born in 1792, his son Jacob, in 1795. His daughter Catharine, married John Timmonds, October 16, 1817, the ceremony was performed by John

Brown, Justice of the Peace. Martin Funk brought considerable money with him. In 1809, he bought a quarter 'section of land from the United States, now the Micklethwait, Stewart and 'Timmonds lands near the Children's Home. In 1810, he bought twentythree acres along Lawson's run next to the river, and in 1811, twenty-five acres adjoining it on the east. He built a log cabin near the site of the old brick Micklethwait home near a fine spring, and started a distillery. Making whiskey was the only way of turning corn, saline at eight and ten cents per bushel into cash, and Mr. Funk was not behind his neighbors in this. He lived on the old Chillicothe road, and he entertained wagoners to and from Chillicothe, and made much gain in that way. His home was a general stopping place. In 1811, there was a general muster on the portion of his place now owned by Gilbert Stewart. An eclipse occurred during the muster; when the general call for militia was made in 1813, the place of rendezvous was Funk's. James Keyes tells of that meeting. \ll were there at twelve noon and marched away at two o'clock in the afternoon.

He tells that William Lawson, a neighbor, became much incensed at Mr. Funk and one morning came over to whip him. Mr. unk declined to fight till after breakfast and Lawson waited in the yard until Mr. Funk had breakfast. After breakfast Funk came out and asked Lawson, 1f nothing but a fight would do. Lawson insisted and both parties stripped to the waist. At it they went, and Lawson soon cried enough. Funk then said, "you had no breakfast while I did and so you have learned the folly 'of fighting before breakfast." The writer does not place the fullest confidence in this story. Historian Keyes had a vein of romance.

Mrs. Elizabeth Funk was an excellent cook and a most efficient nurse in sickness. Many of those attacked with malaria resorted to her home and remained there till cured. She, however, fell a victim to malaria prevailing in 1822, and died that year, at the age of fifty years. Her daughter Barbara married Joseph Micklethwait an Enelishman, and lived and died at the present Micklethwait homestead. She was born in 1801.

Martin Funk believed in attending to his own business and prospered by doing so. . He never held 2 any office, but that of fence viewer, and he was elected to that office in the years 1809,. 1811, 1813, and annually until 1817. 'There were always two and he had as associates, William Brady, Sanders Darby, George Bowers, Abraham Stock, Aaron Kinney, John Simpson. Most times, persons were elected to this office in sport, but Martin Funk was elected in earnest, aid served in earnest. It was an office never sought, but always thrust on the person elected. Mr. Funk left valuable real estate which was divided among his heirs and afterwards made them rich. He died October 16, 1838, in his 77th year.

was born in 1794, but the place of his birth is now unknown. He located in Chillicothe about 1819. He was married August 18, 1814, to Catharine Jefferson, a sister of Mrs. John McDowell and Mrs. Bernard Kepner. 'They came to Portsmouth about the same time the Jefferson family did. Mr. Fryer had no regular occupa- - tion, but did whatever he could find to do. When the Gaylord Rolling Mill started, he became a worker in it, and continued as such until 1846, when failing health compelled him to give up all manual labor.

He always took great interest in town and municipal affairs. In 1832, he was a member of the Portsmouth Board of Health, and again in 1855. During the time the coffee houses were rampant in Portsmouth, he was a member of the town council and uniformly voted against each and every one of them which applied for license. Moses Gregory and William Newman voted with him on. the coffee houses. 'They were always in the minority but they voted their principles and were satisfied. In 1858, Mr, Fryer was a Trustee of Clay Township. In 1861, he was First Lieutenant of the third ward Home Guards, and was one of the most loyal men in Portsmouth. In 1867, he was again a Trustee of Wayne 'Township.

He had eight children. His eldest was John Hamilton. Eliza, his second child, married Cornelius Moore of the French Grant. His daughter, Mary, died single at the age of thirty. Benjamin, his fourth child, born in 1823, enlisted in Company G. 1st O. H. A., December 15, 1863, for three years. He died at Cleveland, Tennessee, April 2, 1865. His widow, Mrs. Matilda Fryer, resides on east Kleventh street. Asbury Walker was his fifth child. He became County Judge of Lewis County, Kentucky. He died, leaving a son Grant, who has a tannery at Vanceburg, and two daughters, Mrs. Lewis Stricklett and Mrs. Elmer Rowland.

Mr. Fryer was always a devout and pious member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was an old fashioned shouting Methodist. Tle believed in the discipline of the church and lived up to it. As early as 1834, he was a member of the official hoard of old Bigelow, and was always a class leader. When Spencer Chapel was formed he became a member of it. All who knew him believed in, him. In his latter years, he was affectionately and reverently called "Tather" Fryer, and in the Church he was regarded as an oracle and a leader. He is written up for this work because he was one of the truly good men of Portsmouth and if his spirit and those of Father

On January 2, 1824, he was a member of the Council, in place of James Lodwick who resigned. He held this office until June 4, 1824, when he resigned. April 3, 1829, he was Health Officer of the city of Portsmouth. He was City Treasurer from 1830 to 1836.

In 1832, he built the brick residence just across the alley from Daehler's furniture store and resided there until 1843, when he sold his home to Charles Henking and removed his family to Memphis, 'Tennessee, fle lived there until 1849, when he returned to Portsmouth,

He clied, July 29, 1849, at the age of fifty-seven, and was buried in the Kinney graveyard. His widow, Elizabeth Gates, lived to see her eighty-seventh year and died at the Dennison House, in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 21, 1887,

Wilson Gates was a large, fine looking man, with light hair and a portly bearing, He was an active citizen, well esteemed by his cotemporaries. As a merchant he had to encounter reverses, but did so ina manly way. We regret we were able to obtain so little of him. but from what we could learn, he was one of the forceful characters of his time, THis widow survived him thirty-eight years.

'he Gaylords or Gaillards as it is in the French, were among the many French Hugenots that left their beloved shores of France to enjoy the freedom of religious and political thought and action that was afforded them in the new land across the sea. 'They settled with others in the old Puritan State of Connecticut and there founded the town of Gaylordsville, In time they branched out, some going south others to the westward. Silas Gaylord, the father of the subject settled on a farm near Utica, New York and there married Mary

Gould, Tle was very religious in his tendencies, although they never carried him farther in the service of our Lord than a deaconship and el lership im the Presbyterian Church,

'Nhe wife and mother of Thomas was a stately commanding personage of great dignity and decision of action. From her Thomas vou what proved so useful to him in his business life, quick perception and instant action, Silas and Mary Gaylord were blessed with two children - both boys - Thomas and Horace. 'Thomas being more patterned after his maternal than his paternal - took the lead in every- thing and being an ambitious youth, while yet in his teens, after getting a gdod common school education, and after teaching a year as was the. custom for one to do, before one was considered a thoroughly educated man, asked his father to aid him in furthering himself in the world and adopted New York as his inttial point for a start. He was employed while there by a Mr. Greenfield, who was a very rich and influential queensware merchant, and he seeing that Thomas was ambitious to rise ahove the ordinary man of that day, determined to aid him and made a proposition to him to start a queensware establishment in Pittsburg, and place him at the head of it. Thomas readily accepted and moved to Pittsburg and opened his queensware store. Before leaving however, while on a trip to Johnstown, New York, he met and fell in love with Angeline Morrell, daughter of Judge Morrell, then a very eminent and respected Judge on the bench. They were married and Thomas took his young bride to Pittsburg. He was so successful in the queensware store that he soon made Mr. Greenfield a proposition to buy out his interest, which was accepted and he carried on the business himself.

About this time he set his brother up in the queensware business in Maysville, Ky., but with the appearance of cholera there in 1836, which carried off Horace and his entire family, he sold his store in Maysville and concentrated his attention to his Pittsburg house.

In 1837, Mr. Gaylord while on a visit, to Portsmouth traded his. queensware house and some mountain land in Pennsvlvania for the Glover, Noel & Co. rolling mill of Portsmouth. This was his first appearance in the business community of Portsmouth. He moved his family there and set to work to re-model and modernize the mill and to build up a success in the iron business such as was his in the queensware business. New boilers were put in. The old fashioned "knobbling'" furnaces gave place to the "'puddling'' furnaces and the "hammers" gave place to "rolls" and he soon had one of the most complete and modern rolling mills of the West.

In 1846, he left Portsmouth and moved with his family to Cincinnati and continued in the iron business under the name of T. G. Gaylord & Son. He gave his son Thomas Greenfield Gaylord, whom he had named for his friend Mr. Greenfield, a quarter interest to remain in the business and promised him another part, as soon as he could pay for it out of the profits, which he soon did.

In 1858, while on a visit to New York, he was suddenly taken with a stroke of apoplexy and was found dead on the street. His remains were brought to Cincinnati and with his own workmen, who came in a body from Portsmouth to bring their last tribute to their beloved employer, as pall-bearers, he was laid away for his eternal rest in the Gaylord lot in Spring Grove cemetery, and afterwards his

Mr. Gaylord never took much interest in politics for his own advancement. He was a stanch Whig. His only public office being one of a committee of three including James Pursell, and Moses Gregory as fence viewers of Wayne Township. Outside of his milling business he was director of the Portsmouth Insurance Co. He left what would, be considered in those times a large estate.

A man of great personal magnetism, he made many friends, while his perception and nerve in business enabled him to be considered among the foremost citizens of Portsmouth. He left a son, Thomas Greenfield Gaylord, and a daughter, Emma Gaylord. The former married Miss Grosbeck, of Cincinnati who died shortly afterwards. He then married Miss Pall of Philadelphia, by whom he had one son, J. Pall Gaylord, now living in Chicago. His second wife died a few months after the birth of her child. Mr. Gaylord then married Miss Alice Brannin a celebrated beauty of Louisville, by whom he had three children, two girls and a boy, Elsie Kilgour Gaylord, Edith Pommeroy Gaylord and Thomas Gould Gaylord. Edith died at the age of six from diphtheria.

Emma, the daughter of Thomas, married E. H. Pendleton of Cincinnati, by whom she had eleven children, four of whom are liying. Lucy, the oldest, married Ambrose White of Cincinnati E. H. Pendleton, Jr., married Miss Eckstein of Cincinnati; N. G.. Pendleton, married Miss Bessie Johnson of Iowa, and Susie G., Pendleton married Mr. Nathan Powell of Madison, Indiana.

was born in Westernville, Oneida County, New York, November 26, 1811. His father was Dr. Chester Gaylord, and his mother was .Lydia Brayton. When he was a child, his parents removed to Litchfield, Herkimer County, New York. There at the age of 15, under the preaching of Rev. Abner Towne, father of Judge Henry A. Towne, of Portsmouth, Mr. Gaylord became a member of the Presbyterian Church and continved such all his life. In the year 1839, he came to Portsmouth and was employed as a clerk for several years by his cousin, the late T. G. Gaylord, of Cincinnati, in the Gaylord rolling mill in Portsmouth.

Returning to Portsmouth in 1848, he assumed full control of the Gaylord Mill and remained in charge until December, 1874, when, on account of failing health, he was compelled to retire. He was an incessant worker, a superior financier. He had the faculty of beae ing able to'attend to a great many things at once. He was a man of remarkable foresight and would anticipate a coming crisis when others would fail to understand the situation. He was an eminently practical man and gave his personal attention to his business. He made a specialty of the manufacture of boiler iron and built up a reputation in this line second to none in the country. He held the love and affection of his employes, and they always regarded his interests as carefully as they would their own. He had but one strike in all his business career. He took special pains to encourage economy, and exerted his influence to induce his employes to save their money and obtain homes for their families. In this way he gathered round him a class of steady, industrious laborers, many of whom became well-to-do and influential citizens of Portsmouth. To assist those who were willing to act upon his advice, he advanced them money for the purchase of property, and gave them convenient period for payment. :

When the civil war opened out and the Government invited proposals for the making of gun-boat iron, the other mills along the Ohio river were afraid to undertake to make the iron because it involved such enormous expenditures and such expensive changes of machinery, but Mr. Gaylord accepted a contract with the Government to make the iron to sheathe the gun boats. His execution of the contracts were entirley satisfactory to the War Department and he made a very large sum of money for himself and for those in business with him.

He was not a graduate of any college, but was a self educated man. He read a great deal and digested what he read. For a great many years he was a member of the Board of Trustees of Marietta College and contributed several thousand dollars towards its endowment. He also gave liberally to the Lane Seminary at Cincinnati, and in many instances, assisted young men in acquiring an education. His benefactions to the churches and other parties were of the most liberal character. His pastor, the Rev. Dr. Pratt, said of him:

"Fle cared for the poor and needy, sending coal and provisions often to their homes when they knew not from whence they came." Dr. Pratt also said of him that if every one who had received a special favor of him, were to bring a spray of evergreen and throw in his grave, he believed it would fill it to the top. He was one of the most upright and conscientious men in the community." To show his peculiarities of conscience, - one of his business associates had employed a young lawyer to collect a bill for about one-half what his services were worth. Mr. Gaylord ascertained the circumstances and sent the lawyer a check for $50 more to make his fee what it should have been. At another time, he bought a lot of pig-iron of an agent for the furnace. 'The bill called for one hundred tons, and on re-weighing the iron, it was found to weigh one hundred and sixteen tons. Mr, Gaylord settled for the sixteen tons extra, although it was billed to him at one-hundred tons. He bought at one time a lot of miscellaneous bar iron from the old rolling "mill of Means, Hall & Company. They asked $2,500 for it, but he offered them $2,000, and they accepted that sum. He sold it in St. Louis better than he expected to, and on his return, he paid Means Hall & Company $500 additional.

In 1873, he was a candidate for State Senator on the Republican ticket, but was defeated by Hon. James W. Newman. In 1862, he was a member of the Board of Military affairs of the city and on the Military Committee of the county.

Mr. Gaylord was for many years a ruling elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Portsmouth, Ohio. He had a family of six children, only three of whom survive; Martha B., Helen and Benjamin H. After his death on September 1, 1880, his family removed to Riverside, California, where they now reside. |The employes of the Gaylord rolling mill attended his funeral in a body, and no man was ever more deeply mourned than he.

was one of the most interesting characters who ever took part in public affairs in Portsmouth. "To begin with, he was one of the first nine City Fathers of Portsmouth, Ohio, and he continued to be a Councilman of the town of Portsmouth from March 15, 1815, until March, 1823. He was' Town Treasurer of Portsmouth, Ohio, from March 15, 1815, until April 1, 1822, when he was removed by a unanimous vote for squandering the circulating medium of the © town.

The town at that ime had a currency of its own, and the Town Councilmen of 1822 could not understand David Gharky's method of keeping accounts, and so they removed him. 'The town never sued him, nor does it appear he was brought to book on account of the circulating medium; nor did the charge seem to affect his health or spirits; nor did it have any effect to modify his peculiar characteristics. For a plain Dutchman, Mr. Gharky. could give the Virginians lessons in office-holding. Here is an inventory of the various offices held by him.

He was the first City Treasurer, and the second County Auditor. In 1840 he was Town Councilman, and in 1827 elected Health Officer of the Town, but declined to serve.

He was born February 13, 1775, in Stargard, Prussia, a subject of Frederick the Great. . His father was a brewer and distiller; kept an Inn, and was a man of consequence. David received a good years of age, and his father soon married again. His step-mother was of the traditional kind - largely emphasized. His father was imbued with King Solomon's ideas as to the use of the rod, and carried them into practice on his son. He was kept in school and sent to church regularly. His father wanted him to be a Lutheran minister, but the son was determined otherwise, and learned the carpenter's trade in an apprenticeship of three years. He then traveled about and worked at his trade. He visited many towns and cities, and ran up against gamblers and sharpers. After five years' wandering he returned to his father's home, but he soon quarreled with his father about a matrimonial venture his father wished him to make, and left home. He then determined to emigrate to America, and landed in Philadelphia in the fall of 1796. He was disgusted and about to return home, but missed his vessel. Then he started for Pittsburg. At one place he stopped with a Dutch farmer of the name of Knappenberger. He had an attractive daughter, and David Gharky, who never did anything by halves, fell in love with her. When her father found. out the state of facts he sent young Gharky away, not approving his proposition for the position of son-in-law.

David Gharky went to Pittsburg, and from there down the river in a flat boat, with a view to going to Chillicothe, Ohio. He landed at Alexandria and viewed the town site. He went on to Chillicothe and found everybody sick with the fever and ague. He could obtain no work, and he returned to Alexandria. He was about to start down the river when Philip Moore gave him some work and he remained. When it was known that he was a carpenter and joiner, he obtained all the work he could do. He bought lots and built him a home, and in the spring he went back to Pennsylvania and married Elizabeth Knappenberger. He bought in-lots and outlots. In 1803 he was elected an Assessor of Union township, when

In 1803 Henry Massie tried to induce him to abandon eons dria and move to Portsmouth, but, with his usual obstinacy, he declined, and remained in Alexandria till r814, and then only left because the floods compelled him. He was a Justice of the Peace in Union township in 1810.

When Mr. Gharky was compelled to move to Portsmouth, in 1814, he bought four lots on Scioto street, where Vincent Brodbeck kept his store so many years, and established a ferry, which was conducted by, him and his sons. He built a large shop on the lot and

In 1818 he started a carding machine. It was run by horse power and carried on by Captain Edward Cranston, who was a practical machinist. They ran it several years when it was purchased by the Youngs of Wheelersburg and removed there. However, Mr. Gharky kept the wool-carding business going on several years after that.

While he was auditor of Scioto County he conducted the business at his cabinet shop. From 1830 to 1834, he was in Muncie, Indiana. In the latter year he returned to Portsmouth and became a candidate for County Treasurer and was elected by a plurality of nine votes.

In 1836, he went to Muncie and was there for some time. He returned to Portsmouth in 1840, and was in the Council. He went away to Muncie after that, but returned in 1850, took sick and died at Robert Montgomery's hotel in the 75th year of his age. He was buried in the Alexandria graveyard on the shelf of the hill overlooking Carey's Run, |

In 1831, it was claimed that Mr. Gharky, while Auditor, in making up the tax duplicate of 1826 to 1829 had overcharged for the work. Suit for the overcharges was filed July 2, 1831, in trespass in the case, but the declaration read like one in debt. The narration called for $1,000, but the real amount claimed was $232.90, with interest. At the March term, 1832, it was tried in the Common Pleas by a jury and there was a verdict for plaintiff for $278.47. Mr. Gharky took a Bill of Exceptions and appealed to the Supreme Court on the Circuit and the verdict was for the defendant. Samuel M. Tracy represented the Commissioners, and William V. Peck the defendant. It is reported that the jury verdict in the Supreme court turned on the charge of the court, that if the jury found there had been a settlement between the parties for the work, the county could not open it up.

The anecdotes in regard to Mr. Gharky's peculiarities are numerous. Many of them are probably apocryphal. Mr. Gharky was a good subject to fasten a story to and was pr ray used for that purpose by the illustrators.

In June, 1835, while Treasurer, he was in the habit of endorsing orders 'not paid for want of funds," and thus putting them on interest. 'This was carried so far that the Commissioners in a body called on Mr. Gharky and demanded to examine his books. The Commissioners entered the transaction on their journal and stated that Mr. Gharky became so disorderly that nothing could be done. The Commissioners ordered suit on his bond and he then agreed to pay the orders.

George A. Waller told this anecdote: Mr. Gharky, the Treasurer, would refuse orders, stating there were no funds and send the holders to Jacob Clingman, the banker, who would buy their orders. lf the person receiving the order were a particular friend of Gharky's, he would place a circle with an "X" over in the left hand corner and then Clingman would pay it without question. Once Gharky gave his best friend in the County an order to take to Clingman, but forgot to put the circle and "X" on it. Clingman examined the order and

Gharky then said: "Did old Jake Clingman refuse to pay that order?" His friend answered "'yes."" Then Gharky said: "Let me see that order." His friend handed it over and Gharky saw at once that the circle ard "X"' were not in the lower left hand corner. Gharky placed them there and returned the order to his best friend, saying: "You take that back to old Jake Clingman and show him the mark and he will pay you."" Gharky's friend took the order back and gave it to Mr. Clingman without pointing out Gharky's circle and cross. On being shown the mark, he apologized, saying: "TI did not see that before," and at once paid the order.

As soon as he took the treasurer's office in 1834, he announced that he would pay out the money in the Treasury raised by taxation to pay for a new jail on County current orders and would not deposit it in the Commercial Bank as ordered by the Commissioners. This created quite a commotion and made much trouble.

Mr. Gharky reared quite a family of sons.and daughters. He made and published a small book for the benefit of his family. He preserved all the early newspapers of Portsmouth and. they are now in the state library.

Mr. Gharky was a man of the most Racided opinions and was obstinate in the superlative degree. He loved to be in opposition and was the happiest when he was.

In 1822, he entered his solemn protest in Council against fencing the graveyard then on the old site of the: Burgess Mill. He protested because the proposed fence left some graves out and he continued to protest until the occupants of those graves were disinterred and reinterred inside the new fence.

'Mr. Gharky was a very industrious and useful citizen, but dreadfully abrupt and eccentric. -His son, John, was in many respects like him, as well as his son George H., but neither of them were as selfwilled and obstinate as he. With his peculiarities, it is strange he was able to be elected to public office as often as he was. Asa modern politician he would have been much out of place. He was not a member of any church, but he and Dr. Burr were always good friends in spite of Mr. Gharky's quarrelsome disposition.

was born in Alexandria, Scioto' County, Ohio, May 17, 1813, the son of David Gharky, who has a separate sketch herein. His father moved to Portsmouth, Ohio, from Alexandria, in 1814. The first eighteen years of his life were spent in the town of Portsmouth. At the age of 18, he went to Cincinnati and 'spent six months learning the carpenter's trade. He returned to Portsmouth and worked at that for four years. His father was a cabinet maker and carpenter and George worked with him. In November, 1833, at the age of twenty, he built a box house on a flat-boat, loaded it with goods and went to Cincinnati. He made four trips down and three back, pushing and pulling the boat along the shore and tying up at night. The boat was eleven tons burden, and on the last trip he sold her for $75 or twice what she cost him. Captain William Ripley was chief engineer, cook, bottle washer and mud clerk. The dry goods which Mr. Gharky handled in this venture were shipped from New York to Cleveland, and thence to Portsmouth by canal.

In 1843, he purchased the canal boat ''Laurel'' and had in operation three boats making weekly trips between Columbus and Portsmouth. He continued in this business for five years. He learned the business of river pilot and followed that for several years.

In 1847, he bought the steamboat, "America" and took her up the Scioto River as far as the State Dam, six miles below Chillicothe. 'This was considered quite a feat and the citizens of Chillicothe came down in great numbers to see the boat. It is tradition that they took Captain Gharky to Chillicothe and initiated him into the Ground Hog Club. On the return of the boat to Piketon, it gave the people of that village an excursion to Richmonddale.

He was married September 26, 1852, to Miss Martha Oldfield, daughter of Judge Oldfield. Immediately after this, he was in the shoe business with Thomas G. Lloyd for a short time.

In 1857, he became Deputy Auditor and remained such until 1860. In 1863, he was Deputy Treasurer for one year. He became book-keeper for the First National bank in 1864 and served until 1868.

On June 6, 1873, B. P. Holmes resigned as City Clerk and he was appointed in his place. He was elected by the Council for one year from April 17, 1874.

years; Miss Jennie L. who died in 1879 at the age of 39 years; Sarah Elizabeth, who died at the age of 3 years; Marinette, the wife of Samuel Rice and William D., who is engaged in business in Philadelphia.

Mr. Gharky was a Whig during the time that party existed. He afterwards became a Republican. He was very fond of reminiscence and of conversing about the early history of Portsmouth. He liked a good story and could laugh with as much zest as any one who ever resided in Portsmouth. He was yery much given to telling people what he thought of them and his extreme candor rendered him unsuitable for a candidate before the people. All his duties as a public officer were performed with the greatest exactness and care. He was an excellent citizen, but as arbitrary as Bismarck. His way was always the best way and the only way.

always signed his name T. J. Graham and every one assumed that these initials stood for Thomas Jefferson and that his father was an admirer of the great Apostle of Democracy, but on the contrary, the "T. J." stood for the name above given. Like most of our distinguished citizens, he was born in Virginia. His birth was on January 22, 1810, near Snickers' Gap, in Loudon County. He attended school at Bloomfield Academy and at Rockbridge College. In 1827, his father removed to Muskingum County, Ohio, on a farm where our subject worked until he was nineteen years of age. He taught school two terms. He then went to Zanesville and clerked in the dry goods store of Robert and James Golden two years. On October 21, 1831, he went to Chillicothe, Ohio, and put up at Watson's Hotel. He first taught a select school of from eighty to one hundred pupils and then went into the clothing store of White and Douglas. After a time he became a partner in the business. On October 30, 1836, he was married to Miss Harriet Scott, daughter of Judge Thomas Scott. He was quite a society young man in Chillicothe and occupied a prominent position. He commanded a fancy military company in the city, and was afterwards made Colonel of the County Militia in Ross County, henice his title. He came to Portsmouth as Colonel Graham, and so remained all his life. In 1837 and 1838, he attended the legislature, as a lobbyist, and procured the passage of a new militia law of which he was the author, and many features of which are retained to this day. While visiting in "Columbus he. became. acquainted with Dr. John Glover, in December, 1839. The latter thought he would make a good hotel keeper and induced him to come to Portsmouth and take the Watson House, as Watson, who was then conducting the hotel, wished to return to Chillicothe. He landed in Portsmouth Febru- _ary 20, 1839. , The steamboats, the canal and the stage line were all doing a big business and Portsmouth was on a boom. Colonel Graars arty a mers + % | a ham remained in charge of the hotel eighteen years and four non a . when he sold out to John Row & Ser - Fhe Colonel was a model - : +. landlord and the hotel business was better paying in the time he » ane conducted it than it ever was before or has been since. In 1842, 400 he charged two dollars per week for meals and board; but that was when wheat was thirty to forty cents per bushel, corn ten cents: per Pa: bushel, and fresh beef three cents per pound. Our subject was active and public spirited and was into everything which went on. His was the best hotel in the place and he entertained all the distinguished ms men who visited Portsmouth. Henry Clay, John J. Crittenden, Wik Sea liam Allen and Allen W. Thurman were among his guests. Amin' ~*~ Bey was a guest, as was John Quincy Adams. Te

His wife died while he was in the hotel and on March 16, 1855, he married Miss Eliza Tobin. They took their wedding trip to) 7 Wheeling, Directly after his wedding Governor Chase appointed him canal collector and inspector and he gave up the hotel.

During the war he was again remembered by his old friend, Sal- oe: mon P. Chase, and was made a treasury agent in the south, He - took a cotton plantation and planted a crop, but lost it by the cotton vt worm. He left Vicksburg on the 24th of January, 1866, on Captain Jesse Hurd's illy-iated steamboat, the "Missouri." She- exploded her boilers in the night of January 30, near Smithland, Kentucky, and killed and wounded many people. . Colonel Graham was in his. - , stateroom at the time and was thrown between the wheel-houses, He was badly and permanently hurt and never recovered from the injuries thus received. On June 13, 1866, he took the agency of the ~ 7 National Express Company at Portsmouth and held it until the com- ~~ ite pany quit business. wT

On May 25, 1869, he was elected a Justice of the Peace in Ports-_ mouth, but resigned on the third of June, following. In 1874, he took charge of St. James Hotel in Cincinnati and conducted it for over a year. In 1876 he returned to Portsmouth for good. In 1 same year the City Council made him Infirmary Director and | held that office by successive annual appointments, urtil his death « January 20, 1898 He had been a resident of Portsmouth for pags most forty-nine years. In his political views, he was firsta Whig and afterwards a Republican, with the switched inbetween. In 1866, after recovering from his dreadful accident, he was confirmed in All Saints church. He was a citizen held in general esteem.

In the spring of 1790, five hundred French families land- 'S ed at Alexandria, Virginia, induced to emigrate to this country by the Scioto Land Company, on promises of lands which that a ; was unable to fulfill, Some of them returned to France at once, - some settled in seaboard cities, and about one half resolved to cross the mountains and settle in the wilderness. 'Chey went across the country to the Monongahela river, at Old Redstone Fort. Here they took boats and floated down to below the mouth of the Great Kanaw ha, where the Scioto Company's lands were said to be, but they lo cated in the Ohio Company's purchase at Gallipolis, It is said that eighty cabins had been erected for them on the site of Gallipolis, and the Scioto Land Company supplied them with provisions for a while. When they found that they were in the Ohio Company's purchase, many of them left. Those who remained employed Jean Gabriel Gervais to procure them lands from Congress, He was a gentleman of means, and had a great sympathy for his suffering countrymen, He was well bred, of fine education and polished manners. Ile went to Philadelphia and employed Peter Stephen Duponceau, a Phil adelphia lawyer to assist him, It is apparent that Gervais made the hest selection of an attorney to put his scheme through. Duponceau was born on the Isle of Rhe on the coast of France, in 1760. He came to the United States in 1777 with Baron Steuben, whom he served as secretary and aide-de-camp. He quit the army in 1780, on account of ill health, and studied law, and became an eminent lawyer in Philadelphia. He was a voluminous writer of essays on various subjects. He wrote a book on the "Jurisdiction of the Courts," published in 1834. He received a prize from the French Institute for an essay on the "Indian Languages of North America." Fle was for some years President of the American Philosophie Society. He died in Philadelphia in 1844.

The French inhabitants of Gallipolis had agreed to give Ger vais 4,000 acres of the grant for his services in securing the necessary legislation, Gervais employed Duponceau and "An act to au thorize a grant of lands to the French inhabitants of Gallipolis and for other purposes therein mentioned'? was passed March 3, 1795, and is found in Volume 2, page 503, of the United States Statutes at large. Under this act, 24,000 acres of land now constituting Green Township in Scioto County, was surveyed into a tract of 4,000 acres, and g2 lots of 217 acres each. Each inhabitant was to draw a lot, and have it patented to him. 'The act and Gervais' patent required him to settle on the tract within three years from the date of the patent, and to live on the land three years after, and in default of so doing the land was to revert to the United States. [ach of the other French settlers was to locate on his lot within five years from the date of his patent, and reside on it for five years, and in default of so doing, the lot was to revert to the United States. However, on February 21, 1806, Congress repealed the conditions of the act of March 3, 1798, On June 25, 1708, (3rd United States General Statutes ) Congress made the additional rench Grant of 1,200 acres lying just west of the first grant, and fronting on the Ohio river 640 rods, and extending back to include the quantity There were eight persons included in this grant. It _does-net- spear that Gervais was concerned in obtaining this grant. The patent to Gervais was dated

Record of Deeds of Scioto County. Gervais deeded 200 acres of the 4,000 acre tract on the Ohio river to Peter Stephen Duponceau, the Philadelphia lawyer whom he had employed. The consideration named was $600.00. The deed was dated April 3, 1802. In the deed, Gervais is recited as "Gentleman" of Upper Township, Scioto County, Ohio. The deed to Duponceau is presumed to have been for his services to Gervais. It is found in Volume A. B. C., page 2, and in 1855 was owned by Boynton and Lacroix. On May 6, 1806,

Charlestown, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. The consideration stated was $7,000. ae deed was executed May 26, 1806, and is found in V olume A. B. C., page 85. Hunt gave a mortgage to secure $5,600 of the bia ae money payable May 6,:1808. He dit not pay the money and the land was sold on foreclosure, December 22, 1809, to Earl Sproat to whom Gervais had sold the mortgage. Roswell Hunt obtained it of Sproat and sold it to Asa Boynton for $9,000. Roswell Hunt was of Charlestown, New Hampshire, "Gentleman," and Asa Boynton is recited to be of Piermont, Grafton Couny, New Hampshire, "yeoman." The deed is recorded in Volume A. B. C., page 303, and was dated Jan. 15, 1810. Duponceau held on to his 200 acres ret February 20, 1830, when he sold them to Thayer D. White for $1,000 silver money. Keyes says that of the 100 French who drew lots, only about twenty settled on them. | That the others remained in Gallipolis, or went elsewhere. Gervais laid out a town on his land and called it Burrsburg. There were never more than five or six cabins on it. It is said he had estates in France and had moved in the best society in Paris; that he was a fine dancer, and fond of all kinds of amusements. Frontier life palled on him even if he did have a two story double log house in Burrsburg. He came to the United States in 1790 and in 1806, he sold out to Samuel Hunt, and the land went to a colony from New Hampshire oF which Asa Boynton seemed to be the head.