Scioto County, Ohio - Biographical sketches (1 of 2 so headed), 1903 (part 13 of 15)

For words attributed to him while viewing the scene of the Balangiga massacre, at a time when his patriotism was stirred to its depths, and his kind heart was with the brave boys who had been massacred and mutilated, Gen. Smith was court-martialed. The verdict of the Court was in his favor, on all the serious charges made against him in the specifications, but he was sentenced to be admonished by the reviewing authority. Unfortunately at this time there was wide-spread criticism of the conduct of our Army in the Philippines, the Senate Committee was taking testimony upon alleged cruelties, and disclosures were made of the ''water-cure'"' and other tortures. The matter assumed a political aspect and as a result of the hue and cry raised by certain politicians and others, the President placed (Gen. Smith on the retired list of the Army. Neither the ''water-cure"' nor any other form of torture was ever administered to the natives by the command of Gen. Smith. He performed his duty to his country and his flag bravely, loyally and faithfully, and the heart and affections of the American people go out to him in the hope that he will be again recalled to active duty iin the service of the country under whose flag he served for forty-two years.

He spent 1880 and 1881 in traveling in Great Britain and on the Continent and in 1894. and 1895 he traveled in Egypt, Greece, Italy, France, Germany and Hngland. He was brought up an old line whig, and afterwards became a republican. When a boy, he attended the Methodist church but afterwards became a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, although he says he can only live up to it, as near as it is possible for ian army officer. He married Miss Adelaide M. Hall, February 4, 1885. She was born in Calais, Maine.

Gen. Smith is small in stature, quick, active, and impulsive. He comes from a long line of soldiers, eight of his ancestry having served in the Revolutionary War. His strong characteristics are his intense determination and his kind, sympathetic nature. His intimate associates and old friends at home know he is exactly opposite the portrayal given him by those who do not know him personally... His reading, travel and study have given him a wonderful fund of information, and made him very companionable and a charming conversationalist. As a soldier, he faithfully performed every duty assigned to him and in bravery represents the true type of the American soldier. General

Smith does not know what fear is. He is cool, calm and collected under any and all circumstances. These statements were fully verified in the part he took in the attack on San Juan Hill. Withal, General Smith is a modest man and never boasts of his achievements. He lis essentially a man of action. When the time comes for him to act, he is always to be depended on to take the best course. While a good fighter, when fighting is required, he is equally good as a tactician. He could always be depended on to make the best disposition of the forces at his disposal. When he was in command, the enemy could expect an aggressive campaign and all the blows he could possibly deliver with the forces of his command. He was sent to suppress the insurrection in the Island of Samar and he did it. The outcome was unfortunate to him, but.he has borne the reflections he did nots deserve, with true soldierly fortitude. The American people understand the situation and their sympathies are with him in his forced retirement. They hope the time will come when his course as a General of the Army in the Philippines will be appreciated by all elasses.

was born in Pike county, Ohio, May 21, 1871. His father's name was Maximus Smith, and his mother's maiden name was Sarah A. Schoonover. His father was a native of Ireland. His grandfather Thomas Schoonover, was a native of Ohio. Captain James was the oldest child. Our subject received a common schol education in the country schools in Pike county, Union township, near Galford, Ohio. His father died when he was five years old, but his mother is still living. At the age of fourteen, our subject commenced working in a saw mill for Peter Brushart. He remained in Pike county until he was seventeen years of age, then he went to the State of Illinois, at Springfield and Williamsville, where he remained three years. He spent the majority of the time among the farmers and stock raisers. He came to Portsmouth in 1891, in the spring of the year, and has been here ever since. He had learned the carpenter's trade while he was working at the saw mill, and when he came to Portsmouth, he took up this trade, and first worked on the Little Kanawha Lumber Company's building. He worked at the carpenter's trade two years, and in 1894, he began as a contractor and builder, which he continued until the time of the Spanish American war.

He enlisted in Company E, 4th O. V. I., April 25, 1898, for two years, and was made Second Lieutenant. He was mustered in the service May 9, 1898, at

Columbus, Ohio. He was appointed First Lieutenant July 13, 1898, and appointed Captain, August 1, 1898, and was mustered out with the company January 20, 1899. Captain Smith has the distinction of having received three commissions during the short period of the Spanish American war.

After the war he engaged in the building of the Smith Lumber Company, on the corner of Tenth and Lincoln streets. The business was first. conducted by Captain Smith alone, until June 1, 1900, when a partnership company was formed. On April 1, 1901 it became a corporation as the Smith Lumber Company, and Captain Smith has been the manager and president of the company ever since. He was married August 14, 1888, to Martha Galford, daughter of Alexander Galford, of Galford, Ohio. They have three children: Elsie B., Della M., and Homer James. Mr. Smith is a republican in his political views.

was born at Alexandria, Scioto county, Ohio, August: 23, 1866, the son of William R. and Margaret Smith. His grandfather was one of the earlier settlers of that historical town, having moved there with his parents from Massachusetts, when a boy, by boating down the Ohio river before the days of steamboats.

In the year 1886, our subject together with his' father -and brothers, became interested fin the development of Scioto county stone and were the first quarry operators to develop that business in the Brush creek valley, where they continued operations until 1898, when Mr. John S. Smith moved to McDermott, Ohio, and engaged in the stone business with the McDermott Stone Company. He has been a director in this company since its organization and is its superintendent. He is a member of Smith Lodge, 387, K. of P., has passed the honors of the subordinate lodge and is a Past Chancellor of the order.. Mr. Smith is a young gentleman of pleasant address and presence. He is thoroughly conversant with his business and 'is highly appreciated by his business associates.

son of Isaac P. and Diana Wintersteen Smith, was born October 31, 1848, in Adams county, about half way between Wamsleyville and Cedar Mills. His erandfather, Samuel Smith, served in the War cf 1812, and his great-grandfather, . John Smith, served in the Revolution and died in 1825. Samuel Smith was of German descent, and came with his parents, from Pennsylvania. Isaac P. Smith was born November 3, 1812, in Scioto county on Little Bear creek. Nicholas Wintersteen, grandfather of our subject, came from Canada to Geauga county, where he was married to Eliza T. Quiggle. They came to Scioto county, in 1834. The mother of our subject was born in 1822. His parents came to Scioto county when he was only six years old and located where he now resides.

His education was received from the common schools, before he reached the age of fourteen. He attended three months in the year. On March 7, 1865, he enlisted in the Eighth Independent Company of Ohio Volunteer Sharpshooters and was discharged July 19, 1865. He taught school during the winter of 1867 and 1868, and for three months in 1873, he studied surveying with Thomas Keyes, son of James Keyes, the historian. He followed surveying from this time until 1891. His work was mostly on the Virginia Military lands west of the Scioto. He became very familiar with all the lines and corners of the surveys in the county. He served as Deputy Surveryor under John B. Gregory and Charles A. Barton, County Surveyors, for a period of about two years. He was elected County Surveyor November 12, 1880, and served until 1883. R. B. Shumway was his successor, but resigned before his term was out, and our subject was appointed his successor, May 6, 1885, and served until the first Monday of January, 1886. He was then re-elected in 1886, and again in 1888, and served until 1891,. when he resigned on account of his being a candidate for County Commissioner. He was elected County Commissioner in 1892, and served two terms, till 1898.

He is a republican, though not an active politician. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for many years, and has been a trustee of that church at Otway since its organization in 1897. February 4, 1875, he was married to Harriet A. Cross, daughter of Louis and Mary Cross. They have six children, all living: Charles A., is the agent for the Norfolk & Western at Rarden, Ohio;-Hstelle, married C. E. Wamsley, of Otway; Rosalie married J. M. Jones, of Otway; Frank A.; Lafayette T. and Joseph Oscar are still at home. Mr. Smith believes in doing all his religious, social and public duties without parade or ostentation. He is and always has been a very modest man. He has a good quantity of the philosopher in his make-up. He believes that what cannot be cured must be endured and endurance is his strong point. Had he lived in the palmy days of Greek philosophy, he would have been a Stoic. He is one of the best examples of the plain every-day American citizen and his life gives him the esteem of his neighbors which he enjoys to the highest extent.

was born June 3, 1846, in Scioto county, Ohio on the farm now owned by Peter Montavan. His father was Peter Jonah Smith and his mother's maiden name was Rebecca Foster Moore, daughter to Firman Moore. His father came to Ohio, from Maryland, with his father Joel W. Smith, who is buried in the Wilcoxen graveyard, east of the canal 'in Washington township. Our subject has always lived in this county. He was brought up a farmer and has followed that occupation all his life. He obtained a common school education.

He was married February 22, 1869, to Miss Hattie Bradford, the daughter of Cornejius W. Bradford, of the West Side, who was at one time Commissioner of Scioto county. Our subject has had four children. His oldest, Orsen, is aged 28 years, and resides on the Grimes' farm below Friendship. He has a son Howard, aged twenty-four, unmarried; Mary, ia daughter at home and also Walter, a son of eighteen years. He has the most productive farm on _ the canal, just south of the George W. Cole farm. Mr. Smith is a republican in his political views and has always been such. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Oldtown for thirty-three years and has lived up to his profession. He was a trustee of Washington township for eight years, and was a member of the school board in the same township for ten years. These offices he was elected to without any solicitation upon his part. His neighbors esteem him as a most honorable and estimable citizen.

was born in Washington county, Virginia, near Abingdon, Arpil 27, 1825. His father's name was Joseph Spears, and his mother's maiden name was Catharine Suingrey, both natives of Virginia. In October, 1856, he went to Hunnewell, Ky., and engaged in driving team at Hunnewell furnace, where he remained until the next spring. He then went to Texas and became an overseer of negro slaves. He never knew the meaning of slavery until he engaged in this business, and after eighteen months in this occupation, he became a rabid anti-slavery man. He took this job because he could find nothing else to do. He regrets that he was ever engaged in this sort of business, but he has the consolation that it made him a republican. He came back to Hunnewell, Ky., in February, 1459, and worked at different places until 1862, when he moved to Ohio, and located at Empire furnace.

He enlisted August 10, 1862, in Company F, 91st O. V. L He was appointed Corporal February 1, 1262. He received a wound in the left ankle at the battle of Stephenson's Depot, by a shot from the navy revolver of a rebel Lieutenant of a South Carolina battery. The Lieutenant shot at him six times, and hit him four out of the six. Three times the ball cut our subject's clothing, and the other he received in his ankle. The Lieutenant was wounded himself and was captured and sent to the same hospital with Spears. He was in the hospital seven months and then returned for duty. On account of his lameness he was made orderly for the Quartermaster, and served as such until June 24, 1365, when he was mustered out. He had four brothers in the rebel army, and all of them survived the service. One of them lives in Kentucky, and the other three in Virginia.

He returned to Sciotoville and engaged in working at Harrison furnace. In the fall of 1265, he returned to Empire furnace, and remained there until he' was married, July 5, 1866, to Martha Boyer, daughter of Jonathan Boyer, and a went to Harrison furnace until 1869, when -he removed to Sciotoville, and worked in the brickyard. He resided there for eighteen years, when he sold out and went to Nebraska; but he remained there only two months. This satisfied him and he came back to Findlay, Ohio, where he remained one winter. In 1887, he moved to Webster. The next year he came to Portsmouth andworked in the brickyard six years. In 1892, he bought the Gallus Cook farm near Pine creek, in Green township, and has resided there ever since.

He has one child, a son, Floyd Virgil, who is married and resides with his father. He lost three children in infancy. He is a republican and always has been. A gentleman who served in the war with him and who has known him intimately since, says of him: He is a gentleman, hard-working and industrious, a good citizen and 4 man who attends strictly to his own business. Were there more such men in Scioto county, it would be better for it.

was born in Jackson county, Ohio, September 19, 1844. He was a son of Thomas and Nancy (Stevenson) Spencer. His grandfather, William Spencer, came to this state from Greenbriar county, Virginia, The youth and early manhood of the subject of this sketch was spent in this county, For a number of years, he resided with his parents at Wheelersburg, and in the schools of that village he received his education, In 1861, at the age of seventeen, in response to the call of the Government for aid, he became a member of Company G, 27th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, November 28, 1861, and served till January 10, 1865, establishing for himself a record for bravery and faithfulness to duty,

'On February 6, 1872, he was united in marriage to Martha J. Thompson, daughter of Louis Thompson, an old furnace man of this county, and Catharine (Shelton) Thompson, and for a number of years afterwards resided on his farm in Bloom township, this county. Their children are: Louis T., Charles L., Nannie, Myrtle, Addie, Frank A., Chester A., Mattie and Mamie, all of whom except Louis, reside with their parents at their home on Gallia street.

Mr. Spencer has been a life-long, active republican. He was' elected Sheriff of Rice county, Kansas, November 7, 1871, and served for two years. In 1895, he was elected to the office of County Recorder, and in the following year he removed with his family to Portsmouth, where he has since resided. He was re-elected to the office of Recorder in 1898, serving in that office through a period of six years, retiring in September, 1901. He is a man of unassuming ways, quiet, but genial, and has attached to himself many earnest friends throughout the county. He is a member of Bigelow Methodist church, of Portsmouth.

was born June 15, 1858. His father, Dr. John W. Spry, was a dentist and druggist of Portsmouth, Ohio. His mother's maiden name was Louisa Davey. Our subject was one of four children. He attended the primary and grammar schools of Portsmouth, and at the age of eighteen he started out in life for himself, and worked at whatever was available until July 28, 1890, when he was appointed as one of the letter carriers of Portsmouth, and has served in that capacity ever since. He was married in January, 1880, to Miss Martha Dailey. They have three children, Grace, Ada and Howard. He resides at No. 121 Hast Fourth street.

was born in Norwich, Shenango county, New York. His parents, lived in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, until he was eighteen months old, and from there floated in a boat down the Ohio river and landed at Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1845. Daniel received his education at the Fourth street school and stood at the head of his classes. In 1851, he entered the drug store of Shackelford & Crichton, located where J. F. Davis' drug store now is and learned the drug business. On the death of Mr. Crichton, he became a member of the firm and the name was changed to Shackelford & Spry, and continued as such until 1857, when he bought the entire business. In December, 1268, he removed to the northwest corner of Second and Market streets, where he has since continued in the same business. He purchased the property and rebuilt the building with a mansard roof.

In December, 1881, he was burned out. He then bought the engine house property west of him and rebuilt with elaborate improvements adding a tower for the telephone exchange. During the flood of 1884, his building with all his stock of goods was burned. He lost the whole stock and building, but in less than a year he rebuilt. He was a Sergeant in Company E, 140th O. V. I. He enlisted May 2, 1864, and was discharged September 3, 1864. Mr. Spry is a quiet and reserved citizen. He is now the oldest druggist in Portsmouth, Ohio. He conducts an old and well established business. He has friends by the score and is much devoted to them. He is noted for his genial and kindly disposition and is universally liked.

was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, December 8, 1862. His parents were David and Louisa (Lorbach) Stahler, both natives of Germany. They came to this country and located near Chillicothe, Ohio. When David was six years old, he removed with his parents to Waverly, Ohio, and completed a course in the Waverly schools. He clerked for his father in the mercantile business until he began business for himself in 1887, in Waverly as a dealer in hardware, from machinery, implements, vehicles, etc. He remained in Waverly until 1898, and then came to Portsmouth, Ohio, and engaged in the same business, where he has remained ever since. He is a very strong democrat, and was chairman of

April 6, 1884, he was married to-Anna D.-Jones, daughter of William D. Jones, the late editor of the Waverly "Watchman.'' He has four children: Charles Edward, Henry Lee, Clarence Robert and Louisa Elizabeth.

He is one of the active, energetic, pushing driving business men of Portsmouth. He will trade or buy anything which strikes his fancy, and he is always ready, willing and anxious for a trade at any time. He will have a half dozen projects all going at the same time, and will not neglect any one of them: Everything with him is sharp, short and decisive. When he undertakes anything he accomplishes it.

was born in the town of Ballinrobe in county Mayo, Ireland, September 16, 1843. His father was John Stanton, a carman, and his mother was Catharine O'Reilley. His parents emigrated to the United States in 1848, and located at Junior furnace, where they remained about a year, and then removed to Springfield, Ohio. Soon after his parents removed to Jackson county, Ohio. Here he attended school until he was fifteen years of age. He was a government messenger in the army from 1862 to 1865. On February 28, 1865, he enlisted in Company B, 196th O. V. I., for one year and was mustered out May 12, 1865, at Cumberland, Maryland.

In 1866, he and his brother John, went into the general mercantile business at Berlin, Ohio, where he remained till 1870, when he came to Portsmouth, Ohio, which has been his home since. From his arrival in Portsmouth, Ohio, he was in the firm of G. W. Brown & Company, in the liquor business. In 1872, he became a member of the firm of Stanton & Bagby, which was succeeded by Stanton Brothers in 1874. In 1877 the firm became Stanton & Balmert, the late Simon Balmert, being a partner. In 1888, the business was turned over to a corporation, known as the Spring Lane Distilling Company, in which he is a large stockholder, and which business he has conducted very successfully.

Mr. Stanton has always been a demoérat in his political views, and has been very active and prominent in his party's councils. He was for twenty years a member of the City Council, most of the time from the First ward, but one or more terms from the Second ward. He was chairman of the Finance Committee of the Council for several years. He always took a great interest in municipal affairs and stood for public improvements. As a democrat, he was always at the command of his party, but would never accept any office which would interfere with his business. In 1890 and 1891, he was a member of the Board of State Penitentiary Managers, appointed by Governor Campbell. This is the only office he ever held outside of the City Council of Portsmouth. From 1894 to 1896, he was president of the Farmers National Bank of Portsmouth, Ohio.

He married Mary Jane Livingstone, November 14, 1876, and has had seven children, four of whom are deceased J. Oscar, Catharine, William B. and George. His surviving children are: Margaret, Michael and Edward. Mr. Stanton is a communicant of the church of the Holy Redeemer. He has always been a man of great decision of character. He makes up his mind quickly and acts at once. His executive ability has enabled him to achieve great success in his business. He is liberal in all his views and favors public improvement and advancement. In. his business career in Portsmouth, he has largely contributed to the material advancement of the city.

was born December 22, 1847, at Mt. Vernon furnace, Lawrence county, Ohio. His father was William Harvey Staten, and his mother,-Mary Ferran Staten, both natives of Adams county, near Marble furnace, where they were married February 22, 1844. She was the daughter of James Ferran, and was born April 14, 1824. Her husband was born March 11, 1819.

His father and mother had eight children, and our subject was the eldest of those who survived. His father died July 15, 1892, and his mother is still living. The family removed to Lawrence county, in 1844, Our subject received a common school education. He enlisted in Company B, 22d O. V. I., February 22, 1864, at the age of eighteen, for a period of three years. He was transferred to Company B, 22d Battalion, O. V. I., October 31, 1864, and was discharged February 17, 1865, at St. Louis, Missouri, on surgeon's certificate of disability. After his return from the service, for six years, he worked on the farm and on the railroad. In 1871, he began the career of a teacher and continued it for nineteen consecutive years in Scioto and Lawrence counties. In 1872, for part of the time, he attended the Normal school at Lebanon. In this period of teaching, he taught four years at Union Landing, three years at Haverhill, and also at Clinton, Buckhorn and Franklin furnaces, and at the Kettles school. He received an appointment.in the revenue service in 1899, and in that year became a resident of the city of Portsmouth. He has been in the revenue service from that time to the present except during Cleveland's second term, when he operated a feed mill in Portsmouth in connection with John Blankenmeyer for four years.

He was married August 28, 1877, to Ellen Gillen, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Coyle) Gillen. Their children are: Edith, Flora, Winona, Stanley, Wendell and George. He is a republican, strong in the faith. He is a member of the Odd Fellows, the G. A. R., and Foresters. He is a gentleman of quiet tastes and highly esteemed in the entire circle of his acquaintance.

was born December 29, 1851 in Jackson county. His father's name was Douglas Steagall, and his mother's maiden name was Amanda Walls. The family came from Virginia. His parents both died when he was six years of age. There were five children left in the family, and our subject was next to the youngest. He made his home with Hiram Bunn in Jackson county, while a child. He went to work as soon as he was old enough for Thomas Jones at Antioch, Monroe county doing farm work. He continued to do farm work for about four or five years when he learned the carpenter's trade with Robert Sutherland and continued to work at this trade until 1890. In 1889 he bought the Ruckman farm in Madison township. He has resided there ever since, and has carried on farming as part of his business.

He was married on April 14, 1876 to Eliza Ruckman, daughter of Abijah Ruckman of Madison township. They have the following children: Zela, a daughter, married George Deemer, residing in Madison township; Nonie married Edward Chaney, residing on Seventh street in Portsmouth; Herman, aged twelve years, at home. They lost one child, a girl in infancy. Mr. Steagall has always been a republican. He is a2 member of the Missionary Baptist church of Madison township. He never held any public office. He has been practicing' law before fhe Justices of the Peace of his township and in the county, for twenty years past.

was born April 15, 1858 in Lawrence county, Ohio. His father was Joshua Anderville Stevens and his mother was Hlizabeth Ann Huston. They had twelve children of which he was the fifth. He.went to school in Lawrence county until he was 14 years of age. His father was a blacksmith and brought him up to the trade. At the age of 14, his family moved to Cambria, Gallia county, Ohio. He then went to school there. He and his father worked at Cambria furnace and then went back to Wayne county West Virginia for a_ short time. Then our subject went to Buffalo furnace, Greenup county, Kentucky and worked at his trade under Col. Worthington. He went to Rarden in March, 1877 and worked for Jerry Newman. He was married December 20, 1877 to Sarah Frances Newman, daughter of Thomas Newman. In the Spring of 1878, he set up in business for himself and has been engaged in it ever since. He does the machine blacksmithing for the Rarden Stone Company. He has seven children: Thomas Truman, Rosa Ann, Flora, 'Gilbert Terrell, Eliza, Estella May and Mattie Fay. He was a democrat until 1900 when he became a republican. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Rarden, a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Red Men, was born at Georgetown, Ohio, the son of Judge and Mrs. S. H. Stevenson, July 27, 1869. Mrs. Stevenson is the daughter of the late General John L. Higgins, one of the pioneers of Brown county, brother-in-law to General Thomas L. Hamer, and successively the first Sheriff and first Probate Judge that Brown county ever had. General Higgins was a sterling democrat of the old school.

The subject of this sketch early in life became identified with newspaper work upon the local papers at Georgetown, Ohio. Before he was of age he went to Cincinnati where he was employed in some of the largest printing concerns in that city. In the latter 80's he went to Louisville, Ky., where he became identified with The Courier Journal, and in the campaign of 1888 wrote a series of letters from various points in the South upon the Intimidation question. These letters were widely quoted by many of the politicians of the north, few of whom, however, realized that the author was a young boy not yet a voter.

From Louisville Mr. Stevenson went to Augusta, Ky., then to Aberdeen, Ohio, and to Middletown, Ohio, in each of which places he conducted newspaper enterprises for various persons. From Middletown he went to Cincinnati where he was employed upon The Cincinnati Post. He advanced rapidly with this paper, and when The Tribune was started in that city, he was among the first Cincinnati newspaper men sought by the publishers of the new paper. He remained with The Tribune through its varying fortunes, until about the time that the first company which operated it made an assignment, when he went back on the Post. He left The Post in 1896, entering the field of politics.

At the Chicago Convention which nominated Mr. Bryan, Mr. Stevenson was placed in charge of Ohio headquarters, and was active in all of the negotiations and deals which involved the delegation from Ohio, in that historical meeting. At the close of the campaign he returned to Ohio, where he was urged to assist in the campaign work in the state.

He was appointed a member of the State Executive Committee, and also its assistant secretary in charge of the work of organization; Mr. McConville, the chairman of the committee, being absent a considerable portion of his time in Chicago where he was called as chairman of The Speakers' Bureau of the National Committee.

In 1897, during the famous McLean-Hanna fight, he was again placed on the State Executive Committee, and again active in the work of organization. After a rest at the close of that campaign he came to Portsmouth and assumed control of The Tribune, which paper he has since edited, as will be seen by reference to the history of that publication of this volume. Since his coming to Portsmouth Mr. Stevenson has made rapid advancements. He is a vigorous writer, a forcible speaker, and active at all tinfes in Democratic work. In addition to the management of The Tribune and Press, Mr. Stevenson has established and built up one of the largest commercial printing concerns in Southern Ohio, catering to the higher order of business. _

Mr. Stevenson was married May 1, 1893, to Janette, eldest daughter of ae in Mrs. H. J. Thomas of Adams county. They have one daughter, Martha Estelle.

was born June 13, 1832 on the home place, two and a half miles from Sciotoville on the Little Scioto river. His parents were Aaron and Ruhama (Sikes) Stockham. He has resided continuously on the farm he now lives on with the exception of one year when he was occupied in flat boating on the Ohio. He obtained his education in the country schools. He enlisted in Company F, 140th O. V. I. (Henry Stockham) May 2, 1864 and was mustered out» September 3, 1864 with the company. He was a republican up to the organization of the Prohibition party when he joined its ranks. In the last four or five years he has socialistic views peculiarly his own. He was a Free-Will Baptist until 1890 and has since held himself aloof from all churches.

He was united in marriage October 12, 1854 with Mary J. Crawford of Adams county, Ohio, daughter of Robert Crawford. Eleven children have been born to them: James P,, Robert C., deceased, Eliza A., deceased wife of Oliver

Batterson; Edward M., Jordan M., George L., Charles P., Addie B., wife of N. S. Mathews of Harrisburg, Illinois; William G., Samuel A. and Alva C. Mr. Stockham is a very eccentric person and his ideas are certainly unique. Yet he has a philanthropy about him such as few men have. He lends a helping hand to every one in his neighborhood that may be in need of help and to some that are not. He has written and published a book which he calls "Dynamite or The Impending Crisis." In this book he sets forth his views; and as an awful punishment for the crimes of the world he predicts the destruction of the earth by fire.

seventh child of Joseph Harvey and Catherine (Dewey) Stockham, was born January 1, 1857, near Harrisonville, in Madison township. (See Dewey and Stockham Families.) He was brought up-on his father's farm, attended the country schools and at the age of twenty, he entered the employ of M. B. Gilbert & Company and worked on an ice-wagon and as a clerk. After ten months here, he was married to Augusta C. Frowine, daughter of Charles and Catherine (Fisher) Frowine in February, 1878. In 1879, he went to Texas, where he remained until the death of his wife, December 1, 1879 and returned home bringing with him his motherless child, then two and a half' months old. This child died shortly afterwards.

He again went to work for Gilbert & Co. and remained with them until 1886, when he entered the coal business on the corner of Front and Court streets and remained there until October, 1897, when he removed to the corner of Second and Court streets, where he has since conducted his business. He was Commissioner of Scioto county from 1893 to 1896 and was appointed to fill a short term of eight months, from January 6, to September 21, 1896 and was re-elected in 1896 for a second term which expired in 1899. He is an active republican and a member of Sixth Street Methodist church. He has been one of the most efficient workers in his church and has served on the Official Board since 1885. He is also a member of Magnolia Lodge, Knights of Pythias.

He was married the second time to Helen McAleer, daughter of John and Helen (Edwards) McAleer, October 18, 1883. Their children are: Vesta May, recently a graduate of the Portsmouth High School with first. honors; Russell, Katharine, Paul, and Carrie Violet.

A prominent business man says of him: "He is a man of strict integrity, of good business principles and habits, and a conservative, safe and careful business man. He has been successful in managing his own buiness and while Commissioner of Scioto county carried out the same principles for the public in giving the county a careful and economical administration of its affairs. Mr. Stockham is one of those men who inspire confidence, and is just the kind of man to be selected for a position of trust. He has always been found attentive to all the duties and positions to which he has been called. He is a man of positive convictions and of strong Christian character; and one who is entitled to the respect and confidence of everyone. He is a man who has decided opinions of his own and when convinced that he is right he is not easily moved. He is what might be called a 'level-headed' man, not easily swayed and carried away by impulse."' was born, December 30, 1843 in Scioto county. His father was Joseph Harvey Stockham and his mother Catherine Dewey. a daughter of Doctor Joseph Dewey. He attended the common schools of Madison township and farmed for his father until he entered the service. He was mustered in Company BE, 117th O. V. I. August 21, 1862, at the age of eighteen. He was transferred to Company F', October 18, 1862, and transferred to Company F, Ist O. V. H. A., August 10, 1863 and mustered out June 20, 1865. After the war he resumed the life of a farmer. He was married December 19, 1866 to Sarah Wallace, daughter of Samuel Wallace and Clara Ann Coriell, daughter of Daniel Coriell. He continued farming until 1868 when he kept a store and drove a huckster wagon for ° ten years. In 1870, he removed to Wallace Mills and that has been his resi- dence ever since. He operated the mills for a number of years, but since has given his attention to farming and merchandising. -He-has seven children: William H. died January 4, 1875, aged eight years; Thomas Wesley, born March 4, 1870; John Lewis, born August 26, 1873; Clarissa Ann, born December 24, 1875, the wife of Hdward W. Bower; Catharine, born September 8, 1878; Joseph Warren, born July 11, 1881; Samuel G., born November 10, 1885. He is a republican and a member of the Free Will Baptist church.

son of Elihu M. Stout, was born August 1, 1876, at Chester, Meigs county, Ohio. His mother is Ruth (Stockham) Stout, daughter of David Jackson Stockham. They had three children: Edith who died in childhood; John who resides in Sciotoville and our subject. His father moved to Sciotoville when he was six years old. He attended the public schools of Sciotoville until he was nineteen and then began teaching. He taught for two years and then attended the Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio, pursuing scientific studies and doing special work. He is now teaching at Forest Academy, near Franklin Furnace. Mr. Stout has been a special student of Geology for several years and has become well informed on the subject. He has been a collector of specimens at Sciotoville for four years and has become thoroughly acquainted with the geology of Scioto county through his own personal investigation and research. A sub-division of the Geological article in this work was prepared by Mr. Stout and can be found on page 17 and those immediately following. He is a member of the Republican party.

was born Oct. 1, 1856, near Logansville, Ohio. His father's name was James Wilson Strayer, and his mother's maiden name was Sarah Jane Plummer. His father was a dry-goods merchant, which business he was engaged in for thirty years at Logansville and Degraff. Our subject attended the common schools at Degraff, and also attended the Wittenburg College in 1874 and 1875, studying the classical course. In the fall of 1875, he went to Delaware, to attend the Ohio Wesleyan University and belonged to the Class of '79, but left at the end of the junior year. In March, 1878, he went to Columbus and spent two years on the Daily Ohio Statesman, then conducted by Jonathan Linton. While in Columbus during this period he was a writer for the Cleveland Leader. In March, 1880, he went to Chillicothe, Ohio and started the Chillicothe Daily News. He was the editor and Capt. John Putnam was the proprietor.

He came to Portsmouth, Ohio in June, 1880. He was with the Portsmouth Times two years, as local editor, until March, 1882. He was with the Blade and Tribune for fifteen years. In January, 1897, he quit the newspaper business forever 'and has had a clear conscience ever since. He spent one year with Mr. Coriell in the Fire Insurance business, and has been with him ever since. He was married January 20, 1886 to Miss Lizzie McNichols, of Lexington, Ky., daughter of John McNichols of the same place. They have the following children: Morris Kirby, aged fifteen, and Katharine Marie, aged twelve. Mr. Strayer is a republican in his political views.

was born in Circleville, Ohio, August 16, 1860. His father was Casper Streich who has been a minister in the United Brethren church since 1863. His: mother's maiden name was Catherine Rife. His father was a native of Stuttgart, Germany and his mother was born in Pickaway county, Ohio. Our subject was the eldest of twelve children, ten of whom are living. He lived at Circleville four years, at Pomeroy about eighteen months, at Zanesville three years, at Cleveland four years, at Cincinnati four years, at Dayton three years, in southern Illinois about eighteen months, and then he came to Portsmouth, Ohio. Between the age of fourteen and fifteen, he went into a drug store in Dayton and was there over a year, and was in the same business in Tllinois.

His father- was sent to Portsmouth in 1876, as minister to the German 'U. B. church and our subject followed him in 1877 and has remained here ever since. When he arrived in Portsmouth, he went into the employment of George Fisher, where he remained until 1879, when he went to Cincinnati and attended the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy. He was there two years and graduated in 1881. He then went into the J. F. Davis Drug store as prescription clerk and book-keeper until in February, 1890. He then went into business under the firm name of Fisher & Streich, having bought one-half interest. The firm continued under this name until July, 1901, then he bought out Mr. Fisher's interest annd the business is now, Fisher & Streich Pharmacy, P. M. Streich, Proprietor. He was married September 30, 1884 to Louisa Ebert, daughter of Charles Ebert. He has two children Edna and Ralph. He is a republican and a member of the United Brethren church.

Mr. Streich enjoys the advantage of being well acquainted with every one in the city of Portsmouth and every one in the county, and he enjoys the good will and friendship of all who know him. He is a gentleman who makes no antagonisms. He is known.for his uprightness, truthfulness- and integrity as a business man. He has been very successful in business and has deserved it all, and no one stands any higher in the estimation of the community than he, and the better he is known the more he is Jiked.

was born July 30, 1866 at Dayton, O. His father is Lewis Augustus Francis Summers who resides on Robinson avenue in Portsmouth. His mother's maiden name was Elenor Mills. When he was three years of age, his father moved to Bellbrook, Green county, O. where he resided until he was 14 years of age. Then he resided in Xenia two years and in Jackson three years and attended the public schools of all these places. He completed his education in Portsmouth and here he has resided since he was 19 years of age. At the age of 20, he began 'as a stenographer and on July 1, 1886, took a position as such in the office of Drew, Selby & Co., shoe manufacturers in Portsmouth. On January 1, 1887, he began traveling for the same firm as a salesman and has been engaged in the same busines ever since.

He was married to Miss Minta Lewis of McConnellsville, O. in March 1894 and has two children Ivan Harry Summers, aged four, and Herbert Julia Summers aged two. He is a\member of the Sixth Street M.,E. church. In his political views he is a republican on national and state affairs, but in municipal affairs he is a "free-lance.'' He has a most attractive home on the northeast corner of Fourth and Waller streets, and is happily situated in all respects. He is one of the most successful of the Drew-Selby Co's. commercial salesmen and enjoys the confidence of his employers to the fullest extent.

was born in Lawrence county, Ohio, June 17, 1842. His father was John W. Sutton of Baltimore county, Maryland, who lived in Ohio for more than fifty years and in Scioto county twenty-eight years. He died in Portsmouth, Ohio, October 31, 1892. His mother's maiden name was Catharine Gard, of York county, Pennsylvania. She died November 14, 1900. Mr. Sutton received only a common school education in the schools, but was a great reader. He informed himself on all current events and is well read in history.

May 26, 1862 he enlisted in Company H, 87th O. V. I. for three months, was at the seige and surrender of Harper's Ferry, Va., September, 1862. He was paroled and honorably discharged Oct. 1, 1862, returning to his home in Jackson county, Ohio. He remained there until March 29, 1863, when he enlisted in Company H, 2nd. West Virginia Cavalry at Charleston, W. Va., in a Company which had been raised in Jackson county, Ohio, the entire regiment having been recruited in Ohio. No regiment!' saw harder service than this. It was on the perilous Wytheville raid, the ill-fated Lynchburg raid, and numerous engagements in West Virginia» In July, 1864 the command was transferred to the Shenandoah Valley in the Army of Major-General Phillip H. Sheridan. Our subject was in the following battles under that gallant commander: Winchester, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek, Appomattox Station, and Appomattox C. H., the latter, being the surrender of Lee. He was in fifty-five battles and skirmishes, was never wounded, although engaged in a number of hand-to-hand encounters and never missed a 'scout, nor fight in which his company was engaged. He prides himself in his army service in that, although not very strong physically, he was never sick nor in the hospital during the war. He boasts that he never cost the Government a cent for medicine or hospital treatment. He was honorably discharged June 80, 1865. 4

From the service he returned to Scioto county, where his parents had located in 1864, He was a resident of Portsmouth for a number of years. He was a member of the Board of Education in that city in 1898 and 1894, was a member of the Sixth Street Methodist Episcopal church and one of the official board of that church. He was also a member of Scioto Lodge No. 31, of Orient Encampment and a charter member and Captain of Canton Orient Patriarchs Militant I. O. O. F., of Portsmouth, Ohio. Mr. Sutton was married to Malissa Jane Westfall in Scioto county, February 15, 1866. Six children were born to them, two of whom survive, George C., of New York city, who was educated in the schools of Portsmouth, and Mrs. Ethel Trahelot of Chillicothe, Ohio. Mr, and Mrs, Sutton are temporarily living in the mountain section of Pike county, Ky. Mr. Sutton is engage in the lumber business.

Mr. Sutton is one of the most agreeable companions. He is a good conversationalist on any subject upon which he has read. He has a fine sense of humor. He is one of the most genial and courteous of men. When he makes a friend, he retains him. If he has any weakness it is his pride of his army record and he is fully justified in that. In 1892 he wrote and published a history of the Second regiment of West Virginia Cavalry. It is a book of 262 pages and very interesting. This regiment while being designated the Second West Virginia Cavalry was really from Ohio. Mr. Sutton was not only a firstclass soldier but is a first-class citizen. Whenever a duty is presented to him he always tries to do it, to the best of his ability. This has been characteristic of him from boyhood to the present time. He was reared a Democrat, but cast his first vote in 1864 for President Lincoln in. the Shenandoah valley under the sound of the enemy's cannon. While he has usually been known as a democrat, his political views are liberal. He is universally liked and respected, and has no enemies he knows of. Certainly there has been nothing in his life and character which would invite the enmity of anyone.

was born April 6, 1849, at Center Furnace, Lawrence county, Ohio, His par- ° ents were Hiram Swabby and Ellen Brinkenmire. They were married in Germany. William Swabby was the fifth of a family of ten children. He received a common school eucation in the schools at Howard Furnace. Hiram Swabby was an engineer and our subject learned that trade. He began as assistant engineer with his father at the age of fifteen and worked at that until he was twenty-one He then worked at Howard furnace as a teamster for ffour years. He decided to go west and went to Hamilton furnace, Missouri, and remained there for two months, then came back anid ran the engine at Cambria furnace for two years. In 1877, he came to Scioto county. He worked for Peter Somers from 1876 until 1880. Sinee that time he has been a farmer.

In 1876, he was married to Barbara Somers, daughter of Peter Somers. They have five children: George, who is employed in the Portsmouth postoffice; Charles, an assistant superintendent of a rolling mill in Pittsburg; Howard, employed at the Big Four depot in Cincinnati; Cora and Roscoe at home. He is a republican and a member of the Methodist church. He was a Trustee of Clay township in 1886. In 1901, he was elected an Infirmary Director, Mr. Swabby is a good example of the self-made man. Starting with industry and honesty for his capital, he has made a success of life. His reputation is that of an honest, capable, industrious and level-headed citizen. The respect in which he is held by the community is evidenced by his nomination and election as Infirmary Director, his majorities being a just tribute to his excellences as a citizen and his admitted qualifications for the place.

he name was originally Topham (Upper Village.) It is purely Anglo Saxon. The first Tappan of whom we have any knowledge, was Robert of Linton, near

Paley Bridge, West Riding, of Yorkshire. Our subject is the twelfth in the direct line of descent from this Robert Tappan, who died in 1550. Out of the twelve in the line of descent, nine had Scripture names, Samuel, Abraham and Benjamin were among them, the latter being the favorite. Abraham, the fourth in descent from Robert, came to Massachusetts, in 1637, and settled in Hssex county. He was made a selectman the next year. Benjamin Tappan, the grandson of Abraham, graduated at Harvard College. The Tappans have always believed in education, but the son of the last named Benjamin, great-greatgrandfather of our subject, was a goldsmith. However, a goldsmith in 1770, was a very different occupation from a goldsmith now. The early goldsmiths were the bankers and money lenders of their time.

The first Tappan in this country had eight children; the next, ten; the next, twelve; the next, eleven, and the Doctor, our subject, has followed the family fashion, for he has had eleven. The Tappans have always been distinguished for three things, conscience, learning and piety, and these characteristics are as strong in the present generation as in the past ones. The Doctor is in a peculiar situation as to this sketch. He was not consulted about it. It is written by his classmate and he is not responsible for anything in it. He never mentions his ancestry unless directly questioned about it, and the writer has inflicted that part upon him.

His grandfather, Benjamin Tappan, afterwards Judge and U. S. Senator, came to the Northwest Territory, in 1799. In 1809, he located in Steubenville, and there his grandson, our subject, son of Dr. Benjamin Tappan and Oella Stanton, daughter of Dr. David Stanton and sister of the great War Secretary, was born, April 2, 1845, the third of five children. He attended the public schools of Steubenville, until September, 1860, when he entered the Freshman Class at Miami University. He was a faithful and diligent student and learned well all there was to be learned. It was known through his entire course that he had the ministry in view. He took the first honors in a class of twentyfive, at graduation, in June, 1864, and delivered the valedictory oration. While in college, he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and the Miami Union Literary Society. Directly after his graduation, he took up the study of Theology, in the Western Theological Seminary, at Alleghany, Pennsylvania, and graduated in April, 1867. In the summer of 1865, he had charge of the State Lick Academy, in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania. In the summer of 1866, he was in charge of Callensburg Academy, in Clarion county, Pennsylvania. ;Alleghany Presbytery licensed him to-preach, in the spring of 1866. In September 1867, he took charge of the Chariton Presbyterian church in the Presbytery of Des Moines, Iowa.

In February, 1871, he took charge of the Presbyterian church at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, where he remained until April, 1890. While in Iowa, he was honored with the offices of Moderator and Permanent Clerk of his Presbytery in turn. He was permanent clerk of the Iowa Synod South, from 1870 to 1882, when the two Synods were consolidated. In 1882, he was made Stated Clerk of the Synod of Iowa, and served until his removal from the state. While a resident of Iowa, he received the honorary degree of A. M. from Wooster University. He received the Degree of Doctor of Divinity, from Lenox College, Iowa, in 1886. While a resident of Iowa, he was a commissioner to the General Assembly of his church three times. He was for six years president of the school board of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. From 1887 to 1890, he was a Trustee of the Presbyterian College, at Fairfield, Iowa. On April 1, 1890, he took the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church, of Portsmouth, Ohio, the largest and strongest church in the Presbytery of Portsmouth. He held this until September 1, 1899, when he became President of the Miami University.

In the Presbytery of Portsmouth, he was the leader among his ministerial brethren. He was often Moderator. In 1893, he was a commissioner to the General Assembly from the Portsmouth Presbytery, and was one of the Clerks. He was chairman of the Committee on Home Missions in the Portsmouth Presbytery during his entire connection with it. In the Synod of Ohio, he was for three years chairman of the Committee 'on Education, and for three years

His elest child, Benjamin, died an infant, in lowa. His eldest daughter, Oella, is the wife of Edgar H. Lowman, of Springfield, Ohio. His second daughter, Julia, is the wife of Prof. William B. Langsdorf, Ph. D., Lit. D., late Professor of Latin in Miami University, but now a Presbyteran minister. His second son Paul, is a graduate of Wooster, and a Doctor of Medicine, and an assistant physician at the Dayton Hospital for the Insane. His sons, Frank and George, are students of Washington College, Pa. His daughter Helen is at home. He lost a son, Edwin Stanton, aged eighteen months, while a resident of Portsmouth, and his daughter Lucy, aged sixteen, died since he has resided in Oxford. His youngest daughter, Margaret, is aged seven years.

Doctor Tappan is a well educated man, He is thorough in all his methods, What he knows, he is certain of and it is available to him at any time. He is strong physically and strong mentally. As a preacher and public speaker, he has a voice which can be heard and understood. His sentences are well chosen and expressive. Whatever he has to say is interesting. His discourses are full of treasures of thought. Dr. Tappan has had but three churches in a ministry of thirty-two years. He could have remained in either a life-time. Each change was @ promotion and a call up higher. His call to the Presidency of Miami! University, his Alma Mater, was a tribute to his thorough education and his love for and devotion to teaching. He is conservative in all things. He is the last minister in the Presbyterian church to be suspected of heresy or heterodoxy. He is no theorist and is always found on the safe side of every question presented to him, When one goes to hear him preach a sermon, he is sure to be Instructed and edified. He is sure to hear every word uttered and that the diction will be perfect, He is sure that there will be no sensationalism and he is sure of the Orthodoxy of every utterance, Dr. Tappan is a man of powerful will, and of great strength of purpose and the trait is inherited from both sides as his grandfather, the Senator, or his uncle, the great War Secretary, neither of whom could tolerate opposition, He is a tower of strength at the head of any Institution, whether it be a church or college. He is a safe man at all times and under all circumstances. In a number of courses presented to him, he can always be relied on to take the wisest and the most just. Since the above was written, in June, 1902, Dr, Tappan resigned the Presidency of Miami University was born in Harrisonville, Scioto county, Ohio, March 17, 1866, a son of Martyn Taylor, M. D., and Lydia J, Draper, his wife. Several of his paternal ancestors were soldiers of the Revolutionary War and his father was an acting assistant surgeon in the Civil war. Addison was educated in the common schools of the county and was a teacher for eight years, the last four of which he taught in the grammar grades at Sciotoville, He has been a consistent political prohibitionist since arriving at his majority, never having voted any other ticket, on a state, or national election, and has been a candidate for various offices in the county on the Prohibition ticket. He has been a member of the Methodist church for eighteen years, In 1890, he was married to Miss Anna Frank, of Sclotoville, They have two children; Wendell and Ella, Mr. Taylor is secretary and treasurer of the Scioto Star Brick Works, west of Sciotoville, and has been connected with the company for ten years, having worked his way up from a laborer in the yard, A good part of his time is spent traveling over the country selling fire brick, He has a large business acquaintance among the

The Taylors are of English ancestry and settled first on coming from Wngland in the state of Connecticut, in the early part of the 18th century. From there this branch emigrated to the wilds of central New York, where we find James Taylor, the grandsire of this sketch, organizing a Methodist Episcopal church in or about Elmira, then called Newtown, in 1807. His mother Anna Landon, was a member of the Landon family, now widely distributed through the United States. About 1835, he came to Scioto county with his family, one daughter, Olive, and seven sons, two of whom preceded him. Of the sons, four also became Methodist ministers: James, Harvey, William and Landon, the latter marrying Jane Vincent, daughter of A. C. Vincent, one of the original French Grant settlers. Landon and wife took up their residence at Franklin furnace, Ohio, where the subject of this sketch was born February 1, 1840.

Owing to the invalidism of his mother, the infant was taken by his maternal aunt, Mrs. John S. Baccus, near Wheelersburg, and reared in that family. Here he learned to speak French, which he ever after cultivated. His first recollection of school life was going to a subscription school in Wheelersburg, taught by Miss Elizabeth Crichton.

At the age of fifteen, he obtained a certificate to teach school and taught his first school in the Kettles district in 1856, at $33 1-3 per month. Mr. A. J. Finney, afterwards Sheriff and County Clerk, was one of Doctor Taylor's pupils, as well as many other gray-headed men and women out in that district which comprises part of four townships: Vernon, Bloom, Harrison and Porter. When the winter term was over, young Taylor started for a term in college. After completing the Junior year of his college course in Delaware, Ohio, young Taylor obtained from President Merrick an honorable dismissal, and a certificate of standing in college so flattering that it virtually passed him into the University of Michigan, where he graduated in 1863. From that time until 1870, he spent in teaching, and in 1872, took the degree of M. D. in the Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati. He then took up the practice of medicine in Wheelersburg, Ohio, following Doctor Arthur Titus, where he has resided ever since.

In 1867, he married Melissa Folsom, of Green township, a daughter of J. S. Fulsom, whose biography appears in this volume. There were born to them one daughter and two sons, both of the latter being physicians. The daughter Katy, died unmarried in 1900. The older son, Wesley, is rounding up his medical and literary education in the universities and hospitals of Europe, and the younger son John, has a similar course in prospect.

Doctor Taylor has now been identified with Wheelersburg, Porter town- Ship and vicinity, as a teacher, farmer, doctor and well known citizen for nearly half a century. For eleven years consecutively he served on the School Board. In March, 1870, he succeeded Captain N. W. Evans as County Examin- 'er, Serving for nearly a year on the Board with Doctor Burr and John Bolton. He is a member of the local medical societies, the National Association and the 'American .Academy of Medicine, the Vice Presidency of which he held from

. 1901-2. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is planning to attend the International Medical Congress of Tuberculosis to be held in Paris in 1903.

Doctor Taylor is still engrossed with the cares of his business, his lands and his profession, leading even a busier life than when he set out in the practice of his profession thirty years ago. He is of athletic build, six feet in height, an active mover, a republican in politics and a protestant in religion. Doctor Taylor is in no way responsible for what follows in this sketch. He is a very difficult subject to make a character estimate of and do him justice. The reason of that is, there are so many points of view, and our subject will show up well from any of them. Doctor Taylor is a well educated man. He has been trained to think and investigate. His mind is like a wonderful piece of mechanism. It is bound to accomplish certain results. Give him a subject to investigate and reason out and he will first ascertain all the facts and then he will reach the most logical and wisest conclusion. He was not only trained to this but he has' given himself a thorough course of self-discipline and training. The facts he learns are always available to him. They will come 'to him and he can use them at any time. The Doctor has a reputation as a first class business man and financier. It is because he knows how to reason on predicates and thereby anticipate results. In all things he undertakes he does his work thoroughly. He never acts until he knows the uttermost facts, and when he has learned them all, he reasons out a course to pursue and that course is unerringly the wisest which could have been discovered or chosen. When he comes to a conclusion, he has faith in it and-never hesitates. This habit of jthought and action avails him in every thing he undertakes whether it be farming, medicine, literature or finance.

The Doctor is one of those rare characters who would succeed in anything they undertake. He is a first class farmer, he stands at the top of his profession and as a financier and business man he has no superior. The editor believes he would have acquired national distinction as a medical or historical writer, but no one could justly say that Doctor Taylor has missed his calling. To a layman, his medical essays, mentioned in the Bibliography of this work, show that he is master of every subject he has treated and that on a condition of facts given, his hypotheses are the most consistent with the highest wisdom in his profession, and his ideas are the most advanced. The esteem in which the Doctor is held by the fellow members of his profession, show that the layman's ideas of him are correct. But the Doctor is not only fortunate and successful in handling medical subjects; some years ago he was a contributor to the Ohio Farmer and his articles on Tariff Reform were unanswerable. He can write an essay on the money question which would command the respectful consideration of the best financiers. He would be equally interesting in writing on stock raising. The editor has read all. of the Doctor's essays on Medical Topics with great interest and believes that the community in which he dwells does not appreciate his learning or his acquirements in his profession. Fifty years from now his learning and talent will be appreciated. As the Doctor has taken good care of himself in his present life, in the life hereafter, he will not be concerned at the failure to appreciate him while living. His neighbors do appreciate him now as a business man, and they have the utmost confidence in him in his profession, but they will never realize the extent of his acquirements until he has passed beyond this life and his finished career can be compared with others.

was born in McConnellsville, Morgan county, Ohio, September 29, 1873. He.was the son of William and Frances Bell Taylor. William Taylor was the owner of various salt furnaces in the Muskingum valley, and was the first democrat elected to office in Morgan county after the war, being elected Sheriff in 1883. The subject of this sketch graduated from the McConnellsville schools in 1889, - and then entered the office of the Morgan county '"Democrat,'' where he learned the printer's trade. In 1891, he became a reporter on the Akron, Ohio, '"World" and the Akron "Beacon and Republican.' In 1894, Mr: Taylor came to Portsmouth to take charge of the city news work on the Portsmouth Daily Times, about to be started by J. L. Patterson. He has held that position up to the. present time. In 1898, he, with Vallee Harold purchased the controlling interest in the Times Publishing Company, and upon the organization of the eompany Mr. Taylor was chosen Secretary and Treasurer. He married December 5, 1899, Leah Pauline, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Grimes, of Portsmouth, Ohio. i

'was born December 25, 1856, in Susquehanna, county, Pennsylvania, near the town of that name. His parents were William and Mary E. (Kelley) Taylor. who resided on East Mountain in Gibson township, in the above named county. William Taylor was a son of Amos and Dolly (Starks) Taylor. They settled about a mile below Smiley, Pennsylvania, on the west side of Tunkhannock, soon after 1800. Amos was the son of David and Mercy Taylor, who settled at Smiley about 1804, and built a hotel which was then one of the three framd houses in Gibson township. Mr. Taylor is one of a family of twelve children. John F. resides at Scranton, Pa. Sarah Jane married S. C. Avery, and is de- 'ceased. Josiah resides on the old home farm in Pennsylvania and was in a construction corps during the Civil war. Freeman F. is a railroad contractor and a ranchman at Colorado City, Colorado. Leslie D. is deceased. Leroy Hugene resides in Lackawanna county and is the overseer of a coal breaker at

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During the early years of our subject's boyhood, he worked on a farm and attended the district school. He very early developed the propensity and desire to make money. This is evidenced by the fact that when he had reached the age of sixteen, he had accumulated the sum of $400 or what would be considered a good fortune for a boy of that age. But with this desire for money came an overwhelming desire for a better education than he could obtain at home. In company with a boy friend of his age and against the will of his parents, he came to Oberlin, Ohio, to attend school. But a term there somewhat discouraged him; he thought an education should be obtained in a more rapid manner so he left this school intending to take up study again in some other school. In the meantime, he went to work chopping wood and sawing logs for a saw mill until school should open again. This was his first experience in the lumber business. When the time for entering school again came around, he did not go; but continued to work and save. Month after month passed away and all the time the desire to make money was overcoming and crowding out the desire for an education, until at the end of three years, he gave up his intention of educating himself and embarked upon his money making career which has been somewhat phenomenal and characteristic of all sim- 'lar careers. In a short time he had saved sufficient money to buy several yoke of cattle and began taking logging contracts in Pike county. Success crowned his undertakings and soon he began to buy timber in tracts and to have it sawed, doing the logging himself.

In 1880, he came to Rarden, which has been the scene of his activities since, and which owes its growth and prosperity in large part to him. In 1885, he gave up logging and took up his residence in Rarden, having married the previous year. Here he opened a small store and engaged in the buying and shipping of lumber and at the same time owning and operating several sawmills. He became a partner with Guilford Marr in the cooperage business in 1887. From this year until 1891, he had on hands at all times the enormous quantity of 2,000,000 feet of sawed lumber and his output each year during this time was 2,500,000 feet. Besides this quantity of sawed lumber, he handled railroad ties, tanbark and all kinds of lumber products. His trade gradually branched out until he had practical 'control of the lumber business in this section and nine-tenths of all the lumber shipped from Rarden in the last fifteen years has passed through his hands and has added thousands to his coffers. From 1887 tothe present time he has reaped the harvest from something like 50,000,000 feet of lumber.

In 1895, he became the chief stockholder in the Rarden Stone Company, incorporated that year. He is exclusive owner of the Rarden Stone Mill. He owns a controlling interest in the Taylor Cooperage company. He is an equal partner with Charles S. Brown in the Taylor-Brown Timber Company. He owns and operates a large general store at Rarden. In 1900, he bought several thousand acres of valuable timber in Wayne county, West Virginia, and has since been engaged in sawing and marketing it. .

Mr. Taylor is a republican and has always been such. He takes a deep interest in the management of local and national affairs, but is not a politician in any sense. His whole time is devoted to his numerous interests.

- He was married July 4, 1884, to Almeda McNeal, a daughter of Joseph and Mary (Watrous) McNeal of Pike county, Ohio. They have one child living, Volney 8., born March 27, 1886. He is now in school at Valparaiso, Ind. Another child, Lynn, was born May 8, 1888 and died in infancy. His first wife died November 22, 1888, and he was again married to Lucinda McNeal, a sister to his former wife, January 27, 1890.

Mr. Taylor is a man of strong and rugged build and has exceptional - powers of physical endurance. He is always active and pushes his work and never lets it push him. The one great secret of his success is his exhaustlegs, tireless energy. Coupled with this his admirable ability to keep well in hand and manage his diverse business interests. He has exceptional business judgment and tact and during the years of his rapid advancement in the business world it has byep employed to wonderful advantage. He is the embodiment of honor and integrity - honest with himself, with his neighbor, with his employes and with those with whom he has business transactions. Some have a deep religious nature and a total lacking of the moral nature and vice versa; others have both in varying degrees, though one predominates. In our subject we find but a moderate degree of the religious but an unusually sensitive moral nature which answers the purpose which the religious nature does in others. Consequently we have a man liberal in thought about things supernatural but radical in questions of right and justice. He should be a shining example for the young man who has nothing but his hands and a sound mind and body for capital to start on.

of Sciotoville, Ohio, was born in the town of Lewis, Essex county, New York, in 1828. His father Theodore Taylor was the son of Eliphalet Taylor, a sol dier of the Revolution who was conspicuous for bravery at the battle of Bennington. The mother of our subject, whose maiden name was Lucy Jane Ballou, was a descendent of Maturin Ballou who came from Devonshire, England in 1640 to the province of Rhode Island and was largely influential in shaping the policy of this province. Hosea Ballou, the mother of President Garfield, and she, are of the same branch of the Ballou family. The boyhood and youth of Doctor Taylor, to the age of young manhood, were passed in his native state, where he received an academic education, At the age of eighteen years, the death of his father threw him upon his own resources, and he began, *single handed to strike out for himself, making his home in Adrian, Michigan. Pnrolling himself as a student in the Medical College of the University of Michigan, he worked his way through that institution by teaching in the intervals of lectures and received a degree of Doctor of Medicine in the spring of 1852.

March 27, 1858, he married Miss Lydia Jane Draper and began the practice of his profession at Danby, Dupage county, Illinois. He located in Scioto county, Ohio, in 1860. His three children are: Ella, born April 15,1854, married A. H. Stephenson, M. D., a resident of Fort Recovery, Ohio; Addison Taylor, born March 17, 1866, a commercial traveler and head of the sales department of the Scioto Star Fire Brick Works of Sciotoville, Ohio; Martyn Taylor, part in the campaign on Big Sandy and in the battles of Perryville and Stone River. He was discharged May 28, 1868, by order of the department, to accept the position of Acting Assistant Surgeon. Returning home in 1864, he served as enrolling officer during the summer of that year, and after completing the draft of Harrison township on September 2, enlisted in Company F, lst O. V. H. A. After his re-enlistment in September, 1864, he was detailed as Acting Assistant Surgeon for a detachment of four companies ,of his regiment, stationed at Chickamauga Junction, six miles south of Chattanooga and at stations between that point and Grayville, Georgia, on the railroad south of the Junction, His surgical duties ceased when these four companies rejoined their regiment, with which he remained until, June 20, 1865, when he was discharged. |

He has always been a republican but has never sought office, His highest ambition has been to attain the greatest excellence in his 'profession. He ous practice, he is disabled from further work, by disabilities resulting from military service, and is simply waiting for his summons. Wells Teachnor, M. D., son of Henry W. Teachnor and Laura B. (Wells) Teachnor, was born September 5, 1869. His paternal grandparents Isaac and Susan Teachnor, born respectively in 1801 and 1814, were among the early pioneers of Adams county. -

Isaac Teachnor was a man of more than ordinary ability and was possessed of a good judgment. Both were of German descent. The maternal ancestors of 'Doctor Teachnor were Jacob M, Wells, born June 8, 1821, and Blizabeth J.

Wells, born May 30, 1826. Jacob M. Wells was for a long time one of the -Jeading attorneys at the Adams county bar and was once a candidate for Common Pleas Judge in that district. He was a man of great force of character and a forcible speaker when thoroughly enthused.

Doctor Teachnor was raised on a farm until he was fifteen years of age and attended the district school. In 1885 and 1886 he attended the Presbyterian Academy at North Liberty in his native county. In 1888 he attended the National Norman University at Lebanon, Ohio, and completed the scientific course. He then began reading medicine with Doctor R. A. Stephenson, at Manchester, in 1889, and attended the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati from 1889 to April 7, 1892, when he was graduated with honor and distinction. He located at Portsmouth in May, 1892 but removed to Sciotoville, June 1, 1893. He was president of the Hempstead Academy in 1897. He received the appointment of physician of the Ohio Penitentiary, May 1, 1900 and entered upon his duties immediately and is still serving in this capacity. He is a republican and has iaken an active part in politics since old enough. He was a delegate to the State Convention at Toledo, in 1897 and at Columbus in 1898.

He was married May 17, 1898 to Martha Anne Fox, daughter of John W. Fox, of Moundsville, W. Va. They have four children: Wells H. Jr., Margaret V., Galen and Martha A, was born September 16, 1843, at Portsmouth, Ohio, on the lot where Irving Drew now lives. His father was John Pease Terry and his mother was Susannah Waller. He went through the Portsmouth schools before the age of sixteen and was in the first graduating class from the Portsmouth High School. He entered college in the fall of 1859. He remained in Kenyon College until December 1, 1861, when he enlisted in Company A, 38rd O. V. I. He was promoted from private to Sergeant of his company January 1, 1862. He was made Quartermaster Sergeant of the Regiment on the same day, a double honor. He was mustered out December 4, 1864. He went into the County Treasurer's office as a clerk and was there until he was married December 17, 1866.

His wife was Florence Tillow, daughter of John Tillow, a former merchant of Portsmouth. After his marriage he was book-keeper at Buckeye furnace, Jackson county, for three months. He then went to Hamilton furnace, Missouri and was book-keeper there for a year. From there he went to La Grange and Clark furnaces, Tennessee, where he was book-keper. He was there one year and after that spent three years as book-keeper at Talladega furnace, Alabama. He returned to Portsmouth, in 1880, and became bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Portsmouth and was there in that capacity and as Cashier until 1897, when he went to Seattle, Washington.

May 1, 1889 he was appointed City Collector at Portsmouth and was reappointed on April 17, 1890. At Seattle, he engaged in the wholesale cigar business and continued in it till his death. He died November 15, 1899, of paralysis. He is interred in Greenlawn and his widow resides in Portsmouth, Ohio. He was an Odd Fellow, an Elk and a member of the Grand Army. He (was a communicant of Christ Episcopal church. Mr. Terry was one of the best business men of his time. As a book-keeper, he had no. superior. Wherever his father was interested, he kept the books. He was not a man to make acquaintances readily, but when he once made a friend, he retained him.

merchant at McGaw, Ohio, was born November 4, 1843, in. Adams county, Ohio. His parents were Richard Thatcher born May 28, 1811 in the same county, died at the age of eighty-seven years, and Christina (Rader) Thatcher, daughter of John and Catharine Rader, natives of Pennsylvania and among the early settlers in Adams county. Our subject enlisted October 14, 1861 in Company C, 70th O. V. I. for three years; reenlisted January 4, 1864; appointed Corporal April 20, 1864; wounded May 27, 1864 in the battle of Dallas, Georgia; appointed Sergeant October 19, 1864; mustered out with company August 14, 1865. He participated in the following battles: Shiloh, Corinth, Siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Dalton, Lookout Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta and the charge at Ft, McAllister,

Mr. Thatcher has been a republican since he cast_his first vote and is an active member in the Methodist church at McGaw known as "McKendree Chapel." At different times he has served as steward, trustee and Sabbath school superintendent.

He was married February 28, 1864 to Martha Wilmoth, daughter of John and Mahala Wilmoth, late of Adams county, Ohio. They have six children: John, Sarah J., William Wesley, Mary C., Ida B. and Charles. His wife died October 9, 1899 at the age of fifty-seven. Mr. Thatcher was married again December 23, 1901 to Mrs. Julia Harrigan of Portsmouth, Ohio. Mr. Thatcher is an honest and upright business man, a good citizen and a consistent Christian.

was born on the place where he now resides, near Young, O., August 5, 1838. His father was J. T. Thompson, and his mother's maiden name was Ellen Thompson. His grandfather was Thomas Thompson, born in Pennsylvania, but located on Brush creek. His grandmother Thompson's maiden name was Elizabeth Isaminger, from Pennsylvania. Our subject was raised a farmer, and always lived in the Brush creek valley, except when he was in the military service. He enlisted in Company H, 81st O. V. I., August 30, 1862, as a private for three years. He was appointed Corporal July 1, 1864, Sergeant May 1, 1865, and mustered out with the company July 13, 1865. He was not wounded in any of the battles, though in all of them. He was with his regiment in the Atlanta campaign and Sherman's march to the sea. When he came home he resumed his life as a farmer, and has been engaged in it ever since. He married Catharine Jane McCann, daughter of Isaac Rose McCann. Their children are as follows: Truman Evart, a farmer; Carey Marshall, a teacher; Olive, Minnie and Miles Homer, who died at the age of five years. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has always been a democrat, and is a firstclass citizen in every respect, and is so regarded by all who know him.

was born in Scioto county, Ohio, on October 10, 1847. His father was John Thompson and his mother Catherine Williams. His mother's father, Matthew Williams was born near Charleston, Virginia. Our subject has always lived in Scioto county and owns two fine farms about a mile below Rarden. As a boy he learned the blacksmith trade but followed it only occasionally. He is - a Democrat. On November 23, 1869 he married Jane Freeman, daughter of Michael Freeman, a former well known citizen of Rarden. He has ten children, three of whom are deceased. John B., Ida, the wife of James Lanthom, living in Rarden township, Cora Ann, the wife of Marcus Hibbs, resides in Adams county, Enza Ethel, a boy at home, Harley, Jesse Earl, Dolly Olive, William Elden and Hartzell Everett.

was born at Brookville, Pa., June 25, 1834, the eldest son of Judge J. Y. Thompson, and Agnes his wife. The Thompson family was a large one. The brothers were, beside himself, John J. and Robert M., both of New York, Hon. A. C., Federal Judge, of Cincinnati, and the sisters were Mrs. J. N. Garrison of New York and Mrs. John L. McNeil of Denver, Col. :

Our subject obtained his education in the town of Brookville and on January 4, 1857 was married to Miss Catharine Jane Porterfield of Emlenton, Pa. In 1859 he came to Portsmouth where he resided during the remainder of his life. He engaged in the saw-mill business on the river 'front and followed it for many years. He was a democrat, in his political faith, when all the remaining members of his family were republicans, but in 1867 he and the Hon. Wells A. Hutchins were the only two democrats in the county who advocated and voted for the State Constitutional amendment conferring negro suffrage. Thompson was one of the best natured of men, always obliging to his party, his church, his neighbors and his friends. He was a member of the First Presbyterian church, and a trustee for many years,

He was tall and of agreeable presence... When he was at his best, he was a faster walker than any other man in Portsmouth. No one could overtake him on foot. It was a proverb in Portsmouth, "Don't follow Thompson, and expect to overtake him.' The only way to meet him when he was out in the city afoot, was to intercept him. He was a liberal and generous man. He would give his last dollar to a good cause. His willingness to oblige everybody was often taken advantage of, and among others who took advantage of him in that respect were his party friends. He knew everybody and was on good terms with all he knew, and never refused any demands made on him by his party. He ran for council several times to help his party. He was a candidate for Water Works Trustee four times, not that he cared for the office, or wanted it, or that it would be of any help to him, but simply because he was a good man to be on the ticket, and because, if he was on, he would work for himself and for the ticket.

In 1871, he was a candidate for this office and the vote stood J. F. Towell 851, Thompson 611, majority 240. In 1873, he run again and was successful. The vote stood Thompson 1,065, Thomas W. Carre 815, majority 250. He held the office three years, and. in 1876 was a candidate for a second term. The yote stood J. P. A. Cramer, 1,032, Thompson 987, majority 45. In 1879, he was again a candidate against Cramer and the vote stood Cramer 1,210, Thompson 855, majority 325. He was Postmaster at Portsmouth, Ohio, from May 5, 1886 until February 25, 1890, appointed by President Cleveland, and he pleased ' everyone by his administration of the office.

In May, 1890, he was appointed by the Commissioners of Scioto county, a trustee of the County Children's Home and was reappointed and _ served continually thereafter until his death. In making these appointments, the Commissioners appointed those whom they believed had the greatest sympathy for the unfortunate. It was on this idea that Thompson was appointed and reappointed while he lived. If Mr. Thompson took any interest in any subject, he took a great interest. This is true of his church and Oddfellowship. As a, church worker he could always be depended upon. In Oddfellowship he was also a great worker. He was always fond of children and interested in their welfare. For several years he served as Truant Officer for the public schools. If any of his friends took sick, he was the first man to know it and the first one to visit them. He had his faults. Who has not? But they were strictly personal and were buried with him. His virtues shone during his life; they endeared his- friends to him and their sweet incense survives him. Noble hearted, great souled Thompson, "'vale mi frater."' was born September 8, 1869, in Scioto township, Jackson county, Ohio. He received his name for Dr. John B. Warwick, of Lucasville, Ohio. His father was Elijah Tidd, born September 18, 1823, who enlisted January 28, 1865 for one year in Company H, 194th O. V. I., was appointed Sergeant and was mustered out October 24, 1865. He died January 22, 1902. Our subject's mother was Rachel Stockham, a daughter of David Stockham, who was a son of Col. Aaron Stockham, born August 3, 1787, in Pennsylvania.

His father and mother had six children, of whom he was the fifth. He had a common school education. He began the study of medicine in 1890 with Dr. Orin C. Andre, of Piketon, Ohio, now Waverly. He attended the Columbus Medical College in 1891 and 1892, the Ohio Medical University in 1892 and 1893, and graduated in the latter year. He located at Wakefield, in the spring of 1893, and remained there till 1899, when he located at Stockdale, Ohio, where he has been ever since. He is not married, but his friends say that he has reasonable prospects of being married soon. He is a republican, and a member of the Alhambra Lodge, 554, of the Knights of Pythias, and a member of the Pike County Medical Association.

was born November 6, 1861, at Urbana, Champaign county, Ohio. He was a son of John EK. and Mary Jane (Mumper) Todd. His grandparents on both sides were from Pennsylvania. He received a common school education and was two years in the Urbana High School after which, he took a complete course at the Miami Commercial College, Dayton, Ohio. He first entered business in the tobacco house of Lines, Roush & Co., of Cincinnati, where he had charge of their office. He located in Portsmouth, August 29,. 1882, and took the position of time-keeper and bill-clerk in the Portsmouth Foundry & Machine Works. He became secretary and treasurer of that company in 1885, and remained with them until January 1, 1890, when he resigned td become the secretary and treasurer of the Portsmouth Stove & Range Co., with which he remained until March 1, 1899, when he disposed of all his interests in that company. Upon the re-organization of the old and well known firm of William Resor & Co. in Cincinnati, manufacturers of the celebrated line of "'Monitor' stoves and ranges on September. 19, 1899 he .became identified with that corporation, and took the responsible position of vice-president and treasurer. the company then having a paid up capital of $225,000.

Mr. Todd is a republican in politics. At one time, he was a candidate for member of the school board of Portsmouth, but was defeated. He was brought up under the influence of the Presbyterian church, but is not a member. He was married October 13, 1886 to Miss Cosette Calvert of Portsmouth, daughter of Judge R. A. Calvert and he has two children Helen and Harold. The former graduated from the grammar department of the Mt. Auburn Public Schools, and was presented with a membership in the Mercantile Library under the Day bequest, having obtained that prize as one among 1,100 contestants. During Mr. Todd's residence in Portsmouth, he stood first among the business men, and was in every respect a first-class citizen. His abilities earned the promotion he received in obtaining the position he holds in Cincinnati.

son of Uri Tracy and Harriet Ellen (Lloyd) Tracy, and grandson of Charles Oscar Tracy, was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, Arpil 13, 1857. He was graduated from the High School in this city in June, 1875, and after spending several months in the West, returned to Portsmouth and was associated in the shoe business with his father and grandfather, Richard Lloyd.

September 25, 1884, he was married to Mary Ida Patton, at Columbus, Ohio. They resided in Portsmouth until June, 1885, when they moved to Columbus where he engaged in the wholesale notion business, afterward organ- . izing The Tracy-Wells Co., of which he is president at this time.

son of Uri and Persis (Packer) Tracy, was born in Oxford, Chenango county, New York, December 5, 1829. He was educated at the famous old Oxford Academy of which his great-grandfather, Gen. Benjamin Hovey, was one of the founders in 1794. p

Having spent his youth in the place of his birth, he removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1851, where two brothers of his father were then living. After a few years of clerkship with the jobbing shoe-house of Richard Lloyd & Co. he left that firm in 1855 and started the firm of C. P. Tracy & Co. in the same line of business, with F. J. Oakes as partner. A year later, the firm name was changed to Oakes & Tracy for a brief period.

In 1858, his brother, Henry R. Tracy, then a clerk in the house, bought out the interest of F. J. Oakes, and the firm name again became C. P. Tracy & Co., and thus continued for many years. }

On December 20, 1858, Mr. Tracy was married, to Isabella McClain daughter of Capt. William McClain, who was long connected with steamboating interests on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. They had only one child, a daughter, named Persis McClain, who was born in 1861.° She graduated in 1880 from the Bartholomew English and Classical School in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was married August 31, 1898 to Frank Burr Mallory, A. M., M. D., at present associate Professor of Pathology in the Harvard University Medical School. She has two sons, Tracy Burr, born October 26, 1896 and George Kenneth, born February 14, 1900.

Mr. Tracy was one of the best business men of Portsmouth and was very successful. He was a man honored and respected by all who knew him, He became a communicant of All Saints church, in Portsmouth in 1857, and at the time of his death was Junior Warden. His life was a lesson in christianity. He never sought any civil honors or held any public office, but was one of the prominent men of Portsmouth in good works. On the evening of January 15, 1874, he was stricken with paralysis and died at 6 A. M., January 16th.

was born December 9, 1833, in Oxford, Chenango county, New York. His father was Uri Tracy and his mother's maiden name was Persis Packer. He resided at Oxford, New York till 1857, and was educated at the Oxford Academy, a famous and ancient institution of learning. He was engaged in his father's store from 1850 for a period of seven years.

In 1857, he came to Portsmouth, Ohio. His brother, Charles P. had preceded him six years and was engaged in a wholesale boot and shoe business with F. J. Oakes, under the firm name of Oakes & Tracy. Henry R. bought out F. J. Oakes' interest and the firm name became C. P. Tracy & Co. From the death of his brother, January 16, 1874 the business was carried on under the same firm name with Henry R. Tracy as the manager.