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

was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, May 22, 1807, the youngest of eleven children of Benjamin Bentley and Mary Baldwin, his wife, a native of Pennsylvania. For particulars as to his ancestry, see the Pioneer Record in this book. His father was a millwright and followed that trade for a number of years. He removed to Trumbull county when our subject was but one year old. There he attended the common schools and had to walk three miles. He worked on the farm in summer. Between the ages of fifteen and seventeen, he attended school at Warren, Ohio, and after the age of seventeen years, he engaged in teaching in Richland county, then in the old court house in Georgetown, Brown county, and then after that, taught four miles north of Ripley. One of his pupils there was Doctor Dunlap. In 1828, he embarked in the mercantile business in Georgetown, Brown county, Ohio, and was engaged in this business and farming for ten years. He afterwards engaged in the same business at Higginsport. In 1830, Mr. Bentley married Mrs. Mary Ann McCauley. They had two sons, Morrison and Martin. She died in 1836. In 1840 he married Jane Linn. They had five children: Franklin, died in infancy; Mrs. Laura J. B. Lloyd, widow of Charles P. Lloyd; Mary E., widow of Richard M. Lloyd; Linn, of Columbus, engaged in the iron business and Benjamin, residing at Jackson, engaged in the grocery business.

In the spring of 1840, he became clerk at Hanging Rock landing for Campbell, Ellison & Company, who were running Mt. Vernon furnace. In the spring of 1840, he went to Manchester, Ohio, and engaged in milling for two years. In 1846, he and some others built Gallia furnace and remained engaged in that for eleven years. In 1858, he removed to Portsmouth, Ohio. In 1854, he became connected with Madison furnace in Jackson county, Ohio, and his family are interested in that at the present time. In 1873, he became a stockholder in the Globe Iron Company in Jackson county, Ohio. On November 7, 1866, hewas elected a councilman in Portsmouth, from the Fifth ward. On October 7, 1870, he was appointed a member of the Board of Equalization for the city of Portsmouth. In politics, Mr. Bentley was a repubilean. He never had any failures in any of his enterprises. The rule of his financing was that he never invested in any enterprise more than he could afford to lose and the result of that was that he passed through every panic in our country with unimpaired eredit. He was a member of the Sixth Street Methodist church of Portsmouth, Ohio. He was an excellent businesss man and always a christian gentleman. He died on December 26, 1891.

was born December 10, 1851, at Gallipolis, Ohio, a son of Aholiab Bentley, who has a sketch herein. His ancestry will be found in the Pioneer Record of this book. He resided with his father in Portsmouth during his youth. He attended the public schools at Portsmouth and the High School when it was first opened in the Salter building. He was a student at the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1868 and 1869. He was a clerk in the Ohio Valley Bank with his father in 1870. From 1871 to 1874, he resided at Madison Furnace in Jackson county. He has been a member of the Methodist church since 1878. He has always been a republican in his political views.

- He was married February 7, 1876, to Miss Rachel Alice Clare, of Portsmouth, the youngest daughter of the late James D. Clare. They have two daughters, Sarah and Jennie L., and three sons, Linn Clare, deceased, Robert A., and James P. All of the children are with their parents in Columbus, residing at 585 Oak street.

Since 1871, Mr. Bentley has been engaged in the pig iron business and has been uniformly successful. He is now a member of the pig iron company of Feisner, Wagner and Bentley, operating blast furnaces in the Hocking Valley. Mr. Bentley is a gentleman of more than usual ability, and is highly esteemed by all who know him. He has never made a false or mistaken move in business and his career illustrates the idea of learning one business and following it to the exclusion of all others.

nee Salladay, was born in the French Grant, near Hayport, February 18, 1844. Her father was John Miller Salladay, and her mother's maiden name was Martha Hayward daughter of Moses Hayward. When she was a child, her parents moved to the Scioto valley, north of Portsmouth, where she was reared. She received a common school education. She was married September 19, 1877, to Samuel Bierley, and has had two children, Sarah Martha, wife of George D. Gims, who conducts a flour and feed store in Portsmouth, and Stewart Salladay a youth of seventeen years. Mrs. Bierley has resided within four miles of Portsmouth all her life. At present she resides at 381 Hast Eleventh street. She is a member of the Valley Chapel Methodist Episcopal church, and a woman highly respected and loved by all who know her.

was born January 16, 1830, at Greenup, Kentucky. He was one of twins, his twin brother being Robinson Biggs, who died June 22, 1852, unmarried. He was reared on his father's farm, and attended the local schools. He attended college at Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1848. In 1849, he went to Mount Savage Furnace, Carter county, Kentucky, as a store keeper of the furnace there, and followed that occupation and stock receiver for nine years, while his brother, Andrew was manager. In 1858, he took charge of his father's farm below Greenup, and managed it for eight years. March 15, 1860, he was married to Rebecca, daughter of Benjamin King, a prominent iron man of Laurel Furnace, Kentucky. In the year 1866, he removed to his present home, "Gravenstein Place,' Greenup county, Kentucky, near Portsmouth, Ohio, where he has resided ever since. Mr. Biggs has had seven children: Robinson, a physician; Maurice, who married Nina Mitchell, of Greenup, Kentucky; Anna, who died in young womanhood; Lucy Davis, wife of Joseph Damron, engaged in businesss in Huntington, West Virginia; Sara and Helen Rebecca, at home; Winifred, wife of Irwin Smith, of Huntington, West Virginia. Mr. Biggs has always been a democrat. Heis one of the most kind hearted men in the community where he resides, and is highly esteemed for his civic virtues.

was born iin Portsmouth, Ohio, January 25, 1871. He is the son of John Bishop of Portsmouth. His great-grandfather removed from England to Germany, and his father came from Germany to the United States. His mother, Clara . Koch, was a native of Wurtemburg, Germany; she was a descendant from the . Kohler family, and among them were those holding the\title of Baron and Baroness.

Young Bishop received his education in the public schools of Portsmouth. and then learned the trade of a tailor, and later that of designi garments. In 1889, he left Portsmouth, and traveled for a year. In 1890, he took charge of the manufacturing department of Sanford, Varner & Company of Portsmouth, and was soon afterward promoted to the position of designer, which position he has occupied ever since with the same house or its successor. He gives imstructions in the art of designing and has pupils in different parts of tne country. To such an extent was he called upon to give instructions. that he decided to publish his book entitled "The Modern Designer." : merchant of Rarden. Ohio. was born at Pine Grove Furnace, Lawrence county, Ohio. May 19, 1854. His father, Thomas Blackburn. was the son of Edward Blackburn. 2 native of Ireland, who came to America im 1815, in search of his brother whose whereabouts had been lest sight of While here he married Elizabeth Thompson of Butler county. Pennsylvania

The mother of our subject was Caroline (Scott) Blackburn, daughter of James Seott. of Builer county, Pennsylvania, and was of Scotch descent.

His parents moved to Mt Joy. im 1854, where our subject spent his boyhood and received his early education. He attended the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, for a short time. He commenced teaching at the age Of eighteen and continued to teach for seventeen years, never teaching outside of four districts. which speaks well for his ability as a teacher. While teaching, he was aiso interesied in farming and fruit growing and was 2i one time known as the "peach boy of Mt. Joy." was born at Biddeford in Devonshire, England, on the 6th day of August, 1848. His tather was William Blake, and his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Bartlett. He attended the public schools in England, but left there at eleven years of age and went with his parents to Hamilton, Canada. His father was a butcher and he was brought up to that business. He soon learned it and at the age of nineteen years started in business tor himself at Hamilton, Canada. He, however, had a desire to see something of the world and worked a while at his trade in Detroit; and afterwards at St. Louis. In 1862, he returned to Hamilton, Canada, where he engaged in his trade but a short time. In the latter part of 1862 and 1863 he was located in Detroit. From 1836 to 18/0 he engaged in the same business in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In the last named year he became tired of the long winters in Michigan and longed tor a better country. While a boy in Kngland at the age of nine, he had read and re-read and cried over, "Uncle Tom's Cabin."' He then formed a great desire to see the Ohio river and visit the scenes along the river depicted in that work. So in 1870, when he determined to find a warmer country, the memory of '"'Uncle 'Tom's Cabin" came to him and he resolved to come to the Ohio river. In the fall of 1870, he was engaged in the sewing machine business at Hagle river, Keweenaw county, Michigan. In connection with this business he came to Cleveland and consulted with Mr. Wilson, of the Wilson Sewing Machine Company; and as the result of such interview he came to Portsmouth and engaged in the selling of the Wilson Sewing Machine for four years. In 1874, he concluded after four years observation in Portsmouth that he had better re-enter the business he learned when he was a boy, so he started a meat shop on the corner of Second and Chillicothe and has kept it up ever since. He was married June 20, 1865, in Hamilton, Ontario Province, Canada, to Adelaide, daughter of Jacob Hess. The family originally came to Pennsylvania and later to Canada. Mr. Blake has six children: Alice M., the well known violinist; Cora M., married Ralph Johnson; George H., who is in business with his father; William T., who is in the same busness in Chicago; Harry C., the famous base ball player; and Charles B., who is engaged in the meat business in Columbus. In his political views, Mr. Blake is a republican. He was naturalized in 1870. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Mr. Blake is a model citizen; and never at any time in his life let a draft or note go by; but at the same time, like other mortals, he has his weakness, and one is his pride in his English ancestry. Those who know him, and know how to work him, can get anything out of him by praising England and her institutions. He is the happiest when he can get with Henry Vincent, or some other Englishman, and talk over dear old England.

the son of Philip Bobst, Sr., and Magdalena Frank, his wife, was born September 3, 1847, at Lorain, Lorain county, Ohio. His parents were born at Durkheim, Bavaria, and emigrated to Lorain, Ohio, in 1846, where the son was born. In 1853 his parents moved to Beaver, Pike County, Ohio, and took up Congress land. Philip attended school only about nine months. He was raised on a farm and continued to work at farming all his life until 1896. He came to Scioto county, in 1871, and located near Portsmouth. He engaged in the 'grocery business on the Chillicothe pike in which he continued until 1900, when he went back to farming and gardening. He served as Justice of the Peace of Clay township from 1883 to 1886, and was constable of the township for a number of years. He was a member of the School Board of Clay township a number of years, and served as president two terms. He Was once elected Justice of the Peace but failed to qualify. He has always been a republican, and formerly took an active part in politics, but of late years he has been out of it. Mr. Bobst has been a member of the United Brethren church since 1864; and at present is a steward of the official board of the United Brethren church of Portsmouth. He was married May 3, 1867, to Margaret Brush, a daughter of John Brush of Beaver, Pike county, Ohio. By this marriage they had eleven children all of whom are living: Henry; Magdalena, married Charles May; Philip; Margaret, married George Vogel;

Jacob, Aaron, Louis, Elizabeth A., Adam H., Fred C., and Clara M. His first wife died April 27, 1889, and he was re-married June 13, 1889 to Grace Vollmer daughter of Leopold Vollmer, near Portsmouth, who emigrated from Baden, Germany.

was born in Hanover, Germany, May 2, 1835. His father was Conrad Bode, He attended school in Hanover till the age of fourteen, when he was apprenticed to the stone mason's trade. He served in the Hanoverian troops for seven years. He came to the United States in 1864 and located in Cincinnati, where he worked two years at his trade and became acquainted with Henry Rosenberg, who induced him to come to Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1866. He built the Rosenberg business hiouse on Gallia street, now occupied by Charles E. Welch, the grocer, and the Tribune. Mr. Bode conducted business alone until 1872 when he formed a partnership with Ignatius Reitz which continued for ten years. In 1882, he established a stone saw-mill on Twelfth street and went into business alone. In 1889, he opened a queensware store on Gallia street which is conducted by his widow. Mr. Bode went into the marble business in Portsmouth, in 1870. He was married in 1865 to Maria Theresa Koke, in Cincinnati, who with two children survive: Charles J., who is engaged in the monument business and is also a stone contractor and John Arthur, the wellkown music teacher. Three children died in infancy. Mr. Bode was a member of the German Evangelical church, and a republican in his political views, but never held any public office. He took a great interest in the Masonic order and in the Harugari society. He died August 26, 1902.

was born February 28, 1827, at Brooklyn, Windham county, Connecticut. His father, David Charles Bolles, was a native of Connecticut and his mother, Fannie (Mather) Bolles was a direct descendant of Rev. Increase Mather, D. D. (1639-1723,) who was President of Harvard College from 1685 to 1701. He obtained a new charter for the Colony of Massachusetts and_was the author of many works. His book to prove that the devil might appear as an honest man, enabled many convicted of witchcraft to escape death.

When our subject was six years of age, his father removed to Granville, Ohio, resided there three years and then moved to a farm in Jackson county, near Jackson Ohio. Young Bolles lived on the farm until he was fourteen years of age, when he became a student at the Ohio University, where he attended for three years and then began the study of law with J. B. Johnson, at Athens, Ohio, where he studied until he was twenty-one, when he was admitted to the bar at Pomeroy, Ohio, in 1848. He began the practice of law at McArthur, Ohio, and continued it until 1851, when he went to Ironton, Ohio, and went into the iron. business with Campbell, Peters & Company, first as a book-keeper and then afterwards,.a partner in the concern, in 1854. He also became a partner in Monroe and Washington furnaces. Monroe furnace was owned by McConnell, Bolles & Company and Washington by J. Peters & Company. These two concerns were combined in 1867, under the name of the Union Iron Company and Colonel Bolles was a partner in that and remained such until 1888, when the company dissolved.

When the war broke out he enlisted in Company C, 18th O. V. L, three months men April 22, 1861. He was appointed Captain on the same date and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, May 28, 1861. He was mustered out with the regiment August 28, 1861. The service of this regiment was on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad between Parkersburg and Clarksburg, West Virginia. After this service he enlisted in the 2nd Virginia Cavalry and became Colonel of that regiment September 1, 1861. The regiment was mustered into the service November 8, 1861, and Colonel Bolles resigned the-7th of July, 1862. The regiment was engaged in the campaign at Lewisburg, West Virginia. Colonel Bolles after his service in the 2nd West Virginia Cavalry served as volunteer aide on the staff of General John F. Reynolds in the second battle of Bull Run and ending with the battle of Chantilly. He resided in Ironton until 1863, when he took up his residence in Portsmouth where he has resided ever since except the period from 1885 to 1896 when he was away on different employments. He was married October 21, 1852, to Miss Amaryllis Long. His children are: Mrs. George Crawford; William Bolles, who died in 1892, at the age of 30, leaving a wife and two sons, and Nellie, the wife of Ernest H. Merrick of Pass Christian, Mississippi. He was first a whig and afterwards a republican. He is a Knight Templar Mason. Col. Bolles is at this time the oldest soldier of the Civil War residing in Portsmouth. He enjoys excellent health for his years. He is a gentleman of fine physical appearance and great natural dignity. He developed great executive ability in the management of the iron business. He can unravel any set of books of any business and tell the financial condition of the concern with as much ability as any such work was ever done. His reputation for skill in this direction is known far and wide.

was born September 27, 1838, at Friendship, in Scioto county. His father's name was Littleton Bradford, and his mother's maiden name was Abigail Sampson. He spent his boyhood at Friendship, and received a common school education. At the age of tewnty-one he began teaching school in Scioto county, which he continued for twenty years, seventeen years in. the county and three years in the west. From 1869 to 1872, he lived in the west. In 1873, he began the occupation of a fruit grower, which he has continued ever since.

He was married December 2, 1863, to Miss Sarah Fenton, daughter of Bennett Fenton of Wheelersburg, Ohio. They have the following children: Claude, married Jessie Smith, residing in Portsmouth, Ohio, on Eighth street; Henry W., married Mertie Johnson, residing at Sciotoville; Ella, married Isaac Price, residing at Sciotoville; William Fenton, married Rosa Bolts, residing at Friendship; Emma, married David Gore, residing at Portsmouth, Ohio, on Findlay street; Littleton, aged twenty-five, and Herbert, aged twenty-one, at home:

Mr. Bradford was postmaster at Friendship for five years. His politics are undecided, not held down to any particular party, just as the issue suits him. He is a member of the Swedenburg church. He owns twenty acres of land, a fruit farm, four miles from the city on the Valley pike, but he resides at Portsmouth, Ohio. He is a highly respected citizen and a straightforward man of good habits. As a school teacher he was most efficient.

was born on a farm in Madison township, abont two miles south of Stockdale, Pike county, Ohio, January 2, 1877, the son of Jacob. and Emeline (Coburn) Brame. The greater part of his boyhood was spent in Madison township, where he attended the district school. His father died when he was very young and he was thrown upon his Own resources. He went to Illinois about 1896 and worked on a farm until he had earned enough to enable him to attend one term at an Illinois Normal School. He then returned to this county and attended two terms of school at the Harrisonville Normal. By hard work and constant application, he soon acquired an education to enable him to teach, which profession he has followed three years. He is a republican although most of his people are democrats. He is a young man of excellent habits and agreeable disposition. As a teacher, he puts honest, earnest effort into his work and his patrons have no cause for complaint. He is esteemed by all who know him.

was born near Hesse Castle, Germany, December 14, 1844, and came to America with his parents, in 1851. They located near Portsmouth, on a farm. where they remained until the winter of 1863-4. February 24, 1864, he enlisted in Co. F, 27th O. V. I., at the age of nineteen and was mustered out July 11, 1865. He received a common school education. After returning from the war, he worked at butchering till 1873 when he went into the business for himself. In 1875, he became an itinerant preacher and in 1881 he entered the ministry of the United Brethren church and was ordained in 1883. He continued to preach till 1885 when his health compelled him to. give up the work. The field of his work as a minister was in Pike and Hamilton counties. In 1887, he again started in the meat business and has continued in it ever since.

He was married October 1, 1867, to Mary Stoll, daughter of George and Barbara Stoll of Pike county, Ohio. Five children were born to them of whom four, all girls, are now living., the other a boy died in infancy. His daughters are: Martha Elizabeth, married George Rueppel; Anna Catherine, married Harry J. Butts; Mary Louisa married Doctor Charles D. Slagel. His fourth daughter is Emma Bertha at home.

was born near Lueasville, Ohio, in Scioto county, December 138, 1858. His father was Joseph Brant and his mother's maiden name was Susan Wilson. In 1864, when Joseph was six years old, his parents moved to Lucasville and he has resided there ever since. He received his education in the graded schools of Lucasvlile. In 1878, at the age of nineteen years, he was employed in Dr. B. G. Warwick's store at Lucasville, and after Dr. Warwick's death on June 14, 1880, he continued the business for his widow, Mrs. Mary Warwick, until February 1, 1894. In 1881, he was elected township clerk of Valley township and served for five years, when he refused to be a further candidate. He was president of the Board of Education, of his township and he served in that capacity - for several years. Mr. Brant first voted the democratic ticket, but for the past ten years he has voted the republican ticket. He was married to Sarah C. Funk, July 26, 1881. They have two children: Clyde, born March 7, 1883, and Eva Crete, born April 20, 1885. Both are attending school at the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio. Mr. Brant connected with the Methodist Church about 1892, and is a trustee and steward. He moved to his present location May 20, 1895, and is starting in his twenty-fifth year of business. He is regarded as one of the best business men of his locality.

President and General Manager of the Portsmouth Rim & Spoke Company, was born March 10, 1872, at Roundhead, Hardin Co., Ohio, and is the son of George Breece, whose father was a native of Wales. His mother was Asenath (Tingle) Breece, and he was one of eight children. His father died when he was eleven years of age, and when he was thirteen, his mother took him to Pottersburg, in Union county. They remained there until our subject was eighteen. From there he went to Bainbridge and formed a partnership with his brother, G. E. Breece, in the rim and spoke business in which he has been engaged ever since - three years at Bainbridge, one year at Latham, in Pike county, two years at Winchester, in Adams county, three years at Waverly, one year at Otway, and from there he came to Portsmouth and organized and incorporated the Portsmouth Rim & Spoke Company, of which he is the chief stockholder.

He received only a common school education. He is a republican and an active member of the Sixth Street Methodist Episcopal church of Portsmouth.

He was married April 30, 1890, at the age of twenty-one, to Jennie Miller, daughter of William Miller, near Latham, Pike county, Ohio. They have two boys; George W. aged seven and James Ernest, aged three. John T. Breece is wonderfully active and energetic. He is the architect of his own fortunes and has built them well. He has made a great success of his business.

One whose business and social relations have been very close with him for the last three years says, 'he is the most even tempered man I ever knew; he is generous, enterprising, and cheerful, having the happy faculty of seeing the best side of all men, He is energetic, genial, temperate, and religious, also rich © in his love for his fellow men." was born January 1, 1833 near the city of Breslau, Prussia. His father was Benjamin Breslau, a dress maker. In his boyhood he was apprenticed to learn the trade of a cap maker. At the age of twenty-one he and a companion embarked from Hamburg to New York. He landed there with the sum of seventy-three cents in his pocket He labored for two years on a farm in western Massachusetts, not far from Albany. He went to West Union, Adams county, in 1856, and became a peddler of merchandise, with headquarters at Peter McKenzie's on Ohio Brush creek. In 1859 he began farming near Blue creek, which occupation he followed until 1882, when he moved to Peebles, Ohio, to engage in pork-packing. In 1883, he went to Otway, Ohio, where he opened a general merchandise business in connection successively with J. W. Davis, Evan Thomas and George Ralstin. From 1891 to 1897, he was engaged in the timber business. In the latter year he retired.

In 1861, he married Nancy Jones, a daughter of Andrew B. Jones, of Brush Creek township, Scioto county. He has had four children: Rosa, Zora, Myrtle and Thomas Herschel, the latter only surviving. His wife died in 1890, and he was married in 1893 to Phoebe McNeil, daughter of John 8. McNeil. His second wife died in 1901.

In politics, he is a democrat. As a business man, he is careful energetic and honest. In his disposition, he is unassuming and agreeable. He is a charitable, public spirited citizen, and enjoys the esteem of all who know him. The only surviving member of his family is Thomas H., a member of the firm of Breslau & Chabot, dealers in general merchandise, at Otway. He makes his home with his son and oversees his fruit farm of 40 acres, near Otway.

was born March 26, 1858, at Lucasville, Ohio. His father was Henry Bricker, a native of Columbiana county, and his mother's maiden name was Mary A. Murphy, daughter of Arnold Murphy, also a native of the same county. He was the sixth in a family of eight children. He received a common school education and began teaching when nineteen years of age. He worked on the farm in summer and taught during the winter months for twenty-two years. In 1899, he began as a clerk for Martindale & Edmunds, and has been with them since. On June 11, 1885, he was married to Eliza Ellen Ward, daughter of Thomas Ward. They have two children: Mary Pearl and Otto Cleve. He is a republican, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and a Blue Lodge Mason.

Mr. Bricker possesses the happy faculty of adapting himself to any and every situation. He can take up anything and succeed in it. He taught school in Valley township for fifteen years and stood at the head of his profession.

was born November 29, 1853 in Clay township, the son of John Kinney Briggs, and Mary Miller, his wife. He received a common school education, and was brought up a farmer. He married first Sabina Cole, a daughter of George W. Cole, March 3, 1881. They had two children, Alfred M., and Frank A. She died November 22, 1888. He was married February 26, 1890, to Norah T. Jones, a daughter of Luther R. Jones. They have three children, Margaret, Beulah and Helen. Mr. Briggs is a republican. He is a member of the Oldtown Methodist Episcopal church, and not a fraternity man. He is positive in his views and convictions on all subjects. His ambitions are satisfied in being a good neighbor and a good citizen. ' was born near Portsmouth, Ohio, December 5, 1857. His father was Henry Briggs, son of Samuel C. Briggs. His mother's maiden name was Anne B. Noel, daughter of Aaron Noel, His grandmother Briggs was a Timbrook. When he was ten years of age, his father, a farmer, moved to Daviess county, Missouri. His father had ten children, and our subject was the oldest of seven daughters and three sons. Our subject returned to Scioto county in 1878, and remained until 1888. In this period he was engaged in various mercantile businesses. In May, 1883, he began working for M. B. Gilbert & Company and remained with them and their successors until 1888. From 1888 until 1895, he was engaged in merchandising in Kansas. In 1895, he went to work with M. B. Gilbert & Company, and remained with them until January 1,.1900, when they became a stock company, and he is now a stockholder and travels for the house. April 28, 1888, he was married to Ida Buckhold. He has two children: Warren, born March 10, 1890, and Maurice, born July 20, 1892. He is a republican, a Mason and a member of the United Commercial Travelers. He is a first class business man and is progressive in every respect.

was born March 22, 1849, in Scioto county, Ohio. His father was James Sampson Brouse and his mother Adah Jane Baldridge, daughter of John Baldridge and Zillah Cole, his wife. John Baldridge lived and died in Adams county, adjoining Joel Treber. He is a descendant of Ephraim Cole, a Revolutionary soldier, an account of whom is found under the title of Revolutionary Soldiers in this work. His grandfather, John Brouse, was one of the first settlers. He was a blacksmith and also kept a horse mill near Sugar Grove schioiol house. His father, James S. Brouse, died November 21, 1854, and his mother in 1883, at the age of eighty.

Our subject had a common school education and attended HE. W. Smith's Commercial School, in Portsmouth, Ohio. He has been a farmer all his life, and has lived in the house he was born in or in sight of it all the time. Heisa republican and a member of the Bethel Methodist Church near the Infirmary.

He was married March 25, 1878, to Eliza A. Veach, daughter of Doctor Charles Veach and Elizabeth Burriss, his wife. They have had two children: Adah May, the wife of Fred Becker, and James Stanley, who died at the age of four years.

was born near Laurel, Clermont county, Ohio, June 9, 1847, the son of Enoch G. Brown and Susan Fisher, his wife. His maternal great-grandfather, Adam Fisher, a Revolutionary soldier, of German birth, came to this country in 1742, and settled in Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.

Our subject's maternal grandfather, Hon. David Fisher, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1794. He came from Pennsylvania down the Ohio river and landed at the mouth of the Scioto and raised one crop and them removed to Limestone, Kentucky, and remained there a few years, then came to Ohio, about 1798, and Jocated in Clermont county. He was married in Clermont, Ohio, April 7, 1814, to Nancy Byrne, whose father was a commissioned officer under General Pulaski, and was an own cousin of Charles Carroll of Carrollton. In 1842 and 1843 David Fisher represented Clermont, Brown, and Clinton counties in the State Legislature. From 1847 to 1849, he represented the Second District of Ohio, composed of Butler, Preble, Darke, Warren, Clinton and others in Congress. He died May 8, 1886, aged ninety-two.

Enoch G. Brown, the father of our subject, was a native of Clermont county, Ohio. He was a distant relative of Alexander Hamilton. He was a farmer and a merchant. He came to Scioto county to live with his son, our subject, about 1889, and died in Portsmouth in 1891.

Our subject passed his boyhood and youth in Clermont county and attended the Amelia public schools. At the age of eighteen, he ran away from home and went to the war. He enlisted in Company I, 184th O. V. I., Jan. 31, 1865, and was discharged September 20, 1865. After returning from the army, he attended Parker's Academy in Clermont county for four years, and commenced teaching in 1868 and continued that occupation until 1874. In June, 1874, he was appointed mail agent on the river from Cincinnati to Portsmouth. In that same year, he was transferred to Chicago and remained there six months. He was then transferred to the Ohio and took his old position where he remained until 1885. He was then transferred to the C. P. & V. Railroad as mail clerk and served two years, or until 1887. In November, 1886, he took charge of the Portsmouth Steam Laundry and continued to conduct it until July, 1901, when he sold out. In 1898, he ran for Mayor, but was defeated on account of the "Ripper Bill." He is a republican and has always been prominent in county and state politics. He has attended several District and State conventions, in particular a Congressional convention, which nominated Hon. H. S&S. Bundy for Congress the last time and the following one which nominated Hon. L. J. Fenton. He was a Congresssional delegate in Clermont county when he was twenty one years old.

September 11, 1877, he was married to Nannie M. Power, daughter of James C. Power, a former well known steamboat owner. Their children are: J. C. Power Brown, now private secretary to C. S. Fee, General Passenger and Ticket Agent at St. Paul, Minn.; Nannie Mary, wife of Guy V. Williams; Charles C. Jr., shipping clerk at the Heer Shoe Factory, and David Fisher, a school boy.

Mr. Brown iis one of the most genial and courteous of men, always ready to do his part in any good work for the public good. He makes friends whereever he is known and they remain such. He has always been a good neighbor and a good citizen.

son of Milton W. Brown and Sarah Wood, his wife, was born October 7, 1862. His education was that of the common schools. At the age of eighteen in the year 1880, he went to California for his health, and spent one year in the Sacramento valley, then he spent one year at Honolulu. He returned to Scioto county, in 1883, and worked for-his father on the farm for four years. In 1886, he was married to Miss Etta Stockham, the youngest daughter of Harvey Stockham. He has two children: Joseph Mills,, born in 1887 and Charles Wesley, born Apri] 14, 1896. He lives on the Little Scioto on the M. W. Brown farm, better known as the Bowers farm of one hundred and twenty-one acres. He jis a stock raiser and dairyman. He makes butter and sells it in the city of Portsmouth. He is a prosperous dairyman, and calls his farm ''Woodlawn." He is a member of the Methodist Protestant church at Scioto, and has been superintendent of the Sunday school. He is active, energetic and enterprising in everything he undertakes. He is the steward of his church. In his political faith he is a strong republican. He is a force and power in the community, and will be so long as he survives.

was born near Locust Grove, Ohio, August 18, 1876. His father was William H. Brown, a son of Hugh Brown who came from Virginia to this county during its early history. - William Brown's mother was Margaret Newman a daughter of Christopher Newman, one of the early settlers in the vicinity of Rarden. The mother of Charles Sumner Brown was Mary Jane Leighly, daughter of Philip and Rebecca (Lewis) Leighly, of Adams county, Ohio. Philip Leighly was a native of Armstrong county, Pennsylvania. At the age of sixteen, he emigrated to Ohio and settled near Blue Creek, in Adams County, where he married Rebecca Lewis, daughter of William Lewis.

At the age of eighteen, our subject became a teacher in the public schools of the county, but after being engaged in this. profession for two years, he gave up teaching to enter the employ of the Rarden Stone Company as book-keeper. He later served in the same capacity for L. Taylor and assisted in the management of Mr. Taylor's cooperage and stone interests. At the opening of the year, 1900 he became a partner in the Taylor Cooperage Company and two years later formed a partnership with Mr. Taylor in the lumber and timber business under the firm name of The Taylor-Brown Timber Company. Mr. Brown is a firm believer in the policies and principles of the republican party and manifests a deep interest in both local and national politics. Though a young man, our subject by an earnest effort, has established a reputation of being a thorough and practical man. He is honest, upright and persevering, has an active mind, a clear judgment and an independence of spirit that pervades all his actions.

son of Milton W. Brown and Sarah Wood, his wife, was born December 12, ~ 1873)) "He had a common school education, was brought up on his father's farm, and has always been a farmer. At the age of seventeen years he tock a onethird interest with his father, and worked for three years. Then he took a one-half interest and worked from 1893 to 1899. Inthe latter year he bought out his father on the Squire's farm, and has given it the name of "Browndale"' farm. He has two hundred and one acres, and conducts a dairy farm. He was married August 8, 1893 to Mary A. McKenzie, a daughter of David McKenzie, a farmer of Madison township. They have two children: Milton Wesley, born May 29, 1894, and Earl McKenzie, born March 2, 1898. He is a member of the Scioto Methodist Protestant church, and superintendent of the Sunday school of that church. In his political views he is a republican. He has all the family traits in as pronounced a degree as exhibited in his father, and whatever he undertakes he does with all. his strength. He is noted for his energy, industry, and his strict attention to business, and when he is called to show up his balance on the last day, it will all be on the credit side.

was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, August 3, 1849. His parents were Nathaniel Ellicott Brown and Jane Squier, his wife. When he was eight years of age, his parents removed to Cleveland, Ohio. He attended the public schools there and afterwards his parents removed to Youngstown and from there to Portsmouth, Ohio. On October 11, 1870, he was married to Miss Ellen Louise Varner, daughter of Samson Edgar and Maria Louise Varner of Portsmouth. After his marriage he went to Paducah, Kentucky, where he was connected with the Southern Rolling Mill. In 1872, he moved north and finally settled in Youngstown, Ohio, where he was connected with the Brown Bonnell Rolling Mill until 1900, when he was elected mayor of the city of Youngstown. He served one term, was re-elected and is now serving his second term. Of his three children, only one is living, Natalie Varner Brown. He resides at 537 Bryson street, Youngstown, Ohio.

was born on a farm one mile east of Sciotoville, November 23, 1876. He is the son of John T. and Christina Brown. The maiden name of his mother who was twice married before, was Woolford. She is the granddaughter of Daniel Woolford, a soldier of the war of 1812, who moved to this county from Bath county, Virginia, in 1802. There is a family tradition that while this sturdy pioneer ancestor was away fighting for his country, his wife at home taking up her husband's work, went into the harvest field with a sickle and reaped a field of © wheat. The original Brown stock also sprang from Virginia. His great-grandfather, Robert Brown, migrated west about the year 1797, coming down the Ohio on a flatboat to the old disembarking point of Limestone, now Maysville, Kentucky, and settled first in Montgomery county, Kentucky. Some time subsequent to 1812, he moved to a farm opposite Sciotoville, in Kentucky, where he died. His son, William, father of John T., kept the first store ever opened in Sciotoville. He was elected county Surveyor in 1846, 1853 and 1856. . Afterwards he moved to his farm opposite Sciotoville, where he died.

Our subject attended the public schools of Sciotoville and at eighteen years of age, engaged in teaching in the schools of the county. As a teacher, he is painstaking in his work. He insists on system and accuracy in his pupils. His great aim is to teach them how to think and in thinking to reach always the safest 'conclusions. He is also engaged in the study of law. In politics, he is a republican. Hither by reason of circumstances or a natural disposition, he has the qualities of self reliance and determination. His habits are good and he possesses a high sense of honior. It matters not what positions he may hold in life, he will be a useful citizen and a credit to his community.

daughter of John D. Feurt and Maria Oldfield, his wife, was born May 5, 1847, on the old Feurt farm in Clay township. Her father was a son of Gabriel Feurt, who was one of the pioneers of Alexandria. Her mother was a daughter of Col. William Oldfield, a sketch of whom is found elsewhere in this book. Mrs. Brown was married to William Peters, December 25, 1867, and to them were born three sons and three daughters, all of whom are living. Lillian * married Frank Oakes; Berdie married Frang Gasele; May married Charles Cole. The sons are Howard, Clifford and Arthur. Mr. Peters died April 30, 1882, and Mrs. Peters was again married to Mr. T. J. Brown, August 15, 1889, and now lives near Haverhill, Ohio. Mrs Brown is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is held in the highest esteem by all who know her.

son of Milton W. Brown and Sarah Wood, his wife was born March 1, 1858, in Scioto county. He attended the common schools in the vicinity of his home, the Portsmouth High School two years, and was one year at Lebanon. He was a teacher of the country schools for two years, and then he attended the Ohio State University for two years, and left at the end of his junior year in 1881. In that year he became a farmer in Scioto county, and continued that occupation until 18838. He was married February 15, 1882, to Miss Hattie Ackley, -at Athens, Ohio.

In 1883, he moyed to Ennis, Texas, and kept books for the M. T. Jones Lumber Company for four years; and then, at the invitation of his father, who gave him 80 acres of land, came back and took charge of said farm, known as the Wood farm. He continued this occupation until 1894, when he went into the farming implement business in the city of Portsmouth, with his father, as M. W. Brown & Son. He remained in that business until 1898, with his father, and one year longer by himself. In 1899, he sold out his business to David Stahler, and then began traveling for the Deering, Harvester Co., and is now so engaged. After accepting employment with that company, he resided in Athens Ohio, a short time and since then in Zanesville.

In his political views he is a Republican, and a member of the Presbyterian Church. He has the following children: Ernest Walter, born May 1, 1883, now telegraph operator at Zanesville; Fletcher Louis, born Septetmber 2, 1836, a school boy; Harry Ackley, born September 3, 1892, a school boy. Mr. Brown is a first class business man, and has all the energy, enterprise and industry he inherited from his father and a surplus besides.

was born in Pike county, Ohio, January 7, 1883. His father, David Brown, was a native of Vermont and came to Scioto county, Ohio, when Levi was two years old. His mother's maiden name was Lavinia Pool. She is still living, being in her eighty-sixth year. David Brown, her husband, died at California, Pike county, Ohio,- April 15, 1900, at the age of eighty-six years. Our subject was one of five children: Ransom, Levi, Thomas H., Eliza, wife of a Rev. Harrison, and Filmore, who died when very young. Levi Brown was brought up on a farm and received his education in a subscription school. When eighteen years of age, he and Alex Calder built a grist and saw mill at California and operated it from 1856 to 1859. On May 2, 1864, he enlisted in Co. F, 140th O. V. I. and served until September 3, 1864. He has always been a republican and is a member of the Free Will Baptist church. At the age of twenty-three he married Ruhama Stockham, a daughter of William Stockham, who is living at California, Ohio, aged eighty-eight years. Our subject has had ten children by his first marriage, and all of them are living. Their names are: George L., Ruhama, wife of Albert Diber; Mary, Lois, wife of Henry Koger; Dora W., William D., Otto Scott, Claudine C., Abigail, wife of Perry Prindel, living near Robbtown, Pickaway county, Ohio; and Margaret Ethel. His wife died January 15, 1897, and he married her sister Nancy A., February, 1898. Directly after his first marriage, he went to farming and has been engaged in that occupation and has resided on the Same farm ever since. He cultivates between 300 and 400 acres lying partly in Pike and partly in Scioto county, but his residence is in Scioto county.

was born Sept. 2, 1886 in Marion township, Pike county, Ohio. His father, Roya] Brown, was born in Vermont. At the age of three years he was brought by his father to Portsmouth. His grandfather was David Brown, who has a sketch herein. Our subject's father landed at Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1816. Mr. Brown had a common school education, and became a farmer. He is one of the few farmers who have a sincere love for the vocation. His first ventures in business was the buying and selling of cattle. He enlisted in Company G, 9ist Ohio Volunteer Infantry, August 11, 1862, appointed - corporal Oct. 19, 1863, and mustered out with the company June 24, 1865. During @ portion of his service he was detailed as one of a company composing Blazer's scouts, whose deeds of daring and courage are known to all familiar with the history of the Civil . War.

Our subject was married August 21, 1856, to Sarah Wood, one of the daughters of Simeon Wood, who has a sketch herein. Their children are: Asbury, born May 14, 1858; Rachel, born 1861, died at the age of one year; Charles Wesley, born Oct. 7, 1862; Emeline Florence, born Oct. 7, 1867, is the wife of John Quincy Adams, of Portsmouth O.; Edgar, the youngest, was born Dec. 12, 1873.

His brother, John S. Brown, enlisted Oct. 18, 18638, as a recruit, at the age of nineteen, in the 91st Ohio Volunteer Infantry for three years; and jon Oct. 22, 1864, was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps to serve out his term of enlistment.

Our subject resided in Harrison township until after the war and in 1883 moved to Madison township on the Squires farm. In 1898 he bought the Dow McKinney farm in Madison township and moved upon it, and gave up the possession of the Squires farm to his son, Edgar. Mr. Brown has 400 acres of land in his home farm and tills it well; but one of the great features of his business is his herd of Jersey cattle.

He was elected commissioner of Scioto county in 1887, and served until 1894, with great credit. At his first election the vote stood, Brown, republican, 3,526; Wm. McKinney, democrat, 2,501, majority 755. In 1890, the second election, the vote stood, Brown 3,556; Asa McCall 2,746; majority, 810.

From 1894 to 1898, Mr. Brown was in Portsmouth, with his eldest son, engaged in the business of selling farming implements. In 1898, he took up a permanent residence in Madison township on the old Dow McKinney farm, to which he has made several additions. He and his wife reside alone. Though in the sixtys, they have forgotten that fact and work just as hard and as continuously as if they were just beginning life like a young couple. Beginning with nothing, he has accumulated a handsome competence which. he holds in his own name. In addition to this he has placed two of his sons on good farms, and set them out in life with a most excellent beginning. He has also assisted his other children. :

Mr. Brown has been all his lifetime an unswerving republican. He is a consistent member of the Methodist Protestant church at Scioto, one mile south of Harrisonville. He is an up-to-date farmer, and takes all the journals relating to his specialties in farming and dairying, and keeps informed on all modern methods.

"Mr. Brown is one 'of Nature's favorites. A man gifted by Nature as he is, cannot make a failure of life. He is by Nature a strictly honest man. His bond is good for any amount he will give it for. His word is just as good, and if he believes a thing to be your due from him, you are just as sure to get it as if you had his word and bond. People who do not know him, sometimes regard him as unduly exacting. He may be exacting in the sense that he wishes others to comply with their contracts and meet their engagements, but when one knows him he finds that he is liberal with others, compared with what he exacts from himself towards them. He witholds from no man his due. He is a man of unbounded energy and of unusual ability, untiring industry, strictly temperate, frugal and economical. He is a success in the broadest and most liberal sense." was born October 1, 1856, at Piketon, Ohio. His father was Henry Brown, and his mother's maiden name was Sarah Duke, daughter of Samuel Duke. He was reared at Piketon and attended school there until eighteen years of age. He then became a traveling salesman in the grocery business for fifteen years, and the last seven years has been with the Standard Oil Company, located at Charleston, W. Va. For the last two years he has had charge of the managing office at Charleston. He has been a resident of Portsmouth for fifteen years. He was married in July, 1882, to Miss Alice Green, daughter of Samuel Green of Pike county. They have two children: Leila C., and Donald. He is a republican in his political views, and is highly esteemed among all his friends. He possesses all the virtues of his long line of ancestors and if they ever had any vices, he is innocent of them altogether.

is the son of George Wesley Brown and Margaret McFann, his wife. He was born at Lyra, Scioto county, Ohio, July 16, 1876. His father was a son of George W. Brown and Lily M. Foster, both natives of county Tyrone, Ireland, who came to America in 1848, shortly after their marriage. They settled above Haverhill in the French Grant. The father of our subject was born at Franklin Furnace and as a youth was employed about the furnace. In recent years, he has been a farmer and now resides below Haverhill on the river. Ora D. Brown is the eldest of nine children and was brought up on a farm. He received a common school education and prepared himself for a teacher. He began teaching at the age of nineteen and has taught continuously since with good success. For the past three years, he has been employed as principal of the schools at Union Mills near Portsmouth, Ohio. His mother was the daughter of John McFann, a soldier in the Civil War. He enlisted in Company D, First O. H. A., August 6, 1862, and died at Knoxville, Tennessee, May 238, 1864. In politics Mr. Brown is a republican. He is a member of the M. EH. church at Haverhill and a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. He was married February 16, 1901, to Clara B. Burch daughter of Samuel L. and Lucy (Frye) Burch of Haverhill, Ohio.

was born in Marion township, Pike county, Ohio, April 7, 1840. His father was 'John H. Brown, and his mother's maiden name was Sarah Beauchamp. His grandfather, David Brown, was in the war of 1812. When Wesley was four years iof age, his father moved to Scioto county and located in Madison township where he owned a saw-mill. He received a common school education in the district schools of Madison township until fifteen years of age, when he went back to Pike county near his old home. He attended school in that county, until he was seventeen, then he farmed for two years with his father. When his father died in 1859, he went into the mill business and worked at that until he was twenty-one years of age. He then went back to farming and bought a farm in the same township. On November 28, 1861, he was married to Icy Bennett, the daughter of Caleb and Eliza (Stockham) Bennett. He went to housekeeping on the farm he had been tending, in December, 1861. He enlisted August 11, 1862, in Company G, 91st O. V. I. for threé years. He was wounded September 19, 1864, at the battle of Opequan, Virginia. He was mustered out with the company June 24th, 1865. After the war, he went back on the farm and farmed until 1892, when he went to Flat, Ohio, and_ started a creamery. In 1897, he was appointed postmaster at Flat, now Stockdale, Ohio, which office he still holds. He was township Trustee of Marion township for two terms. He is a member of the Methodist Protestant church. He has been superintendent of the Sunday School for eighteen years. He is a republican.

Mr. Brown has never had any children of his own, but has reared three. John Henry Rice is one. He resides in the Indian Territory. Mrs. Margaret Myers, wife of Hamilton Myers, of Chillicothe, Ohio, is the second. Mrs. Mary C. Jioones, wife of Charles Jones of Columbus, Ohio, is the third.

Mr. Brown possesses all the estimable characteristics of the family to which he belongs. He has a reputation for integrity, known wherever he is known. He is careful in his business and official dealings. He is one of the most efficient workers in his church. He is a man who believes in continuance in well doing else he could not have been a Sunday schiool superintendent for twenty consecutive years. He possesses all those sterling qualities which go to make up the highest type of manhood. He is a true Christian a model citizen and a man who exemplifies the Golden Rule every day of his life.

was born December 1, 1860, in Pike county, Ohio. His father's name was Royal Brown and his mother's maiden name was Rachel Beauchamp. He received a common school education in the county, and at the age of twenty-eight he attended college at' Adrian, Michigan, for three years.~ He took the theological course, and was ordained to preach in September, 1881, but on account of failing health was obliged to give it up. He then engaged in farming and mercantile business, buying and selling stock, in which he is now engaged. In 1894 and 1895, he was Treasurer of Marion township, Pike county. He was married January 11, 1881, to Miss Emma Graham, daughter of Wesley N. Graham, of Scioto county, Ohio. They have one daughter, Ruby, A., eighteen years of age. He is a republican in his political views, and a member of the Methodist Protestant church. ,

He has and maintains high ideals in life. He is ambitious and energetic and lives up to a high standard of moral excellence. He has business talent and his financial career has been a success. He is a neighbor highly esteemed in his social circle.

was born near Powellsville, Ohio, November 16, 1864. His father Eli Brumbaugh, a native of Pennsylvania and a descendant of the early Dutch settlers of that state, came to Ohio in 1854 and was employed at the Means, Kyle & Company furnaces as a charcoal contractor until 1880, when he quit the furnaces to settle on his farm near Powellsville, Ohio, where he is still living in his seventy-second year. Our subject's mother's maiden name was Arvilla Dilley. She is a native of Ohio, daughter of James Dilley and sister of James Jr., and Washington Dilley now of Los Angeles, California. She was married to Eli Brumbaugh in 1854. Nine children came to this union, of which the subject of this sketch is the fourth. She still survives in her sixty-second year on the farm with her husband. Washington T. Brumbaugh attended the district school during the winter months until he was sixteen years old. At seventeen, he entered the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and took up the teacher's course of study, began teaching at eighteen years of age and has just completed twenty years' service as a teacher, sixteen years of this service having been rendered in three schools: Powellsville, Junior Bridge and Clapboard. In addition to his work as a teacher he has conducted a general store in Powellsville, Ohio, for the last ten years and has served as Postmaster of that village for the last five years. He is a republican in politics, first, last and all the time.

In 1887, he married Hattie S. Hudson, daughter of A. J. and Malissa Hudson, of {(Powellsville, Ohio, descendants of the early French settlers. Four bright, cheerful girls and one boy constitute their family. That his services as teacher for nineteen years have been satisfactorily rendered in schools with in three miles of his home, among people of different religious and political views, is evidence that he niot only possesses to some degree, the true character of a man but that he has been instrumental in developing it in others. His character is shown in devotion to his family, application to business and reverence for the Golden Rule in dealing with mankind.

was born October 7, 1838, in Schwiedrued, Bezirk Kulm, in Switzerland. His father's name was Samuel Brunner, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Hundeker. His father had a cotton factory in Germany. Our subject attended school in Germany. In 1853, he came to this country, with his brother Gotlieb, Elizabeth, and Mary, wife of John Bender, deceased. His brother Rudolph had come three or four years before him. Soon after coming to Portsmouth he went into the dry goods store of his brother Rudolph, on the corner of Second and Market streets, he has been in the same business ever since, and at the same place. He started in as a clerk and continued as such until the death of his brother, February 17, 1877, when he was made executor of his estate and took charge of his business, which he has conducted ever since.

He was married October 28, 1863, to Frederica Wertz. They have the following children: Charles C., clerk for his father; Mary, married Henry Menzell, residing in St. Joseph, Mo., and is engaged with the Henry Crugg Packing Co., Emily, married Frederick Doerr, who is engaged in the cigar business in Portsmouth, O.; Albert and Adolph, clerks in their father's store; Frederick, died at the age of 'eight years, in January, 1883; Rudolph, working in The Drew-Selby shoe factory; Henry, clerk,at the store; Willie, died in 1884, at the age of four years; Oscar, a student of the Portsmouth High School; Lena, a student of the Portsmouth High School. Mr. Brunner is a democrat in his political views, and a member of the German Evangelical church. He is a first-class business man. He has an old established business and has prospered in it.

was born at Smidtaud, Switzerland, March 8, 1845. His father had the same name and he was the eldest of seven children. When he was six years of age his father, who was a machinist, moved into France, not far from Geneva, Switzerland. There he resided and followed his trade till 1863, when his eldest son Jacob was of age. There the boy attended all the French schools and became very efficient in the French language. Today he can speak French as well as German, but likes the English language best. At eighteen he went to Geneva and there learned the machinist's trade. He spent an apprenticeship of four years. At twienty-two he finished his trade and he and his father located in Choufhausen in Switzerland to follow it. He spent two years in this place, most of the time making locks for guns. In 1869, his father determined to take his family to Antwerp and there embark for this country. Portsmouth was their destination. The family reached Portsmouth on July 3, 1869. The father and mother, five brothers, Jacob, Emil, Gustave, Adolph, Gottleib and sister (Phillippine were in the party. Rudolph and Adolph Brunner, uncles of Jacob, were already in Portsmouth.

The first work Jacob did in Portsmouth was for the Foundry and Machine Works for the first five months. Then he tried digging ore at Mt. Vernon furnace in Lawrence county till May 1, 1870. He preferred the Foundry and Machine Works and returned to them and worked for them till April 1, 1884. At that time he was appointed engineer of the Hospital for the Insane, at Athens, and was there four years. On his return he set up in business for himself at 26 West Fifth street, and has been there ever since. He does all kinds or reparing to machinery, plumbing, etc., and is a most excellent workman. He needs no sign for he generally has the street in front of his place full of crippled machinery waiting for his services.

He was married August twenty-second, 1872, to Catharine Widdig, a daughter of Frederich Widdig. He has had seven children, six of whom are liying. Edward, an engineer, is with the Irving Drew Company; Emma, is the wife of George Schirrman; Josephine, Mary, Frederich and Gustave, are at home. He lost one Gustave at the age of four.

Mr. Brunner is a hard worker and is always busy. His services are in constant demand. In his political views he is a democrat. He is a member of the German Evangelical Church, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias, a member of the German Benevolent Society, and of the Royal Arcanum. He speaks the three principal languages of the world with ease and fluency, and can rebuild any piece of machinery that was ever made. With all these advantages it is superfluous tio say that Jacob Brunner is a useful citizen and in demand at all times, and especially when the thermometer is below zero. Notwithstanding the many hurry calls he receives, Jacob takes life easy and is a good deal of a was born in Switzerland in 1821. He came to the United States in 1849, and came to Portsmouth on December 1, 1850, in his 29th year. He was employed as clerk in Wm. Hall's store on Front street about three years. In 1853, he went into business for himself. He began at Brunner's corner, on Second and Market streets, and remained in business there all his life. When he went into business he had $200 in cash and a credit from James Pursell. He was married in 1857 to Barbara Bender. They had three children. His wife died in December, 1868. He was one of the founders of the Lutheran church. He died February 17, 1877. He was one of the successful merchants of Portsmouth. He made a great deal of money by his integrity and by correct business methods. He founded this most excellent business now carried on by his brother, Mr. Adolph Brunner, was born in Jackson county, Ohio, October 25, 1857. He was the son of Petler Brushart, Sr. His mother's maiden name was Phoebe Shy. The family moved from Jackson to Pike county, while Mr. Brushart was a boy. At the age of eighteen, in 1875, he came to Portsmouth, Ohio, and entered the store of Charles Winter as a clerk. Mr. Brushart learned the business thoroughly and in June 1882, he went into the business himself. He remained in this business for a while when he devoted himself to dealing in real estate, and in this, he was remarkably successful. At the time he died, he owned the block where Hibb's hardware store is now located and the corner block on Sixth street, north of Marting's store between that and Sixth street, a part of which is occupied by Marting's. He was also in the lumber business in Portsmouth, Ohio, and was President of a lumber company. In April, 1892, he proposed to construct an electric railway, in the city of Portsmouth, and on the 26th of September, 1892, the city council passed an ordinance giving him the authority to construct the same. Mr. Brushart was married to Miss Seva HE. Keefe, daughter of Thomas Keefe, June 20, 1885. They had four children, two girls and two boys: Esther, Louise, John and Thomas. He was a member of the Massié Lodge, K. of P., and took considerable interest in the order.

Early in July, 1899, he went to a fishing and hunting lodge on the Scioto river, north of the Charles Davis farm to spend several days. On the morning of July 6, he went out with a gun to shoot some birds. While out, the gun was discharged and he was accidentally killed. At the time of his death, his life was insured for $10,000, regular life, and for $5,000 accident.

Mr. Brushart was physically a most handsome man. He had regular features and a pleasant expression. He had a florid, rosy complexion, common to the people of Central New York, but most uncommon in Southern Ohio. It was as clear as that of a young girl, the admiration of all who knew him. Mr. Brushart was genial to all whom he met. He had great decision of character. He was careful and prudent in all his ventures, but at the same time made up his mind quickly and made it up finally. When he had once reached a conclusion, the subject was closed. His virtues were largely domestic. He was much attached to his family and could not do too much for their comfort and pleasure. He was very fortunate in all his business ventures and had he lived would have filled the career of a most successful business man. His death was a great loss not only to his family but to the community of which he was a part.

was born in Adams county, Ohio, March 22, 1839, on what was then known as the "Granny Fry farm," about one mile from Jacktown, or Dunbarton P. O. He was the son of Daniel M. Bryan, who was born in Greene county, Pa., May 10, 1807, and was the posthumous child of John Bryan and Susannah (Baker) Bryan, who was from the eastern shore of Maryland, and she was one of the little girls who strewed the flowers on the bridge at Trenton for General Washington, when he was on his way from Mt. Vernon to New York, in April, 1789, to be inaugurated first president of the United States.

The Bryans had been a very old family in Virginia, from early dates emigrating from Virginia to Maryland, and from Maryland to Pennsylvania, and from 'Pennsylvania to Hampshire county, Virginia, and from thence to the Ohio river, at, or near Wheeling, W. Va., and from thence to Adams county, Ohio, in 1826, where they settled on Ohio Brush creek. These emigrations covered a period of about two hundred years. The wife of Alexander Spottswood, Governor of Virginia, was Anne Butler Bryan, whose godfather was James But- We ue of Ormond, hence there is a strong inference that the family was

Daniel M. Bryan was married to Nancy McSurely at West Union, Ohiio, May 19, 1836, by Jacob Hempleman, J. P. She was born in Lexington, Fayette county, Kentucky, March 2, 1812, and was the daughter of James McSurely, who was the only son of William McSurely. James McSurely emigrated from Ireland in 1789, at the age of eighteen. The voyage was so tempestuous, perilous and lengthy that his hair turned gray and remained so until his death, at the age of seventy, in 1841. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. Nancy (Mc- Surely) Bryan is now living (July, 1902,) at her home in Novelty, Knox county,

Missouri, where the family emigrated in 1871, to a farm purchased before the civil war. Her mother's name was Maria (Niel) McSurely, who was a French lady whose family had emigrated from France to Kentucky prior to 1805. The MeSurely's came from Kentucky to Adams county, Ohio, at or near Rockville, and afterwards settled on Cherry Fork where some few members of the family still reside. Daniel M. Bryan died in 1877, at the ag of seventy years.

R. A. Bryan was educated in the common, select and special schools of Adams county, and partly at Miami University. On the same bench with him at Rey. Urmston's school in West Union sat John A. Cockerill, who afterwards died in Egypt, and N. W. Evans, the editor of this work. The select and special schools of Adams county at that day had no superiors. Young Bryan began teaching school at the age of sixteen, taught school during the winters and attended school or studied under a master during the summer. He studied law under the tutorship of John K. Billings and William C. Buck, and was admitted to the practice of law September 18, 1860, at West Union, Ohio, by the District Court, Judge W. V. Peck, who was one of the Supreme Judges of the state, presiding. His great distaste against having to fight for a client that he might believe or know to be wrong and his great love of mathematics and physics led him away from the law into surveying and civil engineering.

He first came to Nile township, Scioto county, in 1857, where he taught school in the Elm Tree district for several years, during the fall and winter seasons, and pursued his favorite studies during the summer seasons.

His first engineering work on his own account was the construction of an inclined plane and a tramway near Vanceburg, Kentucky, in 1866, two and a half miles in length, with an incline about 1800 feet long in the form of a parabola and a height of hill of 530 feet. Two previous attempts by others to make a success of an incline at this point had resulted in failures.

He moved to the city of Portsmouth in November, 1866, and has resided there continuously since that time, except when absent on professional business. He was County Engineer from 1867 to 1869, and was engineer for the great turnpike system of the county inaugurated in that period. In 1870, he was assistant engineer on the preliminary survey of a railroad from Cincinnati to Portsmouth, part of which line is now occupied by the Cincinnati, Georgetown and Portsmouth railroad.

In 1870 and 1871, he was engineer and business manager-flior Pond and Kelley, contractors for five miles of the C. & M. V. Ry. between Zanesville and Dresden, Ohio, including the High Bridge across the Muskingum river at Ellis Station. In 1872 and 1873 he was engineer for Scioto county in turnpike construction and bridges. On November 7, 1873, he was appointed City Civil Engineer and served in that capacity until May 7, 1875. He was again appointed City Civil Engineer April 21, 1880, and was his own successor through all the political changes for thirteen years, until May 1, 1893, when he resigned to take a much needed rest.

He was County Surveyor in 1872, which office he resigned on account of his large private business. In 1878 he was Division Engineer, on the construction of the Scioto Valley Railway for sixteen miles from Portsmouth to the Pike county line. In 1879 and 1880 he made a map of Scioto county, for the real estate appraisers. In addition to the duties of Civil Engineer he was County Engineer from 1880 to 1885, including the bridging of the Scioto river at its mouth, the bridging of Tygart creek and the Little Sandy river at its mouth in Greenup county, Kentucky, and numerous smaller bridges. Also, he was engineer for construction of one single lock and one double lock on the Ohio Canal near its outlet into the Ohio river at Portsmouth; and the bridging of the old bed of the Scioto river and the Ohio Canal north of the Scioto river bridge, all of which are models of fine masonry.

/From 1893 he followed a general engineering business, including the first street paving in Wellston, Ohio, and a sewerage system and improvement of streets at Manchester, Ohio. The first street paving in Portsmouth in 1891, was done under his direction and supervision, and is a model to this day for shape and quality, where it has been undisturbed. He has done much cemetery engineering. He did the engineering for the construction of a new bridge in lieu of am old one across the Scioto river at Lucasville, and made maps of

He was again elected City Engineer on January 38,1900, and served until July 20, 1901, when he again engaged in general business, doing much surveying and platting and surveying a tramway for the Tygart Fire Brick & Clay Company. He has made and published two maps of the city of Portsmouth, the first in 1868 and the second in 1889. He is now Assistant Engineer for the city of Portsmouth, and is preparing plans for an extensive sewer system in Robinson avenue, and also for an arch culvert at the head of Highth street across Lawson's avenue, and also for an arch culvert at the head of Highth street across Lawson's run. :

He was married December 3, 1860, to Miss Sarah EH. Givens, of Nile township, Scioto county, daughter of William and Elizabeth Givens and granddaughter of Judge William Givens (see their sketches in this volume). They have four children now living: Robert G., secretary and treasurer of the Portsmouth Stove and Range Works; James D., a book-keeper at the First National bank; Mary F., is a teacher in the public schools, and Hester E., at home.

was born November 228, 1849, in Sprigg township, Adams county, Ohio. His father was William Burnett and his mother's maiden name was Sarah Bradford. There were nine children in the family and our subject was second. His father moved to Lewis county, Kentucky, in 1857, residing there until 1862 when he returned and located in Bentonville, Adams county. Our subject received his education in the common schools; and at the age of ten years he began to learn the cooper's trade and has followed it ever since. He went. into the army in August, 1863, in Company G, 129th O. V. I., and served eight months. Then in August, 1864 he was mustered in Company G of the 173rd O. V. I., to serve one year _and was mustered out with the Company June 26, 1865. After the war he engaged in coopering in different places. He was married February 2, 1871 to Sarah Ellen Doddridge, sister of Henry Doddridge and daughter of Reason Doddridge, of Manchester, Ohio. After he was married he located in Rome, Adams county, Ohio, and was there until 1878,-engaged in the cooper's trade. On March 1, 1878, he moved to Rarden, Ohio, and has remained there ever since in the same business. From 1884 to 1898, he was foreman for George M. Wikoff in the cooper business, and since 1893, has been working for L. Taylor. He had three sons who died in infancy. He has two daughters, Anna and Eliza. Anna is thte wife of John Windel and was married in 1894. Previous to 1894, Mr. Burnett was a democrat, but since that date has been a republican. He was Constable of Rarden township for six years. a member of the town council for seven years, and Trustee of Rarden township for six years. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Improved Order of Red Men. He is highly respected by all who know him. He tries to do his duty in all his relations in life and the verdict of his neighbors is that he succeeds.

was born December 19. 1835, on Washington street, Portsmouth, Ohio. His father was Thomas Burt, and his mother's maiden name was Anna Buffington. He attended school until 1853, when he began teaming for his father. In 1854, he went to railroading as a brakeman on the Scioto & Hocking Valley railroad. In 1855, he began firing for his brother, William and afterwards for Dick Burns. the well known engineer. In 1858, he hecame a locomotive engineer and has been in that employment ever since. All his services as such have been upon the B. & O. railroad, Portsmouth Branch, with the exception of the winter of 1861 and 1862, when the superintendent of the Branch road transferred him to the Muskingum Valley railroad. At the time of the Morgan raid, in 1863, he was on the river two or three months, but after that he went-back on the railroad. He was never in any serious wreck. Hie was never hurt to amount to anything but once; he had his ankle sprained when a locomotive was derailed. He has always lived in Portsmouth, except one year in Hamden.

He was married to Louisa Cook, a daughter of Conrad Cook, April 22, 1858, He had six children: Anna Burt, at home; William H. Burt, of Burt,

Hall & Company; Thomas M. Burt, who works for the United States Express Company; Charles Burt, a salesman for the Irving Drew Shoe Company; May, the wife of Anson Clapper, an electrician of Portsmouth; Harry, employed in the office of Drew, Selby & Company. Mr. Burt has been a republican all his © life. He is a member of the Aurora Lodge of the Masonic Order.

Mr. Burt is one of the reliable men of Portsmouth. He can always be depended on to be in his place and doing his duty. When death shall call him, he will find him at his post.

was born October 18, 1829, in Portsmouth, Ohio, on the site of the Dr. Burr residence. His father, Thomas Burt, was for many years wharfmaster in Portsmouth. His grandfather, Christopher Burt, was a major in the war of 1812. His mother was a native of Virginia. His father died in Vicksburg in 1871. William Burt attended school in the Fourth street building. In 1842, he went to work at Maddock's factory and worked there for seven years, learning to be a moulder and an engineer. He became the engineer of the mill and afterwards of Rigg's saw mill. He went to Sciotoville and Haverhill and took charge of engines there. He became an 'engineer on the river. He began on the "Fashion ,No. 2," in the Catlettsburg trade. He afterwards was employed on a boat called the ''Relief.'"' In 1848, he went to Pittsburg and put the machinery in the first steam ferry boat ever used at Portsmouth. She was owned by Moses McCoy. He brought the boat down and was her engineer for one year. He was succeeded by Armstead Fawcett who died in 1885. Then he flat-boated for six months, this satisfied him for a life time. In March, 1851, he married Rebecca Davis daughter of David Davis. In September, 1852, he became engineer on the first locomotive which ever came to Portsmouth. In July, 1852, he became an engineer on the Scioto & Hocking Valley railroad. On July 19, 1853, he ran the first locomotive into Jackson. He was engineer, conductor and master mechanic on the Scioto & Hocking Valley railroad. In 1864, he was a locomotive engineer for six months on the Iron railroad at Ironton. Then he went back to the river and was engineer on the propeller, "Pike," and the "Viola" for Captain William W. Little. He was engineer on the "'Victor No. 4," "Gipsy Fayette,' and "Mountain Belle.'' In 1872, he left the river forever and went into the plumbing business. From 1880 to 1887, he was a member of the board of trustees of the Portsmouth Water Works. He is an Odd Fellow and a republican. Mr. Burt presents the rare instance of one, who in one life time, has been both a steamboat and locomotive engineer. He is hale and hearty and enjoys life as much as a youngster.

son of Benjamin Butterfield and Mary Powell, his wife, was born on his fathers farm near Haverhill, Ohio, November 20, 1826. His father emigrated to Haverhill from Boston, Mass., about 1815, and was of English descent.

The son was left an orphan at the age of fifteen and with what little education the country schools of those days afforded, he assumed the care of the family and the management of the farm. On becoming of age he united with the whig party, and afterwards became a republican, on the formation of that party. He served as township trustee of Green township from 1860 to 1861 and again from 1869 to 1871.

He was married to Ellen J. Rankin, daughter of David and Persis Rankin in 1861. By this marriage were born four children of whom Jennie, thie wife of Dr. Jefferson D. Kiser, of Lexington, Ky., is the only survivor. His wife died in 1869, and he was again married to Lucy Boynton, daughter of Asa Boynton, Jr., in 1872. By this marriage were born two children of whom John, who is married and lives on the home farm near Haverhill is the only survivor. Our subject died January 13, 1895, and is buried in the cemetery at Haverhill. His wife died in 1897.

_ By industry and economy Mr. Butterfield became a successful farmer and business man. He was was a worthy man, kind and considerate in judgment, prompt and prudent in business matters, just and reliable in all things, a quiet, unassuming neighbor, a kind father and a loving husband. It was said of him that his word was as good as his bond. At the time of his death he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Haverhill, was born October 12, 1844, in Vernon township, Scioto county, Ohio, the son of Lemuel Cadot and Catharine Baccus, his wife. He was brought up on his father's farm. He enlisted in the 8th Independent Company of Ohio Sharpshooters, November 8, 1862, and served until the close of the war. After returning from the army, he became a book-keeper for M. B. Gilbert & Company. He was afterwards employed as assistant book-keeper for Damarin & Company for thirteen years. Afterwards he was secretary and treasurer of the Portsmouth Wagon Stock Company. He was engaged in business in Chicago for two years and in 1886 returned to Portsmouth and engaged as a dealer in hardware, stoves and ranges. He was also a partner with Thomas W. Watkins & Company in plumbing. He has always been a republican. He is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Portsmouth, Ohio. He was elected a cemetery Trustee in 1884 and served for three years. He was-eone of the Water Works Trustees of Portsmouth from 1888 to 1895. He has always taken a great interest in politics and has frequently served on the Republican Executive Committees of his county. He has taken ail the degrees in Masonry from Blue Lodge to the thirty-second and is a Mystic Shriner. He is also an Elk. He was married to Miss Lizzie A. Smith July 27, 1885. She is the daughter of George Smith, a well known business man on Front street. They have one son, Howard, now fifteen years of age. In the winter and spring of 1902 he served as Postmaster of the House of Representatives of the State Legislature.

was born on his father's farm of 725 acres, in Vernon township, on June 20, 1828. His father was Claudius Cadot, a native of Gallipolis, Ohio, son of a French emigrant of that name. His mother was Miss Nancy Ball. a native of New York. He got his schooling in the schools of Vernon township and then attended school at Haverhill. He afterwards took a commercial course at Gundry's College in Cincinnati. He was a farmer until about the age of twentyfour, when he concluded to try commercial life. He spent something over twelve months in the store of A. W. Buskirk in Portsmouth, then he became a clerk in J. F. Towell's dry goods store, for about three months. He then purchased an interest in Greenup furnace and remained there over a, year, when he concluded that farming was the best; he went on his father's farm and in course of time purchased it. He has farmed there all of his life. His domicile was there until he went to Wheelersburg in 1891, where he has since resided. On March 25, 1874, he was married to Miss Mary A. daughter of John Winkler of Haverhill. They have had three children only one of whom is living, a daughter, Avanel; Claire died July 14, 1902.

Mr. Cadot was Clerk of Vernon township for about ten years and Treasurer almost the same length of time, until 1891, when he resigned the office on removing from the township. In 1865, he was elected Commissioner of Scioto county to fill a vacancy of one year. He received a vote of 2,161 against 1,888 for Henry Barrett, his democratic opponent. In 1891, he bought him a comfortable home in Wheelersburg and resides there on account of the advantages to his family. His wife died suddenly July 11, 1901, and his daughter resides with him since. For several years prior to its failure, he was a director of the Farmers' National bank. He has been a member of the Wheelersbure Methodist Episcopal church for the past twenty years, and is one of the official board. His farm is one of the best in the county and he visits it almost every week day. He has been a successful raiser of fine stock and if he is well informed on any subject, he thinks it is farming.

The following is what a neighbor of Mr. Cadot says of him: "In every community there are some men - often among the most prosperous - with whom one prefers not to have dealings. .Or if one cannot avoid business relations with them, there is a constant feeling of unsecurity associated with every transaction, a sense of the need of unusual alertness to keep from being over-reached or victimized in some way. Solomon crystalized the idea in a proverb: 'It is nought, it is nought, saith the buyer, and when he is gone his way, then he boasteth,' On the other hand there is the man who is eminently fair minded - in whom one does not look for guile, or deceit or cunning. It is to this latter class of men that J. C. Cadot pre-eminently belongs. No one who knows Cadot would expect him to do a mean or dishonorable thing. Nor would any one believe a damaging report alleged against him in the absence of most conclusive proof. Not many men enjoy to the same extent the confidence and respect of their neighbors and associates. This quality - it is needless to say - is the index to a character of which any man may well be proud. Words are not needed to emphasize its value. A man who has scored such a record, already has builded a monument to which his posterity may turn with laudable pride.

was born in Scioto county, Ohio, January 25, 1838, the son of Lemuel Cadot and Catherine Baccus, his.wife. He received his education in the common schools of Vernon township. At the age of eighteen, he went into the grocery business in Gallipolis as clerk for his brother, John Julius Cadot. He remained in that position until the breaking out of the civil war. Im the spring and summer of 1862, he raised a company for the 91st O. V. I. He entered the service as Captain of Company A, 91st O. V. I., July 15, 1862 and was promoted to Major, April 10, 1863. He was wounded September 19, 1864, in the battle of Opequan, Virginia. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, December 9, 1864, and was mustered out with the regiment, June 24, 1865. As Major, he had his horse shot under him and was injured so as to be unconscious several hours. ;

In 1862, he was married to Josephine Carel, daughter of Franklin Carel and Sarah Whitney, his wife. They had three children: Charles Carel, clerk in the store of Samuel Cherrington of Gallipolis; Florence, died at the age of three; Harry Lemuel, ticket agent for the Hocking Valley railroad and Adams Express agent at Gallipolis. This son was born September 29, 1874, at Gallipolis, Ohio, and educated there. He was married in March, 1900, to Miss Bettie Deardorff and has one child, Charles Donald, aged five months.

After Colonel Cadot came back from the civil war, he engaged in the cigar business in Gallipolis. He died October 29, 1885, of asthma. He was a republican, a Mason and a Knight of Pythias. He was an excellent business man and noted for his adherence to correct business principes. As a soldier, he was highly esteemed by all who knew him. As an officer, he earned the approbation of his superiors. He was a gentleman in every sense of the term.

was born July 12, 1840, in Vernon township, Scioto county, Ohio. His father was Lemuel Cadot, a sketch of whom appears herein. His mother was Catherine Baccus, daughter of James Baccus. He spent his boyhood on the farm until he was sixteen years of age when he went tc Moses Gilmore's private school in Jackson for two years. When eighteen years of age he commenced to teach and taught during the winters of 1858 and 1859 at Pioneer station. In the spring of 1861 he taught school at Howard Furnace, Scioto county. In 1861 he went to Gallipolis and attended the Gallia Academy which was conducted by Prof. A. G. Sears for two years. In 1863, he engaged in book-keeping for J. J. Cadot & Brother, wholesale grocers, Gallipolis, Ohio. He was there until the spring of 1864, then he went to Pittsburg and attended Duff's Commercial College for six weeks and graduated. At the completion of the course in Duff's Commercial College, he was selected as one out of a class of twelve and offered a position with William N. Ogden & Company, dealers in glass, which he accepted and remained with them until October 1, 1864, when he returned to Gallipolis and engaged as book-keeper for J. J. Cadot & Bros., and remained there until 1867. May 21, 1867, he left Gallipolis and was married to Miss Helen Augusta Kimpel and since then he has lived in Portsmouth. He was a book-keeper for L. ¥. Gilbert for about a year after his marriage and then was book-keeper for Thomas P. Brown, and was there almost a year. He was then appointed Adams Express Agent but resigned on February 10, 1870. In February, 1870, he went into the wholesale and retail grocery business on Chillicothe street and sold out in July, 1878. On the 9th of October, 1877, he was elected Auditor of Scioto county on the democratic ticket over Frank C. Gibbs, republican. The vote stood: Gibbs 2,664, Cadot 2,828, majority 164. In 1880, he was a candidate for re-election and was defeated on his party ticket by George L. Dodge, by a majority of 104, when Garfield carried the county by 486. He served the first three years .un- der the law extending the term from two to three years. In July, 1878 he sold out his grocery business to Hion. H. S. Bundy, who moved the stock to his furnaces. In November, 1880, he became book-keeper for J. L. Hibbs & Comand remained there until September, 1882. He was with Palmer, Grim & Company, tea dealers, from September, 1882, until January 1, 1883. He was traveling salesman for Austin, Nichols & Company, wholesale grocers, from January 1, 1888, to August 29, 1885, when he went with Shinkle Kreis & Company, wholesale grocers of Cincinnati, Ohio. He was with them until they combined with BE. J. Wilson & Company in January, 1891. He worked with that firm which was the Shinkle, Wilson & Kreis Company until July 1, 1900, and was a stockholder from 1891 until 1900. He then came to Portsmouth, Ohio, and on the 2d of July, 1900, became a partner and boop-keeper in the Jones-Ferguson Grocery Company.

He has one son Clarence, born April 28, 1868. He is married and resides in Richmond, Virginia, being in the employ of the American Tobacco Company. Mr. Cadot has always been a democrat. He is a Mason and Knight Templar.