Scioto County, Ohio - Biographical sketches (1 of 2 so headed), 1903 (part 5 of 15)

was born June 29, 1889 on the Damarin farm, in a house long since destroyed. It stood on the east side of the Damarin hill, with an orchard about it. His father, David Elick, and mother, Arna Leser, were stricken with cholera in 1854, both dying within a week, leaving six children, of which he was the oldest. The family was then divided, and David was taken into the home of Mr. Albert Mc- Farland, Sr., then editor and proprietor of the Portsmouth Tribune. At the age of fourteen, he became carrier of the Portsmouth Tribune delivering the whole edition weekly on his little pony. As a boy, he was industrious and faithful, with great emphasis on these terms. He began at the bottom of the ladder, became office boy, roller boy, printer's devil, a fine expert compositor, and a job printer. He was then taken into partnership with Mr. Albert McFarland, Sr., and for many years owned a half interest in the Portsmouth Tribune, and continued as such until his removal to Minneapolis, Minn. Notwithstanding he was a newspaper man all his life, he never could tell a lie. That was a part of the business he could not learn. He was noted for his integrity. He was amiable and generous and if there ever was a Christian, he was one. Anything mean, low or wrong, shocked his entire nature. He never had an enemy because ~ no man in his senses could be his enemy. He had all the virtues of a perfect character. He was a lover of poetry, and often quoted it. He gained the notoriety of being the author of a short poem, "Beautiful Snow." He served in the militia during the Morgan raid and by his comrades was given the title of "Major" by which he was afterwards known. On November 21, 1879, he was married to Miss Amelia Meyers, of Portsmouth, Ohio. In 1883, they removed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he and Mr. Alvord founded the "Commercial Bulletin," still in existence. In connection with this they published a musical journal, 'The Church Choir,' in which they were successful. No one ever left Portsmouth with more regret than he, for he was remarkably attached to his home and friends. In February, 18938, he contracted the grippe, bringing on other complications which terminated in an abcess of the left lung, thus causing his death, May 17, 1895, aged fifty-five years. He left a widow and two sons, Roy and Earl, the latter of whom died June 4, 1900, aged fifteen years and eleven months. Roy married Bessie, daughter of Willliam A. Sherman of Milwaukee, Wis., January 1, 1908. Wherever Heaven is, the spirit of David Elick must be there for there would be no other suitable abode for it.

was born July 12, 1852, on Brush creek, Union township, a son of James Ellis, who has a sketch herein. He attended the common schools of his vicinity and started out for himself in 1873. On the 12th of February of that year, he began work in the Burgess rolling mill at Portsmouth, Ohio, as a puddler of steel and had charge of a furnace until 1878. For eleven years, he remained with the Burgess roliing mill, working in the open-hearth department. He quit their employment on February 138, 1898 just twenty-five years from the time he began. #rom that time he has worked in many different rolling mills in the country, first at Indianapolis, then at Ensley, Alabama. In April, 1898, he took charge of the steei department in Birmingham, Alabama, at the Republic Steel and [ron Company, and was superintendent of the open hearth department for one year. He came back to Portsmouth in May, 1899. He then went to Pittsburg and worked for the Crucible Company for one month, and from there to Birmingham, where he worked for four months, but again he came back to Portsmouth, and went to Ensley, Alabama, in 1900. At this place he began with the Alabama Steel and Ship-building Company, April 1, 1900, and did efficient work for them during the period of his stay. He began work for the Portsmouth Steel and Iron Company, May 1, 1902, and is foreman of the open-hearth department.

Mr. Ellis is a single man. He resides with his brother William Ellis. He is a great student of Masonry, has taken the 32d degree, is a member of the Hilks, and beiongs to the Scioto Lodge of Odd Fellows, of Portsmouth. He is very fond of fraternal orders, and is a most useful man in them. He has never been a candidate for any office. He is a republican, a most congenial companion anda good friend.

He possesses high sense of honor and his dealings are most punctilious with all men. He is as good a representative of true manhood as can be found anywhere.

was born in 1817 in Ireland., He emigrated to New York in 1832. His father came later. On arriving at New York, he apprenticed himself to a marble cutter for seven years. In 1839, he came to Ohio. He married Margaret Garvin, daughter of Hugh Garvin, who came from Ireland, and directly after his marriage located on Brush creek on a farm. He had four sons:- William, who works in the Portsmouth steel works; John Hillis, a foreman of the clay pottery works, at Findlay, Ohio; James, formerly an engineer of the Cincinnati division of the N. & W. railroad, but now a private watchman on Chillicothe street, and Hugh, a foreman of the open-hearth department of the Portsmouth steel works. Mr. Ellis gave up- his farm in 1875 and resided in Portsmouth from that time until his death in 1884. His wife survived till 1893, when she died at the age of eighty-four years, ten months and fourteen days. They were both members of the First Presbyterian church of Portsmouth. He was a republican, a man of the highest character, noted for all the cardinal virtues, and a man respected by all his friends. / were Peter and Catharene (Werd) Emmert, who came from Hesse, Germany, in 1848. His father was a trained gardener, but worked at Scioto furnace as col- lier. Philip's educational advantages were limited because he began hard work at an early age. His father died in 1874 and came to Portsmouth in 1876 and worked in the Ohio stove foundry for 12 years. He also worked some time at the Hanging Rock stove foundry and at the Portsmouth stove and range works. He left the foundry in 1890 and began business for himself in Portsmouth, where he remained two years and then went to New Boston at which place he has been the past ten years. In the spring of 1902, he and Charles Berchem opened a fine livery barn at New Boston. He has been a member of the school board of Clay township since 1898 and was elected trustee in 1901. He is a republican, and a member of the German Lutheran church. He married Emma Dielman, of Portsmouth, Ohio, daughter of John and Philipina Dielman, March 20, 1888. They have five children: Carl, Alma, John H., Maggie and Wilbur. Mr. Emmert is liberal minded, free hearted and sociable, and is well liked by his neighbors. ' was born near Chaffin's Mill in Vernon township, Scioto county, Ohio, December 11, 1845. He is the son of Dearborn G. and Juliette (Chamberlain) Emory. His mother was the daughter of Wyatt Chamberlain, a soldier in the war of 1812, who came from Vermont in 1817, and settled on Pine creek. His father was born on Pine creek, in Vernon township. His paternal grandfather came from Connecticut in 1815. When Oliver was eight years old, his parents removed to the French Grant, and remained there for ten years returning to Chaffin's Mill in 1868. He attended the district schools in winter and worked at the furnace in the summer.

He earned his first hundred dollars by digging ore at Howard furnace, and spent it in order to finish his education at Wheelersburg. He taught school in 1867, and the Same year opened a general store at Chaffin's Mill, where he continued eighteen months and then rented the mill which he operated one year. He contracted at' Howard furnace in furnishing charcoal for one year, and then removed to California, Pike county, and opened a general store on a capital of $1,500, and has been engaged in the mercantile business ever since. He was Clerk of Marion township, Pike county from 1872 to 1875, Assessor in 1881, Justice of the Peace from 1887 to 1896, Treasurer in 1897 and 1898, and was elected Auditor of Pike county in the fall of 1901. He is a democrat, a member of the Alhambra Lodge K. of P. at California and a trustee of the Freewill Baptist church of that place.

He married Amanda A. Adams, daughter of Dr. H. Adams, of South Webster, February 16, 1868. She is the niece of Dr. J. B. Ray, Sr. He has but one child living Charles Merton who is attending the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. He had a daughter, wife of Dr. William Samson, now deceased, :

The following is from one who knows him well: "He is a man of honest convictions, unusual courage, public spirited, unselfish and progressive. Nature favored him with endowment of health, which he never wasted by dissipation, or idleness. He improved all his opportunities in youth to secure the best education he could obtain. He is regarded by all who know him, as well as those who have dealt with him, as a model business man." was born August 4, 1853, at Wheelersburg, Scioto county, Ohio. His father was Andrew J. Enslow and his mother Nancy Bliss. He had a common school education. He left home in 1869, and was a civil engineer and surveyor in Tennessee until 1871. In that year his father moved to Huntington, West Virginia, and attended Marshall College there in 1871 and 1872. In 1872, he engaged in railroad contracting on the Chesapeake and Ohio, grading and masonry.

In the fall of 18738, he began the study of law with the Hon. Bustace Gibbons and was admitted to the bar in August, 1876. While a law student, he attended the ice business to support himself. Upon admission he opened a law office in Huntington. The firm was Gibson, Sims & Enslow for one year, then it became Sims & Enslow and has so continued ever since. He has been counsel for the Chesapeake & Ohio and for C, P. Huntington, in West Virginia, and generally engaged in corporation practice ever since he began the practice of law. He never has been a candidate for any office. He has been a democrat all his life. He was chairman of the State Gold Democratic committee in 1896. He is a vestryman in the Episcopal church at Huntington. He was married on November 30, 1881, to Mrs. Julia Buffington. They had one child Frank Jackson Enslow, now aged twenty. She died August 31, 1899. He was married the second time on April 16, 1901, to Mrs. Juliet Baldwin.

Mr. Enslow is a man of sterling character and integrity and one of the first men in his city. He is a good friend and always ready to assist his friends. As a lawyer he stands among the first in the state. He has an extraordinary will power and his energy is: inexhaustible. When he takes up a subject he foliows it to the end and his clients' interests are always safe in his hands and their interests receive every attention they deserve.

was born in Harrison township, Scioto county, Ohio, November 30, 1866. He is the son of Robert Erwin and a great-grandson of Robert Erwin, who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania. He was of Irish descent, and settled first in Scioto county, near Portsmouth, at Jeffordsville, and removed from that place to Madisoh township about 1835. His son, Robert Erwin, was one of a family of eight children, as follows: Andrew, Samuel, Margaret, Robert, William, Eliis, James, and Julia. The mother of our subject was Hulda Rockweil, daughter of Jonathan and Martha Brown Rockwell, from New York and Virginia respesctively. The paternal grandmother of William was Elizabeth Wallace who died in Madison township, at the age of eighty-four. Robert Erwin, the father of William, was a soldier in the civil war, in Company F, Ninety-first O. V. I. He entered the service August 22, 1862, and was mustered out with the company June 24, 1865. William spent most of his boyhood and youth in Madison township, where he received a common school education. He worked on the farm and attended school until 1890, when he engaged in business in an installment house at Columbus for about one year. He spent two years as a conductor and motorman on the street railroad at Portsmouth. In the spring of 1893, he removed with his parents to Harrison township. In 1899, he commenced the merchandise business which he still continues. He was Clerk of Harrison township in 1901 and 1902. He is a republican.

was born in Duerkheim,-in the Palatinate, Germany, in the year 1835. He came to the United State in 1850, and located in New York city, where he engaged in business, continuing it until 1865. The following year he repaired to Cincinnati, remaining there until he came to Portsmouth, which was in 1889. February 23, 1889, he purchased the local brewery of Conrad Gerlach associating himself in this business with Oscar Knorr. He was actively connected with the brewery the remainder of his life. By his business sagacity and enterprise, he succeeded in making this brewery the best of its kind in this section of the state. He organized and was president of the Portsmouth Brewing and _ Ice Company. He was married in 1870, to Miss Pauline Rehfuss, of Cincinnati, Ohio. They had four children: Emilie, the wife of Doctor Crane, of Cincinnati; Paul, Juliet and Laura. The only fraternal order of which Mr. Esselborn was a member, was the Elks. He was for many years an esteemed and active member of Portsmouth Lodge No. 154. He was a progressive man. He was always ready to do his share in public enterprises and more than his share, in fact. He was honorable and upright in all his business dealings and was respected and esteemed by those with whom he came in contact. He was a man of loveable character and he had the sincere affection of the circle of friends who knew him best and appreciated him as a cultured, refined and kindly gentleman. He died May 6, 1900.

when he removed to Scioto county, Ohio, where he has_since resided. He received a common school education. He has always-been a farmer. He was township treasurer in 1868, and held that office a few years. He was township clerk for several years. He was a whig and is now a republican. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Friendship, Ohio. In November, 1854, he was married to Maria Bradford, daughter of Abel Bradford. He had three children by this marriege: Charles, deceased; Emory F., and Maria, the wife of James Thatcher, 2f Friendship, but now deceased. His wife died February 7, 1867. In May, 1868, he was married to Miss Ella Murphy, daughter of David Whittaker, and Cynthia (McCall) Murphy. They have three children. His son Ernest graduated at the Ohio State University in the scientific course in 1892, and is now superintendent of the National Steel Company at Zanesville, Ohio. His son, William D. Evans, who was reared a farmer, is tow engaged with the same company at Zanesville, Ohio. His daughter, Anna, has developed great talent in music. She is the organist of Bigelow M. E. church, and a teacher of music in the city of Portsmouth. Mr. Evans has one of the best farms in Scioto county, and devotes himself assiduously to its cultivation. He takes all the agricultural papers and magazines and tries to keep abreast with modern ideas in farming. He not only believes in doing his best in farming, but in the church and in the community as well. He keeps himself well informed on all subjects of current and general interest. He is an analytical reasoner on any subject he considers and his opinions on matters of public interest are always well considered and worthy of being followed. It is always pleasurable and profitable to converse with him. He is noted for his good judgment and wisdom in the every day affairs of life.

was born May 21, 1865, at Grayson, Carter county, Kentucky.His father was John Evans and his mother Mahala Ward. They were slaves and were freed by President Lincoln's proclamation in 1863.- He resided in Kentucky until he Was six years of age, when he came to Portsmouth, and lived with old Jerry Washington, a blind Samson. who turned the presses for the Times, Tribune an Press. His mother died when he was only four years old and he came to Portsmouth alone. He attended school in Portsmouth from 1871 until 1877, and ihen went to the Biggs House as dish washer until 1880. That year he became second barber on the steamer Bostona, and was on her for nine years. In 1889, he became head porter at the Biggs House, under George Babcock, and was there until 1909, when he was appointed janitor at the Court House, which employment he still holds. He was married June 26, 1900, to Henrietta Justice, a teach- in the Portsmouth public schools. Since 1889, he has been a Blue Lodge Mason, Trinity Lodge, No. $, and has been Master of the lodge seven years. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, Harmony Lodge, No. 33. He is a republican and is president of the Bruce Club, a republican political club, composed of colored men which was organized in 1897. He belongs on the outside of Allen chapel, M. E. church of Portsmouth. Mr. Evans is highly respected among the pecple of his race and possesses their confidence.

was born on Long Run, Scioto county, Ohio, January 19, 1864. He is the son of Ernest E. and Christine Everling, both of Hanover, Germany. His boyhood and youth were spent on ithe farm on Long Run, where he attended the district school near Peter Somers. As a youth he was a farmer's helper. He is a democrat, a member of the Lutheran church and of the Portsmouth Lodge, A. O. U. W. He married Miss Lou Shearer, daughter of Joseph Shearer, of Munn's Run, March 1, 1878. They have six children: Gertrude, Geneva, Firman, Leslie, Howard and Gilbert. Ernest Everling has always been a hard worker. He settied on Munn's Run soon after his marriage, where he has cleared and improved a large area of land, most of which he cultivates in fruits. He has one of the best peach and apple orchards in the county and his strawberries are the finest _ in the market. He is a pleasant neighbor and well liked by those who know' him best. He believes in the gospel of hard work and lives it. He makes no pretentions, but simply seeks to fill all his time with useful work. If he lives was born Feb. 16, 1840, at Ewington, Gallia county, Ohio. His father, George Ewing, was a farmer, mechanic, and merchant. His mother was Ann Knox, a daughter of William Knox. For his ancestry see the Ewing family in the Pioneer Record. Our subject was reared on his father's farm until he was seventeen years of age, attending public schools during the winter. He attended the Ewington academy for one year. He taught and attended the public schools until he was twenty years of age, wher he entered the Ohio University as a freshman.

On July 31, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company A, 91st O. V. I. He was made Second Lieutenant on July 13, 1863 and First Lieutenant on July 20, 1864. On July 24, 1864. while leading his company in the battle of Winchester, he was shot through the left lung and left by his comrades for dead. He was taken to the home of a Union man, John Cooper, who with his wife, nursed him back to comparative health: His friends in the meanwhile mourned him

-as dead. Upon reaching his home in Gallia county he found his mother preparing the church for his funeral sermon the next day. During the war he strove to uplift the camp life of his soldiers. As they sat by the camp fire, he instruced them'in branches they had not learned. This instruction gave to many a thirst for education which was satisfied on their return from the war. He was engaged in all the battles in whiich the regiment participated up to the time of his wound. On December 4, 1864, he was discharged on account of his wound. Directly after his discharge, he came to Scioto county.

In September, 1865, he was married to Miss Minerva Folsom, daughter of James S. Folsom. In October, 1865, he was electea a teacher in the Portsmouth High School at a salary of $80.00 per month. He taught less than one year, and then went into the retail and wholesale queensware business in Portsmouth. Ohio, and continued in it until 1895, a period of thirty years. He was a member vf the City Council of Portsmouth in 1873 and 1874. In the same year he was trustee of the property assigned by Charles Slavens for the benefit of the city of Portsmouth. In 1875 and 1876, he was a member of the Board of Education. In 1876, he published his history of the schools of Portsmouth, which was published by the state and used at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. On June 7, 1878, he was elected to the City Council of Portsmouth, to succeed John P. Terry, who had resigned. In April, 1880, he was elected a cemetery trustee of the city of Portsmouth. for three years, and on June 1, 1883, was reappointed to the same position. On May 8, 1882, he was appointed a trustee of the Scioto county Children's Home and served until March 1, 1893.

He was a republican' in his political views. He was a member of the city Board of Elections in Portsmouth, from 1889 to 1895. He was a prominent.member of Bigelow Methodist Episcopal church in Portsmouth, during his entire life in the city and was superintendent of the Sunday schools of that church for twenty-seven years. He was Grand Regent of the Royal Arcanum of Ohio. from 1892 to 1893, and-representative to the Supreme Council 1894 to 1896. He was always interested in his surviving comrades in the civil war, and took great interest in the Grand Army of the Republic. He served as Post Commander of the local Post. He was a member of the Loyal Legion. In 1895, he accepted a position with the Welsbach Commercial Company, and removed to the Pacific coast, where he became prominent in all the fraternal organizations to which he belonged in Ohio. Mr. Ewing was a man of fine and commanding presence. In all parliamentary bodies his genius shone. He was a fluent, easy speaker and could always command attention in any deliberative body or public meeting. His remarks were uniformly apropos and to the point. He was a born poet, and conld compose poems whenever the occasion demanded. As a toastmaster at banquets and social functions, he was much in demand and there his talents for stich occasions shone resplendent. He has left poems of which any poet might be provd. He had fine literary tastes and cultivated them all the time. He was genial and courteous to all, a pleasant and agreeable companion. He was highly esteemed by the public as will appear by the numerous municipal offices he was called upon to fill; and he discharged the duties of all of them in the most complete and efficient manner. His church and fra- ternal work he took up on the Pacific coast with the same interest and zeal he manifested at his home in Ohio. In San Francisco, he was_on the official board of the Central M. EB. church, chaplain of the Grand Army Post, to which he belonged there, a Distriet Deputy of the Royal Arcanum, an officer of the Ohio Society, etc. He was not happy except when fully empioyed, and social functions were his delight, and his part in the same was pleasing to all concerned. He was a man of a high sense of honor and of the most tender sensibilities. He died in the midst of his labors, October 20, 1900, and was interred in the Oak Grove cemetery at Delaware, Ohio.. He left a widow and one daughter, an only child, Mrs. Jessie Ewing Stokes, wife of Professor Horace A. Stokes, superintendent of the schools at Delaware, Ohio.

was born November 10, 1850, at Hanging Rock, Ohio. His father was James William Farmer and his mother was Elizabeth (Griffin) Farmer. He is the third of fifteen children. His father is living at the age of seventy-seven and his mother also, at the age of seventy-two. Of the fifteen children there were five sons and ten daughters, of whom four sons are living and six daughters. The daughters are all married. He was raised at Pine Grove Furnace while John G. Peebles was manager, and attended the Sunday school of which Mr. Peebles was superintendent. He attended school at Pine Gr@ve and received only a common school education. He entered the employ of Means, Kyle & Company at the age of twenty-three, as assistant manager of the furnace and remained three years. He then became book-keeper and storekeeper for the company at New Castle and was there seven years. During the year of 1883 he worked as salesman for J. J. Towell & Company, dry goods merchants. He was storekeeper at Little Aetna during 1884 and 1885. He farmed opposite Hanging Rock in Kentucky, from 1885 to 1888. He kept a general store in Haverhill from 1888 to 1894, and came to Portsmouth where he has since resided. He owned and operated the East End feed store till November, 1898, when it was burned. He then started a coal business and implement store which he gave up in 1901, and opened a general store.

He was married March 15, 1875, to Naomi M. Williams daughter of Henry Williams, of Greenup, Kentucky. She is a descendant of James Williams, a Revolutionary soldier. (See his sketch on page 214.)

They have five children: Henry, Jane Myrtle, Mary, Sarah and Elizabeth. Our subject is a republican and a member of the Manley M. E. church of Portsmouth, Ohio. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum and also vf the Masonic one of the prominent citizens of Sciotoville, is a native of that place, born No vember 23, 1867. He is a son of Van B. Farney, who died November 5, 1872, and Minerva (Coriell) Farney, with whom he makes his home on a farm in the eastern part of the town. His father, Van B. Farney, was a native of Virginia, born March 21, 1836, and came to Sciotoville with his parents when four years old. 'He obtained a good common school education, and at the age of 17 he entered the employ of the late Robert S. Wynn, a prominent contractor on public works in those days. At the age of eighteen, he commenced contracting himself and built many of the bridges, piers, etc. that were constructed during the fifties and sixties. At intervals, during the winters, he taught in the public schools of Sciotoville and Harrison township. He was the prime mover in the organization of, and the largest stockholder in the Salamander Fire Brick Company, which was operated by the partnership known as Farney, Murray & Company; and he was instrumental in organizing the corporation of the Scioto Fire san Company, which absorbed the Salamander and in which, he was. a charter member. : j

His mother, Minerva (Coriell) Farney, was born in Harrison township September 3, 1838, and was the daughter of Ira and Serena (White) Coriell. She taught five years in the public schools, and was married to Mr. Farney September 30, 1860. She is a sister of William B. and Alfred J. Coriell of Harr township, and Mrs. Harriet Wilcox, deceased. rs a

Ira C. Farney, the subject of this sketch, is one of five children, viz: Mrs. Serena Shump, born August 80, 1861, wife of Theodore Q. Shump, of Portsmouth; Ella Winnifrede, who was born June 30, 1863, and died April 2, 1878; William L., who was, born October 16, 1865, and is now living in Cincinnati; and Hattie Amelia, who was born October 24, 1869, and died June 20, 1901. He was reared on the farm and attended the public schools of Sciotoville, obtaining a good common school education. On January 1, 1890, he entered the employ of the Scioto Fire Brick Company as office assistant under the late C. P. Lloyd, president. On May 1, following, he was promoted to chief storekeeper, which: position he filled until January 1, 1894, when he returned to the office and was given sole charge of the books. He continued in this capacity until January 1, 1900, when he became assistant superintendent and traveling galesman, which position he now fills.

Our subject is a member of the Christian church and is now and has been superintendent of the Sciotoville Christian Sunday school almost consecutively for the past fifteen years. In politics, he is a staunch republican.

Mr. Farney is a man of fine physical build and appearance. He is rather domestic in his habits and tenderly cares for his widowed mother. They together occupy the home of his boyhood days. He is an active Sunday school worker and cheerfully supports all movements for the improvement and elevation of society.

was born at Barboursville, West Virginia, April 10, 1860. He is the son of William E. Feazel and Amancetta Virginia Lusher, his wife. He lived in West Virgina and received a common schvol educaton at Ceredo. He came to Scioto county in 1887 and located at Sciotoville. He married Elizabeth RKleffner, October 30, 1888. He engaged in the mercantile business in 1891, at first on a small scale, but now his business has grown until he has one of the largest general stocks in the county and employs several salesmen. He is one of the live, active, pushing, driving, go ahead members of the community. He is progressive in business and is ever enlarging and extending. He has the talent of combining and would make an excellent manager of any extensive combination in business.

is a farmer in the French Grant and was born in Lawrence county, Ohio, January 22, 1836...His father, Daniel Feurt, was the son of Francis and Mary Feurt of the French Grant. The mother of our subject was Frances Henry, daughter of James Henry, of Virginia, and granddaughter of Rev. John Lee, also of Virginia, a pioneer Baptist preacher in southern Ohio, in the twenties and thirties. The parents of our subject moved from Lawrence county to the French Grant in 1848, where he spent his boyhood. He received a common school edueation, and on reaching his majority followed farming until the winter of 1863 and 1864 when he engaged in flat-boating for one year. In the spring of 1865, he accepted a situation with James Forsythe & Company, of Empire Furnace as storekeeper, remaining with the firm until they decided to wreck the furnace and discontinue business,

In the spring of 1870, he accepted a position with the Charcoal Iron Company at Howard Furnace as book-keeper, which he held for two years. He was then given the position as manager of the furnace, holding the same for five years, and in the meantime purchasing stock in the concern to the amount

In_the winter of 1879 and 1880, he accepted a position with Means, Kyle & Co. at Pine Grove Furnace as book-keeper and assistant manager, which position he held until March, 1884 when he returned to his farm where he still resides. In the fall of 1896, he engaged in the grocery, implement and hardware business with W. H. McCurdy, at Wheelersburg, Ohio, which business is carried on by Mr. McCurdy.:

He was married to Caroline McNeal of Scioto county, September 24, 1857. They have five children, one of which died at the age of ten months. Their names are Mary Luella, married to G. W. Fay of Richmonddaie, Ross county, Ohio; Carrie E., deceased; Frank Lee, of Seattle, Washington, married to Grace Mackintosh of Lawrence county, Ohio; Clara C:, married to W. H. McCurdy, Jr., and now resides at Wheelersburg; Bessie H., a teacher in the public schools.

Mr. Feurt is a citizen who always undertakes to do his part in the community and in the opinion of his neighbors, succeeds. He is a good example of . munity and, in the opinion of his neighbors succeeds. He is a good example of what the American eitizen should be.

was born October 7, 1839, in Scioto county, Ohio, in the French Grant. His father was Henry Feurt, and his mother's maiden name was Mary A. Winkler, a sister of John A. Winkler. His great-grandfather was Peter Feurt, a native of the state of New Jersey. His great-great-grandfather was Francis Feurt, a native of France who emigrated to this country before the Revolution. See notice of Francis Feurt, in the Pioneer Record in this work. Peter Feurt came to the Northwest Territory in 1795. He acted as an Indian Scout between Maysville and Pittsburg. He married Lavinia Critzer, in New Jersey. He brought his wife and settled in the French Grant where all of his children were born.

Henry Feurt. father of our subject was born October 6, 1815, and died October 6, 18738. His wife, Mary A. Winkler, was born in 1817, and is still living.

Henry Clinton had only a common school education, and was always a farmer. From his birth till 1865, he resided in Green township, in the French Yrant. He resided in Clay township, north of Portsmouth, twenty years, where he was a member of the School Board for nine years from 1875 to 1884. In 1885, he purchased one-half of lot 19, all of lot 20 and one-half of lot 14, in the French Grant, and moved to his present residence in Green township. He was married in January, 1867, to Caroline, a davghter of John D. Feurt. They have two children: Albert L., a farmer in the Scioto Valley, and Jennie O.

Mr. Feurt is a member of Lucasville I odge, 465, PF. & A. M. He has always been a farmer and a successful one. He is a republican in his political views. In 1898, he was elected one of the Commissioners of Scioto county on the Republican ticket, by 4,856 votes, to 8,181 for his opponent, William H. Kinker. In 1896, he was re-elected by a vote of 5,463 to 2,671 for his opponent, William J. Bennett, Jr., and served until September 20, 1900. When his first term expired January 11, 1897, he was appointed to serve till September 20, 1897. He made a most efficient officer. As a citizen, Mr. Feurt believes in progress and pyblie improvements. He tries all new methods and adopts the best. He is a useful citizen, highly respected by the entire circle of his acquaintance.

was born March 10, 1858, in Scioto county, Ohio, His father was John D. Fert, and his mother's maiden name was Maria Oldfield. He was brought up a farmer, and resided on the same place all his life. He received a common school education. In 1878, he took a commercial course in a Pittsburg Business College, and since then has followed farming. He was married September 30, 1890, to Miss Mannie Crawford, davghter of Andrew Crawford, They have one child, a daughter, Catharine, born March 28, 1891. In his political views he is a republican, but is not a member of any secret societies.

Mr. Feurt is regarded as one of the model valley farmers. He knows how to manage and does it, and as a result has been very successful in his business. He possesses all of the domestic virtues and is the ideal citizen.

was born in Bavaria, Germany, December 17, 1827. His father was John Findeis. He came to the United States in 1851 and located in Pittsburg, remained there three years and went to Louisville, Kentucky, where he married Mary

Hormikel, a native of Germany. He subsequently removed to Monroe, Ohio, and remained there seven years and then came to Portsmouth and went into the liquor business from which he retired in 1892. He has nine children: Charles; John; Lizzie; Mary. deceased, wife of George Fuchtinger; Margaret, deceased, wife of Herman Miller; Annie, wife of Charles Harwood; Minnie, wife of William Galtz; Jacob and Rosa at home. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and Harugari societies. Mr. Findeis was always noted for honor and fair dealing with all whom he had business. He has a circle of old German friends whom he meets almost daily and when they get together they have most enjoyable times. The "fatherland" is not forgotten and the old German customs are duly observed. No one gets more pleasure from the society of his friends than Mr. Findeis and no. one is respected more than they do him.

was born in Scioto county, Ohio, October 2, 1840, the son of George H. Finney, who was also a native of Scioto county, born in 1818. His mother's maiden name was Eliza Fullerton. His education was received in the common schools.

On the 20th of April, 1861, he enlisted for three months, in Co. D, 22nd O. V. I. and served until August 19, 1861. On October 27, 1862, he enlisted for three years in the 8th Independent Company of Ohio Volunteer Sharp Shooters. He was appointed Sergeant, March 9, 1863, First Sergeant, November 19, 1864, and was mustered out with the Company, July 19, 1865. His father, George H. Finney, enlisted August 10, 1862, at the age of forty-four, for three years, in Co. D, First Ohio Heavy Artillery. He was appointed a Corporal on the ist of October, 1864, and was afterwards made Sergeant. He was mustered out June 20, 1865.

Our subject engaged in farming until 1871, when he sold his farm and moved to Greenup county, Kentucky. He returned to Scioto county in 1872. In 1873 he became a merchant in Powellsville and remained there ten years. He was postmaster at Powellsville from January, 1873, until December, 1882, when he resigned. He was elected land appraiser of Vernon township in 1870 and served for one year. He served as Justice of the Peace in Greene township from 1873 to 1879. He was Treasurer of Greene township from 1881 to 18838. In 1882, he was elected Sheriff of Scioto county on the republican ticket. The vote for him was 3,286, and for his competitor, William B. Williams, 2,915, a majority for Finney of 371. In 1884, he was re-elected Sheriff, by a vote of 4,241 to 3,080 for his opponent John Neudoerfer, his majority being 1,161. He was a very obliging and capable officer and discharged the duties of the office to the satisfaction of every one.

Upon retiring from the Sheriff's office, he engaged as a clothing merchant for about sixteen months, when he entered the retail grocery business, continuing the same until 1892, when he established a wholesale department under the firm name of A. J. Finney & Sons. The members of the firm were Oscar T. Winney, traveling salesman; Walter A. Finney, city salesman; and Captain Finney, general manager. He was elected Clerk of the Common Pleas court, November 8, 1898. He received 3,984 votes to 2,847 for Thomas B. Lawson, majority, 1,137.

On February 22, 1862, he married Levina Wait, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Wait of Wait's Station. They have had eleven children, five of whom are deceased. Those surviving are: Eliza, the wife of James Chabot; Mary, the wife of Dustin W. Gustin, City Marshal; Frank B., an attorney of Portsmouth; Walter in the grocery business; Ora, engaged in the telephone pusiness in Chicago and Clay.

"Jack" Finney, as he is best known, is the most genial man in Scioto county. He knows everybody and all their relations. He is the greatest handshaker jin the county, and it is all genuine and not put on. The fact that he has held numerous public offices and trusts, demonstrates that the people appreciate a man of his character; and with all this he has administered well every office he undertook, and has been true to every trust imposed upon him. At this time no one enjoys a greater measure of the confidence of the people of Scioto county than Capt. A. J. Finney.

was born May 27, 1868, in Scioto county. His father's\name is George i Finney, and his mother's maiden name was Alice Staten. His grandfather, George H. Finney, Sr., came from Vermont. When our subject was nine years old, his father moved 'to Sciotoville, where he attended the schools and obtained such an education as the Sciotoville schools could give him. He began teaching at the age of eighteen. His first school was in Union township, in the Vogel district. He continued district school teaching for six years, when he became superintendent of the Lucasville schools in 1898. He remained there until he resigned December 21, 1901, and took employment with the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. He was married to Miss Lillian C. Wheeler, August 1, 1894. They. have one child James Vaughn born August 6, 1897. He is a republican in his political views, and a member of the Methodist church at Lucasville. He has been County School Examiner since August 1, 1899.

Mr. Finney is a progressive young American who believes in doing his best all the time and in every work before him. As a teacher he achieved distinguished success and in the insurance field he bids as fair to achieve distinction as in the other. He will be found in the front rank in any enterprise he undertakes and combines all those happy elements which insure success.

was born April 19, 1876. He lis the son of Andrew Jackson Finney, Clerk of the Court. His mother was Levina Wait, daughter of B. F. Wait. His father moved to Portsmouth when he was six years of age and he attended school in Portsmouth until he was fifteen. He then clerked in a retail grocery for his father for three and a half years when his father went into the wholesale business. He was clerk for him tin that business for four years. He then went into business with James A. Chabot, his brother-in-law, for one year. At the end of that time he went into partnership with his father in the wholesale grocery business as A. J. Finney & Son. He was manager of the Portsmouth Telephone Company from October, 1890 to.1891. He then went iinto the retail grocery business at 122 Gallia street and has been in that ever since. He was married May 6, 1897, to Cora Fullerton, daughter of William Fullerton, of Wheelersburg, Ohio. He tis a republican but not a secret society man. He is not a member of any church but believes in the broad doctrines of humanity, and thinks he can make his fortune by attending to his own business and he is working on that line. } George Fisher was born in Bavaria, Germany, April 31, 1830. His father, Joseph Fisher, was a farmer. He died in 1830, at the age of 38. Our subject came to the United States in the spring of 1847, and located in Portsmouth. He had learned the shoe-maker's trade in (Germany and worked as a journey-man two years in Portsmouth. He then opened a shop in Greenupsburg, Kentucky, but not liking it, removed to Wheelersburg, Ohio. He remained here for 13 years and while there became acquainted with the late Dr. Cyrus M. Finch, and they became very intimate friends. While in Wheelersburg, Mr. Fisher carried on a shoe store.

On October 29, 1850, he was married to Louise Herndon Welch, a native of Bath county, Kentucky. She was born on September 26, 1828. Her parents located at Wheelersburg, in 1835. She was a sister of Mrs. George W. Flanders. They had no children. but reared a niece, Miss Libby Kennedy, who married James T. McCormick. She died a few years afterwards, leaving two children.

On October 11, 1863, our subject enlisted in Co. M, of the 9th Ohio Cavalry as a private, was immediately made hospital steward, and served until the close of the war. He'was mustered out at Lexington, North Carolina, July 20, app Dr. Cyrus M. Finch was appointed surgeon of this regiment October

He developed quite a liking for his position in the service and on his return from war he studied medicine for a period of two years for the purpose of qualifying himself as an expert druggist. He opened up a drug store in Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1867, and continued the business on Second and Washington streets until 1871. In 1873, he purchased the property on the north-west corner of Sixth and Chillicothe streets and built a drug store, which he occupied. He continued in the business there along until February, 1890, when he entered into a partnership with Philip M. Streich. The firm was known as Fisher & Streich. This _business continued until July, 1901, when he sold out to Mr. Streich.

As a citizen and business man Dr. Fisher was very popular. He never had any enemies. He was always a democrat of the very strongest kind but never made himself offensive as such, to his friends in the opposite party. He was a candidate for member of the Board of Education in his ward in Portsmouth, Ohio, a number of times and was always elected, serving for a period of ten years. He was a very useful member, generally serving on the committee on school supplies and school buildings, and every duty connected with that office was faithfully performed by him. He was always at the command of his party and was a candidate for office whenever they needed him, but never for any office which would interfere with his business. He was a member of the city Hospital Board for several years. He was better aualified for Cemetery Trustee than any man in Portsmouth, as he took a great interest in having the cemetery kept in the very best order. He was a candidate for that office in 1891 and 1897, but owing to being a democrat he was defeated. He was a candidate for Water Works Trustee on the democratic ticket in 1898. He received quite a large vote, but was not elected. He is a member of the G. A. R. and has always took a great interest in the affairs of that organization. His heart is always warm for his comrades among the old soldiers of the Civil War.

He was uniformly successful in business and made a great deal of money. He was an excellent business man in everything he undertook. He was at one time president of the Central Savings bank of Portsmouth, Ohio, and afterwards vice-president of the same institution, and has been a member of the Board of Directors. His wife died August 6, 1891.

On September 30, 1895, he was married to Mrs. C. Bowers, of Cincinnati, Ohio, widow of William P. Bowers, who was born in Stark county, Ohio, and came to Portsmouth in 1871, to act as foreman in the Agricultural works. He had served for three years in the army in the 76th O. V. I. He died September 4, 1884, in Portsmouth. His daughter, Lillian, married Charles W. Zell, of Newport, Ky., formerly of Portsmouth.

Since 1900, Dr. Fisher has been unable on account of failing health to attend to any business. He spends his winters in Florida and his summers at Portsmouth and takes life easy. He has a host of warm friends and no known enemies. He was never a man to provoke or create antagonisms. His course has been run and he is simply waiting the final call, but has had as much pleasure and enjoyment out of this life as any of his' contemporaries.

was born February 10, 1847 at Junior Landing. His father was James Smith Folsom and his mother was Sarah Bennett. He was the youngest of ten children. He was brought up on his father's farm and attended the district School until he was 16 years of age.. He then attended an academy at Sewickley, Pennsylvania, and then spent one year at the Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware, Ohio.

In 1865, he engaged in farming on his father's farm and continued until 1878. In 1879 he went on the Vincent farm. From 1880 to 1887 he had charge of the flour and feed mill at Ironton, Ohio, which he operated. In the latter year, he returned to the Folsom home farm and has been there ever since. He farms 326 acres of the very finest land, located in the French Grant, Green township. He makes a business of raising Hereford cattle, and has been engaged in that for ten years. He has always been a republican.

On October 22, 1879, he was married to Effie A. Marshall, daughter of Alfred Marshall, of Marietta, Ohio. They have nine children: James Alfred; Anna M.; Edith 'who died at the age of 3 years; William Henry, died at the age of 18 months; Grace B.; Effie May; Pearl Louis, Nancy Helen,sand Lucy Jeanette.

Henry Folsom is today one of the substantial farmers of the county. He is strictly honorable in all his dealings, in which he is very conscientious. He is always obliging, and his standing in the community where he lives, is the best. He is loyal, patriotic, public spirited, and always well up to the front in all matters for the good of mankind. He has a delightful family and home.

was born in Adams county, April 24, 1837. His father was Jacob Forsythe, and his mother's maiden name was Rebecca Chapman, a daughter of John Chapman. He received a common school education. He was brought up a farmer. He studied surveying and taught school from 1855 to 1873, in Adams and Scioto counties. He came to Rarden in 1868, and has resided there ever since. He bought the farm where he now resides, in 1877. He served in the 141st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Company K. He was married April 25, 1861, to Mary Jane Moore. They have the following children: Sarah Rebecca married William Keyes, resides at Rarden; John Jacob, married, lives at Rarden; Mary Alice, married John Burkett, resides near Rarden; Minnie, married Franklin R. Wallace, resides at Rarden; William F., married, was killed in a stone quarry by accident in 1898, leaving a widow and four children; Evaline, married William Penn, and resides near Utway; Nola, married Grant Willard, resides at Otway, Ohio; Corda, married Truman Newman, resides at Rarden; Mabel, at home. Mr. Forsythe is a democrat in his. political views, and.is a believer in the Methodist doctrines.

was born in Richland county, Ohio, near Mansfield, at the old family homestead of the Connolleys, in 1850. His father was William Foster and his mother's maiden name was Margaret Connolley, who. died from cholera in 1851, leaving our subject and his little sister, Anna, to the mercy of relatives. His uncle Mr. James Connolley, brought them to Portsmouth, at the ages of six and four respectively. His education was obtained in the Portsmouth Public Schools. He was employed in his uncle's store in Portsmouth until he was twenty-five or twenty-six years of age. He then attended the Commercial College in Cincinnati, and was afterwards in the employ of Lehman, Richmond & OCo., for two years. He lost his position here through a prolonged siege of typhoid fever. A tae

He visited Mr. J. C. Stages, of Frankfort, Ross county, Ohio, and while there a partnership was formed under the name of Staggs & Foster. They bought the old and well established dry goods business of Mr. D. C. Anderson, in 1878, and here he met Miss Belle Gunning, a teacher in the Public Schools of Frankfort. She was a daughter of James A. Gunning. They were married es 8rd, 1880. Mr. Foster left Frankfort in 1884, and went to Chillicothe, and

In the fall of 1885, this firm dissoved by mutual consent, and Mr, Foster and family moved to Portsmouth. In January, 1886, he engaged with the wholesale firm of Towell, McFarland & Sanford, as a traveling salesman, remained with the firm when it changed to Sanford, Varner & Co., and to Sanford, Storrs & Varner, and is still with them. In the sixteen years that he has been with this firm, he has played no small part in helping to build the solid foundation of their business.

He has two sons: Ralph Akin born October 31, 1881; Louis Adair, born July 28, 1890. Formerly he was a democrat, but since the. Blaine campaign, he has been an out and out republican on national elections; but in local elections, he votes for the best man. In his youth and early manhood, he was a member of All Saints church; but on going to Frankfort he united with the Presbyterian church of that village. While he lived in Portsmouth, he and his wife were members of the First Presbyterian church. Mr. Foster was always a prominent Sunday School worker, and was generally superintendent of the Sunday school wherever he was. In 1900 Mr. Foster removed with his family to Columbus, Ohio, where he now resides.

To use this name only, no one would understand who was intended, but when it is said this is 'Boss' Foster, every citizen of Scioto county will think at once of the distinguished citizen of Carey's Run on the west side, who bears that pseudonym. In fact, Foster has borne the name of "Boss" so long and so persistently, that he thinks it is his real name and "John Robert" is a myth of nis childhood. He was*born March 8, 1844, at Maysville, Ky., but is not proud of the fact. "Boss" is about the staunchest republican to be found anywhere and is not proud of Kentucky, his birthplace, because it is a democratic state. His father was Joshua Foster and his mother was Eliza Frizell, a cousin of the late Dr. Frizell, of Buena Vista.

Our subject spent the first four years of his life in Maysville, Ky., and then his parents took him to Black Oak Bottom, in Lewis county, Kentucky, opposite Buena Vista, and resided there till he was eight years of age. It was while residing at Black Oak Bottom that the name of "Boss" was tastened on to him. There were about a half dozen John Fosters in the neighborhood and it was perplexing to distinguish between them. One of these Johns discovered a masterful spirit in our subject and gave him the name of "Boss." Every one who knew the boy, recognized the appropriateness of the name and gave it to him. It is now a part of himself.

In 1852, his father removed to Scioto county, and our subject has resided in Washington township ever since. There he obtained his schooling and all the ideas which have dominated his subsequent life. His father was a Justice of the Peace of the township in 1857 and 1859, and it was then that 'Boss' obtained his predilection for the administration of Justice. His father was also assessor of the township from 1857 to 1859, and died in 1862. Nothing ever went on in the community but what "Boss" Foster was in it. So when the civil war broke out, he enlisted August 30, 1861, in Co. B, 22nd O. V. I. commanded by Capt. Oliver Wood. He remained in the service till November 1, 1865. He served as a private till October 31, 1864, when he was made a corporal and transferred to Co. B, 22nd Battalion. An error in the Onio roster puts him as enlisted in September 1861, when he enlisted in August and it has August 28, 1865, as the date of his discharge, when he really served till November 1, 1865.- He is proud of his military record and does not want it abbreviated in the slightest. Today he is physically one of the best preserved of the survivors of the war of 1861.

"Boss" had an ambition for township honors and in 1876 and 1877, he was a constable of his township. Hanging about the throne of Justice in Washington township, made ''Boss" ambitious to occupy it and he was Justice of the Peace from 1882 to 1897, a period of fifteen years. His administration of the office was unique. He would give parties justice whether they wanted it or not and woe to the offender to whom Justice Foster was called on to punish. Once while Justice, one of the Culp's went up the run wiitth a howling jag. He was offending and terrifying every one. As he came opposite the residence of Justice Foster, the latter went out and commanded the peace. This only made Culp worse and Foster thereupon pounced on Culp and gave him one of the worst beatings he or any one ever had. Culp had Foster arrested for assault and battery. The writer defended "Boss" and had the complaint dismissed on the ground that when a Justice commanded the Peace, he had the right to maintain it by physical force. Foster worked a stone quarry till 1870. He then- moved on Carey's Run and has resided there ever since.

'On February 25, 1872, he was married to Lydia Crain, daughter of Ora Crain. He has three children: Rachel, the wife of John Millison, who resides with him; Oscar R. and Nat V.

He was doorkeeper in the Ohio Senate in 1894 and 1896. "Boss" is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He does not aspire to be prominent in spiritual matters, but thinks his strongest point 'in religion is what he can do when the contribution box passes. 'Boss' makes a first class citizen.

He likes to be a leader and if Washington township~should ever relapse into barbarism, '"Boss'' would be a chief over there...The newspapers are very fond of writing up "Boss's" peculiarities every now and then. They seem to enjoy it and so does "Boss." He is as impervious to newspaper criticism as a rhinocerous hide. He is never sensitive on any subject and is always willing to be criticised to any extent. He possesses an inexhaustible stock of self-confidence.

was born' August 18, 1836, in Maysville, Kentucky. His parents were Joshua F. Foster and Alice (Flusant) Foster. He resided there until 1848, when his father moved to Black Oak Bottom, Ky., where he resided until 1852, when he came to Washington township, Scioto county, Ohio, where our subject was reared a farmer and followed that occupation until he enlisted in Battery L, First Ohio Light Artillery October 22, 1861, as a private. He was promoted to First Sergeant October, 1864, and to First Lieutenant February 10, 1865, and was mustered out July 4, 1865. The battles in which he participated will be found under the title '""Battery L, First Ohio Light Artillery." After the war, he spent two years in Missouri. From 1867 until 1880, he was on a farm in Washington township. In 1880, he became city agent for Cuppett & Webb, lumber dealers, and remained in their employ until March, 1888, when he was made superintendent of the Infirmary. He held this position until his death.

September 9, 1860, he was married to Miss Lucinda Shaw. There were six children of this marriage, two deceased and four surviving: Otho D. Jr., Ora and James, living in Scioto county, and William in the west. Our subject had been a member of the Baptist church since 1882. He was a prominent Odd Fellow and an earnest member of the G. A. R. He died December 15, 1894. He was a man liked by everyone. His army history and his history in connection with the management of the county Infirmary demonstrated, that he was a man true to every duty. He was modest and retiring, but always did his duty in every situation. 3 son of Otho Davis Foster, whose sketch is above, was born in Washington township, Scioto county, February 22, 1862. Our subject attended the schools of Washington township. At sixteen, he began life on his own account as a. farmer. Then he turned his attention to carriage painting. From 1885 to 1887, he worked at carriage and house painting in Lincoln, Omaha and Kearney, Nebraska. He was married March 22, 1887 in Omaha, Nebraska, to Euralia North of Franklin county, Missouri. They came to Portsmouth soon after where he has resided ever since. He has had two children; one died in infancy, his surviving child is Alma Virginia. .He has always been a republican and is a member of the Baptist church and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He follows the trade of a house painter and is regarded as one of the best workmen in the city. He is a member of the Commercial Club and is esteemed as one of the best citizens.

of Otway, Ohio, was born at that place March 8, 1835. His father was Moses Freeman and his mother's maiden name was Margaret McCormick. His father and mother were both born in Adams county. His grandfather, Michael Freeman, was born in Maryland. His father and mother had four children, three daughters and one son. Mary Jane, who married Joseph W. Tracy; Elizabeth H. Jones, wife of T. H. B. Jones, who resides near Otway, and Sarah E., married Joseph Reynolds, a resident of Otway. The father died August 10, 1851 at the age of 48 years and six months, of a fever. The mother survived until March, 1900. " : Our subject was the fourth child. He had a common school education. He was one of the teachers of the public schools of the county for about twenty years. He began this occupation at the age of sixteen and gave it up at the age of thirty-six. During his life, from time to time, he has followed the occupation of farming, and later merchandising. He was a Justice of the Peace of Brush Creek township for eighteen years and Clerk of the township for twenty-seven years. He was made Clerk and Justice of the Peace of the «township as soon as he became of age. In his political views he has. always been a democrat. In 1873 he was the choice of the party for representative of the county, the late George Johnson being the republican candidate. The vote stood 2,510 for Johnson and 2,183 for Freeman, majority 327, a very complimentary vote to Mr. Freeman, and the number of votes he received was precisely the same number as for the democratic candidate for Governor, at the same election, the Hon. William Allen.

He was a member of the Methodist church from the age of thirteen until the age of thirty-five, then he severed his connection and became a member of the Christian Union church, and has been a member of it ever since. In the Methodist church, he held the office of circuit steward. In the Christian Union church, when each local organization had three elders, leading, financial and recording, he occupied in turn all three of these positions.

21, 1899. He has had five children, all sons, two of them died in infancy. His son,:Joseph A,, survived until 1897, when he died at the age of 'thirtythree, unmarried, a most estimable young man. His son, James W., residing at Nocatee, Florida, is a gardener and orange grower. His:'son, William F., is a merchant and farmer at Otway. ' Mr. Freeman has resided at Otway all his life except the years 1865 to 1867, when he was in the state of lowa. He is most highly esteemed for his honesty and integrity and high character. For about a year past, he has been a member of the County Board of Elections.

No man possesses the confidence.of those who know him to any greater extent than he. His character is a tower of strength in the community of his residence, when he gives his word, it is sacred. He lives all he professes.

was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, January 10, 1852, the son of George and Josephine (Beaumont) Freshell. His father came from Germany in 1846 and his mother from France in '1847. He spent his boyhood in Portsmouth and attended the public schools. From 1862 to 1865, he was a general ''roustabout" at the Green Post, kept by Amos Engils. From 1865 to 1869, he worked for Pat Kenrick at the Exchange on Market street. From 1869 to 1871, he was employed ;by "Dutch Mike' in the same business. From 1871 until 1876, he worked at various places in Portsmouth. From 1876 until 1879, he worked as steamboat cook between Cincinnati and Pittsburg. From 1879 to 1888 he was employed in his present place of business. In 1888 he commenced business for himself and has continued ever since.

In October, 1882, he was married to Jane Vernier. She died in March, 1889. He was married again to Elizabeth Redinger. He is a republican. He is industrious in his business and has been very successful. He is very generous and contributes. to every good cause. He has one of the most popular restaurants in Portsmouth. He devotes himself to his patrons and they appreciate his efforts to please and serve them. No man has more friends than he and every: one of them will stand by him under any and all circumstances. The ability to command such devotion is Mr. Freshell's: best recommendation.

was born in Harford county, Maryland, February 25, 1845, three miles from the city of Baltimore. His father, Gottlieb Fritz, was born in October, 1811, and was a native of Wurtemburg, Germany. His mother's maiden name was Christina Zeller, who was born March 12, 1817, also a native of Wurtemburg, Germany. They were married June 27, 1841, and emigrated to Maryland about 1836. They had ten children, part of whom were born in Maryland, part in Pennsylvania and part im Ohio. The family came to Scioto county, Ohio in 1856, when our subject was eleven years of age. He was reared a farmer and received a common school education. When his parents came to this county they settled on Dogwood Ridge, where he has since resided. He entered company I, 140th regiment, O VV. I., at the age of nineteen, May 2, 1864, ad served until September 8, 1864, °

He was married March 11, 1869, to Eliza Griver, daughter of Fred Griver and his wife, Sophia Ranshahous. They have the following children: George" W., born February 7, 1870, lives in Ironton, and is a commercial salesman for Green, Joyce & Co., of Columbus; Charles H., born May 17, 1872, conducting a farm near his father' s home; Albert F., born August 10, 1874, a farmer with his father; Hdward, employed in the office of the Heer shoe factory of Portsmouth, Ohio; and two daughters, Emma C., and Wilhelmina.

Our subject was engaged for seven years on the B. & O. railroad from {866 to 1873. He was a section hand except one year, when he was foreman. He helped to change the gauge of the Portsmouth branch of the B. & O. It was done in five days; and while he was working on the railroad he helped to change the gauge of the Ohio & Mississippi to the standard gauge between Cincinnati and St. Louis. This work was done in a half day by distributing a sufficient force of men along the line, and' by beginning work at the same time and ending it at the same time. Jacob Fritz is a good farmer, a good neighbor, a good Christian and a good citizen. This is the general verdict of all who know him.

is the son of W. A. Frizell, M. D., and Artemisia Kenyon, his wife. He was born at Buena Vista, Ohio, January 3, 1848, and was educated_in'the schools of that place. His grandfather, Joseph Frizell was a soldier of the war of 1812. He married: Mary Savage. Doctor Frizell attended the Ohio Medical College for three years and was graduated March 2, 1880. Hie practiced with his father for four years and then went to Philadelphia and took a course in Jefferson Medical College. He was graduated therefrom in 1884. When he had completed his medical education, he was $3,000 in debt, but managed to pay out in three years. He has practiced at Buena ever since he began practice. He was appointed a member of the Board of Pension Examining Surgeons of*Scioto county in 1902.

Mr. Frizell has been a democrat the most of his life and a very active worker but became a republican at the end of Cleveland's first term on account of the policy of the Democrat party on the money question. He was Treasurer of Nile township in 1899.

He was reared a Methodist, but never joined the church. He has always been a contributor to the church and a worker in the Buena Vista' Sunday School. He 'has filled every office and has taught every class in the Sunday school and has kept this up for a period of forty years. He is a Royal Arch ° Mason and an Odd Fellow.

He married Caroline Miller, eldest daughter of John Miller of Buena Vista, October 31, 1888. At the time of his marriage he had his home bought and furnished and moved into it immediately. On account of *so much sickness in the neighborhood, he was compelled to forego the pleasure of a wedding trip. Dr. Frizell is a lover of out door sports 'and always has his dogs and guns and fishing,tackle and when the seasons are ripe, he Rakes a vacation whenever opportunity affords.

Doctor Frizell was born into the profession, his father having been a successful and well known practitioner in the town where our subject is now, and has for years followed his profession. Before commencing the practice of medicine, he fitted himself in an eminent degree for his work by taking his course in medicine in the best schools in our land. In his work he is active, careful and painstaking. Often thrown on his own resources in the most of his career he has had to paddle his own canoe and as a result is trained in the school of experience as well as that of theory. His relations with his patients are of the most cordial and sincere character. His opinions are asked - for in civil and religious matters as well as in medicine. His good offices are extended to all men alike regardless of creeds, politics or station in life. ; was born in Germany, in 1828. He came to the United States in 1849, with his brothers, William, Fred, Charles, August, and his father. The family located first in Texas, and then came to this county. They were all farmers. On August 14, 1862, Robert enlisted in Company C, 91st O. V. I. and served till June 24, 1865. He was a Corporal of his Company, and carried the colors of the regiment and they were always in place, and at the front. He was wounded at the battle of Opequan, September 19, 1864. He was born to be a soldier and made a most excellent one. He lives a mile and a half southeast of Harrisonville and has a most delightful home. He married a Miss Kirschner after the war and his six daughters: Mary, wife of James White, of Portsmouth, Ohio; Flora, widow of Jenkins Pool; Rosa, wife of Henry Race; Minnie, wife of Samuel Moore, and Etta at home. Robert Frowine is a successful farmer and his farm indicates it to any one who visits,;him. He is honest to the core and cannot do too much for an old comrade of the civil war.

was born at Marietta, Ohio, September 15, 1846. As to his parents see sketch of A. J. Fuller. Our subject attended the public schools of Marietta until he was eighteen years of age, at which time he went in the dry goods business, and remained there until 1876. He was salesman and buyer and conducted the whole business. August 1, 1876, he came to Portsmouth with John G. Hathaway, and started a photograph gallery, as Fuller & Hathaway. They were in the Trotter building until 1879, and then moved to the Vincent building. In the spring of 1882, our subject sold out to Hathaway and moved to Springfield. He remained there during the summer season, and then came back to Portsmouth, and bought out the Nichols undertaking business. He conducted that business alone until 1884, when he took in his brother, A. J. Fuller, and added furniture. They started in the Huston stone front building and remained there three years, then they moved to,the Gerlach building and remained there until 1898, when they went into the building at No. 75 West Second street, which they built and own. They conduct one of the oldest undertaking businesses in the city. Our subject was married August 5, 1873 to Flora Protsman, daughter of Leroy Protsman. They have one child, Mrs. Flora Maher. They also lost one son at the age of four years. Mr. Fuller is a republican, and aj;Mason.

was born April 18, 1849, in Marietta. His father, Samuel Fuller, was born near Marietta, and his mother's maiden name was Eliza Judd. His father was a cabinet maker and followed it until furniture making drove him out of business, and then he became an undertaker. Our subject attended the schools at Marietta and the Marietta College until 1869. He was clerk in the postoflice after he left school for three years. He was clerk in the rolling-mill store for one year. He went to Central, Indiana, and railroaded with General Dawes until 1874. In 1874, he came to Portsmouth with the intention of going into the postoffice as clerk, but went in tae Wait Furniture Factory as book-keeper and salesman. In the fall of 1884, he engaged with his brother in the furniture and undertaking business, and has been in that ever since. He was married September 22, 1878, to Miss Mary Smith. They have three children, Gilbert, Floyd and Mary. He is a republican in his political views, and a member of the Bigelow Methodist church. He is a Mason and an Odd Fellow. He is a republican in his political views, and a member of the Bigelow Methodist church. He is a Mason and an Odd Fellow. Mr. Fuller's wife died January 17, 1886. ' Joseph Warren Fulton, M. D., was 'born October 24, 1810, at Schenectady, New York, the son of Robert and Nancy (Hewitt) Fulton. His father was a cousin of Robert Fulton, the inventor. He moved to Ohio and settled at Cleveland and lived there :during the war of 1812. His father removed from Cleveland to,Athens county, in order to give his sons the advantage of the Ohio University at Athens, but died in 1825. His sons were unable to attend the Ohio University and each obtained only a common school education.

Our subject graduated at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, in 1832, at the age of twenty-two. He commenced the practice of medicine in Fairfield county in 1832, and his first patients were victims of the cholera. He was very successful in his treatment of them. He practiced medicine until 1846. He then engaged in mercantile pursuits and carried on a large coal mine in the Hocking Valley, at Nelsonville. In the spring of 1860, he moved to

When the war broke out, he formed the - idea of raising a regiment among the miners in the Hocking Valley, and received authority for that purpose from Governor Dennison. He visited the Hocking Valley and found a regiment had been raised there. He helped raise the 58rd O. V. I. but on account of his age, he declined the office of Colonel. Hie was appointed Quartermaster with the rank of First Lieutenant, September 6, 1861. He resigned December 11, 1862, because he could not endure the hardships of the service. At the time he was appointed, he was forty-eight years of age, or three years past the age required for military duty, He was engaged in the battle of Shiloh and during the same was assigned to special duty by General Buell who in his published account of the battle, gave him credit for having materially contributed to the success of the Wederal Army. No man in the war was more intensely loyal than Doctor Fulton. His brother, Robert R.' Fulton, was made Lieutenant Colonel of the 58rd O. V. I. at the age of fifty-two and served for two years. His nephew, Jogeph W. Fulton was First Lieutenant of Company B, and afterwards Captain of Company G, 58d O. V. I.. He had a brother Lorenzo Fulton, who was Captain of Company G, 58rd O, V. I.

In 1867, Doctor Fulton removed to Springville, Kentucky and operated a tan yard. He removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1868, bought the Pacific Mills, near the Baltimore and Ohio station, and operated them for four years. Then he bought the Offmere Mill on Front and Chillicothe streets, and operated that until 1888. In that year, he removed to Kentucky, to develop lands near Louisa, which he had purchased,

He was married May 22, 1843, at Chancy, Ohio, to Augusta M. Cutler, daughter of Colonel Charles Cutler. They had three sons: Doctor Charles C, and Robert, now of Elliott county, Kentucky, and Joseph M., of Columbus, Ohio,

In politics, Doctor Fulton was a whig and afterward a republican, He cast his first vote for Henry Clay in 1832. He was always active in politics. He was a forceful and entertaining speaker, but never aspired for an office. In the city of Portsmouth, he was a prominent member of the Board of Trade and was for a time a member of the City Council. He was an original thinker and advocated measures far in advance of the times, When the water works were first talked of in Portsmouth, he advocated a reservoir on one of the hills instead of the Holly system. He advocated flood defenses thought unjudicious by others. He died in Elliott county, Kentucky, March 20, 1898, He was one of the most public spirited citizens who ever lived in Portsmouth and far ahead of his times. He had the courage to undertake what he recommended. His arguments in favor of projects presented by him were unanswerable. He was not appreciated as he should have been in his life time, but was born in Greenup county, Kentucky, January 1, 1852, He is the son of Thornton A, and Anary (Gray) Funk, She was the daughter of John Gray of Kentucky. Mr. Funk's maternal great-grandmother died at the age of 114. Her husband was a soldier of 1812. On the paternal side, he is the greatgrandson of Martin Munk, who settled on the land west of Lawson's Run or Funk's Gut. His son, John Funk, was our subject's grandfather. The boyhood of Mr, Funk, until he was six years old, was spent in Kentucky, His parents removed to Portsmouth and remained four years and returned to Kentucky, He received a common school education. We worked on the farm until 1870 and began dealing in timber, fire clay, tan bark and general merchandise, which business he continued until 1875, when he came to Portsmouth and went. into the Portsmouth 'Planing mill on Gay street. He continued here six year's and then engaged in the same business with H. leet & Company which he continued until the present.

He has been elected city councilman for the fourth ward, three terms. He was defeated for Sheriff of Scioto county by W. G, Williamson, He 4s one of the prominent democrats of the county. On January 28, 1878, he wag married to Amanda Turner, daughter of Robert and Sarah (Murphy) Turner, of Portsmouth, Ohio, and granddaughter of Arnold Murphy, an early settler of Jefferson township, who came from Columbiana county, Ohio, ,about 1810. They have five children: Harl D., Mabel E,, Richmond, Thornton and Carl. He is one of our best citizens, a plain conscientious business man, well liked by his associates and the community in general.

son of Joshua L., and Harriet (Stewart) Gammon, was born at Tygart, Ky., about four miles from Portsmouth, December 18, 18389, one of eight children. He received a cOmmon school education, working on his father's farm until 1865, when with several companions, among them, John Shackleford of Portsmouth, he started to the gold mines of Montana, He had reached as far as Sioux City, lowa, he determined to return to his old home in Kentucky, and gave up his dreams of gold. Since then he has lived the life of a Kentucky farmer.

On the 18th of October, 1867, he married Louisa Kendall, second daughter of Milton and Ruth (Lawson) Kendall. They had nine children: Nellie Ruth, married M, IF'. Mackoy, on the 8th of March, 1898, and died October 38, 1895, leaving one child, Bessie Louisa, living with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Mackoy ; Milton Smith, married, has two children; Wilbert, married, living in Sciotoville, has one child; Olive, married Charles If. Aeh, who resides near Yorktown, Ohio, and is engaged in the dairy business. They have had two children, but one is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Gammon have five children at home: Lola May, Clara Belle, Lilly Ione, Irma Alice, and George Madison. In politics, Mr. Gammon has always been a democrat, and he ls earnest in his views and political conduct. He is a member of the Christian church jof Siloam, Ky., and has been for many years a member of the Portsmouth Aurora Lodge of Masons, He is highly respected in the entire circle of his acquaintances. In his manner, he is quiet and unostentatious. con wg good husband and father, a good neighbor and his rough side is his outside.

was born in Scioto county, Ohio, July 21, 1850. He is the son of William and Harriet Garvin. He was one of four children, three sons and a daughter, His mother died when he was a child and his father married again. There were four children of the second marriage, three daughters and a son. He attended the country schools and worked on his father's farm. His father was also a cooper as well as a farmer. He died in 1861 at the age of fifty-five years. Samuel worked on a farm until 1872, and on July = 12, 1872, he went to work in the Burgess rolling mill. He continued to work in the Burgess until 1898, and then he began to work in mills in ditferent places. He was in Indianapolis, Indiana, rom the fall of 1898 till the spring of 1899. He then went to Chester, Pennsylvania, and worked for eight months in the American Steel Casting Works. In 1901, he went to Pittsburg, remained there one month and went to Birmingham, Alabama, in the fall of 1901, and then came to Portsmouth and worked in the Portsmouth steel works. He started as a puddler, and worked for eight years. He then had charge of a forge for three years, and for another three years he worked at the open-hearth steel furnaces,

He was married March 15, 1877 to Catharine Bowman, daughter of Joseph Bowman. They have two children: Alma, married to Willian. Wamser, pattern maker for the Drew-Selby Company, and Arthur, a lJaster at the Drew- Selby shoe factory. He has always been a democrat. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, and a member of Scioto Lodge lof Odd Fellows.

was born July 28, 1829, in Portsmouth, Ohio, His father was Wilson Gates and his mother's maiden name was Wlizabeth Kinney. He obtained his education in the Portsmouth schools and then wenit to clerking in his father's dry goods store, which was in a frame building on Brunner's corner, He was a

"dude" -then, though the term was not yet invented. In 1848, Wilson Gates took his family to Memphis and they lived there until 1849. His father died soon after their return to Portsmouth and Erastus then went as a steamboat clerk on the southern rivers. He was on the steamer Kate Fleming when she was blown up in the lower Ohio. He left the river and became a clerk if Henry R. Kinney's hardware store. On March 16, 1854, he was married to mary Laura Thompson, daughter of Washington Thompson, of Kentucky. He farmed for awhile after his marriage. In 1855 he and Uncle Reuben Thompson and kept a confectionery store on Front street.

He enlisted in Company H, 56th O. V. I. on December 9, 1861, and was made a Quartermaster Sergeant the same day. On September 5, 1862 he was made Second Lieutenant of Company G. He was promoted to First Lieutenant April 2, 1868, and resigned July 26, 1863. He died June 13, 1892.

was born in Gallia county, Ohio, March 138, 1863, the son of William W. and Alvira (Nye) Gates. William W. Gates, Sr., was born near Marietta, Ohio, October 16, 1827 and is the son of Samuel Haskell and Mary (Wheeler) Gates and grandson of John Gates. Alvira (Nye) Gates is the daughter of Melzar and Phoebe (Sprague) Nye and granddaughter of Ebenezer Nye who came to Marietta in 1790 and lived for five years in the stockade there. He was born in Tolland, Connecticut. His sister was the first white woman to set foot in Marietta. In 1869, William W. Gates, Sr., moved from Gallia county, Ohio, to Cabell county, West Virginia, near Guyandotte, where he lived until 1876, when he moyed to Scioto county, locating on a farm three miles east of the city.

His son, William W. Gates, Jr., attended the Portsmouth public schools, helping his father on the farm during vacation, until he was seventeen years of age, when he entered the Drew-Selby shoe factory, October 26, 1880. After spending thirteen years there, during which time he had _ gained a general knowledge of shoe manufacturing, having been employed in the different departments, he became a member of the firm, continuing in this relation, until the firm's dissolution in 1902, when he, with Irving, Drew and others, bought and reorganized the Star Shoe Company.

In politics he is a prohibitionist. He is a member of the Second Presbyterian church. In 1897, he was made an elder and has been clerk of the Session since 1898 and Sabbath school superintendent since 1900.

He was married in 1888, to Harriet 8. Chick, daughter of Charles and Sarah (Lawson) Chick and greéat-granddaughter of William Lawson, a pioneer of Scioto county. She is of the sixth generation of the Lawson family in this country, her great-great-great-grandfather, Thomas Lawson, an Englishman, havng settled near York, Pennsylvania, about 1715. She is also the great-great-granddaughter of Joseph Moore, a native of New Jersey, who emigrated to Hampshire county, West Virginia, and then in 1790 to Adams county, Ohio. He was the first preacher in the first Methodist church in Ohio.

Mr. Gates is one of the foremost business men of this city. He has been successful and prosperous in his business and his ambition is to do the most good he can for the opportunity about him.

was born May 10, 1818, in Bonte, in the province of Hunteburg, Germany. He attended school there until he was sixteen years of age, when he learned the cabinet-maker's trade. He came to the United States in 1839, in his twenty-first year, and landed at New York. He came to Pine Grove Furnace and was engaged at the furnace for several years, when he went to Junior furnace and became the engineer. He afterwards became a wagon-maker and followed that occupation for eleven years. He removed to Lawrence furnace in 1849, and lived there for eleven years when he bought the Ball farm in the French Grant on which he resided for thirty-five years.

He was married on March 7, 1844, to Julia Witte, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Claumer and Elizabeth B. Witte. They had four children: John F., who married Rosina J. Andre, and resides in Kentucky, near Portsmouth, Ohio; Lewis H., who married Caroline Messer and resides on "Dog- wood Ridge," in Porter township; Henry H., who married Hattie Stewart, and resides at Sciotoville, Ohio; Mary, who married William Reif, and resides at Wheelersburg, Ohio.

Mr. Gerding was a republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He died January. 5. 1897, aged seventy-eight years, eight months and twenty-three days. His widow still survives and makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. William Reif. Mr. Gerding was an honest man, a law abiding citizen, a pleasant and obliging neighbor and a consistent christian. He accumulated a modest fortune, all by the toil of his hands. He brought up his children according to Solomon's ideas and they are a credit to his training. His dealings with his fellow men were all according to the Golden Rule. He left a memory, a comfort to his children, and a pleasant retrospect to his friends.

was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, September 5, 1853. His parents were Dr. George W. and Susan (Gilbert) Gibbs. His mother's people came from New : York. His father's people were of German ancestry and came from Pennsylvania. His mother was the daughter of Giles Gilbert, Sr. Edward's boyhood was spent in Portsmouth, where he attended the public schools. From 1870 to 1875 he was clerk in the Marietta and Cincinnati freight offices. He was deputy recorder of Scioto county from 1873 to 1875. From 1875 to 1878 he worked in a railroad office at Chicago, Illinois. He was postal clerk of Portsmouth from 1878 to 1881. He was in the railroad service from 1881 to 1902, except during Cleveland's first term. He is a republican and a member of the First Presbyterian chureh, of Portsmouth.

He married Miss Ella Dircks, daughter of Augustus Dircks, October 27, 1891. They have two children: Susan Louise and Jessie. Mr. Gibbs is wonderfully proficient in his occupation as railway mail clerk. He has traveled over the Portsmouth branch of the B. & O. railroad, the fifty-six miles between Hamden and Portsmouth, till he knows almost every man, woman and child on the line. He travels 112 miles every day, 3.756 miles in a year and in the seventeen years of his service has traveled 63,852 miles, or as much as twice around the world and half way around the third time. He enjoys excellent health and tries to do the duty nearest him.

was born January 22, 1845, in Westheim, Bavaria. His father was Andrew Giesler. There were six children of whom our subject was the eldest. From the time he was six until he was fourteen, he attended schocl in Germany, and then he was apprenticed to the butcher's trade until he wastwenty-oneyearsof age when he came to the United States. The same year he came to Portsmouth and worked with George Daum at his trade. In February, 1869, he went into the business for himself on Market street, and continued in it successfully all his life.

He was married March 4, to Elizabeth Rauter, daughter of Frederick Rauter. Their children are: Anna Maria, wife of Jacob Hetzel, engaged in the butcher business-with Adam Geisler; Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Findeis; Adam, in business for himself at 221 Market street, as a butcher, and Lena, Frederick and Catharine died in infancy. Rosa died in 1895, at the age of seventeen. Mr. Giesler was a republican and a member of the Evangelical eas at the corner of Fifth and Washington streets. He died February 19, was born in Ross. county, near Kingston, in 1849. In 1866, he came to Portsmouth with his parents, and for awhile was employed at his father's liquor store, located in the house now occupied by the Portsmouth Steam Laundry. Tater he worked at the Johnson Hub & Spoke Works, and while there had his right hand nearly cut off. In 1875, Mr. Gilgen was in the grocery business on Eighth and Chillicothe streets, but failed. He then engaged in the liquor business and was very successful, amassing quite a competency. He had a beautiful home and only recently began the erection of a business house. He was married in 1878 to Miss Lizzie Hioook. They had two sons, Joseph, of Chicago, and George of Portsmouth. He died September 26, 1901. He was a member of of the Royal Arch Masons. Mr. Gilgen was an honorable and upright citizen; fair, just and honest in his dealings with his fellow men.

was born in Jackson county, Ohio, November 19, 1837. His parents were Jesse Gillilan, a native of Greenbrier county, West Virginia, and Elizabeth (Coleman) Gillilan, a native of Ireland. His grandfather, James Gillilan, was a native of Greenbrier county, West Virginia.

Our subject received a good common school education, and passed through the Ewington Academy, thus qualifying himself for the noble work of teacher, but notwithstanding his attachment to his profession, he responded to the second call of President Lincoln, and during August and September of 1861, he and Captain M. Mannering recruited Company A, of the 56th 0. V. 1 ey, in which regiment he was mustered in as Second Lieutenant November 8, 1861, for three years. While the regiment was on duty at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, he was taken sick with typhoid pneumonia and was sent home, with little hopes that he would ever recover, and on July 31, 1862, he resigned on surgeon's certificate of disability. The summer and fall of 1868, he spent with the army in West Virginia. In July, 1864, he was commissioned by Governor Brough to recruit a company for the 173rd O. V. I. On July 27, 1864, he was appointed Captain of Company ©, 178rd O. V. I. and was discharged June 26, 1865.