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

On March 4, 1881, he was married to Miss A. A. Wood, of Leesburg, Ohio. They have two children: Julia May, now in her sophomore year in Denison University and John Paul, aged ten. He has been a member of the Baptist church since a young man and superintendent of the Sunday school for almost twenty years, He has been a member of the Royal Arcanum Grand Council for five years, and has held the position of City School Examiner of Wellston for ten years, and Water Works Trustee fort three years, was born in Milford, New Hampshire, October 26, 1822. His parents, Phineas Stimson and Rhoda Metcalf, were both born in Ashburnham, Worcester county, Massachusetts, and married there in 1816. Both were children of men who were soldiers in the War of the American Revolution. One of his ancestors, Andrew Stimson, was in Boston as early as 1689, only nine years after the first settlement of the New England Metropolis. He was an Bnglishman. The Metealt tamily also were English. His mother died when he was nine years of age. His first school was a private school, which continued several years, Kept by Daniel Russell. In 1840, he began reading Latin - Ciecero's Ovations. He attended Phillips Academy from 1842 to 1845. On September 13, 1845, he came to Ohio, and entered the Junior class, Marietta College. He graduated on July 29, 1847. In the winter of 1841 and 1842 he taught four common schools, three months each, in New Hampshire; in 1845 and 1846 he taught at Belpre, Washington county, Ohio; in 1847 to 1848 he taught in Pike county; in 1849 and 1850, he taught in Scioto county. He also taught a family school on a cotton plantation, Lowndes county, Mississippi, fifteen months, 1848-49. He read law and was admitted to the bar at Marietta, in October, 1849, On November 1, 1849, he went to Ironton, Lawrence county, and there pettifogged one law case before a Justice of the Peace, and gained the case. August 1, 1850, he founded the Ironton Register. He edited it twelve years but sold out in 1862, and bought the Marietta Intelligencer and the Marietta Home News, combined the two offices, and issued the first number of the Marietta Register, June 30, 1862. He worked hard for ten years, and in 1872, he had to sell the Register, the regret of his life, owing to hemmorrhages of the lungs and threatened consumption.

He was married July 23, 1851, to Miss Juliette B. Hurd, in Ironton, She died January 19, 1861, leaving one son, Milford, who died in Cincinnati in 1890. On October 28, 1862, he married Miss Julia I. Sheppard, at Marietta. They had one child, Elizabeth, Gillet, who married a Mr. Corwin, who, with her two children, Julia Stimson and Rodney Stimson Corwin, are living with him.

He was a whig candidate for the Ohio State Senate, District of Lawrence, Gallia, Meigs, and Vinton counties in 1858. He was an Ohio delegate to the first National Republican Convention, which nominated John C. Fremont for the President of the United States, at Philadelphia in June, 1856. He was delegate again for the Marietta district to the National Republican Convention at Chicago, June, 1880, which nominated James A. Garfield for President. He was the Ohio member of the Committee on Resolutions. He was delegate from Washington county to the Ohio State Republican Conventions, between 1862 and 1880, for seventeen times, always without opposition, and was the author of the Ohio Republican State Platform, in 1878, adopted unanimously, without the change of a word. He was elected to the Ohio State Senate, in 1869; re-elected in 1871, and in the Ohio General Assembly in 1872, and 1878, declined the chairmanship of the Finance Committee of the Senate because of physical inability, a position tendered to him without his knowledge or consent. He was Treasurer of the State Republican Committee in the campaigns of 1877 and 1878. He was Presidential Elector of the Marietta District, in 1884.

' He was Librarian of the Ohio State Library from 1877 to 1879. He never actively sought any public position. In March, 1881, he became Treasurer and Librarian of Marietta College. He resigned as Librarian in 1892, but still continues as Treasurer. He has been Trustee of Marietta College since 1895. He has given to the College Library his collection of books, Americana, the specialty, and out-of-the-way books, numbering full 20,000 volumes, all in fine condition, only one other collection of the kind equal to it in the Great Mississippi Valley. He is spending the evening of his days in honorable retirement.

was born November 5, 1841, at Cherry Fork, Adams county, Ohio, the son of Thomas Campbell Wasson and Martha Campbell, his wife. He was reared on his father's farm. He attended the common schools of his district and the North Liberty Academy. He entered Miami University in the fall of 1861, and graduated in 1866. The same summer he went to Gallipolis and he and Captain M. V. B. Kennedy, late of Zanesville, Ohio, purchased the Onderdonk book store and continued the business under the firm name of Wasson & Kennedy. On September 3, 1867, Mr. Wasson was married to Miss Jennie Henderson, of Middletown, Butler county. In 1872, he dissolved partnership with Capt. Kennedy and continued the business alone. In the fall of 1877, he was elected a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Gallia county, as a republican and served one term. He declined a re-nomination and election, as he had changed his residence to near Middletown, Butler county, where he engaged in farming, and where he continued to reside until 1889, when he removed to Hamilton, Ohio, where he has resided ever since.

He has always been a staunch Presbyterian and was an elder in the church at Gallipolis. On his removal to the city of Hamilton, he and his family connected with the United Presbyterian church in which he is a ruling elder.

' Mr. Wasson has a son, Clarence C., a physician in Hamilton, and a daughter, wife of Joseph L. Blair, manager of the Niles Tool Works of Hamilton. Mr. Wasson is fond of reading and study, and keeps abreast of the times. While he would not like to be styled a gentleman of leisure, he has the full command of his own time and devotes himself very largely to work in his church. He is a gentleman of the highest integrity and enjoys the respect and confidence of all who know him. His wife died July 3, 1899. She was a woman of the most estimable character, devoted to her family and good works. Since that time he has made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Blair.

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was born July 20, 1827, in Wellsburg,- Brooke county, Virginia, where he spent his life until 1854. In that year he located in Cincinnati, and went into the coal business as clerk for A. Buchanan. In 1866, he went into partnership with Mr. Perrine in the same business and continued until 1870. In that year he came to Portsmouth, and went into the fire brick business at Sciotoville with Taylor & Connell. There were two other brick yards there at that time, but in 1873, all were consolidated. In 1877, Mr. Adams withdrew from the firm and engaged in other business, gold hunting; but that was unsuccessful, and in 1879, he went to Logan and started the Hocking Valley Fire Brick Works. In 1881, he returned to Portsmouth and erected The Portsmouth Fire Brick Works.

He was married to Julia A. Connell, a sister of Daniel F. Connell, at Wellsville, Ohio, November 20, 1849. They have four children living: James P., Samuel C., Mrs. Thomas W. Kinney and Mrs. H. C. Turley. In 1885, Mr. Adams was elected a councilman from the Sixth Ward, in the city of Portsmouth, the only public office he ever held. He took a great interest in the welfare of every community in which he resided, and particularly in the city of Portsmouth. He favored every enterprise which was for the public good. He was admired and liked for his social qualities. In his political views, he was originally a democrat, but afterwards a republican. He was a Knight Templar Mason. He died November 12, 1892, of neuralgia of the heart, and his death was a public loss. ; was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1836. His father was George Edward Knittel. His parents died in Germany. He attended school in Germany until he was fifteen years of age. He came to the United States in 1851, and located in Cincinnati. There he learned the trade of a baker and confectioner with his brother, Anton Knittel. In 1860, he located in Lexington, Kentucky. From July 24, 1861, until October 23, 1862, he served as a member of the Regimental Band of the 28th O. V. I. On his leaving the army, be came to Portsmouth and engaged in temporary work for a few months. He then opened a bakery on the north-west corner of Court and Fourth streets and conducted a prosperous business until April 8, 1888, when he purchased the McDowell family residence at number 68 West Second street, and changed it into a bakery and confectionery, which he conducted with success until his death. The same business has been continued by his family. In 1862, he married Miss Josephine Sutter. There were six children of this marriage: Edward, Frank, Mrs. Frank Graf, Albert, Mary and Rosa. In his political views he was a republican. He was a communicant of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church.

In the summer of 1894, he took a trip to his childhood home in Germany. He returned just five weeks prior to his death, which occurred September 28, 1894, of dropsy of the heart. Mr. Knittel was a model citizen, much devoted to his family. His tastes were quiet and he enjoyed the society of his intimate friends more than any other pleasure. He was a valuable member of the community and devoted himself exclusively to his business. | was born June 3, 1830. He was the son of Manasseh Lawson, and the grandson of William Lawson, one of the pioneers of Portsmouth, who has a sketch on page 762 of this work. He was reared and lived his entire life in Portsmouth, and the real estate he owned and of which he died seized was a part of his grandfather's entry of 454 acres, made in 1801. Mr. Lawson was always a farmer. He was an honorable, conscientious man and his life in all respects was peaceful and quiet. In 1858, he was married to Abigail Burke, who survived him. His children were: Mrs. DelWa Allen, of Green township; Mrs. Addie Watkins, of Portsmouth, widow of George L. Watkins; Burke Lawson, of Yorktown; Ernest and Floyd, who live at the old homestead; and Mrs. Lulu Gammon, of Ashland, Ky. Mr. Lawson died on the 23rd day of October, 1901, respected by all who knew him.

was born January 24, 1841, in Columbiana county, Ohio. His father was Samuel Miller and his mother's maiden name was Eunice Peckham. His father was a native of Jefferson county and his mother of Columbiana. He was the fifth of six children. When he was six years old, his father moved to Flat Woods in Jefferson township, Scioto county, Ohio, where he died in 1857. Our subject enlisted July 30, 1862 in Company C, 91 O. V. I. and served until July 24, 1865. After the war, he returned to his home in Jefferson township. On November 22, 1865, he was married to Margaret J. Meek, daughter of Peter Meek. In 1871, he removed to the Gibson place in Pike county, where he remained until 1877. In 1878, he returned to Scioto county. In 1881, he came to Portsmouth and for ten years was an operative in the Johnson Hub & Spoke Factory. Since 1891, he has been engaged in the dairy business. He has a son Charles who conducts a dairy farm on the John Miller Salladay place on the Chillicothe Pike. He has a son, Edward and a daughter Mary, both grown up, at home. He is a member of the Manley M.. E. church and is a republican. In all things and at all times he has been a good citizen, self respecting and respected by all his neighbors,

Corrigenda

Page 173, Par. 6, line 2, sketch of William Allen. 'Cockril!'"' should be Cockerill. 'i Page 214, line 18, Nathan Wheeler, "Quarter Sergeant' should be '"Quartermaster Sergeant."

Page 230, "Henry Lance" should be Henry Lantz. (Company F, 56th OPV. Lees Page 245, Par, 2, Morgan's Raid, "E. W. Hope" should be E. N. Hope.

Page 309, sketch of Duncan Livingstone.' His parents were married on September 5, 1848, instead of "September 5, 1849." "David Simon" should be David Sinton.

Page 929, Par. 2, 2nd and 8rd lines, sketch of J. D. Clare, should read "Tn 1852, he opened a general store at Cross Roads, Jackson county.' 8rd Par. 5th line, should read ''wife of Thomas L. Hughes, of Piqua, Ohio, etc." The last line of the sketch should read December 21, 1898 instead of "December 21, 1893."