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1000 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. The business grew so rapidly that it became necessary. to find new and larger quarters. In March, 1902, the Connolley building on the corner of Chillicothe and Fifth streets was fitted up and the entire business was concentrated under one roof. The trade is both wholesale and retail and it is one of the largest and most prosperous firms in Portsmouth. Mr. Haas is a republican in his political views and is a member of the Jewish Congregation of which he has been secretary for the past twelve years. He served as a member of the City Board of Elections from 1895 to 1899 and was president of the Board for one year. He is a member of Aurora Lodge, F. and A. M., Past Chancellor of Massie Lodge K. of P. and a member of the United Commercial Travelers and of the Royal Arcanum. He was married to Clara Labold, daughter of Henry Labold and Fanny (Rosenfeld) Labold, June 23, 1891. They have had three children: Esther, deceased, Miriam and Julia. When a person knows Felix Haas, he is soon recognized as a man of noble determination, stimulated only by lofty aspirations, of keen intellect and quick perception, of literary tastes necessarily giving way to business duties, a man true and just to the country of his choice and adoption, a man of devotion to his friends, to all that is pure and beneficial to mankind, and above all to his family and home whose ties he holds most dear, even in sacred reverence. In Felix Haas is found a worthy representative of self made, but none-the-less well made men: one whose energy, ambition and integrity any boy might safely emulate. William Timothy Hackworth was born February 1, 1866, at Forestdale, Lawrence county, Ohio. His great-great-grandfather, Thomas Hackworth, emigrated from Roanoke county, Virginia, to Wayne county, West Virginia. His son, William emigrated to Lawrence county, Ohio, and located near Forestdale in Perry township. George Hackworth, son of William, and father of our subject, removed to Mt. Joy, this county, in 1877, with his family. George W. and his father William were both members of Company C 5th W. Va. Infantry. George W. enlisted September 14, 1861, at the age of twenty-three and entered service as a Corporal. He re-enlisted February 14, 1864 and was finally discharged September 21, 1864, with the company. William entered the service August 12, 1861, at the age of forty-four, re-enlisted December 24, 1863 and was discharged with company September 21, 1864. William was wounded at the second battle of Bull Run in both legs by gunshot. He received another gunshot wound in the head at Winchester, Virginia, and another wound in the elbow was received in a later battle. He carried this bullet in his elbow until his death, July 20, 1890. The mother of our subject was Susan (Carry) Hackworth, daughter of Timothy F. Carry and Mary J. (Wooten) Carry. Her father was a member of Company F, 56th 0. V. I. enlisted October 31, 1861, at the age of forty. He was wounded by a horse's hoof at Pittsburg Landing in a cavalry charge. He was drowned at Cincinnati while being transferred with his company from one boat to another July 28, 1862. Our subject was raised on a farm and attended the country schools. He commenced the mercantile business in April, 1897, at Mt. Joy, where he did business for five years. He removed to Rarden in 1902 and is now conducting a general store there. He is a republican and a member of the Mt. Joy Baptist church. He is also a member of the Improved Order of Red Men. He married Nora McBride, daughter of A. B. McBride of Rarden,. January 25, 1894. Their children are: Ruth, aged six and Hazen, aged two. Henry Hall was born October 11, 1829, in the Aaron Kinney homestead. His father was William Hall and his mother, Margaret Kinney. They were married November 30, 1828, at the Kinney homestead. He has lived all his life in Portsmouith. He graduated from the Portsmouth High School in 1846. A. L. Childs was superintendent of schools and his teacher. R. S. Silcox was also one of his teachers. He attended school frrst at the Fourth street school. A Mr. Sample was superintendent at that time. There were then nine schools. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1001 After leaving school at 16, he went into his father's store, on Front street, where Webb's saw mill formerly stood. In the spring of 1846, he went east to buy goods and afterwards bought all the goods and managed the store until 1855. In 1853, he became a partner with his father and the firm was W. Hall & Son. In 1855, the firm sold out to te Scioto Rolling Mill Co. In the fall of 1855, he went into the banking house of Dugan, Means, Hall & Co. composed of Thomas Dugan, Thomas W. Means, Hugh Means, William Hall, J. L. Watkins. Wm. and George Wertz, J. M. Shackelford, W. V. Peck, Wm. and John Ellison and Wm. Means. He was teller. It was located where the Farmer's National Bank stood, for a while and then moved where the First National is now. In 1858, the firm became Means, Hall & Co., and Watkins was manager, and Henry Hall, Cashier. The Bank continued until 1862 and Hall was Cashier until that time. In 1862, he was appointed First Lieutenant and Quartermaster of the 91st 0. V. I., but did not serve over six weeks. When D. McFarland was made U. S. Assessor, our subject became editor of the Portsmouth Tribune, and remained two years. In 1864, he was made special agent of the Treasury Department, and continued so to the close of the war. After the war, he made wheelbarrows for four years. He ran a canal packet from Portsmouth to Chillicothe for ten months. Frbm 1874 to 1876 he was clerk of the Water Works Board, and superintendent. From 1876 to 1881, he was a flask maker at Neill's foundry. In 1881, he was elected Justice of the Peace for Wayne township and served ten years. He was elected Mayor of Portsmouth in 1891, and served two terms. In 1896, he was elected Justice of the Peace for Wayne township, and re-elected in 1898. He was a Whig and is a republican. On February 19, 1852, he was married to Miss Caroline Clark Thompson, a native of Portsmouth. Her father was John C. Thompson, a soldier of the Mexican war. Her grandfather was Moses Thompson, an early citizen of Portsmouth. He has two children, George W. Hall, of Cincinnati and P. Kinney Hall of Portsmouth. He was made a Mason in Aurora lodge in 1851 and has been such ever since, and was secretary of the Portsmouth lodge, No. 395 until it united with the Aurora Lodge in 1902. John Wikoff Hall was born about two and a half miles above Rome on the Ohio river, on the old Wikoff homestead, June 30, 1861. He is the son of Charles N. and Calista (Wikoff) Hall. She is a sister of General A. T. Wikoff, formerly Secretary of State. The grandfather of our subject was James H. Hall, son of Benjamin Hall. His maternal grandfather was John Wikoff, son of Peter Wikoff, born in Shelby county, Kentucky, of Welsh descent. His father enlisted in Company I, 91st 0. V. I., August 9, 1862, for three years, was appointed First Sergeant October 28, 1862; promoted to Second Lieutenant February 17, 1864; and to First Lieutenant November 3, 1864, discharged March 21, 1865. He was wounded at the battle of Opequan. After his discharge from the army, he was elected Clerk of Adams county in 1866 and served for one term. After this he was Deputy Sheriff for a time. Our subject attended the public schools at West Union until the family removed to Columbus, Ohio in 1872, when he entered the High School there and was graduated in 1876. He immediately entered the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College there and attended for the two years following. During this time, his father was Chief Clerk in the office of the Secretary of State. The family returned to the farm in Adams County in March, 1878, where our subject labored for two years and then became a clerk in the United States Pension Office at Columbus, Ohio. He only remained here about six months and then took a position with the Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo railroad. He did clerical work there for eighteen months. After this he spent one year at home in Adams county and three years in Missouri and Kansas and then settled in Scioto county and has been a farmer ever since. He has always been a republican and is a member of Dirigo Lodge, No. 702, I. 0. 0. F. at Rome, Ohio. He was married June 30, 1885, to Elizabeth F. Kirk, daughter of T. J. and Eliza (Glass) Kirk. Their children are Horace L., Gracie E., Bessie P., Mary Susan, William A. and Lulu I. 1002 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. Vallee Harold was born at Fredericktown, Madison county, Missouri, June 4, 1857. His father was Doctor John Harold, a native of Ireland. His mother was born Aimee Vallee. She was descended from distinguished French and Spanish ancestry. Her great-grandfather was the last Commandant of the Province of Louisiana and her grandfather the last Commandant of the post, of Ste. Genevieve, under the French government. Both of Mr. Harold's parents died before he was eight years old and he was given by his mother to her sister Eleanore, the wife of Col. Joseph Bogy. Although she had reared twelve children of her own, this gentle and lovable woman gave the orphan the same affection and care as if he were of her own flesh and blood, and never, in word or deed, was he regarded as other than the child of this generous and noble couple. By them he was reared and taught, by tutor and in private school, and finally sent to finish his education in the college of the Christian Brothers, at St. Louis. From this institution he graduated, the head of his class, at seventeen years of age. At the age of twenty, he was licensed to practice law. In 1880, he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Ste. Genevieve county, Missouri and reelected in 1882. In the year 1884, he resigned the office and moved to Greenville Illinois, where he devoted himself to the newspaper business, which he had entered upon in Ste. Genevieve in 1880. At Greenville, he held the offrce of Master-in-Chancery from 1886 to 1891, and resigned that office, in the latter year, to become editor of the Portsmouth Times, haying bought a half interest from the late Hon. James W. Newman. On November 25, 1891, Mr. Harold was married at Greenville, to Miss Anna Belle Tiffin, who was a relative of Governor Tiffin, of Ohio. She died October 13, 1895. In religion, Mr. Harold has always been a Catholic and in politics he is a democrat. He, is opposed to character comments in a work like this, but the editor wishes to say that Mr. Harold is one of the energetic and enterprising citizens in Portsmouth. Socially he stands the best and as a newspaper man, he has made the Times one of the best journals in the state. Benjamin Gaylord Harris was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, May 8, 1867. He is the son of William and Ann (Lewis) Harris. His father was a foreman of the Gaylord Mill for a number of years. Our subject spent his boyhood and youth in Portsmouth where he attended the public schools. He learned his trade of J. W. Lutz and worked with him for six years. In 1892, he started in business for himself as a photographer at Springfield, Ohio, and remained there three years. He then went to Osborn, Ohio, and remained there four years. He was a member of the City Council of Osborn for two terms in 1896 and 1897 in 1899, he removed to Portsmouth where he has conducted a photograph gallery since. In December, 1893 he was married to Miss Laura Hershey. They have one child, Louis, age seven. Mr. Harris is a republican and a most excellent friend and citizen. Paul Howard Harsha was born August 19, 1859, in Harshaville, Adams county. His father was William Buchanan Harsha and his mother Rachel McIntire, daughter of General William McIntire. He was the second son of his parents. He has a common school education. He learned the practical business of milling from his father. From the time he arrived at the age of twenty-one years, until 1884, he was employed in his father's mill at Harshaville, and had charge of the entire milling operations. In 1884, he took an interest with his father, under the firm name of W. B. Harsha & Son, which has continued until the present time. On January 11, 1884, he was married to Miss Ada Barnard, of Cincinnati. He resided at Harshaville from 1884 until 1892, when he removed to the city of Portsmouth, Ohio. In 1889, he formed a partnership with John BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1003 P. Caskey, under the firm name of' Harsha & Caskey, built a flour mill in the east end of the city, and that business continued until October, 1901, when he and Mr. Caskey dissolved. Since that date he has conducted the business alone. He is one of the progressive men of the city. He is a member of the United Commercial Travelers, Elks and Knights Templars. He was in Ports- mouth from August, 1889, but did not remove his family there until April, 1892. He has four children: Edith Armstrong, Elizabeth Lucile, William Howard and Philip Barnard. He and his wife are members of the Second Presbyterian church. He has always been a republican. He has never held a public office except that of member of the City Council of Portsmouth. Daniel H. Harwood was born February 3, 1828 in Twin township, Ross county, Ohio, near Bourneville. His father's name was Benjamin Harwood. He was a native of Maryland. He died in the autumn of 1848, aged fifty-five years on what is now the Davis farm, then the John A. Turley farm. His mother's maiden name was Mary Ward. She was born in Twin township, Ross county, Ohio, in 1799, and died in Lucasville in 1884, being over eighty-five years of age. The subject of this sketch never received any school training. When twelve years of age, he hired as a jigger boy at $4.00 per month on public works, building the turnpike from Chillicothe to Bainbridge. His work was to go around with a jug of whiskey and a pepper box and give each man the full of it with whiskey six or eight times a day. The next year, when thirteen years old, he drove a cart making a cut through a hill. When he was fourteen, he worked on building the turnpike between Kingston and Tarleton. In 1843 and 1844, he worked on the turnpike from Chillicothe to Portsmouth. He drove a two horse team and his wages were $6.00 per month. Men on a farm at the same time were receiving $7.00 per month. In 1850, he married Hannah Darlington. In the spring of 1854, he rented the Marsh farm and farmed on it for twenty-six years. In 1880, he bought the farm where he now lives on the Canal opposite Lucasville. His wife died in April, 1886, leaving seven children, as follows: Sarah Ann, deceased; William H. living on the old home place; Benjamin F., a resident of Portsmouth; Mary E., deceased, wife of John Marsh; Daniel L., at home; Charles M., a member of Company A, 9th Regiment, United States Infantry now in the Philippines; Ida B., the wife of William T. Dever, residing on the Dever farm opposite Lucasville. In November, 1888, he was married to Emma Double, a daughter of William and Margaret Double of Sedan, both natives of Butler county, Pennsylvania. Her motherls maiden name was Margaret Alsworth. Mrs. Harwood was a teacher in the public schools for six years and attended one term at the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, in 1881. In 1877, she was united with the Salem Regular Baptist church and in 1896 transferred her membership to Bethany Regular Baptist church at Rushtown, Ohio. Mr. Harwood's father was a Jackson democrat, but to use his own language, "he was born a republican" and has always been one, never voting any other way. He is a man who is outspoken and pronounced in his views on any subject. He is kind to his family and accommodating to his neighbors. His home is the stopping place for his many friends and not even a tramp was ever turned away hungry. Generous to a fault he is always ready to donate to any one in need. Francis Edward Hayward was born May 13, 1848, in the Little Frencn Grant. His father was Eliphaz Hayward, son of Moses Hayward and his mother was Mary Cadot, daughter of Claudius Cadot. Moses Hayward and Claudius Cadot both have sketches herein. His childhood and boyhood were spent at the place of his nativity. He attended the common schools and took a course in Duff's Commercial College in Pittsburg which he completed in 1870. The first actual business he engaged in was selling sewing machines for George D. Selby in Jackson county, Ohio. This he regards as the most successful effort in business he 1004 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. has ever engaged in. Subsequent to this, he spent three years in the Mercan- tile department of the Los Gatos Manufacturing Company, Los Gatos, California. He located in Ironton, Ohio, in the retail grocery business in the spring f 1874. He followed that for 26 years and merged it into the exclusively wholesale grocery business, March 26, 1900 with Drake S. Murdock at Ironton, Ohio. For twenty years, he has been a stock holder in the Ironton Fire Brick Company. He was its secretary and treasurer for eighteen years, and has been its president for the past two years. He has been a director in the First National Bank of Ironton for about ten years and has been vice president of the bank for the past six years. He is also secretary of the Lawrence Telephone Company. He is an uncompromising republican. He was married June 28, 1874 to Julia A. Work. Their children are: F. R. now assistant superintendent of Siegel, Cooper & Company's house in New York; Claude C. a practicing attorney in Ironton, Ohio; Mary Elizabeth at home. Mr. Hayward is one of the most respected business men of Ironton. He is a power and a force in every enterprise with which he is connected. Alonzo Wesley Hazelbaker was born near Otway, Ohio, September 5, 1876. His father's name was William Hazelbaker, and his motherls maiden name was Elizabeth Thompson. Our subject was one of five children. He was brought up at Otway, and was a farmer's boy. He attended the common schools near his home, and at Lebanon one term, in 1893. He taught school from 1893 to 1900. In 1899 and 1900, he studied telegraphy, and was appointed agent at Newtown, Ohio, in August, 1900, and remained there until November, 1900. He has been agent at Otway since November, 1900. He is unmarried, and is a democrat in his political views. John Heer was born Feb. 2, 1854, in Chillicothe, Ohio. His father was Samuel Heer, and his motherls maiden name was Catharine Wilhelm. His father was a native of Bavaria and his mother was from Hesse, Germany. Our subject is the oldest of six brothers and three sisters. His father moved to Portsmouth when he was four years of age, and from the age of six attended the public schools of Portsmouth until he was fifteen. He then went into the employ of Ramsey, Rhodes & Reed, wholesale dry goods. He was with them until 1873, and then was engaged with Voorheis, Miller & Co. When they moved to Cincinnati in 1874, he went with them, and remained in their employ sixteen years. He left this firm in 1890, and was with Henry Giershofer & Co., for one year. He then came to Portsmouth, and opened a clothing house at Nos. 307-309 Chillicothe street, and has been engaged in that business ever since. He was married Nov. 8, 1880 to Jessie L. Miller, a daughter of William Miller of Hillsboro. Ohio. He is a member of the Masonic bodies in Portsmouth, Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council, Commandery and is an Elk. Mr. Heer is one of the most energetic, enterprising and industrious business men of Portsmouth, and a man f the highest character and standing in the community. He believes in strictly attending to his own business, and does not seek public attention in any way. He is regarded as one of the successful merchants in the city, and one of the most valuable citizens. Frederick Held was born January 19, 1831, at Colmar in Alsace. His father was Frederick Held, and his motherls maiden name was Hauser. His father and mother had five children, four sons and a daughter. Frederick was the second child. His father was a weaver by occupation. Young Held had no ambition to serve in the French army and so he left the country privately, and determined to go to America. He sailed from Havre in the French sailing vessel "Liberty." After forty days he landed at New York, and then went to Cincinnati, and from there to Barboursville, Virginia, where he remained for eighteen month, working at the cabinet maker’s trade. Then he went to. Ironton and worked at his trade there, and from there he went to Clifton furnace and dug ore. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1005 Among other places he visited Portsmouth and stayed a short time, and went to Scioto furnace. He was married here to Christina Graffer, in August, 1855. He worked about the furnace until 1855, when he went to Bloom furnace, and was there when the war broke out. He enlisted October 18, 1861, in Company B, of the 56th, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was appointed a Corporal and afterwards made a Sergeant. He is a firm believer in the idea that thirteen is an unlucky number. He participated in twelve engagements, and the thirteenth was the battle of Champion Hill, May 16, 1863. There his good right arm was shattered, and was so mangled that it had to be amputated close to the body. For two weeks after the battle, he was on the field where he was shot. He was then taken to the hospital at Memphis, and from there to Jefferson City. Subsequently he was sent to the government hospital in Indiana. There he obtained his discharge, November 5, 1863. He was in every battle and engagement participated in by his command until he lost his arm. He came back and located at Gephart's, where he has ever since resided. He has eight children: Kate, the eldest daughter, is the wife of John Doll, who lives on the west side near Union Mills; his second daughter, Mary, is married to George Jenkins, and lives on the west side; his son Herman is a farmer near Gephart's station; his son William works in the car shops at Huntington, W. Va.; his sons John and Fred, are at home and single; his son Charles is at work in Wheeling, W. Va.; his daughter Anna Cordella is at home. Since his injury in the military service, he has necessarily been compelled to live a life of retirement, but no one enjoys himself any more, and no one is more independent and respected. Mr. Held, of course, receives a pension for his injury. He works a little, as he is able with his one arm. He is a republican. When asked regarding his politics, he said that he voted as he shot. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is faithful and diligent in his profession. George W. Helfenstein was born in London, Ohio, March 20, 1836. His father moved to Jackson, Ohio, when he was a child. He came to Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1854, and became a clerk with R. Bell & Co. Then he clerked for Jefferson & Kepner, C. D. Elden, and James M. Ramsey, and was for a short time at Jackson Furnace. He went into the employment of C. A. M. Damarin & Co., and remained with them for over twenty-one years. He became a member of the First Presbyterian church on locating in Portsmouth. He was superintendent of its Sunday school for many years. On January 28, 1863, he married Miss Frances E. Spry, daughter of Richard Spry. They had one daughter, Grace, born in 1864, who grew to young womanhood and died December 25. 1887. He entered the 173 0. V. I. Company D, as First Lieutenant, and was appointed Adjutant December 21, 1863. He was mustered out June 26, 1865. About 1878, he went into partnership with John Richardson in the grocery business, and remained in that until his death. No truer man ever lived. His great-grandfather. Peter Helfenstein, was Major of the 8th (German) Virginia regiment, in the Revolutionary war. He had a son William, and his son Henry, was the father of our subject. The revolutionary ancestor died February 4, 1778, from the hardships of the service, and is interred at Winchester, Va. Here under the green grass of the lovely valley of Virginia rests the mortal part of the brave and good major, guarded by the hazy wall of the Blue Ridge on one side, and the towering Alleghany on the other with the Massanutten looking over from the south. And in the valley of the Ohio, guarded around by the silent, everlasting hills, with the river like a thread of yellow gold between. lies the mortal part of his grandson, our subject, whose life was likewise cut short by his service to his country. George Helfenstein lilted a pure, honest and honorable life. His whole career illustrated his religious profession. No one could know him without respecting, admiring and loving him for his noble qualities of mind and heart. It could never be 1006 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. said that his profession and his life were inconsistent. He was f the salt of the earth, and all his life he acted on principle and conscience. Emil John Helt was born January 29, 1875, in the city of Portsmouth, Ohio. His father is George Helt and his mother was Barbara P. Herder, a daughter of John M. Herder. His parents were both of German ancestry, but born in Scioto county. Emil attended the Portsmouth schools until he was f the age of eighteen. He dropped out of the B class in the High School, and went into the grocery business, at 513 Chillicothe street, in 1893. He did not like it and gave it up in six months. He clerked in the same business for C. Masters & Company and F. B. Clark, and then engaged in the wholesale commission business until 1896. Since that year, he has been in the huckster business, buying and selling produce. Mr. Helt would never be selected for a handsome man. In fact, he is the very reverse, but he knows everybody and is generally liked. He is not ashamed to work and to keep at it. He is a hustler and has a voice just modulated for the crying of his wares on the street. He is a republican, a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, and an Odd Fellow. He was married December 30, 1897, to Miss Norah Lewis, and has two sons, Emil C., and George 0. He is a whole-hearted, whole-souled, liberal minded citizen and believes in doing his best every day in the week. George Allen. Henry was born May 9, in Gallia county. Hi s father was Charles W. Henry, and his mother's maiden name was Susan Burnett, daughter of James Burnett. He received a common school education in Gallia county. At the age f twelve years he went to work on his father's farm, and continued that until he went into the army. He enlisted in the 2nd Ohio Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Company F, February 25, 1864, for three years, and was mustered out with the company August 23, 1865. After he came home from the war he went to work on his father's farm, and continued that until September, 1868. He was married April 12, 1868, in Mason county, W. Va., to Miss Jane Kyle, daughter of George and Nancy Kyle. They have had eight children: Albert F.. married, resides in Green township on a farm; Mary Ellen, married Albert Feurt, a farmer, resides on the Chillicothe pike; Florence married John Butterfield, a farmer, resides near Haverhill, in Green township; Nannie J., married Henry Goddard, a farmer, resides near Wheelersburg; George P., a farmer; Millard, clerk in a hardware store at Ironton; Perry, at home; Willie, died at the age of five years. In 1868, he rented a farm and farmed in West Virginia for nine years. In 1877, he went to Kentucky and farmed a year. He then moved to Scioto county, Ohio, and rented a farm near Haverhill, and is still engaged in farming. He is a republican, and a member f the Methodist church. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge at Wheelersburg, and of the Gand Army of the Republic. Meshech Herdman was born January 5, 1836, near old Steam furnace, in Adams county, where his father Michael Herdman. who came from Pennsylvania, had settled. Michael was in the war of 1812. He received a land warrant which he traded for a piece of land in Adams county. The mother f our subject was Jemina Downing, of near Locust Grove. Ohio. His brothers and sisters were: Philip, William, Rebecca, Susan, John, Sarah, Joseph, Elizabeth, Robert and Ruth, all of whom grew to maturity, were married and raised families. Our subject lived with his father on the farm until he was twenty years of age, when he came to Nile township, where he has since resided. On coming to Scioto county he learned the carpenter's trade. Besides working on houses, he built flat boats for A. F. Givens. For seven or eight years, he worked at that boating for Givens. He afterwards became a contractor and built several wooden bridges' for the county and a number of school houses. He formed a partnership with D. C. Givens in 1883, in the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1007 saw mill business. After several years, he bought Givens out and has since been in business by himself. He built a saw and grist mill near McGaw P. 0. in 1889, and buys timber and saws it into lumber. He was a trustees f Nile township from 1884 to 1887, and served a number f terms as school director. He is a democrat of the "dyed in the wool" sort. He was married February 1, 1866, to Mary J. Givens, daughter of William and Elizabeth Givens. Their children are: Nora, died June 5, 1883; George; Alfred; Elizabeth, wife of Robert Jeffreys; Clara; Fred; Harry; John and Clyde. Mr. Herdman has the natural qualifications f a good citizen, honesty, industry and thrift. He always stands for the right, is a firm believer in religion and has raised a large family of respectable children. He possesses a large amount of mechanical genius. Rev. Joseph D. Herron was born in Kirtland, Lake county, Ohio, November 4, 1853. His father was Samuel Herron, a native of Scotland, and his mother's maiden name was Martha Dunkley. She was born in Northampton, England, and her early home was in London. The Dunkleys were originally Norman-French. The subject of this sketch was the last f five children, and the only son. When he was six years of age, his parents moved to Carrollton, Missouri, where he lived until their death in 1864 and 1865. For six years he made his home with a married sister in Newcastle, Pennsylvania, and in Marietta, Ohio. During this time he completed the upper grades of the public schools at New Castle, attended St. John's Academy, Camden, New Jersey, for one year, and clerked for three years in the dry goods store of Bosworth, Wells & Company, Marietta, Ohio. At this time, his talent for music, which he inherited from the Dunkleys, played an important part in his career. Through a former classmate at S. Johnls Academy, he was offered the position of organist at St. Stephen's College, Annandale, New York. He accepted, as a way was thus opened to secure a college education. He was graduated, with the degree of B. A., in 1876, secundus, and metaphysical prizeman of his class. He then entered the General Theological Seminary, New York city, graduating in 1879 with the degree of S. T. B., and receiving the degree f M. A. in course from his alma mater. During this time he was a member of the New York Choral Union, a musical society of 300 voices which was led by P. S. Gilmore. He was also choir master at the Church of the Transfiguration (The little church around the corner). He was ordained to the diaconate at his final graduation, by Bishop Horatio Potter, on Trinity Sunday. His first ministry was in Trinity Parish, New York city, as curate of S. Augustine's. In 1882, he was called to Trinity church, New Castle, Pennsylvania, where he served for fifteen years. Here, for three years, he was a member of the Standing Committee f the Diocese and for six years, chairman f the Committee on the state f the Church. In 1897, he was called to All Saints church, Portsmouth, Ohio, his present charge. Here he organized and drilled a vested choir of boys, girls and young men, which now numbers sixty voices, and is one of the best in the diocese. While an opponent Of state rights, and a "stalwart" in the days of Grant and Conkling, he has voted the Prohibitionist ticket since 1884. Mr. Herron is a clear, easy and fluent sneaker. He is one of the best sermonizers in his diocese. His words are well chosen and easily understood and his thoughts are carefully considered before expressed in words. Whatever he has to say is interesting and instructive. He is a teacher in the very highest sense of the word. He is an earnest and persistent worker, always active and full of nervous energy. He is passionately fond of music and of teaching it. He has composed and published a number of pieces of sacred music. Mr. Herron's sole aim and object in life, to which everything bends, is to do his whole duty in the position he occupies. Harry D. Hibbs was born November 15. 1865, in Portsmouth. Ohio. His father's name was Jacob C. Hibbs, and his mother's name was Barbara Ann Williamson. He attended the public schools f Portsmouth until he was fifteen years of age. 1008 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. He then engaged in the hardware business with his father, and has been engaged in it ever since, except one year. From 1880 to 1889 he was connected with Hibbs, Angle & Co. From 1889 to 1890, he was connected with the Woolen Mills Company at West Superior, Wisconsin. In 1890, he returned to Portsmouth and again engaged in the hardware business. In 1899, the firm became a corporation, and he became general manager. He was married January 26, 1888 to Miss Sadie Watkins. They have one child, Marjorie. In his political views, he is a republican. He is a member f the following Masonic bodies: Knights Templars, Council, Chapter and Blue Lodge, and f the Elks. In social life he is an excellent entertainer. His humor is ever bright and sparkling. He is the soul f any social function. As a business man, he is energetic and tireless. He has built up a large and successful business and understands every detail f it. While he has done wonderfully well in his own matters, he has at the same time done well for the public. He always favors and promotes public enterprise and will always be found in the front in every measure for the public good. Jacob C. Hibbs was born April 3, 1830, in Union township, Scioto county, Ohio. His father, Jacob Hibbs, was a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother’s maiden name was Rebecca Lucas, a native of Virginia. Our subject was reared in the county and attended the common schools. He took a partial course at the Dennison University, Granville, Ohio, in 1852. He resided on his father's farm until 1860, and in that year he entered the service of his brother, Gen. Joseph Lucas Hibbs, as salesman in a hardware store at Portsmouth. He remained with him as an employe until 1866, when he became a partner. In January, 1870, he went into the hardware business on his own account and continued until 1873, when he took in Mr. Wm. H. Angle as a partner, and the business was conducted as Hibbs, Angle & Co., for a period f twenty-one successful and prosperous years. In 1894 he bought out his partner Wm. H. Angle, and continued the business alone. In the spring f 1899, the business was incorporated as The J. C. Hibbs Hardware Company, capital stock, $60,000. He became the president of the corporation, and has remained such ever since. Owng to Mr. Hibb's poor health he is compelled to spend the winters in a warmer climate, usually El Paso; but his business is successfully attended to by his son Harry D. Hibbs, in his absence. He was married April 30, 1857 to Barbara Ann Williamson of Washington township, Scioto county. They have the following children: two died in infancy, and those surviving are: Flora E., wife of Edward R. Peebles, a salesman in the city f Portsmouth; Lou Grace, wife of Alva Agee, a lecturer f the Farmers' Institutes; and a son, Harry Dixon, conducts the J. C. Hibbs hardware store in Portsmouth. Mr. Hibbs was brought up a democrat and remained as such until 1860, when he became a republican. The same year he joined the Baptist church, and has been a faithful and active working member ever since. As a business man he has had a wonderfully successful career and has richly earned that leisure in his old age which he is now enjoying. William Lois Hitchcock was born in Muscatine, Iowa, December 12, 1866. His parents were Charles and Alma (Lee) Hitchcock. His father died before William was seven years old and he came to Sciotoville and worked in the Fire Brick Works before he was twelve years of age. He received a common school education in the Sciotoville schools. In politics, he has always been a republican. In 1886, he married Lily Purdy. He has served in nearly every capacity as a firebrick worker, beginning at the bottom of the ladder and working his way to the top. He is now superintendent of three yards: Scioto Fire Brick Company, Webster Fire Brick Company, and the Blast Furnace Fire Brick Company. To begin as a day laborer and at thirty-six to be a superintendent of three separate businesses is a career to which any young American could proudly aspire. It demonstrates what can be attained by a close study of and application' to business. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1009 John Hagan was born March 3, 1843 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father was Cornelius Hogan, who lived and died a resident of New Orleans. His mother's maiden name was Mary J. Lee, a native of New York state. His parents emigrated to New Orleans from the state of New York in the early thirtys. Our subject was the oldest child of the family. His father died when he was twelve years old, and his mother died when he was thirteen years of age. His father had been a soldier of the Mexican war from Louisiana, had been wounded in the knee, in one of the battles, and died from the effects of the wound. Our subject attended school in New Orleans. One John Adams was his guardian, and he sent him and his sister to the Ironton schools about 1856. Their aunt Catharine Payne came along and took charge of him. He went to school in Ironton about two years, and then ran away from his home and located in the French Grant and worked for Travis Herrel. From there he came into the Scioto valley and worked among the Noels, as a farm hand, until the war broke out. He enlisted August 5, 1861 in Company "A," 33rd 0. V. I., and served until July 12, 1865. He was promoted from private to Sergeant November 1, 1864, in the Atlanta Campaign. July 2, 1863, he was wounded twice at the battle of Stone river. In the same battle he was lying down and a ball struck his right elbow, and then passed into his right thigh where it has since remained. July 5, 1864, at the battle of Chattahoochee river, he was wounded in the right thigh in the same place as the other wound, only the ball went through. March 16, 1865, when the war was almost over he was wounded in the left foot at Averysboro, North Carolina. He was the first man to be inside the line at Savannah, Ga., and he was at the surrender of Gen. Joe Johnson. He was mustered out July 12, 1865. December 6, 1865, he married Maria J. Noel, a daughter of Peter Noel, the oldest son of Philip Noel, who died in 1850. Our subject has had seven children, four of whom died in childhood. His surviving children are William Everett, a practicing physician at Frederick, Mahoning county, Ohio, who married Abigail Groniger; his daughter Martha Jane, who married Frank Ford of Portsmouth, Ohio; his son Edwin Winfield is a farmer residing near his father. Mr. Hogan was a democrat until 1877, when he became a repubican, and has continued such ever since. He belongs to the Aurora Lodge, Mt. Vernon Chapter, Solomon Council and Calvary Commandery, Masonic bodies in Portsmouth. He was a school director in his district for nineteen years, and trustee of the township for sixteen years. Mr. Hogan is one of those who can always be depended on. He gravely considers before he gives his word, but once given, he will live up to any agreement made by him. He is always good company and knows how to entertain his friends. George Willis Holman was born August 1, 1851. His father was John Holman. a native of England. His mother's maiden name was Laura Curtis a native of New York. Our subject was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, went through the schools of Portsmouth and was graduated from the High School in 1870. At the age of twenty he started in as a clerk in Peter Brodbeck's dry goods store and remained there two years. In 1873, he went to Keystone furnace in Jackson county, and clerked in a store. He remained there two years. After this he was one year in the milling business in Portsmouth, Ohio with Dr. C. C. Fulton. In 1876 he went to Quinnimont, West Virginia, and was clerk in a furnace store. In 1880 he went to Longdale, Virginia, Alleghany county, and became a store keeper and purchaser of supplies for the furnaces and has been engaged in that business ever since. He was married Dec. 15. 1851 to Sadie Wait, daughter of John H. Wait, an old resident of Portsmouth. The names of his children are: Natalie and George. He is a republican in his political views, and a member of the Methodist church. Mr. Holman is esteemed by all who know him for his high character. He is one of the most genial and companionable f men, valuable in church, lodge and community and one who can always he depended on to do his share of work and do it to every one's satisfaction. 1010 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. John Henry Holman was born August 9, 1860 at South Webster, Scioto county, Ohio. His father was Herman Holman and his mother's maiden name was Isabel Mittendorf. He attended the common schools until he was sixteen years of age, when ha went to Delaware for a year. At the age of nineteen he went to Sciotoville and worked in the store of the Sciotoville Fire Brick Company where he remained two years. He went west in 1882 and was gone about a year. In 1883 he engaged in the brick business in Sciotoville and was there until May 16, 1892 when he went into the employment of J. F. Davis druggist and remained there during his life. When the business was incorporated he became secretary and treasurer. For two years before his death, he traveled for the company. He was taken sick May 12, 1901 and died July 8, 1901 of typhoid fever after one relapse. He was married June 2, 1886 to Lilias Seva Smith, daughter f the late L. P. N. Smith. They had one son David Harmon who died in infancy and one daughter, Stephanie S. Mr. Holman was a member of the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias and a member of the Commercial Club. He was a republican in his political views. As a clerk and as a manager he has developed wonderful business ability and had he survived, would have made as great a success in the business as his predecessor, J. F. Davis had done before him. His death was one of the saddest events which ever took place. He was so full f life, so full f energy, with wonderful capacity and ability for business, it seemed the irony f fate that he should have been taken away in the flower of manhood. All f his friends loved him and could not say too much in his praise. Cornelius Honaker, M. D., was born in Bath county, Kentucky, October 11, 1831. He is the son f Charles Wesley Honaker, a native of Virginia, and Sarah (England) Honaker. His father was a Judge of Carter county, Kentucky. His boyhood and youth were spent in Carter county Kentucky, where he obtained a common school education. He studied medicine with Drs. W. England and Samuel Ellis of Lewis county, Kentucky. He took a first course in the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, in 1859 and 1860. He came to Nile township, Scioto county, Ohio, in 1861. He attended a second course in the Ohio Medical College in 1883 and 1884 and graduated on March 7, 1884. He has been a farmer and has practiced medicine in Nile township ever since 1884. He was married June 8, 1863 to Emily J. Storer. They have two children: Morris Simpson, killed in a wreck on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad in 1890 and Lucy, wife of A. King Veazey. He was a democrat before the war, a republican in 1864 and until 1876, when he became a democrat, but he voted for McKinley in 1896. He is a member of the M. E. church and for ten years was a class leader and Sunday school superintendent. He is a very excellent citizen and is so esteemed in his own community. Hermann Huels, Sr., was born October 31, 1834, at Rhede, Westphalen, Prussia. His parents were Hermann and Elizabeth (Knipper) Huels. He attended the schools of Gronau, Westphalen until he was fourteen years of age, when he was apprenticed to learn the dyer's trade and served an apprenticeship for three years. He remained one year after his apprenticeship with his master, and traveled as was customary, in his country. until 1863, working in a great many towns in Germany, France, Switzerland, and Austria. Then he determined to go to the United States. He left Bremen, July 31, 1864 and landed in the United States the August following. He went to Springfield, Illinois, and remained until the following October, when he went to Cincinnati and followed his trade for one Year. In October, 1865, he went to Chillicothe where he worked for a Mr. Dueber, and on September 10, 1866 he married his daughter, Pauline. On February 15, 1870, he came to Portsmouth and purchased the dye house belonging to F. Zeliner. He enlarged the business, and purchased machinery for dyeing with steam. He has been very successful in business. He has been a member of the German Benevolent Society for over thirty years, and is a member of St. Peter's Benevolent Society. He is a director of the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1011 German Building and Loan Association. He was a member of the City Council from the Second ward from 1899 to 1901, and is now president of the non-partisan Fire Board of the city of Portsmouth. He is a democrat, and a member of St. Mary's church. He has the following children: Hermann, born in 1869, at Chillicothe, Ohio; Emil J., born in 1872, a druggist, now in Brooklyn. New York; Charles, born in 1875, who served in the Spanish War in the 6th United States Infantry; Anna, the wife of Dr. J. E. Bickle, of Fort Wayne, Indiana; Otillie, at home; Albert, born in 1886, now in Brooklyn, New York, learning the drug business with his brother Emil. Jesse Clough Hurd was born December 1, 1839 at Jackson Furnace. His father was Jacob S. Hurd, who was born near Concord, N. H. His mother's maiden name was Sarah E. Clough, a daughter of Dr. Abner Clough, who is buried at Franklin Furnace. His grandfather's name was John Hurd, who came to the French Grant, and is buried at Portsmouth, 0. His grandfather Clough came to Scioto county in an early date. John Ricker Hurd was the oldest child. The other three are: Jesse C., Alice Riggs and Joseph H. Our subject remained at Jackson Furnace until he was five years of age. His father was book-keeper and clerk at Jackson Furnace. In 1884. the family moved to Franklin Furnace, where he was a partner in the furnace with the Goulds and was clerk. A few years later the family moved to Junior Furnace, where he went on the river as captain. In 1852, the family moved to Portsmouth, where they remained until 1870. Our subject enlisted in Company F, Second Kentucky V. I. May 17, 1861 as a private for three years. He was appointed Sergeant May 17, 1861, promoted to 2nd Lieutenant January 25, 1862; First Lieutenant February 6, 1862; and then was made Captain of Company I, June 13, 1863, and was mustered out with the company June 19, 1864. This regiment was in West Virginia, and at the battles of Shiloh and Murfreesboro, and Chickamauga. He came to Jackson in the fall of 1864. and has lived there ever since. He was engaged at the Diamond furnace as clerk until 1869. He was at Orange furnace, as a clerk until 1874, then went into the coal business until 1887, when he went into the Iron Bank as a partner and assistant cashier. He afterwards became president, which position he has had for three years. He was married in September, 1866 to Julia Dungan, daughter of Levi Dungan. They have six children. Jesse, superintendent of the coal mines at Jackson; Alice C., at home; Levi Dungan, a medical student at Columbus; Harold H., a student at Ada. Ohio; Ethel H., and Bertha at home. Mr. Hurd is a republican, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In the town f Jackson. Captain Jesse C. Hurd is held in the very highest esteem. He possesses all the qualities that make a good citizen, father and husband, and is above reproach in every respect. Colonel John Richer Hurd was born January 4, 1838 at Jackson Furnace, Jackson county, Ohio. His father was Jacob S. Hurd and his mother's maiden name was Sarah E. Clough. Until he was 14 years of age, he lived in the furnace region near Portsmouth. Part of the time he attended the furnace schools, and the remainder, he played and hunted. When he was 14 years f age, the family moved to Portsmouth, and he attended school there a short time, and then went to boating on the western rivers, and was out on the plains and in the mountains of New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. He returned from there, and went into the employment of Joseph M. G. Smith in the construction and operation f his distillery in Greenup county, Ky., and remained there until the war broke out. When the war began, he entered the service May 17, 1861 as Captain of Co. F, in the Second Kentucky Infantry. He was promoted to Major January 25, 1862, and was made Lieutenant Colonel January 13, 1863. He was mustered out with the regiment June 19, 1864, (see Co. F., 2nd Ky. Infantry, page 226.) He was captured by the enemy in July, 1861, and incarcerated in Libby Prison at Richmond, Va., from which he lescaped with Col. W. H. Raynor and a Lieutenant Murphy in September, 1861, an account of which was published in "Harper's Monthly Magazine." Col. Hurd was in the battles of Shiloh, 1012 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. Stone river, Chickamauga and many smaller affairs. He was appointed Colonel of the 173 regiment 0. V. I., September 18, 1864 and served as such until June 26, 1865. Col. Hurd returned to Portsmouth directly after the war. He was married October 13, 1867, to Miss Alice R. Tracy, daughter, of Charles 0. Tracy. In the same year, he was a candidate for representative on the republican ticket against the late Hon. James W. Newman, and received 2,290 votes; Newman received 2,547 votes and a majority of 257. That was the year, in which the Republican party suffered a Waterloo defeat in Ohio, on account of the advocacy of Negro suffrage, but Col. Hurd has no regrets for the part he took in that campaign. He canvassed the county, and spoke in almost every school district. He made a most active and creditable canvass, and was defeated only because the entire ticket was defeated. In January, 1868, Col. Hurd moved to Albia, Iowa, where he resided for a number f years; from there, he removed to Fort Dodge, Kansas, and from there to Pueblo, Colorado, where he now resides. Col. Hurd has two children, Tracy S. Hurd f Newton, Kansas, and Mrs. John H. Shaw of Pueblo, Colorado. He was the beau ideal of a soldier and it would have been better for his country if he had made the prfession of arms his life vocation. Adolph Hurth was born June 17, 1838, in Germany. He came to the United States in 1854 and was thirty-five days crossing the ocean. His father, Jacob Hurth was a carpenter and died in Portsmouth in 1856. His mother died when he was very young. He attended the common schools in Germany until he was sixteen years old. In the meantime, he learned the bakerls trade and worked a short time at that before he came to America. On arriving at Portsmouth, in 1854 he commenced, at once, to work for M. & S. Timmonds and worked for them until 1862. He then began work as a clerk in Cutler & Brown's liquor store. He remained in this same place under different employers until December, 1895. He commenced business for himself December 1, 1895. He is a democrat. He is a member of St. Mary's church and a trustee f the same and has been for twenty-four years. March 28, 1864, he was married to Elizabeth Reitz, daughter of John and Amelia Reitz. They have three sons: Edward, Adolph and Lewis. Andrew J. Hyland was born April 11, 1863, on Pine creek in Green township, this county. He is the son of John and Mary (Doyle) Hyland, both natives f Ireland, who located first in Cincinnati and afterwards in Scioto county. Andrew was raised on a farm and educated in the country schools until he was sixteen. He attended school two years after he became of age. He went to Montana in 1884, and was given charge of the machinery in the concentrator of a mining plant near Gregory. After eighteen months f mining experience, he came back home and learned telegraphy. He was employed by the Norfolk & Western Railway Company as agent at Franklin Furnace until 1901, when he resigned his position to turn his attention to a mercantile business which he had been carrying on for some years as a side line, and which had grown so as to demand his undivided attention. His store at Franklin Furnace burned in 1898, causing a loss of $2,000, but he rebuilt immediately and now handles a large line f general merchandise as well as machinery and farm implements. He has been postmaster at Franklin Furnace for three years past. He is a republican and a member of St. Peter's Roman Catholic church near Wheelersburg, Ohio. He was united in marriage with Myrtle Eakins, daughter of W. C. Eakins of Sciotoville, September 22, 1892. By this union three children have been born: Orville Ray and Stanley, boys; and Dein, a girl. Mr. Hyland is a citizen highly valued by all who know him. He is upright and straightforward in all things. He is a true friend and an untiring worker in any cause he espouses. He is a positive working factor in everything with which he is connected. John W. Jackson was born in Bloom township, near Bloom Furnace, Scioto county, Ohio, in 1836. Hit father, Evan Jackson, came from Fayette county, Pennsylvania, to Ohio, in BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1013 1815. After living in Adams county about four years, he. removed to Scioto Furnace and then to Bloom Furnace. His mother’s maiden name was Rebecca Whuey a native of Kentucky. Her parents both died in Louisville, Kentucky. Our subject received a common school education and when nine years of age, removed to Kentucky and remained there until he enlisted in the 14th Kentucky Infantry, Company E, October 15, 1861. He was discharged January 31, 1865. After his return from the army, he came to Scioto county and has been a farmer in Madison township since. He was elected a Justice of the Peace in Madison township in 1898 and was re-elected and is now serving on his second term. He was a whig until 1854 and then became a republican. On October 29, 1859 he was married to Josephine Smith, daughter of David and Rebecca Smith, natives of Virginia and Kentucky. They have six children: Emily, the wife of Andrew McWilliams of Rush township; Caroline, late wife of William Allen; Charlotte, wife of Monroe Lambert of Lawrence county; Ella, deceased, wife of I'. K. Martin; John of Jackson county; and Albert at home. Archibald W. H. Jamieson, our subject was born in August, 1862, at Movanagher Castle, near Kilrea, county Derry, Ireland. His father was Hugh Jamieson, a gentleman farmer, and his mother was Elizabeth Henderson, aunt of Mrs. Capt. N. W. Evans, of Portsmouth, Ohio. He was started out in the cold world with the name of Archibald William Henderson, as a prenomen and has managed to struggle along with it to the present time. He attended the national schools in Ireland from five to eighteen years of age. After that he was dubbed a gentleman farmer, but in reality spent most of his time in athletics and won several Medals. Football was his particular vanity. In 1887, he quit the business of farming and in 1889, came to the United States on a visit. He really came, like the spies in Canaan, to view the land. Soon after his arrival, he made up his mind that the United States was the best country for him and remained. He thought he could make a better citizen to study one year and did so at the Normal School at Lebanon. In 1890, he went into the employment of Lowry & Goebel, in the carpet trade, in Cincinnati, and remained there until 1892. In July, 1892, he started in the oil business with the Standard Oil Company, and remained with them till 1893, when he went into the employment of Charles H. Moore & Co., manufacturers and dealers in oil, in Cincinnati, and has been with them ever since. In 1893, he revisited Ireland and spent the three summer months. In June, 1895, he revisited Ireland, and voted for a Member of Parliament, the day after his arrival. On June 5, 1897, he visited the Probate Court f Hamilton, and declared his intentions to become an American citizen. At the same time he concluded to attend to some other business, in the same court, and took out a license to marry Miss Nellie Haight, a daughter of the late Jared Haight, of the firm of Burbeck & Haight, who furnished the "hard tack" in the late civil war. On the next day, June 8, 1895, he was married to Miss Haight, and the two started to Ireland for a three month’s honeymoon trip. He spent that time visiting his mother, brother and sister at Kilrea, Ireland, and in traveling in Ireland and Scotland. On his return, he went to housekeeping at 1575 Pullen Avenue, Northside, Cincinnati, where he has since resided. He has one child, Elizabeth Henderson, born June 8, 1896, on the first anniversary of his marriage. He and his wife visited Ireland in 1900. While he would like to spend every summer in "old Ireland," yet he is at heart as loyally American as if he were born of six generations of citizens of the United States. In his political views, he as a republican, and in his religious views a Presbyterian. His mother, brother and sister reside in a home in Ireland on the river Bann, on the site of Movanagher Castle. A portion of the castle tower and walls are still standing, though the castle proper was destroyed by Cromwell in 1649. Within 500 yards of his birthpace was an old Danish Fort, Coneybery. The river Bann in the vicinity of his former home, is noted for its eel and other fisheries. Mr. Jamieson's home in Ireland has been in the family for over two hundred years and there is no wonder at his attachment for it which takes him back every few summers. But one in each generation of his family became an American citizen and he is the representative of the 1014 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. third generation. His uncle, Joseph Henderson and his great-uncle of the same name, represent the two former generations. Mr. Jamieson is of that class of north of Ireland Irishmen, descended from Scotchmen, who located in Ireland in the seventeenth century which makes the world go, and he proposes to do his share of that work. Where Alexander Stewart and Alexander McDonald, men of his nationality, succeeded, he thinks he will not fail. We predict a successful and prosperous future for him. William Henry Washington Jenkins was born at Harrisonville, Scioto county, Ohio, September 15, 1830, and was the only son f William Jenkins, who died September 5; 1855. His motherls maiden name was Polly Shumway, born at Reading, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1816, and died September 9, 1892. His early life was spent near his childhood home. He was married September 9, 1871, to Samantha Robertson, youngest daughter of Samuel S., and Jane (Taylor) Robertson. He obtained a good common school education and taught in the public schools of this county from the fall of 1869 to December 23, 1881. He studied surveying and in January, 1884, was appointed deputy County Surveyor, and has held that position, or special deputy, a great portion of the time since. He served one term as clerk f Madison township from April, 1881, also one term as assessor of Harrison township, from April, 1890. Having studied civil engineering, he entered the city civil engineer's office under B. C. Bratt, city engineer, on July 13, 1895, and served as rodman and assistant civil engineer until May 1, 1899. Though of different political views, he was retained as assistant city civil engineer by Mr. Bratt's successor, Major John I. Hudson, during his entire term f service, ending January 4, 1900. During Mr. Hudson's term the sanitary sewer was built, Gallia street was paved from North Waller street to Young street, Offnere street was paved from Gallia street to Twelfth street and Second street from Market to Chillicothe street and Chillicothe street was re-paved from Second street to Ninth street, making the largest amount of public improvements ever done by the city in any one year. A flood defense commission was appointed by the City Council in the spring of 1901, to make surveys, plans and estimates and embody the same in a report to said City Council for placing valves in the sewers, building dykes, pumping stations, etc., for the protection f the city from all floods in the Ohio river of sixty feet or less. Mr. Jenkins was selected as civil engineer for the flood defense commission, and under their instructions, made the surveys, plans and estimates for the same. The report of the commission was adopted by council and made the basis for all future improvements in that direction and districts Numbers 1 and 3 have been practically completed according to said plans. At present he is civil engineer for the Ohio Valley Traction Company, having charge of the improvements f the old line and building the new extension eastward. Mr. Jenkins is a faithful and conscientious officer and a good citizen. Sanford Bundy Jennings was born in Vinton county, Ohio, near Hamden Furnace, July 3, 1846. He was named for the Hon. Hezekiah Bundy. His father, Enos Jennings, was born in Juniata county, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1794. His mother, Catharine Murphy, was born December 25, 1802. They were married April 2, 1820. His father died May 4, 1857, near Hamden Furnace, and his mother died at the same place August 15, 1868. They are buried at the Bundy cemetery, near Wellston, Ohio. Our subject attended the public schools near his home, and for a short time at the Ohio University at Athens. At the age f seventeen he enlisted in Company G, 7th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, September 16, 1862, for three years, and was made Commissary Sergeant of the Company. He gave his age as nineteen, though in reality he was in his seventeenth year. After the battle of Nashville, December 15, 1864, his company was detailed as body guard to Gen. John M. Schofield. He served until June 22, 1865. After the war he received an appointment as express messenger on the Portsmouth Branch of the Marietta and Cincinnati railroad, and afterwards on the main line. On January 20, 1870, W. H. H. Cadot resigned as the Adams BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1015 Express agent at Portsmouth, and Mr. Jennings was appointed in his place. In April, 1872, he and Pat Prendergast took the Biggs House, under the tirm of Prendergast and Jennings. June 8, 1873, they leased it for five years and run it until 1876, when Mr. Prendergast died, and Mr. Jennings conducted the hotel alone until January, 1879, when W. H. Williams went into partnership with him, under the firm of Jennings and Williams. This continued until December, 1881, when Mr. Jennings sold out to Mr. Williams and left Portsmouth in March, 1881. He was married March 29, 1881, to Miss Emma Johnson, daughter of the late George Johnson. His health had given signs of breaking down, and in the summer of 1881, he managed the Manitou House at Manitou Springs, Colorado, and spent the winter in Portsmouth. On May 2, 1882, he started west. At Kansas City, July 3. 1882, he was taken very sick. He got better, but was found dead in his bed July 17, 1882. He was a Knight-Templar Mason. As an express agent and as a hotel landlord he was very popular with all with whom he did business. The hotel business was successful in his hand. Albert Tracy Johnson was born May 18, 1857 in Portsmouth, Ohio. His father was George Johnson, and his mother’s maiden name was Mary Ruth Tracy, a daughter of Samuel M. Tracy. Our subject attended the public schools of Portsmouth through the Grammar grades, went to Kenyon College for four years, and left at the close of the junior year. In 1875 he came back to Portsmouth and engaged in business with the Scioto Fire Brick Company at Sciotoville, as assistant in the store. He remained there two years and then went into the Portsmouth National Bank, where he remained until 1883. Then he went into the First National Bank of Portsmouth as cashier, where he remained until 1892, when he became president of the Portsmouth Fire Brick Company. On June 1, 1901, the Portsmouth Co., the South Webster Fire Brick Co., the Blast Furnace Fire Brick Company and the Kentucky Fire Brick Company, were incorporated as the Portsmouth & Kentucky Fire Brick Company, and Mr. Johnson has since been its president. He was married October 25. 1882, to Miss Margaret F. Tewksbury, daughter of Moor R. Tewksbury. Their children are: Ruth Baird, a graduate of Harcourt Seminary in June 1901, now a student at Smith College, Northampton, Mass.; George Tewksbury, now a senior in the University School at Cleveland; Jean T., a student in the public schools at Portsmouth. Mr. Johnson is a member of the First Presbyterian church f Portsmouth, 0., and is a republican in his political views. He is a 32nd degree Mason, and a member of the Syrian Temple of the Mystic Shrine in Cincinnati. He has well filled every position held by him. He has shown great executive and administrative ability in all business entrusted to him. He has been successful, financially and socially, and is one of the most popular men in Portsmouth. Isaac Johnson was born March 6, 1838 in Scioto county, Ohio, the son of James 0. and Phoebe (Jeffords) Johnson. His grandfather, Henry C. Jeffords, was a pioneer of Scioto county. He moved to Portsmouth in 1822 and in 1832 he kept the Scioto Inn. Our subject received a common school education and was raised a farmer. In 1892, he sold his farm f 236 acres in Scioto county and removed to Fayette county. In March, 1893, he located on a farm near Bloomingburg, Ohio and remained there until 1896, when he sold this farm and removed to Washington. C. H. Ohio, where he has resided since. He has been township trustee and held various other township offices at different times. He was made a Master Mason in 1873, and has been a trustee of Lucasville Lodge, No. 465. He is a republican. In February, 1864. he was married to Fannie L. Yeager, who died in January, 1866. In 1867, he was married to Rachel Kendall, daughter of Milton and Ruth Kendall of Portsmouth. They have three children: Idora B., the wife of Frank B. Thomas, who resides in Del Norte. Colorado; Elmer E., is a telegraph operator fo the Midland division of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. and resides at home; Bessie Maude, a graduate of the Washington C. H. High School in the class of 1901, resides with her parents. Mr. Johnson is an excel- 1016 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. lent citizen, one who always does his part in toe community, and who leads rather than follows. He is a man of positive force wherever he is placed and his influence and acts always count for the best for himself and those about him. Jesse Johnson was born October 26, 1849, at the mouth of Bear creek. He is the son of Isaac Newton Johnson and Sarah Cockrell his wife, daughter of Jesse Cockrell of Lucasville. His grandparents Isaac and Jane (Clark) Johnson were natives of Hampshire county, Virginia. They were married February 28, 1805 and came to Scioto county, in 1807, and located near Scioto Inn, where Clifford now is. Their son, Isaac N. was born August 16, 1821. Isaac Johnson died February 18, 1832 and his wife July 11, 1845. The first was of English descent and the latter of German descent. His grandfather Cockrell was of English descent and his grandmother of Scotch descent and her maiden name was Anna Marsh. Our subject was raised on a farm and attended a country school. Later he attended the Iron City Commercial College, at Pittsburg. He commenced farming in 1873 for himself and has been engaged in farming in all of its different phases ever since. He would be rated as a first class farmer judging from his industry, methods and success. Although not an active politician, he holds to the democratic faith and has never sought offrce. He was married February 12, 1873, to Miss Rebecca Simpson, youngest daughter of Elias Simpson of the West Side. John Jones (Plumber) was born in Wales in 1844. His father was Henry Jones and his mother's maiden name was Jane Thomas. When he was three or four months old, his parents came to this country and located near Oak Hill, Gallia county. His father was a farmer, and remained near Oak Hill for a short time, when he purchased a farm near Gallia Furnace. There, Jones went to school until 1862. On September 20, 1862, at the age of eighteen, he enlisted in Co. D, 1st regiment, Ohio Volunteer Heavy Artillery, as a private, but was mustered in Co. H. He did duty with Co. D from the start and was transferred to Co. D, April 1, 1863, and was mustered out with the company July 25, 1865, at Knoxville, Tennessee. He was captured by the enemy February 23, 1865, with twelve companions at Mosier's Mill, East Tennessee, but he was a prisoner only eighteen hours, just long enough to render him eligible to join the "Society f the Prisoners of the Civil War." He and five companions escaped from their captors on the night after they were captured; the other six who were captured, were taken to Richmond, Virginia. After his discharge, Mr. Jones went to Louisville, Kentucky and started to learn the plumber's trade in March, 1866, with the Angell & Cochran foundry and machine works. He worked for them for a few months. After this, he became a street car driver, for a time and then went to Cincinnati and afterwards to St. Louis, where he took care of horses for the Adams Express Co. He again went to Louisville and from there took a plumbing job at Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He came to Portsmouth, on November 1, 1866 and has been here ever since. He worked for Richard Spry, the plumber, until August 1, 1870, when he went into business for himself. On June 1, 1895 he sold out to E. S. Jenkins, and he has not been in any business since. When he occupied the Gerlach building, he carried the largest supply of plumbing goods f every kind and mill supplies ever carried in southern Ohio. Mr. Jones was a coppersmith. He worked in sheet-iron and set boilers and engines whenever required by any of the furnaces. He has acquired a competence and is trying to live easy. He is one of the few soldiers of the Civil War who never applied for or obtained a pension. He has greatly preserved his youthful appearance, and proposes to put off old age just as long as he can. John Jones (Ex-Postmaster) was born January 1, 1848 at Mt. Sterling, Ky. His father was David E. Jones and his mother Elizabeth Edwards, daughter f the Rev. John Edwards. His father and mother were both born in Wales. He lost his mother when he was but eight months old. His father, David E. Jones enlisted as a private in BIOGRAPHICAL, SKETCHES - 1017 Company A, 12th regiment, Connecticut Infantry, September 18. 1862, at New Orleans. He was captured October 19, 1864 at Cedar creek, Virginia and died November 25, 1864 in prison at Salisbury, North Carolina. Our subject came to Portsmouth in 1853 and spent his boyhood and received- his education in the public schools of the city. He commenced business by clerking in the hat store of J. H. Johnson, in 1866. In 1870, he started a men's furnishing store on West Second street, Portsmouth, and was engaged in that business for thirty years. Mr. Jones, though f Welsh descent, was always a democrat in his political views and a very strong one. He always took a great interest in the affairs of the party. He was a member of the Board of Education from 1888 until 1894. From 1892 to 1894 he was president of that board. He was Postmaster of Portsmouth from 1894 to 1898, and a member of the City Council from 1899 to the present time. He was president of the council for two years, 1899 to 1901. He was elected president of the Board of Education when his party were in the minority. On June 2, 1902 he was appointed a member of the Board of Review for the city of Portsmouth for three years. He was married November 4, 1873 to Miss Maggie M. Shaw, daughter of William and Ellen Lynn Shaw. They have two children, Ralph W., a salesman in Columbus, Ohio, for the C. J. Craig mens' furnishing store, and Blanche Thomas, wife of A. E. Thomas, of Columbus. His son, Ralph, is married to Miss Irene Jordon, daughter of the late William Jordon of Portsmouth, Ohio. Mr. Jones was very popular and very successful as a business man. All of his acquaintances are his friends and strange to say, some of his very best friends are his political opponents. He has always been a leader in the affairs of the Democratic party, and is usually a delegate to the county, district and state conventions of the Democratic party. If there is any hard work to do among the democrats of his county, it is usually put on him and he does it just the same as if it was the most important thing that he had to do in this world. Since 1900, Mr. Jones has not been actively engaged in any business but has been taking life easy. He is a model citizen, always in favor of public improvements and anything for the benefit of the public. Lafayette Jones was born in Brush Creek township. October 26, 1852. His father was Paul Karr Jones and his mother was Elizabeth (Clark) Jones, daughter of James Clark. Our subject received his early education in the common schools and afterwards attended the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, where he was graduated in 1880. He began teaching in 1872, and continued to teach until 1896. While at Lebanon, he studied surveying and civil engineering. In the fall of 1880, he began work as a surveyor and has continued it since. He was deputy surveyor of Scioto county from 1888 till 1891. He was elected County Surveyor in 1897, and took the office in September, 1898. He was reelected in 1890 and is the present incumbent. He was married October, 1881, to Margaret McDermed, daughter of David McDermed. They have two children: Mary Winifred and Ada. He is an enthusiastic republican and an active politician. He is a member of the Methodist church known as McKendreels Chapel near McGaw, Ohio. He is a good plain, common, every-day American citizen with a well-developed and highly educated conscience which he tries to live up to. He tries to do every duty apparent to him. Thomas Hart Benton Jones, son of Andrew B. and Vienna (Williams) Jones was born on his father's farm on Scioto Brush creek, four miles west of Otway, March 5, 1838. His father was a son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Cain) Jones. Andrew Jones was a soldier in the War of 1812 and came to Adams county, Ohio, from Virginia. His father was a native of Wales. The maternal grandparents of Mr. Jones were James and Elizabeth (Murphy) Williams. James Williams was a soldier in the Revolutionary war (see Revolutionary Soldiers) and was one f the pioneers of Adams county. He died July 5, 1842 and his wife November 11, 1855. The subject f this sketch was reared on the farm on which he was born and attended the district school. In 1859, he received a certificate to teach. 1018 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. He taught school three winters and then went back to farming, at which he has been engaged up to the present time. In 1860 and 1861, he was Assessor of Brush Creek township. He was then elected Trustee and served until 1865 and was elected township Clerk the same year, and re-elected in the succeeding year. In 1867, he was again elected Trustee and served several terms thereafter. He is now one of the Trustees of the township and has been a member of the Board of Education for several terms. He is a democrat and his office holding would indicate that he has been prominent in local politics and that his friends have much confidence in his integrity. Mr. Jones is a member of the Christian Union church. He was married to Elizabeth H. Freeman, daughter of Moses and Margaret (McCormick) Freeman, April 12, 1863. They have six children, as follows: Emma Estella born January 5, 1864, married William H. Davis of Farragut, Iowa, December 23, 1896; James Moakley born August 1, 1865, married March 5, 1891 to Martha A. Liston; Bertha Ethel born March 24, 1872, married William E. Brown and resides at McDermott this county; Thomas Carew born June 16, 1874 is at home; Edwin Watson, born January 2, 1878, at home; Alva Burton born April 6, 1882 is a teacher in the country schools. He is progressive in his ideas and has most excellent judgment in all matters of the practical affairs of life. He is always interested in questions of social, moral and educational improvement. He is hospitable in his home, prudent in home affairs, temperate and industrious. He is generous on all occasions where such quality is in demand. Captain John Kaps was born November 2, 1835, in Bavaria. His father was Kasper Kaps, and his mother's maiden name was Margaret Heiman. They had six children, f whom our subject was the second. His parents left Germany when he was six weeks old, and located at Buffalo, New York. Soon afterwards the family came to Piketon, because Michael Nessler, who resided there, was a cousin. Mr. Nessler recommended him to locate in Portsmouth, and he did so in 1836. In 1845, he went to reside with George S. Pursell and to learn the brick business, and while there he attended the Portsmouth schools until the year, 1856 when he formed a partnership with Mr. Pursell, as Pursell and Kaps. He remained with him until 1858, when he went to Virginia and engaged with the Kanawha Company, working at his trade until January, 1860, and then returned to Portsmouth. He enlisted April 16, 1861 in Company G, 1st 0. V. I. and was mustered out August 1, 1861. On his return from the first three monthsl service, he went into the grocery business at Portsmouth, with Philip E. Hard, as Hard and Kaps. He continued in that until 1862, when he entered Company C, of the 91st 0. V. I., as First Lieutenant. He served as such until July 6, 1864, when he was transferred to Company D, as its Captain, and was transferred again to Company C, on the 1st f September, 1864. He was mustered out June 24, 1865. On March 1, 1866, he entered into partnership with Peter Kaps, his brother, in the manufacturing of brick and in building, continuing in that until April, 1894, when the firm was dissolved. This firm of Kaps Brothers was known for its integrity and reliability, and it built most of the important structures in Portsmouth during the time it was in business. Since 1894, Mr. Kaps has been engaged in the manufacture of brick. From January, 1887, to January, 1893, Mr. Kaps was one of the County Commissioners of Scioto county. For the five years last past he has been a member of the County Tax Commission. He was married February 13, 1873, to Jennie McIntyre, daughter of Daniel McIntyre. They have had two sons: John D., a lawyer in New York city. His second son, Harry, is engaged in the brick business with his father. Mr. Kaps is a republican and a member of the Bigelow Methodist church. For integrity Mr. Kaps stands second to none. He is perfectly reliable and is always certain to meet any and all obligations. Peter Kaps was born in Bavaria, May 19, 1833. His father was Kasper Kaps, a stock dealer, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Heiman. Both were natives of BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1019 Germany. In 1836, he came to Scioto county and Located in Portsmouth, Ohio. He received a common school education and learned the brick layer's trade. While a boy he worked for Daniel Parsley, at farming and brickmaking. He made hay on the land above Court and Seventh streets. November 9, 1861, he enlisted in the 15th Kentucky Infantry, and served three years and three months. He was made First Sergeant April 3, 1862. He was promoted to First Lieutenant July 13, 1863, and was mustered out January 14, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky. He served in the City Council of Portsmouth from 1872 to 1873, and from 1875 to 1878. He was the author of the city garbage and hog ordinances. He has always been a republican. January 1, 1871, he was married to Elizabeth Evans. They have three children: James E., George P., and Henry H. Mr. Kaps is a typical working man. No man was ever busier than he or has done more hard work in the same length of time. He is one of the most kind hearted and obliging of men. He has always possessed the respect and confidence of those in his employment and he has had the good will and friendship of every person for whom he ever worked. He has built as many brick structures as any man who ever worked in Portsmouth, and has given satisfaction in every case. For six years he has been living on a farm on. the west side and has carried on farming there and at the same time has worked at his trade in Portsmouth. Lieutenant Zenis Keller was born July 30, 1841, in Madison township, Scioto county, Ohio. His father was Francis Keller and his motherls maiden name was Delilah Culp. He attended school in Madison township until he was sixteen year of age. From that until he was twenty he worked on his father's farm. On August 5, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, 33d 0. V. I., under Captain Samuel Currie. His brother, Sylvester, who has a sketch herein, was a member of the same company. He was wounded on November 25, 1863, at the battle of Mission Ridge. He was shot through the right wrist and right hip with a minnie-ball. This wound disabled him from further service. He was in the hospital, in consequence of it, until August 27, 1864, when he was discharged. He entered Co. H, 191st 0. V. I., as Second Lieutenant March. 8, 1865. He served until August 27, following. The regiment served in the valley, near Winchester, Va., all its time. The officers and soldiers of the 33d Ohio recommended him to be commissioned in the last named regiment. As soon as he left the army, he went to Kirksville, Missouri, and took up the occupation of a farmer. He remained there fourteen years when he located in Johnson county, Kansas, in 1879, as a farmer. He remained there twelve years, till 1891, when he went to Winfield, Cowley county, Kansas, where he has resided ever since. He was city marshal of Winfield in 1900 and 1901, and has followed various occupations there. He was married in 1869, at Kirksville, Missouri, to Mrs. Christina McGill (born Curry) widow of James McGill. He has three children: Martin Luther, in the harness business, residing in Newton, Kansas; Julius Curry, engineer on the New York Central railroad; Oliver Perry, a book-keeper. Mr. Keller made an excellent record as a soldier. As such his conduct was all that could be desired. In his service to his country he had the entire confidence of all the officers and comrades. Having fought for his country and received honorable wounds in its service, he knows its value of citizenship, and conducts himself at all times as a law abiding and patriotic citizen. Captain Sylvester Keller was born July 5, 1845, in Scioto county, Ohio. He was the son of Francis and Delilah Keller. His mother’s maiden name was Culp. His great-grandfather was Francis Keller, who came to West Virginia before 1800. He made salt at the Kanawha salt works and took it to New Orleans to market. He also took many boat loads of pork. He made much money and invested it in lands in Scioto county. Jacob, the grandfather of our subject was born in Pennsylvania, and located in the southern part of Jackson county, Ohio. He started to Missouri in 1865, and died on the way. Francis, the father of our subject, Was born in 180$ and lived in Greenup county, Kentucky, on Tygart, until 1020 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. 1806 when he came to Scioto county. He died in 1881, at the age of 'seventy-three years. School facilities were very meager when our subject was a boy and his education therefore was limited. He enlisted in Company A 33 Regiment 0. V. I. August 5, 1861, and was mustered in at Camp Morrow, Ohio. He was appointed Sergeant September 19, 1863, First Sergeant August 26, 1864, promoted to First Lieutenant January 28, 1865, Captain May 23, 1865, but was not mustered. He re-enlisted at Chattanooga, Tennessee, .January 12, 1864. He resigned January 27, 1865. Mr. Keller has been twice married. His first wife was Elizabeth C. Welch, of Jackson, Ohio, whom he married December 6, 1867. Their children are: Ida Alice, died at the age of thirty-two, wife of Joseph Crabtree; Mary Frances Stephen and William. His first wife died May 4, 1884. He was married a second time to Mrs. Polly Alexander, September 3, 1885. She was a daughter of John Rockwell. The children by this second marriage are: Merton E. aged fourteen; Bessie Florence, age twelve, Isa Edith and Ida Ethel twins, age eight years. His second wife died October 3, 1894. Mr. Keller cast his first vote for John Brough, for Governor of Ohio, and has ever since been a stanch republican, and an active member of the party but has never held any office. He has been postmaster at Koran, Ohio for the past twelve years. He is a member of the United Brethren church. Philip H. Kelley was born April 9, 1823, in county Tipperary Ireland. His father was Timothy Kelley and his mother's maiden name was Bridget Maher. His father, a stock raiser and buyer, died when he was eighteen. He had one sister, Mary, but no brothers. He learned the trade of a stone cutter in Ireland. In 1848, he brought his mother to the United States and located in Auburn, New York. Four years after their arrival his mother died. In 1849, he went to Cleveland, Ohio and followed his trade. In 1851, he began working on the railroad and continued that for two years. In 1853, he determined on beginning for himself and became a contractor for railroad work and on other public structures, usually bridge masonry. In 1855 he was married to Miss Anna Hayes of Delaware, Ohio, sister of Captain Thomas Hayes of the 30th 0. V. I., who has a sketch and picture herein. They had eight children, eight of whom survive: John, Timothy, James, Joseph, William, Edward, Mary and Mrs. Will S. Myers. Thomas and Philip are deceased. Mrs. Kelley died November 24, 1887. Mr. Kelley first came to Portsmouth in 1857. He came to Portsmouth to build the piers of the Suspension bridge at the mouth of the Scioto and concluded to remain. He purchased the Massie block in the sixties and owned it for many years. In 1863, he purchased the home on Jackson street. In 1871, he built the Portsmouth water works and was one of its first board f trustees for three years. In 1871, the Biggs House fire destroyed the Massie block and he rebuilt it at once. In 1881, he built the abutments of the great railroad bridge over the Ohio at Point Pleasant. In 1883, he built the piers of the Cincinnati & Eastern railroad bridge across the Scioto river, two miles north of Portsmouth for $26,000 and lost every dollar of it. He was a devout communicant of the church f the Holy Redeemer and in his political faith, he was a democrat. He was for many years a director of the Farmers' National Bank of Portsmouth, Ohio, but was entirely innocent of any knowledge of the facts of its management which led up to is failure. He was a heavy loser when it went down. He also lost in the failure of the Citizens’ Savings Bank and of George Davis. Mr. Kelley was strictly honest in all his dealings and believed every one else was. Because of his unlimited faith in his fellow men, he suffered many financial losses, but he never repined, nor regretted, nor lost faith in humanity. He knew his trade well and could figure up well in any stone work, and beyond that he did not claim extensive knowledge. He was most candid in his feelings and expressions, always being himself and never assuming any character which was not his own. He was affable and courteous to all. As a neighbor, he was obliging respected and liked. As a citizen, he was liberal minded and public-spirited. His faith in his party and his church was child- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1021 like and admitted of no doubt, or question. He was always ready to grant every favor asked of him. He was incapable of hating any one, and simply pitied those who robbed him. His losses by fire and failures, he bore with the utmost composure. He always met disaster with honor. He died June 15, 1900. In his dying hours, his faith sustained him. He was one f the purest, most simple-minded men who ever lived in Portsmouth. If he had any enemies, he never deserved them. He always did the best he could under any circumstance and never worried about results. No more truthful, sincere, honest, or upright man and citizen ever dwelt in Portsmouth. Andes Jones Kellogg was born in the French Grant, near Haverhill, November 21, 1845. His father, Hiram Kellogg, was born at Franklin Furnace July 28, 1816, the son of William W. and Nancy (Lamb) Kellogg. William Kellogg came to Franklin in 1815 from Vermont, of which state he was a native. He died in 1844. The mother of our subject was Luna (Jones) Kellogg, daughter of Andes and Lucy Jones, natives of Kentucky. Our subject was one of a family of seven children. The wife of Stephen Winkler, of near Hanging Rock, is one of these. Mr. Kellogg received his early education in the district school and later spent three years at the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio. He entered the teaching profession and continued for a period, of ten years, and during that time was considered one f the best educated and most practical teachers in the county. Though he has been a farmer for many years, he has never lost his interest in schools and education. Besides, he is a thoroughly practical and up-to-date farmer and gardener. He is an interesting writer and speaker on subjects of this nature, and takes a delight in doing so. He was married to Alice Bumgarner, in June, 1876. The children of this marriage are: Laura, deceased, Roy, Amy, Hubert, deceased. Grace and Claire. His first wife died in 1893. He was again married. October 26, 1897, to Sarah Bumgarner, a sister of his former wife. Mr. Kellogg is a member of the republican party and has been one of the workers in the party for a number of years. He was elected Clerk of Green township in 1893, and has held the office continuously to the present time, and he makes a most efficient official. He is a member of the Haverhill Grange, the only order of the kind in the county. Captain Alva Vinton Kendall was born May 28, 1832. His father. Jefferson Kendall, was the oldest child f William Kendall and Rachel Brown Kendall. Jeremiah Kendall, the father of General William Kendall, served as a private in Captain William Washington's company, 3rd Virginia regiment. commanded by Colonel Thomas Marshall, father of the Chief Justice, in the Revolutionary war. He enlisted February 23, 1776, to serve two years; was transferred in August, 1777, to Captain G. B. Wallace's company, same regiment; was wounded in September, 1777, and was discharged in January, 1778. Jefferson Kendall enlisted in Battery L, First Ohio Light Artillery, on August 19, 1861, at the age f fifty-four, and was discharged September 27, 1862. on surgeonls certificate of disability. Our subject was born at Junior Furnace, Ohio, while his father was storekeeper there. As a boy he lived at Clinton, Buckhorn and Franklin furnaces, where his father was engaged as book-keeper and store-keeper. The family moved to Wheelersburg, Ohio, prior to 1840, where his father kept a hotel, grocery and drug store. Wheelersburg at that time was a place of considerable importance. as it was the business center for Clinton and Buckhorn furnaces. In the spring of 1849. our subject went to California overland, with a party made up at Wheelersburg. Among them were William McKinley. Worthington Enslow, William Crichton, Dr. Thomas Moxley, William Red-dick, William Fenton, Thomas Burt, and Garrel Duke. They had three wagons, made at Haverhill by Lenninger. The party sent their wagons to St. Joseph, Mo., by steamboat. They bought four yoke of oxen in Illinois for each wagon. They left St. Joseph, Mo., in April, 1849, and drove from ten to twenty-two miles a day. They were four months and four days on the way. Mr. Kendall says there was a continuous procession of wagons all the way to Califor- 1022 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. nia. Their journey was stopped at Deep Hollow, California, where they dug for gold. They found plenty of gold, but spent it. Our subject came back to Portsmouth, in 1853. He returned to California in 1855, and remained until 1859. He was mining during his first four years in California. The latter four years he drove a team and kept store most of the time. He returned from the first trip by way of the Isthmus of Panama. and on his second trip west went by way of Nicaragua, and came back through Mexico by way of the Gulf. From 1859 to 1862, he kept a grocery in Portsmouth for George Oldfield. On the sixth of August, 1862, he entered the service as First Sergeant of Company F, 91st 0. V. I. On December 2, 1862, he was made Second Lieutenant of Company F; and on May 1, 1863, was made First Lieutenant of Company F; May 26, 1864, he was transferred First Lieutenant of Company B. On December 28, 1864, he was transferred to Company F, as First Lieutenant. On March 29, 1865, he was made Captain of Company G, of the same regiment. He was mustered out October 16, 1865, by order of the War Department. During a considerable part of the service, he was acting commissary of musters of the department of West Virginia. On his return from the army, he went to clerking on a steamboat on the Ohio river until October, 1866, when he went into the revenue service as assistant assessor to Colonel John A. Turley. When Colonel Coates was appointed Collector f Internal Revenue, he was made a deputy collector. He was out under Cleveland's two terms, but with that exception he was in the revenue service until his death. At the time of his death, he was a deputy under John C. Entrekin, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Eleventh District of Ohio. He was in the collectorls office twenty-seven years, handled over $30,000,000 and never lost a cent. His books always balanced. His father and mother moved to Portsmouth in 1850. His father kept a store on the southeast corner of Seventh and Chillicothe streets until he enlisted in Battery L. Our subject was married in 1870, to Miss Louisa Koen, and resided till his death on Ninth street in Portsmouth. He died September 28, 1901. Charles Kendall was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, November 3, 1839, the son of Thomas Kendall and Anna M. Glover. his wife. His father was the son of General William Kendall and Rachel Brown, his wife. and his mother was the daughter of Elijah Glover and Catherine Jones, his wife. His father has a separate sketch herein. He spent his childhood and boyhood in Portsmouth and obtained his education in her public schools. He attended the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, one year. Mr. Kendall was in business at West. Liberty, Ohio, for 'several years, but in 1868, returned to Portsmouth, where he has been in the shoe business ever since. He has always been a republican in politics. He has been a member, of the city Board of Education. He is a member of the Second Presbyterian church of Portsmouth, Ohio. On November 19, 1861, he was married to Miss Emily H. Lloyd, daughter of Thomas G. and Lola Lloyd. They had four children: Addie L., who married Henry Padan, Lola married Albert G. Padan, and Charles Franklin Kendall married to Laura V. Gilbert, daughter of the late Martin B. Gilbert. He has a son, Thomas L., a young man at home. Mr. Kendall had the misfortune to lose his wife, December 8, 1890, and his daughter Addie, Mrs Henry Padan, lost her husband, October 1. 1895. She has two children, Charles Franklin and Henrietta Craig. Mr. Kendall, his widowed daughter, her two children, and his son Thomas L. make their home together, and it is one of the pleasantest homes in Portsmouth. His daughter, Mrs. Albert G. Padan, and her husband, live in Los Angeles California. His son, Charles Franklin, has three fine boys, Gilbert, Richard and Charles Franklin. Surrounded by his children and grandchildren, and kept employed in a good business, life is very pleasant to Mr. Kendall. He is known well and favorably to every one in the county, for his agreeable manners and genial disposition. In the enjoyment of the esteem of all his neighbors, old age has no terrors for him. It is to him like the evening of a long summer day. He has had his troubles, hut Christian fortitude and patience has enabled him to bear them and live through them. No one in Ports- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1023 mouth has pleasanter family surroundings than he, and no one enjoys them more, or is more deserving of them. Captain Chase Wilmot Kennedy, is the son of Milton Kennedy and Josephine Hutchinson, his wife, and was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, January 4, 1859. His paternal ancestors are of Scotch-Irish and Scotch extraction. His father died July 10, 1896. His maternal ancestors are of Irish and German descent. The great-great-grandfather of our subject, Hugh Kennedy, was the first immigrant of this branch of the Kennedy family in America. The boyhood and youth f our subject was spent 'in Portsmouth. His first schooling was at a school conducted by Mrs. Crichton on Sixth street. He completed the course in the public schools and graduated in the class of 1875. After graduation he entered the employment of the Portsmouth Tribune and continued therein until the spring of 1879. In May of that year, he received the appointment of cadet to the United States Military Academy at West Point, as the result of a competitive examination held at Portsmouth, Ohio. He entered the United State Military Academy June 19, 1879, and graduated therefrom June 13. 1883. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 3d United States Infantry and served in Montana, Dakota and Minnesota until the spring of 1898, participating in the expeditions and campaigns against the Kootenai, Crow and Sioux Indians during that interval. He was promoted First Lieutenant. 3rd Infantry, November 13, 1889; Regimental Adjutant, 3rd Infantry from March 13, 1891, to March 12, 1895. During the Spanish-American war he took part in the campaign against Santiago, Cuba, being in command of Co. C, 3rd Infantry; was present at the Battle of El Caney, July 1, 1898, and at the subsequent attacks on Santiago from July 2 to July 11, 1898. He returned to the United States in August, 1898. and participated in the campaign against the Leech Lake Indians in the fall of that year in Minnesota. In the meantime he had been promoted captain and assigned to the 8th United States Infantry. He joined that regiment in Huntsville, Alabama, in November, 1898, and accompanied the regiment to Havana, Cuba. in December, and was present at the formal transfer of the government of the island of Cuba from the Spanish to the American authorities, January 1, 1899. He remained on duty in Cuba until July, 1900, when the regiment was transferred to the United States, en route to the Philippine Islands. He arrived there October 25, 1900, and was on duty there from that date to July 28. 1902. He is now on duty with his regiment at Governor's Island, N. Y. He was appointed Adjutant, 8th Infantry. June 13, 1900. He was married November 13, 1889, at Fort. Snelling. Minnesota, to Elizabeth Lord Jewett, daughter of Colonel Horace Jewett, United States Army. Wade Stanton Kennedy was born March 11, 1867, in Portsmouth, Ohio. the son of Milton Kennedy and Josephine Hutchinson, his wife. His father has a separate sketch herein. His son above named was given his two front names in honor f those great statesmen, Benjamin Wade and Edwin M. Stanton. Wade, as he is best known, was always a sturdy boy and has made a sturdy man. He attended school in Portsmouth until he was twelve years of age. His father then moved to Clay township and he attended there for two years. At fourteen years, he went into the employment of Henry Vincent to learn the butcher's trade, and served at it for three years, but did not like it. In 1884, he went into the employment of Drew, Selby & Co., and has made the shoe business his life's work. He commenced as a cutter and worked at that for eleven years. He then became foreman of the cutting department and a buyer of upper leather, and held that position with Drew, Selby & Company for seven years. On April 12, 1902, he went into the Star Shoe Company, which has since become the Irving Drew Company. He is a stockholder in the company and its vice president. He and Mr. Will Gates are superintendents under Mr. Irving Drew, who is general manager. Mr. Kennedy has the oversight of the cutting department and is a buyer of upper leather for the new company. He has mastered all the details of his department, and is a force and power in the shoe business. He enjoys the entire confidence f all his former employers and present business associates. 1024 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. He was married September 30. 1890, to Miss Sylvia Flowers McKeehan, daughter of T. J. McKeehan, of Sinking Springs, Highland county, Ohio. He has one child Mary Terese, aged eleven years. He had the misfortune to lose his wife May 26, 1902. Mr. Kennedy is a member and trustee of the Second Presbyterian church of Portsmouth. He is a republican in his political views. He is a man of strong and earnest conviction. He has a fine sense of duty, and meets every obligation—business, social or religious—upon his conscience. He has all the elements to make a good citizen and makes one. No one values good citizenship more than he, or lives closer to his ideals. Edward John Henrick was born in April, 1835, in county Limerick, Ireland. His father, John Kenrick, was a farmer. His mother's maiden name was Katharine Killey. He received all his education in Ireland and when he was thirteen years of age, he came to America with his father, mother, brother Patrick, and sister Nancy. They landed at Quebec, where his father suffered a sun stroke and died, later, at Niagara Falls. The family then removed to Black Rock near Buffalo, and remained there two months. They then went to Cleveland and from there to Portsmouth, Ohio, by canal, landing there October 28, 1849. Edward first work on the farm of William McColm below town. He continued to work at farming for a time and then was employed as receiving clerk, watchman and train dispatcher for the Scioto and Hocking Valley railroad at Portsmouth. He was in this employment one year and then went to weighing iron at the lower mill. In 1855, he went to work for Horace Leet, in the lumber business and continued that for five years. Then he was on the police force for four years. February 1, 1863, he was married to Miss Eliza Mulligan, daughter f Edward Mulligan, and sister of Edward Mulligan, Jr. Mrs. Kenrick died February 13, 1867. They had two children, John and Kate. In 1864, he went on the river. In 1866, he went into the mineral water business with Edward Mulligan, Jr.. and they continued that for three years. Then J. P. Albert Cramer bought out Mulligan and the firm became Kenrick and Cramer. They were together thirteen years when Mr. Cramer died. Kenrick carried on the business alone until 1882 when he went into the wholesale grocery business, which he is still engaged in. In 1892, he was appointed a director of the First National Bank and has held that office since. In politics, he is a democrat. In his religion, he is a communicant of the Mother Church. He is also a member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Pat Kenrick was born in 1839, in the parish of Kilcommon, county Limerick, Ireland. His father was John Kenrick and his mother's maiden name was Katharine Killey. His father was a farmer. His parents had three children: Edward, now doing business in Portsmouth and residing on Ninth street. Nancy, who afterwards married a Wm. Boswell and resides in Cincinnati and our subject. The family emigrated to Canada, in the summer of 1849. There in the city of Quebec, the father received a fatal sunstroke. From that city, the family went to Black Rock, N. Y. near Buffalo. They remained there two months and went from there to Cleveland. Prom there, they came to Portsmouth by canal. They landed at Portsmouth, Ohio, October 28, 1849, and the remainder of our subject's life was spent there. It was necessary for the boy to work and he went into the employment of T. M. Patterson to learn the book-binding business. He did learn it, but it did not suit his taste and he gave it up. It was, however, a consolation to him that he had a trade on which to fall back if necessity required it. On April 16, 1861, he enlisted in Co. G. 1st 0. V. I. first three months service and served till August 1, 1861. He made a good soldier and was much liked by his comrades. On June 10, 1862, be was made Quartermaster of the city of Portsmouth and of the several militia companies stationed there and held the position so long as such an officer was required. The city had quite a supply of military stores and equipments. After the war, he followed the river and was very popular with all who met him and knew him. In 1867, he started BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 1025 the St. Charles Exchange, on the east side f Market street and conducted it for 17 years. He was a very popular landlord and restaurant keeper, and served as good meals as were ever put up in Portsmouth. Every one liked him and he had a pleasant welcome and a gracious adieu to all who visited him. He was one of the most liberal and sympathetic of mankind. A woman or child, a crippled or disabled person, always called forth his sympathies. If any one had a tale of woe, he had a sure listener in Pat, and if ministering to the poor and needy constituted the best Christian, he was the best in town. Pat was always a democrat and in 1889, he was a candidate on that ticket for County Commissioner against John Kaps on the Republican ticket. The vote stood, Kaps 3,683; Kenrick, 2,949. Majority for Kaps, 734. James E. Campbell, the Democratic candidate for Governor, was elected and Pat was one of the dead and wounded to be taken care of. He wanted the stewardship f the Penitentiary, but in the division f the spoils, obtained the superintendency of the kitchen, a very good place. He had numerous opportunities for making money, but insisted on honesty and integrity and required that the state should be justly served. However he did not like the place and in eighteen months gave it up. On October 28, 1875, he married Miss Sarah J. Rhodes, daughter of John Rhodes, and his married life was a very happy one, though not blessed with children. When he left the employment of the state, he located in New Boston, on the Rhodes place and lived there almost all the time till a few days before his death. He died Sunday, November 13, 1898, at his residence on the southeast corner of Washington and Seventh streets, of Bright's disease. He died in the communion of the Roman Catholic church, in which he had been reared. Pat Kenrick was a man of emphasis in all he did. He had a heart full of sympathy for all mankind. He was always fond of children and never could do too much for them. He loved to be surrounded by them and to minister to their pleasures. He never, from his standpoint, injured any human being. His life was spent in Portsmouth and he was a familiar figure in it for thirty-four years. William Sanford Kent was born in Madison township, Scioto county, Ohio, July 22, 1866. He is the son of Vincent L. and Celina D. Bondurant Kent, the former of Meigs county, and the latter of Jackson county. Our subject's paternal grandfather and grandmother were John and Jane Longshore Kent, and his maternal grandfather was Thomas Bondurant. The boyhood and youth of our subject was spent on the farm in Madison township, and in attending the district, schools, where he obtained a fair education. He married Una Bennett, daughter of Rolla E. and Sarah A. Pool Bennett, February 5, 1897. They have three children: Irma Avanel, Louis Warden, and Essel Selma. For the past six years, Mr. Kent has been engaged in the lumber business, and is now conducting a general store, in Pike county, where he does a large amount of business. He is a democrat and a member of the Knights of Pythias. Rev. Heber A. Ketchum, D. D., was born in Ripley township, Huron county, Ohio, May 27, 1836. His father's name was Isaac and his mother's name was Anna. He studied preparatory for college at Hayesville and Hudson, Ohio. He entered Western Reserve, now Adelbert College, in July, 1862. The day following matriculation he enlisted as a private in Company B, 85 0. V. I. for three months. He was honorably discharged September 27, 1862 at Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from college in July, 1866. In the fall of that year he entered Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati and graduated in the spring f 1869. He was installed pastor of the Presbyterian church of New Richmond, Ohio June 10, 1869. On August 25th of the same year he was married to Miss Ansley J. Blackman of Hudson, Ohio. He remained at New Richmond three years and in the summer of 1872 he resigned his pastorate at that place and accepted the co-pastorate of the First Presbyterian church at Portsmouth, Ohio, Rev. E. P. Pratt being the regular pastor. In February, 1875, he was installed pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of Portsmouth, the membership of which consisted of 1026 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. one hundred and ninety members from the First Presbyterian church. He continued as pastor of this church for almost ten years, when he resigned to accept a call from the Second Presbyterian church at Urbana, Ohio, where he was installed pastor April 28, 1885. During this pastorate he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from his Alma Mater. In the spring of 1891, he received a unanimous call to become the pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Berkeley, California, where he was installed pastor October 18, 1891. This pastorate continued for six years when he accepted a call to the First Presbyterian church at Salem, Oregon, and was installed pastor October 28, 1897, where at the present writing July, 1901, he is near the close of his fourth year as pastor of that church. Mr. Ketchum has four daughters and one son, William F., born August 15, 1870; Mary E., born December 17, 1872; Bertha. born February 7. 1875; Edith, born February 8, 1878; and Marguerite Ruth, born September 4, 1886. Rev. Ketchum has been successful in all his pastoral work, all of which has been characterized by the most intense zeal, great earnestness and deep piety. Frederick Charles Ketter was born at Gephart's, December 15, 1873. His parents were William H. and Mary E. (Crosser) Ketter. His grandparents came from Germany. He spent the first nine years of his life at Gephart's and then his father removed to Harrison township and located on the old Dan White farm, where they lived for twelve years and then returned to Gephart's. During this time he worked on the farm and attended school in the winter. In 1894, he and his brother William commenced a general store at Gephart's and Fred continued in this business until 1897. He then learned telegraphy with William A. Tripp at South Webster. He worked with him for five months, and went to work with Walker Marsh at Eifort where he remained for two years. He was Assessor of Bloom township in 1895. In 1898, he was elected a member of the county Republican Central Committee. In 1899, he was appointed Deputy Sheriff, under Sheriff Williamson. In the Republican primary in March 1902, he was nominated for Sheriff and was elected in November. He is a republican and a member of the German M. E. Church, also a member of the A. 0. U W. of Portsmouth. He was married June 16, 1898 to Theodosia B. Cross, daughter of Doctor P. B. and Eliza (Howell) Cross of South Webster, Ohio. They have one boy, Eugene. Mr. Ketter is a popular officer and citizen. He aims to do his full duty in every relation in life, a fact which is appreciated by all who know him. He is earnest and serious in all he does and will succeed in anything he undertakes. William Ernst Ketter was born at Gephart's, November 21, 1871. His father was William Henry Ketter, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Crosser. He went to School at Gephart's, and such times as he was out f school, he worked on the railroad as a section man, with his father. In 1891, he engaged in the general merchandise business with F. C. Ketter his brother at Gephart's, and was in business there until 1898. Since then. he has been engaged in mining fireclay. He ships the clay to Massillon, Newberg and to the companies near Portsmouth. He has twelve men in his employ all the time and ships from one to two cars a day. He married Lucinda Jenkins, December 20, 1885. He has three children, Grace, Wells, and Marie. He is a republican in his political views. Charles A. Kiefer was born in Alsace, France, now Germany, March 5, 1814. He was reared on the Roman Catholic church and remained in that faith till after his marriage. He was married in 1832, to Elizabeth Rosenmyer, who was reared a Protestant. She was a native of Hanover, and two years her husband's senior. They had five children: Mary, wife of Louis Blomeyer, Louis, Edward, and Frederick, of Portsmouth, Ohio, and Amelia, wife of William Campbell, f Columbus, Ohio. He emigrated to the United States in 1848 and located at Pine Grove Furnace and followed his trade of stone cutting. He worked two years each at Hanging Rock, Ohio, and Ashland, Kentucky. He came to Portsmouth in 1863, and BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 102 was employed at Gaylord's mill until it shut down and then worked at Wait' furniture factory and at Johnson's hub and spoke factory. He joined the Ger man Methodist Episcopal church in 1850 and became a local preacher. He was noted for his honesty and his sincere piety. His faith was sublime and his life was a benediction. The children of his acquaintance revered and loved him They lovingly called him, "Grandpa Kiefer." He died March 13, 1889. His wife died August 30, 1894. Charles Kinney, son of Charles and Elizabeth (Cox) Kinney, grandson of Washington Kinney was born in Springville, Kentucky, July 7, 1850. His grandfather, Washington Kinney, has a sketch herein. After the death of his father, in 1861, he re moved with his mother to Columbus, Indiana, where he received his primal.: education in the public schools. When sixteen years of age, he entered the of Tice of the Columbus (Indiana) Bulletin, to learn the printer's trade. He was employed there for a term of nine years. In 1871, he returned to Portsmouth and was employed in Reilley's book store for four years. He afterwards became a traveling salesman for the Cabinetmaker's Union, holding this position until he accepted the appointment as Deputy Treasurer of Scioto county in 1876. In 1883, he was elected Treasurer of Scioto county, by a majority of 481 votes, and upon the expiration of his term, was chosen as his own successor, this time by the very flattering majority of 1,347. Upon the expiration of his second term as County Treasurer, he accepted the position of Chief Assistant to Hon. Daniel J. Ryan, Secretary of State, at Columbus, Ohio, and served from 1889 to 1892. In that year he served as secretary of the Board of Ohio Commissioners at the World's Columbian Exposition. He was also chief clerk under the Hon. S. M. Taylor, Ryan's successor, as Secretary of State till 1896 at which time he was elected to that office by a handsome majority. He was re-elected in 1898, In June, 1901, he formed a law partnership with George H. Jones, under the firm name of Jones & Kinney, at Columbus, Ohio. He was chairman o his county committee in 1888, and has been a delegate to numerous state conventions. In his fraternal relations he is identified with the Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias, having attained the Knight Templar degree in the former. He was married October 8, 1879, to Letitia H. Yoakley, daughter of John Yoakley, of Portsmouth, Ohio. In all his public stations Mr. Kinney has de ported himself as becomes a public servant. He has been faithful, capable ant upright. His actions have merited the approval of all people, irrespective o party affiliations. Captain Thomas Waller Kinney, son of Washington Kinney and Mary Waller, his wife, was born March 19 1842, the youngest child of a family of nine children. He grew up in Ports month, left the Portsmouth schools at the age of sixteen and went into the State Bank of Ohio, as an errand boy. He was there until he was nineteen years of age, when he enlisted in Company G, 56th 0. V. I., October 30, 1861, fo three years. He was promoted to Sergeant-Major the same day. He was mad Second Lieutenant of Company H, June 11, 1862. He was made First Lieutenant December 27, 1862. and Captain February 14, 1863. He was mustered ou May 15, 1864, at New Orleans, La., on expiration of his term of service. On his return from the army, he went into the W. Kinney & Co. ban' and was in that bank and its successors, until the bank failed in November 1877. Directly afterwards he became the first agent of the Scioto Valle: railroad at Portsmouth. and served one year. Then in 1879, he moved to Kansas, located near Connell Grove and engaged In farming, for a period f thre years; but he concluded that his old home was the best place for him, and i 1882, came back and engaged with the Portsmouth Fire Brick Company, in sup plying fire clay for the company. The company merged into the Kentucky Fir Brick Co., in 1901, and he has been with the two companies ever since 1882, 1s the same capacity. In April. 1872, he was married to Miss Lida Adams. The have one daughter. Julia. He is a Blue Lodge Mason, and holds his member ship in Pogue Lodge, Ashland, Ky. 1028 - HISTORY OF SCIOTO COUNTY. Mr. Kinney is a great collector of curios and old relics. His collection is referred to, and a part of it mentioned, elsewhere. He is a gentleman who despises notoriety in any form. His tastes are quiet and he prefers the social enjoyment of his own immediate Circle. He is fond f history and historical reminiscence, and would have made an excellent historian. He is an amateur geologist. He has studied the subjects theoretically and practically all his life, and the editor of this work is indebted to him for a contribution on that subject, which wil be found herein properly accredited to him. He is content to be simply inscribed on the good citizen roll and otherwise to follow his own inclinations. Like Diogenes, all he asks is, that no one shall stand in his sunshine. He will take care of the rest. Wellington R. Kinney, son of Henry Richie Kinney and Mary McNairn, his wife, was born November 30, 1847, on Font street. in Portsmouth, where Hibbs' hardware store was. His mother was born in Scotland and was the daughter of Joseph McNairn, who conducted a harty, are business in Portsmouth for many years. Mr. Kinney was educated in the public schools of Portsmouth and first entered business with Frank L. Gilbert in the wholesale grocery business in 1868, as a clerk. He remained here only a year and then went into the hardware business with his father on Chillicothe street as H. R. Kinney & Son. He retired in 1875 on account of ill health and traveled in Nevada and California for two years. In 1877, he returned to Ohio and since then has been engaged in raising small fruits. On October 9, 1889, he was united in marriage with Miss L. Epworth Briggs, daughter of Samuel C. Briggs. Two children were born to them: Wells Pearl, born December 19, 1890, died October, 1898; Briggs Richie, born February 17, 189L Mr. Kinney lines up with the principles of the Democrat party, and is a communicant of All Saints church in Portsmouth. He takes the part of a good citizen in the play of Human Life and fills out the character. William Kinney, son of Washington Kinney. was born October 26. 1835,