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OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS
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ADAMS COUNTY, OHIO
HISTORY & GENEALOGY
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BIOGRAPHIES
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CHESTER
C. W. NAYLOR was born in Monroe Township, Adams
County, Oct. 20, 1849. His great-grandfather was a
native of England, and emigrated to Lexington,
Massachusetts. It is tradition in the family that he
and five sons, of whom the great-grandfather, James
Naylor, was one, participated in the Battle Lexington.
At the close of the war, James Naylor located near
Cumberland, Maryland, and later located forty miles west of
Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania. He moved his wife and four
children on two horses over the Alleghenies. The wife
and four children were on one horse and he lead the other
horse loaded with their goods. In 1792, he and a
neighbor named Mehaffey and a boy named David
Young, built a flat-boat and with their effects, floated
down the Ohio River. They landed at Limestone after a
three day's voyage on high water, though it usually took
from six to nine days.
James Naylor located at
Washington, Kentucky, and remained till 1796, when he
removed to Gift Ridge, Adams County. Mrs. Naylor
brought with her from Pennsylvania, a number of apple seeds
and planted them in Kentucky. When she removed to
Ohio, she dug up the young sprouts and took them with her.
She replanted them and from them have come the famous "Naylor
Apple." The trees grew from twenty-four to thirty
inches in diameter, and the apples were large and juicy
James Naylor had two wives, the first was a Miss
Brinket, and the second, Margaret Packet.
He had four sons and two daughters. Of the sons,
Samuel was the grandfather of our subject. He was
born in Washington, Kentucky. He married Sallie
Tucker and lived and died in Monroe Township. The
other brothers went west. One daughter of James
Naylor married Mark Pennywit, and the other
married John Washburn. Samuel Naylor
married Sallie Tucker, and they had seven sons and
four daughters. Samuel Parker Naylor, father of
our subject, was born on the old homestead Nov. 2, 1827.
From 1856 to 1858, he conducted a merchandise business at
Wrightsville, and later ran a small steamboat between
Cincinnati and Manchester. On Jan. 1, 1849, he was
married to Elizabeth Jane Taylor. They had nine
children, of whom our subject was the oldest. The
latter obtained his education in the schools of Monroe
Township and at Manchester. At the age of eleven, he
began work at the Manchester pottery and worked there for
three years. At the age of seventeen, he began
teaching school in Jefferson Township. In 1869, he
began the study of law with the late Edward P. Evans,
and on Oct. 20, 1870, on his twenty-first birthday, he was
admitted to the bar in the district court of Hamilton
County. In 1873, he formed a partnership with his
legal preceptor as Evans & Naylor. On June 1,
875, he was married to Miss Nannie Irene Corell,
daughter of the late Judge James l. Corydell of West
Union, and is the father of two gifted, talented daughters,
both of whom graduated at the Manchester High School at the
age of sixteen, and each was the valedictorian of her class.
Both became teachers. Mary, the eldest, taught
school at West Union and Manchester, and was for two years
assistant at the High School at the latter place. She
afterward married Charles B. Ford, and is living at
New Richmond, Ohio. Winona, the youngest, is
teaching at Manchester and studying law with her father.
In 1880 and 1881, Mr. Naylor was deputy county
auditor of Adams County. From 1882 to 1891, he was
cashier of the Manchester Bank, conducted by R. H.
Ellison. Since 1891, he has applied himself
exclusively to the practice of law. He has always been
a Republican and taken an active interest in politics.
He is not a member of any church, but prefers the
Presbyterian.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 230) |
REASON
B. NAYLOR, of Vineyard Hill, was born in Fall County,
Texas, June 24, 1852. His father was Benjamin
Naylor, who married Victoria Lucas, and was born
and reared on the old Naylor Farm on Gift Ridge.
Soon after hi marriage, he removed to Cincinnati, where he
engaged in the mercantile business. Then he removed to
the State of Iowa, and later to Texas, where he died,
leaving a widow and two young sons, Clayton and Reason B.,
the subject of this sketch. It was the last request of
Benjamin Naylor that his widow remove to Adams
County, Ohio, which she did, traveling via New Orleans.
Our subject married Miss Irene Wade, daughter of
Lafayette Wade, of Monroe Township, Sept. 20, 1876.
They have had born to them Quincy, Carrie, Cora, Ethel,
Granville, Rosa, Izella, Benjain, Mary and Clinton
two of whom Carrie and Clinton are deceased.
Reason B. Naylor now resides on the old
LaFayette Wade farm near Wrightsville on the Ohio River.
It was on this farm that Israel Donalson was captured
by the Indians in 1792, an account of which is given in this
volume. In politics, our subject has always been a
Republican, and takes an active part in the affairs of his
party in local matters, but he has never sought official
recognition, though often requested to be a candidate on his
party's ticket.
He is a zealous member of the
U. B. Church at Mullhollen, on Moore's Run, in Monroe
Township, where his family hold membership.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page
828)
Also Page 123 mentions James Naylor, Page 198 mentions C. C.
W. Naylor, Page 230 , 443 |
JOHN
NEWMAN was born near Peebles, in Adams County, June
10, 1863. His father was Harrison Newman, and
his mother, Mary Mitchell. They had six sons
and five daughters, and our subject was the fifth child.
In 1874, his father left Adams County and located in the
Black Oak Bottoms in Lewis County, Kentucky, opposite Buena
Vista. After residing there a year, he returned to
Adams County and remained three years. Then he tried
Kansas for eight months in 1878, but concluded Ohio was
better than Kansas and returned to Scioto County.
There our subject began life on his own account. He
began work for John Williamson his farm west of
Rarden, and so well did he and Mr. Williams get along
that on Sept. 29, 1887, he married his daughter, Eliza C.,
and lived on the same farm until Mr. Williams' death
in July, 1891. When the farm was sold in the course of
administration, he bid it in and continued to reside there
until all the buildings were destroyed by fire. After
that, he purchased property in Rarden, where he now resides.
He has four children living, all sons, Walter C., William
Alty Denver, and Hershel.
Mr. Newman has one of the best farmers in the
Scioto Brush Creek Valley and is an excellent farmer.
He is a Democrat by birthright and on his own account.
He is fearless in the discharge of any duty and is a good
citizen, self-respecting, and respected by his neighbors.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page
826) |
MESHECK
H. NEWMAN was born near Rardin, in Adams County,
Sept. 18, 1840, the eldest son of John and Ann Newman.
His middle name is his mother's maiden name. He was
brought up to the life of a farmer on his father's farm.
He received only a common school education. He was
married on the twenty-eighth of November, A. D. 1861, to
Miss Sarah Johnson. To them have been born ten
children, all of whom are living except one daughter, who
died in April, 1899. Mr. Newman owns a large
farm and is a farmer and a stock raiser. He was a
Justice of the Peace of Franklin Township from 1874 to 1877,
and served one year as Treasurer of the Township. He
was a County Commissioner of Adams County for three years
from Jan. 2, 1894.
In politics, Mr. Newman has always been a
Democrat. He is not a member of any church, but a
liberal contributor to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
He is a man who attracts many friends to him and holds them.
He is much given to hospitality and makes all his friends
thrice welcome. He is regarded by all who know him as
an excellent citizen.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page
828) |
OSCAR
W. NEWMAN son of George O. and Mrs. Clay B. Newman,
was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, June 14, 1867. He
attended the Portsmouth schools for the course of twelve
years and graduated from the High school, June, 1884.
He then attended Kenyon College and remaind till the close
of his junior year in 1887. He began the study of law
in the Fall of 1889 under his father and was admitted to the
bar in October, 1891. He began the practice of the law
in Portsmouth, Ohio, alone and so continued it until Sept.,
1893, when he formed a law partnership with the Hon. A.
C. Thompson. This continued until November, 1898,
when it was dissolved by the appointment of Judge
Thompson as Judge of the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Ohio. Since then, he has
continued his law practice in Portsmouth alone.
On June 18, 1894, he was married to Judge Thompson's
eldest daughter, Charl. In politics,
Mr. Newmanis a Democrat, and in religion, an
Episcopalian. He is highly esteemed as an excellent
young lawyer and bids fair to establish a distinguished
reputation in his profession.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page
825) |
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