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(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co.,
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DANIEL
M. ABRAHAM, who passed from this life on December
19, 1896, on his farm in Island Creek Township,
Jefferson County, Ohio, was one of the respected,
esteemed and altogether worthy men of his community.
He was a native of Island Creek Township and was born in
the house in which his widow still resides, May 16,
1829, and was a son of Daniel and Mary (Walker)
Abraham, the former of whom was born in Jefferson
County and the latter in West Virginia.
Daniel M. Abraham grew to manhood on the home
farm and had such educational advantages as the
neighborhood afforded. In those days the tilling
of land and the growing of fine stock were followed as a
business, descending from father to son, and youths were
trained in farm duties from boyhood. Mr.
Abraham was a life-long resident of Island Creek
Township and was one of the most successful farmers and
stock raisers in his section. He had a farm of 160
acres, on which his widow still resides, living in great
comfort. Mr. Abraham was a man of
high moral character, a leading member of Centre Chapel
Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he was a class
leader. In his relations with his family, his
neighbors and all who did business with him. Mr.
Abraham was honest, sincere and kind and he will
long be remembered.
On March 2, 1854, Mr. Abraham was married to
Miss Susan McClure, who was born in Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1832, a daughter of
Andrew and Margaret (Abraham)
McClure, the former of whom was born in Allegheny
County and the latter in Jefferson County. Mrs.
Abraham was reared in Allegheny County and was
married there, after which she accompanied her husband
to Island Creek Township and has lived on her present
farm ever since. To Mr. and Mrs. Abraham
five children were born, namely: Mary J., who is
the wife of Samuel Speaker of Island Creek
Township; Margaret A., who is the wife of
George McCauslin, of Island Creek Township;
Alvernia, who is the wife of William Groves,
of Mexico, Mo., William E., who resides in Island
Creek Township; and John W., who is deceased.
Mrs. Abraham is a member of Centre Chapel Methodist
Episcopal Church.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co.,
Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - 764) |
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JOHN Q. ADAMS, a
general merchant at Empire, O., where he has been established since 1880, is a
representative business man of this place and a highly respected citizen. He was born at
Toronto, O., Dec. 14, 1841, and is a son of
John C. and Eliza (Elliott) Adams.
John C. Adams was born in
Knox Township,
Jefferson County, Ohio. He was a son of
William and Patience (McClain) Adams,
the former of whom lived to be ninety-two years old. In early manhood
John C. Adams was employed for some
years as a clerk in a store at Toronto,
O. In 1848 he moved to
Greensburg, Ky., where he engaged in the
practice of law and some years afterward was elected judge of the Court of
Common Pleas, in which office he served for six years.
Judge Adams later retired to Covington,
Ky., where he still lives and is now a nonagenarian. He married
Eliza Elliott, who was born in
Hancock County, now
West Virginia, who died when their
son, John Q., was twelve years old.
After his mother
died, John Q. Adams went to live with
his maternal grandmother.
Mrs. Jane Elliott, in
Hancock County,
W. Va., with whom he remained for three
years, in the meanwhile attending school.
HE was fifteen years old when he became connected with
Freeman Bros., the firm of fire brick
and sewer pipe manufacturers, who plants were in operation on both sides of the
Ohio River, and he remained there for about a quarter of a century. In 1880 he came to Empire where he
has been prosperous as a merchant.
He has taken an active interest in town and township affairs and served two
terms, elected on the Democratic ticket, as trustee of
Knox Township.
Mr. Adams was married first to
Miss Rebecca Hukill, of
Hancock County, W. Va.
She is deceased, as also are all their four children:
William, Annie, Jesse and
John.
On May 1, 1876, Mr. Adams
married Miss Elizabeth Hinkle, who
was born at Malvern, O., a daughter of
George and Mary (Curfman) Hinkle, former residents of Empire.
Mr. and Mrs. Adams are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Empire, in which he is a class leader. In fraternal life,
Mr. Adams belongs to the Masons at
New Cumberland, W. Va., to the Knights of Pythias at Empire, and to the Odd
Fellows at Toronto,
O. He is well and favorably known
all through Jefferson
County.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B.
Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - 869)
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PETER ADAMS, one of
Brush Creek
Township’s substantial farmers and stock raisers, belongs to an
old Jefferson
County family, his grandparents having come to this section of
Ohio
when his father was a child of seven years.
Mr. Adams was born in an old
log house that stood on a farm adjoining the one he now owns in Brush Creek
Township, Nov. 24, 1837, and is a son of
John and Hannah (Peckham) Adams.
John Adams was born at Brownsville, Pa.,
and was a son of Thomas and Bathsheba
(Hartley) Adams. The first of the
family to come to Jefferson
County was
Martin Adams, who became a man of large estate and he was a brother of
Thomas Adams. He came with a party of surveyors and was
so pleased with the appearance of the land that he patented a number of tracts,
including what later became the Cope, the
Robert Russell and the Joseph Beard
farms and he also selected 160 acres for his brother,
Thomas Adams. To this tract,
Thomas Adams later added a second 160 acres.
Martin Admas never married, his death
taking place on what is now the Cope farm.
Thomas married Bathsheba Bartley,
who belonged to a wealthy Philadelphia
family. Of his children,
John Adams survived until April,
1882. He inherited the large estate and
added to its volume during his lifetime.
He combined farming with other activities, one of these being the raising of
fine live stock. He married
Hannah Peckham, a daughter of
Charles and Rhoda Peckham. They were of Rhode
Island and came into
Jefferson
County in their cart drawn by oxen and lived to see
years of comfort surrounding them in the country they had entered as pioneers,
living to nearly one hundred years of age.
They settled first on the site of Irondale and moved from there to
Somerset Ridge and from there to the farm on which they grandson,
Peter Adams, resides. He owns a large amount of land, 292 acres
of surface and 372 acres of coal property.
The coal is being developed. The
whole of the surface land is richly underveined with coal, there being four
veins of three and six feet, and two others of less extent.
Peter Adams attended school at
Monroeville in his boyhood and has been engaged in agricultural
pursuits ever since, together with looking after his valuable coal interests. In 1874 he built his comfortable residence
and in 1884 erected his substantial barn.
On Oct. 8, 1869,
Mr. Adams was married to
Miss Marjorie McBane, a daughter of
Angus McBane, of
Brush
Creek Township, but a
native of Scotland, from
which country he came to Jefferson
County in 1818.
Mr. and Mrs. Adams had four
daughters and two sons born to them, namely:
John W., an attorney at law located
at Wheeling, W. Va., who married and has two children –
Elizabeth and Eleanor; Jeanetta M.,
who resides at home; Orpha, who married Charles Hart, of Salineville,
O., and they have three children –
Marjorie, Helen and one unnamed;
Angus Hays, who manages the home farm; Elizabeth, who has adopted the noble profession
of a trained nurse resides at Wheeling; and
Blanche, who married Roy Ramsey, of Mechanicstown,
Carroll County, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Adams are members of the
United Presbyterian Church.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph
B. Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - 801) |
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STEPHEN E. ADKINS,
hardware merchant and plumber, doing a very prosperous business at Mingo
Junction, Ohio, was born at Point Pleasant, W. Va., April 7, 1863, and is a son
of
Spencer and Caroline (Glover) Adkins.
Spencer Adkins
was born at Roanoke, Va., where he
was educated in the profession of civil engineer.
In the line of business he assisted in laying out the town of
Point Pleasant, W. Va., and was so pleased with the situation that he located there. He died Feb. 1, 1891, aged sixty-one
years. He married
Caroline Glover, who survives him. They had the following children born
to them:
Mary, (deceased), who was the wife of Capt. W. D. Holmes, commander of a vessel on the Ohio River;
John, who is in business at Wheeling
as a manufacturer; Bettie, who
married William Crothers; Sarah, who
married Willialm Greenley, a
prominent business man of Charlestown, W. Va.;
Rose, who is the widow of
George Kiser and
Stephen E.
Stephen E. Adkins
was reared at Point Pleasant and during boyhood attended school four months each
year. He was ambitious to learn a
good trade and was only thirteen when he started to work in a tinner’s
establishment. As soon as he
completed the usual apprenticeship, he opened a shop of his own at
Point Pleasant, and then learned the plumbing trade. Thus equipped with two excellent
trades, Mr. Adkins came as a very
desirable citizen to Mingo Junction, moving his stock to this place in
September, 1901, and opening a store in the
McLister Building,
on Commercial Street. In October, 1909, he came to his
present excellent location on
Commercial Street, opposite the public school
building, and added a full stock of hardware and paints, and builders’ supplies. He owns seven pieces of good property
at Mingo Junction in addition to his three-story brick block which he built on
Commercial Street.
Mr. Adkins was married Oct. 29, 1884,
to Miss Maggie E. Hysell, a daughter
of Curt Hysell, of Point Pleasant,
W. Va., and they have two children:
Oscar E., who managed the plumbing
end of the business, having learned the trade with his father, before he
established his own plumbing shop on Fourth Street, Steubenville; and
Oca, who is the wife of
Ralph Porter, a leading grocer of
Mingo Junction.
Mr. and Mrs. Porter have one
daughter, Ella Deborah.
Mr. Adkins and wife reside in the
Adkins Block. In politics he is a Democrat and has
taken quite an active part in public matters.
In 1909 his party nominated him for county commissioner and he failed of
election by but 188 votes, having run far ahead of his ticket and carried
Steubenville
by sixteen votes.
Mr. Adkins is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B.
Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - 1036)
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EDWIN S. ANDERSON,
who carries on a general contracting business at
Steubenville, O., was born in the old homestead on South Third Street, this
city, April 13, 1867, and is a son of
Joseph Anderson and a grandson of
Peter Anderson, one of the early pioneers.
Joseph Anderson was born at Steubenville,
Feb. 1, 1826, and died in the same city, Jan. 14, 1898. His father,
Peter Anderson¸ had come here in 1815, finding little more than an Indian trading post.
Joseph Anderson became a leading
citizen and prominent business man.
He enjoyed the confidence of such men as
Governor Tod, who, in 1863, commissioned him a lieutenant in
Co.
A, 1st Ohio Militia, from
Jefferson
County, to assist in the capture of
General Morgan. Far back the
Andersons came from Scotland.
Edwin S. Anderson obtained his
education in the schools of his own city and graduated from the High School in
the class of 1885. He then served an
apprenticeship to the carpenter’s trade with
Thomas Burke and has been engaged in
that line ever since, his main business now being contract house building. He has served in the city council,
elected on the Republican ticket, and at present is precinct committeeman. On Oct. 23, 1902,
Mr. Anderson was married to
Miss Annie Mary Price, who was born
in Washington County, Pennsylvania,
and they have three children: Mary B.,
Martha Grace and an infant.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are members of
the Christian Church. He is a
skilled musician, a member of the American Federation of Musicians, and for
fifteen years has been identified with the Patten band. He belongs also to the Carpenter’s
Union.
(Source: 20th Century History of Steubenville & Jefferson Co., Ohio by Joseph B.
Doyle - Publ Richmond-Arnold Publ. Co. - Chicago - 1910 - 870)
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