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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio
Chicago:
Inter-State Publishing Co.
1884
Waverly
- PeePee Twps. -
JOHN DAILY was born in Pike
County, Ohio, Aug. 23, 1834, a son of William and
Jane Daily. He lived with his father till
twenty-five eyars of age. Jan. 29, 1860, he
married Cordelia E. Stedman, a native of Pike
County, born Sept. 15, 1839, and a daughter of Enoch
Stedman. Mr. Daily pursued farming
several years and in 1866 opened a drug and grocery
store in Piketon remaining there till 1873, when he was
elected Sheriff of Pike County and removed to Waverly.
At the end of his term he was again nominated, but was
defeated. In 1875 he was appointed by President
Grant, Postmaster of Waverly, a position he still
retains. HE at that time bought a stock of
dry-goods and groceries and is still doing a general
mercantile business. Since 1880 he has been
Chairman of the Pike County Republican Central
Committee. He has been a member of the Methodist
church since 1861, and is a Steward and Trustee of the
church. Mr. and Mrs. Daily have six
children - Charles H., James E., Cora J., John W.,
Edward E. and Amelia A. |
Seal Twp. -
BENJAMIN F. DANIELS was born Apr.
17, 1840, on the old homestead in Seal Township, Pike
Co., Ohio, and is a son of Benjamin Daniels, a
native of Ohio, of Irish descent. B. F.
received a limited education at the common schools which
he attended during the winters, being employed on the
farm in the summer months. He has always followed
agricultural pursuits. He was married Nov. 29,
1869, to Christiana E. Zahn, who was born Oct. 1,
1845, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Zahn
Eight children were born to this union - George A.,
William S., Jacob, Emma R., Charles, Benjamin, Alva
and Elizabeth. Mrs. Daniels died May 16,
1883. Mr. Daniels has held several township
offices during his life.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 785 |
Mifflin Twp. -
AVERY PAINTER DAVIDSON, farmer, is
the youngest son of Simon and Arcadia (Sharp)
Davidson. His father was born, reared and
married in Delaware, and was a soldier in the war of
1812. In 1830 he came to Belmont County, Ohio, and
two years later removed to Monroe County, Ohio, and two
years later removed to Monroe County, where our subject
was born July 12, 1834. His wife died at the age
of thirty-four years. He is still living in Gallia
County, Ohio, in his eighty-fourth year. On
arriving at manhood our subject settled in Noble County,
Ohio, where he followed farming till 1856, after which
he spent three years in the west, when he returned to
Noble County. He spent the following year in
Kansas, and returning to Ohio purchased a farm in Gallia
County. At the end of a year he sold his farm and
bought one in Lawrence County, where he engaged in
agricultural pursuits till 1877, when he sold his farm
and bought the one where he now resides, near Latham, in
Pike County. He was married May 18, 1861, to
Eveline, daughter of Jeptha and Lucy (Carn)
Massie, of Lawrence County. They have had
seven children - Lucy A., Sarah B., Mary E.,
Odelle, Laura and Stella M., and Elaseo,
who died in infancy. Mr. D. belongs to
Stafford Lodge, No. 300, F. & A. M., Stafford, Monroe
Co., Ohio.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 852 |
Waverly - Pee Pee Twps. -
CHARLES M. DAVIS was born in Meigs
County, Ohio, in 1833. He was married in 1859 to
Mary E. Wells, daughter of Asa Wells.
To them have been born three children - Emma M.,
Asa J. and Charles Louis. In 1861
Mr. Davis enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and
Fortieth Ohio Infantry, for 100 days, and was on guard
duty the most of the time. In 1866 his father,
Jacob Davis, and the family came to Pike County and
settled in Pee Pee Township. His father died in
1870, aged seventy-seven years. His mother is
still living. Mr. Davis is a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic. He is not a member of
any church, but his sympathies are with the Baptist
church.
Source: History of Lower Scioto
Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1884 - Page 757 |
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Mrs. James Davis |
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Waverly - Pee Pee Twps. -
CAPTAIN JOSHUA DAVIS was born in
Pike County, Ohio, Feb. 22, 1829. When a boy he
commenced working on a farm, but from the time he was
eighteen till he was twenty-six, with the exception of
the fall of 1845, he was on the canal. In 1850 he
began learning the cooper's trade at James Emmitt's
distillery, working during the winter seasons till 1856.
From April, 1857, till the breaking out of the war he
was Marshal of Waverly, Constable of Pee Pee Township
and Road Supervisor of District No. 1, but resigned all
offices and enlisted in Company B, Seventy-third Ohio
Infantry. He was in all the regiment's
engagements. Among the more important were
McDell, Cross Keys, Cedar Mountain, Bull Run,
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Mission
Ridge, Resaca Hope Church. At the latter battle,
May 25, 1864, he was wounded, and after being in the
hospitals at Chattanooga and Nashville till Aug. 14
was discharged. On the organization of his company
he was appointed Orderly Sergeant. May 20, 1862,
he was commissioned Second Lieutenant and at the battle
of Gettysburg, when Captain Higgins was promoted
to Major, he was given charge of his company. At
the battle of Lockout Valley Mr. Davis commanded
companies B and G, many of the officers being lost or
wounded in that engagement. In November, 1863, he
was promoted to First Lieutenant, and at the veteran
organization of the regiment was transferred to the
command of Company G. In May, 1864, after the
regiment started on the Atlanta campaign, he was
promoted to Captain, but the commission did not reach
his till after he was wounded, consequently was never
mustered in. It was a year after his return home
before he was able to attend to any business. In
November, 1865, he opened a butcher shop, but two years
later was obliged to close out on account of trouble
caused by his wound. In March, 1868, he was
employed by James Emmitt to keep the toll-gate on
the Waverly and Sunfish turnpike. In May, 1869, he
was appointed Government Store-keeper, but there being
no business there till Feb. 1, 1875, and since then has
been there and at George Davis's distillery in
Portsmouth, alternately. Mr. Davis was
married Jan. 5, 1854, to Keziah Lewis, of Pike
County. Of the ten children born to them, three
sons and three daughters are still living.
Source: History of Lower
Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State
Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page
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Newton
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J. W. DEWEY, merchant at Jasper,
Ohio, was born Apr. 15, 1831, in Scioto County, and is a
son of Joseph and Rosina Dewey. He was
reared on the home farm and educated in the common
schools till sixteen years of age, after which he
followed farming till 1865, since which he has been
engaged in the mercantile business in various places.
He was married Dec. 15, 1856, to Louisa Slattery,
who was born Jul. 12, 1836, and died Mar. 20, 1883.
She was a daughter of John and Julia Slattery,
who were natives of Ohio. Four children were born
to Mr. and Mrs. Dewey, of whom three are living -
Alice, wife of V. H. Bond, Charles and
John, who is in business with his father; Willie
died at the age of nine days. Mr. Dewey
helped organize, and was a charter member of, Idaho
Lodge, No. 620, I. O. O. F., and has taken all the
degrees. His father was a native of Connecticut,
and came to Ohio when a young man. He was engaged
in school teaching and in the practice of medicine, and
died in Harrisonville, Ohio, in June, 1839, aged forty
years.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley,
Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884
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Camp
Creek Twp. - Page 844 -
and Seal Twp. - Page 785 -
A. J. DIETERICH, son of Henry
and Elizabeth Dieterich, was born Sept. 20,
1825, in Scioto Co., Ohio. He was reared on a farm
and when eighteen years old went on the Ohio Canal as
Captain of a boat, which occupation he followed till he
was thirty years of age, since which he has been engaged
in farming, now owning 1,000 acres of fine land.
He was married Sept. 20, 1845, to Sarah A.,
daughter of Benjamin and Mary Coffman, who were
natives of Pennsylvania, of German descent. They
had one son - Stephen, who died in 1872, aged
fourteen years. Mrs. Dieterich died in
1872, and in 1876 Mr. Dieterich married Mrs.
Nancy Weeder. Mr. Dieterich acted as Infirmary
Director for six years. His father was born Jan.
1, 1794, and his mother, March 4, 1794. They were
natives of Pennsylvania and of German descent.
They moved to Scioto County, Ohio, about 1820, and some
years later moved to Pike County and cleared the farm
now owned by Stephen, and where they spent the rest of
their lives. The father died June 18, 1862, and
the mother May 30, 1857.
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Creek Twp. - Page 844 -
STEPHEN DIETERICH, farmer
an stock-raiser, was born Aug. 11, 1833, on the farm
where he now resides, and is a son of Henry and
Elizabeth Dieterich, who were natives of
Pennsylvania, of German descent, the former born Jan. 1,
1794, and the latter Mar. 4, 1794. They came to
Ohio in 1820, where the father died June 18, 1862, and
the mother May 30, 1857. Since he gre3w to manhood
Stephen has been engaged in agricultural pursuits,
and now owns a farm of 321 acres of land, where he has a
good assortment of all kinds of stock. He was
married Feb. 14, 1862, to Celeslean Wolford,
of French descent. |
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SAMUEL DINSMORE was born in Center
County, Pa., Dec. 23, 1811, and is a son of Samuel
and Elizabeth Dinsmore, who came from Ireland in
1800. They landed in Philadelphia and settled in
Center County, where they lived till their deaths.
The former died in 1831, and the latter in 1868, at the
advanced age of eight-five years. Our subject
lived with his parents till he was seventeen years old,
when he learned the carpenter's trade, which he has
since followed, and is one trade, which he has since
followed, and is one of the best in the State. His
educational advantages were very limited, he having
received most of his education by his own exertions
after attaining his majority. He has lived in Ohio
since 1856, and owns a good farm of 240p acres. He
was married in 1845, to Julia McLellan.
They have had four children, - John, Caroline,
Bolden, Nancy Legg and Elizabeth Chain.
Mr. Dinsmore acted as Justice of the Peace
several years. He has passed the first chair of
Juniata Lodge, No. 117, I. O. O. F.
Source: History of Lower Scioto
Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1884 - Page 834 |
Waverly
- Pee Pee Twps. -
FOREST E. DOUGHERTY, son of
Richard Dougherty, was born Jn. 19, 1859, in
Ross County, Ohio, and received his education in the
public schools of Waverly, Pike County. In
February, 1879, he commenced the study of law in the
office of his father, and was admitted to the bar June
6, 1882. He soon afterward formed a co-partnership
with his father which still continues as one of the
leading law firms of Pike County, under the firm name of
R. & F. E. Dougherty.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio -
Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page
756 |
Waverly - Pee Pee Twps. -
RICHARD DOUGHERTY, one of the
oldest attorneys of the Pike County bar, was born in
Jackson Township, this county, May 19, 1829, and when a
year old his parents moved to Ross County. He
received a limited education at the common schools but
by private study in after life he became qualified to
teach. His parents were poor, and after his
father's death he supported his mother and a younger
brother and sister by working for T. C. Foster,
with whom he lived twelve years. He then taught
school during the winter months and during the summer
drove cattle over the mountains to the Eastern markets
until 1854. Having saved some money by this time,
he bought an interest in a drygoods store at Richmond
Dale which proved unsuccessful, and he sold out in 1858.
He was married Feb. 18, 1858, to Elizabeth Burke,
a native of Ross County. They have three children,
two sons and one daughter. After his marriage he
returned to Franklin, where his mother was living, and
began to read law under the preceptorship of S. L.
Wallace, of Chillicothe, also devoting his time to
farming. In April, 1860, he was admitted to the
bar in the District Court held at Piketon, Pike County,
the oath being administered to him by William V.
Peck, Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio at that
time. He then carried on farming for five years,
giving little attention to practice. In 1865 he
opened a country office on the farm, where he remained
till 1872, practicing most of the time in Ross County.
In 1872 he came to Waverly and opened an office, where
he has since been engaged in the active practice of his
profession, his eldest son practicing law with him.
In 1873 he was nominated by the ?Republications to the
office of Prosecuting Attorney, to which office he was
elected over a Democratic majority of 800 votes.
He served in this capacity two years. His father,
James Dougherty, was a native of Ireland and came
with his parents to this country when a child and was
reared in Harrisburg, Penn. The family left there
and settled in Richmond Dale, Ross Co., Ohio. He
was married to Mary Wood, born in Kentucky, and
daughter of Richard Wood. They had eleven
children of whom five sons are now living. Mr.
James Dougherty lived in Pike County fifteen or
sixteen years, when he moved to a farm in Franklin
Township, Ross County, where he remained till his death
in 1845. His wife survived him till 1865.
Source: History of Lower Scioto
Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1884 - Page 755 |
Waverly - Pee Pee Twps. -
JOHN P. DOUGLAS was born Sept. 12,
1832, in Columbiana County, Ohio, and was married Apr.
11, 1856, to Adaline McLaughlin, also a
native of Columbiana County. They have a family of
three sons and five daughters. Mr. Douglas
grew to manhood on the home farm and was educated in the
country schools. At the age of eighteen he
commenced teaching school, which he followed during the
winter months from 1851 till 1874, with the exemption of
one year spent in the army. In 1864 he enlisted in
the Seventy-eighth Ohio Infantry, Company I, serving
till the close of the war. He was mustered out of
service at Columbus, June 14, 1865. In 1875 he was
elected Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, which
position he still holds, having been in office longer
than any member of the present county officials.
His father, James Douglas, was born in
Pennsylvania, ten miles from Pittsburg. He was
married there to Martha Patterson, and came to
Ohio in an early day. Mrs. Douglas died in
Columbiana County, in 1850. They reared a family
of four sons and six daughters - Rebecca, Rachel,
Thomas, Andrew, Nancy, Elizabeth, John P., James T.,
Martha P. and Mary Jane. Mr. Douglas
died at the house of his youngest daughter, Mrs. Mary
J. Connell, at New Cumberland, W. Va., about 1868.
Source: History of Lower Scioto
Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1884 - Page 756 |
Waverly - Pee Pee Twps. -
ABISHA DOWNING was born Aug. 5,
1838, in Pike County, a son of Abisha and Susan
(Daugherty) Downing, and grandson of Mesheck
Downing, a native of Virginia, and one of the
earliest settlers of Pike County. He was the owner
of a large tract of land where Waverly is located, and
laid that town off in lots. Abisha, Sr.,
was born in Pike County, Ohio in 1813. His wife
was also a native of Ohio. They were the parents
of two children - Isaac E., born Dec., 1835, and
Abisha. The father died at the age of
twenty-four years, and his widow afterward married
Joseph Downing, a brother of her first husband.
Abisha, Jr., received his early education in the
district schools, which he completed at the schools of
Waverly. He had been clerking in the mercantile
store of Emmitt, Myers & Co. a few months,
when the war broke out and Apr. 16, 1861, he enlisted in
Company G, First Ohio Infantry, as a private, for three
months, and was discharged about Aug. 1, 1861. In
September, 1861, Mr. Downing with Captain J.
Q. Barnes, commenced recruiting a company for the
three years' service, and Oct. 15, 1861, reported in
camp at Chillicothe, Ohio, and mastered in the
Seventy-third Ohio. Nov. 30, Mr. Downing
was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Company D, in
December, 1862, he was commissioned First Lieutenant,
and in March, 1864, he was mustered in as Captain.
When Atlanta was taken Mr. Downing led the
skirmish line in the advance. He was present at
the surrender of savannah, and was with Sherman
from Atlanta to Raleigh, N. C., and was mustered out at
Camp Denison, Ohio, July 24, 1854. He participated
in a number of battles, among which were: First
Bull Run, Vienna, McDowell, Cross Keyes, Cedar Mountain,
second Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout
Valley, Mission Ridge, Resaca, Peach Tree Creek, siege
of Atlanta, and Averysboro. July 20, 1865, a few
days before he was mustered out, Mr. Dowling
received from the Governor of Ohio, the commission as
Major, but on account of the small number of men left in
the regiment, he was not mustered in. After the
war he engaged in merchandising in Waverly till 1870.
In 1869 he took a position as clerk in the United States
Assessor's office, under General W. S. Jones,
where he remained four years, when the office was
abandoned. Aug. 1, 1873, he was appointed Deputy
Collector of Internal Revenue for the district, holding
the office till October, 1882. July 1, 1879, he
again embarked in the mercantile business with
General Jones, with whom he still continues.
Major Downing was married Mar. 8, 1866, to
Sarah M. Puffer, who was born and reared in Pike
County, a daughter of Horace Puffer. They
have four children - Emmie L., Horace E., Effie L.
and Amelia B. Major Downing was reared
in the Methodist church, and has always been associated
with it.
Source: History of Lower Scioto
Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1884 - Page 874 |
Seal Twp. -
GEORGE DOWNING, deceased, was born
in 1800, in Pee Pee Township, Pike Co., Ohio, and was
married Aug. 28, 1832, to Elizabeth Barger, who
died Apr. 5, 1862. Sept. 24, 1863, he was again
married to Annie, daughter of Henry and
Abigail Allen. They were blessed with five
children - George W., Elizabeth Jane, Hannah E.,
William H. and John W. His parents were
natives of Maryland, and came to Ohio in 1799, and when
an infant is parents moved to Seal Township and located
on a farm, where for nearly eighty-two years our subject
continued to reside. He died Aug. 9, 1881, leaving
quite a large fortune to his wife and children.
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