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History of Lower Scioto Valley
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Educational,
Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent
Persons,
and Biographies of Representative Citizens
Chicago: Inter-State
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1884
WILLIAM C. EAKINS
was born in 1836 in Lawrence County, Ohio. He was reared on a
farm and educated at the common schools, and also at the High School
at Ironton, Ohio. He then engaged in farming and afterward
teamed at Center Furnace for ten years. In 1871 he engaged in
the general mercantile business at Franklin Furnace which he has
since successfully followed. In 1857 he was married to
Susan Chatfield, of Lawrence County. They have family of
two sons and three daughters. In 1871 Mr. Eakins was
appointed manager of Franklin Furnace, which position he still
holds. He has served eight years as Township Trustee and is
now serving as Justice of the Peace. He is a prominent member
of the Webster Sun Lodge, No. 91, A. F. & A. M., Wheelersburg.
~ Page 357 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
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WILLIAM EARLEY was
born in Adams County, Ohio, in 1816, a son of Michael and Ann
Desire (Williams) Earley. He came to Scioto County in
1830, and in 1838 settled in Washington Township. He has held
the offices of Trustee, Constable and School Director a score of
years each, and is serving his third term as Justice of the Peace.
He was married Jan. 1, 1838, to Mary, daughter of Jesse
Oard. They had a family of seven children, four only now
living - Malinda J., Lucinda A., Julia A. and Lavina B.
Mrs. Earley died Nov. 9, 1875, aged sixty years, four months and
fifteen days. May 22, 1878, Mr. Earley married
Harriet E. Ripley, widow of Benjamin McFarland. He
and family are members of the Methodist church. His father was
born in Adams County, Ohio, in 1791, a son of William and Eva
(Thomas) Williams, his father a native of Ireland and his mother
of Germany. His father died in 1835 and his mother four or
five years previous. Of their eleven children but one,
Solomon, is now living. Michael died in 1835.
Of his ten children seven are still living - Mrs. Lavina
Hambleton, Mrs. Mary Wilcoxson, William, Mrs. Elizabeth Osborne,
Mrs. Amanda J. Wamsley, John and Daniel. Michael
and his brother George were soldier in the war of 1812, and
their father was in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Michael
Earley was born in Maryland in 1794, and died in 1869. Her
parents, John and Mary (Duncan) Williams, came to Adams
County, Ohio before the admission of the State into the Union.
They had a family of eight children all deceased. They were
members of the Methodist church, as was also Michael Earley
and family, the latter's father being a Presbyterian in religious
faith.
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MISSES A. and M. E.
EAVES, millinery and fancy goods, Chillicothe street, between
Third and Fourth Streets, Portsmouth, are daughters of George
Eaves, and natives of England. They came to the United
States with their parents in 1866, locating first in Indiana, where
they remained a year. They then removed to Maryland, and
subsequently to Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, and in 1872 to Ohio again,
settling in Portsmouth. Mr. Eaves is a
blast-furnace builder by occupation. His family consists of six
daughters and two sons - Agnes, Mary E.,
Emma, Bessie, Lydia, Hattie, Cyrus and William.
The two eldest daughters established the millinery and fancy-goods
store in 1873. They are doing a good business, and merit the
patronage of the place.
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H. EBERHARDT
was born in Germany, Mar. 19, 1819, and in 1842 came to the United
States, locating in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained ten years
engaged in molding stoves, a trade he learned in the old country.
In 1853 he removed to Portsmouth, and in company with Mr. Neil
started a foundry. They remained together fourteen years, when
Mr. Eberhardt bought Mr. Neil's
interest. He has been twice married, the first time in 1846 in
Cincinnati. He was married the second time in 1869 to
Margaret Starschk. They have two children -
William Henry, born Jan. 4, 1870, and Minnie
E., July 14, 1873.
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LEONARD ECK was
born in Chillicothe, Ohio, in December, 1841. His parents were
natives of Germany, where they were married, and in 1839 came to the
United States and settled in Chillicothe, where they remained six
years. They then moved to Portsmouth, Ohio, where the mother
died in 1875. The father is still living on a farm in this
county. They were the parents of ten children, of whom five
are living - Emma, Maria, Eve, Lizzie and Leonard, our
subject, who was reared principally in Portsmouth, where he lived
till he was twenty-one years old. In 1864 he was married to
Mary, daughter of Nicholas Cooper, of Portsmouth.
They have a family of five girls and three boys. He has a
finely cultivated farm of thirty acres, on which are good buildings.
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LEONARD ECK,
[Portsmouth] son of John and Margaret (Schafur) Eck, was born
Dec. 19, 1845, in Chillicothe, Ross Co., Ohio. He was first
engaged in the restaurant business which he followed for six years;
since then he has followed engineering. When young he spent two
years on the river as cabin boy. At present he is engaged with
the Ohio Stove Company. He was married Nov. 29, 1866, to
Alice Hacquard. They have five
children - Cornelius, Rudolph, John, Gertrude and Maggie.
Mr. Eck is a member of the Catholic church. His father was
born in 1804 and his mother in 1811. They came from Germany to
America with four children in 1840 and located at Chillicothe.
After living there five years they removed to Portsmouth, where the
father died in 1869. They had a family of ten children, three of
whom are deceased. Their names are - Joseph; Kate, wife
of Frederick Winterfield, of Columbus; Margaret, wife of
Adolph Reisley; Mary (deceased), wife of Christian Stanam;
John; Leonard; Elizabeth, wife of John Keil; Ellen, died in
1880, aged twenty-nine years, was the wife of Joseph Schlurt;
Adam, and Frank, who died in 1866, aged nine years.
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GEORGE D. EMMITT was
born in Pike County, Ohio, Sept. 11, 1825, a son of George and
Nancy (Combess) Emmitt. He attended the early subscription
schools in the winter, and in the summer was employed in assisting
to dear and cultivate a pioneer farm. In 1837 his parents
removed to Tippecanoe County, Ind., where his father died in 1840.
He being the eldest of the family remained with his mother four
years, when she married again. He then left home and returned
to Pike County, Ohio, and was employed as foreman of the cooperage
department of the distillery of Emmitt & Shultz, which
was then running a large force. He remained in that department
till 1849, when he went into the distillery and worked in the yeast
department a year. He was then employed as foreman of the
distillery, at a salary of $500 a year. His salary was
gradually increased, until at the end of four years he was receiving
$1,900 a year. In the meantime Mr. Shultz
withdrew from the firm, and the firm of James Emmitt &
Co. was formed, the members being James, Davis
and George D. Emmitt, George D. owning a fourth
interest. At the end of a year Mr. Emmitt’s interest
amounted to $40,000, and at the end of three years, on account of
the decline in the price of highwines, they found themselves in
debt, Mr. Emmitt’s share of the indebtedness being
$900. At this time Davis Emmitt withdrew from
the firm and the business was continued by James and
George D., the latter owning a third interest. At the
breaking out of the Rebellion the price of highwines advanced, and
Mr. Emmitt’s share of the profits at the end of a year
was $28,000. He then withdrew from the firm, as he did not
like the influence of the business on his sons. He, however,
had the entire charge of the business for two or three years.
In 1863 he built the Pee Pee Mills, now owned by W. B. Lee &
Co., and ran them successfully till 1875. In 1865 his brother
James went to Europe for his health, and he took charge of
the distillery for a year. In 1871 he bought a third interest
in the woolen mill of Bonshine & Co., the firm name being
Geo. D. Emmitt & Co., the stockholders being Mr.
Emmitt, W. C. Safford and Mr. Bonshine. At
the end of two years Mr. Bonshine retired, and the
firm name was changed to Emmitt & Safford, and at the
end of a year Mr. Safford retired, and Mr.
Emmitt has since carried on the business alone. About this
time Mr. Emmitt opened a store and gave the management
to his sons. They had no trouble in building up a large and
lucrative trade, their daily sales amounting to $400.
Owiug to the inexperience of his sons the business became involved,
having $13,000 credited on the books. Mr. Emmitt
telegraphed his creditors to meet him, and received an extension of
time, and gave his note, secured by three good men. He then
disposed of considerable property, and has paid all the
indebtedness, and is to-day doing a profitable business, with no
incumbrance on his property. Mr. Emmitt is a man
of fine business qualifications and of sterling integrity and worth.
~ Page 784 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
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HON. JAMES EMMITT -
One of the most remarkable men whose residence or property interests
in Pike County entitle them to notice in this volume, is the Hon.
James Emmitt, the famous Waverly banker, manufacturer, real
estate owner and capitalist. He is a distinguished example of
the successful use of opportunities which the free life of our
Republic offers to business energy, integrity and common sense; a
prominent illustration of that class of our fellow citizens known
eminently as self-made men. From a very humble beginning he
has made his way to fame and fortune, and still, at the advanced age
of seventy-seven, remains in personal charge of the details of an
immense business, the cares of which would break down almost any
other man in the prime of his days. His career is one of the
most interesting in its lights and shades, its reverses and its
successes, that the business annals of the Buckeye State have to
offer. James Emmitt had his nativity on the
Licking Creek, in Armstrong County, Penn., Nov. 6, 1806. He is
of Irish descent on the father’s side, his people having emigrated
to this country about a quarter of a century before his birth, and
settled in the Kishacoquillas Valley in the State named, from which
they removed sometime after the Revolutionary war. He was the
first child of George and Mary Addie (Stanford)
Emmitt. His mother was of the well known Pennsylvania
German stock. In the spring of 1816 his parents with their
four children, including James, set their faces westward.
At Steubenville their party found themselves unable to proceed
further for want of means, and remained there all summer while the
men accepted such jobs as offered to secure means with which to
complete their journey. During this stay young Emmitt,
then in his tenth year, marked himself for life by a severe cut in
his little finger, received while trying to use a sickle after the
manner of the grown men whom he saw handling it skillfully. At last
the party of five families, all relatives, was enabled to proceed,
and by the slow floatage of flat-boats down the Ohio, and the slower
transit of heavy wagons up the Scioto, they finally reached in the
early fall the spot where their first home in the West was to be
made. His father settled here on an eighty-acre tract,crowding
his family at first into a hut at a sugar camp until a log
habitation could be built. In May of the next year the
faithful mother died, principally from fatigue induced by incessant
care of her younger brother who had been stricken down. In the
summer of 1819, though not yet thirteen, he hired out with another
farmer in Scioto Valley at $6 per month and board, all his cash
wages going to aid his father in his struggle with the hardships of
pioneer life. At this time he had but a total of three months’
schooling, but after a time partially made up this deficiency by
attending school winters. The first winter of his life away
from home, however, found him a laborer for his; board and clothes
at a country tavern north of Waverly. The following spring he
began to learn the blacksmith’s trade with one Jacob
Neighborgahl who had a shop on the Portsmouth road, six miles
south of Chillicothe. He remained here but five months, yet
learned enough to aid him much in the repair of wagons, etc., during
the rest of his life. Thereafter he engaged with one farmer
and another until 1824, when he was employed as a wood chopper at $4
a month by Alexander Armstrong, then residing on Paint
Creek, near Chillicothe. The next summer he made an engagement
as wagoner with Hugh Cook, who was running a six horse
conveyance for heavy transportation from Portsmouth to Chillicothe,
and remained in his service until August, 1828. A hard service
it was, too, involving many toils and dangers, and at one time he
met with a severe accident. But the time had now come for the
enterprising young Emmitt, although not twenty-two years of
age, to embark in independent business. He left Mr.
Cook’s employ with a net saving of $10 which sufficed, in the
small business of that day, to enable him to take a partnership with
Henry Jefferds in the establishment of a’ humble dry
-goods store at Waverly. They opened in August and were burned
out the January following, but rebuilt and stocked at once with the
aid of sympathizing neighbors. They had had a prosperous
trade, and the thoughts of one of the partners presently turned to
marriage. Mr. Emmitt married June 13, 1829, at Piketon.
Louisa Martin, only daughter of Joseph J. and Mary
(Rogers) Martin, a native of that place, who has been a partner
of his joys and sorrows for nearly fifty-five years. They have
had children as follows—Mary Adda, born May 26, 1830, died on
Christmas of the same year; Joseph John, born Dec. 1, 1831;
Elizabeth Ann, born May 10, 1833, died May 26, 1837;
George Angus, born Aug. 31, 1834; William Wyly, born Nov.
23, 1836, died Mar. 25, 1837; James Madison, born Apr. 5,
1838, died Aug. 5, 1875; Floyd Robert, born Aug. 6, 1841;
David Martin, Nov. 10, 1843, and Henry Clay,
July 27, 1846, died Jan. 2, 1872. All of the children were
born at the home of their parents in Waverly. The young couple began
housekeeping at once in a small unfinished dwelling, which when
presently completed by Mr. Emmitt, had the first brick
chimney in Waverly. Mr. Emmitt’s long business
career had now fairly begun. In 1831 he was appointed first
Postmaster at Waverly. During the autumn of the next year he
bought a mill and a 300 acre tract on Pee Pee Creek four miles from
that place. The building of the Ohio & Erie Canal along the
Scioto Valley in 1831-’2 virtually compelled him to convert his
house into a hotel, which he enlarged in the latter year. Upon
the completion of the canal to Waverly, he gave a grand dinner and
festival at which were present, Governor McArthur,
General Lucas, afterward Governor of the State, and other
distinguished men. He was the first to take a canal-boat to
Portsmouth, which he did before the formal opening of the canal.
He afterward invested in a line of ten canal boats, running to
Cleveland, which did not prove profitable, and was closed out at a
sacrifice. The year 1837, one of disaster to the commercial
interests of the country generally, proved extremely fortunate to
him, as he cleared $10,000, a large sum at that time, in the
purchase of corn, which was sold in Cleveland at a large profit.
He was an active and influential agent in securing the construction
of the Columbus & Portsmouth Turnpike, to which he contributed
$1,000, and in which he became a large owner. The disasters of
1842-’43 fell upon him heavily, and he weathered them with
difficulty, but at last triumphantly. It is needless to follow
in detail the expansion of the vast business of Mr. Emmitt
during the last forty-five years. At present he is by far the
largest operator in the Scioto Valley, having in Waverly alone a
bank, saw and grist mill, a huge distillery, a furniture factory, a
lumber yard, numerous canal boats and an extensive store, the last
being conducted by the firm of Emmitt & Jones.
The fine Emmitt house in Waverly and the hotel of the
same name in Chillicothe are both his property. He has also
large landed and other properties in or near Chillicothe, in
Pickaway and other counties, and in Iowa and Missouri. About
one-half the population of Waverly is employed in his various works.
He pays one-third of the taxes of that place, and one-tenth of the
entire taxes of Pike County. He has also been a benefactor to
the county in the erection of a fine court-house at Waverly, and its
presentation to the public upon the removal of the county-seat from
Piketon to that place in 1861. He was the first President of the
Springfield, Jackson & Pomeroy Railroad (now the Springfield &
Southern), which he was largely instrumental in securing. Some
of his other contributions to public improvements are named in the
following extract from the Waverly Watchman of Oct. 1, 1878:
“It is mainly due to Mr. Emmitt’s enterprise and
genius that our county is as far advanced as it is. It was his
enterprise that built the first bridge across the Scioto River in
this county. It was mainly due to his enterprise that we have
forty miles of turnpike road in our county. It is mainly due
to his intelligence and liberality that inaugurated the enterprise
which gave us two railroads, in one of which he invested $125,000.
In fact it is mainly due to Mr. Emmitt’s untiring
energy, perseverance, activity and liberality that we have any
public improvements in the county.” During the heated political
campaign of 1878, when Mr. Emmitt was a Democratic
candidate for Congress, the Boss County Register, a political
opponent, paid him the following high but deserved compliment: “If
he lacks the finish of a course in college, he possesses what
colleges cannot give, a mind of great natural grasp and force, and
plenty of that wholesome quality known as ‘ hard common sense.’
In the course of his long and industrious life he has picked up a
large amount of useful and practical information upon both public
and private matters, which often stands one in greater stead than
mere knowledge without the ability to use it. It is not risking much
to say that if one-half the members of Congress were called upon to
manage the vast and complicated business interests of Mr.
Ernmitt they would prove miserable failures.” In 1867-’70
Mr. Emmitt, through the pressing solicitation of his
fellow citizens, served two terms in the State Senate, where he was
influential in saving large sums to the State by defeating jobs, and
was successful in getting through the Legislature the bill for the
payment of the Morgan raid claims, which was afterward pronounced
unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the State on the ground
that suitable foundation was laid for it in pre-existing law.
In 1865-’6 he, with his wife and two sons, took an extended tour in
Great Britain and on the continent, returning with, many works of
art to adorn his fine mansion and grounds in Waverly. He still
at his advanced age (just seventy-seven when these lines are
written, Nov. 6, 1883) gives promise of many years of vigorous-
health, and ability to manage, personally, the large fortune,
estimated at $1,000,000, which has been accumulated by a long life
of industry and energy.
~ Page 781 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - APPENDIX |
GEORGE EDMONDS,
Secretary and Treasurer of the' Webster Fire-Brick and Coal Company,
was born in Wales, and when two years of age his parents came to the
United States, locating first in Pittsburg, Pa., and subsequently in
Gallia County, Ohio. In 1860 he went to the Rocky Mountains,
remaining there five years, a greater part of the time employed as
contractor in the Quartermaster’s department. In 1865 he
returned to Ohio and was identified with the iron interests of
Vinton County about four years. In 1870 he came to Scioto
County and became a stockholder in the Webster Fire-Brick Company,
and has been one of the Directors since its organization, and has
been Secretary and Treasurer since 1878. He was married in
1868 to Susan, daughter of Peter Hill, of
Vinton County. They have a family of five children, two sons
and three daughters. They are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church. Mr. Edmonds is a member of
Lodge, No. 191, Western Sun, Wheelersburg, and Mt. Vernon Chapter,
No. 23, Portsmouth.
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Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Bloom Twp.
SHARON WICK'S NOTE: This family can be found in 1880 Census
Webster Village, Bloom Twp. - Pg. 43 on June 24, 1880 enumerated by
N. L. Searl, Enumerator.
Dwelling 363 - Family 365 includes: George Edmonds, W M 42-
Md. - Brickyard Clerk, b. Wales, fath. b. Wales, moth. b. Wales;
Susan W. Edmonds, W F 34, wife, keeping house, b. OH, fath. b. VA,
moth. b. OH; Olive L. Edmonds, W F 9, Dau., S, at home, b. OH, fath.
b. Wales, moth. b. OH; Carrie L. Edmonds, W F 7, Dau., S, at home,
b. OH, fath. b. Wales, moth. b. OH: Florence G. Edmonds, W F 5, Dau.,
S., at home, b. OH, fath. b. Wales, moth. b. OH; John R. Edmonds, W
M 3, Son, S, at home, b. OH, fath. b. Wales, moth. b. OH; George G.,
W M 1, Son, S, at home, b. OH, fath. b. Wales, moth. b. OH.
ALSO found: Copy of Original Marriage License: State of
Ohio, Vinton County, ss: I certify that on the 29th day of
Sept. AD 1869, George Edmunds and Susan W. Hitt were legally joined
in marriage by me, a Minster of the Gospel, Irwin Carson, VDM. |
CASSIUS EDMUNDS,
dealer in general merchandise, at Scioto Mills, was born Sept. 25,
1846, at Boston, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and lived with his parents
till he was fifteen years old. Jan. 23, 1862, he enlisted in
the First Ohio Battery Light Artillery, and participated in many
hard-fought battles, among which were the first battle of
Winchester, Port Republic, second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg
and Chancellorsville. At the last-named battle he lost his
right leg by the bursting of a shell, after which he was in camp
hospital about a month, and was then sent to Washington, and
discharged Feb. 22, 1864. He then engaged in the mercantile
business in Portsmouth, in connection with the manufacturing of
brooms, until 1875, when he purchased 100 acres of land on Pine
Creek, Scioto County, where he followed farming till 1878. He
then sold his farm and engaged in merchandising at Scioto Mills, and
is also engaged in manufacturing brooms. He was married Jan.
5, 1868, to Nancy J. Stewart, of Springville, Ky. They
have two children living - William and Emma. Elnora
died at the age of three years. Mrs. Edmunds died
Nov. 1, 1872, and Mr. Edmunds was again married Apr. 1, 1874,
to Susan, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Shaffer,
of Portsmouth. This union was blessed with three children -
Stephen, Sarah and Urania. He and his wife are
members of the Protestant Methodist church, and he is a member of
Scioto Post, No. 287, G. A. R. He is a son of Stephen and
Paulina Edmunds, the former having been born near Rochester, N.
Y., and came to Ohio in 1844. They were the parents of eight
children, five now living - Cassius, Amasa, Edward, Eunice,
Minnie; Zala died at the age of six years; Paulina and
Ella died in infancy.
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STEPHEN EDMUNDS,
grocer, Second street, between Madison and Massie streets, was born in
Massachusetts, Nov. 13, 1815, a son of John Edmunds,
and cousin of Senator Edmunds. He came to Ohio
in 1842, locating in Portsmouth in 1848, where he was a boatman eight
years. He then went into the old National Hotel and remained on
that corner twenty years, keeping hotel, grocery and broom factory.
He enlisted in 1861 in Battery L., First Ohio Artillery, and served
two years. He participated in the battles of Winchester, Fort
Republic, Bull Run, Antietam and Fredericksburg; was discharged on
account of disability. His son ran away form home to join him in
the army, and was with him in all the engagements. At
Chancellorsville, in 1863, he was wounded and lost his left leg.
Mr. Edmunds was reared a Democrat, but at the
time of the war changed his views. He was married in 1842 to
Paulina Darby, a native of New York. She died
in 1865. They had eight children, five of whom are living.
In 1872 he married Sarah Garlic, a native of
Baltimore, Md.
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L. EISMAN & BROTHER,
wholesale clothing and woolen merchants, are natives of Bavaria,
Germany, and sons of Schmey Eisman. L. was born
in 1834, and John in 1839. The elder came to
the United States in 1860, and his brother in 1861. They located
first in New York City, then removed to New Brunswick, then to
Parkersburg, Va., and subsequently to Portsmouth. In 1863
Freedman, Eisman & Co. established a wholesale house,
but six months later Mr. Freedman withdrew, and
Mr. Eisman carried on the business under the name
L. Eisman & Co. till 1867, when his brother John
became associated with him, changing the firm name to L.
Eisman & Brother. They do an annual business of
$160,000, their trade extending through Ohio, Kentucky, East and West
Virginia. They employ four traveling salesmen and sixteen in the
store. In their tailoring department they employ from 100 to 140
hands. They occupy three floors, and carry a full line of
cloths, ready-made clothing and gents' furnishing goods.
L. Eisman was married Jan. 1, 1865, to Fannie
Rousleim. J. Eisman married Fannie Meyer,
who died one year after, and he then married his present wife,
Eliza Dryfus.
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GEORGE D. EMMITT ~ Page 874 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
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HON. JAMES EMMITT ~ Page 871 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
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JOSEPH EMNETT,
contractor and builder, Chillicothe street, between Tenth and Eleventh
streets, Portsmouth, was born in Bavaria, Germany, May 3, 1838, and
came to the United States Dec. 24, 1853, locating at Portsmouth, Ohio.
He began learning the carpenter's trade when seventeen years of age,
and subsequently worked as a journeyman fifteen years. He then
began contracting. His work is chiefly building dwelling-houses,
repairing and roof work. April 23, 1878, he married Mary
Miller, who was a native of Pittsburg, Pa. They had two
children - Mary and Joseph, both
deceased. Mrs. Emnett died Jan. 31, 1882.
Mr. Emnett is a member of the Catholic church.
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S. S. ENGLISH, Postmaster,
Rushtown, and dealer in general merchandise, established his present
place of business in May, 1875. He carries a full stock of
dry-goods, groceries, hardware, boots, shoes and provisions, and
also deals extensively in railroad ties, tan-bar, etc., doing an
annual business of $10,000. He was born in Pennsylvania in
1835, and removed to Ohio, residing in Pike County from 1856 to
1875. He received a practical education, which enabled him to
teach, an occupation he followed for several years. He was
married in 1858 to Sarah Bowser. They have had eight
children - Mary E., wife of T. G. Vaughters; Sarah
M., wife of John Shultz; Agnes A., at Whitmore, Pike
County; Phoebe C., Lillie F., Genetta A., Rachel A.
and Ida May. Mr. English and all his family are
members of the Baptist church.
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HARMAN ESSMAN was
born in Hanover, May 22, 1818, and when about twenty-eight years of
age came to the United States. He immediately went to
Pittsburg, Pa., where he lived three years, when he came to Ohio and
was engaged in digging ore at Jackson Furnace for twelve years.
He then bought his present farm of 160 acres, and has since been
engaged in farming and stock-raising. He was married in 1816
to Catherine Kreiner, of Pittsburg. They have
had six children born to them, of whom four are living—William,
Henry, Harman and John A. Mr. Essman and wife are
members of the Lutheran church.
~ Page 381 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Bloom Twp.
SHARON WICK'S NOTE:
In 1870 Census, Bloom Twp., Scioto Co., Ohio
lived at Dwelling 245 Family 246: Harmon Essman, 52 M W,
Farmer, RE$2500 Pers$600, b. Hanover, Ger.; Catherine Essman,
48 F W, Keep House, b. Hanover, Ger.; William Essman, 22 M W, Com.
Laborer, b. OH; Henry Essman, 17 M W, Com. Laborer, b. OH; Harmon,
Essman, 14 M W, Work at Home, b. OH; John Essman, 11 M W, b. OH. (Source
Citation - Year: 1870; Census Place: Bloom, Scioto Co., Ohio; Roll:
M593-1265; page 351B) |
JOHN EVANS, deceased,
was born in Bracken County, Ky., June 21, 1817, a son of Abraham
and Esther A. (Turner) Evans. He married Rebecca,
daughter of David and Dyanna (MeLee) Storer, July 9,
1843, and settled in Nile Township, where he bought the 100 acres of
land where Mr. Cunningham now lives. He died
Feb. 25, 1872. He was a prominent man of the township and
served in most of the offices. He was successful in a
financial point of view, and left his family in good circumstances.
He was a member of the Methodist church, and had been a Class-Leader
two years . But two of his five children are living— Hester Ann,
wife of John Rogers, of Sandy Springs, Adams County, and
Rowena, wife of E. O. Cunningham, of Clarke County, Ohio.
Jasper, William and Richard C. are deceased.
William enlisted in Company F, Thirty-sixth Ohio Infantry,
Feb. 4, 1864. He participated in eight hard-fought battles and
was taken prisoner, but made his escape. He was discharged in
July, 1865, and died Sept. 10, 1866. Mrs. Evans
was married Nov. 17, 1881, to Middleton H. Hutton. She
was born in Nile Township, Feb. 23, 1823.
~ Page 429 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 |
MITCHELL EVANS was
born in Bracken County, Ky., in 1820, a son of Abraham and Esther
A. (Turner) Evans, natives of Maryland. His father died in
Kentucky in 1826, and in 1827 his mother and her children came to
Ohio, where she died in 1833. Her children were—Sarah,
Mary, Eleanor, Charity Ann, Solomon, John, Mitchell and
Nancy. Mitchell and Solomon are the only
representatives of the family now living. Our subject worked
on flat and steam boats on the Ohio when a young man, and then
bought 175 acres of land where he now resides, and which he now has
under an excellent state of cultivation. He has served his
township as Treasurer, Trustee and Clerk. His family are
members of the Methodist church, a society he has been connected
with since 1857. He was married in 1854 to Maria H.,
daughter of Abel Bradford. They had three
children—Charles B., Emory F. and Maria. Mrs.
Evans died in 1867, aged thirty-six years. In 1868
Mr. Evans married Ella R., daughter of D. N. Murphy.
They have three children—Ernest, William D. and Anna.
His son Emory resides in Dakota.
~ Page 430 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 |
NELSON W. EVANS,
son of Edward Patton and Amanda Jane (King) Evans, was born June 4,
1842, in Sardinia, Brown Co., Ohio. He attended school till
June, 1863, and graduated from the Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in
the class of 1864. He was in the Union army from June, 1863,
till June, 1865, and during that time was First Lieutenant of Company
G, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Ohio Infantry, Adjutant of One Hundred
and Seventy-third Ohio Infantry and Captain of Company K. of same
regiment . He was in Burnside's campaign in
East Tennessee, and at the battle of Nashville. He was married
Sept. 9, 1868, to Lizzie Henderson, of Middletown,
Ohio. During the winter of 1865-'66 he studied law in the
Cincinnati Law School, and was admitted to the bar April, 1866, and
Aug. 1 of the same year located in Portsmouth, where he has since
practiced his profession. He was City Solicitor from 1871 till
1875, and from 1870 till 1878 was Register in Bankruptcy of the
Eleventh Congressional District. He is Vice Regent Grand
Council, Royal Arcanum of Ohio, and is a member of Portsmouth Lodge,
No. 395, A. F. & A. M. In politics he is a Republican.
~ Page
259 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state
Publishing Co. 1884 |
ELMORE ELLIS
EWING, wholesale dealer in Queen's-ware, china, and glassware,
Portsmouth, Ohio, was born at Ewington, Gallia Co., Ohio, Feb. 16,
1840, and is the youngest son of George and Ann (Knox) Ewing.
He was educated at the Ewington Academy until he was nineteen, and at
the age of seventeen began teaching in Gallia County during vacations
until he left the academy, thus defraying the expenses of his
education. When nineteen years old he left his native place and
commenced teaching in Scioto and Lawrence counties. In 1860 he
entered the Ohio University at Athens, where he remained two years, in
July 1862, he assisted in enlisting Company A, Ninety-first Ohio
Infantry, under Capt. L. Z. Cadot. He enlisted
in this company as Orderly Sergeant, but was promoted to Second
Lieutenant in June, 1863, and to First Lieutenant, June, 1864.
At the battle of Winchester, Va., July 24, 1864, he was severely
wounded, on account of which he was discharged from the service Dec.
4, 1864. He ten was appointed clerk in the Provost Marshal's
department at Portsmouth, under Captain B. F. Cory.
Oct. 1, 1865, the office was discontinued, and he received the
appointment of Principal of the High School department in the public
schools at Portsmouth, but owing to ill health he was obliged to
resign his position in November, 1865. He then accepted the
position of bookkeeper in the wholesale crockery business of
T. J. Pursell & Co., and in January, 1867, he became
associated with the firm, changing the name to Pursell, Ewing
& Co. In January, 1876, the other members retired from
the firm, when he succeeded to the business as E. E. Ewing.
Sept. 21, 1865, he was married to Minerva, daughter
of James S. Folsom, by whom he has had one child -
Jessie Folsom. He and wife and daughter are members of
the Bigelow Methodist Episcopal Church of Portsmouth.
Mr. Ewing has served one term on the Board of Education and
two terms on the City council of Portsmouth. He is a member of
Bailey Post, No. 164, . A. R., of which he is a
Senior Vice Commander and Aid-de-Camp on the staff of the department
commander of the State of Ohio.
~ Page 259 - History of Lower
Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 |
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