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History of Lower Scioto Valley
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Chicago: Inter-State
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1884
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JOHN M. SALLADAY,
son of George and Phoebe (Chafin) Salladay, was born in
Scioto County, Jan. 10, 1814. He lived on the farm till twenty
years of age, when he started out in the world without a dollar.
He was variously engaged till May 10, 1837, when he was married to
Martha, daughter of Moses Hayward, of Vermont.
They have had three children - Harriet J., who died when
nineteen years of age; Lora A., wife of Samuel B. Bierly,
and George M. Mr. Salladay now owns 767 acres of land.
He belonged to the Whig party at one time, but since the
organization of the Republican has affiliated with that party.
He and wife had been members of the Methodist church twenty years,
and he has served as Trustee of his township. His father was
born in Maryland in 1785, and his mother in Connecticut, Sept. 30,
1794. His parents were married May 17, 1812, in Scioto County,
and had a family of ten children, of whom four are living -
Obediah, Eunice (wife of James Collins), Lemuel
and John M., our subject. His mother died July 27,
1855, and his father's death occurred Oct. 5, 1860.
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ENOCH J. SALT, of the
firm of Enoch J. Salt & Co., proprietors of the woolen mill,
was born in Covington, Ky., Apr. 9, 1857. His father, Enoch
Salt, Sr. is a member of the same firm, and for thirty years
previous to the establishment of the present business was associated
with C. S. Rankin & Co.'s iron works, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Enoch J. Salt is a musician of acknowledged talent, and the
composer of many beautiful and popular pieces of music. He is
the organist of the Sixth Street Methodist Episcopal Church,
Portsmouth, Ohio, and, though but a young man, is highly esteemed,
both in business and social circles. His high cultivation in
music makes him reliable authority for all musical inquiries, and he
stands foremost as one of the finest and most expert organists in
the country. He achieved a notable reputation in his playing
on the great organ at the Philadelphia Centennial, 1876, and his
rendering of the "Star Spangled Banner," on the occasion of the
visit of ex-President Grant, gained for him a national
reputation. He is a comparative stranger to the business he is
engaged in, but by his exceptional abilities handles it with natural
east. He was married June 16, 1880, to Ella Green, of
Portsmouth, Ohio, daughter of Chas. S. Green, a former iron
merchant of this city. Two children were born to them -
Clifford and Nellie. Mr. Salt has written many
beautiful pieces of poetry, and some of his verses, dedicated to the
memory of deceased friends, have received marked attention from the
press, and were highly complimented. He stands high in
business and social circles, with a character unblemished, while his
reputation for integrity is beyond reproach. He is universal
favorite with the citizens of the city, and all who come in contact
with him are favorably impressed by his kind, genial disposition.
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GEORGE SCHAFER was
born at Center Furnace, Lawrence Co., Ohio, June 4, 1848, a son of
Stephen and Catharine Schafer, natives of Germany. He
was reared and attended school at Center Furnace, and when fourteen
years of age he began to learn the trade of a blacksmith with his
father. Nov. 14, 1871, he married Sophia Wagner, of
Lawrence County. They have had five children born to them -
Annie E., Frederick S., Geo. W., Ida R., and Otto Willard.
In 1874 he came to Powellsville, Scioto County, and opened a shop,
and he has been very successful, being a skillful workman.
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GEORGE J. SCHIRRMANN
was born Nov. 20, 1834, in Bavaria, Germany, and came to America i
n1854, locating first at St. Louis, where he served his
apprenticeship0 at the carriage making trade. In Aug., 1860,
he came to Portsmouth, where he has since resided. He worked
for Metzzler & Kricker, carriage manufacturers,
eighteen months, after which he worked at sign-painting some time in
connection with other work. In 1864 he built the shop where he
is at present located, and carried on the carriage manufacturing
business, but is at present running a repair shop. He also has
a livery stable, consisting of about six horses and a dozen rigs.
He lost about $4,000 by fire June 23, 1883, which consumed his
building, tools, oils, paints, etc. He was married in the
spring of 1862 to Augusta Kaufman, of Portsmouth. They
have nine children - Kate, Emma, Lina, Charles, Alfred, Hattie,
George, Harry, and Theobald. Mrs. Schirrmann was a
prominent member of the Mannaerchor Club of seventy members, which
flourished in Portsmouth a few years ago.
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FRED SCHMITT was born
in Germany in 1836, and came with his father, John A. Schmitt,
to America in 1847. He was first engaged in making cigars, which
occupation he followed till 1861, when he enlisted in the Regimental
Band, Twenty-eighth Ohio Infantry, and served eighteen months,
having participated in the battles of Carnifax Ferry, Princeton,
South Mountain and Antietam, besides a number of skirmishes.
After his return home he engaged in the hardware business till 1873,
when he opened his grocery store, where he is still doing a fine
trade on Gallia street. He was married in 1864 to Mary,
daughter of John Buchert, of Piketon. Of their nine
children six are living—John, Lizzie, Daniel, Emma, Fred and
Phillipena. Mary, Minnie and Rosa
died in infancy. Mr. Schmitt belongs to the
lodge and encampment I. O. O. F., and is a member of the Grand Army
of the Republic. His father, after coming to America, lived
two years in Pike County, after which he resided in Portsmouth ten
years. He then returned to Pike County, where he died in 1874,
at the age of seventy-two years. The mother is still living in
Pike County, aged eighty years.
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JOHN SCHWARTZ was
born June 7, 1850, in Chillicothe, Ohio, a son of Frederick and
Wilhelmina
(Wilke) Schwartz. His father was born in Germany in 1807,
and his mother in 1805. His parents were married in Germany
and came to the United States in 1834. The first two years
they lived in Cleveland, Ohio, and then moved to Chillicothe, where
his father died in 1880. Mrs. Schwartz and her
daughter then came to Portsmouth, where she died in December, 1882.
Of a family of eight children four died in infancy and four are
still living—Sophia, now Mrs. John Wilhelm; Henry
D., a carpenter of Chillicothe; Frank, foreman of the
street car stables at Columbus, and Joseph. The latter
came to Portsmouth when fifteen years of age, and clerked nine years
for John Wilhelm. He was then in a grocery store
six years; and worked at the painter’s trade two years, after which
he opened a billiard hall on Chillicothe street. He was
married in 1873 to Clara Hoss. They have five children—Otto,
Katie, Maggie, Carl and Frederick. Mr. Schwartz
is a member of the I. O. O. F. fraternity.
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FERNANDO CORTES
SEARLE, attorney at law, Portsmouth, Ohio, was born in Vernon
Township, Scioto Co., Ohio, July 18, 1825, a son of Nathaniel and
Rebecca (White) Searl, natives of Middletown, Rutland Co., Vt.
His father was born Feb. 1, 1788, and his mother Jan. 16, 1789.
His parents were married May 26, 1806, in Steuben County, N. Y.,
where their parents had removed in their childhood. In 1813
they came to Ohio, locating in Portsmouth, but in 1815 removed to
the French Grant, and in 1817 to Vernon Township, where his father
died in 1855. His mother died in Webster in 1864. There
was a family of seven children—Rev. Miranda Searl, of
Webster; W. C., deceased; Mrs. Julia Ann Smith,
deceased; Mrs. Melissa Katen, deceased; Mrs. Louisa Dudley,
of Missouri; Mrs. Diree J. Taylor, of Iowa, and the subject
of our sketch. Fernando Cortes spent his early life on
a farm on Pine Creek, near Howard Furnace. The educational
advantages of that day were meager, but he determined to obtain an
education, and by applying his spare moments to study and thought
acquired more than an ordinary education. When sixteen years
of age he began teaching, devoting six months of the year to the
school-room, and six months to the farm, for five years. He
then spent three years in farming, contracting and trading, and
subsequently taught four years in Webster, with but short vacations,
in the meantime taking up the study of law. In 1857 lie went
to Kansas, and, for the time being, cast his lot with the Free State
pioneers in the contest as to the establishment of slavery in that
territory, but finally returned to his old home at Webster, Ohio.
In 1859 he removed to Portsmouth, and in 1860 was admitted to the
bar; was shortly after elected Probate Judge of Scioto County. In
1871 he became associated in practice with J. J. Harper, but
since the latter’s election to the Common Pleas bench in 1874, he
has practiced alone. He has a fine farm, and of late years has
devoted considerable attention to farming and stock-raising.
He was chairman of the Military Committee for Scioto County and a
recruiting agent during the war of the Rebellion, and enlisted over
600 soldiers. He took an active part in the organization of
the National Guard and was appointed Quartermaster, but as the
recruits from Scioto and Meigs counties were consolidated, that
position was given to W. H. Losley, of Pomeroy, and Mr.
Searl was appointed First Lieutenant of Company F, One
Hundred and Fortieth O. N. G. He was married March 22, 18—, to
Julia A. Schoonover, who died Aug. 1, 1876, leaving four
children—Minta, wife of Rev. J. A. Vananda, of
California; Helen Searl, now in Iowa; O. A., of
Porter Township, and Mollie, wife of Dr. Charles
Mondy, of Washington Territory. Dec. 8, 1877, Mr.
Searl married Callie Shoemaker. They have
two children—Miranda Clinton and Bertha Dell.
In 1841 Mr. Searl united with the United Brethren
Church, but since leaving Vernon Township, in 1854, has not been a
member of any church. Politically he was reared a Whig, and since
the organization of the Republican party has been one of its firm
supporters.
He is a prohibitionist whenever moral sentiment renders prohibition
practicable, and is looking for the time when that question will
govern politics. He was four times elected Justice of the
Peace, and served one term as Deputy Sheriff, and three terms as
Probate Judge of Scioto County. Mr. Searl is one
of the enterprising citizens of the county, having all his life been
identified with her interests.
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ADAM SEEL was born in
Bavaria, Germany, in 1844, a son of Michael Seel, a
blacksmith by trade. When thirteen years of age he came to
America, locating first in Hagerstown, Md., where he served an
apprenticeship at the confectioner's trade. In 1864 he came to
Portsmouth, and was employed by others four years, when he opened a
store of his won on Sixth Street. Two years later he bought a
place on Second street, where he remained four years. He then
bought his present place of business, between Chillicothe and
Washington Streets. He keeps a fine stock of candies, having a
fresh supply every day. His bakery and ice cream parlors are
the finest in the city, and he commands the trade of the first
people of Portsmouth. He was married in 1866 to Eliza C.
Luse, of Hagerstown, who died in 1877, leaving two children.
In 1879 he married Harriet Wolf, of Portsmouth. They
have one child. Mr. Seel is a member of the Masonic
fraternity.
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WILLIAM
SEELEY was born Sept. 7, 1836, in Scioto County, Ohio, a son
of Amos and Sophia (Bertrand) Seeley, his father a native of
New York, born in 1805, and his mother of France. His
grandfather, John Bertrand, was one of the first settlers on
the French Grant. Of a family of seven children five are now
living - Marion, Wallace, John, Samuel and William.
His father died June 27, 1883. His mother is still living,
aged seventy-seven years. William Seeley was
reared on a farm, attending the district schools. He was
married in 1861 to Jemima, daughter of John Burns, of
Lawrence County, Ohio. She was born in Scioto County, Sept. 6,
1836. They have a family of nine children. Mr. Seeley
has served as Assessor of his township three years.
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CAPTAIN CHARLES SEIFFER
was born in the Kingdom of Wittenberg, Germany, July 27, 1827, and
came to the United States in 1849, stopping a few months in New
York, and the same year came to Portsmouth. He carried brick
for masons, and soon after learned the bricklayer's trade. In
August, 18651, he enlisted in Company B, Fifty-sixth Ohio Infantry.
He was appointed Second Lieutenant, and subsequently promoted to
First Lieutenant. He served three and a half years; was taken
prisoner at Vicksburg, but was soon exchanged. He was in the
battles of Shiloh, Fort Gibson, Champion Hills, Vicksburg, and many
others. After his return home he worked at his trade for
Colonel Warner several years. In 1872 he opened the Harmonia
Gardens, which he has fitted up in a very tasteful manner. He
was married in 1849 to Louisa Sneff, of Germany. She
died in the summer of 1882. Jan. 15, 1883, he married
Maggie Ditman, also of Germany. Captain Seiffer is
a member of the Harugari Society.
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DANIEL SHAKESPEAR
was born in Staffordshire, England, Jan. 7, 1842, and is a son of
Joseph Shakespear, who is now living in Clifton, Va., at the age
of seventy-six years. He came to America in 1868, landing in
New York City, Jan. 30. He first went to Pittsburgh, Pa.,
where he remained eight months, after which he lived four years in
Harmer, Washington Co., Ohio. He then spent several months
looking for work, when he came to Portsmouth, where he has since
been employed in boiling iron in Burgess's steel works. He
learned his trade in the old country, and boiled iron for six years
before coming to America, and has always been engaged in that
occupation. He was married in England in 1865 to Clara
Holmes. They have had thirteen children, of whom nine are
living - James, who was the only one born in England;
William, Jane, Elizabeth, John, Charles, Clara, Joseph and
Enoch. The deceased are Mary Jane, two sons named
Daniel, and Sarah Ann. Mr. Shakespear is a
member of the Odd Fellows fraternity.
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REV. JOHN SHEPPARD
was born in Floyd County, Ky., Aug. 6, 1844, and when fifteen years
of age came to Ohio, locating in Scioto County. He enlisted in
1861 in the three months’ service, and at the expiration of his term
enlisted for three years in Company D, Twenty-second Ohio Infantry.
After serving two years he was discharged on account of ill health,
but again enlisted in the Twenty-seventh Ohio Veterans and served
till the fall of 1865. He participated in the battles of Fort
Donelson, Shiloh and many other important battles. Soon after
his return home he married Eliza J., daughter of George
and Lilly A. Brown. They have five children — George
W., William J.. Lilly D., Sarah J. and Emma L. Mr.
Sheppard has worked for the furnaces of the vicinity, having had
charge of the bank at Howard Furnace, and at present having charge
of the farm belonging to Clinton Furnace. He joined the
Free-Will Baptist church in 1878 and was licensed to preach, and is
now an active worker in the cause of Christianity.
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MARTEN SHERER is a
native of Germany, and came with his parents to America in 1865, at
the age of one and a half years. He is a son of August
Sherer. They lived twelve years in Schuylkill County, Pa.,
where his father worked in the coal mines, and in 1867 moved with
his family to Portsmouth, Ohio, and shortly after moved to his
present farm on Munn's Run, in Pleasant Valley, which contains 118
acres of choice land. Our subject worked a couple of years in
a brick yard, after which he built a saw-mill, and from a small
affair has built up a good business, and has in connection with his
saw-mill a grist mill. He was married Jan. 9, 1883, to
Catherine Hamestine, of Pine Creek, this county, and daughter
of Jacob Hamestine. Mr. Sherer is at present holding
the office of Township Trustee.
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PETER SHOEMAKER
was born in Scioto County, Ohio, Nov. 20, 1811, a son of George
and Rachel (Hatfield) Shoemaker, natives of Lancaster County,
Pa., who came to Ohio in 1808 and located in Scioto County, and in
1831 removed to Gallia County, where his father died in 1867, and
his mother in 1871. They had a family of twelve children,
eight of whom are living. Peter Shoemaker was married
in 1840 to Caroline Fuller, a native of Germany. They
have a family of nine children - Lucina, Louisa, Lucena, Clinton,
Caroline, Mary A., Sarah E., Victoria and Ida B. (twins).
Mrs. Shoemaker died June 23, 1882. Mr. Shoemaker
has a fine farm of 175 acres.
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JOHN SHOPE was born
May 15, 1822, in Scioto County, Ohio, a son of John and Mary (Dollarhide)
Shope, and is the only one of seven children now living in Ohio.
He was reared on a farm, attending a subscription school but three
months of the year. He remained with his parents till
twenty-four years of age, and then went to farming for himself.
He was married the next year to Amy Colvin, who lived but a
short time. His second wife was Elizabeth Chick.
They had a family of seven children - William, John, Eldora,
Charles, Philora, Mary E., and Nancy A. (twins).
Mrs. Shope died in 1872, and in 1873* Mr. Shope married
Marinda B. Barber. They have one son - Roland D.
Mr. Shope has a fine farm of 381 acres in the Pine Creek
bottom, with a good residence and farm buildings. He gives his
attention to the raising of small grains and grass.
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*NOTE: John Shope md. Marinda B. Barber on Dec. 22, 1873
at Scioto, Ohio. (photo available at www.familysearch.org
Census 1880 shows they have daughters - Dora, Emma, Amy and Lora
Shope and one son Rollie Shop. (photo available at
www.familysearch.org |
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ELIAS
SIMPSON, farmer and stock-dealer, postoffice, Bear
Creek, was born in Hampshire County, Va., in 1818, a son of John
and Rebecca Simpson natives of Virginia. His father died
in Virginia, and his mother married Hiram Alloway, and in
1827 came to Pike County, Ohio, where she died. Elias,
when nineteen years of age, in 1837, came to Scioto County and
worked for Geo. Heoredth a number of years. Apr. 1,
1842, he married Margaret Howard and leased land of his
employer, where he lived till Jan. 17, 1848, when he settled where
he now lives, leasing the land at the time with James Rankins.
In 1854 he purchased land and has since added to it till he now owns
land in Rush, Morgan and Valley townships, aggregating upward of
3,000 acres, and is the largest land owner on the west side, if not
in Scioto County. By his industry and energy he has
accumulated his property, having started in life with nothing.
Politically he is a Republican; was formerly a Whig, and cast his
first presidential vote for W. H. Harrison in 1840. He
is no politician, preferring the quiet of business life to the
unrest of political honors. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson have
had thirteen children, but five now living - Mary Ann, wife
of James Ellison; Rhoda, wife of Joseph Morgan; Rebecca,
wife of Jesse Johnson; Franklin, married to Belle Dever;
and Henry, married Aggie Ballinger, Jane, John, Elias,
George, Amos, Andrew T., Cynthia Alice and A. Lincoln are
deceased. John enlisted Oct. 4, 1864, in Company B,
Twenty-second Ohio Infantry, for one year, and was discharged at the
close of the war. He died at home Nov. 2, 1865. Mrs.
Simpson died Aug. 8, 1881, aged fifty-eight years. July
12, 1883, Mr. Simpson married Mary Dunlap. He is
a member of Lucasville Lodge, No. 465, A. F. & A. M.
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JAMES SKELTON,
United States Gauger, was born in Vernon Township, Scioto Co., Ohio,
Dec. 30, 1836. His grandfather, Samuel Skelton, was
born in Virginia in 1784, and in 1802 came to Ohio, locating in
Scioto County. He died in 1858. His family consisted of
seven children - Jeremiah, Silas, John, Rebecca, now
Mrs. G. R. Porter, of Lawrence County; Barbara, widow
of Joseph Lewis, of Kansas; Samuel (died in 1850) and
Isaac. John Skelton was born in Lawrence County, Ohio,
Jan. 29, 1810, and died Jan. 18, 1857. He had a family of nine
children - James, subject of our sketch, Frances, wife
of C. S. Wilson; Cynthia, wife of F. W. Gray,
or Oregon; Sarah, wife of August Cook; Samuel, of
Montana; Rebecca, wife of G. W. Kilgore; Luella,
wife of Isaac Wiseman; Mary M., wife of Alex.
Barley; William, of Illinois. James learned the
blacksmith's trade, working at it two years. He then
contracted and delivered stock for furnaces till the breaking out of
the war, when he enlisted in Company F, Twenty-seventh Ohio
Infantry, and served four years. He was mustered out Feb. 14,
1865. He enlisted as a private, but was promoted from time to
time, finally refusing to be mustered in as Captain. He
participated in many severe battles, among them New Madrid, Corinth,
Holly Springs, Resaca, Dallas, Kennesaw Mountain. At the
latter place he lost his right leg, being shot below the knee.
After his return home he engaged in merchandising at Powellsville
and Wheelersburg. In the fall of 1868 he was elected Auditor
of Scioto County; served four years and eight months, then went back
to Powellsville, and bought a farm. Two years later he removed
to Portsmouth, and purchased the greater part of the street-railroad
stock, becoming its president and manager. In 1878 he was
elected County Commissioner, and served three years. In 1881
he was appointed United States Gauger. He was married in 1858
to Mary O. Remy. They have five children - B. C., W.
W., C. F., James and Fannie.
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CHARLES S. SMITH,
grocer, was born Nov. 1, 1816, near Portsmouth, Ohio, a son of
John Smith, a native of Massachusetts. His father came to
Scioto County in 1812, and built the first large brick house in
Portsmouth, on the corner of Market and Front streets. He died
in 1821, aged forty-two, and his wife died at the age of eighty-two
years in 1877. They had three children - Charles S.;
L. P. N., who died in Sciotoville in 1875, aged fifty seven
years, and Joseph W., in San Francisco, Cal. Our
subject, when a young man, clerked in a store six years. He
spent about four years steam boating, etc., on the river, and in
1850 engaged in merchandising among the miners in California, where
he remained three years. He then followed the milling business
in Portsmouth eight or ten years, since which he has been
principally engaged in the mercantile business. He was married
in 1844 to Miss M. G. Lock, who died in 1849, leaving two
children - Floyd L. and Addie M. He was again
married Jan. 5, 1854, to Mrs. C. W. Ackerman. They have one
daughter, who was married to H. H. French, in November, 1881.
Mr. French is a partnership with Mr. Smith in the
grocery business.
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FLOYD L. SMITH, son of
Charles S. Smith, was born in Portsmouth June 30, 1845.
His mother died when he was about four years old, and his father
soon after went to California, and he and his sister Ada Were
sent to his mother's relatives in New York State. After
remaining there three years he returned to Portsmouth, and a few
years later returned to New York, where he attended school three
years. He then returned to Portsmouth High Schools. He
then clerked for his father and was a partner with him in a flour
mill till Aug. 11, 1862, when he enlisted in Company E, Eleventh
Ohio Infantry, and served his country till June, 1864, when he was
discharged. He then went into the Quartermaster's Department,
where he remained till the war closed. In 1866 he and his
father engaged in the manufacture of vinegar, in which they
continued five years, and the following three years were engaged in
manufacturing wrapping-paper. Since then he has been in the
general insurance business, besides being agent for the C. W. & B.
R. R., and also secretary of two building associations. He
organized the Southern Ohio Telephone Company, and was general
manager of the company until July 1, 1883, when the property was
sold to the Midland Company, of Chicago. He was married in
1867 to Cordelia A. Sickles. They have three sons -
Charles, Harry S. and Floyd L., Jr. Mr. Smith has
belonged to the Masonic and Odd Fellow Fraternities for many years.
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ISAIAH W. K. SMITH,
deceased, was born in Virginia, Feb. 27, 1807, a son of Joel W.
Smith. He was married in 1832 to Tryphena Noel.
They had one son who died at the age of seventeen years.
Mrs. Smith died Apr. 21, 1843. Jan. 23, 1845, he married
Mary E. Denning. They had one child - William D.,
who died in April, 1853, aged six years. His wife died Jan.
26, 1848, and Dec. 24, 1850, he married Christiana, daughter
of Jonathan W. Smith, of Virginia. They had a family of
nine children, six of whom are living - Mrs. Eyle Vaughters, Mrs.
Laura Wishan, Alice, Maria, May and Isaiah O. Mrs.
Adelaide McNamar, Ellsworth and Pearl are deceased.
Mr. Smith was Township Trustee, Justice of the Peace,
Treasurer and Assessor many years, and was one of the representative
citizens of the township. He was a member of the Methodist
church. He owned 300 acres of good land. He died June 4,
1874. Mrs. Smith's father, J. W. Smith, came to
this township in 1833. He married Amanda Freeman.
They reared a family of four children - Christina, Clementine
(died December, 1853), Baldwin (killed at the battle of
Kennesaw Mountain in 1863) and Julia. Mr. Smith was a
prominent man of the township and held many of the local offices.
He died Feb. 3, 1849. His wife died Mar. 3, 1853. She
was a member of the Baptist church.
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NATHANIEL F. SMITH
was born in Adams County, Ohio, in 1827, a son of
William and Margaret (Bragher) Smith, natives of New York.
In an early day his grand-parents, Henry and Esther (Moore) Smith,
came to Ohio from New York and settled in Adams County. His
father died in 1832, leaving three children - Nancy, wife of
Leonard Craine, deceased; Esther, wife of Solomon
Johnson, deceased, and Nathaniel F. His mother
afterward married Isaac Williams and removed to this county
in 1836, and in 1843 removed to Pike County, where she died in 1844.
Our subject spent his boyhood days in this county, and when
twenty-three years of age went to Defiance, Ohio, where he lived six
years, returning again to this township, where he now owns
fifty-four acres of land on Carey's Run. In 1875 he went to
Kansas and remained two years, entering 160 acres of land on the
Osage Indian Reserve. Politically he is a Republican. He
has served a number of terms as Township Trustee and one term as
Infirmary Director. In 1864 he was appointed by Salmon P.
Chase United States Treasurer's Agent on the Mississippi River
and served four months. He was married in 1860 to Rachel,
daughter of O. and Lydia Craine. They have no children.
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PETER J. SMITH,
a son of William Smith, an early settler of Scioto County,
married Rebecca Moore and located in Washington Township.
He subsequently bought the place where Mrs. Smith now
resides. He was successful through life and accumulated a good
property. To him were born eight children, only two now living
- William F. and Leroy F. John D., Joseph C.
and four infants are deceased. Mr. Smith died Oct. 31,
1853. He was a member of the Methodist church. Mrs.
Smith's paternal grandfather, Joseph Moore, came from
Kentucky to Ohio as early as 1792. He was a local preacher of
the Methodist church and was instrumental in organizing the first
church of that denomination in the Northwest Territory on Brush
Creek. He married Rebecca Fosterb, and to him were born
seven children - Aaron, Foster, Mary, John, Joseph, Firman
and Jemima. He died in Brown County, Ohio, and his wife
in Kentucky, at the home of their youngest son. Their son
Firman married Anna Westley, and subsequently settled in
Scioto County. In 1865 he removed to Mercer County, Ill.,
where he now resides, aged ninety-one years. He and his
brother, Joseph were soldiers in the war of 1812. He
was converted when twelve years of age and has always taken an
interest in religious matters. To him was born nine children -
Patience F., Rebecca F. (now Mrs. Peter Smith), Ray S.,
Charles, W. Sienda, Joseph B., John W., Jedediah F. and
Francis A., all reared in this county, but only one, Rebecca,
now resides here. Mrs. Moore died July 19, 1848, and
Mr. Moore afterward married Rebecca Hooveler. They
have no children. Mrs. Smith's maternal grandfather,
John Wesley, was born in Pennsylvania and married Patience
Frazier. In 1798 he came ot Washington Township.
To him were born eleven children, all deceased - Isaac, Jacob,
Joseph, Ann, John, Patience, Nancy, Lydia, Susan, Mary and
Sarah.
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WILLIAM F. SMITH,
postoffice Dry Run, was born in Washington Township in 1842, a son
of Peter J. and Rebecca (Moore) Smith. His early life
was spent on the farm, being educated in the district schools.
He enlisted in 1862 in Company C, Ninety-first Ohio Infantry, and
was appointed Corporal. He participated in ten or twelve
hard-fought battles, besides a number of skirmishes. He was
discharged in 1865 and returned home. He, with his mother and
brother, owns 125 acres of excellent land. He is serving his
third term as Trustee of the township, and has held other minor
offices. In 1867 he married Sarah Briggs, a native of
Scioto County, born in 1850, and a daughter of Samuel Briggs,
an early settler of the county. They have two children -
Emma and Wilbur. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are
members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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PETER SOMMER
was born
in Baden, German, Jan. 13, 1834. He received a liberal
education in his native country, and at the age of nineteen came to
the United States, and a few years later was married to Margaret
Brim, of Scioto County. He has a family of three boys and
seven girls, all of whom are living. He bought a saw-mill on
Long Run about two years after coming to America which he carried on
till it was burnt down in the spring of 1878. He then rebuilt
the mill, which he has operated successfully ever since. He
has a comfortable residence and good outbuildings on his farm of 240
acres, and owns forty acres in Jefferson.
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ANDREW SOMMERS was
born in Germany, July 11, 1821, where he was reared and educated,
and when twenty-six years of age came to the United States, arriving
in New York after a voyage of fifty-one days. He came to
Scioto County, Ohio, and began to work at the Buckhorn Furnace,
remaining there eleven years. In 1857 he bought his present
farm of 170 acres, the most of which is now under cultivation.
He has a good residence and farm building, and is one of the
well-to-do farmers of the township. He was married in 1849 to
Christena Hengen, a native of Germany. They have
ten children, five sons and five daughters, four of whom are
married. Mr. and Mrs. Sommers are members of the
Catholic church.
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DANIEL R. SPRY,
druggist, corner of Second and Market streets, was born in New York,
June 23, 1837, a son of Richard Spry. His father came
to Portsmouth in 1846, and died in 1882, aged seventy-three years.
He had a family of two sons and four daughters. Robert,
a lawyer, died in Portsmouth in 1879. Daniel R.
commenced clerking in 1852 for Shackleford & Crichton, and
five years later bought Mr. Crichton's interest, changing the
name of Shackleford & Spry. In 1863 he removed to his
present store, and has since been carrying on the business alone.
Mr. Spry is a single man, residing at home with his mother
and sisters.
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MICHAEL STANTON,
senior member of the firm of Stanton & Balmert, was born in
Ireland in 1842, and came to the United States with his mother in
1848, his father having come the year previous. They located
at Junior Furnace, Scioto Co., Ohio. He spent his earlier
years digging ore and coal and running on the river boats five
years. In 1870 he was associated in the wholesale liquor trade
with G. W. Brown & Co., and the following year formed a
partnership with M. J. Bagley and eighteen months later the
firm became Stanton Brothers, and in 1877 was changed to
Stanton & Balmert, and established the present store Nos. 161
and 163 West Front street. The sales amount to over $100,000
annually. Mr. Stanton is a stockholder in the
Portsmouth Wagon Stock Company, and has been a member of the
City Council since 1875. He was married Nov. 14, 1876, to
Mary Livingston, a native of Pennsylvania. They have four
children - John, William, Kate and Margaret. Mr.
Stanton served a year in the Hancock's Veteran Corps in the
Shenandoah Valley during the war of the Rebellion.
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FREDERICK ALFRED
STEARNS, grocer and saloon-keeper, Portsmouth, was born in
Furth, Bavaria, May 20, 1845. He left Germany when eight years
old for the United States, and when fourteen years of age began
working for Mr. John Loomis, as second engineer at Bloom
Furnace, with whom he continued till the war broke out. In
1862 he began to learn the barber's trade, at which he worked till
1864, when he went out in the one hundred days' service at musician
in Company G. After the war he was Quartermaster of the Fifth
Regiment Ohio National Guards for two years, when he was elected
Major. In 1866 he worked at plumbing and gas-fitting a short
time, after which he worked at his old trade till 1883, when he
commenced his present business. He was married in Portsmouth,
Sept. 12, 1869, to Anna M. Sanfferes, who was born of German
parents, in Louisville, Ky., June 12, 1851. They have had
seven children, five of whom are living - Nettie Alice, Flora
May, Walter Clay, Floyd Elmer and Elberon Garfield. Mr.
Stearns has served three years as Infirmary Director, two years
on City Council, and is at present Notary Public. He is a
Knight Templar, Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a Knight of Pythias, and
is a member of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church. His
father was a school-master in Germany, and died while our subject
was a child. His mother emigrated to America in March, 1854,
and settled in Columbiana County. She was again married in
1856 to John George Miller and the same year came to this
country, where they still reside.,
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HENRY STEMSHORN was
born Dec. 21, 1840, in Portsmouth, Ohio, and in 1862 engaged in the
grocery business, which he has ever since followed. In
October, 1881, he moved to his present store on Second street,
between Jefferson and Madison, where he is doing a good business.
He was married in 1862 to Mary Ann Englebrecht, who lived
only thirteen months after marriage. They had one child -
Charles Henry who died in infancy. Mr. Stemshorn
married Matilda Englebrecht, his deceased wife's sister, in
July , 1864. They have had seven children, five now living -
Amelia, Celia, Cordelia, Frank, and William. Harry,
the first child, died at the age of six weeks, and the sixth child,
Harry, died when three years of age. Mr. Stemshorn
is a member of the Harugari Society. His father, Frederick
Stemshorn, was a native of Germany, and came to America in 1830
and located in Portsmouth, where he lived till his death, which
occurred in 1850, at the age of forty-four years. He was
married in Portsmouth, in 1838, to Magdalena Klaus, who came
from Germany when fourteen years old. She died in September,
1860, aged forty-four years. They had a family of six
children, three of whom are living - Henry, Frederick, and
Mary, wife of John Lemberger, of Burlington, Iowa.
Madalena, Elizabeth, and an infant son are deceased.
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J. D. STOCKHAM,
merchant and miller, was born in Madison Township, Scioto County,
Ohio, Dec. 30, 1843, a son of J. H. and Catherine (Dewey)
Stockham. He resided at home till the breaking out of the
Rebellion, and Aug. 21, 1862, enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and
Seventeenth Ohio Infantry, afterward the First Ohio Heavy Artillery.
He served under General Geo. H. Thomas in the First Brigade,
Fourth Division, Twentieth Army Corps; was discharged June 20, 1865,
and returned to Scioto County and engaged in farming with his father
on shares. He was married Dec. 19, 1866, to Sarah
Wallace, daughter of Samuel and Clarissa Ann (Coryell)
Wallace, who was born Feb. 17, 1846. Six children have
been born to them — William H., born Oct. 16, 1867, died Jan.
4, 1875; Thomas W., born March 4, 1870; John L., Aug.
26, 1873; Clarissa A., Dec. 24, 1875; Sarah C., Sept.
8, 1878; Joseph W., July 11, 1881. A year after his
marriage Mr. Stockham engaged in the mercantile
business, and now has one of the best general stores in Madison
Township. He is also engaged in milling at Wallace
Mills. The grist-mill has a capacity of 150 bushels a day,
and the sawmill is one of the best in the county. In politics
Mr. Stockham is a Republican. He is a strong
temperance man, though not a radical. He has been Postmaster
at Wallace Mills since the establishment of the office there, June
12, 1879. He and his wife are members of the United Brethren
church.
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JOSEPH H. STOCKHAM,
second son of Joseph and Hannah (Bennett) Stockham, was born
in 1817 in Madison Township, Scioto County. He received his
education in the subscription schools, and lived on the home farm
till attaining his majority. He then was engaged
about the iron works for twelve years, and in 1846 purchased the old
homestead, which contains 175 acres of highly cultivated land.
He was married March 7, 1843, to Catherine, daughter of
Rosanna (Tenor) Dewey, who were early settlers of Adams County,
Ohio. They had a family of twelve children, of whom eleven are
living. His grandfather, William Stockham, was a
native of Wales, and emigrated to the United States in 1777, and
settled near Trenton, N. J., where he married Susannah
Payne, and in 1798 came to Ohio with his family of ten children,
and in 1803 he settled in Madison Township, Scioto County. He
was an active member of the Society of Friends, and died at an
advanced
age in 1815, his wife having survived him twenty years. His
second son, Joseph, was the father of our subject. He
was born in Trenton, N. J., in 1784, and in 1806 was married to
Hannah Bennett. They reared a family of nine
children to maturity, of whom six still survive. In 1812 he
purchased 210 acres on sections 27 and 34, Madison Township, where
he followed fanning till his death in 1833. His wife died in
1862. He and three of his brothers took an active part in the
war of 1812.
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JAMES V. STURGEON
was born Jan. 29, 1830, in Belmont County, Ohio, and is a son of
John and Anne V. Sturgeon, the former born in Delaware, Feb. 25,
1783, and the latter in New Jersey, Aug. 16, 1794. They came
to Belmont County in an early day, and in 1835 moved to Portsmouth,
where they remained five years. They purchased a farm in
Sturgeon Hollow containing 160 acres, about the year 1840, where the
father died in 1861. The mother died in her eighty-seventh
year, Mar. 12, 1881. They reared a family of ten children to
maturity, six of whom are still living. Our subject has always
pursued farming, and at present owns a good farm of 240 acres and
devoted his time principally to raising grain on rented lands.
He was married to Susannah Bailey, of this county. They
have had eleven children, of whom eight still are living.
Mr. Sturgeon has been a member of Lucasville Lodge, No. 465, A.
F. & A. M., a number of years.
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PHINEAS
STONE was born Dec. 21, 1833, in Staffordshire, England, and
came to the United States Dec. 18, 1853. He was married Dec.
24, 1856, to Sarah Evans, a native of Staffordshire, who came
to the United States in 1844. They have eight children living
and two deceased. Those living are - Annie, Jennie, Edwin
Grant, Mamie, Lydia, George, William and Bertha. Frank
died when one year and six years and one month. Mr. Stone
is by trade a boiler-maker, and makes the best boilers in the United
States. He ahs worked at his trade at Portsmouth twenty-three
years, and has made boilers for 220 steamboats and for all the
public buildings in Columbus. He has also made them for the
Governor's houses in Washington; for Government gun-boats, etc.
He is a member of the Royal Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Mount Vernon
Chapter, Cavalry Commandery and Cincinnati Consistory, and Scottish
Rites. He is also an Odd Fellow. His father, Phineas
Stone, Sr., was also a fine mechanic. He was killed in
1825 by a stage being thrown over a precipice, near Birmingham,
England. His wife died in 1881, in Staffordshire, aged
eighty-four years. They had five children, of whom two only
survive - Anna, who is married and residing in Staffordshire,
and Phineas.
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J. J. SUTTON, manager and
superintendent of Mussetter & Co.'s saw-mill, was born in nineteen
years of age he enlisted in Company H, Second West Virginia Cavalry,
and served three years. He participated in all the battles of
the Shenandoah Valley under General Sheridan, and was present
at the surrender of Lee and his army. He was married in
1866 to M. J. Westfall. They have two children.
Mr. Sutton is a member of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and the Grand Army of the Republic. He is a man of
literary taste, and his articles for the press have secured him many
complimentary expressions from the citizens of Portsmouth.
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JOHN SWEARINGEN was
born in Kentucky, Dec. 1, 1821, a son of Marmaduke and
Mary (Stratton) Swearingen, and grandson of
John Swearingen. When eighteen years of age he
located in Adams County, Ohio. In 1846 he came to Scioto
County and rented land two years, and in 1848 purchased sixty-seven
acres, adding to it from time to time, till he now owns 276 acres,
120 being under cultivation. At the time of coming to
this county he had by 62½ cents
and a few head of stock, but by industry has accumulated a good
property. He was married in 1841 to Mary Ann Loveland, of
Scioto County. Of the eight children born to them, but five
are living — F. A., Alta F., Laura A., John W. and Anna.
Thomas J., Lovania and Mary are deceased. F. A.
enlisted in 1862 in Company E, Eighty-first Ohio Infantry, and
served in Sherman’s army; was discharged in 1865.
Mr. and Mrs. Swearingen are members of the Methodist church, of
which he has served as Trustee and Class-leader for many years.
He has served several terms as Township Trustee.
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