ROBERT BAKER,
[Portsmouth] contractor and builder, Chillicothe street, between Second and Third
streets, Portsmouth, was born at Kent, England, in 1831, a son of
Robert Baker, Sr. He came to the United States in 1848,
locating in Portsmouth, and at once began working at the carpenter's
trade. In 1856 he began contracting, and during the busy
season employs from twenty to twenty-five hands. He has built
over 100 houses in Portsmouth, including residences of Mr. G.
Davis, L. C. Damaim, and S. Reid, the Fourth Street
Schoolhouse, postoffice, and block of stores occupied by Davis &
Thompson. He was married in 1856 to Cornelia Wilson.
They have six children - John, a traveling salesman for the New
York silk house; William assistant bookkeeper at Scioto car
shops; Robert, working with his father; Nettie, Jennie
and Mary
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BENJAMIN BALL
[Portsmouth] was
born April 27, 1814, in Schenectady County, N. Y., a son of John
Ball, also a native of New York. His father came to Scioto
County with his family in 1824 and about 1830 he moved to Lawrence
County, where he died in 1837. Our subject began to work for
himself when eight years of age by helping farmers, etc., and at the
age of nineteen came to Portsmouth, where he has since resided.
He has been engaged in various pursuits, but for many years has been
teaming, doing a general transfer and job business. He was
married Feb. 28, 1836, to Susan, daughter of William and
Frances Barbee. She was born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1816.
They had a family of twelve children, all living except one, who died
in infancy - Mary Frances, a clerk in Akron; George William,
a carpenter in Pennsylvania; Elizabeth An, of Akron;
John Claudius, a carpenter and engineer, married and living in
Fredonia, N. Y.; Emma Jane, of Akron; Juliet, now
Mrs. Theodore Burkhart, of Missouri; Charles H., married, a
bricklayer of Portsmouth; Benjamin F., Sarah Ellen, Florence May
and Albert. Mrs. Ball died Nov. 2, 1876, aged nearly
sixty-one years. She was a woman of great strength of character.
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WILLIAM HENRY BALL
[Portsmouth] was
born near Ironton, Ohio, July 14, 1828, where he lived till he was
seventeen years old. He then went to Iowa, and engaged in
farming, etc., two years, since which time he has resided in
Portsmouth, with the exception of two years, and has been engaged in
farming in some extent, and teaming ever since he came to the place.
He was married in 1850, to Sarah Ann Barbee, who died
July 23, 1862. They were the parents of six children -
William, who died in 1853, aged eighteen months; Emily, a
graduate of Portsmouth High School, at present Principal of the Union
Street School; Lucy Jane, born in 1856, and died in 1873;
Charles Wesley, born in 1858, and died when eighteen months old;
Albert H. and Harry (twins), the former in the C., W. &
B. express office, and the latter a graduate, now engaged in teaching
and studying law under N. J. Dever. Mr. Ball was again
married March 16, 1865, to Jane St. Clair, a native of
Pennsylvania, who has borne him four children - Fred S., born
Feb. 14, 1866; Anna, aged sixteen years; William H.,
aged fourteen years, and Arthur C., aged eight years, all
attending school, at present. Mr. Ball was a member of
the Home Guards during the war. In politics he is a Republican.
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P. G. BALMERT,
[Portsmouth]
manufacturer of cigars, Chillicothe street, opposite Market place, was
born in Germany, March 2, 1846, and came with his father, Samuel
Balmert, to the United Staes in 1854. His father died in
Portsmouth in 1876, aged fifty-six years. Mr. Balmert was
married in 1869 to Mary A. Schafer. They have had eleven
children, nine now living - Charles, Lucy, Bertha, Flora, George,
Simon, William, Ida and Mary. Mr. Balmert purchased
his present place of business in 1876. He keeps a full line of
chewing and smoking tobacco, plug and fine cut, and cigars of all
grades. He employs eight hands, doing a large and lucrative
business.
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S. P. BALMERT,
[Portsmouth]
junior member of the firm of Stanton & Balmert, wholesale
liquor dealers, 161 and 163 West Front street, was born in Germany, in
1848, and came with his father, Simon Balmert, to the United
States in 1854, locating at Franklin Furnace, Ohio, and four years
later came to Portsmouth. His first work was in a cigar store,
where he remained three years. He then clerked in a grocery
store three years, in a hardware store three years, and on the river
steamers nine years, as Captain and Clerk, and in 1877 became
associated with Mr. Stanton in the wholesale liquor business.
He is a stock-holder of the Portsmouth and Pomeroy Packet Company, and
a director and stockholder in the Portsmouth Wagon Stock Company.
He was married in May, 1880, to Louis Kricker. They have
two daughters - Emma and Margaret. Mr. Balmert is
a member of the German Benevolent Society.
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JOHN C. BARBER,
[Portsmouth] son of
John Barber, is a native of Portsmouth. His grandfather,
Uriah Barber, came from Pennsylvania to Portsmouth in 1796, and
died in 1846, aged ninety years. He was twice married, and had a
family of twelve children - John, Isaac, Samuel, Washington,
Michael, Polly (Mrs. William Raynor), Jane (Mrs. Laqua), Joseph,
William, Loisa (Mrs. Samuel Briggs), Miranda (married Mr.
Briggs after her sister's death), Amanda (Mrs. Ezra Noel).
John, the eldest son, married Vealet Swords who came with
her father, William Swords, from Virginia and located in
Alexandria in 1803. They had a family of twelve children -
Uriah, Nathaniel William, Archibald, Marian, John C., Samuel, Mary
(Mrs. Wm. Warren, of Virginia), Barbara (deceased),
Missouri (Mrs. James Tritch), Catherine (deceased), and Emma.
John Barber died July 16, 1849, aged sixty-nine years.
John C. Barber was married in May, 1867, to Grace Kidd, of
Kentucky. They have one child - Edna, aged seven years.
Mr. Barber enlisted April 16, 1861, in the First Ohio Infantry,
and participated in the first battle at Bull's Run. He has been
an engineer on the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad twenty years, and
for the past thirteen years has run Engine No. 50. He is a
member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
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AGNES I. BARKLOW
[Portsmouth] is a daughter of Stout and Sarah Jane (Jeffords) Barklow,
her mother being a member of one of the oldest families in Portsmouth.
She was educated in the High School of Portsmouth, from which she
graduated in 1874, and the two years after graduation she spent in
recreation. Since then she has been constantly employed in
teaching in the Portsmouth school, where her ability as a scholar and
disciplinarian is reorganized as among the first in the county.
As a teacher she is peculiarly competent. Being complete
mistress over herself, she has power over her scholars, which insures
perfect order and consequent improvement.
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JOSIAH BARLOW
[Portsmouth]
was born Sept. 26, 1843, in Banesville, Belmont Co., Ohio, and lived
with his father, Charles Barlow, until Dec. 22, 1865, when he
was married to Anna Barbee, daughter of Eli Barbee, an
early settler of Portsmouth. Mrs. Barlow died April 5,
1883, at the age of thirty-seven, leaving a family of four children -
Charlie, Floyd, Mollie, and Earl. She was a member
of the Sixth Street Methodist Church. After his marriage Mr.
Barlow engaged in farming for five years, in the Scioto bottoms,
after which he moved back to Portsmouth, and formed a partnership with
John Geggory, in grading and filling streets. They graded
a number of streets in Portsmouth, and the same year built the mile
race track. He then worked on the Lake Shore & Tuscarawas
Railroad in Stark County, and he, in connection with Wm. McGeowns,
built the first three miles of the Scioto Valley Railroad as
sub-contractors under Mr. Geggory, in 1880. He was then
elected Street Commissioner, which position he now fills. He
owns the Biggs House Hack and Omnibus Line. Mr. Barlow's
father was born in England, and came to the United States at the age
of eleven years. He came to Portsmouth in 1849, and was by
occupation a teamster and contractor. He built the school house
on the corner of Second and Chillicothe streets, and grades the
principal streets of Portsmouth. He also followed farming for
many years. He died July 6, 1870, aged forty-nine years.
Josiah Barlow is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and
is also a member of an Independent Order of Mechanics.
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JOHN BARON, [Portsmouth] a son born
in Portsmouth, Ohio, Aug. 27, 1842, a son of John V. Baron.
His father was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1811, and came to the
United States in 1837. He spent the first two years in New York
City and Buffalo, and then came to Ohio, where he worked on the Ohio
Canal two years. In 1841 he was married, in Piketon, to Helen
Geng, a native of Germany, and the same year removed to
Portsmouth, where he died Dec. 7, 1875. His wife is still
living. They had a family of six children, five are now living -
John, Kate, Barbara, Elizabeth (now Mrs. Anton Matter),
Mary. Margaret is deceased. John Baron
began to learn the tinner's trade when fifteen years of age, and
worked at it five years. He then with his father engaged in the
stove and tinware business, manufacturing the latter. After his
father's death he carried on the business in his own name till 1879,
when he began diminishing his stock of stoves, and purchased a stock
of hardware. He keeps a complete stock of choice goods,
occupying three floors. His salesroom is 19 x 50 feet.
Mr. Baron is a member of the St. Mary's German Catholic Church.
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ADAM BAUER [Portsmouth] was born in
Prussia, Feb. 2, 1834, a son of Henry Bauer, who came to the
United States in 1850, landing in Portsmouth, Aug. 3. He located
in Bloomfield, now Webster, Scioto Co., Ohio, where he still resides,
aged seventy-five years. He had three sons - Adam, John W.
and John Nicholas. Adam commenced life in America by
digging ore. He attended school but a half day in America, but
by hard study is now a well-educated man. In 1851 he began to
work on a farm. He was afterward employed in repairing the
railroad, and had worked but eighteen months when he was appointed
foreman, and the following August was appointed to take charge of a
construction train. He left his position to enlist in Company C,
One Hundred and Sixth Ohio Infantry, and after serving three years was
again appointed to the same position. In March, 1868, he was
appointed Roadmaster of the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad. He
was married Nov. 28, 1858, to Minnie Kalbow, a native of
Germany. Of seven children born to them but three are living -
George David, mail agent in the S. V. R. R.; Charles F.
and Minnie Dora. Mr. Bauer is a member of the Odd Fellow
Lodge and Encampment and for three years has been Representative of
this district. His brother, John W., was Roadmaster in
Eastern Kentucky, and was killed by falling material in a tunnel,
Christmas night, 1875. He was about forty years of age, and left
a widow and eight children, now residing in Portsmouth. His
brother, John Nicholas, was born Feb. 25, 1843, and is a farmer
of Scioto County.
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HOMER BEDELL,
deceased, was born at Fredericktown, Knox Co., Ohio, Oct. 15, 1836,
a son of Henry Bedell, of New Jersey. He learned the
machinists trade in Norwalk, Ohio. In 1861 he came to
Portsmouth, and worked a short time for Murray & Moore.
He then made gum-barrels a short time, and subsequently worked for
Murray & Moore nine years. In 1872 he was employed as
second engineer at the water-works, remaining eighteen months, when
he was taken with tumor of the brain. He gradually lost his
sight, and for eight months was blind. He died Nov. 12, 1874.
He was married Sept. 6, 1864, to Sarah, a daughter of
Alfred R. Prowitt. they had a family of four children.
Mr. Bedell was a master mason. He was a natural
mechanic, and a man honored by all who knew him.
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ELIAS BENZING
was born in Schwenningen, Koenigreich, Wuerttemberg, Germany, July
5, 1835. He received a good education, and was reared by
Christian parents. Nov. 10, 1852, he located in Cincinnati,
Ohio, and was one of the original members of the First German
Presbyterian Church. Immediately after his conversion he felt
an especial love for the cause, and felt that he was called to
preach the gospel. He declined a good business position, and
entered Lane Theological Seminary, from which he graduated. He
was licensed to preach, May 8, 1863, and ordained April 7, 1864.
He went to Cleveland and organized the Second German Reform Church,
which has had a steady and healthful growth. In 1866 they
built a house of worship, and in 1868 a parsonage. Dec. 5
1871, he was received as a member of the Cleveland Presbytery.
He left the church there in 1872, with a property of $10,000.
Too constant labor as a pastor, missionary and teacher of parochial
school had brought on a serious throat trouble, and by the advice of
his physician he gave up preaching nearly a year, but after a few
months rest was employed as City Missionary, with a salary of $900 a
year. Oct. 18, 1873, he received a call from the First German
Presbyterian Church, Portsmouth, and Nov. 4, 1873, entered his
present field of labor. He also serves a church in Buena Vista
and one in Green Brier, Adams County. From the beginning of
his ministry to July 1, 1883, Mr. Benzing baptized 387
children, confirmed 197, received 407 members into the church,
solemnized 105 marriages, attended 158 funerals, made 6,000
missionary visits, and traveled 18,500 miles. He has reason to
believe that his work has not been in vain, but that souls have been
saved through his ministrations. Four young men have entered
the ministry under his administration.
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CHARLES F. BEST
was born Feb. 24, 1853, in Cincinnati, Ohio, a son of Karl
Best, who was born in Germany. He came to Portsmouth in
1857, and attended school till he began clerking for J. L. Hibbs
& Co., in the hardware store, with whom he remained from 1867 until
1874. From 1874 till 1878 he was Assistant Postmaster, after
which he was in the employ of the R. R. Mail Service running from
Columbus to Portsmouth the first two years, and from Ashland, Ky.,
to Columbus, Ohio, the next two years. From April, 1882, till
the following April he was Assistant Postmaster with L. C. Damarin.
He was married Nov. 5, 1879, to Mary A., daughter of
Frederick Walter, of Portsmouth. They have one child -
Rosa.
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HENRY BEUMLER,
boarding house and saloon, was born in Hanover, Germany, July 5,
1828, a son of Stephen Beamler, He came to the United
States in 1854, stopping first in Wheeling, W. Va., where he worked
in the coal miens three months, and then removed to Greenup, Ky.,
and remained ten years. In 1865 he came to Portsmouth and
opened his boarding house on Front street. HE was married in
Wheeling, in 1854, to Catharina Kilborn, a native of Germany.
She died in 1880, at the age of forty-six years. They had a
family of eight children - Sady, Augustus, George, Henry, Sophia,
Charles, Mary, Kate. Mr. Beamler is a member of the
Harugari German Society.
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STEPHEN D. BISHOP
was born in New Haven, Conn., Feb. 23, 1813, and came to Portsmouth
in 1829. He was by trade a tailor, and had a clothing store in
connection with working at his trade. He died July 13, 1874,
and his memory is dear to many who were his friends during the many
years he was in business in Portsmouth. He was married in 1860
to Mrs. Serena Lalendorff, widow of Charles Lalendorff,
and daughter Samuel Kidd. She had two children by her
first husband - James Henry and Oliver. Mr.
Bishop's children are - Stephen D., Mary Ann, Charles A.
and William Nelson.
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JOHN B. BLANKEMEYER,
merchant tailor, Chillicothe street, between Sixth and Seventh,
Portsmouth, Ohio, was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1825, and came to
the United States in 1845, locating first in St. Louis, where he
remained two years. He then went to New Orleans, and remained
eighteen months. In the fall of 1848 he went to Cincinnati,
and in 1852 came to Portsmouth. He learned the tailor's trade
in Germany, and worked as a journeyman eighteen years. After
coming to Portsmouth he opened his present place of business.
He keeps a full line of cloths, cassimeres and gents' furnishing
goods. He employs three workmen in the shop and five outside.
He was married in 1848 to Anna A. Shlademan, of Oldenburg,
Germany. They have five children - John, Lizzie, William,
Herman and Anna. They lost five children in
infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Blankemeyer are members of the
German Evangelical church. He is a member of the Harugari
Lodge.
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LOUIS BLOMEYER,
son of Louis Blomeyer, was born in 1829 in Hanover,
Germany. He learned the shoemaker's trade, at which he worked
till 1847, when he came to America. He worked in Portsmouth,
Cincinnati and Ashland, Ky., a short time and then returned to
Portsmouth, where he has resided about twenty-eight years.
When he came to Portsmouth he was engaged as a hand in the rolling
mill, and is at present foreman of the mill. He was married in
1851 to Mary Kiefer, a native of Germany. They have
eight children - Hannah Mary, wife of Henry A. Brodbeck,
of Portsmouth; Adolph Louis, a street car conductor in
Chicago: Louisa, wife of William G. Reimenschneider,
Principal of the Portsmouth public schools; Mary A., wife of
Charles Locker; Allie, Clara, Hattie and Verena. Mr.
Blomeyer is a member of the German Methodist church, of which he
has been Trustee for the past twenty years. He has been a
Class-Leader for twenty-two years, and Sabbath-school Superintendent
seventeen years.
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ALFRED BOYER,
Treasurer of Scioto County, Ohio, was born near McConnellsville,
Fayette Co., Pa., Oct. 16, 1833, the son of Jonathan and Jemima
(Tipton) Boyer. When he was a year old his parents came to
Ohio and settled at Scioto Furnace, and when he was ten years old
they removed to a farm in Harrison Township. When he was
twenty-one years of age, in 1854, his father gave him an ox team and
wagon, and he went to work at the Harrison Furnace. In 1855 he
worked at the Scioto Furnace, and in the spring of 1856 went to the
Jackson Furnace, Jackson County. During the season of 1857 he
was at the Bloom Furnace in Scioto County, and in the spring of 1858
was employed as collier by Allen Cole and John Paul,
remaining with them five years. He then worked at the Empire
furnace a year, and in the fall of 1865 removed to a farm he had
purchased in Harrison Township, where he still resides. He has
152 acres of fine land. In 1880 he was elected Treasurer of
Scioto County, and re-elected in 1882, his term expiring in
September, 1884. April 11, 1856, he married Temperance,
daughter of Allen and Hettie (Burt) Purdy. Their
children are - Alice, Amanda, Isabelle, William Duncan, Viola,
Jonathan, Luella, Wilson, Halley and Oren. Mr. Boyer
is a member of the Masonic fraternity, of Western Sun Lodge, No.
91, Wheelersburg; Mount Vernon Chapter, No. 23, and Calvary
Commandery, No. 13, Portsmouth, and Sovereign Consistory, S. P. R.
S., Cincinnati. He is also a member of Scioto Lodge, No. 5, I.
O. M.
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STEPHEN
BRODBECK, deceased, was born in Baden, Germany, in 1811, and in
1835 came to the United States. He spent the first year in New
Orleans, then, coming up the river, spent a short time in Quincy,
Ill., and subsequently came to Portsmouth, where he died in 1874, aged
sixty-three years. He was married after coming to this country
to Rosa Legler. They reared a family of fie
children, and lost two infancy. Mrs. Brodbeck
died in 1858, and the following year Mr. Brodbeck
married Miss Otstott, of Columbus, Ohio. They
had no children. She died in the spring of 1883. In 1850
Mr. Brodbeck, in company with M. Craus,
opened a dry goods store, but two years later Mr. Kraus
withdrew, and Mr. Brodbeck afterward carried
Infirmary Director. Of his children, George W.,
the eldest son, is a resident of Pike County; Ellen
married John Booth, and died in 1875, aged thirty-one
years; Peter Stephen died in 1863, aged seventeen
years; Frederic is a merchant of Portsmouth, and
Mary is a resident of this city. Frederic
was born Sept. 20, 1849. He was married in 1874, to
Malinda Leese, a native of Maryland. They have two
children - Stephen and Oscar Frederic.
A daughter, Minnie Garfield, died at the age of two
years. Mr. Brodbeck is Infirmary Director and
Canal Collector.
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VINCENT
BRODBECK was born in Germany, Jan. 17, 1817, a son of
Anthony Brodbeck. When he was eight years of age his
mother died and he was bound to an uncle, where he had very little
school advantages, and by hard work and ill treatment lost his health.
When he was fourteen years of age he hired out by the season. In
1835, with his father and family, he came to the United States.
They were fifty days at sea on the sailing vessel Bolivar. They
landed at New Orleans in November, where Vincent worked at the
carpenter's trade for $1.75 a day. March 1, 1836, they moved to
Natchez, and he worked on the railroad a month. They then
started for Troy, N. Y., where an elder brother, who had preceded them
to America by eighteen months, resided but the canal being broken they
were obliged to stop at Portsmouth, and through the advice of Vincent
concluded to remain. The latter worked two weeks for
McDowell, Davis & Co., and then went to Gaylord's Rolling
Mill and remained till August when his father persuaded him to take
charge of the boarding house. In 1838 he opened a grocery store,
which he carried on over forty years, retiring from business in June,
1881, when he sold out to J. M. Wendlekin. He
was married Nov. 2, 1838, to Ottilia Mees,
a native of Germany. They have three children -
Elizabeth B., wife of Joseph Hornung; Rosa Ellen,
wife of Herman Herms; Ottilia, wife of J. M.
Wendlekin. Mr. Brodbeck has been a member of the German
Methodist church thirty-eight years.
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CHARLES N.
BROMBACHER was born in Baden, Germany, in 1843, and in 1866
came to the United States, locating in Portsmouth, Ohio. He was
employed in a furniture factory and as house carpenter, and in 1870,
in company with Charles Seiffer, opened the Harmonia
Beer Gardens. In the spring of 1872 he sold out to
Seiffer and opened a beer hall on Chillicothe street. A
year later he became associated with Peter Oelschaeger
in the manufacture of boxes. In 1877 he sold his interest and
opened his present saloon and billiard hall. Mr.
Brombacher was married in 1866 to Mary Barbara
Baeckert, of Baden, Germany. They came to the United
States on the same steamer, and were married a few days after the
landing. They have three children - Emily, Bertha
and Mary Barbara.
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GEORGE BROWN
was born in Bavaria, Germany, Apr. 3, 1818. He came to the
United States, in 1848, locating first in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a year
later removed to Junior Furnace, where he worked three and a half
years. He came to Portsmouth in 1852, where he has worked at the
carpenter's trade, which he learned in the old country. He was
married in 1848 to Anna Ruhs, a native of Germany.
She died in 1863 leaving six children - Mary, wife of
Ernest Klein, of Ironton; John; Margaret,
wife of John Mentel; Anna, widow of Jacob
Wagner, of Ironton; Catherine, Barbara
(deceased). Mr. Brown was married in 1864 to
Malinda Hoffman, widow of John Hoffman,
who was killed in battle of the Rebellion, and left a family of four
children - Lizzie, now Mrs. Joseph
Denzer; Margaret, now Mrs. John Brown;
John, of Virginia, and Nicholas.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown have three children -
George, now learning telegraphy; Caroline
and Henry. George lost his
right arm by the discharge of a gun, in his own hands, in 1881.
Mr. Brown is a member of the German Catholic church.
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A. BRUNNER,
successor to R. Brunner, dry goods, corner of Market
and Second streets, Portsmouth, was born in Switzerland, in 1838.
The business was established in 1852 by his brother, R.
Brunner, who died in 1877, in his fifty-sixth year, when his
brother, our subject, succeeded him. He keeps a full line of dry
goods, carpets, oil cloths, matting and notions, and has a large and
increasing trade. His clerks are gentlemanly, and every
attention is shown his customers. Mr. Brunner
was married in 1863 to Frederica Wirtz. They
have a family of nine children.
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JOHN F. BRUSHART,
jobber in groceries, provisions and produce, corner Fifth and
Chillicothe streets, Portsmouth, Ohio. This house was
established in 1877, by Richardson & Brushart, John R.
Brushart clerking for them. At the expiration of five
years he purchased the entire stock. This building is crowded
with goods, the cellar containing sugars, syrups, lard, bacon, cheese,
fish, stoneware and potatoes; the first floor, a general line of
groceries; the second floor, coffee, wooden ware, flour and soaps.
He delivers all goods, free of charge, to any part of the city.
His annual sales amounting from $50,000 to $60,000. Jno.
F. Brushart was born in Jackson County, Ohio, Oct. 25, 1856.
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ADAM BURKEL,
son of Adam Burkel, Sr., was born Nov. 9, 1830, in
Rhine Falls, Bavaria, Germany, and came to America in 1855, since
which time he has resided in Portsmouth. He learned the tailor's
trade in the old country, which he has followed through life, and for
the past fifteen years, has been engaged in cutting altogether.
He is at present working for Miller, Cissna & Co.,
with whom he has been connected for eleven years. He was married
May 25, 1858, to Christina Young, a native of
Germany, where she was born in 1838. She came to America in
1844, and made her home in Pike County, Ohio. They have had
thirteen children, ten of whom are living - Valentine,
Christina, Katie, Philip, John, Adam, Edna, Evaline, Willie, Harry;
Barbara and two by the name of Minna died
young. Mr. Burkel belongs to the Republican
party.
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WILLIAM BURT,
plumber, was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, Oct. 14, 1829, a son of
Thomas Burt, shoemaker, who was also a native of Scioto
County, and died in 1872, aged seventy-five years. When fourteen
yeas of age he went to work for William Maddocks to
learn the trade of a machinist, remaining with him seven years.
He then ran a sawmill engine two years, after which he was employed on
packet boats two years. He brought the first steam ferry-boat to
Portsmouth, and ran it across the river to the Kentucky side fourteen
months. The next year he ran a flat-boat across the river.
In 1852 he began to work on the Portsmouth Branch of the M. & C. R. R.
as a fireman; was soon promoted to engineer and ran the first engine
in Jackson. He was master mechanic of the road three years.
In 1864 he returned to the river and, owning an interest in a boat,
became a member of the Portsmouth & Big Sandy Packet Company. In
1870 he went to Ashland, Ky., and took charge of the rolling stock of
the Lexington & Big Sandy Railroad a year. In 1871 he returned
to Portsmouth and became associated with John Jones in the plumbing
Business. The following year they dissolved partnership, and for
a time Mr. Claff, but is now doing business alone.
He is serving his second term as Trustee of the water-works, and is
President of the board. He was married in 1851 to
Rebecca Davis. They have a family of three sons and
four daughters. Mr. Burt is a member of the I.
O. O. F. fraternity.
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