CHARLES RAUCH was born
in Strasburg, Germany, Dec. 29, 1829, and came to the United States
with his father, Abraham Rauch, in 1852. They located
in Pittsburg, Pa., and afterward in Lawrence County, Ohio, where the
father is still living, aged eighty-six years. The
mother died in 1872, aged seventy-two years. They had a family
of three children - Caroline, wife of Charles Stempfer;
Charles and Margaet, wife of Lawrence Schmitt.
Charles Rauch came to Junior Furnace in 1853, and in 1854
to Portsmouth, where he has since resided, carrying on a meat
market. He is the third oldest market man in Portsmouth.
He was married in September, 1853, to Martha Elizabeth Brawdan.
The have had seven children - Elizabeth, wife of Jacob
Zattman; Charles; Louisa, died in 1872, aged fourteen; Anna,
wife of Jacob Rinert; Emma Mary, died in infancy;
William and Ella. Mr. and Mrs. Rauch are members of
the Lutheran church.
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H. L. REAGAN, proprietor
of St. Nicholas Hotel, Front street, was born in Derry County,
Ireland, in 1835. He came to America in 1855, locating in
Richmond, Va., where he put up Henry Clay's statue,
President Monroe's tomb, the new theater, Trinity Church besides
many other buildings. About 1866 he went to Stanton, Va.,
where he owns some property. He also owns a large farm near
Lexington, Rockbridge Co., Va., and has made that his place of
residence. In 1869 he left Stanton for Kentucky, and was
contractor on the Chesapeake & Ohio, Cincinnati Southern, Eastern
Kentucky and Scioto Valley railroads. He has just completed a
contract on the Cincinnati & Eastern Railroad. He bought the
St. Nicholas Hotel in 1879, which contains fifty rooms. The
terms are $2.00 per day, and $1.00 per day for railroad and river
men. Mr. Reagan was married in 1866 to Mary Ann
Sanford, a native of Virginia. Their children are -
Mollie, Jane, Elizabeth, Susan, Hugh and Rose.
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WESLEY REDDISH,
County Recorder of Scioto County, Ohio, was born in Madison, Va.,
Oct. 30, 1835, a son of John J. and Mary (Wilson) Reddish.
When he was a year old his parents removed to Fayette County,
Ohio. When he was nine years of age his father died. He
lived with his mother till manhood, and on leaving home was employed
in the store of Wilson & Durnell, at East Monroe, and
afterward by their successor, Louis Harris, several months.
In 1858 he became established in business himself, carrying on a
mercantile business till 1860. In 1862 he commenced to learn
telegraphy, and at intervals till 1864 he was employed by the M. &
C. R. R. In 1864 he was employed as station agent at Leesburg,
remaining there till the fall of 1868, when he went West, returning
in the spring of 1869. He was then appointed station agent at
Mineral City, and the following December transferred to Zaleski.
In August, 1872, he was transferred to Scott's Landing, and Jan. 1,
1873, to Sciotoville. In December, 1882, he resigned to accept
the position to County Recorder. In 1868 he served as
Treasurer of Porter Township. Mr. Reddish is a
member of Orient Lodge, No. 337, Wheelersburg, and Orient
Encampment, NO. 26, Portsmouth, I. O. O. F.
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MICHAEL REDENGER
was born in Germany, Feb. 2, 1826, and in 1840 came to the
United States with his aunt, Eva Redenger, and located in
Bedford County, Pa., where he remained four years. He learned
the shoemaker's trade, and spent several years in different places,
working at his trade. In 1861 he came to Portsmouth and worked
two years and a half at his trade. In 1853 he opened a saloon,
and is the only man in Portsmouth who has been in the business there
for thirty years. He built the Eurapia Hotel, on Second
street, in 1871, and runs a hotel and restaurant, having a fine bar.
It is a three-story building, 64 x 41½
feet. Mr. Redenger was married Aug. 1, 1882, to
Eliza Samories, a native of Portsmouth.
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HARRY A. REED,
proprietor of the Reed Sign Works, was born Apr. 30, 1859.
His natural talent as a letter artist was early developed, and in
1878 he opened his palce of business, 90 West Second street,
Portsmouth. He is a complete master of the art, and a visit to
his office will convince one of his artistic skill. He makes a
specialty of lettering on glass, and has already a large trade with
manufacturers and wholesale dealers in fancy and ornamental
framed glass advertising cards. Mr. Reed was married
May 17, 1882, to May Wilson, of Portsmouth. They have
one child - Earl G.
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CAPTAIN W. W. REILLY, son
of Christopher and Margaret (Young) Reilly, was born in
Philadelphia, Aug. 5, 1825. In 1839 he came to Portsmouth and
remained until 1842, working in the first book store for Eli
Glover, and the first wholesale dry-goods hose for Stuart
Jones & Co. In 1842 he went to Pittsburg; from thence to
Philadelphia, remaining until 1846. From 1846 till 1848 he was
in Mexico in the New Jersey Battalion. In 1849 he returned to
Pittsburg and married Anna Margaret Young in 1850. He
went to Cincinnati in 1851, and twelve months later to Dayton,
remaining until 1853, engaged in the grocery business with Samuel
B. Brown, McGhee and Harshman. He then returned to
Cincinnati, and with others published the first Ohio State Business
Directory, under the firm name of W. W. Reilly & Co., and in
the spring of 1853 went East to solicit advertisements and
subscriptions for the work. He then returned to Dayton, and
was with L. F. Claffin & Co. until March, 1854, when he went
to Chillicothe, Ohio, and assisted the Rev. H. H. Johnson to
open a book store. Six weeks later he returned to Dayton with
More, Clark & Co. in the book business, where he remained
until 1857, when he came to Portsmouth and opened the Valley Book
Store as an agent for E. A. & T. T. More and in 1859 bought
the stock. In July, 1861, he raised Company A, Thirteenth Ohio
Infantry. Sept. 1 he joined Rosecrans, and was with him
at Carnifax Ferry and through the campaign until they went into the
winter quarters at Fayetteville, W. Va. In December, his
health failing, he offered his resignation, taking effect in April,
1862, when he again resumed business in Portsmouth. In May,
1864, he was ordered out by General Brough as Captain of
Company G, One Hundred and Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and
was in command of post at Guyandotte, W. Va., with companies C. and
G. of his regiment, until September, 1864. The regiment
mustered out, he resumed his business, in which he remained until
1878. In November, 1878, he formed a partnership with his
son-in-law, H. C. Murfin, in his old business under the
name of W. W. Reilly & Co., which continued until May, 1882,
when Mr. Murfin retired. He still continues the
business under the same name. He is a member of the Masonic,
Knights Templar and Odd Fellows fraternities, and at present is
Commander of Baily Post, No. 1864, G. A. R.
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IGNATIUS
REITZ was born in Germany, Feb. 4, 1845. His father,
John Reitz, was born in 1812, and in 1847 came with his family
to the United States. He was by trade a stone mason. He
built the stone saw-mill of Portsmouth in 1865, but only ran it a
year, when he died, at the age of fifty-three years. His widow
is still living, aged seventy-two years. Ignatius Reitz
was married in 1874 to Mary Balmert, of Portsmouth.
They have four children - Albert J., Elnora, Simon P. and
Mary Amelia.
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JAMES RICHARDSON was
born in Ireland in 1825, and came to the United States in 1847,
locating in Troy, N. Y. In 1853 he came to Portsmouth, and
from that time till 1875 was engaged in the grocery business on
Chillicothe street. In 1875 he built the building now occupied
by Brushart & Co. He now owns three stores in
Portsmouth, and two fine farms adjoining the city. Since going
out of business he has turned his attention to farming. He has
been twice elected Director of the county infirmary. He was
married in Ireland in 1847 to Margaret Simmons, who died in
1860, leaving one child - Belle. The latter died in
1863, aged eighteen years. In 1864 Mr. Richardson
married Mary Jane Ormsby They have five children -
James, Anna, Florence, William and Alfred. Mr.
Richardson is a member of the Presbyterian church. He is a
member of A. F. & A. M.
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JOHN RICHARDSON was
born in Ireland in 1847, and came to America in the winter of 1863.
He worked in a brush factory nearly a year at Lansingburg, on the
Hudson River, and in 1865 came to Portsmouth, where he ahs been in
the grocery business most of the time since coming here, with
several different parties. He is a present not engaged in any
special business, but is speculating in grain, etc. He was
married in Portsmouth in June, 1869, to Phylura Orm, a native
of Scioto County, and a daughter of John Orm. They have
two children - Robert Orm and Essie. Robert
Richardson, father of our subject, is still living in Ireland,
in the house where he was born about fifty-five years ago, and is a
farmer by occupation.
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ISAAC RICHMAN
was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1834, a son of Nathan Richman,
a farmer by occupation. When fifteen years of age he came to
America, and the first two years worked in a store in New York.
He then went to Cumberland County, Pa., and worked in a woolen mill
as an apprentice two years, and then worked two years for wages.
He then went to Adams County, Pa., and worked as a journeyman and
traveling salesman about four years, when he was taken into the firm
as a junior partner, and commenced business for himself in Virginia.
When the war broke out he was taken prisoner by the rebels, but in
less than twenty-four hours escaped and went to Maryland and joined
Company C, First Maryland Cavalry. He rose from private to
First Lieutenant. At Manassas Gap, in 1863, he was wounded and
lay in the hospital three months, and was afterward sent to
Baltimore. He did not fully recover for three years, although
he engaged in business. He was first employed as salesman at
Wilmington, Del. In 1866 he removed to Portsmouth but remained
only six months when he went to Green Bay, Wis., and remained ten
months. In 1876 he returned to Portsmouth, and has since been
engaged in the clothing and merchant tailoring business at 127 West
Front street. For the past three and a half years he has been
a member of the City Council. He is a member of the Masonic,
Odd Fellows and Mechanics' orders. Although the war swept from
him his first accumulations he is one of the most prosperous
business men in Portsmouth.
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EDWIN SAUNDERS RICKETTS, M.
D., was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, May 18, 1853, a son of
Dr. G. R. and Rachel (McLaughlin) Ricketts, now of
Proctorville, Ohio. He entered the State Normal School in West
Virginia, in 1868, graduating in 1871. He then engaged in the
drug business with his father until 1874, in the meantime studying
medicine under his father's preceptorship. He graduated from
the Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, in March, 1877, and
immediately located in Portsmouth, and began the practice of his
profession. From 1879 to 1881 he was Secretary of the Scioto
County Medical Society, now the Hempstead Memorial Academy of
Medicine, and in April, 1883, was elected Vice-President. He
is also a member of the Ohio State Medical Society and of the
American Medical Association. In the fall of 1877 he became a
member of the Ohio Valley Medical Association. In 1882 he was
elected a member of the Board of Health, of Portsmouth, for a term
of three years. Oct. 31, 1877, he married Romaine McCormick,
of Gallipolis, Ohio. They are both members of the Bigelow
Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Ricketts is a member of
the I. O. M., of Portsmouth. He belongs to a family of doctors
- his father, a brother, and several ancestors belonging to the
medical fraternity.
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CAPTAIN W. P. RIPLEY was
born near Madison, Ind., Feb. 26, 1824, a son of William P.
Ripley, who moved with his family to Portsmouth in 1833, where
he died in 1845. Captain Ripley commenced life by
selling fruit, etc., at the wharfs, when boats landed. He then
worked on the canal about four years, and when thirteen years of age
was engaged as cabin-boy on the river. He worked in that
capacity two years, and then was in a grocery and saloon with his
brother-in-law, William Sickles, about nine years. He
was subsequently employed on the river boats till 1860, when he
bought an interest in a steamboat. In 1861 he was Captain of
the Moses McClellan. In 1865 he went into the wholesale
liquor business, but in 1870 sold out and returned to the river.
He built the Jim Fisk, Jr., in 1870, but sold it the next year.
He afterward bought an interest in the Kanawha Belle, and in 1873
was Captain of the Fannie Dugan. He then had an interest in
the Mountain Belle and was Captain six months. He owned a
tugboat that was commanded by his brother. He sold this boat
but afterward bought it again at a United States Marshal's sale, and
of it made the Iron Duke, which he sold sold. Since then he
has been dealing in real estate. In 1857 he was Captain of the
Reliance, and in 1858 of the Swallow, Captain Ripley has been
an energetic business man, one who makes a success of his
undertakings.
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H. ROETTCHER was born in
Prussia Germany, in 1841, and in 1856 came to the United States,
landing the 17th of May. He located in Cincinnati, and worked
in a bakery till Jan. 1, 1882, when he came to Portsmouth and formed
a partnership with H. R. Maier, in the brewery.
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PHILIP RUHLMAN
was born in 1852, a son of Frederic Ruhlman. In
1853 his father formed the transfer company, dealing also in coal,
coke, etc., and since a child Philip has been at work with
him. He owns eight teams and carts, and two floats, their
place of business being at the lower landing. For the past
three years he has furnished the coal for the Burgess Steel and Iron
Works. He transfers and furnishes about 500,000 bushels of
coal yearly. Mr. Ruhlman was married in 1875 to
Amelia Getz, of Delaware, Ohio. They have three children -
Ida E. E., born October, 1876; Charles Robert, born
May 30, 1879, and Frederic August, Feb. 22, 1882.
Mr. Ruhlman is a member of the Odd Fellow's Lodge, No. 52, and
the Delaware Encampment, No. 53.
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DAN J. RYAN, attorney at
law, was born in Cincinnati, Jan. 1, 1855, the eldest of three
children, and only living child of John and Nora (Ryan) Ryan.
When seven years of age his parents came to Portsmouth, where his
father died ten years later. He received his education in the
public schools, graduating fro the Portsmouth High School in the
class of 1875. While in school he commenced the study of law
under Hon. J. W. Bannon. He studied with him until
February, 1877, when he was admitted to the bar by the Supreme
Court, at Columbus, Ohio, and began to practice at Portsmouth.
In April, 1877, he was elected City Solicitor of Portsmouth, and
re-elected in 1879. In June, 1883, he was nominated, without
opposition, in the Republican convention of Scioto County, to the
Lower House in the State Legislature. At the election in
October, 1883, he was elected, and is now a member of the House of
Representatives from Scioto County.
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