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Born and reared in Dipple Parish, Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland, Rev. James Scott came to America in 1739, settling in Virginia. For a few years he resided at Dipple, Virginia, on the estate which he had . inherited from his brother Alexander, and then removed to Prince William County, where he served as rector of the church at Dettingen Parish until his death, which occurred thirty-seven years later, in 1782. He married, at Rock Hill, Charles County, Maryland, Sarah Brown, who was born August 29, 1815, a daughter of Dr. Gustavus and Frances (Fowke) Brown. She survived him two years, passing away in 1784.
Gustavus Scott, Doctor Franklin's great-grandfather on the maternal side, was born at Westwood, Prince William County, Maryland, in 1753. Being sent, in 1765, to Scotland to complete his early education, he studied for two years at King's College, in Aberdeen, and in 1771 com- pleted his study of law at Essex Court, Middle Temple, London. Thus equipped for a professional career, he returned to Maryland, locating in Somerset County, where he became prominent and successful as a lawyer, and influential in public affairs. He was elected a deputy to the Mary-
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land convention, and served as such from June 22, 1774, until December, 1775, and was a member of the Maryland convention of 1775, which elected him as a member of a committee to prepare a draft of instructions for the deputies representing that province in Congress. He was also one of the four delegates from the Maryland convention of 1776 that formed a state constitution. After the adoption of the constitution, he removed to Dorchester County, which he represented in the Assembly from 1780 until 1784, and was appointed by the state as one of the conferees to meet those from Virginia at Annapolis, December 22, 1784, to devise some action towards the improvement of the Potomac River. He served as a delegate from Maryland to the Continental Congress of 1784 and 1785. He was likewise one of the Maryland Legislative Committee that reported in favor of James Ramsey, the inventor of the steamboat, who claimed the exclusive right of making and selling his boats in Maryland. Forces' Archives give many records of Gustavus Scott's work in the Maryland conventions. On April 11, 1776, he was a member of the committee on prizes; he was one of the committee to prepare instructions for recruiting sergeants, and a member of the committee on the Potomac ferry. When the State of Maryland loaned the United States $150,000, he was one of the three men that endorsed the notes. His death, at Washington, in December, 1801, was a loss to the entire country. He married Margaret Hall Caile.
John Caile Scott, son of Gustavus and Margaret Hall (Caile) Scott, and Doctor Franklin's maternal grandfather, was born in 1782, and lived until 1828 in Culpeper County, Virginia, at Western View, having moved there some several years before from Rock Hill, Maryland. Coming to Ross County, Ohio, in that year, he remained here perma- nently, dying in 1840, on the Mechlenburg Farm. His wife, whose maiden name was Ann Love, was born in 1780, and died in 1832, in Ross County, on the Keys farm.
Acquiring his rudimentary education in the public schools of Chilli- cothe, Gustavus Scott Franklin was graduated from the Marietta Col- lege with the class of 1859. He subsequently studied medicine under Drs. David Wills and D. H. Scott, and in 1862 was graduated from the .
College of Physicians and Surgeons at New York City. Immediately entering the United States navy as a surgeon, Doctor Franklin served on the steamships "Minnesota" and "Onondaga," continuing thus employed until 1868. Returning then to Chillicothe, the doctor was suc- cessfully engaged in the practice of his profession until compelled by failing health to retire from active pursuits. A physician of far more than average skill, he was likewise a man of excellent executive and finan- cial ability, and from the time of the death of his father-in-law, Dr. L. W. Foulke, until his own death, he had charge of the Foulke estate, of which he was executor.
Doctor Franklin married, in 1870, Mary Steele Foulke, the only child of Dr. Lewis W. and Elizabeth (McCoy) Foulke, of whom a brief sketch may be found elsewhere in this volume. Three children blessed the mar- riage of Doctor and Mrs. Franklin, namely : Elizabeth N .; Charles Love,
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of whom a personal sketch appears on another page of this biographical work; and Marianne Scott. The doctor was a member of the Ross County Medical Society ; of the Ohio Sanitary Society; of the American Medical Society; and of the American Academy of Science. He also belonged to the Sons of the American Revolution, and to the A. L. Brown Post, Grand Army of the Republic.
DR. LEWIS W. FOULKE. Occupying a distinguished position among the early physicians of Ross County was Dr. Lewis W. Foulke, of Chilli- cothe, who won distinction not only in medical circles, but in the business and social life of the community in which he lived, having been popular as a man and a citizen, and prominent as a financier. A native of Penn- sylvania, he was born in August, 1809, in Carlisle. His father, George D. Foulke, received a liberal education, having been graduated from the Dickinson College, in Carlisle, and from the Medical University of Maryland.
Having obtained his early education in the public schools of Carlisle, and by private study, Lewis W. Foulke, following in the footsteps of his father, entered Dickinson College in 1825, and after his graduation from that institution in 1829 entered the Medical University of Maryland, where he was graduated with the degree of doctor of medicine in 1832. For four years thereafter Doctor Foulke was engaged in the practice of medicine in his native state, gaining valuable experience as a physician, and much skill in the art of healing diseases. Coming to Ross County, Ohio, in 1836, the doctor met with success from the first, his rise in public confidence and in professional circles being most rapid, and very gratify- ing to himself. He continued in active practice in this city until his death, in June, 1887. Possessing marked ability as a business man, he accumulated a large property, and was prominently identified with various organizations. He was a member, and president, of the Board of Trustees of the Chillicothe Cemetery ; was the first president of the Ross County National Bank, and one of the organizers of the Savings Bank Company; was president of the Ohio Insurance Company; was one of the organizers of the Chillicothe Gas Light & Water Company, and for many years was an influential member of the Chillicothe School Board.
Doctor Foulke married Elizabeth McCoy, a daughter of John McCoy, and their only child, Mary Steele Foulke, became the wife of Gustavus Scott Franklin, M. D., of whom a sketch may be found on another page of this volume.
CHARLES LOVE FRANKLIN. Prominently identified with the advance- ment of the financial and commercial prosperity of Ross County, Charles L. Franklin, of Chillicothe, manager of the estate of his maternal grand- father, Dr. L. W. Foulke, is a man of broad affairs, and a contributor, both directly and indirectly, to the material interests of city, county, and state. A son of Dr. Gustavus S. and Mary S. (Foulke) Franklin, he was born May 1, 1875, in Chillicothe, which has always been his home. Finishing the course of instruction in the Chillicothe public schools,
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1 he attended the Virginia Military Institute for two years, completing his early education at Marietta College. On the death of his father, he succeeded to the trusteeship of the Foulke estate, and has since devoted his time and energies to its management, and to his own private interests, his business duties being many and varied. He is actively associated with one of the more important financial institutions of the city, being one of the directors of the Savings Bank Company.
Fraternally Mr. Franklin is a member of Scioto Lodge, No. 6, Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons; of Chillicothe Chapter, No. 4, Royal Arch Masons; of Chillicothe Council No. 4, Royal and Select Masters; of Chillicothe Commandery, No. 8, Knights Templar; of Syrian Temple; of the Cincinnati Consistory ; and of Chillicothe Lodge, No. 52, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
WADE J. BEYERLY. A man of high mental attainments, energetic and progressive, Wade J. Beyerly is widely and favorably known not only as a successful attorney of Chillicothe, but as an educator of prominence, having been identified with the schools of Ross and other counties, either as superintendent or principal, for many years. A native of Ross County, he was born May 25, 1861, in Union Township, a son of Andrew J. Beyerly, and grandson of Michael Beyerly, a pioneer settler of Chillicothe.
Caspar Beyerly, the great grandfather of Wade J. Beyerly, was born in Germany in 1727, and as a young man came to America, sailing from Bremen, and after a voyage of several weeks landing in Philadelphia. A few years later he left that city, removing with his family to Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where both he and his wife, Katrina, spent their last years. His sons, Jacob and Caspar, settled in Harrisburg. Several of the children of his son Jacob, and a daughter of his son Caspar, came to Ohio to live, while a daughter, Betsey, married a Mr. Wibely, and located in Chillicothe.
Michael Beyerly was born March 14, 1774, in Lower Paxton Town- ship, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and as a youth learned the shoe- maker's trade, serving an apprenticeship at the time all shoes were cus- tom made. In 1804, accompanied by his family, he came to Chillicothe, journeying with wagon to Pittsburgh, thence down the Ohio River, and up the Scioto, by flatboat. Soon after his arrival, he opened an inn on the site now occupied by the Carson House, South Paint Street, and also established a shoe shop. As there were neither railroads or canals for many years thereafter, all produce was shipped down the rivers on flat- boats, and he took several boat loads of flour, grain and pork down the Ohio, Scioto and Mississippi rivers to St. Louis. Prosperous in business, he continued a resident of this city until his death, in 1841. During the War of 1812, he served three enlistments, first as a minute-man, then as a substitute, and the third as a volunteer. He married Anna Miller, who was born in Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, October 6, 1781, and died in Chillicothe, of cholera, September 1, 1833. She reared eight children.
Born in Chillicothe, November 11, 1815, Andrew J. Beyerly learned
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the sadler's trade when young, and subsequently followed it as a jour- neyman in different places. Starting in business on his own account in New Holland, Ohio, he remained there until 1856, when he located on the old Fulton homestead, in Union Township, Ross County, a part of the farm having come to his wife by inheritance. He then bought out the interests of the remaining heirs, and was there prosperously engaged in farming and stock-raising until his death, in August, 1890. The home farm is still owned by his children, it having been held in the family upwards of a century. The maiden name of the wife of Andrew J. Beyerly was Susan Fulton. She was born May 10, 1834, on the home farm in Union Township, a daughter of William Fulton, and grand- daughter of John A. Fulton, one of the very early settlers of Chillicothe. Her great-grandparents, William and Susanna (Keys) Fulton, came from England to America in colonial days, settling in Chester County, Pennsylvania, on the Brandywine, where both spent the remainder of their years, his death occurring March 2, 1785. Both are buried in the Ostorn graveyard, near the Doe Run Meeting House, in that county. John A. Fulton, the great-grandfather of Wade J. Beyerly, was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1769, and while young received excel- lent educational advantages. In 1795, as a civil engineer, he came to the Northwest Territory, and assisted General Massie in the surveying of a large portion of the Virginia Military District. Going back to Pennsyl- vania in 1800, he remained there two years, and in 1802 returned to Ross County with his family, locating in Chillicothe, on the northeast corner of Main Street and the Ohio Canal. He taught school, and also followed his profession of a civil engineer, taking a contract with the Government to survey the line between Indiana and Ohio, south of Fort Recovery. He was much interested in astronomy, and was the owner of two fine telescopes, which in his will he devised to the Chillicothe High School, where one of the lenses is still preserved. A stanch democrat in politics, he was prominent in public affairs, and served as one of the first mayors of the city. He resided in Chillicothe, an honored and respected citizen, until his death, in 1841. Ilis wife, whose maiden name was Lavina Irving, was born in Pennsylvania, of Scotch ancestry, in 1773, and died in 1841, in Chillicothe. William Fulton, the maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born, reared and educated in Chester County, Pennsylvania, becoming a civil engineer. In that capacity, he, with William Henry Harrison, and others, surveyed the state line, the contract for which was taken by his father. He and his father made a specialty of locating lands for the Revolutionary soldiers who had secured land warrants, and through the buying up of warrants acquired several thousand acres of Ohio lands. Locating in Union Township, Ross County, after his marriage, he devoted his time and energies to the improvement of his farm, which he occupied until his death, January 29, 1876. His wife, whose maiden name was Eliza Loofbourrow, was born November 2, 1792, a daughter of David and Lavina (Gaskell) Loofbourrow, natives of Pennsylvania, and pioneers of Fayette County, Ohio. She died July 29, 1853. She was a woman of deep religious con-
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victions, being an ardent Baptist in her beliefs. She was the mother of thirteen children, Helen; Mary; John W .; William; David R .; Jeffer- son; Lavina; Henry and Margaret, twins; Samuel L .; Wade; Catherine; and Susan. Mrs. Andrew J. Beyerly survived her husband, dying December 1, 1914. She reared seven children, namely: Eliza; Michael Irwin; Wade J .; Lucy E .; Kate L .; Grace; and Wallace F.
Having obtained his preliminary education in the rural schools, Wade J. Beyerly attended the Chillicothe High School a part of one year, after which he took a normal course in James H. Poe's private school. For a number of years he devoted his time to teaching, his first school having been in his home district. He was subsequently school superintendent many terms, having charge of the schools at Richmon- dale and Bainbridge, in Ross County; in Zaleski, Vinton County; at West Jefferson, Madison County; and at New Richmond, Clermont County ; and for ten years was principal of the Western District School in Chillicothe. In the meanwhile, Mr. Beyerly had devoted his leisure to the study of law, and in 1900 was admitted to the bar. He began practice of his profession in 1901, but likewise continued teaching until 1911, when he gave up his pedagogical work, and has since given his attention to the practice of law, his patronage having so increased as to demand all of his time.
Mr. Beyerly married, in 1886, Anna Harmount, who was born in Deerfield Township, a daughter of Robert and Sarah E. Harmount. She died in 1889, and the two children born of their union died in infancy. Mr. Beyerly married for his second wife, in 1891, Artie M. Sigler, who was born in Jefferson Township, a daughter of Jacob and Samantha (Leach) Sigler. Mr. and Mrs. Beyerly have nine children, namely : Clare N., who married Josephine Faulkner; Esther G .; Ellen S .; Harold S .; Anna Dorothy; Wade J., Jr .; Irwin F .; Grace; and Robert F. Religiously Mr. and Mrs. Beyerly are members of the First Presbyterian Church. Politically Mr. Beyerly has been a consistent democrat since casting his first presidential vote for Grover Cleveland. He is a tee- totaler; a strong advocate of temperance; and is secretary of the Dry Confederation of Ross County. Fraternally he is a member of Bain- bridge Lodge, No. 196, Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons; of Chillicothe Chapter, No. 4, Royal Arch Masons; and of Chillicothe Council, No. 4, Royal and Select Masters.
GEORGE BARMANN. One of the men who helped to shape the industry and civilization of Ross County during the past century was the late George Barmann. He came to this county in the early '30s, and proved himself a man of vigorous character and great industry and developed one of the fine farms that still remain a conspicuous landmark in East Scioto Township.
He was born in the Town of Merdergin in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, in 1808. His father, John Barmann, was born in the same locality, of wealthy parents. He spent his early life there, and when his son George was three years of age, in 1811, he set out with his
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wife and six children to find a new home in America. That was years before the first steam-propelled vessel crossed the Atlantic, and the only mode of crossing the ocean was a sailing vessel. The vessel on which they embarked from a German port had unprecedented difficulties even for that time of slow navigation. Severe storms drove them back again and again, and there were many mishaps, so that it was thirteen months from the time they started until they landed in the New World. John Barmann lived at Shippensport, Pennsylvania, where he bought a tract of land with a log house containing one room above and one below. This was the first home of the Barmann family in America. The house was covered by boards rived by hand, and the large cracks between them allowed the snow to drift in and it frequently covered the beds of the occupants. Large buffalo robes, tanned by the Indians, were the chief protective covering. From Shippensport the family moved to Louisville, Kentucky, and a little later to Cincinnati, where John Barmann bought land on Price's Hill. At that time this hill was a considerable distance out in the country. The family home there was also a house of logs, and that is still standing as a landmark of early days. The logs have since been covered with weather boarding and it has been remodeled into a cozy city home. John Barmann was a man of robust constitution, , and in spite of all the work he did, lived to be nearly a hundred years old. He reared three daughters and three sons: Crescent, Catherine, Annie, Lawrence, George and Fred.
Three years of age when the family made their memorable voyage to this country, the late George Barmann was reared in the primitive circumstances that existed in nearly every American home a century ago. His mother cooked by the open fire for years, and dressed her family in homespun. His father being a man of considerable means, and well educated, endeavored to give his own children a good education and superior advantages. George Barmann, however, liked work and practical things better than the study of books, and was still a boy when he enrolled in the ranks of wage earners in a packing house at Cincin- nati. That was still at a time when the railroads and canals were unknown institutions in the Middle West, and he frequently made trips on flatboats down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers carrying provisions to southern markets.
It was in 1832 that George Barmann came to Ross County. He bought a tract of land on the Columbus Pike in Springfield Township, and in 1840 erected a substantial brick house which still stands as a monument to his early enterprise. Constantly at work with both his hands and his mind, he was a constructive factor in the early days of agriculture in Springfield Township, and developed a large estate. He resided at the old home until his death in 1888 at the age of eighty years.
He married Josephine Gertison, who was born in Merdergin, his native birthplace, in 1818. Her father John Gertison, was a man of considerable means in that part of Germany, but finally sold his estate to a relative, and the property is still owned by his descendants. He came to America accompanied by his family, and locating at Delhi, Ohio,
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bought land on which he established a vineyard and for a number of years was engaged in the manufacture of wine. That was his home until his death. The Gertison family were active members of the Catholic Church.
Mrs. Barmann, who died in 1882, reared ten children named John, Martin, George, Mary, Louise, Frank, Joseph, Isabella, Clara and Charles. The sons John, Martin and George are now deceased as is also the daugh- ter Isabella. Frank, Joseph and Charles are well-to-do farmers in Missouri, Frank and Charles living at Maryville and Joseph in Savan- nah. Clara is a Sister of Charity. Louise, the only member of the family now living in Ross County, left the farm in 1890 and has since occupied a pleasant home on West Fifth Street in Chillicothe. Miss Bar- mann has traveled extensively in this country and in Europe, and is a woman of cultured mind and cultivated social tastes. She is a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church at Chillicothe and of the Young Ladies' Society of that church.
FRANK D. MARZLUFF. Representing one of the oldest families estab- lished in Chillicothe, Frank D. Marzluff began his business career at very tender years, and from one responsibility has advanced to another and is now one of the leading business men and controls much of Chilli- cothe's business interests in certain lines.
He was born in Ross County, Ohio, August 14, 1859, a son of Paul and Anna (Reinlein) Marzluff. His father was born in Strassburg, Ger- many, and when twelve years of age in 1826 was brought to America by his parents, who located in Chillicothe, Ohio, then a small town while the greater part of the state was still a wilderness. Paul Marzluff grew up in Chillicothe, learning the moulder's trade, and for eight years was employed in the old Greenwood Foundry. He was a California forty- niner, having gone out to the West during the gold excitement, but returned to Chillicothe in 1852. He then employed his modest capital in establishing a confectionery business, and that was his chief activity during the remaining years of his career. He died at the advanced age of about seventy-six, in 1901. There were ten children, four of whom are still living.
The fifth in order of birth, Frank D. Marzluff contented himself with such advantages as the public schools of Chillicothe could supply him, up to the time he was fourteen years of age, and then entered upon his serious and practical career by helping his father in the store. Later, he succeeded his father as proprietor of the business and it is one of the oldest establishments of its kind under one ownership in Chillicothe. Mr. Marzlufff has shown his enterprise by adding to the original concern a large billiard room and he also conducts one of the largest and best restaurants in the city. He is also a wholesale and retail dealer in liquors. His principal place of business is at 17 North Paint Street.
In the meantime he has become a factor in various other important business enterprises. He is a director in the Ohio and Kentucky Coal Company, a stockholder in the Valley Savings and Trust Company and
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the Ross County National Bank, and a stockholder in the Mead Pulp and Paper Company. Mr. Marzluff is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 52, at Chillicothe, and in politics is independent.
On January 31, 1882, he married Miss Mary Cahill. Of the three children born to that union the two now living are Gertrude and Margaret.
GEORGE A. VAUGHTERS. Occupying a place in the front rank of Chillicothe's representative men, George A. Vaughters possesses business sagacity of a high order, and through close application to his work, and careful supervision of his financial affairs, has met with unquestioned success in his undertakings, being now the ruling spirit in the manage- ment of enterprises of a diverse nature. A son of John A. Vaughters, he was born on a farm in Nile Township, Scioto County, Ohio, coming from English ancestry. His paternal great-grandfather, Richard Vaugh- ters, emigrated from the South of England to America prior to the Revo- lution, settling in Virginia and actively assisted the colonists in their struggle for independence.
John Vaughters, the grandfather of George A., was a farmer by occu- pation, and spent his entire life, which was comparatively short, in Caro- line County, Virginia. The maiden name of his wife was Caroline Masson. She was born, reared, and married in Virginia. Her grand- father, the maternal great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came to America in the sailing vessel Alexandria, and after settling in Virginia served as a gallant soldier in the Revolutionary war. Surviv- ing her husband, Mrs. Caroline (Masson) Vaughters, in 1830, started with'her four sons and a daughter for Ohio, making an overland trip across the intervening country. In a cart drawn by one horse she brought all of her household effects. Camping and cooking by the road- side, she and her family made steady progress en route, even though they made occasional stops at places where the boys could earn a little money by working. Arriving in this state, they located in Jackson County, where the death of the mother occurred two years later. Richard, the eldest son of the family, settled permanently in Jackson County, while the other three sons, John A., William and Thomas, located in Scioto County. The daughter, Mary Vaughters, married Mark Landrum, and settled in Pike County.
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