A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 114

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans
Number of Pages: 1612

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Frank Amann

was born March 13, 1860, at Portsmouth, Ohio. His father was Charles E Amann. His mother was Ruan Wynett. His father was a native of Baden,

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Germany, aud his mother was a native of Ohio. He attended the schools in Portsmouth until 1874, and then became a clerk in Daniel Spry's drug store. He remained there until 1880, when he went into business for himself at 208 Market street, and has been there ever since. He also conducts another drug store at Eleventh and Offnere streets. He was married November 21, 1883, to Mary Ella Ridenour of Cincinnati, O. Mr. Amann is not attached to any par- ticular political party, nor any fraternity. He is a member of the First Pres- byterian church. He is a first class citizen in every respect, is one of the best business men in Portsmouth, and he attends strictly to his own business.

Eugene Graham Anderson

son of George W. Anderson and Annie H. Warwick, his wife, was born Feb- ruary 10, 1873, at Council Grove, Kansas. At the age of two, he was brought to Fortsmoutn, Ohio, by his parents and has lived here ever since. He at- tended the public schools of Portsmouth until 1889, when he began the mer- cantile business with his father. He has been engaged in the same business until July 23, 1894, when he took a position with Louis A. Crossett a promi- nent manufacturer of mens shoes, traveling through the south and south- west, filling this position successfully until January 18, 1896. After the death of his father, who died in October, 1895, he formed a partnership with his brother Wm. B., and mother Mrs. Annie H. Anderson, January 1, 1896, and the firm was changed to G. W. Anderson & Sons.

He was married February 2, 1897, to Ruhama Halderman, daughter of .Doctor S. S. Halderman, of Portsmouth, Ohio, and they have two children: Mary and Charles.

He is a republican and a communicant of All Saints church and is su- perintendent of All Saints Sunday school. He is an Elk. Mr. Anderson be- lieves in everything that is good and true. As yet his life is before him and his prospects are brilliant. He has high ideals in religion, in social life and in business, and those who know him best believe he will live up to them. As it is now, he is respected and admired for those qualities of character which most adorn the life of a young man, and his course promises distinc- tion and success in every field of effort.

William Beverly Anderson

was born January 22, 1859, in Montgomery county, Kentucky. His father was the late George W. Anderson. His mother is Annie H. ( Warwick) Anderson who is still living.

While a boy, Mr. Anderson was taken by his parents successively to Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, Portsmouth, Ohio, Council Grove, Kansas, and back to Portsmouth where he has resided since 1874. He received his education in the public schools of these several places. He had some experience in farming while on his father's farm near Council Grove, Kansas. He worked at farm- ing for two years and the grasshoppers ate up every thing they raised. Con- sequently Mr. Anderson does not have much of a hankering for farm life. His sympathy for the farmer is exceeded only by his desire to keep out of the business. When he came to Portsmouth in November, 1874, he entered his father's shoe store. From this on, he continued in business with his father until his death in 1895.

When Mr. Anderson was only eighteen, his father's health became poor and the responsibility of the business fell largely upon him. He became a partner with his father under the firm name of G. W. Anderson & Son in 1878, and was the chief support of the business till his father's death when he assumer complete control. A more complete history of the business will be found under the sketch of G. W. Anderson. In 1900, the large department store corner of Third and Chillicothe streets was established under the old firm name of G. W. Anderson & Sons. Our subject is the moving spirit in this immense enterprise and is its business manager. He is a republican, but de- voting all his time to the management of his business, he finds no time to spend in politics. He has been a member of the Sixth Street Methodist church since he was thirteen years old. excepting the short interval he was in Kan- sas, and has been a steward of the church for twnty-five years. He has been superintendent of the Sunday school for the past ten years and is one of the chief workers in the church as well as a libral contributor.

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Mr. Anderson was married, February 2, 1886, to Ida Russell, daughter of William B. and Rebecca (Hibbs) Russell. William B. Russell was a son of the Hon. William Russell and Governor Robert Lucas was an uncle of Mrs. Anderson's mother.

George Washington Anderson

was born in Bath county, Kentucky, June 18, 1830. His father, William An- derson was from Virginia. His mother was a daughter of Judge Graham of Virginia. At the age of sixteen he went into the business of store keeping as a clerk for his uncle in Mercer county, Kentucky, and remained there two years. He was clerk on the steamer "Blue . Wing" between Frankfort and Louisville for six months. He went back into Mercer county and from there to Cincinnati in 1856. He took a business course at Bartlett's Commercial Col- lege, and remained as a teacher. In 1857, he went to Howard's Mills, Mont- gomery county, Kentucky, and kept a store there till the winter of 1859 and 1860. That same year he went to Camargo and remained two years. He re- moved to Mt. Sterling and remained there until 1866. In June, 1864, his store in Mt. Sterling was robbed by John Morgan's band. He was a Union man during the entire war and was outspoken. On the occasion of another raid, he secreted his stock in the coffins of an undertaker who was a rank reb- el but who was willing to aid his neighbor. The coffin scheme was successful as the rebels did not want to steal coffins and did not dream of them being uesd as places of concealment.

In February, 1867, Mr. Anderson came to Portsmouth and opened a store in the Huston corner where he remained until fall. Then he moved to 109 West Second into a building erected for him by the late Dan McFarland, and remained until 1871, at which time he sold out and went to Council Grove, Kansas, and tried farming, also being interested in the firm of J. F. Warwick & Co., doing a general merchandise business in Council Grove. In November, 1874, he returned to Portsmouth, having purchased the shoe store of R. M. Lloyd of Chillicothe street. He afterwards removed to Second street, and occupied the west half of the building now occupied by the Hibbs Hardware Company. While here his son, William B., was admitted to the business under the firm name of G. W. Anderson & Son. At the end of three years they re- moved to a building which stood where Ben Davis' clothing store now stands where they remained about a year, and then moved to the Huston stone front on Second street, where they did business for nine years. In 1886 dry goods were added to the stock. They removed to the Brushart building, No. 134 West Second street in 1888, and were doing business there at the time of Mr. Anderson's death, October 8, 1895.

Since his death the business has been conducted and managed by his son. William B. Mr. Anderson was a republican, but took no active part in politics. He was a member of the Presbyterian church until his marriage, and then transferred his membership to the Methodist church, and was a member of the Sixth Street Methodist Episcopal church of Portsmouth until his death. He was always connected with the Official Board of the church as steward and was treasurer for a number of years. He took an active part in church work.

He was married October 22, 1857, to Miss Annie H. Warwick, daughter of B. G. Warwick, then living in Cincinnati, but who afterwards came to Portsmouth. By this marriage thirteen children were born to them, two of whom died in infancy. Those who grew up were: William Beverly, a sketch of whom is found elsewhere in this book; Maggie M., wife of Dr. J. N. Craw- ford, now residing in Newport, Rhode Island; Sallie J., wife of Dr. F. H. Wil- liams at Portsmouth, died in Cincinnati, October 13, 1901; George B., died in Cincinnati, January 13, 1902; John Frank; Charles N., a member of the shoe firm of Anderson Bros., Eugene G., a member of G. W. Anderson & Sons, Preston H., employed in the department store of G. W. Anderson & Sons; Warwick W., manager and buyer for the house furnishing department of G. W. Anderson & Sons; Nelson R., and Crawford W., now in the first year of the High school.

Lexey Clayton Debo Anderson

was born in the state of North Carolina on November 7, 1855. His father was Sandy Freeman Anderson and his mother's maiden name was Mary Jane

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Taborn, free persons of color. They moved from the south to Fayette coun- ty, Ohio, before the civil war, and there our subject was educated in the com- mon schools. He has acquired a higher education, but it was secured by self study. He and his parents remained in Ohio, until 1866, when they returned to their former home in North Carolina, where our subject attended the pub- lic schools at Oxford until 1870. At that time his parents became satisfied that the opportunities for the colored race in the south were not equal to those in the north and returned to Fayette county, where our subject attended school until 1874, when he began teaching. He was the principal of the colored schools in Washington C. H., from 1874 to 1883, then he tried the hotel busi- ness in 1883 and 1884 in the same place. The latter year he went to Jackson- ville, Florida, and taught music in the public schools for a period of six months. In 1885, he returned to Washington C. H. and taught there until 1886. In 1886 and 1887, he was in business in Washington C. H. in house furnishings. He went to Ripley in 1888 and took charge of the Fourth street school and was there as principal of that school for five years, until 1893. He returned to Washington C. H. in the latter year and until 1895 was in bus- iness there in selling housefurnishings. In 1895 he came to Portsmouth and was the principal of the Eleventh street school for two years at the end of which time, he went into business in the sale of house furnishing goods and dress making at No. 1130 Findlay street. He was married in 1878 at Bowers- ville in Clinton county to Miss Madie Catharine White, daughter of Mrs. Cyn- thia White. He has a family of three children; one daughter, Pearl Beatrice who is a teacher of the Portsmouth public schools, two sons Cecil, aged 13, years and Leon A., aged 10 years. Mr. Anderson is the best educated per- son of his race in the city and is a gentleman of integrity and excellent repu- tation in the community.

Balser Horn Andres,

the veteran engineer of the Portsmouth branch of the B. & O. railroad, was born February 14, 1836, at Norwalk, in Huron county, Ohio. His father was a native of Baden, Germany, and was a clockmaker. He concluded America was a good country for him and came here and peddled clocks. His wife was Mary Elizabeth Horn. They were' married at Wilmington, in 1834. When Basler was four weeks old, his parents moved to Piketon. When he was four years of age, they moved to Jackson. He went to school at Jackson and ob- tained all of his schooling there. Among his teachers was Judge Longbon. At the age of sixteen, he carried water for the men who graded the Scioto & Hocking Valley railroad. After that, he went to work grading about the sta- tion under his fatner. At seventeen, he went on the road as brakeman. At the age of eighteen, he got a place as a fireman and held it for two years. In 1859, he began to run an engine and has continued it for forty-two years.

He ran on a freight until May 30, 1863, when Richard Burns, then an engineer of the road, entered Co. K of the 2nd Ohio Heavy Artillery. He was engineer on the mail until August 23, 1865, when Dick Burns came back from the army and he went back on the accommodation, and was on that for seven years, except six months when he ran on the main line between Cincinnatt and Chillicothe In the spring of 1888, he became engineer on the mail train, the one leaving Portsmouth in the morning and returning in the evening. He has been employed on the branch between Hamden and Portsmouth steadily since 1859.

During these years he has stuck to his post and has traveled 1,717,170 miles, or more than 68 times around the world. He has never lost a day for pleasure or recreation. The longest time he was away from his engine was when he was hurt in a wreck; that time he was off eight weeks. This wreck occurred on Hayes-Tilden presidential election day in November, 1876. His train ran over a broken rail and was ditched. He was buried under his en- gine and they had to dig him out of the earth. This occurred two miles south of Hale's creek.

On February 14, 1863, his train was ditched near Sciotoville at the "narrows" and it was prevented from going into the Ohio river by the engine burying its cow catcher in the ground. Once in a wreck, he had his engine turn a complete somersault down an embankment and escaped with only a scalded hand. Another time his engine lett the track and ran out into a

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field with him. One night near Chillicothe, on the Scioto river bridge, his engine collided with the hind-end of a freight train, the lights of which had frozen out. His engine plowed through this train and was badly wrecked and he didn't get a scratch. He has always remained at his post ever mindful of the lives behind him. His fastest run was on the main line when he made 110 miles in 1 hour and 30 minutes. He has a remarkable record. His en- gine has killed two men only. Both of them were walking on the track and one was a deaf mute. He ran over a. woman at Wait's station. She was a deaf mute.

He was married February 21, 1862, to Mary E. Clark, in Bigelow chap- el, the second marriage which occurred in that church. His children are: William Shackleford, a General Press Agent and Grace C., a music teacher. He moved to Portsmouth in 1856 and has lived there ever since. He resides at 64 west Seventh street and has resided there for thirty-eight years. He is a member of Bigelow chapel and has been since 1868. He voted for Steven A. Douglas for President in 1860, and tor Abraham Lincoln, in 1864, and has been a Republican ever since. Mr. W. C. Draper has known him since 1863 and says that he is as reliable as the government and can be depended on with the same certainty.

He is as regular in his habits as his father's old clock which he has owned for thirty-eight years. He is sixteen years older than the road he has worked on since 1853. The road has changed owners five times since that date but Balser was sold with the road-bed and franchises every time. At the age of sixty-five, he is hale and hearty, has a good conscience and good digestion. Each week day he goes to Hamden Junction in the morning and returns in the evening. He is always in his place at church every Sunday. When the Good Angel who is sent to bring mortals to the Better Land. calis for Balser Andres, he will know just where to find him, for he will always be found at the same place, the same hour each day, and doing his duty all the time.

George Brinton McClelland Andre, M. D.,

of South Webster, was born in Powellsville, Ohio, June 18, 1864. His father was Peter Andre and his mother's maiden name was Mary L. Huston. They now live on a farm in Vernon township near Chaffin's Mill.

Dr. Andre's boyhood history is much the same as that of any other boy who was raised on a farm. He was very fond of horses and even now has his roadsters and takes great delight in driving. He attended the common schools and prepared himself to teach. He began teaching in 1885 and taught for seven years. He then attended Miami Medical College from which he was graduated April 1, 1897. Doctor Andre soon after began the practice of med- icine in South Webster, where he has since resided. He has built up a lucra- five practice and is a promising young physician. He was married to Miss S. A. Gifford, November 7, 1901. Her parents live on their farm in Vernon township. Doctor Andre is and always has been a democrat. He is not a member of any church, but is straighttorward, honest and energetic. His many friends will best remember him as a "threshing machine man," having traveled over Pike and Scioto counties several summers with machines from 1888 to 1897. He is very ambitious to succeed and has already won the confi- dence and esteem of the citizens of Bloom township and has shown rare skill in his profession. He is possessed of a cheerful disposition which he takes with him in the sick room. He is a member of the Western Sun Lodge F. and A. M. No. 91 located at Wheelersburg and of South Webster Lodge, Knights of Pythias No. 724. He has the highest standing for morality and integrity.

Peter Duteil Andre

was born September 24, 1825, in the French Grant. His father was Jacob An- dre, who was born July 23, 1797. His father married Jane Duteil, in 1822. She was born May 17, 1804, and a daughter of Francis Charles Duteil, a French emigrant, who drew lot 32 in the French Grant. Peter Andre grew up in the French Grant, and had such an education as the schools of the vi- cinity afforded. He married Nancy Caroline Tong, February 6, 1854. He went

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to house-keeping on the Andre farm, formerly known as the Hurd farm, on lot 34 in the French Grant. He lived there all his life.

His eldest son was Wayne W. born May 14th, 1852. He was married in 1876, to Margaret J. Boren, a native of lowa county, lowa. They had four children. He died at the age of thirty-eight years.

The second son of Peter Andre is Orin C. Andre, a physician at Waverly. He was born April 29, 1856. He attended the common schools at Wheelers- burg, until 1873, when he became a clerk for M. B. Gilbert & Co. in Ports- mouth, at which place he remained a year. Then he began the study of medi- cine with Dr. A. B. Jones and afterwards with Dr. P. J. Kline. He graduat- ed from the Ohio Medical College, in Cincinnati, in 1877. He first located at Buchanan, Pike county, Ohio, and practiced there one year, and then located in Piketon where he remained until January, 1894, when he moved to Waverly. in Pike county, where he has since been located. He was first married to Mary E. Sargeant, February 8, 1883. She died April 15, 1884. He was married a second time to Miss Martha J. Wessenstein, October 30, 1890. They have three children: Robert G., Harold E., and Peter D. Dr. Andre is a republican, a Royal Arch Mason, and a Knight of Pythias. He is a member of the Amer- ican Medical Association, of the Ohio State Medical Association, of the Hemp- stead Memorial Academy of Medicine of Scioto county, of the Pike county Medical Society, and an honorary' member of the Ross county Medical Socie- ty. He is a student in his profession, He patronizes its literature liberally, and keeps right up with all the modern ideas in it. He is regarded as one of the best informed physicians in Southern Ohio, and amongst the most skillful. He possesses the confidence and respect of all his medical brethren and of the community in which he dwells.

The first daughter of our subject, Ella, is the wife of John T. Wells, a rancher, of Anaheim, California. The second daughter of our subject, Ruba, has been a teacher in the Ironton high school. She has a remarkable career, having first taught at Washington, D. C., taught the languages two years in Wichita, Kansas, and in Ironton three years. The third son of Peter D. An- dre was Dan Young, named for the well known minister. He lives in Dixon, Illinois. He married Stella Wilcox, December 26, 1888. He follows the occu- pation of a photographer. The third daughter, Elonia, is a teacher in the Detroit High School. Her subject is Zoology. She has been engaged there for six years.

Peter D. Andre was a member of the Methodist church all his life. He lived up to it, and was a man noted for his conscience. He was superintend- ent of the Sunday school near his home for many years. In his political views, he was a whig and a republican. He did not belong to any fraterni- ties. At one time he was township trustee. He was highly regarded by all his neighbors.

Though not an emigrant himself, Mr. Andre embodied in a high degree the emigrant spirit,-that spirit born of ambition, energy, thrift, and high ideals, which inspired the great body of pioneers with a desire to better . themselves in evry moral and material way. It was this spirit, sustained by an iron will to meet and overcome all obstacles, which raised the average population of this country to the highest plane of any civilization which the world has yet seen. Mr. Andre exemplified these qualities as shown in his model farm, his successful management, his beautiful home, the esteem of his fellow citizens and transmitted them in an unusual degree to a respected and talented family of children.

Frank Appel

was born September 15, 1868. 4 His parents were Theodore and Mary E. (Brant) Appel. His mother was the daughter of Joseph H. Brant of Lucasville. Our subject received a common school education and graduated at the Ohio Wes- leyan University in 1894, in the classical course. He began teaching in 1885, in Jefferson township and taught there and in Clay township until 1891, when he was appointed superintendent of the Lucasville schools. He remained there two years, and in September, 1894, went to Wheelersburg, where he was su- perintendent until 1899. In June, 1899, he went to Piketon and was super- intendent of the Piketon schools until January 1, 1900, when he was appointed superintendent of the Ludlow, Kentucky, schools and has been there since.

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He has twelve schools under his charge at present. He taught summer school at Wheelersburg, in 1898, and at Lucasville, in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1902. He received a state common school life certificate in December, 1899, and a High School life certificate in June, 1900. He also received the degree of A. B. from the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. On June 15, 1895, he was married to Martha Jane Cook, a daughter of George Cook. They have one child, Ralph Franklin. Mr. Appel is a republican and a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church.

He is honest, energetic and thorough in everything he undertakes. As a superintendent, he is fearless and efficient in the discharge of his duties. As a county school examiner, he did much to raise the standard of scholarship among the teachers of Scioto county. He was a leader among the teachers of Scioto county while he was one of them, and has made a permanent im- pression in his institute work in the county. He was regarded as one of the brightest teachers ever in the county.

George M. Appel,

President of the Gilbert Grocery Company and Treasurer of the Portsmouth Shoe Company, is the sixth of the eight children of Philip Appel and Kath- erine (Bender) Appel and was born December 20, 1859, in Portsmouth, to which town his parents nad come from Germany, in 1847, both having been born in Sandhofen, Baden on the Rhine. His mother was born in 1827 and his father in 1820.

His father was a member of the liberal party in the movement among the German states for increased liberties and for a constitution in which these liberties should be embodied and sacredly guarded. The success of the move- ment seemed doubtful owing to jealous dissensions and not wishing to remain jonger under the tyrannies of his native country, he determined to adopt a country where liberty abounds, and came to America.

What education Mr. Appel received was in the schools of Portsmouth before he reached the age of fourteen. At this age he was compelled or rather felt it his duty to go to work for himself. His father had died when he was only four years old and his mother had a large family to care for. He was employed by B. R. Brown, a plumber, and worked at plumbing for three years, after which he was employed by W. H. H. Cadot, who was then carrying on a wholesale and retail grocery business. After a year here, he entered the service of M. B. Gilbert and was given charge of one of his ice wagons. This was in May, 1878, and he served in this capacity for five years when he was transferred to the grocery department and was given the position of billing and shipping clerk. He soon became book keeper and continued in this capacity until Mr. Gilbert's death in November, 1887. Then the firm of M. B. Gilbert & Co. was formed, composed of Mrs. M. B. Gilbert, Mr. Appel and Mr. Joseph S. Gaston. The latter member of the firm died in 1892, leaving the business in the hands of the former until 1894, when George A. Goodman was taken into the firm. On January 1, 1899, the businesss was re-organized and incorporated under the name of The Gilbert Grocery Company and Mr. Appel was made its president. It is to his careful management and constant oversight that the business owes its prosperous and rapid growth and its present immense pro- portions. Mr. Appel is also interested in the Prtsmouth Shoe Company and is its treasurer.

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A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 114

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913 Publication date: 1903 Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans Number of Pages: 1612

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans
Number of Pages: 1612