A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 115

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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He was married July 23, 1890, to Miss Lena Zoellner, daughter of Philip Zoellner, the jeweler. Two daughters have been born to them, Margaret, aged nine, and Katharin, age four.

Though a democrat, Mr. Appel does not allow party lines to interfere with his voting when it is a question of his country's welfare or its business inter- ests. Being a thorough business man he looks at politics in a business- like way.

Theodore Appel

was born September 2, 1841, at Sandhofen, Baden, Germany. His father's name was Theodore Appel, and his mother's maiden name was Eva Margaret Katzmaier. Our subject attended school in Germany until he was ten years of age. In July, 1852, his parents came to this country, and located at

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Mt. Vernon Furnace where his father died in August, 1852. In September of the same year, his mother moved to Portsmouth, where she was re-married to Jacob Clopine. While our subject was in Portsmouth, he worked for the Doerr Bros. in the cigar factory. In the spring of 1853, the family moved to Harrison Furnace, where he worked in the ore banks until he was fifteen years of age. He then worked for a farmer by the name of Moore for six months, after which he went to work for Ephraim Bennett, a farmer in Madi- son township, where he worked for two years. In 1859 he went to work on the Miller farm, where he remained for about a year, and then worked on the Dugan farm for three years. In 1864, he rented a farm on Millar's Kun, where he remained until 1866, when he moved to the upper Thomas farm in Val- ley township. He remained there nineteen years, and in 1885 he went to the lower Thomas farm in Clay township, where ne remained fourteen years. Then Joseph H. Brant and himself bought the Johnson farm at Clinord in valley township, where he has remained ever since.

He was married August 20, 1863, to Mary E. Brant, daughter of Joseph Brant, of Valley township. They have the following children: Joseph Henry, married, living at Lucasville; George William, married and farms on the Jos- eph W. Fulton farm in Valley township; James Benton, married, lives on the Bannon farm; Frank, married, is superintendent of the public schools at Ludlow, Ky .; Margaret, married T. C. Beatty, an attorney at Portsmouth, O .; David, married, lives on the lower Thomas farm in Clay township; Charles T., married, lives on a farm in Valley township; Louise at home; and Edgar, a student at the Ohio Wesleyan University. Mr. Appel is a republican in his political views and a member of the Methodist church.

He is a gentleman of excellent habits, honest, industrious and frugal. He is the father of a family of whom any man should be proud. He is a model farmer and devotes all his time to this pursuit. He is conscientious and fair in all his relations with his fellowmen. Above all he is an earnest, sincere and devout Christian.

Joseph Ashton

was born June 1, 1805, at Old Town near Newcastle, Pa. His father Joseph Ashton was a major in the Revolutionary army and a very prominent man in his time. His record will be found under Revolutionary soldiers. Our sub- ject had only a common school education. After finishing school, he went to Pittsburg where he was apprenticed to Samuel Walker, a steamboat builder, and learned that trade. In 1847, he left Pittsburg and went to New Richmond, Ohio, and lived there till 1855, teaming for David Gibson, who had a distillery there. In December, 1855, he came to Portsmouth, Olio, and went into part- nership with his brother-in-law Milton Kennedy in the feed business, in a three story building on the site of the Huston Stone front on Second street. They occupied the first story, the second was a concert hall, and the third was occupied by the Odd Fellows. In 1856, he went into business with Henry Dens- more in making mineral waters and remained in that business one year. He was then appointel Canal Collector by Governor Chase. During the war he re- moved to Rapid Forge on Paint creek, Ross county, and made his home there for ten years. In 1864, he received an appointment as treasury clerk at Vicks- burg and other points in the south, from his old friend Salmon P. Chase, then Secretary of the Treasury. At one time he was taken prisoner at Goodrich's Landing, La.

After returning from the south, he lived in Ross county and afterwards in Pike county. In 1870, he was given charge of the City Hospital of Ports- mouth, a position he held for several years. He was elected a Justice of the Peace in Wayne township, Scioto county, in April, 1878, and was re-elected an- nually until June 1, 1891, when he resigned his office and removed to Sinking Springs in Highland county, where he remained until his death. He was a member of the Methodist Protestant church. He was an abolitionist, but act- ed with the republican party after it was formed.

He was married October 13, 1830, to Miss Matilda Kennedy, sister of Milton Kennedy, in Alleghany, Pa. He had seven children, three of whom survive him: viz .. Mrs. Pauline Mckeown of the Portsmouth schools; Mrs. Martha M. Gall, of Sinking Springs, O., and John Q. Ashton, of San Diego, California. He was a man without antagonisms and at the same time no one

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had a stronger will than he. His attachment to the views of his church and his views on the subject of slavery were of the very strongest. As a Justice of the Peace, his decisions were well considered and were correct. He was hon- orable with all men and content to do his duty in the sphere in which he was placed.

Walter Atkin

was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, April 20, 1837. He is the son of Frank C. and Jane (Duval) Atkin. His mother was of French descent and came from Maryland. His father came from England. His

boyhood and youth were spent in Portsmouth where he received a common school edu- cation. He lived in Kansas from 1856 to 1858 and learned the bak- er's trade with Hugh Stewart of Portsmouth, Ohio. He enlisted in Company G, 2nd Colorado Cavalry, September 20, 1862, and was mus- tered out after three years service. Most of his service was in Kansas and Missouri. He was one of the many who went to Pike's Peak looking for gold. but was not fortunate enough to find any. He was in the saw mill business for several years and then run a threshing machine and molasses evaporator. For the past five years, he has been a merchant and huckster near Stockdale, Ohio. Within the past three months he purchased the California mills and is at present running them. He is a republican and a member of the Baptist church and of the G. A. R. He was married in December, 1865, to Sarah M. (Bennett) Adams, daughter of Ephraim Bennett.

Bernard Augustin,

wholesale grocer, was born December 26, 1830, in the kingdom of Hanover, at Meppen, a town of about four thousand people at that time. His father, Joseph Augustin, born in 1792 and died in 1857, was a wholesale grocer of that town and a man of wide political influence. He served two terms as mayor of the town of Meppen. Our subject's grandfather was Karl Augus- tin, a dry goods merchant and a well educated man. His mother was Mar- garet Drexler. She died when he was only six years of age. Her father was Joseph Drexler. Mr. Augustin attended the common schools till he was four- teen and then studied in the gymnasium at Meppen for the next five years. He was reared a Catholic. It was the intention of his parents to educate him for the priesthood, but seeing his natural inclination for the fair sex, they abandoned this project and he was taken into his father's store until he was twenty-five, when he started a glass manufactory of his own.

He sold out to his mother at the end of five years and came to the United States in 1868. He stopped first near Catlettsburg, Ky., and went from there to Pittsburg with the intention of getting a position in the glass fac- tories there; but owing to his inability to speak the English language he could not secure a position which his education and knowledge of the business would have commanded in his native country. He came to Portsmouth the next year. Hc was first employed here by Valentine Rheinhart, manufacturer of candy. He worked for Rheinhart for three years and saved his money, and at the end of that time started a candy-making business of his own. To this he added a small line of groceries and kept branching out and adding to his stock until he is now doing a large and exclusively wholesale business at the corner of Front and Court streets.

He is a democrat but does not mix in politics. He is a communicant of St. Mary's Roman Catholic church. Portsmouth, Ohio. He was married to Anna Schleinhege, daughter of Bernard Schleinhege, November 5. 1858. They have had seven children, four living and three dead. Two died in infancy and Adolph was drowned in the Scioto river in 1881. Those living are: Bernard, Jr., now in business with his father; Joseph M., a wholesaler of fancy grocer- ies in Portsmouth; Mary: and Anna, married to Carl Streuber.

Mr. Augustin is an example of what can be accomplished by strict at- tention to business methods. He became employed in a candy manufactory and soon after took the business onto himself. I ater finding that manufac- turing candy was not profitable, he undertook the wholesale grocery busi- ness and in that has been very successful and has made and accumulated a fortune. His standing as a business man in the community is the very best. It is always good for a man to have a failure in early life, that is if there is

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any outcome in him. Mr. Augustine had one in the glass business in Ger- many and thereby learned how to retrieve his fortune and has done so in a wonderful degree. He is one of the most substantial citizens of Portsmouth.

John Maximilian Augustin

was born March 6, 1864. in Hanover, Germany. His father was Bernhard Au- gustin, who has a sketch herein. His mother's maiden name was Anna Schleinhege. He was the third child of his father's family. When he was four years of age, his father left his family in Germany and came to the United States, first going to Pittsburg, then to Big Sandy, and then to Ports- mouth. In 1870, his father sent for the family to come over and they located in Portsmouth. John attained his education in St. Mary's Parish school in in Portsmouth. He left school at the age of twelve years, and started to work in his father's candy factory. He mastered the business in two years. From the age of 14 to 16 he worked at his trade with his father. At the age of 16, he began to travel and sell groceries. He remained in this business from 1880 until 1891. From 1891 to 1892 he was a salesman for his father for the city trade. February 1, 1892, he started in business for himself at 17 west Front street, and has remained in that business ever since. but he changed his location in 1894, and removed his business to Seventh and Chillicothe streets. In 1898, he removed to Gallia street, where he is now. He was married September 20, 1887 to Anna B. Snyder. He has three children, one son and two daughters. His son and one daughter died in infancy. His surviving daughter is Madeline, aged eight years. He is a communicant of St. Mary's church and a member of the Young Mens' Institute. He is a good citizen, has the best business ability and has been very successful in business.

Charles Moore Ault

was born at Harrisonville, Ohio, February 1, 1875. His father was John Ault, and his mother's maiden name was Agnes Boren, daughter of James Boren. His parents had four children, of which he was the oldest. His grandfather, Henry Ault. was born November 30. 1820, in Breidenbach, Hessen-Nassau, Germany. He came to the United States in 1845 and located in Beaver coun- ty, Pa. He married Barbara Brame in 1847, came to Scioto county in 1852, where he has since resided except a short time in Jackson county. Their children were: John, born March 6, 1848: William, born January 13, 1851; Cal- lie, born November 1. 1857. His first wife died directly after the birth of the last named child. and he was married in 1861 to Christina Shear, of Jackson

county, Ohio. They had three children: Mary (Mrs. Robert McAleer). born 1864; Maggie, born September 21. 1867; Frank, born May 14, 1874. William AvIt, residing in Columbus, Ohio: Mrs. Callie Burke, of Wheelersburg, Ohio, with whom the father lives at present.

Our subject received a common school education, and one term at the Rio Grande College. He attended several normal schools, began teaching in 1892. and has been engaged in it for ten years in Scioto county. In his po- litical views he is a free-silver democrat, not a member of any church, or any fraternal societies.

Walter J. Bagby

is the son of William Bagby. He was born in 1841 and is a grandson of John Bagby, born in 1819. and a great-grandson of Robert Bagby who emi- grated to Lewis county, Kentucky, about 1800. from Virginia. His mother is Mabala Isabella (Bruce) Bagby, a daughter of Thomas Bruce and a grand- daughter of John Bruce who was also a Virginian, belonging to a family which originally came from Scotland in the ante-revolutionary days, and has a com- mon origin with the family of Bruces to which Robt. Bruce, King of the Scots belonged. The paternal grandmother of our subject was Sarah Thompson. daughter of Anthony Thompson. a member of the Thompson family of Lewis county, Kentucky. The Bruces settled originally near where Vanceburg now stands and the Bagbys in what is now known as "Ferman's bottoms" near Quincy. The Bagbys came to Virginia from England before the revolution.

Our subject was born September 21. 1867, at Springville, Kentucky, and was raised at St. Paul, Kentucky, to which place his parents removed when

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he was still a child. Here he received his schooling. At the age of twenty-one he began railroading, working most of the time at bridge carpentering, and continued at this occupation till 1897, when he was employed as a clerk by W. A. Hamilton, grocer, in Portsmouth. At the end of two years he bought ont Hamilton and is now conducting the business himself at the corner of Gallia and John streets.

He is a socialist in his views and votes with the social democrat party. He is a member of the Christian church of Portsmouth and is an active work- er. At present he is an elder in the church. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Modern Woodmen. His father served in the 2nd Ky. regiment. Co. F, Union army. His grandfather Bruce's brother was a Captain in the 22nd Kentucky regiment, Union armv. and his cousin was a member of the Confederate Congress from the Louisville district.

Mr. Bagby was married April 30. 1895. to Emma Eastham, daughter of Robert and Mary (Davis) Eastham of Boyd county, Kentucky. They have one child, Paul T., born June 30, 1901.

The subject of the sketch affords a splendid opportunity for one to em- phasize those qualifications which go to make a man in the highest sense of the word. As to honor, no citizen has a better or higher sense of the same than Mr. Bagby; in honestv, his record is known well to all those who have been placed in a position of contact with him; considering duty, sacrifice tells better than any word his unswerving lovalty to a well educated conscience; as to purpose, any success he has attained to, so far in life is due very largely to the secret of this word.

Lewis William Baker

was born October 24, 1852. in Portsmouth, Ohio. His father was Henry Ba- ker, and his mother's maiden name was Louisa Pelhank, both natives of Ger- many. They had four children, three now living. Our subject is the eldest. A daughter, Louisa, married Andrew Biegel. and Fred is in the cigar business. Our subject attended school until he was fifteen years of age, when he went in with Stemshorn and Engelbrecht grocers as a clerk. He was with them for two years. In 1869, he began to work for H. Eberhart & Company. foundry- men, and clerked and traveled for them until 1873. On July 22, 1873, he went into the Ohio Stove Company, as a salesman, and was with them until 1890. In that year he became a director in the Portsmouth Stove & Range Company, and its vice president. F. V. Knauss, W. S. Todd and Mr. Baker took $10,000 stock in it when it started and it is now owned by Knauss and Baker. Mr. Baker has been the vice president ever since the business started. Mr.

Knauss is the president. and R. A. Bryan, the secretary and treasurer.

Mr.

Baker married Eva Servey, of Lawrence county, April 2, 1873, and has one son, Frank J., in the retail shoe business at the former stand of R. L. Gilbert on Chillicothe street, opposite the post office. Mr. Baker is a member of the First Presbyterian church and was a trustee for fifteen years. In politics, he is a Republican. He is a member of the Aurora Lodge, Mt. Vernon Chapter, Solomon Council and Calvary Commandery of the Masonic bodies in Ports- mouth. He is the founder and author of his own fortune and one of the most successful business men in the city of Portsmouth. He has made his business career a success by the observance of correct economic principles.

Cornelius Hyatt Barbee

was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, January 18, 1843. His parents were Elias and Mary Hyatt Barbee. She was a niece of the late C. C. Hyatt. Mr. Barbee's father came from Culpepper county, Virginia, and his mother from Long Is- land, New York. He 'passed his boyhood and youth at Portsmouth in attend- ing school and clerking in J. K. and O. A. Lodwick's dry goods store. He was employed there altogether sixteen years. He enlisted as third sergeant in Company E, 140th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, May 2, 1864, and was discharged September 3. 1864. He was a democrat till 1876, and after that has been a re- publican. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. of Aurora Lodge, Number 48 F. and A. M., Scioto Lodge Number 31. I. O. O. F., Ports- mouth Lodge, 154, B. P. O. E., and Bailey Post, G. A. R., Portsmouth, Ohio. He married Eliza Jane Bowman. January 20, 1864. He has two children living:

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William H. in business with him at Union Mills; and Alice May, wife of James Mitchell. He has two daughters deceased: Nelly, late wife of Wil- liam Malone and Bertha, late wife of Albert Turner.

Mr. Barbee has been in business at the same place for the past thirty- one years. He conducted the store for Mr. Davis until his death and then he purchased the stock and continued it in his own name. He has been canal col- lector the past ten years. Mr. Barbee is one of the reliable citizens of the county. He is as near a fixture as the "sugar loaf" hill near his place of bus- iness. He can be found at the same place each hour of the twenty-four, year in and year out, and his habits are as regular as those of a Thomas clock. Not to find him in his store, in the business hours of the day, would be re- markable and alarming.

He is about the best illustration of steady and good habits of any sub- ject in this book. His very admirable qualities have endeared him to his whole community and he is as good a specimen of the model citizen as can be found anywhere in this Republic.

Stout St. Leger Barklow

was born February 15, 1822, at Enterprise Furnace, Greenup county, Kentucky. His grandmother was Ruth Stout of New Jersey, who heard the guns at Tren- ton. His maternal grandfather was Job Foster, a revolutionary soldier. His father Benjamin Barklow kept a grocery on Second street, on the western part of the school lot He was one of the founders of the Methodist Protestant church. In 1827, his parents moved to a farm in Kentucky opposite Scioto- ville and lived there until the flood of 1832 reached them when they came back to Portsmouth. In 1838 our subject went to draying in Portsmouth. In. 1841 he went into the Gaylord mill as a shingler, that is, to manage the trip hammer. The boss shingler was Peter Gardner. The elder T. G. Gaylord was then at the head of the mill. John Gould and Mr. Morrell held posi- tions in the office. John Critzer was the engineer. A small nail mill was con- nected, in charge of Abraham Springer and William Miller. Miller got to be manager of the mill and Springer went to California in 1850. There were six knobbling fires, one boiling furnace and one scrap furnace. In 1844, more furnaces were built and the mill enlarged. While learning to shingle, our subject lost one eye. A spark from a muck ball when the hammer fell upon it, destroyed it. He kept at the work until he became boss Shingler.

In 1852, he went to California with John Sturgeon, David Price, Thomas Williams, Captain W. B. Williams, Andrew Robinson, William Sidney, Thomas

Richardson. William Delaney and Thomas McAuley. They were joined by Captain John Clark, father of Mrs. P. C. Kinney, Giles Thornton, William Morton, Thomas Thompson Leonard Alexander and Frank Johnson. Their wagons were made in Portsmouth and shipped to St. Joseph, Missouri. Bark- low remained for two years and made money. In 1855, he went again and re- mained nearly five years. He owned very valuable property while out there the second time. In 1859, when he returned from California, he went back to the rolling mill and was a boiler for several years. Then he boated iron for several more years. For fourteen vears of his life at different times, he was on the police force of the city. He was married August 15, 1844, to Sarah Jane Jeffords, daughter of Ezra Jeffords, and brother of Henry Jeffords. He had three children: William, Agnes. the widow of B. E. Roe and Margaret

Jane. He died February 3, 1898. Stout Barklow was like King Saul, head and shoulders above his fellows, and the tallest man in the county, being six feet three and a half inches high. He was a man of the highest courage and of strong will.

Richard Barry

was born in the city of Wicklow, Ireland, January 24, 1843. His father was Robert Barry and his mother's maiden name was Bridget Bryan. His father first went to Australia and then to California. He died before he could re- turn to his family. In 1848, his widow and children, James and Richard, came to Canada and located in Kingston. In 1856, they came to Chillicothe and from there they went to Hanging Rock in 1859. In 1860, Mr. Barry was em- ployed at a boiling furnace as a helper and was soon made a boiler. He has

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worked as a boiler for forty-two years. He afterwards learned to be a heater and worked for Richard Mather in Ironton.

He enlisted in Company E, 18th O. V. I., three months men, May 26, 1861, at the age of 20, and served until the 28th of the August following. He re-enlisted in Company A, 2nd Virginia Cavalry directly after his first service but was taken out on account of his minority. For the whole of 1862 and a part of 1863, he drove a team for the United States army and worked on the army roads under contract.

In March, 1863, he came to Portsmouth and went to work in the Gay- lord mill and worked one year. In 1864, he went to work in the lower rolling mill for the Haydens and was connected with that mill till it was burned He worked with the Burgess at Yorktown until it was sold out to the trust and has not worked any since. He was married July 4, 1864, to Ann Bar- gin, a native of Kings county, Ireland. They have had eleven children: Jen- nie B. who died in infancy; Margaret a dressmaker in Portsmouth; Richard died, aged eleven, from an accident; Charles, a machinist at the Norfolk & Western shops at Portsmouth; James, a foreman of the Hanging Rock ma- chine shops of the Norfolk & Western R. R .; Daniel, died in infancy; Agnes died in infancy; Mary, a stenographer with H. S. Grimes & Company; Loretta died at eleven years of age; Joseph, employed at the Norfolk & Western shops; Richard 2nd. aged fifteen. Mr. Barry enjoys good health and endeavors to take life easy. He is a member of the Holy Redeemer church and in his political views is a democrat.

Charles A. Barton

was born in Sidney, Maine, Sept. 3, 1824. He was the third son of Rufus Bar- ton and Susanah Wyman, the grand-son of Flint Barton of Worcester, Mass. The years of his minority were passed under his father in the business of farm- ing and lumbering, and his opportunities for education were exceedingly meag- er. At the age of twenty-one he started in the world for himself, and for sev- eral years was engaged in the lumber districts of Maine, New Brunswick, Pennsylvania, and New York. He was subsequently employed for a couple of years at the trade of mill-wright. In the spring of 1854, he made his way to Ohio, rafting lumber down the Alleghany and Ohio rivers to Ironton. and the next year located in Portsmouth and engaged with Messrs. Riggs & Thomp- son in the lumber trade and manufacture, in which business he continued until the breaking out of the late Civil War. He then entered the army in Company G, 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and at the expiration of the three- months' service, re-enlisted and went out as First Lieutenant of Company B of the 13th Ohio, which was afterwards changed to the 22nd Ohio, serving until after the battle of Shiloh, when he resigned on account of failing health. In the fall of 1862, he raised an independent company of sharp shooters, and took them into the service. In November, 1863, he was attached to Gen. Thomas' headquarters for general duty and so remained until mustered out on July 25, 1865. Returning home, he resumed the lumber trade for a short time, and then engaged in civil engineering and surveying, which for the most part he continued to the time of his death.

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A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 115

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