A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 118

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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Mr. Bradford was postmaster at Friendship for five years. His poli- ties are undecided, not held down to any particular party, just as the issue suits him. He is a member of the Swedenburg church. He owns twenty acres of land, a fruit farm, four miles from the city on the Valley pike, but he resides at Portsmouth, Ohio. He is a highly respected citizen and a straightfor- ward man of good habits. As a school teacher he was most efficient.

Marion C. Brame

was born on a farm in Madison township, about two miles south of Stockdale, Pike county, Ohio, January 2, 1877, the son of Jacob and Emeline (Coburn) Brame. The greater part of his boyhood was spent in Madison township, where he attended the district school. His father died when he was very young and he was thrown upon his own resources. He went to Illinois about 1896 and worked on a farm until he had earned enough to enable him to at- tend one term at an Illinois Normal School. He then returned to this coun- ty and attended two terms of school at the Harrisonville Normal. By hard work and constant application, he soon acquired an education to enable him to teach, which profession he has followed three years. He is a republican al- though most of his people are democrats. He is a young man of excellent hab- its and agreeable disposition. As a teacher, he puts honest, earnest effort into his work and his patrons have no cause for complaint. He is esteemed by all who know him.

George Brandau 1

was born near Hesse Castle, Germany, December 14, 1844, and came to America with his parents. in 1851. They located near Portsmouth, on a farm. where they remained until the winter of 1863-4. February 24, 1864, he enlisted in Co. F. 27th O. V. I., at the age of nineteen and was mustered out July 11, 1865. He received a common school education. After returning from the war, he worked at butchering till 1873 when he went into the business for

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himself. In 1875, he became an itinerant preacher and in 1881 he entered the ministry of the United Brethren church and was ordained in 1883. He con- tinued to preach till 1885 when his health compelled him to give up the work. The field of his work as a minister was in Pike and Hamilton counties. In 1887, he again started in the meat business and has continued in it ever since.

He was married October 1, 1867, to Mary Stoll, daughter of George and Barbara Stoll of Pike county, Ohio. Five children were born to them of whom four, all girls, are now living., the other a boy died in infancy. His daughters are: Martha Elizabeth, married George Rueppel; Anna Catherine, married Harry J. Butts; Mary Louisa married Doctor Charles D. Slagel. His fourth daughter is Emma Bertha at home.

Mr. Brandau is a republican and was elected Water Works Trustce, in April, 1899, which office he held for three years. .

Joseph H. Brant, Jr.,

was born near Lucasville, Ohio, in Scioto county, December 13, 1858. His father was Joseph Brant and his mother's maiden name was Susan Wilson. In 1864, when Joseph was six years old, his parents moved to Lucasville and he has resided there ever since. He received his education in the graded schools of Lucasvlile. In 1878, at the age of nineteen years, he was employed in Dr. B. G. Warwick's store at Lucasville, and after Dr. Warwick'ssdeath on June 14, 1880, he continued the business for his widow, Mrs. Mary Warwick, until Feb- ruary 1. 1894. In 1881, he was elected township clerk of Valley township and served for five years, when he refused to be a further candidate. He was presi- dent of the Board of Education, of his township and he served in that capacity for several years. Mr. Brant first voted the democratic ticket, but for the past ten years he has voted the republican ticket. He was married to Sarah C. Funk, July 26, 1881. They have two children: Clyde, born March 7. 1883, and Eva Crete, born April 20, 1885. Both are attending school at the Ohio Wesley- an University, at Delaware, Ohio. Mr. Brant connected with the Methodist Church about 1892. and is a trustee and steward. He moved to his present lo- cation May 20, 1895. and is starting in his twenty-fifth year of business. He is regarded as one of the best business men of his locality.

John T. Breece

President and General Manager of the Portsmouth Rim & Spoke Company, was born March 10, 1872, at Roundhead. Hardin Co .. Ohio, and is the son of George Breece, whose father was a native of Wales. His mother was Asenath (Tingle; Breece, and he was one of eight children. His father died when he was eleven vears of age, and when he was thirteen. his mother took him to Pottersburg, in Union county. They remained there until our subject was eighteen. From there he went to Bainbridge and formed a partnership with his brother, G. E. Breece, in the rim and spoke business in which he has been engaged ever since-three years at Bainbridge, one year at Latham, in Pike county, two years at Winchester, in Adams county, three years at Waverly. one year at. Otway, and from there he came to Portsmouth and organized and incorporated the Portsmouth Rim & Spoke Company, of which he is the chief stockholder.

He received only a common school education. He is a republican and an active member of the Sixth Street Methodist Episcopal church of Ports- mouth.

He was married April 30, 1890, at the age of twenty-one, to Jennie Miller, daughter of William Miller, near Latham. Pike county, Ohio. They have two boys; George W. aged seven and James Ernest. aged three. John T. Breece is wonderfully active and energetic. He is the architect of his own fortunes and has built them well. He has made a great success of his business.

One whose business and social relations have been very close with him for the last three years says, "he is the most even tempered man I ever knew; he is generous. enterprising, and cheerful. having the happy faculty of seeing the best side of all men. He is energetic, genial, temperate, and religious, also rich in his love for his fellow men."

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Julius Breslau

was born January 1, 1833 near the city of Breslau. Prussia. His father was Ben- jamin Breslau, a dress maker. In his boyhood he was apprenticed to learn the trade of a cap maker. At the age of twenty-one he and a companion embarked from Hamburg to New York. He landed there with the sum of seventy-three cents in his pocket He labored for two years on a farm in western Massach 1- setts, not far from Albany. He went to West Union. Adams county, in 1856, and became a peddler of merchandise, with headquarters at Peter Mckenzie's on Ohio Brush creek. In 1859 he began farming near Blue creek, which occupation he followed until 1882, when he moved to Peebles, Ohio, to engage in pork-pack- ing. In 1883, he went to Otway, Ohio, where he opened a general merchandise business in connection successively with J. W. Davis. Evan Thomas and George Ralstin. From 1891 to 1897, he was engaged in the timber business. In the lat- ter year he retired.

In 1861, he married Nancy Jones, a daughter of Andrew B. Jones, of Brush Creek township, Scioto county. He has had four children: Rosa, Zora, Myrtle and Thomas Herschel, the latter only surviving. His wife died in 1890. and he was married in 1893 to Phoebe McNeil, daughter of John S. McNeil. His second wife died in 1901.

In politics, he is a democrat. As a business man, he is careful energetic and honest. In his disposition, he is unassuming and agreeable. He is a chari- table, public spirited citizen, and enjoys the esteem of all who know him. The only surviving member of his family is Thomas H. a member of the firm of Breslau & Chabot, dealers in general merchandise, at Otway. He makes his home with his son and oversees his fruit farm of 40 acres, near Otway.

George Levi Bricker

was born March 26, 1858, at Lucasville. Ohio. His father was Henry Bricker, a native of Columbiana county, and his mother's maiden name was Mary A. Mur- phy, daughter of Arnold Murphy. also a native of the same county. He was the sixth in a family of eight children. He received a common school education and began teaching when nineteen years of age. He worked on the farm in summer and taught during the winter months for twenty-two years. In 1899, he began as a clerk for Martindale & Edmunds. and has been with them since. On June 11, 1885, he was married to Eliza Ellen Ward. daughter of Thomas Ward. They have two children: Mary Pearl and Otto Cleve. He is a re- publican, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and a Blue Lodge Mason.

Mr. Bricker possesses the happy faculty of adapting himself to any and every situation. He can take up anything and succeed in it. He taught school in Valley township for fifteen years and stood at the head of his profession.

Aaron Anthony Briggs

was born November 29, 1853 in Clay township, the son of John Kinney Briggs, and Mary Miller, his wife. He received a common school education. and was brought up a farmer. He married first Sabina Cole, a daughter of George W. Cole, March 3, 1881. They had two children. Alfred M .. and Frank A. She died November 22, 1888. He was married February 26. 1890. to Norah T. Jones a daughter of Luther R. Jones. They have three children. Margaret, Beulah and Helen. Mr. Briggs is a republican. He is a member of the Oldtown Methodist Episcopal church. and not a fraternity man. He is positive in his views and convictions on all subjects. His ambitions are satisfied in being a good neighbor and a good citizen.

William M. Briggs

was born near Portsmouth, Ohio, December 5. 1857. His father was Henry Briggs, son of Saintel C. Briggs. His mother's maiden name was Anne E. Noel. daughter of Aaron Noel. His grandmother Briggs was a Timbrook. When he was ten years of age. his father, a farmer. moved to Daviess county, Missouri. His father had ten children, and our subject was the oldest of seven daughters and three sons. Our subject returned to Scioto county in 1878. and remained until 1888. In this period he was engaged in various mercantile businesses. In May, 1883, he began working for M. B. Gilbert & Company and remained

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with them and their successors until 1888. From 1888 until 1895, he was en- gaged in merchandising in Kansas. In 1895, he went to work with M. B. Gil- bert & Company, and remained with them until January 1, 1900, when they be- came a stock company, and he is now a stockholder and travels for the house. April 28, 1888, he was married to Ida Buckhold. He has two children: Warren, born March 10, 1890, and Maurice, born July 20, 1892. He is a republican, a Ma- son and a member of the United Commercial Travelers. He is a first class business man and is progressive in every respect.

William Corydon Brouse

was born March 22, 1849, in Scioto county. Ohio. His father was James Samp- son Brouse and his mother Adah Jane Baldridge, daughter of John Baldridge and Zillah Cole, his wife. John Baldridge lived and died in Adams county, ad- joining Joel Treber. He is a descendant of Ephraim Cole, a Revolutionary sol- dier, an account of whom is found under the title of Revolutionary Soldiers in this work. His grandfather, John Brouse, was one of the first settlers. He was a blacksmith and also kept a horse mill near Sugar Grove school house. His father, James S. Brouse, died November 21, 1854, and his mother in 1883, at the age of eighty.

Our subject had a common school education and attended E. W. Smith's Commercial School, in Portsmouth, Ohio. He has been a farmer all his life, and has lived in the house he was born in or in sight of it all the time. He is a republican and a member of the Bethel Methodist Church near the Infirmary.

He was married March 25, 1873, to Eliza A. Veach, daughter of Doc- tor Charles Veach and Elizabeth Burriss, his wife. They have had two children: Adah May, the wife of Fred Becker, and James Stanley, who died at the age of four years.

Mr. Brouse is a good citizen, highly esteemed by his neighbors and tries to live according to his professions.

Charles Carroll Brown

was born near Laurel, Clermont county, Ohio, June 9, 1847, the son of Enoch G. Brown and Susan Fisher, his wife. His maternal great-grandfather, Adam Fisher, a Revolutionary soldier, of German birth, came to this country in 1742, and settled in Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.

Our subject's maternal grandfather, Hon. David Fisher, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1794. He came from Pennsylvania down the Ohio river and landed at the mouth of the Scioto and raised one crop and them removed to Limestone, Kentucky, and remained there a few years, then came to Ohio, about 1798, and located in Clermont county. He was mar- ried in Clermont, Ohio, April 7, 1814, to Nancy Byrne, whose father was a com- missioned officer under General Pulaski, and was an own cousin of Charles Car- roll of Carrollton. In 1842 and 1843 David Fisher represented Clermont, Brown, and Clinton counties in the State Legislature. From 1847 to 1849, he represent- ed the Second District of Ohio, composed of Butler, Preble, Darke, Warren, Clinton and others in Congress. He died May 8, 1886, aged ninety-two.

Enoch G. Brown, the father of our subject, was a native of Clermont county, Ohio. He was a distant relative of Alexander Hamilton. He was a farmer and a merchant. He came to Scioto county to live with his son, our subject, about 1889, and died in Portsmouth in 1891.

Our subject passed his boyhood and youth in Clermont county and at- tended the Amelia public schools. At the age of eighteen, he ran away from home and went to the war. He enlisted in Company I, 184th O. V. I., Jan. 31, 1865, and was discharged September 20, 1865. After returning from the army, he attended Parker's Academy in Clermont county for four years, and com- menced teaching in 1868 and continued that occupation until 1874. In June, 1874, he was appointed mail agent on the river from Cincinnati to Portsmouth. In that same year, he was transferred to Chicago and remained there six months. He was then transferred to the Ohio and took his old position where he remained until 1885. He was then transferred to the C. P. & V. Railroad as mail clerk and served two years, or until 1887. In November, 1886, he took charge of the Portsmouth Steam Laundry and continued to conduct it until July, 1901, when he sold out. In 1898, he ran for Mayor, but was defeated on

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account of the "Ripper Bill." He is a republican and has always been prominent in county and state politics. He has attended several District and State conven- tions, in particular a Congressional convention, which nominated Hon. H. S. Bundy for Congress the last time and the following one which nominated Hon. L. J. Fenton. He was a Congresssional delegate in Clermont county when he was twenty one years old.

September 11, 1877, he was married to Nannie M. Power, daughter of James C. Power, a former well known steamboat owner. Their children are: J. C. Power Brown, now private secretary to C. S. Fee, General Passenger and Ticket Agent at St. Paul, Minn .; Nannie Mary, wife of Guy V. Williams; Charles C. Jr., shipping clerk at the Heer Shoe Factory, and David Fisher, a school boy.

Mr. Brown is one of the most genial and courteous of men, always ready to do his part in any good work for the public good. He makes friends where- ever he is known and they remain such. He has always been a good neighbor and a good citizen.

Charles Wesley Brown,

son of Milton W. Brown and Sarah Wood, his wife, was born October 7, 1862. His education was that of the common schools. At the age of eighteen in the year 1880, he went to California for his health, and spent one year in the Sacramento valley, then he spent one year at Honolulu. He returned to Scioto county, in 1883, and worked for his father on the farm for four years. In 1886, he was married to Miss Etta Stockham, the youngest daughter of Har- vey Stockham. He has two children: Joseph Mills, born in 1887 and Charles Wesley, born April 14, 1896. He lives on the Little Scioto on the M. W. Brown farm, better known as the Bowers farm of one hundred and twenty-one acres. He is a stock raiser and dairyman. He makes butter and sells it in the city of Portsmouth. He is a prosperous dairyman, and calls his farm "Woodlawn." He is a member of the Methodist Protestant church at Scioto, and has been superintendent of the Sunday school. He is active, energetic and enterprising in everything he undertakes. He is the steward of his church. In his political faith he is a strong republican. He is a force and power in the community, and will be so long as he survives.

Charles Sumner Brown

was born near Locust Grove, Ohio, August 18, 1876. His father was William H. Brown, a son of Hugh Brown who came from Virginia to this county during its early history. William Brown's mother was Margaret Newman a daughter of Christopher Newman, one of the early settlers in the vicinity of Rarden. The mother of Charles Sumner Brown was Mary Jane Leighly, daughter of Philip and Rebecca (Lewis) Leighly, of Adams county, Ohio. Philip Leighly was a native of Armstrong county, Pennsylvania. At the age of sixteen, he emigrated to Ohio and settled near Blue Creek, in Adams County, where he married Rebecca Lewis, daughter of William Lewis.

At the age of eighteen, our subject became a teacher in the public schools of the county, but after being engaged in this profession for two years, he gave up teaching to enter the employ of the Rarden Stone Company as book-keeper. He later served in the same capacity for L. Taylor and assisted In the management of Mr. Taylor's cooperage and stone interests. At the open- ing of the year, 1900 he became a partner in the Taylor Cooperage Company and two years later formed a partnership with Mr. Taylor in the lumber and timber business under the firm name of The Taylor-Brown Timber Company. Mr. Brown is a firm believer in the policies and principles of the republican par- ty and manifests a deep interest in both local and national politics. Though a young man, our subject by an earnest effort, has established a reputation of being a thorough and practical man. He is honest, upright and persevering, has an active mind, a clear judgment and an independence of spirit that per- vades all his actions.

Edgar W. Brown,

son of Milton W. Brown and Sarah Wood, his wife, was born December 12, 1873. He had a common school education, was brought up on his father's farm,

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and has always been a farmer. At the age of seventeen years he took a one- third interest with his father, and worked for three years. Then he took a one-lialf interest and worked from 1893 to 1899. In the latter year he bought out his father on the Squire's farm, and has given it the name of "Browndale" farm. He has two hundred and one acres, and conducts a dairy farm. He was married August 8, 1893 to Mary A. Mckenzie. a daughter of David Mckenzie, a farmer of Madison township. They have two children: Milton Wesley, born May 29, 1894, and Earl Mckenzie, born March 2, 1898. He is a member of the Scioto Methodist Protestant church, and superintendent of the Sunday school of that church. In his political views he is a republican. He has all the family traits in as pronounced a degree as exhibited in his father, and whatever he un- dertakes he does with all his strength. He is noted for his energy, industry. and his strict attention to business, and when he is called to show up his bal- ance on the last day, it will all be on the credit side.

Frank L. Brown

was born in New Castle. Pennsylvania, August 3, 1849. His parents were Na- thaniel Ellicott Brown and Jane Squier, his wife. When he was eight years of age, his parents removed to Cleveland, Ohio. He attended the public schools there and afterwards his parents removed to Youngstown and from there to Portsmouth, Ohio. On October 11, 1870, he was married to Miss Ellen Louise Varner, daughter of Samson Edgar and Maria Louise Varner of Portsmouth. After his marriage he went to Paducah, Kentucky. where he was connected with the Southern Rolling Mill. In 1872, he moved north and finally settled in Youngstown, Ohio, where he was connected with the Brown Bonnell Rolling Mill until 1900, when he was elected mayor of the city of Youngstown. He served one term, was re-elected and is now serving his second term. Of his three children, only one is living, Natalie Varner Brown. He resides at 537 Bryson street, Youngstown, Ohio.

Frederick Matthew Brown

was born on a farm one mile east of Sciotoville, November 23, 1876. He is the son of John T. and Christina Brown. The maiden name of his mother who was twice married before, was Woolford. She is the granddaughter of Daniel Wool- ford, a soldier of the war of 1812, who moved to this county from Bath county, Virginia, in 1802. There is a family tradition that while this sturdy pioneer ancestor was away fighting for his country, his wife at home taking up her hus- band's work, went into the harvest field with a sickle and reaped a field of wheat. The original Brown stock also sprang from Virginia. His great-grand- father, Robert Brown, migrated west about the year 1797, coming down the Ohio on a flatboat to the old disembarking point of Limestone, now Maysville, Kentucky, and settled first in Montgomery county, Kentucky. Some time sub- sequent to 1812, he moved to a farm opposite Sciotoville, in Kentucky, where he died. His son, William, father of John T., kept the first store ever opened in Sciotoville. He was elected county Surveyor in 1846, 1853 and 1856. After- wards he moved to his farm opposite Sciotoville, where he died.

Our subject attended the public schools of Sciotoville and at eighteen years of age, engaged in teaching in the schools of the county. As a teacher, he is painstaking in his work. He insists on system and accuracy in his pupils. His great aim is to teach them how to think and in thinking to reach always the safest conclusions. He is also engaged in the study of law. In politics, he is a republican. Either by reason of circumstances or a natural disposition, he has the qualities of self reliance and determination. His habits are good and he possesses a high sense of honor. It matters not what positions he may hold in life, he will be a useful citizen and a credit to his community.

Mrs. Harriet E. Brown,

daughter of John D. Feurt and Maria Oldfield, his wife, was born May 5, 1847, on the old Feurt farm in Clay township. Her father was a son of Gabriel Feurt, who was one of the pioneers of Alexandria. Her mother was a daughter of Col. William Oldfield, a sketch of whom is found elsewhere in this book.

Mrs. Brown was married to William Peters, December 25, 1867, and to them were born three sons and three daughters, all of whom are living. Lillian

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married Frank Oakes; Berdie married Frang Gasele; May married Charles Cole. The sons are Howard, Clifford and Arthur. Mr. Peters died April 30, 1882, and Mrs. Peters was again married to Mr. T. J. Brown, August 15, 1889, and now lives near Haverhill, Ohio. Mrs Brown is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is held in the highest esteem by all who know her.

Henry Asbury Brown,

son of Milton W. Brown and Sarah Wood, his wife was born March 1, 1858, in Scioto county. He attended the common schools in the vicinity of his home, the Portsmouth High School two years, and was one year at Lebanon. He was a teacher of the country schools for two years, and then he attended the Ohio State University for two years, and left at the end of his junior year in 1881. In that year he became a farmer in Scioto county, and continued that oc- cupation until 1883. He was married February 15, 1882, to Miss Hattie Ackley, at Athens, Ohio.

In 1883, he moved to Ennis, Texas, and kept books for the M. T. Jones Lumber Company for four years; and then, at the invitation of his father, who gave him 80 acres of land, came back and took charge of said farm, known as the Wood farm. He continued this occupation until 1894, when he went into the farming implement business in the city of Portsmouth, with his father, as M. W. Brown & Son. He remained in that business until 1898, with his father, and one year longer by himself. In 1899, he sold out his business to David Stah- ler, and then began traveling for the Deering, Harvester Co .. and is now so engaged. After accepting employment with that company, he resided in Athens Ohio, a short time and since then in Zanesville.

In his political views he is a Republican, and a member of the Presbyter- ian Church. He has the following children: Ernest Walter, born May 1, 1883, now telegraph operator at Zanesville; Fletcher Louis, born September 2, 1836, a school boy; Harry Ackley, born September 3, 1892, a school boy. Mr. Brown is a first class business man, and has all the energy, enterprise and industry he inherited from his father and a surplus besides.

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A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 118

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