A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 123

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 in 1860, to Julia Ann Conley. She died in November 1862, leaving one son Samuel, who resides near Kelley's Mill. Andrew J. was married the second time to Lucinda Boldman on September 4, 1872, and has had six children: Alice, married Amos Mullan, and resides in Union township; Anna; Walter, who is engaged at Reitz's quarry; Myrtle, died at seventeen years; Harry, working for The American Telephone Line; Her- bert, working for the same company; Gertrude, died at four years. Our subject has been constable and was school director for fifteen years. He is a mem- ber of the Christian church. During the war he was a democrat, but since that time has been a republican.

Edward Coriell

son of Abraham and Mary (White) Coriell was born November 17, 1851. His mother was a daughter of Daniel White, a pioneer of Scioto county. Our sub- ject was born in the First National bank building, which stood where the Washington hotel now stands in Portsmouth, Ohio. His father Abraham Cor-

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iell was a native of Portsmouth, Ohio, and by trade a watchmaker and jeweller with whom his son, Edward, learned his trade. On completing the lasty grade of the grammar department he was sent to college at Wilmington, Ohio, where he studied during the year of 1868 and 1869, at the end of which time he came back to Portsmouth and entered the Recorder's office as deputy. Here he was employed from 1869 to 1874 under three different Recorders. The following year he began the jewelry business for himself and continued up to 1899. He or- ganized the Second Scioto Building and Loan Association Company in 1885 and has been its secretary and treasurer since. He has held a Notary's commission for the past thirty years, and is an equal partner with J. F. Strayer under the firm name of Coriell & Strayer in the Fire Insurance business.

While a member of the Republican party, he is thoroughly in sympathy with the prohibition movement.

He was married June 14, 1873, to Anna Price of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Their children are: Edward C., a jeweller at Nevada, Ohio; Charles S .; Wal- ter S., Otto Y., shoeworkers; Mabel A., married to David A. Noel, a farmer.

William Brown Coriell

was born in Harrison township, Scioto county, Ohio, May 23, 1843. His fath- er was Ira Coriell, and his mother's maiden name was Sirena White, a daugh- ter of Daniel White, and a granddaughter of Abel White. His grandfather Elias Coriell settled in this county from New Jersey about eighty years ago. Our subject has one brother Alfred J., living in Harrison township; a sister, Mrs. Farney, residing at Sciotoville and another sister, Mrs. Harriet Wilcox , de- ceased. He was educated in the common schools, and was brought up to be a farmer. In 1867, he was a contractor on the pike from Sciotoville to Munn's Run. In 1868 he built a pike up Salt Lick in Lewis county, Kentucky.

He was married January 19, 1868, to Miss Ann Amelia Crull, a daughter of David Crull, who was a son of Judge Samuel Crull. They had the following children: Hattie May, married Dr. T. H. McCann of Adams county, O., in 1895, and died in 1896; Charlie died in his eighteenth year; Lida B., marred Dr. T. H. McCann on November 28, 1901; Ella, married Charles E. Hayward, living in Vernon township; Frankie, died in infancy; Louis A., married to America Mans- field, living on the Folsom farm; Edward H., married Ella R. Gemp; Ira and Henry at home. His wife died August 6, 1901.

He had been Trustee of the township for two years, and Treasurer of Har- rison township for five years. He has been interested in the Scioto Fire Brick Company for ten years last past. He was a stock holder and director one year. Mr. Coriell has always been a republican. He was a delegate to the State Re- publican Convention of 1891, when President Mckinley was first nominated for Governor of Ohio. He is a member of the Christian church. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias of Harrisonville. He owns a farm in Madison township of 150 acres, one in Green township of 180 acres, and has 300 acres in his home farm, which is four miles on the Harrisonville Pike. He is an ideal citizen, careful, conscientious, industrious and capable. He is and has been from early life a success, a man of pure and exalted worth, a truly honored and honorable gentleman.

Edward James Corson

was born January 13, 1845, at Jasper, Pike county, Ohio. His father, Joseph Corson, was then a practicing physician at that place. His mother's maiden name was Martha Hyde Cutler daughter of Jonathan and Persis Cutler. When Edward was a year old his father removed to the city of Philadelphia. When he was three years of age his father removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, where he re- mained until his death. Edward attended the Portsmouth schools until 1859, and then went to Dr. Locke's school at Norristown, Pennsylvania, for one year. In the fall of 1861 he went to clerking in the grocery business at Blake's cor- ner, on Second and Chillicothe, for W. H. Corson & Co. He remained there until May, 1864, when he enlisted in Company E, 140th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served until September 2, 1864, when he was discharged. When he returned from the army he was made assistant postmaster under Col. John Row and served four months. He went to traveling for A. W. Buskirk in the wholesale grocery business and remained in his employment for four years. In 1868, he began traveling for Damarin & Company, wholesale grocers and traveled for

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them for a period of fifteen years. In September, 1883, he began business as a retail grocer at the northeast corner of Second and Chillicothe streets, and has remained there in the same business to the present time.

He was married April 26, 1873 to Miss Ellen Louise Peck, daughter of the late Judge William V. Peck. He has had three sons; Allen Wright, died in 1878 at the age of four years; Louis Damarin, now in business with his father and George Walter aged eleven years. He is a republican, a communi- cant and vestryman of All Saints church. He is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine, an Elk and a member of the Royal Arcanum. He has never held any public office except as before noted. Mr. Corson is a gentleman whom it is always pleasant to meet. He has all those social quali- ties which make him an agreeable companion.

He infuses life and spirit in any enterprise he undertakes, and at the same time, he is conservative, prudent and careful. He has the natural busi- ness qualities of a safe trustee. With these characteristics he has made a suc- cess in his own business, and managed well every trust confided to him.

Frank Brown Mussey Corson

was born February 6, 1855, in Portsmouth, Ohio. His father was Dr. Joseph Corson and his mother was Martha Hyde Cutler, a daughter of Jonathan Cut- ler of Pike county. His father was reared a Quaker and was a member of the Plymouth meeting at Montgomery. There were three sons and one daughter of his family.

Our subject was brought up in Portsmouth. He left school at 18 and went into the shoe business of G. W. Anderson for two years. On October 11, 1877, he went into the employment of C. P. Tracy & Co., wholesale dealers in shoes. He became a partner in the firm on January 1, 1892. On December 1, 1901, the company was changed to a corporation. He then became a stockholder and a director. He has charge of all the men traveling for the company. He is a successful business man.

He is a communicant of All Saints church and has been a vestryman. He is a Blue Lodge and Chapter Mason, an Elk, and a member of the Royal Arcanum.

He was married January 31, 1877, to Mary Jane Hempstead Lodwick, daughter of John K. Lodwick. He has had two sons, one of whom died in in- fancy, and the other, Weston L. Corson, is traveling for the Portsmouth Shoe Company.

John William Craig

was born in Hardy county, Virginia, February 8, 1840. His father was Charles Craig, and his mother's maiden name was Nancy Hickey. When our subject was six years of age, he came with his parents to Scioto county, Ohio, and located on the Caldwell farm.

His grandfather Craig was in the Revolutionary war for seven years. He was from that part of Maryland in which Geogetown, D. C., is situated. He is buried at Geogetown.

Our subject resided on the Caldwell farm from the age of six to fourteen years with his parents. His father died in 1852, and his mother and the family went to Carlinville, Illinois. They were there for fourteen months and then came back and located in Washington township, where he resided until 1872, when he went to Brunswick, Missouri, and was there for eight months.

He enlisted in Battery L, First Ohio Light Artillery, November 5, 1861, for three years. He was appointed corporal December 24, 1862, and was appoint- ed sergeant October 30. 1864. He re-enlisted at the end of the three years and was mustered out July 4, 1865. He was in every one of the engagements in which the battery participated, a list of which appears under the title of Battery L 1st Ohio Light Artillery. The 'Squire says he never missed a meal in the army when he could get it. He was never sick, nor in the hospital. He never applied for a pension until 1899 when he asked it on account of his age. He is able to be about and attend to his business and looks to be as hearty a man as lives in the county. When he returned from the war he went to farming in Washington township, and with the exception of the time he went to Missouri, in 1872, he has been there ever since.

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He was Justice of the Peace in Washington township for two years and re- signed on account of the pressure of other business. He has been Trustee of the township for four different terms. He is a republican in his political views and has always been such, but never an office seeker or politician. On January 1, 1866, he was married to Armina V. Macnamar, a native of Virginia. Her parents moved to Pennsylvania when she was four years old and then came to Ohio and located in Scioto county. They have had seven children as follows: Charles, who died at four years of age, Lily, John W., Jr., George E., Orson Franklin, (died at thirteen years,) Austin and Lora Emma. None of his children are mar- ried.

The 'Squire, as he is best known, is a man of powerful physique. He could overcome an enemy by falling on him, but he is one of the best natured men who ever lived. As a soldier he was one of the best. He was always ready for rations, or battles, whichever offered. He never made any complaints and took all events in his army service as a matter of course. He makes as good a citizen as he did a soldier, and when he receives the final call he will respond with as much earnestness and bravery as he did the "assembly" in the late civil war.

Charles Craigmiles

was born at Franklin furnace in Scioto county, Ohio, June 17, 1849. His father, of the same name, was a native of Ireland, as was his mother, Rebecca Hamil- ton. His father and mother were married in Ireland and emigrated to America in 1848. They located in Adams county, near Vaughn chapel, but his father, be- ing an iron founder moved to Franklin furnace shortly before his son Charles' birth.

Our subject was reared at Franklin, Junior and Ohio furnaces, as his fa- ther was employed at all three. The son went to school until he was ten years of age when he went to work pounding lime at Empire furnace. In 1860, his father removed to Adams county and lived there two years on the Ellison place, near Stone Chapel. In 1862, the father removed to Junior furnace and resided there until 1865, when he removed to Marion county. Illinois. From there he went to Brownsport furnace, Tennessee. The family came back to Ohio and located at Ohio furnace in 1867. Our subject remained at Ohio furnace until 1878. In 1877, he was married to Medora A. Foster, daughter of James Foster, of Killenstown. Adams county. In 1878, he located in Portsmouth, Ohio, where he has since resided.

When he first went to Portsmouth, he drove a horse car for five months. He then went into the employment of the Portsmouth Transfer Company for three years, at the end of which time, he took an inerest in the business. He and Mr. Frank B. Kehoe conducted the business under the name of The Ports- mouth Transfer Company for eleven years. In 1894, he bought Mr. Kehoe's in- terest and since has conducted the business alone. He keeps moving-vans and transfers all kinds of goods and merchadise. He has twelve teams and his place of business is on Washington street in the city of Portsmouth, Ohio. He has seven children, five daughters and two sons. He has always been a republican. From April, 1897, to April 1899, he was Street Commissioner of Portsmouth, Ohio. and never held any other office. He is known to and respected by every one in Portsmouth as an honorable man and a good citizen. He has always prospered and it is because he conducts his business on right principles. He is a public spirited citizen, always ready to do his part in any matter for the public good.

John Phillip Albert Cramer

was born in Winterlest, Westphalia, Germany, May 13, 1831. His father was Joseph Cramer and his mother was Teresa Pulte both natives of Westphalia. The eminent Doctor Pulte, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was a relative of his and met him in Cleveland on his arrival in this country in 1852. Doctor Pulte secured him employment as a railroad agent first in Cleveland and afterwards in Crestline. He came to Portsmouth in 1856, as express messenger on the Scioto & Hocking Valley railroad. He served in that capacity but a short time and then became local agent for the Adams Express Company and Harnden Express Company. He held that position fifteen years.

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In 1858, he was married in Chillicothe, O., to Miss Louise Crone daughter of George Crone the first German citizen of Chillicothe. In 1868, he engaged in business with Edward J. Kenrick, as Kenrick & Cramer, in the manufacture and sale of mineral waters. He was engaged in this business until February 5, 1882, the date of his death. He died of consumption and took the disease from exposure to acids in the course of his business. His widow survives. They had the following children: Emma, a teacher in the Portsmouth High School; Al- bert, in Ellamon, Alaska; Caroline, widow of Wimer Folsom; Anna, teacher of music; Lucy, wife of Robert Baker; William, foreman in the Norfolk & Western car shops. Mr. Cramer was a communicant of St. Mary's Roman Catholic church, while his wife and children were Lutherans. He was always a republi- can, and as such was a trustee of the Water Works from 1876 to 1879. He was highly respected for his sterling qualities. He was noted for his integrity and his faithfulness to his trust in every position. His accounts were always cor- rect. He was a first class business man and had the confidence of all with whom he had business connections.

Benjamin Cranston

was born June 6, 1856. His father was Jeremiah Cranston, and his mother was Abigail Dautremont. His grandfather was Judge Edward Cranston, who bas a sketch herein. His father had six children of whom he was the third. He was born at Wheelersburg, Scioto county, Ohio, and attended school there till he be- came ninteen years of age. He then attended a commercial school in Pitts- burg, Pennsylvania, for one winter. After leaving the commercial school he went into his father's woolen mill at Wheelersburg, Ohio, and learned that busi- ness. From 1879 to 1888, he was in the state of Oregon and the territory of Washington. In the latter year he returned to Wheelersburg and engaged with his brother James J. in the merchandising business until 1896. Then he bought the old Cranston woolen mill and operated it one year. In 1897, he disposed of the woolen mill machinery and turned the business into a flouring mill which he has continued to operate till the present time. He was married May 15, 1884, to Miss Alma daughter of Delmont Locke. He is a member of the Royal Ar- canum and is a model citizen. He has been successful in all his undertakings.

James Jeremiah Cranston

was born June 18, 1862, at Wheelersburg, Ohio. His father was Jeremiah Crans- ton, and his mother's maiden name was Abigail Dautremont. His grandfather was Judge Edward Cranston. Our subject was reared at Wheelersburg, and had a common school education. From the time he was nineteen years of age until he was thirty-five he was engaged in operating a woolen mill in Wheelersburg. He was engaged as a merchant in Wheelersburg for ten years, until 1900. Since then he has been a farmer on "dogwood ridge," and has conducted a dairy. He was married November 6, 1885 to Miss Addie N. Merrill, daughter of John P. Merrill. They have three children: Louis Pearl, Jessie Lee, Effie Cadot. He has always been a republican. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge and Knights of Pythias at Wheelersburg, Ohio.

Mr. Cranston by sterling integrity and application has established a repu- tation second to none in the business circle with which he associates. He sus- tains the fair name of his ancestry in this respect.

He takes much interest in public affairs and his support is always given to measures that will promote the welfare of his community. His well known in- dependence of character and sound judgment give him an influence that is not confined to his immediate neighborhood. He is particularly domestic in bis nature.

Jackson Cropper

was born at Esculapia Springs, Lewis county, Kentucky, October 11, 1862. His father was Wheatley Cropper, a native of Maryland, and his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Frame. His mother was born in Brown county, Ohio. His grandfather, George Cropper, was in the Indian war from 1791 to 1794. He had one daughter killed by the Indians. He had been a Revolutionary soldier. Our subject spent the early part of his life in Kentucky, and had a common school education. He came to Portsmouth at the age of nineteen years and was employed about saw-mills until 'he was twenty-seven years of age. He was en-

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gaged in the grocery business for three years and since then has been engaged in the liquor trade, except from 1898 to 1900, when he was Fire Chief. He was a member of the City Council in 1897 and 1898. He is a democrat in his po- litical views. He was married May 19, 1882 to Katie C. Bostwick, daughter of Sumpter Bostwick. He has had nine children, of whom Clarence, Ethel, Isabel, Clara, and Thomas W. are living. Mr. Cropper is now engaged in business at New Boston.

Allen Dorsey Crossland

was born June 29, 1835, at Connellsville, Fayette county, Pa. His father was Richard Crossland a native of Ellicott's Mills, Anne Arundel county, Md. His mother was Rebecca Strawbridge. His grandfather, Richard Crossland, was in the battle of Stony Creek under Capt. Barnes, of Maryland in the war of 1812, and received a land warrant on account of his services, and located eighty acres near Springfield, Ill.

Our subject had a common school education. He left Connellsville at the age of eighteen. He was a farmer as was his father. He came down on the Al- leghany landed at Ironton, and was examined for teaching at Ironton by Ralph Leete. He taught at Cutright's Mills, South Point, where Gen. Sam Thomas was a pupil, and at Lawrence Furnace, where Cambridge Clark was a pupil. He taught also at Kelley's Mills. While there he bought the mills with Wiley Baldwin, of Tennessee, and H. W. Davidson. He was there until he mar- ried. He sold out the mill to John Smith, and moved to Franklin furnace, and was in the store with Elias Crandall at Empire furnace. He was married in 1857, at Powellsville, by Rev. Daniel Tracy to Miss Sarah Ellen Barnet. He went to housekeeping at Powellsville.

He enlisted in the 91st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company F, July 22, 1862, at the age of twenty-seven, as Second Lieutenant, for three years. He was promoted to First Lieutenant and Reg't'l Quartermaster Feb. 8, 1863. In September, 1865 he went to Jackson and engaged in selling clothing, and contin- ved that until 1869. He then went as a salesman on the road and kept at that until 1872. He was then appointed in the postal service on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad from Grafton to Cincinnati and served seven years. He was then appointed special inspector of Customs at Montreal, Canada, which he continued until 1882. He lost his health there and was transferred to the United States Marine Hospital service located at Parkersburg, and was there until 1884. Then he went in the Roster Department of the Adjutant General's office and remained there until James E. Campbell came in as Governor. After that he went into the notion business, which he continued until March, 1890, when the Citizens' Build- ing & Loan Associaton of Jackson, Ohio, was organized, and he was made sec- retary, and has been such ever since.

He has always been a republican. He is a member of the Grand Army. The following are his children: Louella, died at the age of nineteen years; Mar- garet, wife of John L. Davies, superintendent of the coal works at Chattanooga, Tenn., Edward E., salesman for McKeehan & Hiestand, at Hillsboro, O .; Anna L., wife of Nara White. of Jackson. O .; Samuel C., residing in Jackson, is in the dry goods business with D. C. Martin; Blanche, stenographer; John D., em- ployed at the Union Grocery Company at Hillsboro, O .; Jesse, at home. His first wife died March 31, 1885, and he was married the second time to Mrs. Rosa Sherwood, nee Reigel, November 18, 1888. There is one child of this marriage, Lillian.

Mr. Crossland has a kind and sympathetic disposition. He is industrious and enterprising in his business and a patriotic and public spirited citizen. He is a good neighbor, a friend who can be trusted and a man who has many friends and few enemes.

Samuel Hammet Crull

was born October 27, 1841, the son of Samuel Crull and Sally Dodge, his wife, daughter of Daniel Dodge. He is the grand son of Judge Samuel Crull, sketched herein. His father and mother had seven children, Thomas J., deceased; John A., died unmarried; Samuel H., our subject; John R., deceased, who was a mem- ber of Company F, 140 O. V. I .; William L .. deceased; Lydia J., deceased, the first wife of the late David Richardson and Elizabeth J., who died in childhood. Mr. Crull had only a common school education and was brought up a farmer. He enlisted in Company F, 140th O. V. I., May 2, 1864, and served until Sep. 3,

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1864. There were five persons of his name in the company. His brother Thomas J., enlisted in Company A, 39th O. V. I., and was a sergeant. He was transferred to Company F, February 24, 1864, and was mustered out August 12, 1864. He was married to Caroline Stockham, daughter of Joseph Harvey Stockham, Dec. 20, 1866, and she died June 7, 1870. Mr. Crull ever since his return from the army has been a farmer, residing a few rods from Harrisonville, on the Long Run road almost on the spot where he was born. His maiden sister, Julia A., and he reside together. He is a radical republcan, and is not a fraternity man. He enjoys the respect and confidence of all who know him, is on good terms with all his neighbors, and takes life easy.

Mr. Crull is a gentleman of sterling worth and is held in high esteem by all of his neighbors. He is generous to a fault and is ever ready to lend a help- ing hand to the needy. He is a law-abiding and exemplary citizen and in his business as a farmer he ranks among the best in his methods and business principles.

William J. Crull

was born in Scioto county, Ohio, September 16, 1836. His father was John H. Crull and his mother's maiden name was Sally Squires. He was raised on a farm and educated in the common schools with the exception of a term in the University at Delaware, Ohio. After leaving school he taught school and clerk- ed in a store for about five years, when he opened out a store for himself in Harrisonville, Ohio. He sold out his store and moved to a farm in Clinton coun- ty, Indiana, in the spring of 1880, engaged in farming and has been a farmer ever since.

He enlisted in Company F, 140th O. V. I. May 2, 1864, as a private and served until September 3, 1864, when he was mustered out with the company. In politics, he is a republican. He cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln for President, in 1860. In 1878, he was married to Emma D. Allen, in Colfax, In- diana. They have two sons: Finton A., born March 30, 1882, graduated from the Frankfort, Indiana, High School, in 1901 and William J., born December 5, 1886, a school boy.

Henry H. Cuppett

was born August 22, 1841, Preston county, W. Va., the son of Daniel Cuppett, whose father, Adam Cuppett, came to W. Va. from Beaver Pa. Adam Cuppett was a "Pennsylvania Dutchman" and spoke the language of his father. His mother was Mary Scott, a daughter of John Scott, a Revolutionary soldier. Nothing is known of his record except that he was a prisoner on board a prison ship at Halifax, N. S.

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A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 123

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