A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 126

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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Theodore Doty

was born October 26, 1844, in Ross county, Ohio, the son of John M. Doty, a prominent democrat politician. His mother's maiden name was Sarah H. Jones. Until the age of 15 he attended the schools of Chillicothe. At he age of 21 years he entered the employ of the B. & O. Railroad Company at Chillicothe, and re- mained in its employ till 1886, when he came to Portsmouth Ohio, and became freight agent of the Scioto Valley Railway Company and is holding the same position under the Norfolk & Western Railway Company. In 1893, he was presi- dent and one of the directors of the Scioto Fire Brick Company, of Sciotoville. Ohio. He was president of the Scioto County Agricultural Society for the years from 1890 to 1892. He was president of the Board of Trade from 1896 to 1901. He was a member of the City Council in 1896 and 1897, and was a member of the City. Board of Education from 1898 to 1899. He was president of the Garfield Club from 1893 to 1894.

He was brought up a democrat, but when he came of age he became a republican and was active in political circles in Chillicothe while he lived there, and has been prominent in his party ever since his residence in Portsmouth. He has served on the Republican Executive Committee of his county. He is a Ma- son, Past Eminent Commander of Calvary Commandery, Knights Templar and a Past Exalted Ruler of the Elk lodge at Portsmouth.

He married Miss Martha E. Weaver, July 9, 1868, and has six children: Frank, Harry, Lucien and Charles; Elizabeth, wife of J. I. Hudson, superinten- dent of the Portsmouth Public Schools, and Edith, wife of Addison Minshall, a young lawyer of Chillicothe, Ohio. Mr. Doty is one of the foremost and most energetic citizens of Portsmouth. When any public enterprises are proposed he is always to the front and ready to do all he can for the public good.

Thomas W. Doty

was born at Clinton Furnace, Scioto county, Ohio, April 10, 1847. His father was William Doty, and his mother's maiden name was Emeline Swarr. His parents were married in the year 1836. He attended the district schools at Etna Fur- nace and Ohio Furnace. At the age of seventeen, he left school and went to work and worked till he was twenty-one years of age. He attended school at Lebanon when he was twenty-two years of age for one year. He returned to Ohio furnace and became the overseer of the ore banks until he was twenty-eight years of age. Then for a year he was engaged in hauling ore for the Ohio fur- nace. He took charge of the Ohio furnace store in March, 1877, and held the po- sition till September, 1878. From 1878 to 1882, he was foundryman of the same furnace. He was then foundryman of Vernon furnace for one year. He re- turned to Ohio furnace in the spring of 1884, and took charge of the store which he retained till 1885. He was elected Treasurer of Green township in 1884, and held the office for fourteen consecutive years. In 1885 he became book-keeper of Ohio furnace and remained as such till 1895. From 1891 to 1895, he was aso manager of the furnace. In the latter year, his son, Lewis, took charge of the books, and he continued manager till his death on September 5, 1900.

He was married May 5, 1874, to Julia Maria Shepard, daughter of Lewis Cass Shepard, Ex-Sheriff of Lawrence county, Ohio and Julia Frances K. (Eid- well) Shepard, his wife. Mr. Shepard died in 1901. The children of Mr. Doty were: Lewis William, store keeper at New Castle, Lawrence county, Ohio; Oli-

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ver Perry, student of mining engineering at the Ohio State University at Colum- bus, Ohio; Alfred Spalding, store clerk at Otway, Ohio; Thomas W., engaged at New Castle, Ohio. Mr. Doty was a republican in his political views, was a strong supporter of his party, and as true as steel to his friends. While not a member of any church, he was a loyal supporter and regular attendant. He was benevolent to all, never turning away the needy without help. He was a member of the Masonic order and held his membership at Wheelersburg, Ohio. He was killed accidentally on a tramway at Ohio furnace.

Elmer Dover,

secretary to United States Senator, M. A. Hanna, was born April 14, 1873, at McConnelsville, Morgan county, Ohio, the son of J. W. Dover and Frances (Winn) Dover. He received his education in the public schools of McConnels- ville. Immediately after finishing the course he entered the field as a newspa- per reporter in McConnelsville. He left there in 1890 and engaged in newspaper work at Akron, Ohio, where he remained two years. From there he came to Portsmouth, Ohio, and was employed on the Portsmouth Times for five years. He was with the Republican National Committee during the campaigns of 1896 and 1900. After the former campaign he became secretary to Senator M. A. Hanna, in which capacity he still serves.

He was married to Martha Steele Peebles, daughter of John Peebles, Jan- uary 25, 1898. They have one child Mary Elizabeth, born October 5, 1899. Our subject is a republican and a Presbyterian.

He is a young gentleman of the most versatile talents. He has demon- strated his ability to fill well one of the most difficult places in the government, that of secretary to Senator Hanna. Mr. Dover is a natural-born diplomat. He accords to every man the attention and consideration he deserves. There is no person mentioned in these pages whose life is more busy or active than his, nor are there any who deal with more complex and difficult questions, or who dis- pose of them more happily. Mr. Dover gives great promise of the highest suc- cess in political life.

Samuel Pangburn Drake

was born February 16, 1823, near Georgetown, Brown county, Ohio. He was raised on a farm until he was sixteen years of age. In 1839, he began his ca- reer as a printer on the Western Whig at Wilmington, Ohio, his brother Stephen being the owner of the paper and its founder. In 1840, he went to Hillsboro and was an apprentice of James Brown, publisher of the News. He finished his trade there and in 1843, he was in West Union as proprietor of The Intelligencer. He remained there but one year and then began teaching in a country school. He taught one year and then went back into the printing business.

In 1845 and 1846, there was an attempt to organize a new county to be called Massie of which Bainbridge should be the center and county seat. He went there and started the Ohio Spectator which was to be the Whig organ of the new county. Everybody within the limits of the proposed county wanted to run for office in it, and their jealousies killed the measure. Le Grand By- ington, a representative from Pike county, was to have put the bill through the legislature, but instead of that, he defeated it. When asked the reason of his unexpected action, he said that the people to be in the new county wanted everything, but did not want to pay for anything.

In 1848, Mr. Drake went to Washington. C. H., and started the Fayette Intelligencer. He sold out to George B. Gardner in less than one year and be- came foreman on the Clinton Republican at Wilmington. The next year he went to Georgetown and worked for W. B. Tomlinson on a newspaper there. In 1850, he was in Rainsboro, Highland county, keeping a country hotel. He remained there but a short time, and returned to Hillsboro and became fore- man on the News. He went from there to the Hillsboro Gazette owned by Jonas R. Emrie.

In the winter of 1851 and 1852, he came to Portsmouth, where his broth- er Stephen had recently started the Scioto Valley Republican. Sam Burwell, afterward of the West Union Scion was a journeyman in the office and Tom McAllister, now an inmate of the County Infirmary. the "devil." Our sub- ject afterwards went into partnership with his brother who went into the

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army and was killed by Mosby's men. He then conducted the paper alone. In May, 1864 at the age of forty-two years, he enlisted in Company G, 141st Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was mustered out with the company Septem- ber 3, 1864. On April 24, 1865, he became Second Lieutenant of the 198th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served until May 8, 1865, when he was mustered out.

He was elected Treasurer of Wayne township in 1867. The vote was 614 for Drake and 585 for John Thompson, better known as "Coal" Thompson and "Sawdust" Thompson. Drake served two terms and was legislated out of office by the township being abolished. May 27, 1869, he was appointed postmaster at Portsmouth, through personal friendship with General Grant, but owing to local influence, the appointment was withdrawn He was a deputy United States Mar- shal at one time, and as such took the census in Portsmouth. February 11. 1847, he was married to Miss Sophia Kelley, of Ross county. He was a meinber of the Sixth Street church, a whig, a republican and a member of the Bailey Post. He died December 5, 1891.

Ulysses Grant Drake

was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, March 29, 1868, the son of Samuel Pangburn and Sophia (Kelley) Drake. He was named for Grant on account of the close friendship between his father and the President. Our subject spent his boyhood and youth in Portsmouth and attended the public schools until he was fifteen years old, when he commenced working with his father in the printing office. He continued at this business until 1890, and then took charge of the business. He is a republican and a member of the First Baptist church and one of its deacons. On September 3. 1889 he was married to Miss Eliza Mathews, daughter of J. R. Mathews, foreman of the "ad" composing room of the Blade office. He has five children: Grace, Grant, Madeline, Mabel and Harry M. Mr. Drake is one of the most industrious young men in Portsmouth. He is a model for others in his business to follow. He leads an exemplary life, is liked by all who know him and is a model citizen.

Edgar F. Draper,

one of the twelve children of A. E. and Lorenda (Hodge) Draper was born Mch. 23, 1846, at Akron, Erie county, New York. His father was born in 1808 and was the youngest of a family of two sons and six daughters. His paternal grandfather, Gideon Draper, moved from eastern New York to the western part of the state in 1828. He was brought up on a farm till he was sixteen and at- tended the common schools. After studying two years in Genesee College, Lima, New York he came to Portsmouth, November 4, 1864 and learned railroading un- der his brother, W. C. Draper, who was Chief Agent for the Portsmouth branch of the Marietta and Cincinnati railroad.

He was appointed agent of this railroad at Jackson in February, 1865, and served there one year when he was sent to Portsmouth. He was ticket agent and telegraph operator here for this road until 1890, when it was known as the Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore. After leaving the railroad business he took up insurance and real estate. In 1892 he organized the Portsmouth German Building and Loan Association and has been its secretary and treas- urer since. He was treasurer of the Ohio Valley Agicultural Society many years and its secretary the last five years of its existence. From 1877 till 1893, and from 1895 to 1897, he was a member of the Board of Education and was its clerk from 1884 to 1886, and from 1888 to 1897, and its president in 1878-9.

He was married June 16, 1869, to Mary Ellen Adams, only daughter of El- mer W. Adams, a banker of North Canton, Connecticut, and Mary E. Smith, his wife, of Hatfield, Massachusetts. Her parents removed to Duquoin in south- ern Illinois shortly after their marriage, on account of the health of her father and purchased a large stock farm. Here Mrs. Draper was born. Her parents died before she was two years old and she was adopted by her mother's brother, a Presbyterian minister, then pastor of a church in Belpre, Ohio, and later of Oxford, New Hampshire, where most of her childhood and youth was spent. She was educated at the Western College at Oxford, Ohio, but received her musical training, chiefly in Boston, Massachusetts, where for seven years she was under the tutelage of the best masters. She came to Portsmouth in 1864 as organist

EDGAR F. DRAPER.

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at the First Presbyterian church and has been one of the leading organists in the city ever since. During all this time she has been prominent not only in a social way but in all worthy causes where a woman's aid and sympathy is need- ed. She has the most advanced ideas on the subjects of music, art and litera- ture.

Mr. Draper is a member of the Second Presbyterian church. He has al- ways been a republican. He is a Mason of long standing and a Past Presiding officer in all the Masonic bodies in the city. He always takes a great interest in any matters committed to his charge He was one of the most efficient mem- bers of the Board of Education the city ever had. The measures he proposed in the Board were adopted because they were well considered and for the best in- terests of the schools. Mr. Draper has managed the German Building and Loan Association of which he is secretary and treasurer with great fidelity, skill and ability and has made it one of the best in the city. He has acquired the use of the German language to a degree attained by few Americans. Mr. Draper has cultivated literary tastes and devotes as much time as possible to their culture. He is a gentleman of fine physical presence and appearance and great natural dignity. As a public speaker, Mr. Draper is calm, deliberate and argumentative. When he speaks he is master of his subject. One great characteristic of Mr. Draper is his love of children and his friendships for them. He never misses an opportunity to add to the pleasures of the little people of his acquaintance. While a member of the Board of Education he personally knew a majority of the school children in Portsmouth and children are his welcome friends and companions at all times.

William C. Draper

was born near Akron, Erie county, New York, March 17, 1832. He spent his early life on the farm owned by his father. A. E. Draper who was one of the pioneers of western New York. William C. received a common school educa- tion and took a select course at Genesee College, at Lima. New York. At the age of twenty. he came to Ohio and taught school several years in Ross and Jackson counties. At the latter place he married Harriet Cavett. They had one son and three daughters: Frank E., Jessie, Nellie and Hattie. His wife died in 1889, since which time he and his daughters kept house until his death which occurred April 1, 1902. In the year 1856. Mr. Draper was employed as conductor on what is known as the Baltimore & Ohio South-western rail- way. After serving in this capacity for quite a number of years, he was ap- pointed agent of the road at Portsmouth and remained until 1890.

Soon afterward he was elected County Treasurer and served two terms which was his last engagement in business. His health soon failed and after several years of suffering, he died. Mr. Draper was widely and favorably known throughout this section, and enjoyed the confidence of his friends, who were legion. He was true to his friends and possessed a strong fraternal feel- ing for his fellow-beings. seeing their good qualities and overlooking their bad qualities. He never could see distress without endeavoring to relieve it. He had no enemies and deserved none. He was a strong temperance advocate and took a lively interest in everything good for his adopted city. At the time of his death. he was one of the oldest members of the Bigelow Methodist Episcopal church in which he held official positions for more than thirty years, and was punctual in attendance upon all its services.

Irving Drew

was born at Rowley. Mass., July 27, 1849. His parents were Frederick Drew and Sarah G. Bailey, his wife. The ancestors of the Drews in this country first settled in New Jersey and afterwards moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. where the great-grandfather of Irving Drew. Samuel Drew. was born, his son being Joshua Drew, born in Durham, New Hampshire in 1793 and died in 1843. Frederick Drew, father of our subject was born at Durham, February 1. 1817 and died at Rowley. Massachusetts. October 17, 1896. His mother, Sarah G. Bailey, was a descendant of James C. Bailey, who came to Massachusetts about 1630. His descendants in a direct line were: John Bailey. Nathaniel Bailey. Dea- con David Bailey, Ezekiel Bailey, Ezekiel P. Bailey and Sarah G. Bailey Drew. the mother of Irving Drew.

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Frederick Drew remained in his native place until eighteen years of age and then removed to Rowley, Massachusetts. He was married there November 27, 1843, and came to Portsmouth in 1851, where he was foreman for R. Bell, and remained about nine months, then he returned to Massachusetts. In March, 1854, he again went west, this time taking his family and locating at Ironton, Ohio, where he was engaged in the retail shoe business until 1862. Then he went to Granville, Ohio, where he was in the retail shoe business and farmed a part of the time. In 1869, he came back to Portsmouth and en- gaged in the employ of R. Bell & Company.

Our subject worked in the shoe factory from 1869 to 1871. His father then associated himself with the firm of Rifenberick, Drew & Gregg who suc- ceeded to the manufacturing department of R. Bell & Company, with which he remained until January, 1874. Mr. Irving Drew then with others organized the Portsmouth Shoe Company of which he was secretary and treasurer and general manager. Henry Padan was president, William Koblens, vice president. The other stockholders were: George Padan, Henry Cook, Frederick Drew, John Bourgholtzer, Nicholas Ames, Nicholas Reeg, Valentine Pressler and William Bierley. The capital stock was $4,500. This company succeeded Rifenberick, Drew & Gregg. After a period of three years, Irving Drew and his father drew out of this company and left Henry Padan and others to operate it.

In January, 1877, Mr. Drew and his father organized the firm of Irving Drew & Company, composed of himself, his father, Bernard Damon and Henry Cook. They began operations in the third story of the Huston stone front on Second street and continued there for three years. About the close of the year 1879, the firm changed to Drew, Selby & Company. Mr. George D. Selby went into the firm, but did not take an active interest in it until 1885. From the organization of the Portsmouth Shoe Company in 1874 until 1885, Mr. Irving Drew was the managing spirit of the whole business. When Mr. Selby came into the business in 1885, Mr. Drew confined himself principally to buying and superintending the manufacturing department and Mr. Selby took charge of the correspondence, sales and credits. The success of this firm in business is re- lated under the article, "Drew, Selby & Company."

Mr. Drew was married to Ella A. Gates, daughter of William Wallace and Alvira (Nye) Gates, June 30, 1879. They have seven children: Roy Irving, en- gaged in the factory of The Irving Drew Company and a director; Mabel Arelie, a graduate of the Western College, Oxford, Ohio; Marjorie Gates, a student at the same school; Rowena Nye, Hazel Bailey, Frederick Wallace and Everett Austin, at home.

He is a member and a ruling elder of the Second Presbyterian church of Portsmouth, Ohio. Prior to 1884, he was a republican, since that date he has been a prohibitionist. The only fraternal society he is a member of is the Royal Arcanum, an insurance society. In June, 1902, Mr. Drew was appointed a trustee of the Western College at Oxford, Ohio.

Mr. Drew is a gentleman who courts no public notice whatever. He prefers to attend to his business, in which he has been thoroughly absorbed, and to concentrate his efforts to making his business successful. He has encouraged others in the same line of manufacturing till shoe manufacturing has become the leading industry in Portsmouth. He prefers to leave other prob- lems and schemes, both public and private, to be worked out by those more fa- miliar with them, believing that energy, system and perseverance, as applied to the cost, quality and endless detail of the shoe business, would lead to suc- cess for himself and associates and as a result largely beneficial to the city.

In his manners, he is quiet and reserved. He prefers that the one who is seeking him shall do the talking and shall present his case without any aid from him. He does his own thinking and is of positive convictions. His New England training, ingrained for ten generations, stands him well in hand. It enables him to reason correctly on every subject presented and to come to wise and just conclusions as well about matters of business as matters of public pol- icy.

As a business man, he is conservative and takes the safe and sure course. He has been fortunate and successful in his business career because that career was governed by correct principles. Mr. Drew's most prominent characteristic, shown in his every day life, is his great earnestness and wonderful purpose.

IRVING DREW.

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He sees the end from the beginning and his plans never fail, while his plan proceeds from beginning to accomplishment. He is surrounded by a most in- teresting family and his entire influence in the community is for Christian character and training. He believes that to be the foundation of all that is good, true and lasting, and all of his time, work and effort, outside of his busi- ness, goes in that direction; so he finds but little time for pleasures that do not legitimately come with a successful business, a happy home, reform and Chris- tian work.

Simon Bolivar Drouillard

was born in Gallipolis, Ohio, August 21, 1829, the son of Joseph Drouillard, who has a sketch herein. He was originally named by his parents Simon Kenton, in honor of Simon Kenton, whom his grandfather, Pierre Drouillard, ransomed from the Indians, but for some reason best known to himself, he saw fit to change the name from Kenton to Bolivar. He was educated in the schools of Gallipolis and at Gallia Academy. During his minority in the intervals of at- tending school, he assisted his father in a clerical capacity in the office of Clerk of Courts at Gallipolis. In 1848, he was elected Recorder of Gallia county and served until 1854. He was married November 27, 1850, to Miss Evaline Long, daughter of George Long, of South Side, West Virginia, in the Kanawha valley. He was admitted to the bar some time during his residence in Gallipolis, but the date has not been preserved. In 1850, he took an interest in Gallia furnace, went there as book-keeper and resided there until 1858, when he went to Ports- mouth and took a position in Dugan's bank, as book-keeper and continued to reside there the remainder of his life.

He was a whig and a republican in his political views. In 1863, he was placed upon the Republican ticket as candidate for Clerk of the Court of Com- mon Pleas of Scioto county and received 2,263 votes to 1,745, for his competi- tor, Benjamin F. Cunningham. He was re-elected Clerk in 1866 and received a vote of 2,631 to 2,119 for his opponent, J. C. Stimmel. He was re-elected the third time in 1869, by a vote of 2,367 for himself to 2,283 for John W. Lewis. During his residence in Gallipolis, he united with the M. E. church, and when he came to Portsmouth, he united with the Sixth Street church. He was a member of that church until 1867, when on account of his wife who was reared a Presbyterian, he became a member of the First Presbyterian church. He was a member of all the Masonic bodies in Portsmouth and at the time of his death, was Most Eminent Commander of Knights Templar and had been for several years. While Clerk of the Courts, he published a lawyer's docket, one of the most useful ever devised.

On June 19, 1873, he was accidentally killed in the vicinity of Gallipolis. He had gone there some days before on a vacation, and with his brother-in-law, Captain James Harper, on that day had gone hunting. He was using a double barreled gun and thought he had discharged both barrels. It seems that one of the barrels had not been discharged and his foot accidentally struck the hammer and the contents were discharged through his head, causing his instant death.

His first son was George Long, now a resident of Cincinnati, and engaged in the coal business. He has six children: William Kenton, Emily, Martha, Clif- ford, Clyde and Leslie. His daughter, Emily, makes her home with her grand- mother, Mrs. Drouillard, the widow of our subject, in Portsmouth, Ohio. Mr. Dronillard's daughter Emma, born in 1854, at Gallia Furnace, married John Mil- ler in 1878. and died January 14, 1888, leaving three children: George Scudder, Evelyn and Catherine. His second son, James W., born in 1860, was educated in the Portsmouth public schools, studied law with Moore and Newman, was admitted to the bar in Columbus and went to Chicago to practice law in 1892, where he still resides.

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A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 126

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