A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 132

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 is a member of St. Mary's Catholic church and a member of the Knights of St. George. He was reared a democrat but does not follow his early teaching very closely. On the contrary he is very liberal in his political views. While nominally a democrat he votes for the man and the measure oftener than for the political party. Mr. Glockner is an excellent example of what is called American energy and push. Starting with but little more than the or- dinary bov. he has by constant application. industry and acute business in- sight established a business which is a shining index to his business ability. Besides being a first class business man he is a true sportsman and takes as keen interest in his dogs and gun and fishing tackle as he does in his business. One of his chief delights is to follow. the hounds or hunt beside a blooded pointer or setter.

Frank A. Glockner

the son of Bernard and Magdalene (Beck) Glockner, natives of Bingen, Baden, Germany, was born August 26, 1855, in Portsmouth, Ohio. He attended St. Mary's school and later took a course of study in a business college. He learned the tinner's trade at H. Eberhart's and after finishing his trade assisted his father in the hardware business. His father died in 1876 and he took charge of the business for his mother until 1884. In that year he moved to Lexing- ton, Kentucky, and was engaged in the shoe business in that place for five years. In 1889, he went to Cincinnati where for four years he carried on a grocery business. In 1893, he returned to Portsmouth and since that time has been engaged in the stove and hardware business at 121-123 Gallia street. On May 15, 1889, he was married to Mary E. Lang, in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. She died November 5. 1901. aged thirty-nine. They had eight children: Magda- lene and Frank, who died in infancy, Mary, Herbert, Frank, William, Cath- erine and Gertrude.

Charles Colburn Glidden

was born January 20. 1855, at Covington, Kentucky. His father was Daniel A. Glidden and his mother was Ellen Robinson, a daughter of Joshua V. Robin- son, a prominent business man of Portsmouth, Ohio. Daniel A. Glidden, his

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father, was a son of Charles Glidden of New Hampshire. His father was drowned on the ferry at Cincinnati in October, 1861. His mother died in March 1857.

Our subject made his home with his aunt, Mrs. Charlotte E. Turley, from the time of his father's death until he was married. ' He attended school at Portsmouth, Ohio, until the age of seventeen years, then went to the Pennsyl- vania Military Academy at Chester, Pennsylvania, for one year. At the age of 18, he went to work at the Burgess Steel & Iron Works as a clerk and remained with them' until 1880, when he went into partnership with Jacob Becker in the wholesale and retail candy and grocery business. A short experience in that satisfied him. From 1884 to 1888 he was engaged in a railroad office in Kansas City, Mo. He left there in the latter year and went to Cincinnati and worked for the Cincinnati, Portsmouth & Virginia Railroad for one year. In 1890, he returned to Portsmouth and went to work for the Burgess Steel & Iron Works as a laborer. He was soon promoted to shipping clerk, which position he held for three years, when he was promoted to book-keeper and pay-master. He held this position until 1897.

On the 5th of April, 1897, he was elected Mayor of Portsmouth by a vote of 1.742 for himself to 1,477 for Volney R. Row, republican. He was re- elected on April 4, 1899 by a vote of 1,654 for himself and 1,623 for C. C. Brown, republican. In the spring of 1897, he advocated the system of flood defenses and employed men at his own instance to keep the flood out of the city by levees and it has been kept out ever since. Since then he has had the pleasure of having the city adopt the flood defenses officially. Since retiring from the Mayor's office he has been employed with the Portsmouth and Kentucky Fire Brick Company.

On January 8, 1880, he was married to Helen M. Crichton, daughter of Andrew Crichton, a son of Andrew Crichton, the druggist. They have five children: Daniel A., employed by Spellacy & Co .; William Crichton, employed in the Excelsior Shoe Company office; Henrietta M., John B., and Bertha. He is a member of the First Presyterian church. He has always been a democrat and was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention in 1900 from the Tenth Ohio District.

Charles Austin Goddard

was born in the town of Norwich, Windsor county, Vermont, May 25, 1841. His father's name was Henry Goddard, and his mother's maiden name was Laura Esther Egerton. His father was a native of Concord, Vermont. His grandfather. Samuel Goddard, was a native of Millbury, Massachusetts. His great-grandfather was Nathaniel Goddard. Henry Goddard, his father, was a farmer and a shoemaker. Samuel Goddard. the grandfather of our subject, was a merchant; and was for thirty years a Congregational minister of Nor- wich, Vt., where he died in 1844 at the age of seventy-two years. He was blind the last two years of his life.

Our subject, Charles Austin Goddard, went to school at Norwich, Vt., where he obtained his education. On September 15, 1861, he enlisted in Com- pany B, 6th Vermont Infantry at Norwich as a private. He was mustered in October 15. 1861, and was made a Corporal in September, 1862, and a Sergeant in 1863. He served in the 6th Army Corps, Second Brigade, Second Division. General N. L. H. Brooks was his brigade commander and General N. F. (Baldy) Smith was his division commander. His division was also under the com- mand of General Winfield S. Hancock. General Sedgwick was commander of his corps part of the time. Our subject was wounded May 5, 1864, at the bat- tle of the wilderness. He was struck on the chin by a minie-ball, but this wound was but a scratch. On the second day of the battle May 6, 1864 he was shot on the left ankle and the bone shattered. As a result of this, wound he was compelled to use crutches for four months. . He was discharged No- vember 27, 1864.

On his return to his home in Vermont he engaged in farming. He re- mained there until January, 1866, when he came to Ironton, Ohio. He engaged in contracting on the streets and was very successful in the business. In No- vember, 1866, he purchased a farm of 250 acres in Union township, Lawrence county just opposite Huntington, and fronting on the Ohio river, where he re- sided for five years. He was married November 16, 1871 to Miss Eureka Kim-

CHARLES AUSTIN GODDARD.

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ball, of Union township, Lawrence county, the youngest daughter of A. H. Kimball, a native of Vermont. On March 17, 1872 he bought the Junior furnace property and 400 acres of land about it and he has resided there ever since. He has the following children: Charles A., the editor of a newspaper in Fayette- ville, West Virginia; Henry K., a farmer, who is married and resides in Green township; Arthur S., a student at the Ohio University; and two daughters, Minnie L., and Nellie who are school girls, residing at home.

Mr. Goddard has always been a republican and has always taken an ac- tive interest in politics. He cast his first vote in 1864 at the state election in Vermont, and afterwards voted in the November election for President Lincoln for a second term. He was land appraiser in Green township in 1880. He was elected a County Commissioner in the fall of 1881, and re-elected in 1884. He resigned in September, 1887, to accept the position of superintendent of the Ohio canal from Columbus to Portsmouth. Ohio. He held this office until 1896. He was elected a member of the State Board of Public Works in the fall of 1897, and was re-elected in 1900.

Mr. Goddard has an easy pleasant way of getting along with his friends and enemies alike. He is a citizen of great public spirit and always in favor of public improvements. He believes in the most modern methods in every- thing. He is liberal to all charitable objects. He believes in cutting across lots to do the right thing, and does not believe in any small ideas in public matters. He has been very successful in politics because he always gave every- one's views proper consideration. Everyone who has business with him is sure of an audience and of full consideration of his claims, and that when Mr. Goddard acts, he will act after being fully advised. Another remarkable fact about Mr. Goddard is that while he has devoted years of his life to public business, he has never neglected his private business and all the years he has resided in Scioto county, he has been a successful farmer. He has one of the pleasantest homes in the county and in it exercises a generous hospitality. He is always glad to welcome his friends to his home and makes their visits full of pleasure. He has demonstrated that a Vermont Yankee can be trans- planted to Ohio and be transformed into one of Ohio's most valuable citizens.

He enjoys the respect and confidence of all his neighbors. A man's standing at his own home is the highest test of his worth and usefulness and according to this test, Mr. Goddard is a perfect man.

Archie Proctor Goldsmith

was born June 3, 1860, in Newark, New Jersey. His father was Henry A. Gold- smith, a native of Baltimore, Maryland. His mother was Sarah Motte, a na- tive of Newark, New Jersey. He went to school in Newark till he was seven- teen years of age, and then remained at home for three years. In 1880, he went to the Pacific coast and made his fortune, mining for gold. He placer-mined awhile and then learned the veneer business in Washington territory. He tired of the west and came back to Philadelphia and engaged in traveling for the hardware business of the Bonney Vise and Tool Company, and was with that company till 1886. He came to Portsmouth in 1887, and engaged with the Ve- neer Works till 1892, when he went to Antigo. Wisconsin, in the same business till 1894. Then he returned to Newark, New Jersey, till 1899, in the same busi- ness. In the latter year he came to Portsmouth and became interested in the Portsmouth Veneer and Panel Company, and is its superintendent. The pres- ent company was organized in 1889, and has $45,000.00 capital. It employs seventy-five men. Mr. Goldsmith has been nineteen years in the Veneer busi- ness and is proficient in it. He has made it his life work and understands all its details. Mr. Goldsmith was married October 24, 1883, to Miss Minnie E. Bonney, of Philadelphia, a daughter of Charles S. Bonney. Her mother was Mary J. Greenleaf, of the well known Greenleaf family of Maine, and the New England States. They have one child, Lela Bonney, a young lady. Mr. Gold- smith is a republican, but not a member of any orders.

George A Goodman,

of the Gilbert Grocery Company, is an example of the self-made man. He was born October 23, 1862, at Portsmouth, Ohio, and is the son of Michael and Theresa (Amberg) Goodman, both of German descent. Brought up in straight-

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ened circumstances, he was compelled to leave school at the age of twelve, and go to work for himself. Commencing on a farm, where he worked for a year, he worked his way up to the position of a grocery and dry goods clerk. He followed clerking till he was nineteen when he went into the employ of M. B. Gilbert and drove an ice wagon. He was advanced to clerk and city salesman in 1883, by reason of his merit and held that position until 1895, when at the death of Joseph S. Gaston, a member of the firm, he was again advanced, and given charge of the traveling salesmen. In 1894, he became a partner in the firm composed of Mrs. M. B. Gilbert, George M. Appel and himself. When the Gilbert Grocery Company was incorporated January 1, 1901, he became a stockholder in the corporation and was elected its vice president. He still retained charge of the traveling salesmen department.

He served as City Councilman from 1889, to 1895, representing the First ward. He holds to the democratic faith and was formerly very active in poli- tics. Yet he was never of the orthodox type.

He was raised a Catholic and is a communicant of St. Mary's Catholic church of Portsmouth. He has been a member of the Knights of St. George for twenty years and for nineteen years an officer in the same, having filled all the offices from trustee to president.

He was married June 5, 1895, at Chillicothe, to Katharine A. Schilder, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth Schilder. Mr. Goodman is well named, as his name is fully descriptive of his qualities. He is quiet and unassuming in his manners, but makes friends of all who become intimate with him. He is admired for his good qualities as a citizen and a business man.

Benjamin Franklin Goodrich,

son of Richard Goodrich and Jane Bonser, his wife, was born June 2, 1865, at Sciotoville, this county. His mother was a granddaughter of Colonel Isaac Bonser, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this book. His father was born in 1819, on the site of Mr. Irving Drew's residence in Portsmouth. Richard Good- rich was a plasterer by trade and worked in Sciotoville and the country around there. He enlisted in the Mexican war, but was never called out. The broth- er of our subject, Nathan S., was a member of the 53d O. V. 1., Company C. He was wounded in front of Atlanta, July, 1864. Our subject received his edu- cation in the schools of Sciotoville. He learned the plasterer's trade of his fa- ther, and came to Portsmouth in April, 1878, where he has resided ever since. He still works at his trade. Richard Goodrich, his father, was a whig and af- terwards an abolitionist. The son is a republican in sentiment, but is not active in politics. He was married May 7, 1874, to Lucinda Johnson, daughter of Joseph and Lucretia Johnson. He had six children, as follows: Ida May, married Charles Wood; Clarence, at home: Joseph R., in San Francisco; Anna L., deceased; Earl F., and Henry E. at home. He is a Knight of Pythias.

John Frederick Gordon, M. D.,

was born December 4, 1864, near Stockdale, Pike county, Ohio. His father was Charles McKendree Gordon, and his mother's maiden name was Harriet James His grandfather Gordon came from New Jersey. His father, Charles W. Gordon was in the 33rd O. V. I., Company E. He entered the service September 25, 1864, at the age of twenty-five, for one year, and was mustered out June 5, 1865, at Washington, D. C., by order of the War Department.

Our subject was educated in the common schools. He began teaching ât the age of eighteen years, and taught school five different terms of six months each. He began the study of medicine at the age of twenty, and studied with Dr. L. D. Allard. He attended the Louisville Medical School, and graduated in 1894. He began practice in Otway, July 5, 1894. He was married March 29, 1896 to Mary Annis Jackson, daughter of John Jackson, deceased, who lived near Mabees, Jackson county. The child of that marriage was Ronald Freder- ick. On November 27, 1898, his wife died. He was married the second time to Miss Daisy Opal Pieper, daughter of John F. Pieper of Otway, August 26, 1900. Mr. Gordon is a democrat, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is also a Knight of Pythias.

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Doctor Gordon has a sociable and congenial disposition and is always willing to make a sacrifice to promote the happiness of others. As a physician, he is establishing for himself a good reputation and has a growing practice. He is one of the most prosperous as well as most promising young physicians of the county.

Orin Barron Gould, Jr.,

was born at Franklin Furnace, Ohio, January 30, 1863. His father was Orin B. Gould who has a sketch herein. His mother's maiden name was Levinia Seeley. He attended the Portsmouth public schools and graduated in the Ports- mouth High School in the class of 1881. He took a course in Duff's Commer- mercial College in Pittsburg. in 1882. He went to Wellston May 1, 1882 and has been there ever since. He has been in the furnace business most of the time and was connected with the Milton furnace until the summer of 1888, when he was engaged with the Superior Coal Company and was its superin- tendent until November, 1901, when he sold out his interest and is now en- gaged in developing coal mines in Meigs county.

On November 26, 1888, he was married to Frances McGee, the daughter of James M. McGee. He is a republican. He has often been a delegate to the city and county conventions of his city and county and was also a delegate to the National convention in 1900. He is now a member of the city council of Wellston and has been for four years.

Mr. Gould is one of the most powerful factors in Ohio politics. He in- herited both his republicanism and his political ability from his father, Orin B. Gould, Sr., "the Nestor of republicanism in southern Ohio." He has proven a most worthy successor to a most illustrious sire. His early political training was secured in Scioto county. Later he became the unquestioned leader of his party in Jackson county. Mr. Gould has grown to be the commanding figure in the affairs of the Tenth Congressional District. The reasons for this pre- eminence are not difficult to find. Personally, he is very popular possessing the element of personal magnetism which draws men to him. In politics as well as in business his word is bis bond. His promises are never broken. With rare talent for combination. with great fertility of resource, cool, unexcitable, ready and prompt of action, he possesses every element of leadership. His marked executive ability and unusual mental vigor are the great factors how- ever in the successes he has achieved. The causes which have brought about his poltical supremacy explain equally his sucess in business and in the other walks of life. He is one of the natural leaders of men and his greatest suc- cess vet awaits him. He is a member of the Republican State Central Commit- tee, from the 10th Congressional District and one of the trustees of the Ohio hospital for epileptics at Gallipolis, Ohio.

William H. Grady

was born October 6, 1860, in Pike county, Ohio. At an early age, his parents moved to Ross county. Ohio, where he resided until 1864, when they removed to Highland county, near Hillsboro. After a few years they removed to South Webster, Scioto county. Here Mr. Grady attended the public schools until he was sixteen years of age, when, on account of his father's death, he was compelled to begin teacbing, which occupation he has followed since, with the exception of one year, when he was engaged as a clerk for the Norfolk & Western railway at Columbus, Ohio.

He is and has been for a number of years, one of the leading educators of Scioto county, having filled some of the most responsible positions in the county, outside of the schools of Portsmouth. He has served as principal of the Union Mills, Otway and Wheelersburg schools, and always with credit to himself and the school. He was also superintendent of the West Union schools in Adams county, for two years.

On November 2, 1881, he was married to Miss Mary P. Burke, youngest daughter of Oliver H. P. Burke of Burke's Point. He with his wife and two children now reside in Wheelersburg. where he is engaged in teaching. He has long been a member of the Methodist church and a member of the official board of said church for a number of years. Mr. Grady affiliates with the republican party, but is not an offensive partisan. He has been honored with

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local offices in Porter township. He is a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Masonic fraternity in Wheelersburg. Mr. Grady is honored and re- spected for his sterling qualities of true and honest manhood.

William Remington Graham

was born November 10, 1867, near East Springfield, Jefferson county, Ohio. His father was John C. Graham and his mother's maiden name was Rebecca Richardson. His father was a farmer, a blacksmith and a local Methodist minister. He received his education in the district schools until he was sixteen years of age, when he attended an academy at Harlem Springs, Carroll coun- ty, Ohio for one year and then attended Scio College, Harrison county, Ohio, for five years and graduated in the literary course in 1887. He began teaching at the age of seventeen and taught a part of each year for five years and in the same five years was attending school. He was principal of the schools at. Salem, Ohio, in 1888 and 1889. He then taught his home school one year. From 1890 to 1892 he was at Scio College taking a post graduate and business course. On May 4, 1893 he came to Portsmouth, Ohio, and took charge of Hudson's Business College for one year. At the end of a year, he bought out Hudson's school and has since conducted it alone as Graham's Business Col- lege.

He teaches all the common branches, business, penmanship, stenography and typewriting. The business course includes merchandise and banking. He has been very successful with his school and has established it on a firm founda- tion. He enjoys the confidence of all who have patronized him. The old adage is "the proof of the pudding is in the eating," and as Professor Graham's pupils all do well in the positions they obtain, that is the best recommendation of his school. The latter has not reached its present position of high excellence with- out great effort. In the numerous conflicts it has had for its existence and usefulness, it has come out superior to all criticism and attacks of enemies. It is now one of the well established institutions of the city, and the only one of its kind.

Professor Graham was married October 22, 1896, to Miss Ida E. Phillips, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips, and granddaughter of the venerable John Flowers. Our subject is a member of the Sixth Street M. E. church, and is a democrat in his political views.

Professor Graham is one of those men who will always succeed and at the same time enjoy the respect of the community. His occupation, his hab- its and devotion to hard work command the esteem of all who know him. He is a conscientious christian gentleman and faithful to every trust. His word is as good as his bond. He is sincere and honest.

Hiram Doyle Gregory,

the son of John Belli Gegory and Catharine Smith, his wife, was born in Ports- mouth, January 29th, 1858, at the northwest corner of Offnere and Gallia streets, then in the country, on the Gallipolis road. The house is still stand- ing, but is remodeled and now occupied by Win Nye. Mr. Gregory is a grand- son of Moses Gregory and a great-grandson of Major John Belli and Cynthia (Harrison) Belli, a cousin of William Henry Harrison.

Mr. Gregory spent his boyhood and received his early education in Portsmouth. He attended its public schools and a private school under Rev. Franklin, at Christ Episcopal church. He was one year in the postofficce un- der Mrs. Adair. He received his first business education under Harry Grimes, for whom he clerked in the commission business, in the days of steamboats and blast furnaces, when Portsmouth was the emporium of northeastern Ken- tucky, West Virginia and southern Ohio. He thinks that experience was the best part of his education.

In 1876, he entered the Ohio State University, then in its third year of existence, and was a room-mate and close friend of Robert S. Towne. He grad- uated in 1880, and the same year was employed as a civil engineer in locating railroad lines in Indiana and Illinois, and the next year in Ohio and Alabama. In 1882, he was engaged at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, as a bridge engineer; and in this capacity he traveled extensively for several years over the Middle and Western States.

JOIIN BELLI GREGORY.

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In January, 1886, he located in Carter county, Kentucky, and assisted his father with his property. Here he began the study of law. He was examined at Frankfort, Kentucky, by Judges Pryor and Holt, and admitted to the Ken- tucky bar in January, 1889, and opened an office at Grayson, Kentucky.

In October, 1893, he was married to Miss Louise Bailey, a daughter of Judge James P. Bailey, county Judge of Lincoln county, at Stanford, Kentucky. In 1895, after having been engaged in the practice of law for six years, he went to Cornell University Law School, and took a course of lectures, but did not graduate. He was elected Police Judge of Grayson, Ky., in 1893, and served one term. In January, 1895, he was appointed United States Commissioner at Grayson, Ky., and tried some of the most noted "moonshiners" of the Ken- tucky mountains. In December, 1897, he moved to Covington, Ky., where he opened a law office and is now residing there and engaged in the practice of law. Mr. Gregory has two daughters, Catharine and Clara, and a son John B. Mr. Gregory is regarded as one of the best lawyers of the Kentucky bar. He is a man of great force of character, excellent judgment, a good trial lawyer and advocate.

John Belli Gregory

was born in Scioto county, May 29, 1830. He is a son of Moses and Harriet E. (Belli) Gregory, the former of whom was a native of Ross county, Ohio, and the latter of Scioto county. The maternal grandmother of Mr. Gregory, Cynthia Harrison, was a cousin of the hero of Tippecanoe. Her husband, Ma- jor John Belli, has a separate sketch herein. His paternal grandfather, David Gregory, was a mechanic, a machinist, and a man of powerful physical endur- ance. He built one of the first mills ever constructed on the Scioto river. His residence was near Jameson's Tavern not far from the historical spot called the "Hermit's Cave." He died about the year 1801. His widow removed to Chillicothe, where she was married to Henry Sheely, who in 1805, removed with his family to Portsmouth, where the father of the subject of this sketch, Moses Gregory, was brought up. He has a separate sketch herein.

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A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 132

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