A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 137

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. Kellogg is a member of the republican party and has been one of the workers in the party for a number of years. He was elected Clerk of Green township in 1893, and has held the office continuously to the present time. and he makes a most efficient official. He is a member of the Haverhill Grange, the only order of the kind in the county.

Captain Alva Finton Kendall

was born May 28. 1832. His father, Jefferson Kendall, was the oldest child of William Kendall and Rachel Brown Kendall. Jeremiah Kendall, the father of General William Kendall, served as a private in Captain William Washing- ton's company, 3rd Virginia regiment. commanded by Colonel Thomas Marshall, father of the Chief Justice, in the Revolutionary war. He enlisted February 23, 1776, to serve two years; was transferred in August, 1777, to Captain G. B. Wallace's company. same regiment; was wounded in September, 1777, and was discharged in January, 1778. Jefferson Kendall enlisted in Battery L, First Ohio Light Artillery, on August 19, 1861, at the age of fifty-four, and was dis- charged September 27, 1862, on surgeon's certificate of disability.

Our subject was born at Junior Furnace, Ohio, while his father was storekeeper there. As a boy he lived at Clinton. Buckhorn and Franklin fur- naces, where his father was engaged as book-keeper and store-keeper. The family moved to Wheelersburg, Ohio, prior to 1840, where his father kept a hotel, grocery and drug store. Wheelersburg at that time was a place of con- siderable importance, as it was the business center for Clinton and Buck- horn furnaces. In the spring of 1849, our subject went to California overland, with a party made up at Wheelersburg. Among them were William McKinley, Worthington Enslow, William Crichton, Dr. Thomas Moxley, William Red- dick, William Fenton, Thomas Burt, and Garrel Duke. They had three wa- gons, made at Haverhill by I enninger. The party sent their wagons to St. Joseph, Mo., by steamboat. They bought four yoke of oxen in Illinois for each wagon. They left St. Joseph. Mo., in April, 1849, and drove from ten to twenty- .two miles a day. They were four months and four days on the way. Mr. Ken- dall says there was a continuous procession of wagons all the way to Califor-

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nia. Their journey was stopped at Deep Hollow, California, where they dug for gold. They found plenty of gold, but spent it. Our subject came back to Portsmouth, in 1853: He returned to California in 1855, and remained until 1859. He was mining during his first four years in California. The latter four years he drove a team and kept store most of the time. He returned from the first trip by way of the Isthmus of Panama, and on his second trip west went by way of Nicaragua, and came back through Mexico by way of the Gulf.

From 1859 to 1862, he kept a grocery in Portsmouth for George Oldfield. On the sixth of August, 1862, he entered the service as First Sergeant of Com- pany F, 91st O. V. I. On December 2, 1862, he was made Second Lieutenant of Company F; and on May 1, 1863, was made First Lieutenant of Company F; May 26, 1864, he was transferred First Lieutenant of Company B. On December 28, 1864, he was transferred to Company F, as First Lieutenant. On March 29, 1865, he was made Captain of Company G, of the same regiment, He was mus- tered out October 16, 1865, by order of the War Department. During a con- siderable part of the service, he was acting commissary of musters of the de- partment of West Virginia.

On his return from the army, he went to clerking on a steamboat on the Ohio river until October, 1866, when he went into the revenue service as as- sistant assessor to Colonel John A. Turley. When Colonel Coates was appoint- ed Collector of Internal Revenue, he was made a deputy collector. He was out under Cleveland's two terms, but with that exception he was in the revenue service until his death. At the time of his death, he was a deputy under John C. Entrekin, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Eleventh District of Ohio. He was in the collector's office twenty-seven years, handled over $30,000,000 and never lost a cent. His books always balanced. His father and mother moved to Portsmouth in 1850. His father kept a store on the southeast corner of Seventh and Chillicothe streets until he enlisted in Battery L. Our subject was married in 1870, to Miss Louisa Koen, and resided till his death on Ninth street in Portsmouth. He died September 28, 1901.

Charles Kendall

was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, November 3, 1839, the son of Thomas Kendall and Anna M. Glover. his wife. His father was the son of General William Kendall and Rachel Brown, his wife, and his mother was the daughter of Eli- jah Glover and Catherine Jones, his wife. His father has a separate sketch herein. He spent his childhood and boyhood in Portsmouth and obtained his education in her public schools. He attended the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. Ohio, one year. Mr. Kendall was in business at West Liberty, Ohio, for several years, but in 1868. returned to Portsmouth, where he has been in the shoe business ever since. He has always been a republican in politics. He has been a member of the city Board of Education. He is a member of the Second Presbyterian church of Portsmouth, Ohio.

On November 19, 1861, he was married to Miss Emily H. Lloyd, daugh- ter of Thomas G. and Lola Lloyd. They had four children: Addie L., who mar- ried Henry Padan, Lola married Albert G. Padan, and Charles Franklin Kendall married to Laura V. Gilbert, daughter of the late Martin B. Gilbert. He has a son, Thomas L., a young man at home. Mr. Kendall had the misfortune to lose his wife, December 8, 1890, and his daughter Addie, Mrs Henry Padan, lost her husband, October 1, 1895. She has two children, Charles Franklin and Henrietta Craig. Mr. Kendall, his widowed daughter, her two children, and his son Thomas L. make their home together, and it is one of the pleasantest homes in Portsmouth. His daughter, Mrs. Albert G, Padan, and her husband, live in Los Angeles California. His son, Charles Franklin, has three fine boys, Gilbert, Richard and Charles Franklin. Surrounded by his children and grand- children, and kept employed in a good business, life is very pleasant to Mr. Kendall.

He is known well and favorably to every one in the county, for his agree- able manners and genial disposition. In the enjoyment of the esteem of all his neighbors, old age has no terrors for him. It is to him like the evening of a long summer day. He has had his troubles, but Christian fortitude and pa- tience has enabled him to bear them and live through them. No one in Ports-

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mouth has pleasanter family surroundings than he, and no one enjoys them more, or is more deserving of them.

Captain Chase Wilmot Kennedy,

is the son of Milton Kennedy and Josephine Hutchinson, his wife, and was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, January 4, 1859. His paternal ancestors are of Scotch-Irish and Scotch extraction. His father died July 10, 1896. His mater- nal ancestors are of Irish and German descent. The great-great-grandfather of our subject, Hugh Kennedy, was the first immigrant of this branch of the Kennedy family in America. The boyhood and youth of our subject was spent in Portsmouth. His first schooling was at a school conducted by Mrs. Crichton on Sixth street. He completed the course in the public schools and graduated in the class of 1875. After graduation he entered the employment of the Portsmouth Tribune and continued therein until the spring of 1879.

In May of that year, he received the appointment of cadet to the United States Military Academy at West Point. as the result of a competitive examina- tion held at Portsmouth, Ohio. He entered the United State Military Academy June 19, 1879, and graduated therefrom June 13, 1883. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 3d United States Infantry and served in Montana, Dakota and Minnesota until the spring of 1898, participating in the expeditions and campaigns against the Kootenai, Crow and Sioux Indians during that in- terval. He was promoted First Lieutenant. 3rd Infantry, November 13, 1889; Regimental Adjutant, 3rd Infantry from March 13, 1891, to March 12, 1895.

During the Spanish-American war he took part in the campaign against Santiago, Cuba, being in command of Co. C, 3rd Infantry; was present at the Battle of El Caney, July 1, 1898, and at the subsequent attacks on Santiago from July 2 to July 11, 1898. He returned to the United States in August, 1898, and participated in the campaign against the Leech Lake Indians in the fall of that year in Minnesota. In the meantime he had been promoted captain and assigned to the 8th United States Infantry. He joined that regiment in Huntsville, Alabama, in November, 1898. and accompanied the regiment to Havana, Cuba. in December. and was present at the formal transfer of the government of the island of Cuba from the Spanish to the American authori- ties, January 1, 1899. He remained on duty in Cuba until July, 1900. when the regiment was transferred to the United States. en route to the Philippine Is- lands. He arrived there October 25, 1900, and was on duty there from that date to July 28, 1902. He is now on duty with his regiment at Governor's Is- land, N. Y. He was appointed Adjutant, Sth Infantry. June 13, 1900.

He was married November 13, 1889. at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, to Eliza- beth Lord Jewett, daughter of Colonel Horace Jewett, United States Army. .

Wade Stanton Kennedy

was born March 11. 1867, in Portsmouth, Ohio, the son of Milton Kennedy and Josephine Hutchinson, his wife. His father has a separate sketch herein. His son above named was given his two front names in honor of those great states- men, Benjamin Wade and Edwin M. Stanton. Wade, as he is best known, was always a sturdy boy and has made a sturdy man. He attended school in Ports- mouth until he was twelve years of age. His father then moved to Clay township and he attended there for two years. At fourteen years. he went into the employment of Henry Vincent to learn the butcher's trade, and served at it for three years, but did not like it.

In 1884, he went into the employment of Drew, Selby & Co., and has made the shoe business his life's work. He commenced as a cutter and worked at that for eleven years. He then became foreman of the cutting department and a buyer of upper leather, and held that position with Drew, Selby & Com- pany tor seven years. On April 12. 1902, he went into the Star Shoe Company, which has since become the Irving Drew Company. He is a stockholder in the company and its vice president. He and Mr. Will Gates are superintendents under Mr. Irving Drew, who is general manager. Mr. Kennedy has the over- sight of the cutting department and is a buyer of upper leather for the new company. He has mastered all the details of his department, and is a force and power in the shoe business. He enjoys the entire confidence of all his former employers and present business associates.

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He was married September 30, 1890, to Miss Sylvia Flowers McKeehan, daughter of T. J. McKeehan, of Sinking Springs, Highland county, Ohio. He has one child Mary Terese, aged eleven years. He had the misfortune to lose his wife May 26, 1902. Mr. Kennedy is a member and trustee of the Second Presbyterian church of Portsmouth. He is a republican in his political views. He is a man of strong and earnest conviction. He has a fine sense of duty, and meets every obligation-business, social or religious-upon his con- science. He has all the elements to make a good citizen and makes one. No one values good citizenship more than he, or lives closer to his ideals.

Edward John Kenrick

was born in April, 1835, in county Limerick, Ireland. His father, John Kenrick, was a farmer. His mother's maiden name was Katharine Killey. He received all his education in Ireland and when he was thirteen years of age, he came to America with his father, mother, brother Patrick, and sister Nancy. They landed at Quebec, where his father suffered a sun stroke and died, later, at Niagara Falls. The family then removed to Black Rock near Buffalo, and re- mained there two months. They then went to Cleveland and from there to Portsmouth, Ohio, by canal, landing there October 28, 1849. Edward first work on the farm of William McColm below town. He continued to work at farming for a time and then was employed as receiving clerk, watchman and train dispatcher for the Scioto and Hocking Valley railroad at Portsmouth. He was in this employment one year and then went to weighing iron at the lower mill. In 1855, he went to work for Horace Leet, in the lumber business and continued that for five years. Then he was on the police force for four years.

February 1, 1863, he was married to Miss Eliza Mulligan, daughter of Edward Mulligan, and sister of Edward Mulligan, Jr. Mrs. Kenrick died Feb- ruary 13, 1867. They had two children, John and Kate. In 1864, he went on the river. In 1866, he went into the mineral water business with Edward Mulligan, Jr .. and they continued that for three years. Then J. P. Albert Cramer bought out Mulligan and the firm became Kenrick and Cramer. They were together thirteen years when Mr. Cramer died. Kenrick carried on the business alone until 1882 when he went into the wholesale grocery business, which he is still engaged in. In 1892, he was appointed a director of the First National Bank and has held that office since. In politics, he is a democrat. In his religion, he is a communicant of the Mother Church. He is also a member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.

Pat Henrick

was born in 1839, in the parish of Kilcommon, county Limerick, Ireland. His father was John Kenrick and his mother's maiden name was Katharine Killey. His father was a farmer. His parents had three children: Edward, now doing business in Portsmouth and residing on Ninth street. Nancy, who afterwards married a Wm. Boswell and resides in Cincinnati and our subject. The family emigrated to Canada, in the summer of 1849. There in the city of Quebec, the father received a fatal sunstroke. From that city, the family went to Black Rock, N. Y. near Buffalo. They remained there two months and went from there to Cleveland. From there, they came to Portsmouth by canal. They landed at Portsmouth, Ohio, October 28, 1849, and the remainder of our sub- ject's life was spent there. It was necessary for the boy to work and he went into the employment of T. M. Patterson to learn the book-binding business. He did learn it, but it did not suit his taste and he gave it up. It was, however, a consolation to him that he had a trade on which to fall back if necessity re- quired it.

On April 16, 1861, he enlisted in Co. G. 1st O. V. I. first three months service and served till August 1, 1861. He made a good soldier and was much liked by his comrades. On June 10, 1862, he was made Quartermaster of the city of Portsmouth and of the several militia companies stationed there and held the position so long as such an officer was required. The city had quite a sup- ply of military stores and equipments. After the war, he followed the river and was very popular with all who met him and knew him. In 1867, he started

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the St. Charles Exchange, on the east side of Market street and conducted it for 17 years. He was a very popular landlord and restaurant keeper, and served as good meals as were ever put up in Portsmouth. Every one liked him and he had a pleasant welcome and a gracious adieu to all who visited him. He was one of the most liberal and sympathetic of mankind. A woman or child, a crippled or disabled person, always called forth his sympathies. If any one had a tale of woe, he had a sure listener in Pat, and if ministering to the poor and needy constituted the best Christian, he was the best in town. Pat was al- ways a democrat and in 1889, he was a candidate on that ticket for County Commissioner against John Kaps on the Republican ticket. The vote stood, Kaps 3,683; Kenrick, 2,949. Majority for Kaps, 734. James E. Campbell, the Democratic candidate for Governor, was elected and Pat was one of the dead and wounded to be taken care of. He wanted the stewardship of the Peniten- tiary, but in the division of the spoils, obtained the superintendency of the kitchen, a very good place. He had numerous opportunities for making money, but insisted on honesty and integrity and required that the state should be justly served. However he did not like the place and in eighteen months gave it up.

On October 28, 1875, he married Miss Sarah J. Rhodes, daughter of John Rhodes, and his married life was a very happy one, though not blessed with children. When he left the employment of the state, he located in New Boston, on the Rhodes place and lived there almost all the time till a few days before his death. He died Sunday, November 13, 1898, at his residence on the south- east corner of Washington and Seventh streets, of Bright's disease. He died in the communion of the Roman Catholic church, in which he had been reared. Pat Kenrick was a man of emphasis in all he did. He had a heart full of sym- pathy for all mankind. He was always fond of children and never could do too much for them. He loved to be surrounded by them and to minister to their pleasures. He never, from his standpoint, injured any human being. His life was spent in Portsmouth and he was a familiar figure in it for thirty-four years.

William Sanford Hent

was born in Madison township, Scioto county, Ohio, July 22, 1866. He is the son of Vincent L. and Celina D. Bondurant Kent, the former of Meigs county, and the latter of Jackson county. Our subject's paternal grandfather and grandmother were John and Jane Longshore Kent, and his maternal grand- father was Thomas Bondurant. The boyhood and youth of our subject was spent on the farm in Madison township, and in attending the district. schools, where he obtained a fair education. He married Una Bennett, daughter of Rolla E. and Sarah A. Pool Bennett, February 5, 1897. They have three chil- dren: Irma Avanel. Louis Warden, and Essel Selma. For the past six years, Mr. Kent has been engaged in the lumber business, and is now conducting a general store, in Pike county, where he does a large amount of business. He is a democrat and a member of the Knights of Pythias.

Rev. Heber A. Ketchum, D. D.,

was born in Ripley township, Huron county, Ohio, May 27, 1836. His father's name was Isaac and his mother's name was Anna. He studied preparatory for college at Hayesville and Hudson, Ohio. He entered Western Reserve, now Adelbert College, in July, 1862. The day following matriculation he enlisted as a private in Company B, 85 O. V. I. for three months. He was honorably discharged September 27, 1862 at Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from college in July, 1866. In the fall of that year he entered Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati and graduated in the spring of 1869. He was installed pastor of the Presbyterian church of New Richmond, Ohio June 10, 1869. On August 25th of the same year he was married to Miss Ansley J. Blackman of Hudson, Ohio.

He remained at New Richmond three years and in the summer of 1872 he resigned his pastorate at that place and accepted the co-pastorate of the First Presbyterian church at Portsmouth, Ohio, Rev. E. P. Pratt being the regular pastor. In February, 1875. he was installed pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of Portsmouth, the membership of which consisted of

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one hundred and ninety members from the First Presbyterian church. He con- tinued as pastor of this church for almost ten years, when he resigned to ac- cept a call from the Second Presbyterian church at Urbana, Ohio, where he was installed pastor April 28, 1885. During this pastorate he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from his Alma Mater. In the spring of 1891, he received a unanimous call to become the pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Berkeley, California, where he was installed pastor October 18, 1891. This pastorate continued for six years when he accepted a call to the First Presby- terian church at Salem, Oregon, and was installed pastor October 28, 1897, where at the present writing July, 1901, he is near the close of his fourth year as pastor of that church.

Mr. Ketchum has four daughters and one son, William F., born August 15, 1870; Mary E., born December 17, 1872; Bertha, born February 7, 1875; Edith, born February 8, 1878; and Marguerite, Ruth, born September 4, 1886. Rev. Ketchum has been successful in all his pastoral work, all of which has been characterized by the most intense zeal, great earnestness and deep piety.

Frederick Charles Ketter

was born at Gephart's, December 15. 1873. His parents were William H. and Mary E. (Crosser) Ketter. His grandparents came from Germany. He spent the first nine years of his life at Gephart's and then his father removed to Harrison township and located on the old Dan White farm, where they lived for twelve years and then returned to Gephart's. During this time he worked on the farm and attended school in the winter. In 1894, he and his brother William commenced a general store at Gephart's and Fred continued in this business until 1897. He then learned telegraphy with William A. Tripp at South Webster. He worked with him for five months, and went to work with Walker Marsh at Eifort where he remained for two years. He was Assessor of Bloom township in 1895. In 1898, he was elected a member of the county Republican Central Committee. In 1899, he was appointed Deputy Sheriff, under Sheriff Williamson. In the Republican primary in March 1902, he was nominated for Sheriff and was elected in November. He is a republican and a member of the German M. E. Church, also a member of the A. O. U W. of Portsmouth. He was married June 16, 1898 to Theodosia B. Cross, daughter of Doctor P. B. and Eliza ( Howell) Cross of South Webster. Ohio. They have one boy, Eugene. Mr. Ketter is a popular officer and citizen. He aims to do his full duty in every relation in life, a fact which is appreciated by all who know him. He is earnest and serious in all he does and will succeed in any- thing he undertakes.

William Ernst Ketter

was born at Gephart's. November 21, 1871. His father was William Henry "Ketter, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Crosser. He went to school at Gephart's, and such times as he was out of school, he worked on the railroad as a section man, with his father. In 1891. he engaged in the general mer- chandise business with F. C. Ketter his brother at Gephart's, and was in busi- ness there until 1898. Since then, he has been engaged in mining fireclay. He ships the clay to Massillon, Newberg and to the companies near Portsmouth. He has twelve men in his employ all the time and ships from one to two cars a day. He married Lucinda Jenkins, December 20, 1885. He has three children, Grace, Wells, and Marie. He is a republican in his political views.

Charles A. Kiefer

was born in Alsace, France, now Germany, March 5, 1814. He was reared on the Roman Catholic church and remained in that faith till after his marriage. He was married in 1832, to Elizabeth Rosenmyer, who was reared a Protestant. She was a native of Hanover, and two years her husband's senior. They had five children: Mary, wife of Louis Blomeyer, Louis, Edward, and Frederick, of Portsmouth, Ohio, and Amelia, wife of William Campbell, of Columbus, Ohio. He emigrated to the United States in 1848 and located at Pine Grove Furnace and followed his trade of stone cutting. He worked two years each at Hang- ing Rock, Ohio, and Ashland, Kentucky. He came to Portsmouth in 1863, and

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was employed at Gaylord's mill until it shut down and then worked at Wait's furniture factory and at Johnson's hub and spoke factory. He joined the Ger- man Methodist Episcopal church in 1850 and became a local preacher. He was noted for his honesty and his sincere piety. His faith was sublime and his life was a benediction. The children of his acquaintance revered and loved him. They lovingly called him, "Grandpa Kiefer." He died March 13, 1889. His wife died August 30, 1894.

Charles Kinney,

son of Charles and Elizabeth (Cox) Kinney, grandson of Washington Kinney, was born in Springville, Kentucky, July 7, 1850. His grandfather, Washington Kinney, has a sketch herein. After the death of his father, in 1861, he re- moved with his mother to Columbus, Indiana, where he received his primary education in the public schools. When sixteen years of age, he entered the of- fice of the Columbus (Indiana) Bulletin, to learn the printer's trade. He was . employed there for a term of nine years. In 1871, he returned to Portsmouth and was employed in Reilley's book store for four years. He afterwards became a traveling salesman for the Cabinetmaker's Union, holding this position until he accepted the appointment as Deputy Treasurer of Scioto county in 1876.

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A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 137

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