A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 141

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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John Lemon

was born September 1, 1844 in Jackson county, Ohio. His father's name was Lemuel Lemon, who came to Portsmouth in 1832 from Belmont county. His mother's maiden name was Rebecca Stiffler. His grandfather's name was George Lemon. When our subject was seven years of age his parents moved to Scioto county, where his father died Jan. 14, 1900, at the age of eighty-four years, and his mother died six years prior in 1894. Our subject received a com- mon school education. He was raised a farmer, and is a farmer still. At the age of eighteen he enlisted in Company D, 1st O. V. H. A., Sept. 8, 1862, for three years as a private. He was promoted to Corporal in April, 1864, and mustered out June 20, 1865, at Knoxville, Tenn., by order of the War Depart- ment.

He was married August 5, 1866 to Mary S. Boren, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth Boren of Pennsylvania. They have the following children: David F., married, living in Vernon township, a farmer; Rebecca Jane, at home; Amanda married John Somers, residing in this county; Cora A., married Ed- win G. Turner, residing in this county; Effie, a school teacher; Florence, at home; Louis F., John W., lda and Amelia all at home. Mr. Lemon is a mem- ber of the Christian church at Lyra, He is a republican in his political views, and has always been such. He owns a farm at Lyra of about 400 acres, where he has resided since 1867.

Charles Leonard

was born December 12, 1839, at Alleghany City, Pennsylvania. His parents were Patrick and Laura (Crosby) Leonard. His father was a native of Scot- land and his mother was a native of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of seven children. He went to school in Alleghany City until lie reached the age of sixteen, when he worked in a foundry and learned casting. He was there two years and then went to learn the trade of a carpenter at which trade he worked until he was twenty-four. He enlisted in Company K, 13th Pennsylvania Infantry, three months service, at Pittsburg, Pa., April 26, 1861, and was discharged August 6, 1861, at the expiration of his term. He re- enlisted in Company I, 102d Pennsylvania Infantry, August 15, 1861, to serve three years. He was honorably discharged June 24, 1862, at Philadelphia, by reason of a gun shot in the left arm, which he received in the battle of Wil- liamsburg. This was his first battle and the shot which struck him was a can- ister shot.

He then went back to Pittsburg where he remained a year and then came to Portsmouth, afterwards going to Scioto Furnace, where his sister, Mrs. George Williams, resided at that time. He has been a resident of Scioto Furnace ever since, with the exception of the two years from 1866 to 1868, when he was at Brownsport Furnace, Tennessee. He was connected with the Scioto farnace as part owner until it blew out on December 25, 1890. He has been postmaster at Scioto Furnace since 1868, and agent for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad from 1868 until January 31, 1902, when he resigned. He has always been a republican and is a Blue Lodge Mason of the Western Sun Lodge of Wheelersburg. He is a member of the G. A. R. at South Webster.

Mr. Leonard is a man highly appreciated by those intimate with him. He has a heart to take in the whole world and is charitable to a fault. And yet with these qualities, he is most modest and retiring. His qualities alone proclaim the man.

Richard Gregg Lewis

was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, February 28, 1850. His father was Thomas Cotton Lewis, Jr., and his mother was Nancy Anderson (Gregg) Lewis. He was graduated from the High School in 1867 and attended the academy at South Salem, Ross county, Ohio. He also taught school in Kansas and gradua- ted with honors from Marietta College in June, 1876, and from Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, in May, 1879. The Presbytery of Chillicothe or- dained him an Evangelist in September, 1879. He was stated supply for the Hamden Junction, McArthur and Wellston Presbyterian churches in 1879 and 1880, and for Mona chapel, Ross county, Ohio, in 1883 and 1885. From 1883 to

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1893, he was president of the Union Shoe Company, of Chillicothe, Ohio. From 1886 to 1891, he was proprietor and part of the time editor of the Scioto Ga- zette. He was for years one of the trustees of the Chillicothe Presbytery, also of Salem Academy. In 1898, he moved to Missouri and was graduated in June, 1900, as Doctor of Osteopathy from the American School of Osteopathy, at Kirksville, Missouri. At once he begun the practice of Osteopathy in Cin- cinnati, where he is located at this date.

Harvey Oscar Lindsey

is the eldest son of the seven children of Barton B. and Tamer Elizabeth Lind- sey. Barton B. was the oldest son of William J. I indsey, born at Blue I ick, Kentucky, in 1821. William J. was the son of John I indsey, who emigrated from Scotland in 1810, and afterwards served in the war of 1812. He settled in Virginia and removed to Blue I ick, Kentucky, in 1824. The mother of our sub- ject was the eldest daughter of Peter Cooley Aldred and Sarah Ann Freeman, his wife. Peter C. was the son of David Aldred, of near Manchester, Ohio, and served in the 182nd O. V. I., Company G, and afterwards was transferred to the

64th O. V. I. David was the son of Henry Aldred a soldier of the Revolution. Sarah Ann Freeman Aldred, the grandmother of our subject, was the daughter of Tamer Freeman, of Cedar Mills, Ohio. A history of the Freeman family can be found in the Portsmouth Public Library.

Oui subject was born July 4, 1878, at Manchester, Adams county, Ohio. He received a common school education from the schools of Monroe township, afterwards graduating from the West Union High School in 1896. He moved with his parents to Pond Run, this county, that year, and began teaching the following year. He followed this profession for two years, and then located in Portsmouth, and engaged as a clerk for M. Lehman & Brother for a year. From there he went to Burt, Hall & Company's, where he was salesman until May, 1901, when he entered the employ ot J. Eisman & Company, in the same capacity. Later he became traveling salesman for the latter firm for southern Ohio and West Virginia, which position he now holds. He was married July 2, 1902, to Misss Florence Weghorst, daughter of Christopher Weghorst, of

Portsmouth, Ohio. Mr. Lindsay is a young man of more than ordinary intelli- gence. He possesses a good amount of business ability, although yet a young man, and has a promising future before him. He is honest, upright, and ener- getic, and by his congenial ways has won a host of friends.

William Liston

son of John Liston and Sarah Robinson his wife, was born April 2, 1821, on Brush creek. in Scioto county, Ohio. His father was a son of Perry Liston, who came from Wales to Maryland and afterwards removed to Philadelphia. Short- ly afterwards he came to Scioto county, and settled on Scioto Brush Creek, near Otway, being one of the first settlers in that vicinity. At that time the coun- try was still inhabited by Indians and some of them came to see him often. Our subject never went to school until he was eighteen; and he helped to build the first school house in which he was a pupil. It was built of logs and greased paper was used for windows.

He was married in 1850, to Nancy Thompson. She died in 1855, and he was married the second time to Eliza Jane Cox, a daughter of Jacob Cox and Cynthia (Smith) Cox, January 17, 1856. By this second marriage there were ten children, six boys and four girls. Of these five boys and two girls are liv- ing: Margaret, William Jasper, Allen T., Nancy J., William Sherman, Charles Wesley and Firman M. Margaret married William Brown. Nancy J. mar- ried John A. Davis.

Our subject enlisted in Company I, 28th O. V. I., under Captain William Hessin, and Colonel G. F. Wyles, September 27, 1864. He was attached to the Second Brigade, Third Division, Seventeenth Corps. He was with Sherman on his march to the sea. He was honorably discharged at Washington, D. C., May 30, 1865. He was a whig and afterwards a republican. He was a Meth- odist during a greater portion of his life, and afterwards united with the Chris- tian Union church. It was said, he never swore an oath in his life nor took a drink of intoxicating liquor. He lived a devout christian life and gave freely

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to the building of churches and the support of them. He died November 7, 1898, and is buried in the family cemetery, near the old homestead, on Scioto Brush Creek.

James Little

was born in Stirling, Kilsythe, Scotland, August 26, 1838. His father's name was James Little, and his mother's maiden name was Margaret Cameron. Both of his parents were natives of Scotland. Our subject came to this coun- try alone at the age of fourteen. His parents came afterwards. He located in Cumberland, Alleghany county, Maryland, and attended school there. In 1860, he brought his parents to this country. In this vicinity he was engaged in mining coal, and at the age of twenty-two he became a boss master miner, which occupation he continued until he left in 1881. He then went to Piedmont, West Virginia, and became a mining superintendent for the Big Vein Coal Co., and remained with this company sixteen years, until 1897. He then went to Dingess, West Virginia, and operated for himself in mining coal. He left there in October. 1899, and located in Portsmouth, and is conducting a business un- der the firm name of Little & Wilson.

He was married April 23, 1863, to Janet Stewart, a native of Scotland. They have had five children: John Stewart; William C. was killed at the age of thirty-two in a railroad accident in July, 1901; Margaret, married Fred- erick Fredlocke, residing in Portsmouth; Mary, died in infancy; Mary, married H. T. Wilson, residing in Portsmouth, of the firm of Little & Wilson. Mr. Little is a republican in his political views, and has always been. He is a Blue Lodge, Knight Templar. Chapter and Council Mason. He is also an Odd Fel- low.

Smith S. Littlejohn

was born at Diamond Furnace, Jackson county, Ohio, June 18, 1858, the son of James and Cynthia (Smith) Littlejohn. His father was a native of Porter township, Scioto county, Ohio, born in 1820. His mother was a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Gray Smith, born in Greenup county, Kentucky, April 22, 1824. The maternal great-grandfather of Mr. Littlejohn was Godfrey Smith, a soldier of the Revolution, who has a sketch in the article, "Revolutionary Sol- diers." Our subject received a common school education and afterwards at- tended the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, for one year. When nineteen, he began to teach and followed that occupation for six years. In Oc- tober, 1887, Mr. Littlejohn moved to Steece, Lawrence county, Ohio, where he now resides and has been employed by the firm of E. B. Willard & Company, at that place until the present time. He is a member of the Lawrence Lodge, F. and A. M., No. 198, Ironton Commandery. Knight Templar, No. 45, Ironton, Ohio. He is also a member of the Syrian Temple A. A. O. M. S. of Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1881, he was married to Amelia Ranshahous, a native of Portsmouth, daughter of William and Augustia (Fisher) Ranshahous. They have one daughter, Addie A.

Charles Perry Lloyd,

son of Richard and Anna Canfield, his wife. was born June 10, 1840. He at- tended the schools of Portsmouth until fifteen years of age, and then entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, and was graduated in June, 1860. He read law six months with Colonel O. F. Moore, and then concluded the law did not suit him. In the spring of 1861, he went to Iowa, and was a farm- er for three years. In 1864, he returned to Portsmouth, Ohio, and entered the shoe business with his father as R. Lloyd & Son. The firm was afterwards changed to Lloyd, Tracy & Company and then to R. Lloyd & Company. On February 26, 1863, he married Miss Laura Jane Bentley. They had two chil- dren: Richard Bentley, who lived to young manhood and died Jan. 18, 1889, aged twenty-five years, and Genevieve, now a young lady, In 1877, Mr. Lloyd became president and superintendent of the Scioto Fire Brick Company. He was for a long time a director of the Portsmouth National Bank. He was a Mason, a republican, and a member of the Sixth Street Methodist church. He was an excellent business man, a pleasant neighbor and devotedly attached to his home and family. He died suddenly March 27, 1893.

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Margaret Lloyd

went into the millinery business in Portsmouth, Ohio, in April, 1866, and has been in it ever since. She is now located at No. 308 Chillicothe street. She is a member of the Bigelow church. As a member of the business community, she is favorably known to the public and has been very successful. No one is esteemed higher than she. Her word and obligation, in a business way, or otherwise, is better than gold, because the gold may be lost or stolen, but her promise or obligation will be met to the moment, without any question. She has demonstrated the fact that a woman can go into business and suc- ceed, and do as well, or better than any man.

Lucien G. Locke, M. D.,

was born at Haverhill, Ohio, September 11, 1866, the son of Delmont and Elizabeth (Trumbo) Locke. His ancestry is directly traceable to John Locke. His boyhood and youth were spent on the farm. He attended the district school. He spent two years, 1885 and 1886, at Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio. He taught school for two years, (1890 and 1891,) and in 1892 entered the Uni- versity of Michigan and took up the study of medicine. He remained there until 1896, when he was graduated. He located in Haverhill, Ohio, the same year, and has practiced there since. On June 24, 1896, he was married to Miss Ella L. Murray, at Milan, Michigan. They have one child, Cranston, a son.

As a man, Dr. Locke enjoys the respect and esteem of his neighbors and of the community at large. As a citizen, he is public-spirited and progressive, always ready to help when the public good is concerned or private charity nec- essary. As a professional man, he has the confidence of the entire communi -- ty in which he works and he applies himself assiduously to his duties and to his own advancement in his profession.

Robert Warren Lodwick

was born September 15, 1866. He attended the Portsmouth public schools till 1881. He was compelled to leave school to earn his living. He began working for John B. Nichols as a varnisher. Afterwards he worked for the Whiteley Company, at 'Springfield, Ohio. He returned to Portsmouth in 1888, and became stage manager at the Opera House, and continued that occupation for ten years, when he engaged in business for himself, as city bill poster. He became a member of the Ohio State Association and the International Associa- tion of Distributors and operated one of the best plants in the state. He had been a member of Company H, 14th O. N. G., and was on duty at the miners' strike in 1894. He was a republican, a charter member of the Elks, and a member of the Portsmouth Board of Trade. He was in all respects a self- made man, and had built up a character and business for himself of which he and his friends had just cause to be proud. He was married December 2, 1892, to Mrs. Nellie Reiniger, widow of Louis Reiniger, and eldest daughter of the late Judge Martin Crain. He died December 27, 1901, of acute Bright's disease, after a two week's sickness.

Silas Oscar Losee

was born July 18, 1830, at Troy, New York. His father was Isaac Losee, a na- tive of Scotland. His mother's maiden name was Roxana Jarray, daughter of Anthony Jarray. The family went to Detroit when Silas was five or six years of age. In 1838, they left Detroit and his father went to work as a stone ma- son on locks of the Ohio canal, between Potsmouth and Cleveland. He built the "elbow" lock. Mr. Jarray was also a stone-mason, and worked on locks of the Ohio canal. He died of the yellow fever in 1840, in the northern part of Ohio. Elizabeth, his widow, died in 1860, in Portsmouth, and was interred ju Greenlawn. Anthony Jarray came from France prior to 1812, and went into the war of 1812.

Silas I osee came to Portsmouth in 1838. His father died in 1845, and he was reared by Moses Wilson, who taught him the brick mason's trade. He was married June 30, 1859, to Sarah E. Weatherwax, daughter of Jacob Weather- wax, and Louisa Wilson, daughter of Moses Wilson. Mr. Losee enlisted July

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12, 1861, in Company A, 39th O. V. I., and was made a Sergeant. He was pro- moted Second Lieutenant, October 6, 1862, and First Lieutenant May 9, 1864. He was mustered out, October 28, 1864, on the expiration of the term of ser- vice. He was shot in the right foot with a minie ball July 22, 1864, before Atlanta. His children are: Jennie E., wife of Eugene Herbert Clare; Nellie I., book-keeper at the Hibbs Hardware Company; Silas O., resident of Ports- mouth; and Ada B., wife of Algernon McBride. Mr. Losee made an excellent soldier and officer. He was a quiet, industrious and law-abiding citizen re- spected and liked by all who knew him.

George Washington Lowry

was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, December 2, 1856. His parents were George and Eliza (O'Neil) Lowry. His mother came from Ross county, Ohio. His father's people came from Virginia, in 1837, and settled at Portsmouth. Our subject's father, George Lowry, married Eliza O'Neil, in 1842, and lived on Ninth street, where their son George, was born. He attended the Portsmouth schools and secured a fair education. He worked in the Maddox woolen mill from 1870 to 1875. He gardened for Mr. Ward till 1878, and then farmed until 1884. He then engaged in the grocery business and contract carpentering. He and his wife continued the grocery until 1895, and since that time he has followed carpentering. One of Mr. Lowry's paternal ancestors was in Wash- ington's army. Mr. Lowry is a republican and has done good work for the party. He is quite a politician, but never has had any important positions. He is a member of Scioto Lodge, I. O. O. F., and also a Forester.

He married Carrie Isabel Noel, daughter of Isaac H. and Mary E. (Jones) Noel, October 29, 1879. They have six children living: Edwin Earl, Bessie May, Pearl Isaac, George W. Jr., Clifton and Erma I. The deceased are: Maude and Blanche. Mr. Lowry is an industrious, painstaking workman, of a genial, social turn, a good talker and an agreeable companion.

Shadrach Chaffin Lummis

was born a't Bloom Furnace, Scioto county, Ohio, March 16, 1862. His father was John W. Lummis, born near Vineland, Cumberland county, New Jersey, September 15, 1813, and has a separate sketch in this work. His mother was Elizabeth Chaffin, daughter of Shadrack Chaffin, one of the pioneers of Scioto county, and a farmer of Vernon township. Our subject lived on his father's farm until he was nineteen years of age when he went to Iowa in 1881, to learn the grocery business with Boggs Brothers & Company at Vinton. He did not like it, it was too humdrum for him. He returned to Ohio, in the fall of 1881, and entered Oberlin School of Telegraphy March, 1882, and graduated in June, 1882. He then accepted a position with the Scioto Valley railway at Ironton, Ohio, and was there until 1888, when he resigned and took a position with the Chesapeake & Ohio, at Hawk's Nest, West Virginia, and stayed there a year. Then he took an attack of the western fever, resigned and accepted a position with the F. E. & M. V. railway in Nebraska, and was afterwards transferred to Buffalo Gap, South Dakota, where he remained until 1898. He was elected Treasurer of Custer county, South Dakota, for two years at the November elec- tion, 1898. He was re-elected in November, 1900, for two years.

He was married June 24, 1891, to Emily D. Buck, daughter of Nathan Buck, of Suffolk, Virginia. He has one son, Jacob Chauncy Lummis, born August 7, 1894. He says he has always voted the straight republican ticket, and always will. He is a member of no church, but a Protestant in his views. He is a member of Lawrence lodge and LaGrange Chapter, F. and A. M., of Ironton, Ohio, and of Deadwood Consistory. He resides at present at Custer, South Dakota. As Mr. Lummis is in no way responsible for this sketch, and will not see it until it appears in print, the editor purposes to do as he pleases with him. Physically, Mr. Lummis is one of the finest looking young men who ever grew up in Scioto county. He is a most agreeable companion, a good man, and liberal in all his views. There is no limit to his industry and perseverance. Whatever he takes up, he does with a determination to succeed. His friends in Ohio expect great things from him in the state of South Dakota, and if they do not hear from him as one of the most prominent men in the state, in the

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course of a few years, they will be very much disappointed. To the people of his adopted state, his friends in Scioto and Jackson counties, Ohio, will en- dorse him in any respect which may be hinted at. No request or demand is necessary. His friends in Ohio regret his removal to the west, as his genial presence was like sunshine and mountain air, but they have the consolation that he is doing for Custer county, South Dakota. what he would have done for his native county had he remained.

John Mearns Lynn

the oldest son of James and Margaret (Mearns) Lynn, was born near Cole- raine, Londonderry county, Ireland, November 24, 1829. His parents were de- scendants of Scotch-Irish Covenanters, who had come into northern Ireland during the day of religious persecutions. He came to this country with his parents in 1846. Shortly after settling in America, his mother died and his father removed to Pittsburg, where he learned the molder's trade. He worked afterward in foundries at Wheeling, Louisville and Cincinnati. In the latter place, he made the acquaintance of the late John Mill and together they made the first metallic casket produced in the United States. In 1852, he came to Portsmouth and worked in the Eberhardt foundry. It was here he met Miss Alice Richardson, a native of Zanesville, Ohio, who was visiting her sister, Mrs. John Neill. She was the daughter of Jeremiah D. and Rebecca (Pritchard) Richardson. They were married at the Neill residence on Front street, May 4, 1854. Their children are as follows: Elizabeth E., now Mrs. George Padan; Rev. B. Frank, a minister in the Christian church; Mattie H., a teacher in the Public Schools; Jennie S .; James S .; Trustem M .; John R. and Edith A., now Mrs. H. O. Barklow. One daughter, Annie N., died in 1863.

In 1865, Mr. Lynn was the Democratic candidate for Wharf-master and received 497 votes to 573 for Thomas T. Yeager, republican. After several years of service in the City Council, he was elected Mayor of Portsmouth on the Democratic ticket, in 1867, receiving 737 votes to 649 votes for F. J. Griffith, republican. In 1869, he was again a candidate for Mayor on his party ticket, and was elected, receiving 800 votes to 745 for his opponent, H. T. Newton. In 1871, he was again a candidate for Mayor on the party ticket. but was defeated by John A. Turley, republican, receiving 978 votes and Johl. M. Lynn 782 votes. In May, 1872, he was appointed a member of the City Board of Equalization. In April, 1874, when the Board of Education was first organized by wards, Mr. Lynn was elected from the First ward for two years without opposition. In 1877, he was again elected mayor of the city on the Democratic ticket. The vote stood, Lynn, 1,058, Samuel P. Nichols, 953.

In 1879, he was a candidate for re-election for Mayor, but was defeated by H. A. Towne, republican who received 1,093 votes to his 1,031. In 1881, he was a candidate for Probate Judge, but was defeated by H. C. Turley, republican, who received 3,445, to his 2,359.

Mr. Lynn in his active life

was prominently identified with

the political life of the community. He was always an unswerving democrat. He had a generous disposition which made him numerous friends. In his political career, he was noted for his honesty, integrity and sincerety. He was strong and courageous for the right, as he saw the right. We have given the votes on the offices at the different times he was a candidate in order to show the confidence the people had in him. When he was not elected, he was usually very nearly so. He was a very good parliamentarian. Many of his political opponents were his best friends. His domestic life was commendable and he was very devoted to his family. He was brought up a Scotch Presby- terian, but in early manhood united with the Christian Baptist church and re- mained connected with that all his life. Mr. Lynn was always ready to aid in any charitable work and in accordance with his means, he was one of the most liberal men of the community. He was especially prominent with the Odd Fellows and in the meetings of the encampment filled positions of honor. He was one of the organizers of the Iron Molders Union of North America in the early days of its existence and maintained his membership in the local Union, serving as its President for many years. Physically he was a fine speci- men of manhood. He died August 14, 1890, and was interred in Greenlawn. Mr,

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A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 141

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