A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 142

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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James W. Newman said of him, "He was a man of sturdy character. He never abandoned a principle or betrayed a friend. He loved his home, and was proud of his children, and watched their progress with solicitous care."

John Richardson Lynn

the youngest son of the late John Mearns and Alice (Richardson) Lynn was born October 21, 1870, in Portsmouth. He graduated from the Portsmouth High School in June, 1889. On the paternal side, his ancestry is the sturdy Scotch-Irish, while on the maternal side it is a combination of Pennsylvania Dutch, Quaker, Welsh and old Virginia stock. The subject of this sketch, up- on leaving school, engaged actively in the gas business, serving on the engi- neering staff of the Detroit (Mich.) and Memphis (Tenn.) gas companies. He has also managed gas plants in the following places: Decatur, Alabama; Penn Yan, New York; Benton Harbor and Port Huron, Michigan, and Portsmouth, Ohio. In August, 1901, Mr. Lynn became manager of the Fremont Gas, Electric Light and Power Company, of Fremont, Ohio, where he now resides. He has made a specialty of construction work and is recognized as one of the best in his line in the country. He is a member of the Western, Michigan and Ohio Gas Association, one of the directors of the former and also a director of the Portsmouth Gas Company. He was married to Anne Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Thomas Franklin and Ruth (Williams) Lloyd, June 28, 1900, at Portsmouth, in which city Mrs. Lynn was born December 28, 1872. She was a member of the Ironton High School class of 1891, and for several years a pop- ular teacher in the Portsmouth public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn are mem- bers of the Baptist church of Clyde, Ohio, and are interested in its work.

Trustem Mearns Lynn

was born July 1, 1833, at Malatrakill, Londonderry county, Ireland. His father was James Lynn, and his mother's maiden name was Margaret Mearns. The whole family emigrated from Ireland to the United States when our sub- ject was fourteen years old. They were six weeks and two days on the ocean. They landed in New York, twelve miles from Harper's Ferry and there Mr. Mr. Lynn's mother died and was buried. After remaining here one summer, they went to Pittsburg, Pa., where they remained five or six years. There Mr. Lynn was apprenticed to the tailor's trade, and worked at it about five years. At the end of that time, his brother John was located in Portsmouth, and he came to Portsmouth in 1854. The first year in Portsmouth he peddled cook-stoves, and the next year he drove a notion wagon. He opened the liv- ery business in 1854, on what is now the vacant lot east of his present stable, and has been in the livery business in that locality ever since, a period of forty- four years.

He was married March 14, 1859 to Susan Cockerill, daughter of Jesse Cockerill. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn have never had any children born to them, but reared six. Of these, three were adopted. They reared John Shaw, Emma Shaw, living in St. Louis, Mo., and Margaret Shaw now the wife of John Jones. They adopted Susan Shaw, now Mrs. Charles Micklethwait, Una Mc- Cauley, a niece, and Roy McCanley, a nephew.

Mr. Lynn was a member of the City Council in the First ward for a period of thirteen years and a member of the School Board in the same ward for a period of fifteen years. He was a democrat until 1880, and since then he has been independent. He was reared in the Presbyterian church, and became a member of it within three years past. Between 1861 and 1887 he had the fast horse craze, and says that if he had never had it, he would

have had $40,000 that he does not have now. He has handled, bought and sold, made and lost money, on many fast horses. The most notable one was "Dan Rice," which he bought in 1862 for $800, and sold him in 1866 for $16,000. After Mr. Lynn parted with him he was called "Rhode Island," and while Mr. Lynn owned him he won eleven races out of twelve. Mr. Lynn has come to the same conclusion as to fast horses that Solomon did as to things in general, that they are all vanity and vexation of spirit. Mr. Lynn is a liberal minded man, always ready to give his last dollar in any manner where he is interested, a

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very good talker and full of dry humor. The last two qualities he brought with him from Ireland. He is a gentleman who makes good friends, and they stand by him.

Alexander Bryson McBride

was born Jan. 22, 1845 in Butler county, Pennsylvania. His father's name was Robert Scott McBride, and his mother's name was Eliza J. Bryson. His grand- father Thomas McBride came from Scotland with his parents when he was only eight years old and on July 14, 1777, he emigrated to Pennsylvania (see sketch of Thomas McBride.) Our subject was six years old when he left But- ler county, Pa., and located in Pike county, Ohio, on Yankee Hill, where he resided until he was twelve years of age, when he moved to Mt. Joy, and has lived there ever since. He was brought up a farmer. His father died when he was sixteen years old, and he managed his father's former business from that time on.

Our subject enlisted in Company A, 53rd O. V. I. October 3, 1861 for three years at the age of seventeen. He was appointed Corporal January 23, 1864. In the summer of 1862, while at Memphis, Tenn., he was detailed a color guard of the regiment and served with the colors from that time until he was wounded on June 27, 1864 at Kenesaw Mountain. He was in all the battles of the Regiment until disabled by his wound. He was unable for duty until the December following, when he joined his regiment at Rowland, North Carolina on the march from the sea to Washington. He was mustered out of service August 11, 1865, at Little Rock, Arkansas. After the war he engaged in farm- ing at Mt. Joy. He went to Rarden in August, 1897, and was appointed post- master and has held that office ever since. He was Justice of the Peace of Rarden township from 1891 to 1897, a period of six years. He was elected Mayor of the village of Rarden in April, 1900.

He was married December 5, 1864, to Miss Margaret Smiley, daughter of Nathaniel Smiley. They have the following children: Della May, wife of Thomas Armstrong of Delavan, Ills., William Alton, in the mercantile business at Mt. Joy; Mertie E., wife of Clinton Armstrong, of Delavan, Ills., Nora H., wife of William T. Hackworth, of Rarden; Niman S., residing at Delavan, Ills .; Ila, wife of John Perry, of Rarden, a clerk in Mr. Blackburn's store; Em- ma, aged twenty, Vernon, aged eighteen, Alcie, aged fifteen, and Clyde, aged eight years at home. Mr. McBride has always been a republican, and is a mem- ber of the Christian church.

For loyalty, patriotism and devotion to country and flag, A. B. McBride was not excelled by any man who wore the blue. He stands deservedly high in his community and for morality, character and integrity, he ranks among the most substantial citizens of the county. As a soldier, citizen and official, his life stands without blemish or reproach.

Thomas Benton McBride

was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, four miles from the town of Butler, February 20, 1849. His father was Robert Scott McBride, and his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth J. Bryson. His grandfather, Richard Bryson, was of Irish descent, and a native of Butler county, Pennsylvania. His grand- father, Thomas McBride, was born in Scotland, and was eight years old when he with his father's family landed in America. They proceeded immediately to Mercer county. Pennsylvania, July 1, 1774. Thomas McBride had two brothers and one sister: Charles, Walter Scott and Margaret. He married a McGill and had ten children, as follows: Archibald, William, Charles, Thomas, John, James, Robert, Samuel, Eliza Jane and Sarah Ann.

Our subject came to Yankee Hill, Pike county, Ohio, in 1850, with his parents, where they remained six years, afterwards removing to Mt. Joy. Here he attended school and worked on his father's farm until 1872, except the time spent in military service. He enlisted in Company F, 1st O. V. H. A., June 25, 1863, at the age of fourteen, and was discharged March 7, 1864. He enlisted in Cmpany E, 179th O. V. I., August 11, 1864, and was appointed Corporal Sep- tember 27, 1864, and mustered out June 17, 1865. He began teaching in Scioto county, in 1872 and continued to teach, though not continuously, for six years. A part of this time was spent in Scioto county, part in Armstrong county, Pa,,

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and part in Mason county, Kentucky. He gave up the profession of teaching to become a store clerk and was employed for some time by W. A. McGeorge at Mt. Joy, and subsequently by J. E. Blackburn at Cedar Mills, Ohio. Since then he has been a farmer of Mt. Joy. He is a republican and a member of the Christian church. October 16, 1886, he was married to Mary J. Strickland, daughter of Jacob and Nancy (Ferran) Strickland, of Pike county.

Oliver Coughlin McCall

was born August 20, 1834, in Cincinnati, the son of Archibald McCall and Anna Coughlin. his wife, who was an only child. Her grandparents, Van Houghton and G. G. Van Blarcom, came from Holland in early days and settled in New Jersey, a direct descendant of Anneke Jans, Queen of Holland. The father of Archibald McCall came from the Highlands of Scotland.

Our subject spent his boyhood days in Cincinnati, and was educated at Herron's Seminary, one of the best schools in the city. He also attended St. Xavier school and finished his education at Wittenburg College at Springfield, Ohio. After leaving college he studied architecure with Mr. Willlam Waller, his brother-in-law. In 1857, he became acquainted with C. A. M. Damarin, who induced him to leave the profession of architect and go into his employ. He served with the firm of C. A. M. Damarin & Co. as a book-keeper, until 1880. He was a partner until 1890 when the firm retired.

Mr. McCall was a very modest man and of retiring disposition. He serve on the Portsmouth Board of Health for several years. He was also a member of the Tax Commission of the city of Portsmouth. In his political views he was always a republican. In 1859, he became a member of the First Presbyterian church of Portsmouth, Ohio, under the ministry of Rev. E. P. Pratt. He was a deacon for a number of years, until the Second church was organized, when he connected with it. He was a teacher in the First church Sabbath school from September, 1857, until he connected with the Sec- ond church and from that time he was connected with its Sabbath school until his death. He was superintendent of the Second Presbyterian Sunday school for ten years. He was elder in the Second church from its organization until his death and was a trustee from the first until he was made executor of the J. L. Hibbs estate. He was a liberal supporter of the church and of all public measures.

On April 7, 1858, he was married to Sarah A. Merrell, of Cincinnati, Ohio. She was the second daughter of William Stanley Merrell, M. D., President of Eclectic College and one of the oldest druggists and citizens in the city of Cin- cinnati. Her ancestors came to the British colonies of North America prior to the French and Indian war, and participated in the war of the Revolution and the war of 1812. The mother of. Mrs. McCall was Mehetabel Thurston Poor, a New England woman from Newberryport, (Byfield) Massachusetts. The revo- lutionary ancestors of our subject and of his wife will be found named under the title "Revolutionary Soldiers" in this work. Mr. McCall had three chil- dren born in Portsmouth, Ohio. Oliver Clifford, who died at the age of three years, Anna Merrell, wite of William S. Calder, of Connersville, Indiana; Louis Damarin McCall, of No. 6,321 Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Calder have two children. Rachel and William Stanley.

Our subject died January 5, 1898, of hardening of the liver. Mr. McCall was a man of the very highest character, and lived every day up to the chris- tian principles he professed. As a business man he had no superior. He was accurate in all his work and in all his dealings. He was respected and loved by all who knew him, and will long be remembered as an exponent of true man- hood. He was interred in the Spring Grove cemetery, in Cincinnati.

John Jay McCall

was born March 13, 1844, in Gallia county, Ohio. His father, Hugh McCall, was a native of Adams county and his grandfather, Michael McCall, was a native of Scotland. His mother's maiden name was Margaret Bennett. She was a daughter of Gilbert Bennett. Our subject was the fourth of a family of twelve children. His father was a collier and worked at Gallia Furnace Gallia county, until John Jay was eight years of age. Then the famlly lived at Jef-

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ferson Furnace for one year. When our subject was nine years of age the fam- ily moved to South Webster, where his father was employed as a miller. He at- tended school until he was twenty. and then engaged in store keeping at Clin- ton Furnace. He was there for six months and then went to Washington where he remained for six and a half years. He then went to Center Furnace, Law rence county, and clerked for one year and a half. In 1873, he went to Oak Hill and engaged in the mercantile business. He remained there for eighteen months and then went to South Webster, where he was in the mercantile bus- iness until 1875. In that year, he commenced traveling for Eisman & Company and traveled for them nine years. In 1885, he went to South Webster and re- mained there until December, 1891, when he returned to Portsmouth and opened a grocery in the east end.

On January 1, 1873, he was married to Susan Cole, daughter of James M. Cole. Their children were: Harriet, Nellie, Dollie and Ada. His wife died Jan- uary 5, 1884. In May, 1885, he was married to Augusta M. Griffith. Their chil- dren are: Edith, Augusta, Florence Esther and Richard Dudley. Mr. McCall is a democrat and a member of Bigelow M. E. church. He is also a member of Aurora Lodge, Masons in Portsmouth and of the Royal Arch Chapter at Jackson, Ohio. Mr. McCall is a good citizen and a valuable working member in the community. He does every duty before him and lets consequences take care of themselves.

Moses David McCall

was born in the old stone house one mile above Buena Vista, July 2, 1842. His father was David McCall, and his mother was Sarah (Silvy) McCall. His grandfather was William McCall. Sr., born in Argyle, Scotland. David settled at Rockville in Adams county in 1802 or 1803. He afterwards owned a large body of land there. He built the stone house now standing in the Loughry or- chard and gave it to his brother Solomon. He built the stone house just above Buena Vista and had a boat yard there. The lumber used in building his boats was gotten out with a whip saw. He built two water mills, one on the upper stone house farm and the other on upper Twin creek on the John McKinney farm. They were operated as late as 1862. He also kept a store at the stone house and sold liquors.

He married Mary Caraway. They had eleven children, five sons and six daughters, as follows: Solomon B. who lived and died in Kansas; Henry, Jus- tice of the Peace for so many years in Nile Township; William died a young man; John, unmarried, living at White Cloud, Brown county, Kansas; David lived and died in Scioto county; Mary married Isaac Stockham; Penina and Sarah single; Martha married Simon Nolder whose son is a blacksmith at Buena Vista; Maria married Lewis Dunn. lives in Brown county, Kansas: Mary married William Williams of Brown county Kansas. After the death of his first wife he married Mrs. Sarah Worley, widow of Jeffer- son Worley. By that marriage were born Moses David. our subject; Rachel, deceased; Eliza, married W. F. Kenyon, of Vanceburg, Kentucky; Emily. mar- ried John Gillett, and Penina, married John W. Givens of Salina, Kansas.

William McCall, the grandfather, and his wife are buried in the McCall graveyard. They had a large family of sons and daughters, as follows: Moses, Solomon, William, David, Duncan, John, Millie, Martha and Polly. William, Sr., had a brother Solomon who was the father of Duncan and grandfather of Enoch McCall.

Our subject attended the country schools and lived on a farm most of his life but has been conducting a store at McGaw for the last ten years. He is a republican and is a member of the McKendree Chapel Methodist church at McGaw. He had the McGaw postoffice established in 1893 and has held the office since. He is an honest, honorable man, a good neighbor, a good citizen, a good Christian. He has lived in the same neighborhood all his life. He was married January 4, 1872 to Elizabeth A. Gillett. They have four children: Arthur G. a chemist in the United States Bureau of Soils, Agricul- tural Department, Washington, D. C .; C. Herbert now in his last year in the Ohio Dental College at Cincinnati, Ohio; Eddie A. clerk in a wholesale grocery in Portsmouth and Otto M. also a clerk in Portsmouth.

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Thomas Homer McCann, M. D.,

was born near Mt. Joy, Pike county, Ohio, Sept. 9, 1864. His father was Henry McCann, and his mother's maiden name was Amanda Lawwill, daughter of Johnson Lawwill. His grandfather, John McCann, was born in Scotland and emigrated to Pennsylvania. His grandmother was Mary Rose. His great- grandfather MeCann came from Scotland with his father in about 1768 and settled in Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Johnson Lawwill. married Mary Collings. His great-grandfather, Stephen Lawwill, was one of the first settlers at Manchester in 1791. Robert F. Rose, the father of Mary Rose his grand- mother, was a surgeon in the Revolutionary war from Virginia. The parents of our subject had seven children. six sons and one daughter. He was the fifth child.

He was educated in the common schools and attended the North Liberty Academy, in 1882 and 1883. He attended a Normal school in Piketon in 1884. He taught public schools from 1882 to 1890. He began the study of medicine in 1890, with Doctors Berry and Wittenmyer of Peebles O. He attended medi- cal lectures at Louisville Ky., in the School of Medicine there for one year. He graduated from the Louisville Medical School June 21, 1894. He first located in Louden, Adams county, in March, 1895. He was married June 5. 1895, to Hat- tie Coriell, daughter of Wm. B. Coriell, of Harrison township. They have one child Ida May. His wife died April 27, 1896. He was married a second time on November 27, 1901 to Lida B. Coriell. another daughter of Wm. B. Coriell. Dr. McCann was a democrat in his political views until 1896, and after that became a republican and has remained such. He is a member of the Christian church at Mt. Joy, of the Masonic Lodge at Lucasville and the Knights of Pythias at Harrisonville.

Frank C. McColm

was born August 8, 1863, at Muscatine, Iowa. His father was John D. McColm and his mother, Lida Edgington, both of Adams county. His grandfather was James McColm at one time Probate Judge of Adams county. His grand- father, on his mother's side was Oliver Edgington who resided near Manches- ter. His mother died when he was but eleven months old. He was taken by his grandfather, Oliver Edgington, and reared in Adams county. He went to school at Manchester. He engaged in the marble business at Manchester when he was but seventeen years of age, and has been there in the same busi- ness ever since. He has $10,000 invested in it and employs sixty-five men. He has the largest establishment of the kind between Cincinnati and Pittsburg, and, in his business, he has the latest tools and the most modern and very latest inventions. He sells monuments all over the United States. He also maintains a branch sale-office and marble yard in Portsmouth, Ohio, conduc- ted by W. A. Plummer and is as well known in Portsmouth as in Manchester.

In 1887. he was married to Ida Varner, of Mason county, Kentucky, and they have three children, two boys and a girl. In politics, he is a republican. He deserves a great deal of credit for having built up the wonderful business he has, and it is demonstrated that he is one of the best business men who ever resided in Adams county. Mr. MeColm has the confidence of all his neighbors and acquaintances.

Charles Albert McCormick

was born September, 1850. in Rome, Adams county, Ohio. His father was George S. McCormick, a well known merchant of Scioto county, and his mother was Nancy Fleak. He was one of seven children, of whom only two are now living. He spent his boyhood in Rome until he was nine years of age. His father then removed to a farm still owned in the family, where he remained until he was twenty years of age. His father then removed to Portsmouth and engaged in the grocery business, where our subject remained as an assistant for two years. At the age of twenty-two. he returned to his father's farm and lived the life of a farmer for about four years. At the age of twenty-six, he removed to Buena Vista and went into business with his father. The latter died in 1889, and in the fall of that year, he went into business for himself, in conducting a general store in Buena Vista, and has been engaged in that ever since.

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He was married first on September 25, 1872 to Rosa Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, of Walker's Landing. There were two children of this mar- riage, both daughters, Maud and Genevieve, now at home with their father. His wife died on May 17, 1890. He was married the second time in May, 1891, to Anna Eakins, daughter of Isaac Eakins, deceased. Their marriage occurred at Captain Kirker's, in Pomeroy, at Lincoln Hall. From his majority until 1896, Mr. McCormick was a democrat in his political views. In that year, he changed his political affiliations and became a republican. His first vote was for Horace Greely in 1872. Mr. McCormick is esteemed as a good citizen.

Edward Oscar McCowen

was born in Bloom township, Scioto county, Ohio, June 23, 1877. His father William H. McCowen enlisted in Company E, 117th O. V. I. August 9, 1862, was transferred to Company F, October 18, 1862 and was mustered out June 20, 1865 at Knoxville, Tennessee, This regiment was changed in May, 1863, into the First Ohio Heavy Artillery. His paternal grandfather, Nathan McCowen served in the 56th Ohio from November 16, 1861 to January 20, 1864, when his term expired and he re-enlisted and became a member of Company A, 56th Battalion and was finally discharged November 15, 1865 at New Orleans, Louisiana, on surgeon's certificate of disability. His great-grandfather, David McCowen, built the first flour mill on the Little Scioto river, but it had been built only a short time when a flood carried it away. The remains of the old mill dam may yet be seen from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad bridge across the Little Scioto. His mother is Frances (McCammon) McCowen.

Edward attended the village schools of South Webster until he was seventeen years of age and was a newsboy continuously from 1887 to 1892. He secured a teacher's certificate when he was seventeen and began teaching. His first school was taught in sub-district No. 6, Harrison township, where he taught two years. The patrons desired his services again, but the Board of Education of his home town, South Webster, employed him. He is now principal of the South Webster schools and has been in charge of them for five years. He has attended the Ohio Normal University at Ada, Ohio and ex- pects to graduate there soon. What education he has, has been obtained through his own efforts. He is a republican and takes an active part in poli- tics. He is a member of the Western Sun Lodge, No. 91, F. and A. M. and has held important offices therein. He is also a member of South Webster Lodge, Knights of Pythias, No. 724. He had the honor of being elected first Chancel- lor Commander of this Lodge, and held the office two terms. Mr. McCowen is a young man universally respected by those who know him. He is especially characterized by truthfulness, honesty and uprightness of character. As a teacher he ranks among the best in the county and performs his dutles with a consciousness of the responsibility of his position. He was married August 19, 1902 to Miss Clara Edith Smith of Russell, Kentucky, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Smith.

Samuel McElhaney

was born at Hanging Rock, Lawrence county, Ohio, September 10, 1847. His father, John McElhaney, was a native of Ireland, and his mother, Sarah Ann ( Ketchum) McElhaney was a native of Scioto county. He was the eldest of two children. He was reared in Portsmouth, Ohio, being but three years of age when his parents came to Portsmouth. His father was a molder. He at- tended the public schools of Portsmouth until 1860. In that year, he became a cook on a steamboat on the Ohio river. He followed that occupation and worked in the Gaylord mill until the war broke out.

He enlisted in Company I, 56th O. V. I. as a drummer and stayed with the regiment until they were ready to leave, when his father took him out on account of his age. He was not quite fourteen years of age. In July, 1862, he enlisted in Company D, 117th O. V. I. for three years. In May, 1863, orders were issued changing the organization into the First Regiment Heavy Artil- lery, Ohio Volunteers. He served as a drummer and as a private until June 20, 1865, when he was mustered out with the rest of the regiment. After his return from the army, he went into his father's foundry at Jackson, Ohio, and

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A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 142

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