A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 181

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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jority of between 5,000 and 8,000, his nomination is equivalent to an election. He is the first Common Pleas Judge that Gallia county has had since the late Judge Simeon Nash, some fifty years ago.

Judge Jones is a republican in principle and by inheritance, being a son of David Jones, one of the leading old-line whigs in the southern part of the state, and a member of the 35th General Assembly from the counties of Athens and Hocking, and of the 36th General Assembly from Athens

and Meigs counties.

Judge Jones is the principal owner of the Gallipolis Journal. the leading Republican paper of Gallia county. He became interested in it in 1890, buying an interest of the late Wm. Nash, who had been the editor and owner for many years. Judge Jones had business and editorial charge of the paper for several years, and still directs its policy, and frequently contributes to its columns.

On June 25, 1889. he was married to Miss Laura R. Shober, of Gallipolis, by whom he has four children now living. Their happy married life was sud- denly interrupted by the death of his wife in child-birth, on July 8, 1900. Judge Jones is highly esteemed by his many acquaintances and friends. He is a hard student and his work on the bench as well as at the bar has been marked by a thorough study of all questions submitted to him; and his trained mind and powers of analysis of all matters has made his career as lawyer and judge highly successful.

Edwin Jones,

of Jackson, Ohio, was born December 11, 1863, in Jefferson township, Jackson county. His father was Eben Jones, and his mother's maiden name was Ann Williams, daughter of Morgan Williams, of Newark, Ohio, a native of Wales. His grandfather was Thomas T. Jones, born in Wales, as was his son Eben; and the latter's wife was also born in Wales. Thomas T. Jones built Jefferson fur- nace in the early fiftys. He was the largest stock holder in it. He was con- nected with it for years until 1878, when his active connection ceased. Our sub- ject was educated in the common schools, until he was fifteen years of age. He then went to Buckeye furnace, Jackson county, and was employed in the store for four and one-half years. He was in the insurance business one year in Jack- son. In 1886, he went to Springfield, Ohio, and went into the wholesale and re- tail clothing business, where he remained one year. He returned to Jackson and kept books for the Emma Coal Company for eight years. He then engaged in the coal business for himself, which he still continues.

He is in the Emma, Buckeye and Cornelia Companies. He is general manager of all these companies, and has been in them since 1888. He is the chief owner of the Buckeye Mill & Lumber Co., at Jackson, and has been in that since 1888. He began as a small stock-holder and now owns the chief interest. He is also a stock holder in the Globe Iron Company. He controls 4,100 acres of coal lands in Jackson county, four mines, and three stores. What he has, he has made himself, except a small sum. He thinks good business property is the best investment. In June, 1900, he bought the old Isham House in Jackson, fronting 75 feet on Main. He is building a modern hotel to cover the whole grounds, five stories high.

Our subject was married June 10, 1887. to Lola Williams, daughter of Dr. W. S. Willams, of Centerville, Gallia county, Ohio. They have three children. Donald, Lillian and Dwight. Mr. Jones is a republican, and a member of the Presbyterian church. He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias lodge.

He is one of the shrewdest, safest, and ablest business men in Ohio. He is sagacious, far-seeing, energetic, resolute and persistent in the prosecution of whatever he undertakes. He is public-spirited and takes a lively and generous interest in whatever affects his city, county, or state. He is always ready to contribute his money, work and influence to every movement which makes for social improvement and progress. His character is a strong one from any point of view. He is fair and honorable in all contracts with his fellow-men. He employs more men and is developing more coal territory than any operator in his county. He does everything effectively and successfully. His name is ever on the tongues of his fellow-citizens of Jackson, and he is always spoken of in terms of admiration and respect. He has every reason to be proud of the place he holds in the hearts of his fellow-citizens. He is a most useful citizen

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and will accomplish for his fellow-citizens more than any predecessor or con- temporary.

Major Frank Johnston Jones

was born in the city of Cincinnati, April 22, 1838. His father was David Jones and his mother, Elizabeth, daughter of Col. John Johnston, Indian agent of the Northwest Territory and United States Government factor for 45 years at Fort Wayne. His mother was born September 22, 1847, in Fort Wayne. Col. John Johnston was a contemporary with General Lewis Cass and William Henry Harrison.

David Jones was a native of Berks county, Pennsylvania, and died in 1814. He had been a financial agent for the Governor of Pennsylvania. His great-grandfather, Col. John Jones, was a member of the 6th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during the Revolutionary War. His father lived to be 81. years old and his mother 71 years old. They died in August and November, 1878. They were members of the Episcopal church. They had thirteen children.

Major Jones' brother, William G. Jones, graduated in 1860, at West Point. He was a Colonel of the 36th O. V. I., and was killed at the battle of Chickamauga. His brother, Charles Davis Jones, graduated at Annapolis Naval Academy, in 1860, and died in 1865, at the close of the war.

Our subject was graduated from Yale College in 1859 and later studied law with the Hon. Rufus King. He enlisted April 19, 1861, as a private in Co. A, 6th O. V. I .; was transferred to the 13th O. V. I. in May, 1861, and made Second Lieutenant of Co. E, January 21, 1861. He was promoted to First Lieutenant of Co. K, January 1, 1862. He was made captain of Co. H, January 1, 1863. He was made Assistant Adjutant General, March 11, 1863. After the battle of Shiloh, he was acting as Assistant Adjutant General on General Rose- cran's staff, Gen. Chittenden's corps. He was captured at the battle of Per- ryville. He was assigned to duty as Acting Inspector General on the staff of Major McDowell, commanding the 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland on detached service at the battle of Chickamauga, and resigned in 1864. He was brevetted Major at the close of the war. He was admitted to the bar in 1866.

In May, 1866, he was married to Francis Fosdick, daughter of Samuel Fosdick. They have the following children: Anna F., married to E. H. Ernst, Assistant Secretary of the Cincinnati Equitable Insurance Company; Charles Davis Jones, a lawyer with his father; Samuel F., a student of the Medical Col- lege, New York; Francis L., and Edward, a graduate of Yale College, in 1901, and is now secretary of the McDonald and Kyle Shoe Company, of Cincinnati.

Major Jones is president of the Little Miami Railroad. He is a director of the Equitable Insurance Company, of Cincinnati, and a director of the Spring Grove Cemetery, of the Cincinnati Street Railroad Company, and a trustee of the University of Cincinnati.

Here is what an intimate friend says of the Major, "Frank Johnson Jones has led a busy, useful life. He has given the best a man can give-him- self-to his country, his city, and his church, while much has been given to him, in a most lovable, amiable wife and bright, attractive children, an ideal home. Major Jones served with distinction in the Civil War, in the line and on the staff. His service to his city has ben a continuous service, on many boards, the more helpful, as he is a ready speaker and an able writer. He has served his church upwards of a quarter of a century as vestryman and of late years as senior warden. Considering the strenuous life the Major has led, and the year he was born, there is a suspicion, he has located the fountain of youth and years are therefore of no consequence to him, except to extend and accentuate his usefulness."

General Wells S. Jones

was born in Ross county, Ohio, August 3, 1830. His father was Robert Penni- baker Jones, a native of Berkeley county, Virginia. His mother was Nancy Smith, a native of the same county and state. His grandfather, Robert Jones, came to Ross county, in 1810. He was a follower of the Quakers in England. His grandfather Jones married Susannah Pennibaker. She was a native of Berkeley county, Virginia. Her father was a Revolutionary soldier from start

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to finish, with seven of his sons, two of whom lost their lives in the service. He is said to have built the first house in Martinsburg, Virginia.

Our subject was reared in Ross county and attended the common schools only. His father was a farmer and brought him up as such, and he now owns the farm on which he was reared and on which his father was reared, in Paxton township, Ross county. When our subject was twenty-one years of age, he went to McLean county, Illinois, and engaged in teaching and stock-raising, and made enough money in two years to pay his expenses while studying med- cine. He began the study of medicine in 1853, with his brother, Joseph S. Jones, M. D., at Jasper, Ohio. He graduated at Starling Medical College Columbus, in 1856, and located at Jasper for practice.

He organized the first company in Pike county, for the war, Co. A. of the 53rd O. V. I. He entered the service in that company October 3, 1861. He was appointed Captain the next day and served as such until the 18th of April, 1862, when he was promoted to the Colonelcy of the regiment. He served as Colonel to the end of the war when he was brevetted Brigadier General, March 13, 1865, for gallantry and merit. In the last year of the war he commanded a brigade, the Second brigade in the 2nd Division of the 15th Army Corps. He was wounded in the assault on Ft. McAllister, being shot in the breast. He was in the Atlanta campaign and with Sherman to the sea. He was in the Grand Re- view in Washington. He was mustered out with his regiment August 11, 1865, and returned to Waverly where he has since resided.

He was a candidate for Congress on the Republican ticket in the 12th Ohio District. in 1866, but was defeated by Philadelphia Van Trump. In 1867, he was a candidate for State Senator in the Seventh Senatorial District of Ohio, against James Emmitt, but was defeated. Emmitt received 8,145 votes and General Jones received 7,103. He was a Trustee of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum of Ohio, for some years, his original appointment being made by Governor Foster. He was elected a member of the Board of State Public Works in 1885, and re- elected in 1888. He has always been a republican. He is a member of the Methodist church, of the Loyal Legion, the Masons, and the G. A. R.

He was inarried in 1866 to Miss Elizabeth A. Kinkead, daughter of William M. Kinkead, of Piketon. She died in 1876, and he was married June 20, 1880, to Miss Mary F. Wetmore. They have three children, Robert R. aged 20, teacher; Wiliard T., aged 18, engaged in the Insurance Department in Columbus, and Mary Catherine, a school girl.

As a soldier, General Jones, had a record for bravery and faithfulness to duty, which was not surpassed during the Civil War. He has always been de- voted to his party; and as a republcan. he was willing to be a candidate for of- fice when such candidacy meant defeat. He was always willing to uphold the standard of his party under adverse circumstances. He is a gentleman of great business qualifications, active and energetic and a good citizen. He is a student and is largely self-educated. He is a citizen of whom his country may well be proud. He has been true to every duty he assumed and has never disappointed the expectations of his friends in any respect.

Charles H. Ketter

was born January 4, 1853, near Scioto Mills Harrison township Scioto county, Ohio. His father was Henry Ketter and his mother's maiden name was Mary Hormeyer. His parents came from Hanover in Germany, his grandparents on both sides remained in that country. His father was married twice and had ten children. He belonged to the children of the second wife, and was the fifth of the whole number. His father was a farmer. He went to the common schools in Harrison township, and Berea College in 1872, where he remained one year, then he took a course in the Nelson Business College, Cincinnati, O., in 1873 and 1874. In 1874, he located in Ironton, Ohio, and clerked in the furni- ture store of David Nixon for two years. In 1876, he started in the grocery business at Third and Adams street, and has been in that business ever since. In 1880, he erected the business block at Third and Adams streets, and from that time conducted a wholesale and retail grocery. He conducted the business alone until 1885, when his brother Frank L., was associated with him; since then the firm name has been The C. H. Ketter Grocery Co.

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He was a director of the Eagle Iron & Steel Co., and retained that posi- tion until 1898 when that company sold out to the Republic Iron & Steel Co. engaged in the clothing business in 1901. He was a member of the Board was incorporated in the fall of 1898. In 1900 he erected the Ketter Block 132 feet square between 2nd and 3rd streets, Ironton Ohio, corner of Adams. He engaged in the clothing business in 1901. He was a member of the Board of Education from 1886 to 1898 and two years of this time he was president. He was elected to the City council of Ironton in 1899 and is President of this body at the present time. He is Treasurer of The Farmers' & Mechanics' Sav- ing, Building & Loan Association and has been for six years past.

He has been a republican all his life. He is a member of Spencer M. E. church, Ironton, O. . He was one of the leaders in having the new church built in 1894 and has been a trustee of the church since 1891. He was married first to Rosina Duis, March 4, 1876; there were eight children of this marriage as follows: Lilian M. wife of Harry S. Rea; George D. and Earl W. are with their father in the clothing business in the Ketter Clothing Co .; Harold C. is in the regular army located near Baltimore Md. He enlisted in Co. 40 of Heavy Ar- Artillery August, 1901, for three years and has since been promoted to Corporal. Otto E. age seventeen is a student in the Ironton High School. He has three daughters, Helen, Mabel and Gladys, all school girls. His wife Rosina died in, 1893. In 1895, he was married to her sister Anna. They had two sons of this marriage, Duis age four, and Bernard age two.

Mr. Ketter is one of the most successful business men of Ironton. He is favorably known to the whole community for his honor, integrity and correct business methods. He is a living power and force in his city and in every or- organization with which he is connected. When he is connected with a measure or movement its success is assured. He is careful in all his judgments and hence insures the completion of his work before it is begun. When the list of men who have made Ironton is made up, his name will be found near the top of the column.

James Kilbourne

was born in Columbus, Ohio, October 9, 1841. He comes of a family noted for its patriotism and good citizenship. His grandfather, Col. James Kilbourne, was one of Ohio's earliest pioneers, and the first to represent his county in Con- gress. His father, Lincoln Kilbourne, was the leading merchant of Columbus.

James Kilbourne graduated with high honors at Kenyon College in 1862, and two years later received the degree of Master of Arts. The day after he passed his examination, he enlisted as a Private in the Eighty-Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was transferred to the Ninety-Fifth Ohio Volunteer In- fantry, and served with distinction from the beginning to the end of the war, being promoted through the various grades to that of Captain, and being brevet- ted Major, Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel of the United States Volunteers. During a part of this period Col. Kilbourne served on the staffs of Gen. J. M. Tuttle and Gen. John McArthur. His war record is one of great gallantry. Af- ter the close of the war Col. Kilbourne entered the law school of Harvard Uni- versity, where he graduated in 1868. He was admitted to the bar, but his health having been undermined by his army service he decided on the advice of his physician to take up a more active occupation than law, and entered business with his father.

A few years later he founded the Kilbourne & Jacobs Manufacturing Co., the largest corporation of its kind in the world, and of which he became Pres- ident and General Manager. He was the Director, and in 1895 was President of the Board of Trade of Columbus. He has been a Director of the Columbus Club and four times its President. He was also one of the earliest Presidents of the Arlington Country Club. He is a Director of the First National Bank. of the Clinton National Bank, of the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo and of the Columbus, Cincinnati & Midland Railways, and of many private business corporations and political and social organizations. For many years he has been President of the Board of Trustees of the Columbus Public Library and largely instrumental in the growth of that institution. He is the President of the Kenyon College Association of Central Ohio, and also President of the Cen- tral Ohio Harvard Club. He is a life member of the Ohio Archaeological Soci-

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ety and Vice-President of the Old Northwestern Genealogical Society. His fondness for children and his sympathy for them led him to construct the Co- lumbus Children's Hospital, of which he was President for five years. He is the Vice-President of the Columbus Neighborhood Guild Association, and a member of the Board of Managers of the Associated Charities of Columbus.

As an eloquent, persuasive speaker, Col. Kilbourne is called upon by his party to address the people and has often been urged to serve as a candidate for Mayor, Governor, Congressman and Senator. He was a delegate from the Twelfth Ohio Congressional District to the Democratic National Convention in 1892, and in 1896, and at the Ohio Democratic State Convention, receiving 237 votes for nomination for Governor. He was delegated at large from Ohio to the National Democratic Convention at Kansas city in 1900 and Chairman of the Ohio delegation. He was appointed by Governor Campbell, one of the Commissiners of Ohio, to the Columbus Exposition at Chicago, but was com- pelled to decline from the stress of business cares. Besides being a member of the Grand Army, the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Union Veteran Legion and the Loyal Legion. Col. Kilbourne is the Vice-Presi- dent of the society of the Army of the Tennessee. At his home also was or- ganized the Columbus Cuban League, which accomplished much in aid of the people of that island. Since its organization, he has been Trustee of the League. When the Spanish-American war broke out, his services were teu- dered immediately to the Government, and the loyalty of his family was further attested by the offer of three of his sons. Of the sons and grandsons of Col. Kilbourne's father, ten offered their service and seven were in the army, all but one, seeing active foreign service.

Col. Kilbourne is one of the largest employers of labor in Ohio, and his relation with his employees have always been ideal. Neither against him nor the Company managed by him has there ever been brought a suit at law, and never have the wages of any man employed by him been reduced. In 1898. he was appointed a member of the Ohio Centennial Commission, and although the majority of the Commission were republicans, he was by a unanimous vote elected President. He attends the Protestant Episcopal Church and is a Ves- tryman of St. Pauls. Col. Kilbourne was married October 5, 1869 to Anna B. Wright, eldest daughter of Gen. George B. Wright, and has four children, three sons and one daughter.

John Metz Lawson

was born June 25, 1859, in Greenup county, Kentucky. His father was Jacob Lawson, and his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Rawlins, daughter of John Vanbebbe Rawlins. His grandfather was Thomas Lawson. John M. was reared in Greenup county, Kentucky, near Portsmouth and lived there all his life. He is a farmer by occupation. November 18, 1882, he married Mary H. Gammon, daughter of John Gammon. They have six children: Elmer T., Den- ver R. G., Ettie, Howard, Grace, and Merle. Mr. Lawson is a democrat, a mem- ber of the Southern Methodist church, a member of the Modern Woodmen, Springville Camp. .

Hon. Ralph Leete

was born January 12, in Tioga county. Pennsylvania. His lineage is given under the Leete family in the Pioneer Record of this work. His education was in a subscription school first, and then in the public schools in New York, across the line from Pennsylvania. The family fortunes were lost by the father by endorsements for others, and Mr. Leete's father had to begin the world over. Our subject left Potter county, Pa. in 1840 and went to Erie county, Pa. and from there he went to Austinburg, Ashtabula county, Ohio and remained there at a Manual Training School till 1842. In the winter of 1842 and 1843. he taught school at Jersey Shore, Pa. He came down the Ohio in a skiff in 1843 and landed at Louisville, Kentucky. There George D. Prentice, to whom he had letters, sent him back to Ohio. He went to Buckhorn Furnace and taught school. In 1846 he taught at Vernon and then taught at Burlington nearly a year. He was admitted to the bar in February, 1847, at Pomeroy, Ohio and began practicing at Burlington, Ohio, in 1848.

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On November 28, 1848, he was married to Miss Harriet E. Hand of Grantham, England, a daughter of William Thomas Hand. He resided at Bur- lington until 1852, when he removed to Ironton, Ohio. He was Prosecuting Attorney of Lawrence county, Ohio, from 1849 to 1853 and a member of the Ohio Legislature in 1858-1859 and 1868-1869. He was a Trustee of the Ohio State University from 1872 to 1879 and at one time President of the Board. He was originally a "free-soil" democrat. He voted for Polk in 1844, for Van Buren in 1848, for Pierce in 1852, for Buchanan in 1856, for McClellan in 1864, for Seymore in 1868, and in 1872 for Greeley. He was Secretary of the Military Committee of Lawrence county, Ohio, during the Civil War. His wife died July 14, 1879. He remarried November 20, 1880 to Jane Wilmot Bancroft of Wiscon- sin. She died October 16, 1894. His children are: William Hand Leete. ot Lima, Ohio; Edith Ives Hamilton, wife of John Hamilton of Ironton, Ohio; Fred Guilford Leete of Ironton, Ohio; Ralph Herman Leete of Prestonsburg, Floyd county, Kentucky.

Hon. William T. McClintick

was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, February 20, 1819. His father was James Mc- Clintick, Sr. and his mother was Charity Trimble.

Our subject was educated at the Chillicothe Academy until his fourteenth year. He was then sent to the Ohio University, and from there he went to Au- gusta College, Kentucky, where he graduated in the summer of 1837. In No- vember of the same year, he entered the law office of Creighton & Bond, a dis- tinguished law firm of his native town. In 1840, at the February term of the old Supreme Court held in Portsmouth, he was admitted to the bar. Theodore Sherer was admitted at the same time. They returned to Chillicothe together and were called into a case then called for trial wherein Wm. S. Murphy and Judge Thurman were opposing counsel, and from that time until Mr. McClin- tock retired in March, 1890, he has been steadily engaged in his profession.

In 1843, he joined the law firm of Creighton & Green, of Chillicothe and continued with them for one year.

On October 1, 1845, Mr. McClintick was married to Miss Elizabeth M. Atwood, of Harrodsburgh, Ky. Six children were born to them, two of whom survive: Petrea, resides at home with her parents; Anna, wife of Edward W. Strong, an attorney of Cincinnati, Ohio; Elizabeth Atwood married Charles L. Pruyn, of Albany, New York, in the year 1877. She died in 1884, leaving two daughters now living and unmarried; Elizabeth MeClintock and Jane Ann Lansing.

In 1852, he took into partnership Mr. Amos Smith, a nephew and former pupil of Hocking H. Hunter, of Lancaster. This firm continued until July 26, 1888, when it was dissolved. The firm held the most prominent position in the profession in Southern Ohio.

In politics, Mr. McClintick was a whig while that party was in existence, and when the Republican party was organized, he went into that. In 1860, he became general counsel for the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad Company as re- organized and continued to act as such for that Company and its successors, until his retirement from the bar in 1890. He was president of the Cincinnati & Baltimore Railroad Company in 1868 and remained in that office until 1883 when it was succeeded by the Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore Railroad Company, and he held the office of president from 1876 to 1879.

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A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 181

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