A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 40

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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Scioto County, O., in 1877. The vote stood Farnham, Republican, 2,722; William Waller, Democrat, 2,691; Farnham's majority 31. He remained in partnership with Judge Towne, and part of the time with Mr. Purdum until 1880, when he formed a partnership with Ryan & Ball. The firm became Farnham, Ryan & Ball.

He was married November 28, 1870, to Miss Carrie Boynton, daughter of Peter Boynton, of Haverhill, Ohio. They have two chil- dren : Claire, wife of Lawrence S. Robertson and Claude Cadot who is now residing in Louisville, Kentucky. Mr. Farnham died August 15, 1896. He was a good collector, a well read lawyer and a humorist. He excelled in the criminal law. His wit was bright and sparkling and he was always genial.

Charles Henry McFarland

was born September 26, 1849, at Columbus, Ohio. His father was Daniel McFarland, who has a separate sketch herein ; and his mother's maiden name was Lydia McCulloch. He was brought to Portsmouth, Ohio, with his parents when he was five years of age. In 1863 he was a carrier for the Tribune. In 1866 he was sent to the Military school at Dayton, Ohio, for 3 years. At the age of nineteen he began read- ing law at Portsmouth, Ohio, with Judge Bannon ; and attended school at Lexington, Kentucky. He was a student there for one year, study- ing law. He was admitted to the bar, November 9, 1870. He began practice in Portsmouth, Ohio, and remained in Portsmouth until the fall of 1886, when he removed to Los Angeles, California, where he has since resided. April 20, 1880, he was appointed on the Decennial Board of Equalization in Portsmouth, Ohio. He was elected City Solicitor in April, 1885, and served until November 6, 1886, when he resigned. He was married July 28. 1877 to Miss Lily D. Larkins, daughter of D. V. Larkins. He was City Attorney in Los Angeles for three terms, or six years, from 1890 to 1896. He has a good practice and is regarded as one of the ablest lawyers at the bar. He has two sons, Daniel, born Sept. 6, 1879, and Hugh, born January 1, 1882. His son Daniel is employed at a railroad office in Santa Ana, Cali- fornia, and Hugh is a school boy at home.

William Waller, Jr.

was born March 3, 1849 in Portsmouth. Ohio. He obtained his edu- cation in the public schools of Portsmouth and studied law with Colonel O. F. Moore. He was admitted to the bar April 25, 1872. He prac- ticed law all his life, with the exception of four years he spent with his father in the hardware business and four years as a clerk in the Post Office under W. K. Thompson, Postmaster. In 1874, when the School Board of two from each ward was organized, he was made its first Clerk and served till 1879. March 15. 1875, the Kinney Guards were organized and he was made First Sergeant. In 1877, he was a candi- date for Prosecuting Attorney on the Democratic ticket and was de-

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feated by only 31 votes. The vote stood : H. W. Farnham, 2,722, Wil- liam Waller, 2,691. He was defeated by the treachery of his own par- ty because of his temperance principles. He was a candidate for the same office in 1890 and was defeated by John C. Milner. The vote stood 3,825 for Milner and 2,495 for Waller, making a majority of 1,330. Soon after that he changed his party relations, becoming a Republican, and on April 9, 1895, he was elected a Justice of the Peace in the city of Portsmouth by the Republicans He was reared in All Saints Church. He was Superintendent of Christ Church Sunday School for a long time and for some time prior to his death had been Superintendent of the Sunday School at St. Thomas Chapel, a mission maintained by All Saints Church. He was a faithful mem- ber of the Portsmouth Reading Club. He was stricken with paraly- sis on the evening of June 9, 1896. His left side was first affected and then his whole body. He only spoke once or twice. He appeared to suffer much and died at 1 A. M. June 10th. He possessed fine liter- ary taste and was most companionable. He was a good friend. He was a strong church man and took great interest in historical mat- ters. While he was not ambitious, he was a most useful citizen.

Theodore K. Funk

was born January 30, 1848, on a farm in Champaign County, Ohio. His father was Jacob Funk, a native of Champaign County, where he lived until 1897, to the advanced age of eighty-two years. His father was a farmer and in the early politics of the state was quite prominent. His mother's maiden name was Sarah Long. He attended the district schools and afterwards attended the Collegiate In- stitute at Urbana, Ohio. In the fall of 1866 he entered the Ohio Wes- leyan University at Delaware, Ohio, and graduated in 1871, taking a classical course. On leaving college, Mr. Funk became a law student in the law office of Judge William Lawrence of Bellefontaine, Ohio, and was admitted to the practice of law in the Supreme Court of Ohio in 1873. In the same year, he located in Portsmouth, Ohio, where he has practised ever since. In 1884. he was elected Prosecuting Attor- ney of Scioto County on the Republican ticket, receiving a vote of 4, 123 to a vote of 3, 192 for A. J. Dever. making his majority 931. In 1887, he was re-elected to the same office against the same opponent by a vote of 3,512 to 2,289 in favor of his opponent, his majority being 1,223. He was elected Presidential Elector in 1892 for his congres- sional district and cast his vote for Benjamin Harrison. In 1893. he was a candidate for Congress in his district to fill the unexpired term of General Enochs of Tronton, and again in 1894, and though he received the support of his County, he failed to receive the nomination in both cases. He takes an active part in Republican League work and has canvassed his County and District during the campaigns for many years. He was married in 1874 to Miss Emma Kinney, daugh-

DUNCAN LIVINGSTONE.

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ter of Peter Kinney, first Colonel of the 56th O. V. I. He has five children. He is a Republican of pronounced character and is very prominent in state politics. In his profession he has been remarkably successful and enjoys a lucrative practice. He devotes much time to criminal practice and has engaged in many important murder trials. He is an eloquent speaker, an able advocate and a safe counsellor.

Duncan Livingstone

was born January 22, 1850, at Clinton Furnace, Vernon Township. Scioto County, Ohio. His father's name was Angus Livingstone, a native of Barr, Morven, Argyleshire, Scotland, and was born January 16, 1808. His mother was also a Livingstone by birth and her name was Margaret. She was born at Fort William, Invernesshire, Deceni- ber 15, 1807. They were married in New York City, Septetmber 5, 1849. Mr. Livingstone's ancestors originally came from Achnacre- more in Benderloch and settled at Savary in the Parish of Morven the year 1600. His ancestors on both sides were staunch Jacobites and took an active part in the romantic rising of 1745 for Bonnie Prince Charlie famed in history, poetry and song. The Livingstones were a sept of the clan Stewart of Appin and quite a number of them were killed at the battle of Colloden. There, one of his ances- tors, Donald Livingstone, rescued the flag of his clan by tearing it from its staff and wrapping it around his body. It is the only flag now in existence that was borne in the army of the unfortunate Chevalier. Angus Livingstone came to the United States in 1842, and his wife in 1848. They were engaged to be married long before they came to this country. Angus Livingstone on landing at New York City went to his uncle, John Livingstone, residing near Waterville, Oneida Coun- ty, New York. From there he went to Cleveland where he sent for his mother and two brothers, John and Duncan. From Cleveland the whole party went to Junior Furnace where they located in 1845. The men went to working at the Furnace. Angus Livingstone had been a furnaceman in Scotland, having worked seven years at the Gartsher- rie Ironworks, Lanarkshire. The brothers went from Junior to Ohio Furnace when David Simon was there. From there they went to Olive, where Angus was located when married. The whole party af- terwards went to Clinton Furnace in 1849. They remained at Clinton until March, 1853, when they located on Dogwood Ridge on a farm where they afterwards resided. . Our subject obtained his education in the schools of Wheelersburg from 1855 until 1868. From 1868 to 1871, he was a farmer. He came to Portsmouth, July 31, 1871, and entered as a law student with the late Martin Crain. On October I, 1871 he changed his preceptor from Martin Crain to Nelson W. Evans, at the request of the latter, and with the consent of his first preceptor. He was admitted to the bar. December 2, 1873, by the Supreme Court of Ohio. He remained with his preceptor, practicing law till June I,

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1876; then he practised alone till 1885, when he returned to Nelson W. Evans' office where he has been since. He was City Solicitor of Portsmouth, Ohio, from 1875 to 1877, elected by the Democrats, and has never held any other public office. He was a Democrat until 1885 when he became a Republican. In the summer of 1899, he visited the land of his forefathers, remaining there about three months; and while abroad, also visited Ireland. On the maternal line direct, he is a great- grand nephew of Ewen MacLachlan, the celebrated Gaelic poet and scholar.

Though born and raised in a non-Gaelic speaking community, he is master of that language, can speak and read it as fluently as he can the English and takes a great delight in the language and litera- ture of the mountain tongue. He is one of the first lawyers at the Portsmouth bar, and his advice and counsel in law matters are re- garded as the best. He was never married. He has a wonderful fac- ulty of making friends wherever he is known and does it without ef- fort on his part.

Henry Clay Turley

was born in Scioto County, Ohio, January 10, 1852, the second son of Col. John A. Turley, who has a separate sketch herein. He was edu- cated in the Portsmouth Public Schools. At the age of sixteen, he be- gan his business career as a clerk. At seventeen, he went to Kansas where he was engaged as a farmhand and cowboy for four years. He returned to Portsmouth, Ohio, and read law under Jones & Thomp- son of that city. He attended lectures at the Cincinnati Law College and graduated with honor in the Spring of 1876, when he was ad- mitted to the bar in Cincinnati. He became the partner of his precep- tor, Judge Albert C. Thompson and remained such until the fall of 1868, when he was elected Probate Judge of Scioto County. The vote stood : 3,303 for Turley against 2,856 for Jura C. Fullerton. He was re-elected in 1881, and the vote was 3,445 to 2,359 for Hon. John M Lynn. In 1885, he moved to Mississippi and settled on a plantation in Adams County, near Natchez.

In 1895, he moved to Natchez and in 1897 was appointed Post- master of that City, by President Mckinley, receiving the strongest endorsement for appointment ever sent to Washington from Natchez. In 1901, he received a spontaneous endorsement for re-appointment, signed by practically every business man in Natchez and the petition was circulated by an old Confederate veteran, though Turley was ever a Republican, but he declined re-appointment and accepted the position of Collector of Internal Revenue for the Pearl River District of Mis- sissippi. In 1898 and again in 1900, he was the nominee of the Re- publican party as its candidate for Congress, in the Sixth Mississippi District, making an excellent showing in each campaign and receiving

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almost twice as many votes as the next highest candidate for Congress on the Republican ticket, but as the negroes were not permitted to vote, the odds were as five to one against the Republicans and he was de- feated by very large majorities.

He was elected Republican National Committeeman for Mississip- pi in 1900 and was also a member of the State Executive and State Central Committees and was by unanimous resolution of the State Central Committee, made sole Referee of Federal appointments in that State. In February 1902, he resigned the office of Collector and di- rected his attention to his private business affairs.

James Martin Dawson

was born in Madison Township, September 4, 1842. He obtained a common school education. He taught in the counry schools. In Sep- tember 1874, he entered the law as a student. He was admitted to the bar in 1876. The same year he entered into a partnership with Nel- son W. Evans as Evans & Dawson. This partnership continued until the fall of 1884, When Mr. Dawson was elected Probate Judge. The vote stood : James M. Dawson, Republican, 4,076, Henry McCall, Dem- ocrat, 3,243, majority 833. He was re-elected in 1887, receiving 3,454 votes to 2,327 for his opponent, John R Hughes, his majority being 1, 127. In 1891, on retiring from the Probate office, he formed a partnership with A. T. Holcomb as Holcomb & Dawson. This con- tinued until 1894, when the firm dissolved and Judge Dawson practic- ed alone. May 18, 1883, he was appointed a member of the City Board of Equalization in place of Charles A. Barton. From 1893 until his death he was a member of the Board of Education. April 18, 1880, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Wood, daughter of Benjamin Wood. They had seven children, six sons and a daughter. He died April 6, 1898. His children are Norborne, Earl, James M., Wiley Evans, Kline, Paul Henderson and Vinnie.

George Hereodh Jones

was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, June 9. 1855, the youngest son of David D Jones and Margaret Griffith, his wife. He attended the Portsmouth public schools until 1874, when he went into his brother Henry's office as a law student. Then he went to Cincinnati, and at- tended the Cincinnati Law School in 1875 and 1876 and graduated in April, 1876. He was admitted in July, 1876, and began the practice as a partner of his brother Colonel H. E. Jones in Portsmouth. His brother died on September 13, 1876. In 1879, he located in Hunting- ton, Indiana and took charge of the office of Judge James R. Slack, and was there until 1881. He was then appointed United States Inspec- tor of Customs at Port Townsend, Washington. On his arrival there in the fall of 1881. he was appointed United States Shipping Commissioner for the Puget Sound Collection District. He held this

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position for one year and resigned to form a partnership with Hon. Charles N. Bradshaw of Port Townsend, Washington.

He was Prosecuting Attorney of all the northwest Counties of the Territory of Washington. He was City Attorney of Port Townsend from 1885 to 1887. He was in politics all the time he was in the state, as a Republican, and was in all the conventions of his County and District. In 1887 and 1888, he was a member of the convention organized to secure the admission of the state and on the Executive Committee of that convention. In 1888, he was elected a memebr of the Constitutional Convention of the Territory of Washington. He represented the Counties of Jefferson, Island, Clallam and San Juan and was on the Judiciary Committee of the convention and several others. In that convention, he advocated the public ownership of land on the Sound and got the name of "Riparian Jones." A number of the articles incorporated in the Constitution were prepared by him. He was a member of the School Board of Port Townsend for three years from 1891 to 1894, and its President for one year.

He was Captain and Major in the State Militia and served in the field on several occasions. He was Major of the Uniformed Knights of Pythias. He was tendered the nomination for Superior Judge of Jefferson County, Washington, by the Republicans and the Democrats offered to endorse it. He declined the office because he considered himself too young. All the time he was in the state of Washington, he was engaged in the practice of law. He was Chairman of the Cen- tral and Executive Committees of Port Townsend and the County of Jefferson for several years. He called the convention to nominate William Mckinley for President. He was a delegate to the St. Louis National Republican Convention in 1896. In February, 1898, he was appointed Special United States Attorney in the Department of Jus- tice to represent the government in taking evidence of claims against it on account of Indian depredations on all the territory west of the Mississippi. He completed the work March, 1899.

He was offered inducements to settle in his native state and in the Spring of 1900, established himself in Columbus, Ohio. He has his office at 519 Spahr building. In June 1901, he formed a partnership with Hon. Charles Kinney lately Secretary of State as Jones and Kin- ney. He was married October 25, 1883, to Ada B. Finch, daughter of Doctor C. M. Finch and Mary E. Bruner, his wife. He is General Counsel of the Mercantile Assurance Company whose principal office is in Columbus, Ohio, and is Special Counsel for the Columbus, New Albany and Johnstown Traction Company. He has one of the best minds for the legal profession, the editor ever became familiar with. He is instinctively a lawyer. His great forte is the investigation of facts. He does that thoroughly and completely and when done he has sure judgment as to the remedy to be applied. He is a hard work- er and never tires when he has concluded the investigation of a case he

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knows all there is in it for his side and for the other side too. He is a safe and wise counsel and a clear and forceful advocate.

Isaac Jefferson Haney

was born 1848, in Harrison Township, Scioto County. His father was Isaac Haney, and his mother's maiden name was Rebecca Procter. Both were natives of Kanawha County, W. Va. His grandfather Haney came from Germany. His father could not speak English until after he was twenty-one years of age. His parents emigrated to Scioto County and settled on Long Run, two miles west of Harrison- ville. Our subject had only a common school education. At the age of seventeen he quit school and worked on the farm for four years. He then attended school for six months and began teaching. He taught for six years, and worked on his father's farm during the summers. At the age of twenty-seven, he began the study of law with Ex-Judge Martin Crain. He studied with him one year and then returned to farming, but kept up his studies of law at home. He was admitted to the bar in 1877, at Jackson, Ohio. Most of his education was ob- tained at home, both in school books and in law. He began the prac- tice of law in 1877 with Martin Crain. He practiced for three years, and then went home and practiced law as opportunity afforded. He remained on the farm until 1892. He then removed to Harrisonville and lived there one year. In 1893, he removed to Portsmouth, where he has since resided. He resides at No. 1,453 Summit Street, and has his office there. He was married October 29, 1885, to Addie Bow- yer, daughter of Wesley Bowyer. They have one child, Grace, aged fourteen years. He was a Democrat until 1855, when he became a Republican on account of the tariff question. He was elected Justice of the Peace of Clay Township in 1898, and served one year, when the territory in which he resided was annexed to Portsmouth and he gave up his office. When he was six years old, he fell from a fence and injured his hip. He walked with crutches until he was fourteen years of age, and since then has been permanently lame.

James Pursell Purdum

was born September 24, 1856, in Portsmouth, Ohio. His father was John W. Purdum, a native of Cumberland County, Maryland, but a resident of Portsmouth, Ohio, from 1832 until his death in 1900; his mother was Sarah Pursell, a native of England and daughter of Charles Pursell.

His education was acquired in the Public Schools of Portsmouth, Ohio, and the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. He be- gan the study of law in 1876, and was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of Ohio, March 4, 1878. He commenced the practice of his profession in Portsmouth at once, and went into the firm of Towne, Farnham & Purdum where he remained until September, 1881 ;

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since which time he has practiced alone. He was Clerk of the Board of Education from 1878 to 1881 and City Solicitor from 1881 to 1885. He has held no other office except that of Clerk of the City Board of Elections, 1889 and 1890, to which he was appointed by. Governor Foraker. He is a Republican in politics ; a member of the First Pres- byterian Church, and a Mason and Knight Templar. He was married May 1I, 1887, to Miss Louise Davey, daughter of Samuel and Mary ( Henry) Davey, (both deceased), of Ironton, Ohio. He has the following children : Helen, Sarah, Mary Louise, Margaret Cornelia, Mildred, Alice and John W.

George Drake Scudder

was born January 17, 1856 in Trenton, New Jersey. He was the son of Edward Wallace Scudder and Mary Louisa (Drake) Scudder, his wife. The Scudder family came to this country at or near the time of the landing from the Mayflower and settled in Massachusetts, where many of the family still reside. Subsequently a part of the family re- moved to Long Island, and from there Richard Scudder the ancestor of the subject of this sketch, moved about 1730 to a farm on the banks of the Delaware river, a few miles north of Trenton. A paternal an- cestor of George D. Scudder acted as guide to Washington's army the night before the battle of Trenton. Edward W. Scudder the father, was a member of the Senate of New Jersey, President of that body for one year, and in 1869 was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, which position he held until the day of his death in 1893.

Mary Louisa Drake was the daughter of George K. Drake, who was also a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for seven years. The mother of Mary Louisa Drake was a Halsey. The old Halsey homestead is still standing in the southern part of England, and the head of the family, Mr. Thomas Halsey is now, and has been for many years, a member of the House of Commons.

George D. Scudder received his early education at the State Model School, Trenton, New Jersey. In the fall of 1872, he entered Princeton College, from which institution he graduated in 1876 with the de- gree of A. B. In 1879 he received the degree of A. M. from the same institution. He began the study of law in 1876, and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in 1879 as an attorney-at-law and in 1882, upon examination, was admitted to the degree of counsellor at law. He prac- ticed law in the City of Trenton, New Jersey from 1879 until 1893. November 20, 1879, in Portsmouth, Ohio, he was married to Harriet Helen, daughter of Charles A. M. Damarin and Harriet Caroline Dam- arin of Portsmouth, Ohio. They have one child, a son, Charles Dam- arin Scudder. The subject of this sketch was for two years a mem- ber of the Common Council of the Borough of Chambersburg, a sub- urb of the City of Trenton, New Jersey. He was nominated in the

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Spring of 1886 by the Democrats as their candidate for Mayor of that Borough, but was defeated. In the fall of 1886, he was nominated and elected as a member of the House of Assembly of the Legislature of New Jersey. He served one term and declined a re-nomination. Af- terwards, by appointment of the Court, he served for a short time as Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Mercer, New Jersey. Owing. to ill health, he was obliged to give up business in 1893, and after spend- ing some months traveling in Europe, settled in Portsmouth, Ohio, where he has since resided. He was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1897. At the time of the nomination of Mr. Bryan for the Presidency, Mr. Scudder, being opposed to free silver, withdrew from the Democratic party, and became a Republican, although not taking any active part in politics. At the age of twenty, Mr. Scudder became a member of the Third Presbyterian Church of Trenton. In 1886, he helped to organize a new church in the outskirts of Trenton, called the Bethany Presbyterian Church, of which he was a trustee and a ruling elder until his removal to Ohio, in 1893. On coming to Ohio, he, with his family united with the First Presbyterian Church at Portsmouth, Ohio, and he was shortly afterwards elected an elder of that church. He is also Superintendent of the Sabbath School. Mr. Scudder has twice represented his Presbytery in the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church.

John Kelvey Richards

was born at Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio, March 15, 1856. His father was Samuel Richards, born near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, February 6, 1814, and died at Ironton, Ohio, June 30, 1891. His father located in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1824, and Lawrence Coun- ty in 1840. He was one of the founders of Ironton, being for near- ly thirty years the Secretary and General Manager of the Ohio Iron and Coal Company and the Iron Railroad Company, the two corpora- tions which laid out and built up that town. His mother's maiden name was Sarah Ann Kelvey, who was born in West Union, Adams County, Ohio, October 9, 1827. She married Samuel Richards at Bur- lington, Ohio, September 15, 1852, and died at Ironton, Ohio, Septem- ber 1, 1863. She was the granddaughter of Thomas Kelvey, who was born October 1, 1763, married (July 18, 1785) Ann Secker, said to be a niece of Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury, and who came to America about 1801. Thomas Kelvey was of Scottish ori- gin, the name being originally McKelvey. Thomas Kelvey was a man of education and means. He located in West Union in 1831, and in Burlington, Lawrence County, in 1838.

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A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 40

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