A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 46

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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Olive Applegate vs W. Kinney & Company, on a certificate of deposit with W. Kinney & Company, to hold as quasi partners twenty persons former- ly stockholders in the Iron National Bank. Many like suits were depending on this. The plaintiff sued on a certificate of deposit for $424. Hutchins and Bannon for the plaintiff. Thompson, Searl, Evans and O. F. Moore for the defendant. The case was tried at great length. Colonel Moore argued three full days for the defendant. The case resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount claimed against all the defendants. Afterwards these de- fendants raised and paid $20,000.00 for the creditors and were released from all claims.

January 31, 1880-Before Nelson W. Evans, United States Commission- er. The United States vs. Andrew Pieron for violation of the civil rights law in refusing to furnish Pharaoh L. McDaniels a meal in his restaurant.

The Scioto County Bible Society

was organized February 18, 1830, at the Presbyterian Meeting House. At the meeting for organization, Ezra Osborn was President of the meeting and John Peebles Secretary. Samuel Gunn, John C. Ashley and Ezra Osborn

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were appointed a Committee to draft a Constitution and report at an adjourned meeting on the first Monday in March.

November 26, 1854, the Society met. John McDowell was President. Rev. J. P. Roberts addressed the meeting, also Rev. Mabee, Rev. W. N. Spahr and Rev. E. P. Pratt. The collection was $97.44, of which $30.00 was to make Rev. E. P. Pratt, a life member. Rev. Erastus Burr, D. D. was made Presi- dent. This was the first time he was referred to as D. D. in the newspapers. The following were elected: Vice Presidents-George Herod, James S. Ful- ler, Josiah Merril, B. B. Gaylord and John B. Dodds. Rev. E. P. Pratt was Secretary and John McDowell, Treasurer and Depository.

On June 26, 1864, Dr. Burr was still President and Rev. E. P. Pratt, Secre- tary. S. S. Hard was County Assessor. At this time, it was resolved to have a Depository in every Township.

On May 28, 1882, the Society celebrated its forty-fifth anniversary, so stated, which would date its organization to 1837. Dr. Burr was President and Dr. Pratt, Secretary. Rev. J. W. Dillon addressed the meeting.

Bibliography.

"The Autobiography of Dan Young, a New England Preacher of the Olden Time," was edited by W. P. Strickland, and published in 1860, by Carl- ton and Porter, 200 Mulberry street, New York. Rev. Dan Young located in Scioto County in 1820. He leaves out of his book what would most interest persons of this time, and it is largely an account of his feelings, his emotions, his fears and hopes, from a religious point of view. He could have told of the early developments of the County and its people, but he gives but very lit- tle of that. He was an interesting character for his time, and was a power in the community and the church. He has a sketch in this work.

In 1868, E. E. Ewing issued the "Story of the Ninety-first." It was a poem of 25 pages read at a re-union of the Ninety-first O. V. I., held at Ports- mouth, Ohio, April 8, 1868.

"Religion and the Reign of Terror, or the Church During the French Revolution." Prepared from the French of M. Edmond De Pressense, au- thor of "Jesus Christ, son temps, sa vie, son ocurve," and "Editor of La Revue Chretienne," by Rev. John P. Lacroix, A. M. "God is as necessary as liberty to the French people."-Mirabeau. "Free Church, Free State."- -Cavour. New York: Carlton & Lanahan. Cincinnati: Hitchcock & Walden, 1869. "The Problem of Evil." Translated from the French of M. Ernest Na- ville, by John P. LaCroix, Professor in the Ohio Wesleyan University. New York, Carlton & Lanahan. San Francisco, E. Thomas. Cincinnati, Hitch- cock & Walden, 1871.

"Willianı the Taciturn.' Translated by J. P. LaCroix. From the French of L. Abelous. "No man, not even Washington, has ever been inspired by a purer patriotism."-Motley. New York: Nelson & Phillips. Cincinnati: Hitch- cock & Walden. 1872.

"The Life of Rudolf Stier." (From German Sources) by John P. La- Croix. "The best home for the soul is in that church where there is the least talk of the church, and the most of Christ." (p. 296). New York, Nelson & Phillips. Cincinnati, Hitchcock & Walden, 1874.

"Antiquities of Portsmouth and Vicinity, with Some Speculations upon the Origin and Destiny of the Mound Builders," by G. S. B. Hempstead, A. M., M. D., Portsmouth, Ohio. McFarland & Elick, 1875. 8vo. pp. 19. (Only two hundred copies printed. The author surveyed and platted all the works in the vicinity of Portsmouth as early as 1835, and had been an interested student of the mound builders and their works since 1812.)

"The Topography and Diseases of Scioto County, Ohio," by G. S. B. Hempstead. 8vo. pp. 36. (no pl., no date.)

"Christian Ethics," by Dr. Adolf Wuttke, Late Professor of Theology at Halle. With a special preface by Dr. Riehm, Editor of the "Studien und Krit- iken." Translated by John P. LaCroix. Volume I. History of Ethics. New York, Nelson & Phillips. Cincinnti, Hitchcock & Walden, 1876.

"Christian Ethics," by Dr. Adolf Wuttke, late Professor of Theology at Halle. With an introduction by Dr. W. F. Warren of the Boston University.

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Translated by John P. LaCroix. Volume II. Pure Ethics. New York, Nel- son & Phillips. Cincinnati, Hitchcock & Walden, 1876.

"Outlines of Christian Ethics," by John P. LaCroix, Professor in the Ohio Wesleyan University. New York, Phillips & Hunt. Cincinnti, Hitchcock & Walden, 1879.

September 10, 1879, the venerable Doctor Hempstead had just complet- ed a pamphlet entitled "History and Development of the American Continent." It was published as a serial by the Portsmouth Tribune. It began Sep- tember 17, 1879.

April 3, 1880, James Keyes published a small book of 121 pages, entitled, "Pioneers of Scioto County," being a short Biographical sketch of some of the First Settlers of Scioto County, Ohio, comprising such historical matter and anecdotes of the early settlement of the County as could be collected at the present time. He sold it at 25 cents per copy. The Volume is in double col- umn and was originally published in the Portsmouth Republican, in the period from 1875 to 1880. The writer could not find any bound volumes of that pa- per anywhere, nor copies for that matter. The sketches of the French Set- tlers in Green and Porter Townships in the French Grant used by Mr. Keyes were first published in the Ironton Register, in 1855, and as to these he ad- mits he copied from Prof. J. P. LaCroix. Mr. Keyes admits that out of re- spect to the feelings of the surviving children and friends much had to be sup- pressed. Mr. Keyes' book is invaluable as he has preserved many facts which otherwise at this time would be utterly lost. It is a great pity Mr. Keyes did not write up all the pioneers of Scioto County. Had he done so, much inter- esting matter now lost, would have been preserved.

"The Battlefield Reviewed" was published in 1883, at Chicago, by the author Rev. Landon Taylor, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It contains a narrative of his life, which included a ministry of forty years, four years of which was in Southern Ohio. It is full of readable reminiscences and the account he gives of his life and experience in Scioto County is quite inter- esting. He located in Scioto County in 1834. He was the father of Doctor James L. Taylor, of Wheelersburg, Ohio, and his mortal part rests in the Wheelersburg Cemetery.

"Arbitration between Capital and Labor, a History and an Argument," by Daniel J Ryan of Columbus, Ohio, was published by A. H. Smythe, in 1885. "A Life History Consisting of Incidents and Experiences in the Life of George B. Crane with Comments on a Variety of Topics." Written by himself for the information and entertainment of his family and descendants. San Jose, Mercury Print, 1886. Dr. Crane once practiced medicine in Lucasville and afterwards at Wheelersburg.

"A History of Ohio, with Biographical Sketches of her Governors and the Ordinance of 1787," by Daniel J. Ryan, was published in Columbus, Ohio, in 1888, by A. H. Smythe.

"The Scioto Company and its Purchase." An address by Daniel J. Ryan, at the Centennial of Gallipolis, Ohio, October 19, 1890, was published in Volume 3, Ohio Archaeological Society, pp. 109 to 140.

"History of the Second Regiment West Virginia Cavalry Volunteers during the War of the Rebellion," by J. J. Sutton late a private of the Regi- ment. Portsmouth, Ohio, 1892.

"The Milliad (1,000 verses)-A Poem of Justice and Liberty, an Epic of the Ages as also of the United States," by James L. Treuthart, B. L. "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Published for the author by The Argyle Press, 1894.

In October, 1895, Nelson W. Evans published "General Putnam's Wolf

Hunt." It appeared in Putnam's Magazine. Volume 5, Number 10, published at Salem, Mass.

June 4, 1898, Doctor James L. Taylor, A. M., M. D., of Wheelersburg, read before the American Academy of Medicine, a paper entitled "The Amount of Work the Growing Brain Should Undertake." It was printed in the Bulletin of the American Academy of Medicine. Volume 3, Number 9. It has been reprinted in a pamphlet of 14 pages.

In 1899, E. E. Ewing published "Bugles and Bells or Stories told Again" including the story of the Ninety-first, Reunion Poems and Sacred Tributes. Curts & Jennings of Cincinnati were the publishers.

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"Typhoid Fever, a Quarter of a Century's Experience Therewith," with reference to some unsolved problems. by James L. Taylor, M. D., of Wheelers- burg, Ohio, was reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Asso- ciation, September 2, 1899, and also by the Chicago Medical Associa- tion Press, 1899.

In December, 1900, Nelson W. Evans issued his "History of 'Adams County, Ohio." It had a joint editorship Hon. Emmons B. Stivers, of Brown County, Ohio, being associated with him in the work. The volume is of 946 pages and has 100 illustrations. The edition was limited to 541 copies.

"The Expansion of the American People, Social and Territorial," by Professor Edwin Erle Sparks, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of American His- tory in the University of Chicago, was published in 1900, in Chicago.

"History of the 53rd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry" during the War of the Rebellion 1861 to 1865, together with more than thirty personal sketches of officers and men, by John K. Duke, Company F, 53rd O. V. I. The Blade Printing Company, Portsmouth, Ohio, were the publishers, 1900.

"Nullification in Ohio," an essay by Hon. Dan J. Ryan, was published in 1900, in Volume 2, p. 413, of the publication of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society.

Professor Edwin Erle Sparks also published another book in 1901, entitled "The Men Who Made The Nation." The MacMillan Company of New York and London, were the publishers.

In the December (1901) number of the Bulletin of the American Acad- emy of Medicine, Dr. James L. Taylor of Wheelersburg, has an article entitled, "A Suppressed Educational Problem." It occupies eight pages.

Louis N. Bishop, a native of Portsmouth, Ohio, but now a citizen of Cin- cinnati, Ohio, is the author of the "Modern Designer", a book showing the natural way of producing garments which are perfectly balanced, stylish and graceful. The book is protected by copyright. Mr. Bishop has been a designer of men's and boys' clothing for some time. He has made quite a reputation in his art, and is giving instructions in designing. His book is purely and en- tirely technical, and for the use only of those who design and cut garments, but it is unique in its way. Nothing of the kind has heretofore appeared, and it has been favorably received by the trade. Mr. Bishop is at present connected with the house of Sanford, Storrs & Varner, Third and Race streets, Cincinnati, Ohio, but his skill and ability bid fair to give him a National reputation in his business.

"From Charter to Constitution," by Hon. Dan J. Ryan, was published in Volume 5, of the Ohio Archaeological Society, pp., 7 to 13.

Rev. J. D. Herron has composed and published the following music: Two Christmas Carols: "I Know, I Know," and "O Ring, Glad Bells." They were published by W. A. Pond & Company of New York. "Communion Service, in A. Flat," was published by Church & Company of New York. "Benedicte, I and 2", were published by himself.

Accidental and Sudden Deaths.

1. Whole number

282

15.

Deaths due to electric cars

2. Persons under age

104

16.

Deaths due to intoxication

3. Persons of full age.

136

17. Number of males killed

223

4. Persons of unknown age

136

18. Number of females killed

5. Died in the City of Portsmouth

19.

Deaths due to horses

6. Died in the county (outside of Ports- mouth)

197

21.

Drownings in the Ohio

7. Drownings

22.

Scioto.

8. Suicides

23.

Little Scioto

9. Deaths by explosions.

24.

in Pine Creek

10. Children burned ..

25.

in Brush Creek

11.

Deaths by careless handling of fire arms

27. Adults burned

12. Murders

28. Killed by bicycle.

13. Deaths due to operation of steam rail- roads

29.

Killed by machinery

30. Deaths due to poison

14. Deaths due to horse cars

The editor prepared a list of the deaths of this description from June 1865 to November 9, 1801, made up from the newspapers in Scioto County. giv- ing the particulars in each case, but when the article was completed it was so

20. Deaths due to cattle.

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grewsome he suppressed it, and has only given the statistics tabulated from it. The article if published would have been in exceedingly bad taste and would have harrowed up the feelings of many of the readers of the Book. It was a record of pitiful suicides, of children neglected and exposed to the perils of fire and of the rivers surrounding the city and through and adjoining the county, of inexcusable recklessness in the handling of fire arms and machinery. It was projected with the idea that its publication would tend to guard against and prevent similar catastrophes, but the editor has come to the conclusion, that if Saint Lazarus himself, would come back and warn the people, it would have no effect, and having worried with the printers in getting out this work till he has lost a temper as serene as Lazarus was supposed to have had, he has con- cluded his warnings would be of no use. From now till the end of the world children will be left alone and burned up, small boys will steal away from home and be drowned, muzzles of guns and pistols, supposed to be unloaded, will be pointed in fun and deal a death discharge in earnest. Men and women will be careless with rapid and powerful machinery, young girls will continue to pour coal oil from filled cans on lighted fires and the electric cars will make their usual slaughtering of the innocents. As yet the automobile has not done its deadly work in the county, but its time is at hand. The one person who owed his death to horse cars was Charles Good, aged nine years, run over Oc- tober 13, 1882.

The Mound Builders.

The following are extracts from a pamphlet published in 1888 by Dr. G. S. B. Hempstead, entitled "The Mound Builders." A particular and minute de- scription of the ancient earthworks in Portsmouth, Ohio, by Dr. G. S. B. Hemp- stead. M. D., April, 1883. Printed by the Blade Publishing Co., 1883, Ports- mouth, Ohio.

No earth works like those in the Ohio Valley are found in any other part of the known world. The mounds which stood on the site of the Chil- dren's Home with the parallel mounds to the southeast and southwest and to the northwest may be designated as follows: The works, designated for convenience as the Citadel, are located-partly on the ground of the Children's Home and partly on the grounds west and north. The Citadel is surrounded by an earthen wall, three feet high with four openings or gateways, northeast, northwest, southeast and southwest. This circle is six hundred feet in diam- eter and incloses four horseshoe mounds. The two larger are parallel to each other and the two smaller located on either side of the gateway, to the south- east. The eastern large horseshoe mound in the Children's Home grounds is well preserved. The western large horseshoe mound has been plowed down. The two larger horseshoe mounds are one hundred and fifty feet across the heel of the shoe and from heel to toe about one hundred and sixty feet

and twelve high. The are

feet two smaller feet ten across the heel, twelve feet from heel to toe and three feet high with the toe placed close to the inside of the surrounding wall on either side of the south- east opening. It is supposed that the horse shoe mounds were foundations of buildings of some sort. forming a tent or tabernacle opening to the south. The smaller mounds were probably sentry boxes to prevent improper persons from entering. To the southeast were parallel wall mounds. extending to the Temple mound across the Ohio river, in Kentucky. The Temple mound in Kentucky was at the end of the parallel mounds on walls extending from the Citadel. It was twenty feet high, surrounded by segments of three circles with an inner ditch, continuous except at the main entrance on the west side. Three entrance ways go in at right angles to the inner ditch which keep all intruders out except from the west side. The level within the ditch and around the mound is one hundred and fifty feet inside. This mound was sur- veyed and platted by Captain Francis Cleveland and was then in a good state of preservation. The mound and surroundings are nearly destroyed. The mound itself is but six feet high and the segments are nearly destroyed, bare- ly traceable. There was a graded way around the mound by easy ascent to the top. The mound is not round, but truncated, longest east and west. There is a mound west of the Temple mound, in a good state of preservation. The ditch about it is fifteen feet wide, from the bottom to the top of the outside

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wall, which surrounds it, and which is three feet high. The mound is six feet high and approached from a gateway to the south. West of this mound is a six-sided figure nearly destroyed.

There is a mound west of the six- sided figure which is in the forest and is well preserved. The parallels from the Citadel to the Temple mound have no breach except the Ohio River. The Children's Home stands on an elevation of twelve feet, the work of the Mound Builders, which has one fourth of an acre level on top. One arm ex- tends from this elevation to the east, in a circle, and extends to the Kendall mound which has neither ditch nor embankments. North of the Citadel mound is a circle consisting of a ditch and embankments, the ditch on the inside, and embankment three feet high with an opening to the north. The circle is three feet in diameter. Southwest of the Citadel is a graded way from the second to the third terrace. Parallels extend from the Citadel to the high bank of the Scioto River. The north wall commences six hundred yards west of the Cit- adel in a circular ending which terminates in a small mound.

This north wall passes along the elevation containing the Kinney Grave yard and on to the Chillicothe road near the Briggs Homestead, and here ter- minates in a circle and large flat mound, near the home, and on the north side of the Spring branch. The southwest parallels run back to the mound six hundred yards, west of the Citadel, and then sweep around to the southwest till near Gallia street, where it goes nearly southwest to the Scioto River and to the north of the parallels leading from the Citadel to the Pleasure mound, in Kentucky. On the south side of the Ohio it appears and continues to the old Fort which we call the Pleasure Grounds. On the west side of Madison street is the usual circle and mound. From the east side of Madison street the south- ern parallel begins and runs to the place of beginning in Greenlawn Cemetery. In the elbow of these southwest parallels stood the Waller mound, now de- stroyed, but which stood near the residence of G. H. Heinish. This mound had no ditch or embankment, and a large elm tree grew on the top of it. There were several large and fine springs in the vicinity of this mound. There was one in a well in front of George Davis' residence, one across the street from Irving Drew's residence, and one in front of the George Ball residence, now owned by W. A. Connolley. William Salter had a well near his residence and one existed on the premises of J. B. Green. Back of the Salter property the parallels circled from each other leaving six rods between embankments and. then approached to two rods and had two small mounds. The parallels at most places were three rods apart. At the first alley west of Chillicothe street and parallel to it was a square of half an acre with which the walls of the paral- lels unite. This square connected with the parallels by gate ways and had an ran

parallels opening at the south side. The from there crossing

Market street near the Catholic Church, through the B. & O. depot grounds and Captain Moore's Machine Works to the Scioto River, when they disappear- ed. They had an elbow washed away but which reappeared on each side of Madison street and ran to the Ohio River where were two mounds. The only gate way in these parallels from the Citadel to the river was on the north side of the square west of Chillicothe street. There was a burying ground at the end of the northwest parallels and also on John D. Feurt's farm, where many bones have been dug up. The old Fort which we shall designate as Pleasure Grounds consists of an irregular square, having two acute and two obtuse angles and containing seventeen acres. It has two arms or wings of parallel embankments extending from the main square northeast and south- west one half mile, containing about ten acres each. These parallels are four rods apart and three feet high, and have a base of thirty feet. These works were not defensive. At the south corner on the outside wall the embankment is only two feet high on the outside and twenty-five feet in the inside. Wild animals would be driven into the square and killed. The wings would afford good courses for foot races. In the great square could be animal fights. It was evidently a pleasure or hunting ground. There is an animal mound on the third terrace on R. H. Hayman's place, circular embankments and a square. It is impossible to determine their uses unless it were a place to store provisions. Mica was discovered when they were excavating for the Ohio Canal. In the corners of the square were discovered evidences of fires. There were mounds and works south to Unionville but they were destroyed before

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surveyed. There is a high mound south of Hygean. It is 225 feet high and ob- long from east to west; the south and west sides are abrupt and the east and north are of easy grade. The top is truncated and level. This was a signal station, for from its top all earth works can be seen from the Scioto Valley. There is a like mound due east across the Scioto. There is an important earth work at Turkey Creek, on the farm of Mitchell Evans. It commences at the river hill north of the Pyles residence and extends diagonally across the Tur- key Creek and Ohio Valleys to within a few rods of the bank of the Ohio river. It is two miles in lengthi, twenty to twenty-five feet high and six rods wide. It is symmetrical on both sides, from either end and except midway on the north side where are two indentations, half circular, into the side of the bank. On the west end of the southwestern indentation is a large mound standing on the top of the embankment. This embankment was an apparent protection from floods or animals. The farm buildings of Mr. Evans are on it and were above the flood of 1883, seven feet. Kinney Hill and Bitter Sweet Hill were also supposed to have been signal stations. All of these were artificial constructions. These two hills and Unionville hill contain no rock strata and their outlines indicate artificial construction. The soil is different from the hills on the same level. These three hills are supposed to have been erected for burial purposes or to secure treasures. Dr. Hempstead thought their displays in angles, squares and circles were evidence of scientific knowledge and their work evidence of a variety of acquirements and adopted to the uses intended, but we did not know the use. He thought if a shaft were sunk in Kinney Hill, there would be a re- markable find.

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A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 46

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