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In-lot, No. 202, had a one story building in which Allen Moore kept a general retail store.
In-lot, No. 189, had a brick house, the brick from which it was built was brought from Maysville. It was built by Jacob Clingman but occupied by Daniel Corwin as a residence. On the remainder of the lot, Corwin had a re- tail dry goods and grocery store He was married twice, his wives were sisters of James Hammitt. He had a bakery back of his brick house, conducted by William Burt, to whom Robert Montgomery was an apprentice. On the rear of the lot was a soap and candle factory, conducted by a man by the name of Cairns. He was an old batchelor, intimate with Martin Funk, who called him the "Soap Biler."
In-lot, No. 175, had a small frame building in which Peter Cunningham had a shoe shop.
In-lot, No. 188, was on the southeast corner of Jefferson and Front streets and had a house built and furnished by Elijah Glover for a hotel. John Peebles occupied it as such from 1820. He opened the Portsmouth Hotel there and con- ducted it until 1830.
In-lot, No. 174, had a small one story frame house, where David Knight Cady moved his school. The school had previously been conducted in Samuel Gunn's house on lot No. 267.
In-lot, No. 161, was east of 174 and had a large two story house owned by Joseph Waddle, in which was kept a dry goods store. He had an adopted daughter, Anna Boline, who married Thomas McConnell.
In-lot, No. 160, had a two story frame house occupied by William Kendall in which he kept a dry goods and grocery store. In the second story was the Commercial Bank of Scioto, of which Thomas Waller was President and Jacob Clingman, was cashier. On the east side of the lot, was a one story frame house in which Charles Hopkins conducted the Portsmouth Gazette, and a man by the name of De Carteret established a book store and bindery.
In-lot, No. 145, is now occupied and covered by the present Biggs House. On the west side of this lot, John Thornton built a two story log house and the building extended to the rear end of the lot. In that he conducted a card- ing machine and fulling mill. He had Seymore Pixley as a Manager and John Lancaster and Southey Copes as helpers. Afterwards Seymore Pixley went to Wheelersburg and worked in the Young's factory. On this same in-lot 145, was a dry goods store. Opposite this same in-lot in the center of Market street stood the court house, about a hundred feet south of it was a public well, thirty feet deep.
In-lot, No. 1, was on the southeast corner of Front and Market streets and is known as the McDowell corner. On this lot, John Smith had a small log house about where the Portsmouth National Bank stands. He was the father of Charles S, Luke P. N. and Joseph W. Smith. In 1820, he built a large three story brick house on the corner to be used as a hotel. He died before the house was completed. The house was completed by Abraham Hall and James Marsh. On this same lot was a small brick house built by Aaron Kinney, for his son-in-law and was used as a residence.
In-lot, No. 16, adjoined No. 1, on the east. Jacob Offnere lived in a small frame house on the east part of the lot where Reed & Jordan now have a store. Some time afterwards, he built a two story brick on the west side of the lot and used it as a residence, until after his wife died.
In-lot, No. 17, was on Front street just east of the first alley above Mar- ket and was the residence of Captain Josiah Shackford.
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In-lot, No. 32, east of Shackford's lot was owned by Johnson Lloyd, a hatter. He had his hat shop on the same lot and his shop and residence were both built of logs.
In-lot, No. 33, next east of in-lot No. 32, had a large two story house built by Dr. James B. Prescott, and used by Nathaniel Head as a hotel. The sign was a big tin ball. In the same lot Alexander Caldwell had a residence. The Prescott House was the most noted in the city, it had in front of it a large elm tree. Around it was the place for the militia to meet. In 1823, John Peebles removed from the Glover House to the Prescott House and kept it un- til 1830 as a hotel. In this hotel Dr. Richard Peebles lost his left eye, in 1827.
In-lot, No. 49, was on the southeast corner of Court and Front streets and had a two-story house built by the father of John and Samuel McCon- nell, in which John Hamilton kept a hotel and boarding house.
In-lot, No. 65, east of the first alley east of Court street was occupied by William Huston and he built his log cabin on this lot. His wife was a great weaver. His three daughters were married respectively to Uriah White, Ja- cob Anderson and Silas W. Cole. His sons were James Marcus, John, Samuel J., Uriah and Sidney.
In-lot, No. 80, adjoining No. 65, was the original residence of Dr. Thomas Waller in the city.
In-lot, No. 96, on the southeast corner of Washington and Front streets was owned by Sanders Darby, he also owned No. 95 north of it. He had a two story log house on each. On the one fronting on Front street, he used to make boat poles and oars for keel boats, and on lot No. 95, now occupied by the Gilbert Grocery Co., he resided. He also owned lot No. 94, where Anderson's store now is.
In-lot, No. 113, was the residence of John R. Turner, an account of which will be found in his sketch.
In-lot, No. 128, east of 113, was occupied by John Noel, who married Amanda Hammitt. A sketch of John Noel is found herein.
In-lot, No. 129, east of 128, was occupied by Thomas Morgan, who mar- ried Miss MeDougall.
In-lot, No. 144, which was on the southeast corner of Second and Front was occupied by Uriah White, who had a frame house. His wife was Mary Huston, to whom he was married July 8, 1808. He had four children, two sons and one daughter. One of his daughters married John Butt, a printer who worked in the Western Times office. His sons were Jefferson and Israel. He had a blacksmith shop on in-lot No. 67, on the north side of Second street between Court and Washington.
In-lot, No. 114, is the George O. Newman residence. Eli Kelsey lived here and had a wife and four children. His daughter Mary Jane married Rich- ard C. Slaughter, a clerk for J. V. Robinson. His sons were Fitch, Edson and Eli B. Kelsey.
In-lot, No. 111, where Mrs. Ann Reed now resides, was a small log cabin where Jacob Moore lived.
In-lot, No. 98, was directly opposite the Peebles residence, occupied by . Robert Scott, a hatter.
In-lot, No. 95, was occupied by Sanders Darby.
In-lot, No. 82, on Second street, now occupied by the Peebles and Ham- ilton Reading Room, was occupied by the Rev. Stephen Lindsley, pastor of the Presbyterian Church.
In-lot, No. 79, is the one on which is situated the building of C. P. Tracy, on the east side was a shop occupied by Levi J. McDowell as a wheel wright in which Samuel Huston learned his trade. On the west part of this lot Samuel J. McCloud and H. H. Parker had a wagon-maker's shop and paint shop. On part of lot No. 66, was Wilson Gates' residence. He married Eliza- beth Kinney on November 30, 1820.
In-lot, No. 63, where stands the Daehler Furniture Co. had a two story house built by Elijah McInteer, first Cashier of the Commercial Bank. He died on the 21st of August, 1827, aged fifty-eight, and was buried in the Funk Cemetery. He was never married. This residence was also occupied by the family of Ruloff Whitney, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this book.
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In-lot, No. 63, on the west half of this lot resided Judge Ezra Osborn and wife.
In-lot, No. 50, which is where John M. Stockham now conducts his bus- iness as feed store, lived Mrs. Tomlinson, the mother of Jacob, George W. and John Clingman and Mrs. Aaron Kinney.
In-lot, No. 47, was unoccupied between 1819 and 1821. On this corner the Elk Building stands.
In-lot, No. 34, next west was a small frame house in which James Ab- bott lived. He built where John Neill resides on the corner of Third and Market and sold it to Dr. G. S. B. Hempstead in 1823. On part of this same lot was kept a school by James G. Hamlin, a brother of Hannibal G. Hamlin. He was the second school teacher of Mr. John G. Peebles. He studied medicine with Dr. Hempstead and died in Gallipolis, on August 4, 1844.
In-lot, No. 31, is the Brodbeck property, now occupied by Storck & Hopkins. It was occupied by different persons. One Joseph Johnson, a bar- ber and a dog trainer. held forth there. He usually performed with his dogs when court was in session for the pleasure of the judges. On the west half of this lot was a one story brick house, owned and occupied by Charles Rand. He was the finest skater in the town of Portsmuth and could write his name on the ice. He removed to Cincinnati, Ohio.
In-lot, No. 18, where the Gerlach property now is, had a brick and wooden house, occupied by Arnold Sargeant.
In-lots, Nos. 2 and 15, where the Hotel Washington now stands, were unoccupied.
In-lot, No. 159, was a building just east of Lynn's livery stable.
In-lot, No. 162, where Lynn's stable now stands, was a swamp, which had a large Elm growing in it, which is marked on Mr. Peebles' map. There was a pond where Dice's Carriage Factory now stands, it was used by all the neighbors for watering their stock and was alive with mussel shells.
In-lot, No. 176, had a shop used by James Lynn as a cabinet maker's shop. He was a brother-in-law of Elijah Glover, Sr., having married a sister of William and Samuel G. Jones. On this lot a school was kept by a man by the name of Brown. Mr. Peebles attended this school.
In-lot, No. 201, on the south side of Second street, west of Jefferson had a two story frame house built by Allen Moore and used as a residence. It was afterwards occupied by Mrs. Montgomery, who kept a boarding house. Her daughter Hettie married George Stevenson. The next occupant was Dr. N. W. Andrews. James L. McVey was married to his daughter Emily there. Dr. Andrews died in that house.
In-lot, No. 215, was used by William Lodwick for a stable in connection with lots 216, in front of it on Front street, and 203 and 204.
In-lot, No. 218, belonged to "Old Smoking Johnnie Smith" and was used as a stable and store house. His dwelling was on lot No. 217 in front.
In-lot, No. 227, on the southeast corner of Madison and Second streets, had a small brick house in which James Salsbury lived after his marriage to Nancy Kehoe.
In-lot, No. 230, on the southwest corner of Madison and Second streets, was a small frame house in which Ezekiel Blue lived and was associated with John Clough in the blacksmith business.
In-lot, No. 237, was a blacksmith's shop and residence occupied by John Clough. He had an apprentice by the name of Uriah Slack, and had the prin- cipal blacksmith shop in the town.
In-lot, No. 240, resided Mrs. Elizabeth Leonard, the mother of two sons, Adam and Jacob, and six daughters: Polly, Nancy, Betsy, Margaret, Susan and Sarah. They resided here until 1824. Nancy married Levi Barker, Betsy mar- ried Samuel J. Huston. Margaret and Susan married Arthur C. Davis; Sarah married James G. Caldwell.
In-lot, No. 257, on the southeast corner of Madison and Massie, was a cabin in which Nathan Wheeler, the Sheriff of the County lived. On the south part of the same lot was a cabin in which Peter Kehoe, father of Murtaugh Kehoe lived.
In-lot, No. 272, this was a lot which was given by Henry Massie to Wil- liam Jones, for services in carrying the chain in laying out the town. Wil-
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liam Jones sold it in 1806, and at the time we are describing the town of Ports- mouth, David Gharky and Edward Cranston had a carding machine, which was afterward sold to John and Dan Young and taken to Wheelersburg. Mr. Ed- ward Cranston was interested in it at Wheelersburg. The Youngs sold out their interest and built Franklin Furnace. Pixley married Major Smith's daughter and went to farming. Cranston continued the woolen business until his death.
In-lots, Nos. 269, 271, 276 and 277, on the north side of the street, lying four together, were occupied by John Waddle and Amaziah Davidson. On lot No. 269, they had a large butcher shop, where hogs were butchered and shipped to New Orleans. General Worthington, afterwards Governor, was a large operator in that business and spent several winters in Portsmouth, boarding at the Peebles Hotel. Lots No. 271, 276 and 277 were used to keep the hogs in until butchered. These lots are now in the Scioto river. In this slaughter house, James Davis, uncle of George Davis, cut and quartered the hogs. He received $1.25 a day, which was regarded as extra large com- pensation.
In-lot, No. 271, was owned by Captain Samuel Gunn, a cooper. He had a large cooper shop. Three of his sons were coopers: Zina, Enos and Bela and he employed three others, Perin Bachelor, Ezekiel Powers and a Scotch- man by the name of Burns. He also had two apprentices: J. Smith Folsom and Elias DeLong, a son of the old Jailer. Mr. Gunn manufactured the entire cooperage of the lower end of the Scioto Valley.
In-lot, No. 251, was a small frame house occupied by a widow named Lydia Lewis, whose husband was a butcher.
In-lot, No. 246, was a small house occupied by the widow Slack, who had a son Uriah, a blacksmith who worked with John Clough.
In-lot, No. 241, was a small house occupied by two women by the name of Lewis.
In-lot, No. 236, had a story and a half house in which John Timmonds resided. He married a daughter of Martin Funk. He was a butcher and a teamster. He had four children, Martin, James, Maria and Samuel. Mr. Tim- monds was an honest, hard working man, but not a financier. He died leaving his children helpless, with but one old white horse, with which at the suggestion of Mr. Peebles, his son, Martin made a small sled and put a barrel on it, in which he and his brother James conducted the water supply for a number of families, who had no wells. He charged for each barrel a "fip" and with the receipts of the same, the family was raised honorably. At the death of her father, Martin Funk, Mrs. Timmonds' share of the estate made her comfort- able for life. Martin Timmonds learned the trade of baking from James Lod- wick and Robert Montgomery, and made a fortune.
In-lot, No. 226, on the northeast corner of Madison and Second streets, had a two story trame house built by Eben Abbott, a carpenter. He removed to Cincinnati, at the instance of William Lodwick, in 1824.
In-lot, No. 214, was occupied by a tannery, built by Aaron Kinney. It was situated where the Gas Works are now. Washington Kinney bought it of his father and paid for the lot and tannery out of his profits. Mr. Washington Kinney made quite a sum of money out of the business conducted on this lot.
In-lot, No. 205, was unoccupied.
In-lot, No. 200, was the residence of Samuel G. Jones. He had five chil- dren; three sons: Nathan, Samuel and Elijah and two daughters.
In-lot, No. 191, on the northwest corner of Jefferson and Second streets, was a brick house occupied by George Tolston, a tailor, who married a daugh- ter of George Hammitt.
In-lot, No. 186, on the northeast corner of Second and Jefferson streets, had a small brick house, in which Washington Kinney lived after his marriage to Mary Waller, on December 14, 1820. He lived there until 1823, when he built on the same lot a one-story house as a residence and lived there until 1830, when he built the brick house on lot No. 172, in which he died. A sketch of Mr. Kinney will be found in the book.
In-lot, No. 177, was a frame house which was not entirely finished. In it resided the family of William Montgomery. He had a wife and four chil-
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aren, one son Robert and three daughters: Hester, Nancy and Maria. In 1819, Robert's principal accomplishment was fishing. He married Harriet Long in 1827. Hettie married George Stephenson. Nancy and Maria lived to be very old, and never married.
In-lot, No. 163, contained a small one story house, of which Dr. Hemp- stead was the first occupant. On the east half of the same lot, was a two story frame house, in which Jacob Clingman, Cashier of the Commercial Bank, lived. He had no children. He left Portsmouth under unpleasant circumstances.
In-lot, No. 147, on the northeast corner of Front and Second streets, was given by Henry Massie to the town, and at the time covered by this nar- rative, was used as a store house for a small six pound cannon, which was kept in a small frame house on this lot.
In-lot, No. 3, on the northeast corner of Second and Market, was given by the County to be used as a Jail, and was used as the Jail lot for fifteen years. Simon DeLong was the Jailer. He was a very muscular man and a butcher by trade. He had a large family of children, three of whom were boys.
In-lot, No. 14, on this lot was a one story frame house, in which John Hatch, Sr., lived. He had three sons: Thomas, John and Calvin, and two daugh- ters. On the east half of this lot was a two story brick house occupied by Na- than K. Clough, a lawyer.
In-lot, No. 19, had two small houses, in one of which a Mr. Brooks lived. In-lot, No. 30, had a small brick house which stood back some distance from the front, in which James Hammitt lived and had a silversmith and tin shop.
In-lot, No. 35, had a double log house, in which William Oldfield lived.
In-lot, No. 46, on the northeast corner of Court and Second streets, had a small frame house, owned and occupied by Dr. Jacob Offnere as a nail fac- tory, but not used as such very long as the business did not pay. On the same lot were two other buildings, one was used as a blacksmith shop by Wesley Goodwin. In a two story log house on this corner John G. Peebles finished his education under the tuition of Eben Corwin.
In-lot, No. 51, on the west corner of this lot Eben Corwin lived. Also on this lot were two frame houses in one of which, William Shaw lived.
In-lot, No. 62, was occupied by a small frame house in which resided Wil- liam Jones, the first school teacher of Portsmouth. He had three daughters: Emily, Patience and Mary. Emily married John Hatch. Patience married Dudley Day, and Mary married Daniel McIntire.
In-lots, Nos. 67, 78, 83, 94, 99 and 110, were not occupied at the date covered by this narrative.
In-lot, No. 115, had a two story frame house, in which Benjamin Melcher resided. He did a large shoe business, had journeymen and apprentices, among the latter were John McConnell, Isaac Coriell, Richard and Thomas Lloyd. He was highly respected and well thought of, but was not successful in business.
In-lot, No. 126, had a frame house occupied by Abraham Hall, a brick and stone mason.
In-lot, No. 131, where the Cycle and Seel's buildings stand was occu- pied by Isaac Evans, a well digger.
Out-lot, No. 27, belonged to Thomas Morgan.
Out-lot, No. 26, belonged to Mrs. Mary McConnell and she resided on it. On this lot was a swamp which furnished all the flag which the coopers needed in making tight barrels.
Out-lot, No. 23, was a brick house built by John Brown, Sr., and used for a hotel. This was where the Post Office now stands.
Out-lot, No. 22, where the Sixth Street Church now stands, was used by John Brown as a horse mill. Peter Weaver, a noted colored man had a resi- dence on this lot.
Out-lot, No. 29, had a cabin occupied by William Degear & Sons, well diggers. They were good customers of the product of Mr. Oldfield's Distillery. In front of Degear's cabin, was a large pond situated on the north side of Gallia street, east of Gay, and between Gay and the High School. There was a pottery on the opposite side of Gallia street, above the High School alley. It was conducted by a Mr. Dennis, who married a daughter of George Hammitt.
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He died and his widow married Isaac Barber. They had two children: I. N. Barber and Hannah Amanda, the widow of Washington White.
On the Waller tract of one hundred acres, extending from the first alley crossing Third street, east of Gay, to Union street, and from Eighth street to the Ohio river, there were two cabins, one was south of the Gallipolis Road and used by tenants of the tract.
George Offnere Tract. Of twenty-five acres, which is now the Glover Addition. There was a two story log house in which he resided. His daugh- ter Sarah Jane married Eli Glover.
William Kendall Tract. Of eighty-four acres, as marked on the map. There was a small cabin on Gallia street, where a colored man by the name of Henry Brown lived.
Martin Funk Tract,-Of twenty-five acres, had a small cabin occupied by Jack Funk. He was a fifer in the war of 1812. He had but two tunes in his repertory: "Yankee Doodle" and "Duncan Davy", but these two tunes gave liim the position of Fife Major. After holding it awhile, he wanted to resign his commission and was premitted to do so.
A. Kinney Tract,-Of 104 acres, was, at the time of which we write, en- tirely covered with timber.
Uriah Barber Tract,-was also timber. His son John resided on it and the whole family were keel boat men.
Waller Tract,-Of 100 acres, was mostly heavy timbered. It had a small creek on it which was called Waller's Gut, and was used by the boys as a swimming pond.
Out-lot, No. 49, which is now about the corner of Fourth and Market. There was a two story house, built and occupied by Greenleaf Dole, a son of Mrs. Nabby Dole. The Dr. Hempstead homestead was a part of this out-lot. Out-lot, No. 14, was owned by John H. Thornton and James March. The north part of it was owned by Thornton and the south part by March. Mr. March was a brickmason, and he sold his part to John McDowell and Fryer. Afterwards it was sold by McDowell to Hugh Cook.
Out-lot, No. 4, was owned by Charles Rand, the north part, and the south part by Samuel Dole and Marcus Bosworth, which was used as a brick- yard. This would be on Market street, about Sixth street.
Out-lots, Nos. 40 and 41, were owned by William Lodwick, and are now the yards of the B. & O. Railroad. There was an extensive swamp, and it was unoccupied for a long time, but was afterwards acquired by the Scioto & Hocking Valley Railroad.
Out-lot, No. 48, was owned by John H. Thornton. On the northeast part of this lot was built what was called Wheeler's Academy. It was sold to the Methodist Church, and was used as a house of worship until they built the Bigelow Church, on Second street, where Hibbs' Hardware store now stands.
The land marked "Old Grave Yard" was used as such until 1829, when the town purchased ground for the beginning of Green Lawn, and the bodies were removed to the new cemetery.
The names of the owners of the other out-lots, and parts of out-lots ap- pear upon them.
The entire front of the town, except that portion in front of 203 and 216, to the river, belonged to Henry Massie. In front of 203 and 216, the river front belonged to William Lodwick, and he had made a grade and wharf as a public landing.
The first public well will be seen in front of lots Nos. 273 and 274.
DIARY OF JOHN G. PEEBLES.
1820.
July 1,-Daniel Corwin married to Mrs. Eliza Dowell, mother of John Dowell.
July 21,-Attended the first camp meeting on the Lawson farm now owned by Mrs. Peebles. Being Sunday.
June 14,-William Wood, brother of Robert and James Wood, died. at Natchez, Miss. Aged 23 years.
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