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Those advertising in 1820 were: Wool carding, H. H. Parker & Co .; chair maker, Daniel Edwards; nail factory, J. Offnere.
H. H. McCloud advertised as a chair maker in 1821.
Those advertising in 1826: J. H. Hoskinson & Co., hat factory.
Those advertising in 1832: Davis & Stevenson, post coaches, wagons and plows; Colwine & Offnere, millers, and Glover & Noel, foundry.
Those advertising in 1836 were: Maddox & Beyerly, sheet iron; Stevenson & Maddock, foundry, and James Grimes, stoves.
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Those advertising in 1837 were: Shewell & Hopewell, hat factory; Thomas G. Gaylord & Co., rolling mill.
In 1838, J. C. Ashley advertised a soap factory.
Those advertising in 1840 were: William Ewing & Co., conducting Scioto furnace.
In 1844, William Ewing & Co., owners of Scioto furnace, dissolved. They were succeeded by Voorheis & Musser.
In 1846, John Hart manufactured candy and Benjamin Wilson chairs.
Those advertising in 1850: T. G. Gaylord & Co., rolling mill; A. Heck. inger & Co., Scioto Foundry; D. P. Pareboom, engines and machinery; Jacob Burkel & Co., wagon and carriage makers, and R. Bell & Co., shoes.
Those advertising in 1851 were: The Star Flour Mill. This mill was built on the corner of Front and Chillicothe at this date.
In 1852, H. S. Commins advertised a foundry.
In 1853 the advertisers were: The Scioto Foundry, Star Mills, Peters & Co., Washington Furnace, and Robinson, Glidden & Co., Scioto Furnace, hot blast pig iron.
Those advertising in 1855 were: Grimes & McElheney, People's Foundry; Charles E. Rose, soap and candle factory; J. Riggs, saw mill; Brown, Reed & Co., mineral water; Cutler & Brown, liquors, August 22, 1855, Ward, Murray & Stevenson dissolves, John L. Ward retires, and Murray & Stevenson continue the business. Union Tannery, Robinson & Son.
Those advertising in 1857 were: Washington McLean & Co., boiler makers, in Portsmouth, also in Cincinnati; July 29, 1857, the new rolling mill was organized. Peter Kinney, James Murfin, William Hall and P. C. Kinney were the organizers. It was to be known as James Murfin & Co., and the Franklin Iron Works.
Those advertising in 1858 were: Neill & Eberhart, foundry, and J. P. Purdum, planing mill.
Those advertising in 1859 were: Murray, Stevenson & Co., iron and brass foundry and machinists; Metzger & Co., buggy manufacturers; Washington McLean & Co., boiler makers, Beyerly & Gerlach, tin and coppersmiths. May 2, 1859, Portsmouth had two rolling m. Ils, four foundries, two machine shops, four chair factories, three planing mills, two sash and door factories, three grist mills, two distilleries and two barrel factories.
In 1860, Gilbert Stewart & Son advertised sawed stone, and C. Powers & Co. advertised marble works.
On June 28, 1862, Neill & Eberhart advertised a stove foundry.
Those advertising in 1863 were: Hunter & Wilhelm, tin, copper and sheet iron manufacturers; B. Schweitzer, candy maker. November 23, 1863, D. N Murray, E. B. Moore and William Moore formed a partnership as Murray, Moore & Co. Murray & Stevenson d'ssolved.
October 19, 1864, Gaylord & Co. were building a railroad chair factory just below the rolling mill.
In 1865, T. W. Carre & Co. advertised a planing mill and Arthur & Ritchie a paper mill. Reitz & Company, freestone works, advertised.
In 1866, George J. Schirrman advertised a carriage factory.
July 27, 1867, the Union Iron Company was organized, with a capital stock of $400,000.
July 1, 1868. Johnson, Peebles & Company started the hub factory.
Those advertising in 1869 were: J. W. Fulton, Union Mills, flour, corn- meal, etc .; J. W. Watson, wheelbarrows, and R. Bell & Company, shoe factory.
In 1870, C. S. Smith and Daniel Pursell were employed in making wrap- ping paper. The agricultural works was being organized August 31, 1870; $70.000 was subscribed, but $150,000 was wanted. The contracts for erection were let October 12, 1870. October 19, 1870, Dr. J. W. Fulton and Son purchased the mill at the corner of Front and Chillicothe Streets from Damarin & Com- pany for $9500. Manufacture of fire brick began at Webster, Ohio.
March 1, 1871, Johnson. Peebles & Company employed forty-five hands and paid from fifty cents to three dollars per day.
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MANUFACTORIES.
January 31, 1872, the Portsmouth Planing Mill was organized, $40,000 capital stock. Thomas W. Carre, G. B. and A. F. Miller were the owners. July 24, 1872, the Burgess Steel and Iron Works was organized; John R. Williams was President; L. C. Robinson, Vice President; G. W. Weyer, Secretary; M. H. Ball, Treasurer, and C. Burgess, Superintendent. The above officers were the Directors, together with F. Thompson, William E. Williams and George Davis. August 28, 1872, Murray, Moore & Company dissolve. David Murray sold his interest for $69,000 to E. B. and William Moore. October 20, 1872, D. N. Murray took charge of the agricultural works.
April 20, 1873, the Scioto Valley Fire Brick Company was organized. June 11, 1873, the new foundry of the Ohio Stove Company was in operation. On July 17, 1873, J. B. Green took charge of the Gaylord & Company mill.
January 28, 1874, Cuppett & Webb advertised the Turkey Creek Saw Mill, and G. W. Mackey was city agent for the lumber yard above Fulton's Mill.
November 16, 1875, the Portsmouth Agricultural Works sold to J. B. Green for $23,000; cost $68,000. It was sold by the Gaylord Rolling Mill, on execution, for $11,000.
December 31, 1879, Drew, Selby & Company succeeded Irving Drew & Company. Frederick Drew retired and George D. Selby went into the firm.
October 22, 1881, the Hocking Valley Fire Brick Works was to go into operation in two weeks. January 5, 1881, Drew, Selby & Company moved their shoe factory from the Huston Building to the Miller Building, Third and Gay Streets.
May 6, 1882, the Portsmouth Fire Brick Company organized, to succeed the Hocking Valley Fire Brick Company; capital, $50,000. The same date the Harty Spring Works were being erected. The York Manufacturing Company advertised street and road scrapers.
December 15, 1883, Thomas M. Patterson started a box factory in Ports- mouth for the manufacture of paper boxes. Eight persons were employed and four thousand boxes were turned out per week. There were two shoe factories in Portsmouth at this time, and they used two hundred thousand boxes per year. Yeager & Anderson established their flour mills in Portsmouth.
March 30, 1887, the Spring Lane Distillery Company began business, with a capital stock of $50,000.
SHOE FACTORIES.
The Drew-Selby Company.
This company is successor to the firm of Drew, Selby and Company, which was organized January 1, 1880. It was composed of Irving Drew, George D. Selby and Bernard Damon. The capital was small originally. The members of the firm saved their salaries and put in outside means as their business grew and required increase. The Company began manufacturing in the Huston Stone Front, on Second Street. In the first year the Company had 50 people employed and turned out 100 pairs of misses' and women's shoes per day. The next move was to the northeast corner of Third and Gay Streets, in 1881. The Company put in the first power plant in Portsmouth for the manu- facture of shoes. Before that all the machines were operated by foot or hand power. Bernard Damon retired from the firm in 1883. The firm remained at Third and Gay for ten years, until 1891. The building on Third and Gay was leased of G. B. Millar. The firm erected a factory at Seventh and John Streets, 100 by 165, exclusive of boiler-room, two stories high. An addition was made in 1895, covering 78 by 127 feet, three stories and basement. In 1898 the original plant was raised one story and a new part added, 50 by 150, three stories and basement. In 1897 and 1899, Drew, Selby & Company erected for the Excelsior Shoe Company a building 50 by 245, four stories and basement and furnishes power, light and heat to them. The firm name has not changed, but the fol- lowing members, J. M. Graham, William W. Gates, Jr., and Pearl E. Selby, were admitted as members of the firm in 1892, and have since remained. The Com- pany is now doing a business of over $2,000,000 annually. The first year it was
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$70.000. The capital is ample to handle the business in the most economical and practical way. The number of persons employed is 1,400. The weekly pay is $12,000, including the workmen. office force and salesmen. The firm claims its output is the largest of any factory, selling its entire product directly to the retail dealer. The members of this firm claim that their uniform success aud steady progress has been due most largely to mainta.ning the same propor- tionate cost and the same selling prices to all on their goods and treating all customers alike. The firm has grown until its business is the largest manu- facturing or mercantile which has ever been established in Portsmouth.
The Drew-Selby Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Ohio, succeeded Drew, Selby & Company, the firm, on April 14, 1902. The authorized capital of the new firm is $1.000,000. The paid-up capital stock is $700,000. There was a satisfactory adjustment of the interests of Irving Drew and George D. Selby, whereby George D. Selby acquired a controlling interest and became President and General Manager of the Company, with Irving Drew as First Vice President. The other officers and Directors of the Company are: S. P. Selby, Second Vice President; Mark W. Selby, Secretary; Jared J. Rardin. Treasurer; P. E. Selby, Superintendent, and with James W. Bannon, Director, constitute the Board of Directors.
The Excelsior Shoe Company
was organized March, 1889. The first officers were: F. D. Euth, President; W. G. Williams, Vice President; A. T. Holcomb, Secretary; J. E. Williams, General Manager and Treasurer. The original and authorized capital of the Company was $10,000. The present paid-up capital stock is $150,000. It employs 800 persons, who turn out 2,500 pair of men's, boys' and youths' shoes per day. It does an annual business of over $1,000,000, and its weekly pay-roll averages $5,000. The present officers are: D. C. Davies, President; W. G. Williams, Vice President; D. C. Williams, Secretary and Treasurer; J. E. Williams, Manager. Its plant is located on Findlay and Gallia Streets.
The Heer Shoe Company
was organized in May, 1897. The first officers were: Tracy B. Johnson, Presi- dent: John Jones, Vice President; Chris. Heer, Secretary Treasurer and Gen- eral Manager. The original and authorized capital was $20,000. The present paid-up capital is $100,000. This Company employs between 350 and 400 per- sons, and makes 2,000 pairs of shoes per day. They make ladies' and misses' medium and fine shoes, The weekly pay-roll averages from $2,500 to $3,000. The present officers are: Chris. Heer, President and General Manager; L. D. York. Vice President, and H. W. Heer, Secretary and Treasurer. It does an annual business of $500,000. Its plant is situated on Tenth and Lincoln Streets and Hutchins Avenue.
The Portsmouth Shoe Company
was organized in March, 1898. The original and authorized capital was $25,000. The first officers were: F. V. Knauss, President; B. F. Richardson, Vice Presi- dent: George M. Appel, Treasurer, and C F. Kendall. Secretary. The present officers are: F. V. Knauss, President; A. T. Holcomb, Vice President; George M. Appel, Treasurer, and C. F. Kendall. Secretary. The present capital, paid-up, is $25,000. The 175 persons employed turn out 900 pairs of infants', children's and misses' shoes per day. The average weekly pay-roll is $900. This Company does an annual business of $200.000. Its plant is located at 127 West Front Street.
The Irving Drew Company
This company is the successor to the Star Shoe Company, which was organized January 16, 1894, succeeding to the business of Titus, Heer and Company, which firm had commenced to manufacture children's shoes in May of the previous year, in what was known as the Gaylor Rolling Mill Store Building, near the corner of Washington and Front Streets. Those composing the firm of Titus, Heer & Company were Dr. A. Titus, Mrs. M. A. Titus, S. O.
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Titus and Chris. Heer. They had purchased the outfit for making children's shoes from Drew, Selby & Company, as the latter business had grown so large they were willing to dispose of this branch of it.
The first Directors of The Star Shoe Company were: J. J. Rardin, Pres- ident: S. O. Titus, Secretary, Treasurer and General Manager; Chris. Uhl, Vice President; A. Titus and Irving Drew. These, with Mrs. M. A. Titus and George D. Selby, were the stockholders.
The Company continued to do business in the same place till the summer or fall of 1896. when it purchased the Padan Brothers' plant, 107 West Front Street, and moved into it, which they have enlarged and have been doing a large increased business.
When the firm of Drew, Selby & Company was changed into a corporation, in April, 1902, Mr. Irving Drew sold enough of his stock to give Mr. George D. Selby a controlling interest, and has since been less active in the management of The Drew-Selby Company, although still holding a large financial interest there.
Mr. Drew at once purchased The Star Shoe Company. changed its name to The Irving Drew Company, and became its President, with W. S. Kennedy, Vice President; R. I. Drew, Secretary, and W. W. Gates, Jr., Treasurer, who, with I. T. Spencer, compose the Board of Directors and are the present owners of the business which they are reorganizing to produce another line of ladies' shoes, for which Portsmouth has become so well known, and in which the Pres- ident of this Company, Irving Drew, has been so prominently and successfully connected.
Twelfth United States Census of Manufactures.
Number of establishments
284
Total Capital
$4,113,700
Capital in land.
355,576
Capital in buildings
780,416
, Capital in machinery, tools and implements.
1,025,636
Capital in cash and sundries.
1,952,072
Proprietors and firm members
315
Number of salaried officials, clerks, etc.
381
Salaries of
310,355
Average number of wage-earners.
4,586
Total wages of
1,556,190
Average number of wage-earners-males, 16 years of age and over
3,44-1
1,347,575
Average number of wage-earners-females, 16 years of age and over. Wages of
1,043
197,652
Average number of wage-earners-children under 16 years of age.
99
Wages of 6
10,963
Rent of works ..
22,820
Taxes-Not including Internal Revenue.
25.852
Reut of offices, interest, etc.
710,000
Contract work
44,274
Total cost of materials used
3,824,093
Principal materials-Including mill supplies and freight
3,668.916
Fuel, and rent of power and heat
155,177
Value of products-Including custom work and repairing
7,532,976
Wages of
Total miscellaneous expenses
802,946
The Portsmouth Telephone Company
was organized May 15, 1899, under the laws of the State of Ohio. Capital stock, $100,000. Original officers were: F. B. Finney, President; G. B. Selby, Vice President; George E. Kricker, Secretary and Treasurer; Thos. W. Numan, General Manager. The present officers are: Judge James M. Thomas, Presi- dent; John Kellgofer, Vice President; Eugene E. Knox, Secretary and Treas- urer; Thomas W. Numan, General Manager. The subscription list July 1, 1902, is as follows: Four hundred and ninety-seven business telephones, five hundred and ninety-five residence telephones, and three pay stations, a total of one thou- sand and ninety-five. In conjunction with the United States Telephone Com- pany (independent) The Portsmouth Telephone Company secures long distance connections to all points.
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The Portsmouth Gas Company
was organized on May 5, 1855, when the capital stock was $50,000-one thou- sand shares at $50 each. The incorporators were: Henry V. Barringer, J. W. Glidden, A. V. Barringer, S. R. Ross and J. V. Robinson, Jr. The certificate of incorporation was recorded in Volume 1, Page 238, in Record of Incorporations, in the office of the Secretary of State. On February 22, 1877, the capital stock was increased to $100,000, the shares still remaining at $50 each. The officers signing the certificate of increase were: L. C. Robinson, President, and W. Kinney, P. S. Iams, J. Y. Gordon and Samuel Reed, Directors. The certificate was filed February 28, 1877, and is found in Volume 16, Page 386, in the Record of Incorporations, in the office of the Secretary of State. In 1886 the Company changed its name to The Portsmouth Gas and Electric Company. The total amount of gas consumed in the city in one month is 2,500.000 feet, and there are sixteen miles of mains. The present corporators are: James T. Lynn, of Detroit, Michigan, President; Frank B. Kehoe, Vice President; E. T. Lynch, Secretary and Treasurer.
INSURANCE AGENTS.
December 16, 1835, C. A. M. Damarin was agent for the Lancaster Fire Insurance Company.
November 8, 1836. John Peebles was agent for the Protection Company of Columbus. Office at Dr. Hempstead's.
December 31, 1836, J. V. Robinson was the agent for the Protection Com- pany.
September 2, 1837, J. W. Ross was an insurance agent.
February 22, 1839, B. Kepner was an agent for the Protection Insurance Company.
February 28, 1842, John Peebles was an agent for the Columbus Insurance Company.
September 16, 1842, John McDowell was an agent for the Columbus Insur- ance Company.
October 21, 1842, M. B. Ross was an agent for the Lexington Fire, Life and Maine Insurance Company.
January 19, 1842, Davis and Smith were agents for the Canal Insurance Company of Columbus.
January 15, 1846, James Pursell was an agent for the Delaware Mutual Insurance Company.
February 12, 1846, B. F. Conway was agent for the Protection Insurance Company.
All the foregoing are Fire Insurance.
April 2, 1846, B. F. Conway advertised as agent of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark. New Jersey.
April 20, 1848, B. F. Conway was agent for the Protection, Hartford, Conn. January 1, 1849, S. H. Ross was agent for the Protection Insurance Com- pany, New Jersey.
In 1849 H. Buchanan was agent for the Ohio Mutual Insurance Company. June 24, 1848. Kinney & Tracy were agents of the Knox Insurance Com- pany of Vincennes, Indiana.
May 1, 1850, S. R. Ross was agent of the City Insurance Company of Cin- cinnati.
August 2, 1854, J. W. Collings was agent of the City Insurance Company of Cleveland.
November 12, 1859, N. Bingham was agent.
October 12, 1853, James Lodwick was agent of the Protection Insurance Company.
November 12. 1859 James Lodwick was an agent.
May 26, 1850, T. M. Patterson was agent of the Kentucky Mutual Life Insurance Company.
September 9, 1850, S. R. Ross was agent of the Hartford Life and Health Insurance Company.
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March 17, 1851, John McDowell was agent of the Columbus Insurance Company.
July 10, 1851, B. F. Conway was agent of the Jefferson Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati.
In 1851 S. G. Terry was agent of the Kentucky Mutual Insurance Com- pany (Life).
August 9, 1865, P. C. Gunn was an agent.
July 10, 1867, Hard & Bonsall were agents.
In 1867, P. C. Gunn was sole agent.
December 22, 1866, S. H. Holmes advertised as insurance agent.
Julie 3, 1867, Amos B. Cole, James Lodwick and W. H. Bonsall were to- gether.
B. R. Miles was an agent for the American Life Insurance Company.
October 12, 1870, P. E. Hard and W. H. Bonsall were agents.
March 6, 1871 -Insurance agents in Portsmouth at the time of the Taylor House Fire: W. H. Bonsall, James Lodwick, Hard & Hall, Grum & Reber, J. W. Collins, and Mathias Kricker.
July 19, 1876, J. and W. T. Lodwick advertised as insurance agents.
January 26, 1876, James R. Boal went in with McFarland & Bonsall as insurance agents, and the firm became McFarland, Boal & Bonsall.
March 29, 1875, G. W. Flanders and S. P. Cummins were insurance agents. February 28, 1877, A. O. Bing was an insurance agent (F.re).
February 1, 1878, Dunlap & Boal consolidated their insurance agency with J. & W. T. Lodwick, and under the latter name.
March 1, 1879, Mathias and F. C. Kricker advertised as insurance agents. The fire insurance agents now doing business in Portsmouth, Ohio, are: John J. Duke & Son, Edgar F. Draper, Samuel M. Johnson, Frank Lloyd, Miller & Gist, Hutchins & Hamm, Dan M. Ryan, Col. Floyd L. Smith, Coriell & Strayer, Nathan T. Rickey, Fillmore Musser, George E. Kricker, T, J. Pursell, W, L. Reed, and Philo S, Clark.
THE CITY WATER WORKS.
CHAPTER VII.
Relics of Barbarism-A Black Friday-A Slave Coffle-The First Conveyance of Lots-Elections - Early Reminiscences- The Ohio River-The Bonanza Bar-Bridges Across the Scioto at its Mouth Military Affairs- The Crusade-Notable Dates.
RELICS OF BARBARISM.
Fugitive Slave Notices.
These were usually headed "Runaway Slaves," and had a rough cut of a Negro, with a stick across his shoulder and a bundle at the end of the stick, in the act of running. The bloodhounds and the human dogs, who made a business of hunting the poor creatures, were not inserted in the picture. The following notices are all of the kind, thank God, which ever appeared in the Portsmouth newspapers.
Scioto being a border county, left the curse of slav- ery overshadowing it. The fugitive slaves were adver- tised in the Portsmouth papers. The first newspaper in Scioto County appeared on August 5, 1818.
The first notice of a runaway slave appeared in the Scioto Telegraph, of April 4, 1820. Thomas B. King ad- vertised a runaway Negro from his place four miles above Portsmouth. The slave's name was Gabriel, and he was twenty-one years of age. A reward of $50 was offered.
On June 22, 1826, Tignal Wommick advertised a Ne- gro man named Daniel, and a description was given.
On December 14, 1826, Joseph George and James Bailey advertised three negro men, Jack, Peter and Nelson, and gave a description of each. A reward of $300 was offered.
On January, 1828, John Aills, by John Halbert, offered $20 reward for two Negroes, one a woman, Hannah, aged twenty-five years, and her son; six years of age. "They were at the McCoy's Tavern, at Portsmouth, last evening" states the advertisement.
August 25, 1831, H. Blake offered a reward of $50 for a negro boy, Edward Ringo, 18 years of age, escaped from the Greenup Iron Works.
December 22, 1832, H. Blake & Co. offered a reward of $50 for a negro man named Isaac, six feet four inches high, a light mulatto, thirty-five years old. The reward was to be given if confined in the Portsmouth or Chillicothe jail.
On November 18, 1836, $50 reward was offered by James Martin for a negro man named William Scott. The claimant was James Martin, of Saline County, Missouri.
On May 20, 1837, $100 reward was offered for a negro man, Jim, who was twenty-five years old, six feet high, and could read and write. The advertise. ment was signed John Todd.
August 28, 1837, Anderson Woodford, a negro man twenty years of age. broke jail at Paris, Kentucky. Fifty dollars reward was offered for him by Shreve, Pault & Co.
September 3, 1846, Nat Morton advertised a black boy, Sam, nineteen years of age, five feet nine inches high, who had but one eye. One hundred dollars reward was offered.
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January 16, 1852, John Wollman, of Catlettsburg, Kentucky, offered $100 reward for a negro man, Ben. thirty years of age, and five feet ten inches high etc.
The last three of these odious advertisements appeared January 2, 1855. One hundred dollars reward for George, the property of Mrs. Hannah Parker. He was twenty years of age and five feet seven inches high . The notice was signed by Moses McCoy, Greenup, Kentucky, whom, it appears, was a minister of the Christian Church, and a man of the highest character.
A Black Friday.
On January 21, 1830, all the colored people in Portsmouth were forcibly deported from the town. They were not only warned out, but they were driven out. They were forced to leave their homes and belongings.
Between one hundred and two hundred householders had signed a paper to the effect that they would not employ any black person who had not com- plied with the law.
The town authorities had been worked up to the point of agreeing to enforce the savage and brutal "Black Laws" of Ohio. The law referred to had been passed January 19, 1804 ( Chase, Volume 1, 393). It forbade any black or mulatto person to reside in the State unless they had a certificate from the Clerk of the Court that they were free.
Any one was forbidden to hire or employ any black or mulatto person without such certificate, under penalty of $10 to $50, one-half of which went to the informer and other half to the State.
Under the law of January 25, 1807 (Chase, Volume 1, 556), no black or mulatto person was allowed to settle in the State without giving bond in $500 for good behavior and against becoming a township charge. If such bond was not given, it was the duty of the Overseer of the Poor, of the respective town- ships to drive them out. The harboring, employing or concealing of a Negro who had not given such a bond was $100 penalty, one-half to the informer and one half to the great State of Ohio. The same law forbade a Negro to be a witness against a white person.
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