History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, and incidentially historical collection pertaining to border warfare and the early settlement of the adjacent portion of the Ohio Valley, Part 85

Author: Caldwell, J. A. (John Alexander) 1n; Newton, J. H., ed; Ohio Genealogical Society. 1n
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Wheeling, W. Va. : Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 728

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PETER TALLMAN, attorney-at-law. The subject of this sketch is a son of Peter Tallman, who migrated from Virginia to Bel- mont county in 1802, and was married to a widow lady, Mrs. Berry, nee Jenkins. She had a family of three children. They resided in Union township, where, on the 21st of August, 1814, our subject was born. He was educated in St. Clairsville and Kenyon College, studied law with General James Weir and was admitted to practice, September, 1835. On the 13th of Februa- ry, 1839, he was married to Miss Elizabeth A. Booker. In April, 1840, he removed to Morristown and engaged in merchandizing, where he continued for five years and then returned to St. Clairs- ville, resuming his law practice, which he had been obliged to abandon for a time on account of ill health. Whilst in Morris- town he received the appointment of postmaster under Gen, Har- rison's administration, and was removed by Tyler. In 1844, he was elected to the legislature from this county, serving one term and refused to be a candidate for the second. In 1849, he was elected a member of the Board of Education, serving in that ca- pacity for eleven consecutive years. On the 22d of April, 1861, he raised a company of volunteer militia. He was captain of and belonged to the 17th regiment. The company remained out about four months. After being discharged he returned home and raised a company for the three years' service for his son, James F. Tallman. This company went into the 98th Ohio. He spent a year or two in raising men for the service and as- sisted in recruiting eight regiments. During the Brough cam- paign in 1863, he took the field and made eighty-eight speeches against C. L. Vallandigham. In 1866 he took his son in with him as a partner under the firm name of P. Tallman & Son. He says he has tried more civil and criminal cases than any other lawyer in the county in the same number of years. He is now the oldest lawyer practicing at the Belmont county bar. Office on the northwest corner of Main and Marietta streets, St. Clairs- ville.

A. C. DARRAH, Clerk of the Courts, a son of William Darrah, was born in St. Clairsville, June 4, 1849. Received a liberal ed- ucation in his native town and taught school several terms in Pease township. He studied law with Danford & Kennon and in 1870 he was admitted to practice. The same fall he took up an- other school in Pease township and taught for two years. In 1872 he married Martha M. Darrah nee Harris, by whom he be- came the parent of three children. In 1875 he was elected Jus- tice of the Peace, serving nearly the full term. In 1878 he was elected Clerk of the County Courts and is now filling the posi- tion to the satisfaction of the people. Residence on Main street, St. Clairsville, Ohio,

ADDISON THOMPSON was born July 21, 1857, near St. Clairs- ville. Here he went to school until 1872, when he attended the Western University and Duff's College for a couple of years. In 1875 be was employed as assistant book-keeper in the Dispatch office, Pittsburgh, Pa., a situation he held about one year. In August, 1878, he was appointed deputy clerk of the courts of Belmont county, which position he still retains.

HENRY M. DAVIES, son of Hiram C. Davies, was born in Sew- ellsville, December 7, 1846. Educated at Franklin College. In 1864 he enlisted in company G, of the 174th regiment, O. V. I. He was engaged in several battles-one at Decatur, Ala., Over- haul's Creek, Tenn., and at Kingston, N. C .; being in service one year. Commenced the study of law in 1873 and was ad- mitted at the April terin of 1876, at Cambridge. Came to St. Clairsville in the following September, and began the practice of his profession. He was married to Miss Lizzie Henderson the same year. In 1878 he was elected Mayor of St. Clairsville, Law office a few doors east of Welday's Bank, Main street.

HENRY C. WELDAY, banker, was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1823. He is the second son of Henry and Nancy Wel- day, nee Smith. They migrated from Pennsylvania in 1802, and settled in the above named county, in Cross Creek town-

ship. His father was a prominent farmer, and was elected one of the directors of the Steubenville Bank, serving as such sev- eral years. In 1875 he died. His wife is still living, at this writing, in her 85th year, with one of her grand-children. Henry C. was reared on a farm, and attended the common schools of his district ; afterward taught school, and then took a commer- cial course in the Iron City College. In 1848, he married Eliz- abeth Scott, daughter of Rev. Andrew Scott, of Jefferson county, and a sister of Thomas Scott, a missionary in India. For sev- eral years after his marriage he farmed his father's place. In 1859 he removed to St. Clairsville, and purchased the Shannon property, which he owned until 1867, when he sold, and erected his present residence. He engaged in the dry goods business, and in 1864 was instrumental in organizing the First National Bank of St. Clairsville, having sole charge of it four years. A teller was then appointed, and with the assistance of the same he has been doing the business ever since. He and his wife have been members of the M. E. Church for thirty-one years.

COL. J. R. MITCHELL was born in York county, Pa. His par- ents were of Scotch-Irish extraction. He received an academ- ical education, and in 1846 migrated to Belmont county, and en- gaged in school teaching for two years. In 1849 he removed to Morristown, and started in the mercantile business. Here he was appointed Postmaster under President Pierce's administra- tion in 1853, and served several years, when he resigned and moved to St. Clairsville, in 1856, and became Deputy Clerk of the Court during S. W. Gaston's entire term. In the spring of 1860 he removed to Bridgeport and embarked in the drug busi- ness. In July, 1862, he recruited a company of men for the 98th Ohio, and was made captain. From the rank of captain, he, through meritorious conduct and bravery, was promoted to Major, and then to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He was engaged in the battle at Perrysville, Ky .; was in several skir- mishes about Franklin, Tennessee, and was with his regiment in Sherman's campaign to Atlanta. From this point, on account of sickness, he was obliged to withdraw from the service.

In the fall of 1865, he was elected Clerk of the Court on the Republican ticket, re-elected in 1872, and again in 1874, serving until February, 1878. On the 21st of September, 1870, he was married to Miss Celia A. Grove. He is at present Assistant Cashier of the First National Bank of St. Clairsville.

JOHN H. HEATON was born in Uniontown, Fayette county, Pa., May 14, 1818. He learned the trade of a printer in the office of The Genius of Liberty, in that place. In 1837 he came to St. Clairsville, where he was connected with the Gazette and Citizen for twenty-eight years, being its editor for eighteen. He was Deputy Clerk of the Court for several years, and held the position as Clerk of the Court by appointment, upon the death of Colonel Miller. In 1851 he was elected to that office, serving the usual term with credit. In 1863 he was a candidate on the Democratic State ticket for member of the Board of Public Works. In 1870 he was on the ticket for Comptroller of the State Treasury, and was for six years one of the Directors of the Central Ohio railroad. He was also for a number of years a member of the Democratic State Central Committee.

On the 19th of June, 1843, he was married to Miss Rebecca Askew, who was born in St. Clairsville, Ohio, in 1821. She was the second daughter of Parker Askew.

Our subjeet occupied a high position in the Masonic order, and was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church. He died August 23, 1873. His wife still survives him.

CHARLES N. GAUMER, editor and proprictor of the St. Clairs- ville Gazette, was born November 19, 1849, in the town of Adamsville, Muskingum county, Ohio, 12 miles northeast of Zanesville. He was the second son of Jonathan Ganmer, who at that time pursued the vocation of a carpenter. A few years later the family moved to a farm near the village, where the subject of this sketch was brought up, working on the farm in the summer and attending the district school during the winter. His facilities for obtaining an education were limited to a few months each year in the common school. He never had any of the advantages of high school or college, but, being apt to learn and fond of reading, he acquired knowledge sufficient to qualify himself for teaching, which profession he engaged in at the age of 18 years. After teaching school for five years (during which time he frequently contributed articles to the Zanesville news- papers), he became local editor of the Zanesville Signal in the spring of 1873. In this position Mr. G. gave such evident sat- isfaction to his employer and readers, and liking the business, he concluded to embark permanently and on his own responsi-

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bility in journalism. In October, 1873, he bought the St. Clairs- ville Gazette, and has been editor and publisher of that paper from November 1, 1873, to the present time. Under his man- agement the Gazette has been very successful and prospered to an unusual degree. On October 22, 1874, he married Miss Sue Slater, daughter of H. V. Slater, Esq., of Muskingum county, Ohio. Mr. G. takes a commendable pride in being a self-made. man, and owes his success in lite largely to his energy and de- termination to succeed in whatever he undertakes.

ROBERT M. EATON, prosecuting attorney, a son of William and Elizabeth Eaton, nee Atwell, was born in Morristown, Bel- mont county, Ohio, April 23, 1849. He attended the common schools of his native village until 1864, when he went to the Cleveland Institute. In the summer of 1867 he graduated in a classical course. From November, 1867, to May, 1868, he was employed as assistant book-keeper for the firm of Blish, Gar- lick & Co., of that eity. In the spring of 1868 he returned bome, and in 1869 be turned his attention to the study of law with St. Clair Kelly, of St. Clairsville, under whose supervision he remained two years, and was admitted to the bar in Septem- ber, 1871. He began the practice of his profession immediately, and in 1877 he was elected by the Democrats as prosecuting at- torney of the county. His term of office expires on the first Monday in January, 1880. Office in Collins' block, opposite St. Clair Hotel, Main street.

JOHN RIGGS, brickmaker, was born near St. Clairsville, May 14, 1846. In 1866 he engaged in the brick manufacturing busi- ness, which he has followed ever since. In December, 1868, he married Margaret Berry.

COL. JAMES F. CHARLESWORTH, eldest son of Richard and Jane CharlesWorth, nee Porter, was born in St. Clairsville, No- vember 25, 1826. His father was an early merchant in the town. He migrated from Baltimore along in 1820-2. James F. attended common schools and was then sent to Granville Col- lege, Ohio, where he graduated in 1841. After this he assisted his father in merchandizing until the outbreaking of the Mexi- can war, when he and his brother Richard F. left La Salle, Illinois, where his father had in the meantime removed, and en- listed in the regular army, became members of company H., Ist regiment mounted rifles, and served under General Scott. Received a slight wound at Contreras during the successful siege of Mexico. His colonel was mayor of the city after the entrance of the United States troops, and the regiment was detailed on police duty for nine months. Shortly after peace had been de- clared this regiment was dismissed, upon petition, by the Presi- dent. He and his brother Richard returned to La Salle, where about four years later Richard died. James F., having a desire for the law, remained at home but a short time, and then re- turned to St. Clairsville, and began the study of law with Gen- cral Weir. In December, 1851, he was admitted to practice. In the fall of 1854 he was elected auditor of Belmont county, serv- ingtwo years. On the 4th of July, 1855, he married Laura A. Tallman, daughter of William Tallman, deceased. In 1857, he purchased the St. Clairsville Independent Republican, which he edited until the secession of the southern states, when he dis- continued its publication, raised a company, and went to the war. His was the first three years company in the state en- tered upon the adjutant general's books. He received his com- mission as captain, July 12, 1861. On the 16th day of May, 1862, be was promoted to major, and July 30, 1862, to lieutenant colo- nel. In the fall of 1861, he received a slight wound in the en- gagement at Allegheny Summit, Highland county, Virginia. On the 8th ot June, 1862, during the battle of Cross Keys, he received an abdominal wound, the ball entering about two inches to the right of the umbilical cord, perforating the right ascend- ing colon, breaking off one of the false ribs from the spine and coming out about the same distance from the right of the spinal column, cansing a partial paralysis of the colon. Was honor- ably discharged, upon his own resignation, May, 18, 1863, ap- proved by N. C. MeLean, as follows :

"HEADQUARTERS IST DIV. 11Tu CORPS, "BROOK'S STATION, VA., May 13, 1863.

"Approved and respectfully forwarded. Whilst regretting the resignation of Lieutenant Colonel Charlesworth, I approve, as I personally know him to be disabled by an honorable wound. ".N. C. McLEAN, Brig. Gon. Com."

Upon his return home he assumed the duties of clerk of the courts, to which office he had been elected while in the army. In 1864, ho was elected colonel of the 1st regiment of the Bel- I-31-B.&J.Cos.

mont county militia. After serving his term os clerk he was appointed master commissioner of the Court of Common Pleas of the county, serving nine years.

E. F FEELEY, son of Conrad Feeley, was born in Pease town- ship, Belmont county, Ohio, January 8, 1850. Educated in common schools. Learned the trade of a carpenter, which vo- cation he pursued about eight years. On the 2d of September, 1877, he was appointed deputy treasurer of Belmont county, which position he still holds.

DR. HENRY WEST was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, April 8, 1810. He studied medicine at Mt. Pleasant under Dr. Wil- liam Hamilton, and in 1831 removed to Bridgeport and began the practice of his profession. In 1835 he attended the Medieal College at Cincinnati, where he graduated. The same year he married Agnes A. Kirkwood, daughter of Joseph Kirkwood. He represented Belmont county in the Legislature during the years 1838-9. In 1841 he removed to St. Clairsville, where he commenced practicing and has continued ever since. His wife died in 1854, and in 1855 be married his second wife, Agnes Parker, of St. Clairsville. In 1858 he started in the drug and hardware business under the firm name of J. H. West & Co. In 1857 be associated his son John in the business, changing the firm name to H. West & Co. He lost his second wife in 1864. He represented Belmont and Harrison counties in the state sen- ate in 1866-7. For his third wife he married Mary J. Douglas in 1867. Mr. West was appointed in 1862 as surgeon of the 98th Ohio, and was in the field about fifteen months. The prin- cipal battles during that time he witnessed was Perrysburg and Chicamauga. He is at present examining surgeon for pensions, Residence, east end of town; store, on Main street, opposite the bank.

THOMAS E. CLARK, proprietor of National House, St. Clairs- ville. This house has a large run of custom, and is conducted on the most pleasing plan for a traveling public. Here is found a well-spread table, clean and comfortable rooms, with prices correspondingly low ; a genial and accommodating landlord and lady. Every attention given guests. There is also found a good stable in connection, with careful hostlers, so that both man and beast are well provided for.

GEN. GEORGE W. HOGE was born February 22, 1832, in Goshen township, Belmont county. His father, a native of Loudon county, Va., became a resident of Belmont county in territorial times; taught school about two years, was several years a county school examiner, and was admitted to the bar December 3, 1855, from the office of Benjamin S. and D. D. T. Cowen. Married Mary T, daughter of Benjamin S. Cowen, December 10, 1857. Practiced law till January, 1862, and then became chef clerk of the secretary of state. He was prosecuting attorney in 1861 ; enlisted in Company B, 126th Ohio Infantry, July 8, 1862; was appointed first lieutenant, and promoted to captain June 25, 1863; served a while as judge advocate; fought in the 6th army corps in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Coal Harbor, Petersburg, Monocacy, Opequan, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek and other minor engagements, in several of which battles be com- manded the regiment. In November, 1864, he became Colonel of the 183d Ohio Infantry, and led it in the battles of Franklin and Nashville. Appointed brigadier general by brevet March 13, 1865, and commanded a brigade in North Carolina. He was five times touched with the enemy's bullets. In 1867 he was appointed a register in bankruptcy. Resided and did a banking business in Bellaire from 1867 to 1877, and was for a time pres- ident of the Belmont Glass Works and of the Bellaire Street Railroad Company. Returned to the practice of law at St. Clairsville, in September, 1878.

THOMAS W. EMERSON, son of William Emerson, of Goshen township, by his first wife, Jane Danford, was born in Wayne township, Belmont county, in 1851. When he was about two years old his parents removed to Goshen township, where, the same year, his mother died. His early life was spent on a larm. Atter teaching two terms in the county schools, he went to the National Normal School, Lebanon, Ohio, where he graduated in the Business Course in 1872 and in the Scientific Course in 1873. Spent the following year till September, 1874, in Lebanon as clerk in Kinsey's book store, at the expiration of which time he went to Medina, Ohio, and took the Classical Course at the Medina Normal School. In September, 1875, he went to Sedalia, Mo., where he spent one year as principal of the Broadway schools. The new constitution of Missouri, adopted

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in 1876, having crippled the public schools of the State, he aided in organizing the Central Normal and Collegiate Institute, of Sedalia, and was assigned the charge of the Scientific Depart- ment ; but a change having been occasioned, abont the middle of the year, by the resignation of the Professor of Languages, the most of his work for the rest of the year was in that Depart- ment.

In July, 1877, he resigned, and returned to Ohio, and com- menced the study of law in the office of Hon. L. Danford, of St. Clairsville; was admitted to practice, April 8th, 1879; has opened an office in St. Clairsville, in Brown's Block, opposite the National Hotel.

NEWELL K. KENNON, attorney-at-law, was born April 8th, 1855, in the town of St. Clairsville, and is the son of the late Judge William Kennon, Jr., and Elizabeth (Kirkwood) Kennon. llis father was a lawyer of eminence, was elected a member of the Thirtieth Congress, and in 1865 Common Pleas Judge for the district of Belmont and Monroe. His mother is a grand- daughter of Robert Kirkwood, and a daughter of Joseph Kirk- wood. He attended the schools of his native town, and in 1874-5-6, was a student of the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio. After finishing his studies there, he com- menced the study of law in 1877 with Judge R. E. Chambers, of St. Clairsville, and was admitted to practice his profession April 8th, 1879.

SAMUEL HILLES, Sheriff of Belmont county, a son of Nathan and Sarah Hilles, nee Cole, was born June 10, 1836, in Chester county, Pa. His parents migrated to Belmont county in 1844, and located in Loydsville. He received a common school edn- cation in this village. In the spring of 1858, he began the study of dentistry with Dr. Y. H. Jones, of Loydsville, remain- ing under his supervision two years. In 1861, he enlisted as a private in company "E," 15th O. V. I. Immediately after being sworn into service he was made sergeant, and in 1862, he was promoted to second lientenant, which rank he held but a few weeks and being regarded as meritorious, was again elevated to the position of first lieutenant. His army life was an active one-full of danger and suffering, He was engaged in the battles at Shiloh, siege of Corinth, Stone River, Liberty Gap and Chickamauga. At the battle of Stone River, he received two severe wounds by the explosion of a shell-one piece strik- ing him on the right leg above the knee and another piece in the back between the shoulders, and in the engagement at Chickamauga, he received a slight wound. He was discharged December 15, 1863, on account of disabilities by the Medical Board of Cincinnati. On September 20, 1864, he was united in marriage to Lizzie N. Lee, of Belmont county. At Loydsville he embarked in the mercantile . trade and merchandised until October, 1867, after which time he went into partnership with Dr. H. W. Baker, of Barnesville, in dental surgery. In 1870, he removed to Red Oak, Iowa, and followed dentistry there in connection with agriculture. Came back to Barnesville in November 1874, and in January 1875, he took charge of the gas works as superintendent. In 1878 he became a candidate for sheriff on the Republican ticket, and in the fall of that year he was elected, which position he now fills to the people's satis- faction.

HAMILTON EATON, Treasurer of Belmont county, was born in Morristown in 1840, and educated in the common schools. In the years 1858-9 he clerked in the drug store of McKelvey & Fisher, of that place. In the fall of 1859 he removed to Barnesville, entering as clerk, and afterward became proprietor of a drug store. He remained in that place nineteen years. He was appointed captain of one of the four "Departmental Monongahela Corps," of Belmont county, being mustered in August, 1863. He was out on one raid to Erie, Pa. On No- vember 1st, 1864, they were mustered out. His company_ had eighty-eight men, rank and file. Headquarters were at Pitts- burgh. He returned home, and in that year was united in mar- riage to Miss A. H. Ball. Mr. E. continued in the drug busi- ness in Barnesville until 1877, when he was elected to the office of County Treasurer on the Democratic ticket, and re-elected in 1879. -

DR. JOHN ALEXANDER .- Was born near Belfast, Ireland, and is of Scotch-Irish parentage. At the age of sixteen he migrated to the United States, landing at Baltimore. After traveling rather extensively, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Carroll, of St. Clairsville, under whose supervision and tui- tion, with that of the Medical College of Ohio, he obtained his

medical education. Whilst reading medicine he was obliged, owing to his limited means, to teach school occasionally as an auxiliary in his studies. In 1832, he commenced practicing in Flushing, and in the autumn of 1839, he removed to St. Clairs- ville, where he has remained engaged in his profession ever since. In 1842, he married Miss Lucy Hncy, daughter of Gen. Ilney, of Washington county, Pa., who started for the field of action during the war of '12 as Major, but peace was declared before reaching his destination. As a practitioner the Dr. has been very successful. He always was much devoted to his pro- fession, and never stopped for obstacles even at the risk of life. whilst in the discharge of his professional visitations, often swimming creeks in going to and returning from his patients. He fractured his legs seven times and either arm once by acci- dents occasioned by his horse falling with and on him. But, notwithstanding these casualties and many exposures he has en- joyed remarkably good health. For the last three years he was partially disabled owing to heart trouble, from which of late, he has greatly improved, so that he is able again to attend to his business as well as ever. He has a large practice, and is kept busy most all the time. Office and residence west Main street, St. Clairsville.

OLIVER J. SWANEY was born in Monroe county, Ohio, Novem- ber 14, 1819. His grandfather was a native of Fayette county, Pa,, and towards the close of the revolution he sold his farm, receiving therefor $10,000 in continental money, which in a short time became worthless. Not long after he died, and his family being in destitute circumstances, became separated. His son William, father of our subject, passed through the hard- ships of life, married Miss Eleanor Savage, of Lancaster county, Pa., and afterwards came to Ohio, first settling at .Mt. Pleasant. From thence he went to Monroe county, and in 1821 removed to Morristown, Belmont county, where he followed his trade, blacksmithing, and aided materially at that day to build up the town. He died there in 1853 in the seventieth year of his age, and his wife lived to the advanced age of eighty-nine years.

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History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, and incidentially historical collection pertaining to border warfare and the early settlement of the adjacent portion of the Ohio Valley, Part 85

Author: Caldwell, J. A. (John Alexander) 1n; Newton, J. H., ed; Ohio Genealogical Society. 1n Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Wheeling, W. Va. : Historical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 728

Author: Caldwell, J. A. (John Alexander) 1n; Newton, J. H., ed; Ohio Genealogical Society. 1n
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Wheeling, W. Va. : Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 728