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 96

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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AUGUST SCHRAMM, born in Germany in 1831. Educated in his native country ; migrated to America and settled in Bellaire in 1854. At that time it was a small village of five hundred or six hundred inhabitants. He followed shoemaking thirteen years, then erected the house in which he now lives and started in the saloon business. The year previous to his removal to Bellaire he was married to Margaret Metzger, of Germany. In connec- tion with his regular business, he is agent for all the leading German periodicals in the United States; is also a regular cor- respondent for the German papers at Wheeling and Pittsburgh, Residence and saloon on Union street.

JAMES D. COFFMAN was born in Belmont county, Ohio, May 30, 1839. On the 29th of July, 1860, he married Mary J. Baker, of Woodsfield, Monroe county, Ohio. In April, 1861, he en- listed as a private in the 25th Regiment O. V. I., and became a member of Company B. He served twenty-two months, at the expiration of which time he was honorably discharged. Moved to Bellaire, June 6, 1872, and has been working in the rolling mill ever since.

J. W. KING was born in St. Clairsville, Belmont county, Ohio, in 1827. His mother died when he was six years of age, and he was sent by his father to live in the country. At the age of thirteen he commenced working with his father in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, at the saddle and harness business. After a short expe- rience at that trade he was bound as an apprentice to learn the tailor's trade with Henry Bone, of Mt. Pleasant, but not finish- ing his trade with him, he went to Wheeling and worked two years with John Russell, on Market street. In 1846 he married Sarah A. Myers, of Martin's Ferry, Ohio. In 1848 he migrated to Bellaire and engaged in business. Mr. King may truly be called the " pioneer merchant tailor" of Bellaire. He is now located on Union street, near railroad bridge, and engaged in an extensive trade. A very significant fact in the history and life of Mr. K. is that he bas mowed grass and hoed corn on the

RESIDENCE OF JACOB HETHERINGTON, BELLAIRE, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO ..

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ground where the building stands in which he is carrying on business.

DR. ELIJANI PERRY BIRDSONG, born near Richmond, Va., in 1818. He came to Bridgeport, Ohio, in early life, read medi- cine with Dr. Bates, of Wheeling, graduated at the Ohio Med- ical College, Cincinnati, in March, 1852, and practiced his pro- fession in Bellaire for a number of years. He was one of the representative men of the place, taking a leading interest in its progress and enterprises, and was a leading member of the M. E. church. He married Hester Ann, daughter of Rev. Jas. Moore, of Belmont county, in the year 1848, and was the father of six children three of whom are living, all daughters. He died on the 1st of March, 1858.

HON. A. W. ANDERSON .- The subject of this sketch was born in Belmont county, August 27, 1817. He was raised on a farm and followed agricultural pursuits until thirty years of age, when he came to Bellaire, being in 1847, and entered into the dry goods and grocery business in connection with his brother, J. S. Anderson. He continued in this trade until 1854, when he sold his interest to his brother and engaged in the lumber busi- ness. In the meantime, in 1831, he was married to Jane, daugh- ter of James McGregor, of Belmont county. He followed the lumber business until 1870, and has been connected with a number of the enterprises of the city of Bellaire. He served the public as Justice of the Peace for fifteen years, was Probate Judge of Belmont county from 1870 to 1873, and was elected County Commissioner in the year 1876. He is now secretary of the Bellaire & Southwestern Railway.

CYRUS H. STRAHL was born in Belmont county, on the 28th of December, 1838. Early in life he engaged as a clerk in a store, which was his occupation for a number of years. On the 23d of May, 1866, he was united in marriage to Clara J. Terry, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. He at present fills the position of superin- tendent of the Bellaire Gaslight and Coke Co.

J. B. SMITII, attorney-at law, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, on the 29th of March, 1826. He read law with Judge Clark of New Lisbon, Ohio. and was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati in the spring of 1851. He practiced his profession in Columbiana county until 1857, when he went to Kansas and was elected to the Senate of that state. After residing there one year he came to Bellaire and resumed the practice of his profession, which he has continued until the present. He mar- ried Eliza R. Preston of Columbiana county, Ohio, in the year 1850.

JOHN F. KELLY, attorney-at-law, was born July 7, 1845. Ho studied law and was admitted to the bar in Washington, D. C., in the year 1868. Mr. Kelly is the author of the "Revised Stat- utes" of West Virginia, "Digest of Virginia and West Virginia Reports," "Contracts of Married Women," and other standard legal works.

WILLIAM C. GRAFTON was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1846. He engaged in the drug business with his father, Dr. A. Grafton, in Bellaire, from 1860 to 1862, when he enlisted in the naval service, in which he served two years, and was honorably discharged December 30, 1865. Since that time he has been en- gaged in the office of the B & O. R. R. Company at Bellaire. Married Hannah E., daughter of James Gill, of Bellaire, Ohio, in the year 1877.

JOUN R. Gow, editor and proprietor of the Bellaire Leader, was born in Wheeling on the 22d of January, 1853. At the age of nineteen, in the year 1872, he entered the office of the Ohio Valley News as an apprentice, served two years, and then en- tered into partnership as one of the proprietors of the paper. Ile severed his connection with that paper, and came to Bellaire and started the Leader newspaper in 1876. The paper is an in- dependent Democratic journal.

C. H. LEWIS was born in Sandusky county, Ohio, in 1852. Received a common school education. Learned his trade (steam dyer) in Tiffin, Ohio, at which he worked about two years at that place. In 1876, he married Mary Rathbone, of Chicago, Illinois. In 1878 he came to Bellaire, and is now established on Union street, No. 329, where he is engaged in steam dying and cleaning ; gents' clothing repaired ; ladies work and fancy goods made a specialty.

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JACOB HEATHERINGTON .- The career of this enterprising man is an illustration of what can be accomplished in the great American nation by energy, perseverance and industry. Born in county Durham, England, in 1814, our subject came to Amer- ica in 1830, and settled in Pennsylvania. His first employment was coal mining in Pottsville and Patterson; from thence ho went to Mauqnag, where he was employed on a railroad at fifty cents per day ; thence he went to Pittsburgh, and in May, 1832, he came to Wheeling. The same year he settled on McMahon's creek, at his present location, and continued his occupation of digging coal until 1837. Two years previously he had married Miss Eliza Armstrong, and, stimulated with a desire to accom- plish something for himself and family, he rented from Captain Jolın Fink, his old employer, a coal bank, and commenced opera- tions for himself. During this year he bought from Captain Fink eight acres of land, and for seven years he worked his mine successfully, which enabled him to pay for the property. This success put him on the solid foundation which was to be the basis of his future prosperity. He then purchased 60} acres of coal lands, which he has operated until the present time, and by dint of hard work and business sagacity he carried forward his mining enterprises and added to his former pur- chases until at present he owns 677 acres of farming and coal lands, and 110 acres of timber land.

Some years ago, and after his great success in business, he made a trip to his native country, and after his return he erected his palatial residence in the southern suburb of Bellaire, which is one of the finest private residences in eastern Ohio, and a monument of his tasto and enterprise. From his beginning as a simple miner of coal, without a dollar of money-no eapital but his energy and native genius -he has risen to the foremost rank of the wealthy men of Belmont county. His vast estate comprises, in addition to that already mentioned, about thirty houses in Bellaire, including the Centennial Hotel of that city, glass-house, steamboat and railroad stocks, thirty coal barges, and interests in other business enterprises. He took a deep in- terest in the construction of the Bellaire & Southwestern rail- way, giving the right-of-way through his valuable property, nearly a mile in length, subscribed to its stock, and is at present one of its directors. Mr. Heatherington has been a member of the Christian church for a number of years, and throughout life bas been liberal and charitable. He is now in the sixty-sixth year of his age, in the enjoyment of good health, surrounded by the comforts of life. He has retired from active work, and his sons are carrying on his vast business interests with continued success.

A. J. MYERS was born in Mead township in the year 1838. He was raised on a farm and followed farming until 1864, when lic came to Bellaire and engaged in the boot and shoe trade, which business he is carrying on at the present time on Bel- mont street. He married Cornelia Workman of Belmont coun- ty, in 1861.

M. SONNEBORN, wholesale and retail dealer in men's, youths' and boys' clothing, and gents' furnishing goods. Full line of hats and caps always on hand. Store 332 Union street. Mr. S. was born in Cumberland, Md., in 1855. He received a limited education in the common schools. He engaged as clerk in Bal- timore, Wheeling and Danville, Va., a number of years. In Oc- tober, 1877, he came to Bellaire and engaged in the general clothing and gents' furnishing goods business, where he is now carrying on.

CHARLES S. S. BARON was born in Moundsville, W. Va., in 1840. Educated in the common schools of his native town. Studied law two years, and then went to Texas, expecting to en- gage in the practice of his profession, but the war breaking cut he enlisted in company A, First Regiment Texas Infantry, un- der Col. Wigfall, and was taken prisoner.

Iu 1865, he started in connection with his brother a tin shop. He started the idea of an improved steamboat and railroad lant- ern, from which sprang the Baron Manufacturing Company, 80 justly celebrated for the manufacture of lanterns, &c. In 1866, he married Kate MeGrew, of Moundsville.

CHRISTIAN BIPPUS, born in Wirtemburg, Germany, in 1827. He was educated at that place. In 1845 he migrated to Amer- ica, landing at New York city. At that place he learned his trade (machinist). He worked nine years in the Steamship En- gine Works. He then went to Little York, Pa,, and there en- gaged in the same business for four years. In 1859 he came to

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Bellaire, and went to work in the car shop for the Central Ohio railroad as engineer. . When the Bellaire Nail Works first started he commenced as engineer, and has been with them ever since. He married Sophia Faupel in 1861. Mr. B. is the pioneer engi- neer connected with these works. In 1875 he was elected to the City Council, and is now serving as Councilman on his third term.

EDWARD JONES, JR., was born in England in 1840. Was brought to America in 1841, and received his education in the Wheeling schools. He learned the blacksmith trade and work- ed eight years at it in that city. Came to Bellaire in 1867, and commenced work in the Bellaire Nail Works, where he has re- maiued ever since. In 1862 he married Margaret C., daughter of Robert Dinsmore, of Lewis county, W. Va.

CHARLES E. KING was in born Clarksburg, Montgomery coun- ty, Maryland. The log cabin in which he was born stood in the same place where the building now stands, in which General George B. Mcclellan held a council of war the night before the battle of Antietam. At an early age Mr. King went to Baltimore and learned the saddler and harness business. Removed from the latter place to St. Clairsville, Belmont county, Ohio, in 1825. Was engaged as foreman for different parties in St. Clairsville and Mt. Pleasant for a number of years. In 1846, he engaged in business for himself and continued until his death. He served as justice of the peace a number of years; was Grand Secretary of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the state of Ohio for several years. During a long and busy life, he was closely identified with and interested in the business prosperity, growth and developement of Belmont county.

PETER PETERSON was born in Brooke county, West Virginia, October, 1819, He was reared on a farm and learned the cooper trade, at which occupation he worked for a number of years. In 1842 he married Nancy, daughter of John Pittenger, of Brooke county, West Virginia. In 1853, he engaged in the railroad business as yard-master at Wellsville for the C. & P. R. R. He also acted as conductor for the company several years. He was on the road and in Pittsburgh yard till 1864, when he came to Bellaire and took charge of the C. & P. yard, where he still remains. Mr. P. is one of the pioneers in the employ of the C. & P. R. R., and is one of the oldest men in the company to- day.

R. J. KINKADE was born in Maryland in 1844. Engaged with the C. & P. R. R. in 1864, working for that company for some twelve years. He afterwards took charge of the engine in the Bellaire water works, where he is still employed. In 1869, he married Catherine, daughter of Barnard and Mary Dougherty, of this city.

H. GRIFFITH, born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1854. Migrated to Belmont county in early life. He learned the trade of a blacksmith in Bellaire. In 1878 he married Sarab, daughter of George and Mary Barnhart of Washington county, Ohio. He is now engaged in the Bellaire Nail Works.

J. M. LYDON, born in Pittston, Pennsylvania. Learned his trade in Pittston, and worked at it four years. He was com- missary and quarter master clerk from 1861 to 1866 in the 9th and 6th Army Corps. He studied at Bryants & Stratton's Com- mercial College, in Philadelphia. He worked at his trade in several cities and finally located in Bellaire, where he is now engaged in business in a general assortment of stoves, tinware, etc .. etc.

GEORGE W. MERTZ was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1828. His parents migrated to America, when he was but 12 years of age and settled in Maryland. Soon after the death of his parents, Mr. Mertz came to Ohio, and located near Bellaire, engaging in farming and gardening. In 1846, he married Margaret C., daughter of Joseph Nelson, of Belmont county, Ohio. Our sub- ject died in 1873. Mrs. Mertz is still living on the property where she has lived for the last fifteen years, and where her husband died. She owns one hundred and twenty aeres of fine land on the Ohio valley bottom, and near Bellaire, where she was born.

WILSON STRINGER was born in Brooke county, Va., in 1813. He came to Belmont county with his parents in 1820, and was educated in the common schools. He engaged in boat building and running coal for a number of years. In 1842 he married

Elizabeth, daughter of Benj. Williams, of Belmont county, and in 1848 he commenced merchandizing. In 1852 bis store house was destroyed in the flood of that year. He then built the store house where he is now. Mr. S. was one of the early pioneer business men of Belmont county, and has, during a long and busy life, been closely identified with its business interests.

J. D. BAKER was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1854. His pa- rents migrated to Wheeling when he was quite young. He at- tended the schools of that place and worked in the Washington and Riverside mills a number of years. In 1872, he came to Bellaire. He married Mary C., daughter of David McMehen, of Marshall county, W. Va., in 1876. At present he is engaged in the Bellaire Nail Works.

GEORGE L. PHILLIPS was born near Barnesville, Belmont county, Ohio, in 1833. He obtained a common school education, aud followed farming until 1873. In 1868 he married Harriet, daughter of Isaac Hager. He came to Bellaire Cement Works, where he is now. Mr. P. was Supervisor of Warren township two terms, and Assessor in First Ward of Bellaire, one term.

JESSE RANDOLPH, a native of Harrison county, Ohio, was born in Cadiz, in 1834. He learned the trade of glass-blowing in Zanesville, Ohio. He engaged in railroad work for the B. & O. Company in 1853, and was in their employ as fireman and en- gineer, &c., for fifteen years. For the last six years he has been in charge of the B. & O. yard. In 1860 he was united in mar- ria ge to Josephine, daughter of Wilson Stringer, of West Wheel- ing, Ohio.

O. G. KINSEY was born in Belmont county, in 1856. He was educated in the common schools. He engaged in coal mining, and now has charge of Barnard's coal works, in Bellaire.

ARTHUR MCCLAIN was born in Ireland in 1840. He migrated to the United States in 1860. Enlisted in Co. G, 98th Reg. O. V. 1., May, 1862, as a private. Was promoted to sergeant. Served three years and was mustered out at Indianapolis, August 1864, when he came to Bellaire. In 1869 he married his first wife, Belle Moffitt, who afterwards died. In 1876 he married his second wife, Kate Shaw. He has been engaged in quarry- ing limestone.

W. G. HOWARD .- The subject of this sketch was born in Barnesville, Ohio, in 1849, and he received a common school edu- cation. In 1859 he migrated with his parents to Flora, Ill. At that place he learned the trade of a cooper, and worked at it three years. In 1871 be removed to Bellaire, where he is now carrying on the business extensively, employing from five to ten men. His shop, which is about 33x110 feet, is situated near Morgan's coal works; amount of capital, abont $1,000. In July, 1876, he was united in marriage to Ella, daughter of Thos. Carroll, of this city. Mr. Howard furnishes stock for the glassworks of the city, besides the large trade he has from other places. All kinds of eooperage is neatly and substantially made, and his work has acquired considerable reputation. His resi- dence is on North Guernsey street.

GEORGE MATHISON was born in Wheeling, W. Va., in 1857. He engaged, after arriving at the age of maturity, in the pork business for a number of years. In May, 1879, he came to Bel- laire and started in the hat and cap business. He is now car- rying on the only store in that trade (exclusively) in the city. He keeps constantly on hand a large and well assorted stock of hats, caps, umbrellas, canes, &c. Store situated on Bolmont street, corner Twenty-third street.

GEORGE TAYLOR .- Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1852. He learned shoemaking with Wm. Taylor, and worked in Wheel- ing and Cleveland for a number of years. In 1875 he came to Bellaire and engaged in the boot and shoe manufacturing busi- ness, where he still carries on a large trade on Union street, opposite Central Hall. In 1874 he was united in marriage to Cassandra Basford, of Glen Easton, W. Va.

W. H. LITTLE was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1843. He received a common school education, and when ar- rived at the proper age, he went to Alliance and learned the machinists' trade. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Co. G, 104th Reg't O. V. I., as private, and served thirteen months ; was wounded and discharged at Covington, Ky. He returned home,

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but shortly afterward re-enlisted in Co. B, 12th Reg't O. V. C., as private, and served until the close of the war. He was mus- tered ont of service at Camp Chase, Ohio. Mr. Little received eight wounds and was captured in the battle at "King's Salt Works," in Virginia, and was carried by the rebels to Libby Prison, where he lay five months and seven days. In 1873 he married Victoria, daughter of Thomas Fowler, of Bellaire.

JOSEPHUS GORBY, merchant. Born in Virginia, in what is now Marshall county, in 1823. In 1825 his parents moved to Morgan county, Ohio, where he received a common school edu- cation, and afterwards engaged in school teaching for a number of years. At the age of twenty-one he removed to Mounds- ville, W. Va., and engaged in the dry goods trade, as salesman, for three years ; then engaged in the business on his own ac- count, in Marshall and Wetzel counties. In 1847 he married his first wife, Catharine Knapp, of Marshall county ; his second wife was Angeline Merriman. In 1854 he came to Bellaire and started in the dry goods business, and is to-day the only one now in the trade that was at that time in the business here. He was elected township treasurer, serving four years ; served on the board of education fifteen years; treasurer of school fund ten years. He has always been identified with, and deeply in- terested in, the public enterprises and business interests of this city.

DANIEL THEOBALD, a native of Bavaria, Germany. Was born February 23, 1843. In 1846 his parents migrated to America, being sixty-seven days in crossing the Atlantic. They settled in Marietta, Washington county, Ohio. He is self educated, having had no advantages. He was engaged in the mercantile. business with his father until 1868, when he commenced in the insurance business. Office, 311 Monroe street. Residence, 213 Noble street.

E. B. WINANS, born in Green county, N. Y., February, 1821. Educated in the common schools, and at the Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, N. Y. He engaged for a time in farming in Livingston and Allegheny counties, till 1854. From 1854 to 1870 he fol- lowed merchandizing, twelve years of which time he conducted the trade in this city. In 1870 he went into the insurance busi- ness, and now represents the following companies : Ætna, Phoe. nix, Travelers' Life and Accident, Connecticut Life, all of Hart- ford ; German American, New York city ; Peoples', of Newark, N. J .: Scotish Commercial, of Glasgow ; Queen, of Liverpool and London ; British American, of Toronto; Ohio, of Dayton ; Day- ton, of Dayton; Cooper, of Dayton; Germania, of Cincinnati, and German, of Wheeling.

M. W. JUNKINS, M. D .- The subject of this sketch was born in Cadiz, Harrison county, Ohio, in 1834. Educated in the schools of his native town. Read medicine at Bridgeport, Obio. Attended lectures at Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, where he graduated in 1855. Commenced practice in Bridgeport in the same year for a short time, and then came to Bellaire, associat- ing with Dr. E. P. Birdsong, the only resident physician at that time. He was connected with him in the practice of his profes- sion until Dr. B's death, which occurred in 1858, then he con- tinued alono ever since. He was surgeon at Camp Jefferson, Bellaire. In 1862 be enlisted as private in the 61st Ohio Regiment, and was promoted to first lientenant the same year. He served as city treasurer for two years. The doctor has been closely identified with and deeply interested in the public prosperity and business enterprises of Bellaire for the last twenty-four years.

CHARLES C. CRATTY was born in Washington county, Pa., Jan- uary 4, 1837. He obtained his education in the common schools and Washington Academy, Guernsey county, Ohio. Learned the trade of a tanner in his native county. He taught school three years. He then engaged in the mercantile trade till 1870, since which time he has been in the general insurance business, representing the following named companies: Northwestern Life, Milwaukee; Travelers' Accident, Ilarttord; Glen's Falls and Home, N. Y .; North America, Philadelphia; Springfield, of Massachusetts; Fireman's Fund, of California; Mercantile, of Cleveland ; North British and Mercantile, of Great Britain ; Merchants, of New Jersey,

.JOHN BIGELOW, born in Newark, Ohio, December 14, 1836, Received his education in the common schools of his native county. At the age of eighteen years he went into a dry goods

business, and then grocery trade three years. For the last twenty-one years he has been connected with the Central Ohio and Baltimore and Ohio railroad. He is now chief clerk at the Bellaire station. In 1865, he married Margaret E., daughter of James Randolph, of Zanesville, Ohio.

HIRAM M. INGLER, born in New Lisbon, Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1828. He learned the trade of a machinist in Steuben- ville. Worked in Wheeling four years. Was connected with Steubenville and Indiana and B. & O. R. R., and general fore- man nine years, and master mechanic for the last nine years in the B. & O. shops. From 1850 to 1854, Mr. Ingler was mining in the gold regions of California. He was married to Mary A., daughter of Isaac Burt, of Wheeling, in 1854.

ORLANDER G. ARCHER, born in Bellaire, in 1846. Received a common school education. Commenced working as gardener at eleven years of age, and continued four years. Then he en- gaged with the C. O. R. R. until 1873. Was elected city marshall in April, 1878. Mr. A. has been twice married. His first wife was Lena Keeper, and his second, Mary Jones. He is a good citizen and officer.

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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 96

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