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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Adams County, Ohio
from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers
West Union, Ohio
Published by E. B. Stivers
1900
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WILLIAM DOW JAMES
was born near Piketon, Dec. 1, 1853. His father was
David James and his mother, Charlotte Beauchamp.
His first ancestor in this county came over from Germany in
1750, and located in Bedford County, Virginia. His
grandfather, grandson of the immigrant, was born in 1785 and
came to the Northwest Territory shortly after 1794 with his
parents and located in Gallia County. He resided with
his parents in Gallia till 1805 when he moved to Pike County
in the Beaver Valley, ten miles from Piketon. He
married a Miss Allison, and nine sons and daughters
were born to them. Among them was David, father of our
subject. He became a prominent and successful farmer.
Our subject remained at home attending school and receiving
instruction privately until he was about twenty years of
age, when he began the study of law under John T. Moore.
This was continued until Mr. Moore located in Jackson
in 1875. He then prosecuted his law studies with
George D. Cole, teaching school of winters and reading
the text-books in summers. This course he followed
until 177, when he was admitted to the bar and opened a law
office in Piketon. Here he remained four years.
In 1879 he was elected mayor of Piketon and held the office
until he removed to Waverly. He continued to practice
in Pike and the adjoining counties until 1893, when he was
elected judge of the second subdivision of the seventh
judicial district. He made quite a reputation as a
trial lawyer and advocate while at the bar, and his
reputation as a man and citizen is the highest. In
1882, he was married to Miss Terrena F Vulgamore.
At the close of his first term on the bench, he could have
been renominated and re-elected without opposition, and it
was much regretted by the lawyers of his district that he
did not so determine, but he felt that he had made all the
reputation he desired as a judge and he peremptorily
declined a renomination. Immediately on his
retirement, he removed to Cincinnati, and opened a law
office in the Blymyer Building, No. 514 Main Street,
where he is acquiring a large clientage. His wife died
May 13, 1898, and he has since remarried to Miss Louise
Adams, of Chicago, Ills.
Judge James is affable in his manners, both on
and off the bench. He has a clear and logical mind.
His mind, after a survey of the facts, grasps the points in
a case and his correct legal training enables him quickly to
make the application of the law to the facts. He is
painstaking in the preparation and trial of his case.
On the bench, he was never hurried in making his decisions,
but when announced, they showed careful and thorough
consideration of the questions involved. He had the
judicial quality to withhold judgment till he had fully
considered the case and until he was satisfied as to the
principles governing it. Once satisfied, his decision
was made and usually sustained in the higher court. As
a lawyer he was always careful and thorough and his client
could be sure that the best course would be adopted and the
best results obtained.
A friend speaking of Judge James says he is able
to perform and does perform exacting labors. He is a
patient reader and succeeds in ascertaining the results of
what he reads. He is affable as a man, a citizen,
lawyer and judge. As a lawyer he was connected with
all the important cases in his county. As a judge, he
gave great consideration to his cases and was without
prejudice or partiality.
Another friend speaking of Judge James says he
is a man of affable, courteous and at the same time,
dignified manners, and is very popular among his associates
by reason of his genial and social manner. As a
lawyer, he is a fluent speaker, with a clear, clean, logical
mind, quick to grasp the points of a case and to use them to
his advantage, and his power before a jury is widely
recognized. As a judge, he was noted for his fairness
and keen love of justice, and with his thorough and
comprehensive knowledge of the law, administered the complex
and onerous duties of that position with the highest credit
to himself and to his profession.
Source: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 188 |
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REV.
GREENBERRY R. JONES was born Apr. 7, 1784, in Fayette
County, Pennsylvania. His father, John Jones,
emigrated from Maryland in 1768, and settled near
Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Our subject
was brought up in the Church of England, but had never given
any serious attention to religion until he listened to the
preaching of Rev. Robert Wooster, who preached near
Uniontown. There young Jones became a convert
to Methodism. He had received a good education, and as
a youth, he evinced a great deal of sensibility. and
had a very equable disposition. He was the favorite of
the family of children to which he belonged. He
married Miss Rebecca Connell, daughter of
Zachariah Connell.
He was licensed as a local preacher in the
Methodist Church in 1810, and preached in the vicinity of
his home until 1815, when he removed to Adams County, Ohio,
and settled near West Union. He was admitted as a
travelling minister in 1818, and removed to Hillsboro.
He preached on the Salt Creek Circuit for two years.
For two years after that, he was appointed on the Scioto
Circuit. After four years' service as an itinerant
minister, he was made a Presiding Elder. He had a
strong, lively, and discriminating judgment. He came
to the quarterly meetings with everything to learn and
nothing to impart. He possessed a strong mind, and was
bold and enterprising. He never stopped to calculate
consequences.
From the Scioto County Circuit, he went to the White
Oak Circuit two years as a minister. In 1828, he was
made a Presiding Elder in the Miami District for four years.
Cincinnati was in his district. He was accessible to
and agreeable in the social circle. He was
always ardent and decided in his work. His
conversation was plain and to the point. He uttered
his thoughts with simplicity and great correctness.
In 1832 he was appointed an itinerant on the Hamilton
Circuit, and moved to Hamilton, in that circuit. Here
he lost his wife, and was married in 1833 to Mrs. Ross,
of Hamilton, Ohio. He disposed of all his property in
Adams County, and moved to Bethel, Clermont County, where he
became superannuated. However, a vacancy occurred in
the West Union Circuit, and he filled it. In 1839 his
health was despaired of, and he was sick for a long time.
He recovered, and accepted service on the New Richmond
Circuit then at Batavia, and afterwards at White Oak.
He was a good penman, and several times was Secretary
of the Ohio Conference. As a business man, he was safe
and reliable. He was twice a delegate to the General
Conference. He attended the Annual Conference at
Marietta, in September, 1834, and while there was attacked
with a colic, with which he frequently suffered. He
was ill six days and died Sept. 20, 1844, and was buried at
Marietta. His death illustrated the faith in which he
had lived.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 570) |
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JOHN
WILLIAM JONES was born January 25, 1861, near Mineral
Springs, Adams County, Ohio. He was reared on a farm and
attended the Public Schools in Winter until seventeen years of
age, when he began his career as an educator. After
having taught five terms in the country school and having
raised his grade of certificate to the first class, he was
elected Principal of the Village schools of Rome, Ohio.
After serving here for one year, he relinquished his position
in order to enter the Normal school at Lebanon, Ohio. In
1885, he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science,
and in the Fall of the same year, was elected Superintendent
of the Manchester schools, where he remained for ten years,
being elected each successive time without ever having a vote
cast against him. During the tenure of his position as
superintendent of these schools, Prof. Jones spent his
vacations teaching. Normal schools, preparing teachers
for their work, and fitting pupils for college. These
schools were first conducted at North Liberty, and afterwards
at Manchester. He also spent a portion of his vacation
instructing in the Teachers' Institute. In 1888, he went
before the Ohio State Board of School Examiners and was
granted a high school life certificate, having successfully
passed in twenty-three branches of study. In 1893, he
received a degree of Bachelor of Pedagogy from the Ohio
University at Athens, at which institution he had taken a
post-graduate course. Prof. Jones was re-elected,
in 1895, to the Superintendency of the Manchester schools for
a period of three years, but before entering upon this term,
he was called to his present position, Superintendent of the
Ohio Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb,
assuming the duties of his office in September, 1895.
Prof. Jones was a man of high standing and
influence in school circles, being recognized as one of the
progressive educators of the State. He has been untiring
in his devotion to the interests of the institution since
assuming the reins of authority, and has given much prominence
to the work being accomplished by the Ohio School for the
Deaf. Being of a sympathetic disposition, he is well
qualified for his present position. He is a member of
the First Presbyterian Church, of the Order of Free and
Accepted Masons, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
In 1885, he was married to Miss Cora A. McPherson, of
Mineral Springs. They have three daughters, Marjorie
McFerran, Carrie Louis and Rela Pauline.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 771)
(SHARON WICK'S NOTES:
On Page 148 of this History Book, it mentions J. W. Jones as
Auditor from November 14, 1887 to September, 1888 in Adams
County, Ohio.
On Page 440 of this History Book it mentions J. W. Jones as a
Past Master of Manchester Lodge in Manchester, Adams Co.,
Ohio.
On Page 487 it mentions a Professor Jones at the North Liberty
Academy in the village of North Liberty in Adams Co., Ohio.
On Page 883 Prof. J. W. Jones is mentioned in the
Biography of James Richard Tillotson as a
professor who conducted the Normal School at Peebles in 1893.)
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PAUL
K. JONES was the son of Mathew and Sarah Jones,
born September 4, 1819, His youthwas spent on the farm.
At the age of nineteen, he began teaching in the Public
schools of Adams and Scioto Counties. He traveled
extensively through the West, over the greater part of
Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. He returned to Ohio and
married Elizabeth Clark, daughter of James Clark,
of Jefferson Township, Adams County. They located near
Des Moines, Iowa, where he was engaged in teaching, but after
a residence of five years in that State, they returned to
Adams County. He afterward purchased a farm just across
the line in Scioto County, on which he continued to reside
until his death.
Mr. Jones was a man of very strong convictions.
Early in life he became an Abolitionist, his attention being
first called to the subject by a party of slave hunters
passing through where he was teaching. They returned
with the fugitives manacled and driven before them. This
object lesson made him the strongest kind of an Abolitionist.
He engaged in many prominent debates on the slavery question.
At the breaking out of the war, he felt that the result would
be the abolition of slavery and that it was his duty to do all
that he could to bring it about. He therefore enlisted
in Company B, of the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on the
fifteenth day of October, 1861, for a period of three years,
at the age of forty-three, within three years of the limit.
He served his three years and served as a veteran, and was
discharged August 14, 1865. He was in all the battle and
engagements of his company, and during that time acted also as
a correspondent for several Northern newspapers. His
stories of army life were read with great interest by all
those within the circulation of the journals he represented.
At the end of his military service he resumed the occupation
of teaching. He was a man of high moral principles of
the strictest integrity, honorable in all his dealings with
his fellow men, and he was respected by all who knew him.
He was a model citizen in every respect. He died in
March, 1871, and is buried in the cemetery near Wamsleysville,
Ohio. His son, Lafayette Jones, the present
Surveyor of Scioto County, is sketched in this work.
(Source 1: History of Adams
County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B.
Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers -
1900 - Page 772) |
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ROBERT
CARAWAY JONES was born on Blue Creek, December 1, 1858.
His father was Oliver Jones; his mother,
Elizabeth Caraway. Our subject was the second child.
He has a sister, Annaleva, wife of John Calvin,
and a brother, Albert. He attended the District
school in his vicinity and lived on his farm until he was
twenty-four years of age. He engaged in the merchandise
business in 1882 at Blue Creek and remained in that until
1885. He then went to Meade County, Kansas. He
remained there a year. He then went to Colorado.
He married Miss Isa McCall, daughter of Henry
McCall. Coming from Colorado, he went to Blue Creek
and engaged in farming. In 1898, he moved to McGaw and
engaged in the merchandising business for a few months.
He then returned to Blue Creek and went to farming. In
politics, he is a Democrat. He is a Mason and a member
of the West Union Lodge.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 773) |
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SAMUEL
JONES is one of the earnest settlers of Meigs Township,
having resided there for sixty-four years. He is the son
of Matthew and Sarah Jones, and was born December 2,
1825 in Tiffin Township. His father was one of the early
farmers of Adams County, and raised a family of seventeen
children of whom Samuel was the tenth child. His
parents being poor and having so large a family, it was
necessary for the children to "work out." His father
sold the farm of two hundred acres when Samuel was
ten years old and moved to Meigs Township where he bought
another. Samuel remained with his parents until
he was seventeen years old. He then hired himself to
Wm. Metz, a thrifty farmer on the Ohio River, and worked
for him a year at eight dollars per month. Later he was
employed by Samuel Breadwell on a farm at thirteen
dollars per month, by James Moore at sixteen dollars
per month, and by John Gorman at eighteen dollars per
month. In each case his earnings went to his parents,
except what was necessary to buy clothing, which was never
expensive.
The iron furnaces of Lawrence and Gallia Counties, and
the coal pits necessary to supply them, offered better wages
to young men and Samuel sought employment at Mt. Vernon
Furnace, where he received twenty dollars per month cutting
wood, hauling wood and working in the coal pits. Here he
saved his money and purchased forty-nine acres of land on
Turkey Creek, Meigs Township. He gradually added to this
until he owns two hundred and fifty acres, and on this farm he
has reared a large family.
His education was limited to the country schools of
that day, although his good judgment and general information
made what learning he had very useful to him. His school
teachers, as he remembers them, were Hannah Irvin, Dorcas
Taylor, L. D. Page, Benjamin Black, Samuel Thoroman,
Henry Williamson, John Williamson, and he says they were
all good teachers. His mother was Sarah Thoroman,
who was a daughter of Samuel Thoroman and Ann
Crawford. The latter was a relative of Col.
Crawford, who was burned at the stake by the Indians.
The Thoromans are of Scotch ancestry.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 770) |
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