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BIOGRAPHIES
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)

HISTORY OF
BELMONT and JEFFERSON COUNTIES,
OHIO,

AND
INCIDENTALLY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
PERTAINING TO
BORDER WARFARE AND THE EARLY SETTLEMENT
of the
ADJACENT PORTION OF THE OHIO VALLEY,

By J. A. Caldwell
with Illustrations
Assistant, G. G. Nichols                 Managing Editor, J. H. Newton               (Assistant, A. G. Sprankle.
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WHEELING, W. VA.
PUBLISHED BY THE HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
1880

 

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  Barnesville -
ANNIE E. BAILEY, daughter of John H. Piper, was born in Barnesville, Ohio, Sept. 23, 1842, and on the 29th of November, 1859, married William C. Bailey.  Mr. Bailey was first lieutenant of Company A, 4th Regiment, W. Va. V. I. in the Rebellion.  At the expiration of sixteen months his health failed him, on account of which he was discharged.  In the spring of 1861 they removed to Gallipolis, Ohio, and two years later returned to Barnesville, where Mr. Bailey departed this life Dec. 9, 1874, leaving his wife and one daughter, Ada E., to mourn his loss.  Mrs. Bailey was assistant in the post office for four years, and is engaged in the millinery and fancy goods trade at present on Main street.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 333
  Warren Twp. -
BENJAMIN BAILEY
is a son of Stephen and Tabitha Bailey, and was born in Somerset township, Belmont county, Nov. 1, 1812.  His grandfather's name was Edmund Bailey, the name of whose wife is unknown, and he was the parent of the following named children:  Jesse, Micajah, Matthew, James and Stephen.  The latter, the father of our subject, was born in Loudon county, Virginia, Nov. 15, 1777, and married Tabitha Patterson in the year 1807, by whom he became the father of six children - Elizabeth, William, Benjamin, Exum, Rachel, and Stephen.  The two former and the latter are dead.  He came to Belmont county in 1807, and soon after his arrival he was married as above stated, and located in Somerset township, four miles south of Barnesville.  He entered the land and cut the first stick of timber upon it.  The patent, which he received is signed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.  On this farm Benjamin was born and grew to manhood and here he also reared a family.  He resided upon it until 1874, when he removed to Barnesville, but he still owns it.  Our subject married Lucy Crew, daughter of Isaac and Judith Crew, Aug. 7, 1834.  Their children's names and births are as follows:  Tabitha, (deceased) born June 29, 1835; Eli C., (deceased) Mar. 11, 1837; Phebe, Aug. 13, 1838; Elizabeth, Jan. 6, 1811 William L., Jan. 17, 1844; Sarah A., July 18, 184; John D., Nov. 27, 1850; Lewis, (deceased) Feb. 12, 1853; Stephen, Aug. 2, 1855; Benjamin, (deceased) Dec. 13, 1857; George W., Dec. 25, 1858; Isaac H., June 2, 1861.  Mr. Bailey always followed farming until his removal to Barnesville, and for forty years he has been a grower and packer of tobacco, many years buying large amounts.  He has also been a crier at sales for forty years, and still follows the same.  His religious faith is that of the Society of Friends.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 353
  Colerain Twp. -
ELI BAILEY, a son of Richard and Phoebe Bailey, was born in Chester county, Pa., Dec. 4, 1843.  His father emigrated to Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1833; remained there sixteen years, then removed to Harrison county, where he followed farming some years and finally settled down in Colerain township, Belmont county, where he lived a quiet, peaceable and retired life until his death, which occurred in the year 1878, at the age of seventy-nine years.  Richard Bailey was a lawyer and followed his profession successfully in Chester county, Pa.  Eli Bailey, our subject, has resided in Colerain township since the year 1852, and has carried on blacksmithing quite extensively, in which he has met with considerable success.  To-day he is the owner of two fine farms and valuable village property.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 390
  Barnesville -
HEZEKIAH BAILEY, son of Micah and Mary Bailey, was born in Warren township, Oct. 23, 1821.  He obtained a common school education, and was reared a farmer.  Married Elizabeth Bundy, daughter of William and Sarah Bundy, Dec. 31, 1845, by whom he became the parent of seven children - Sarah, Oct. 15, 1846; Mary, Nov. 16, 1848; Demsey, Feb. 5, 1851, Melvina, May 6, 1854; Almeda, Mar. 8, 1856; Adaline, Aug. 26, 1858; Lucinda, Jan. 9, 1864.  All are living but one - Melvina.  They resided where Daniel Stanton now lives from the time of their marriage till Mr. B's death, which occurred Oct. 19, 1872, when Mrs. Bailey removed to Barnesville, where she now resides.  Residence on East Main street.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 334
  Goshen Twp. -
JESSE BAILEY - The parents of the subject of this sketch, removed from Sussex county, Virginia, and settled in Warren township, Belmont county, in 1811, where their son Jesse  was born, January 1, 1815, and grew up to manhood under the care of his parents.  He married Miss Asenath Patterson on the 29th day of March, 18337, and in 1849 removed to Goshen township, where he has resided ever since.  He had seven children, four sons and three daughters, Silas, John, Lindley, Rachel, Allen, Mary Jane and Sarah Elizabeth.  The daughters are all dead; the sons survive; three of them are married and live in the neighborhood, and are farmers.  Allen, the youngest son, still resides with his parents.  These aged parents are both members of the Society of Friends, and by their kind, unaffected simplicity of manners, and goodness of heart, adorn the church to which they belong.  They are models of the ideal character of these people.  Mrs. Bailey's sympathies, in common with those of her sect from the days of William Penn, are in behalf of the poor Indian, who has suffered so many and such grievous wrongs from the white man.  Mr. Bailey, as has been the case with most of the Friends, has always been opposed to slavery.  He is a mild, but steadfast Republican, voting that way from principle and conscientious conviction of duty.  He owns a farm and is comfortably situated; both himself and wife are very intelligent, and perfectly versed in the theology of their church.  Mrs. Bailey is an authorized and acknowledged minister by the society of Friends.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 405
  Somerset Twp. -
JOHN D. BAILEY

Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 410

  Warren Twp. -
LINDLEY P. BAILEY
was born in Goshen township, Belmont county, Ohio, Mar. 8, 1850.  He was educated at Mt. Pleasant and reared on a farm; married Elizabeth S. Stanton July 26, 1871.  They are the parents of four children - Edward M., Oscar J., Anne and Clara.  For one year after his marriage he lived on Isaac Vail's farm, and then removed to his present location, some two miles east of Barnesville on the B. & O. R.   Before his marriage he taught school, but since he has been a grower of sheep.  In the fall of 1878 he turned his attention to the South Down.  The first he purchased was from George J. Hagerty, of Licking county, Ohio, which took the premium at the Ohio State Fair.  Bought from John I. Holly, of New Jersey, a sheep from the Webb flock of England.  He purchased other fine sheep from different parties.  His sheep is of the finest quality, and he has taken great pains in improving his stock.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 360
  Barnesville -
MRS. ELIZABETH BARNES

Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 330

  Barnesville -
JACOB BARNES

Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 329

  St. Clairsville Twp. -
JAMES A. BARNES was born in Barnesville Sept. 19, 1823.  He was reared a farmer, and for a number of years followed that occupation.  In 1849 he married Miss Matilda Cater, a daughter of William Cater, of Somerset township, where he had removed.  In February, 1864, he enlisted in the army and became a member of Company C of the 60th O. V. I., and served fifteen months.  Participated in the attack on the lines at Petersburg, and on the 30th of September, 1864, lost his right arm in the engagement at Poplar Grove Church, Va.  Returned home May 15, 1865.  In 1866 he was elected assessor of Somerset township, and also was made collector of that township for the county treasurer.  In the year following he was re-elected assessor and also justice of the peace, serving one term.  In 1868 his wife died, and in the winter of 1869 he removed from Boston, his home in Somerset, to Barnesville, where, in the spring of 1870, he was elected assessor.  In the fall of 1871 he was elected to the office of county recorder, on the Republican ticket, by a majority of 25 votes.  He took charge of the office Jan. 1, 1872.  He was re-elected in 1874 by 491 votes, and run again in 1877, but, being declared beaten by two votes, he contested the election and won it by three.  He was married to his second wife, Lizza A. Bumgarner, daughter of H. R. Bumgarner, of St. Clairsville, in 1876.  He has rendered full satisfaction as a public officer.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 241
  Richland Twp. -
DUNHAM M. BERRY
was born in Richland township Oct. 23, 1828.  His grandfather, John Berry, a native of Virginia, emigrated to Belmont county in 1798, and located on the land now situated in Colerain and Richland townships, and erected his cabin.  His nearest neighbor was a Mr. Croy, who lived about one mile distant, and had come one year before him.  His wife's father, John Horn, was an officer in the war of the Revolution, and came to Belmont county at the same time.  Four of his sons, Enoch, John, Samuel and Thomas, served in the war of 1812.  Jacob Berry, father of our subject, was born Jan. 15, 1797; married Miss Jane Martin, a native of New Jersey, in about 1818, and died in 1877.  Our subject married Miss Martha A. Norris Sept. 9, 1852.  He is a carpenter by trade, which he follows in connection with farming.  His farm consists of 120 acres, and is situated one half mile from St. Clairsville, on the Cadiz pike, where he has lived since 1854.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 254
  DR. ELIJAH PERRY BIRDSONG born near Richmond, Va., in 1818.  He came to Bridgeport, Ohio, in early life, read medicine with Dr. Bates, of Wheeling, graduated at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, in Mary 1852, and practiced his profession 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.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 275
  Bellaire -
JOSEPH E. BLACKBURN was born in Farmington, Belmont county, Ohio, in 1858.  Educated in the schools at Martin's maker, at Belmont Glass Works.  He worked in Pittsburgh a year and then came to Bellaire and engaged with the Bellaire Goblet Company as mould maker, where he still remains.  In 1879, he married Dora Truman.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 274
  Bellaire -
PROF. HENRY C. BRANNEN was born in Bellaire, October, 1851.  Educated at home and in the Lebanon Normal School (Ohio) where he graduated in 1869.  He followed school teaching a number of years.  Engaged for thirty years in the book and Stationery trade.  He was married to Catharine, daughter of John B. McCanley, of Bellaire, in 1871.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 274
  Bellaire Twp. -
E. R. BROOKS
, born in Lawrence county, Pa., in 1846.  Was reared on a farm.  Engaged with the Howe Sewing Machine Co. as sub-agent, and continued with that company four years.  In 1873 he removed to Bellaire, and is now selling the Singer Sewing Machine,  No. 804 south Belmont street.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 278
  Barnesville -
JEREMIAH BRYANT

Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 330

  Barnesville -
JOHN BUNDY

Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 331

  Goshen Twp. -
GEORGE N. BURNS, was born in Loudon county, Va., Jan. 5, 1804.  His parents Ignatus and Bethsheba, came to Goshen township, Belmont county, in 1807, and settled about one mile southwest of where the village of Belmont now stands.  The country was almost an unbroken wilderness and little George had to take hold of the work as soon as he could life a twig of brush.  George grew up to manhood with his parents, and in 1829, he married Miss Eliza McFarland.  HE has seven children who have grown to years of maturity, three sons and four daughters: Lemuel, Thomas, William, George Bentley, Bethsheba Jane, Elizabeth Ann, Lydia Louisa and Mary Viola.  Two of the sons, Thomas William and Lemuel, served in the Union army during the rebellion.  Thomas William died of disease in Kentucky.  Lemuel served till the close of the war, and participated in many of the hard fought battles, such as Pittsburgh Landing, Atlanta, &c.  He went with Sherman on his memorable "march to the sea."  Of the daughters, three are married.  Bethsheba and Elizabeth Ann live in Minnesota, and Lydia Louisa lives in Belmont county.  Now in the evening of life, Mr. Burns is living in case and comfort, enjoying the competency secured by a well spent, industrious life.  He is an intelligent man, with mind unimpaired by age, and respected by all who know him.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 406

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