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Belmont County, Ohio
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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 -
G. H. KEMP, M. D.

Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 327

  St. Clairsville -
HON. WM. KENNON, JR. - Was born in Ireland in 1802.  His parents migrated to Belmont county, Ohio, when he was a child.  He studied law with Hon. Wm. Kennon at St. Clairsville.  He was admitted to practice in 1833.  In 1837 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney, serving until 1841.  Was elected and served on congress from 1847 to 1849.  He was elected Common Pleas judge and filled that position from 1865 to 1867.  On account of ill-health he resigned his office, and died on the 19th day of October, 1867.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 230
  St. Clairsville -
W. S. KENNON, attorney-at-law.  The subject is a son of Wm. Kennon, Sr., and was born in  St. Clairsville, May 15, 1828 Sept. 15, 1826.  Was educated at his native town and Bethany College, in which latter place he remained three years.  He then returned home, began reading law with his father, and was admitted to the bar.  He practiced law until the war broke out, when, in the fall of 1861, he was made the Union candidate and elected to the legislature.  He served in the sessions of 1861-62 and at the close of the latter session resigned to accept the appointment by Gov. Todd of Secretary of State.  In the fall of 1862 he was defeated for that office, having been nominated by the Republicans.  He was sent by Gov. Todd soon afterward Washington to adjust Ohio's war claims against the government.  In 1863, Secretary Stanton appointed him Paymaster of the United States Army, in which capacity he served four years, when he resigned, removed ti Cincinnati and entered into the practice of law in partnership with Judge Okey and Milton Saylor.  Here he remained until his father had stroke of paralysis in 1871, when he was sent for.  He came home and has been practicing law in St. Clairsville ever since.  In the fall of the above year he was elected by the Republican party as Prosecuting Attorney, serving until 1878.  He served six years as a Master Commissioner.  Office in Patterson's Block.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 241
  St. Clairsville -
JUDGE WILLIAM KENNON, SR. - This honorable gentleman, who has long since passed the meridian of life is still living in St. Clairsville.  His public life has been full of usefulness as well as honor.  The judge was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, May 15, 1799.  In 1822, he migrated with parents to St. Clairsville.  Received a classical education at Athens College, Ohio.  After leaving college he became a student of law under the tutorship of William B. Hubbard.  In 18___ he, in company with General James Weir, was admitted to the bar at Hillsborough, Highland county, Ohio.  In 1825 he was marred to Mary, daughter of Ezer Ellis, who was at that time, sheriff of Belmont county.  This union resulted in three children - W. S., John and Ellis E.  In 1828 he was elected to Congress, serving until 1833 and defeated in 1832 by James M. Bell, of Guernsey county, and in 1834 was again elected, serving from 1835 to 1837.  In 1840, he was elected judge of the 15th judicial circuit and served ten years.  He was a member of the constitutional convention in 1850 and the same year was supreme judge and president of the commission which made the present code of civil proceedure.  All these positions he filled with distinguished ability.  He withdrew from the bar and public life, owing to age and infirmity.  He is now in the 81st year of his age.  Residence east Main street.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg.
  Bellaire -
CHARLES E. KING was born in Clarksburg, Montgomery county, 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 Indianapolis Order of Odd Fellows of the state of Ohio for several years.  During a long and busy life, he was closely identified with an interested in the business prosperity, growth and development of Belmont county.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 276
  Island King Twp. -
DAVID KING
, a native of Patterson, New Jersey, was born Oct. 4, 1839.  He learned the trade of boiler making, which he followed till 1860, when he removed to Allegheny county, Pa., and from thence to Steubenville, Ohio, in 1861, and followed gardening till August, 1862, when he enlisted in Company E, 52d O. V. I., and served till the close of the war under General Sherman.  He married Catharine Campbell of Allegheny county, Pa., July, 1862, and has two children - both boys.  After his return from the army, Mr. K. followed gardening till 1873, when he began the fire-brick business, in which he is still engaged.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 595
  Bellaire -
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 experience at that trade he was bound as an apprentice to learn the tailor's trade with Henry Bone, of Mt. Pleasant, but not finishing 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 ay 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 has mowed grass and hoed corn on the ground where the building stands in which he is carrying on business.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 274
  Bellaire -
P. T. KING, born June 5, 1842, in Scotland.  Received an academical education.  Migrated to New York in April, 1866.  Was engaged in the mercantile business in several cities prior to his removal here, which was in November, 1872.  He was married to Isabella King, of New York state.  He is now driving a good trade in the dry goods business, on the corner of Belmont and Thirty-third streets.  Mr. K. is the pioneer in the one price cash system of Bellaire.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 278
  Pultney Twp. -
THEOBALD KLEE,
born in Germany in 1828.  Migrated to America in 1851; located in Pittsburgh and engaged immediately in gardening.  In 1852, he removed to Belmont county, and in 1864 purchased the property he now occupies, some ten or fourteen acres of first quality of bottom land, on McMahon's creek, two miles from Bellaire.  In 1854, he was united in marriage to Nancy J. Lowman.  He has a fine residence, good out-buildings, and the land is in a good state of cultivation yielding largely of vegetables and berries for the Bellaire market.  Mr. K.'s family consists of himself, wife and three children - John E., Sarah C. and Nora.  Mr. Klee has been prominently identified with the Christian church for a period of twenty years.  He became a member of the congregation at Bellaire in 1854.  In the erection of the present edifice he served as one of the finance committee, and personally donated at various times in different ways an aggregate of several hundred dollars.  He was a deacon for several years, and is now one of the elders.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 283
  Bellaire -
M. M. KNIGHT, D. S
., son of Thomas and Nancy Knight, of Greene county, Pa., was born in 1847.  He studied dentistry in Cameron, W. Va., with Dr. S. D. Woods, and attended White's Dental College in Philadelphia, where he was taken sick a short time before he would have graduated.  He commenced to practice in Greene county, Pa., and after remaining a year there, went to Quaker City, where he continued for about six years.  From thence he came to Bellaire, where he is now engaged in his profession.  In1874, he was married to Emma, daughter of Jesse Lingo, of Quaker City, Ohio.
Source:  History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 - Pg. 273

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