BIOGRAPHIES
 Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio
Publ. Chicago: Inter-state
Publishing Co.
1884
J. C. CAHOON,
photographer, Jackson, Ohio, was born Feb. 29, 1832, a
son of William C. and Evalina (Wood) Cahoon.
His father was a native of Delaware, a son of John
Cahoon, and his mother was a daughter of
Jesse Wood, and a native of Rockingham County, Va.
They came to Gallia County, Ohio, about the year 1818,
where they were married soon after, and spent the rest
of their lives. They reared a large family,
John C. being the third child. He was reared
on a farm and received a limited education at the
log-cabin schools. He engaged in photography in
1858, and in 1865 located in Jackson, and since then has
spent but little time out of his gallery. He was
married at Waverly, Nov. 24, 1872, to Elizabeth A.
Smith, a daughter of Edmond and Lydia Smith,
natives of Rockingham County, Va. They have one
child - Mary Cornelie born June 24, 1876.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 547 |
REV. H. J. CARR
was born in Cayuga County, N. Y., Oct. 11, 1810, a son
of Walter M. and grandson of Joseph Carr.
The latter was a native of Scotland and married Sarah
Moore, a native of Wales. They settled in an
early day in Monmouth, N. Y. He and two sons
served in the Revolutionary war. His wife was
possessed of more firmness and nerve than is commonly
given to women, and although beaten by the Tories with
an iron rod and threatened with death, refused to reveal
a secret of which she was cognizant. Walter M.,
the youngest of fourteen children, was born in New York
and died in Athens County, Ohio, in 1855. He
married Mary Harrison, who died in Iowa, at the
residence of her son, in 1863. They had two sons -
H. J. and Perry, the former the subject of our
sketch. He married Rebecca Conaway, of
Jefferson County, Ohio, who died leaving six children.
Mr. Carr afterward married Ziare, widow of
Edmund Lucas, and daughter of Jesse Marshall,
of Scioto County, Ohio. In early life Mr. Carr
had the advantage of a common-school education. He
was converted when twenty-nine years of age and joined
the Free Will Baptist church and the next year was
licensed to preach. He is now serving five
churches, two in Scioto County, two in Jackson County
and one in Athens County. His children were
James C., of Athens County; Albert A.,
deceased; Eliza J. wife of Dr. S. T. Boggess,
of Jackson; Wilson L., of Nebraska; Joseph,
of Illinois, and Leander D., deceased. His
sons were all in the late war, four serving three years.
Albert was Captain of the Seventh Ohio Cavalry.
Albert and Leander both died of disease
contracted in the army. Mr. Carr has always
been an anti-slavery man and is now a staunch
Republican. During Morgan's raid in Ohio he
was a severe sufferer, losing property and being
subjected to ill-treatment from the rebels.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 548 |
H. L. CHAPMAN,
proprietor of the Chapman Coal Company and
President of the Tropic Furnace Company, Jackson, was
born in Allegany County, N. Y., July 10, 1837, and his
grandparents were born in Connecticut. He received
his boyhood education in the East, but in the fall of
1854, when only seventeen years of age, he came to
Portsmouth, Ohio, and there followed lumbering six
years, with good success. Subsequently he
commenced reading law under the tutorship of Moore &
Johnson, of Portsmouth. Turning his attention
to this profession closely, he was, in due time,
admitted to the bar, but concluded not to practice and
formed a partnership with Mr. Kinney in private
banking in Portsmouth under the firm name of Kinney &
Chapman. They conducted business in Portsmouth
until the spring of 1865, when Mr. Chapman came
to Jackson, and was instrumental in forming the private
banking company of Kinney, Bundy & Co., of which
H. L. Chapman was made President. This
company continued business until June, 1866, when the
firm changed to Chapman, Clare & Co., and Dec. 7,
1870, the First National Bank of Jackson grew out of it
of which he was made President, resigning the position,
however, in 1877. During the summer of 1874 the
subject of the Springfield, Jackson & Pomeroy R. R. was
strongly agitated, with which Mr. Chapman was
prominently indentified from the start. On Dec.
17, of this year the road was chartered, and on March 2,
following, the company was organized, at which time
H. L. Chapman became a Director. At the
official meeting the second year he was elected
Vice-President of the road, and continued to serve as
such, together with a Directorship, until March, 1882.
The road was reorganized in 1879 into the Springfield
Southern, but in March of 1882 the road was sold to the
owners of the L. B. & W. R. R. and reorganized as
the Ohio Southern, of which he is still a Director.
During 1874 and 1875 he was also a Director of the
Dayton & Southeastern R. R. and while such was an active
worker, as he is in all things. As a furnace-man
and coal operator he has taken a lively interest in the
business. In 1873 he became a Director in the
Tropic Furnace Co., of which he is now President and a
stockholder, and is now a Director, also, in the "Globe
Iron Co." In 1875 and '76 he started in the coal
interest in Jackson County by purchasing 1,000 acres of
Jackson hill and shaft coal, upon which now are operated
five distinct mines: three by Jones & Morgan, one
Kelley Coal Co., and one Callahan & Gilliland,
upon all of which he receives a royalty. In 1880
Mr. Chapman bought 500 acres of Jackson hill coal
upon which three separate mines are now operated, under
the firm of Chapman Coal Co., formerly the
Chapman Coal Co., Diamond Coal Co. and Springfield
Coal Co., and has two stores connected with his coal
works, all being specially written up in the history of
Coal Township. Mr. Chapman in politics is a
Democrat. In religion he is free from any creed or
denomination, but is a member of three branches of
Masonic order in Portsmouth, Ohio. Mr. Chapman
is a man of medium stature, elastic and rapid step,
possessing a remarkable business capacity; a man of
plain, unvarnished address, always speaking what he
thinks, never intermingling business with or conducting
it upon principles of friendship, but purely on business
principles.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 548 |
CHERINGTON
FAMILY- This is one of the large and prominent
families of Jackson County. The records are
preserved from 1702, and show the family to be of
English origin. The first name on the record is
that of Clement Cherington, who was born in
England in 1702; was educated for a priest in the Church
of England, but sailed for America on the day set for
his trial sermon. He was married in England, and
had sons and daughters. After his wife's death he
came to America, about 1750.
Mary Coles was
born on Long Island, Feb. 2, 1713; was married to Mr.
Mathews, had several children, and became a widow.
After coming to America Clement Cherington was
married to Mary Coles Mathews. The children
of Clement (1st) and Mary were -
Thomas, Rachel and William (1st).
William (1st) was born in Pennsylvania, April 19,
1755. Margaret Hauk, daughter of John
and Margaret Hauk and sister of Abraham Lincoln's
mother, was born in Pennsylvania, Apr. 10, 1755.
William (1st) and Margaret Hauk were married
Feb. 18, 1779. Their children were as follows:
Thomas, born Dec. 5, 1779; John, born Dec.
17, 1781; Rachel Knapp, born April 28, 1784;
William (2d), born March 6, 1787; Susanah Buck,
born Aug. 1, 1789; Clement (2d), born Dec. 8,
1791; Eleanor, born Sept. 25, 1794; Josiah,
born June 1, 1797. Margaret, wife of
William (1st), died Sept. 22, 1797. William
(1st) and Lettice McClung (a widow with five
children) were married Nov. 28, 1797. The children
of William (1st) and Lettice were as
follows: Charles, born in August, 1798, and
died in infancy; James, born Nov. 9, 1799;
Bruce, born Mar. 15, 1801; Pennell, born Nov.
18, 1802; Betsey Johnson, born Apr. 14, 1804;
Jefferson, born Feb. 26, 1806; Anna McNeal,
born Dec. 6, 1807; Josephus, born June 28, 1810.
Of all these, only two (Pennell and Betsey)
are now living (1883). William (1st) died
Apr. 28, 1833.
Without undertaking to
trace out the different branches of the family, it is
enough to say that the Cheringtons who have
settled in Jackson County are mostly the descendants of
Thomas, the eldest son of William (1st),
which we give as follows (giving in this list only such
of the grandchildren of Thomas as are now
living):
Children and grandchildren of Thomas -
William H. (the first Cherington who settled
in Jackson County) and his children - Leander and
Mary -
Kinnison; Thomas (2d), whose children were eleven in
number, those yet living being in Illinois; Jeptha
and his his children - Columbus, Virginia
French, Wilson, Almira Garvin, Cicero and
Panthara; Lorenzo and his children - DeWitt,
Whitcomb, Thomas, Asbury and Margaret; Margaret
Stevenson; Clinton and his children - Nancy
McClure and Stewart; Polly Evans and her
children - Baldwin (Auditor Jackson County),
Clinton, Wellington, Timothy, Simeon, Susannah, Mary
and Thomas; Betsey Jones and her children -
Sarah Cunningham, Anna Lackey, Elizabeth Williams
and Matilda Lackey; Finley and his children -
Ozias, Harriet, Morris, Laura, Viola, Belle, Emmerson
and Allery; Nancy Mannaring, whose children were
six in number, those yet living in Texas and Missouri;
Anna; Welling; Rachel Prose and her children -
Catharine Hughes, Flora Rickards, Benton, Malinda
Hughes, Adaline Rickards, Josiah Halleck, Emma and
Laura. These descendants of Thomas
Cherington are most of them living in Jackson
County, though a few have moved to other localities.
In addition to these, several other families of
Cheringtons reside in Jackson County, as follows:
William, the son of William (2d), and his
children - Elizabeth Johnson, Evaline Buckley and
Emma Arthur; Lettice Sims, daughter of Levi
and grandchildren of William (2d); Rebecca
Evans and Margaret Evans, daughters of
Clement (2d); Josephus, son of Clement
(2d); William D. (pastor Methodist Episcopal
Church, Jackson, Ohio), son of William W. and
grandson of Clement (2d); William and
Alice, children of Solomon and grandchildren
of Clement (2d). Besides those enumerated
in this article, a younger generation exists in many of
the families, some of whom are grown and married.
The Cheringtons are very numerous in Jackson and
Gallia counties, where they are so married and
intermarried as to be related to a great many people; so
much so that it is commonly said that "any one who wants
the favor of Jackson and Gallia counties must never say
anything against the Cheringtons, lest he may be
talking to some of their relatives."
They are, as a rule, thrifty, industrious, enterprising
citizens, and are generally to be found on the side of
law, order and morality. In politics they are
almost universally Republicans, and in religion they
are, as a rule, either members or attendants of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 549 |
W.
B. CHERINGTON, son of Levi and Permelia (Mansing)
Cherington, was born Dec. 5, 1845, in Gallia County,
Ohio. He attended school and worked on the farm
till he was fifteen years old, after which he was
engaged as an engineer till 1863, when he enlisted
in Company I, One Hundred and Seventy-third Ohio
Infantry. He participated in the battle of
Nashville, and served till the war closed. He then
completed his education at the Ewington Academy, when he
worked at the molder's trade, in Kansas City, Mo., for
four years. He returned to Ohio in 1869, and
engaged in molding at the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad
shops at Zaleski, Ohio, for three years. In 1872
he married Margaret E. Nutt, of Pike County,
Ohio. They have one child - Erie W.
In 1872 he went to Jackson, where he superintended the
foundry and machine works of Picksel & Co., in which
company he was a stockholder. In the fall of 1880
he was elected Sheriff of Jackson County, and was
re-elected in 1882. He was one of the enterprising
citizens, and takes an active part in promoting the
general interest of the county. He is a Royal Arch
Mason, and in politics affiliates with the Republican
party. He has been a Class Leader in the Methodist
church for eighteen years. His father, Levi
Cherington, was born in 1816, in Gallia County,
Ohio, and followed farming through life. He was
the father of four children - Mary, Sarah E., W. B.
and C. W., who are all living and have
received an academical education. His death
occurred in his native county in 1880. His wife
was one of the nineteen children, who all grew to
maturity, of Jordon and Elizabeth (Knox) Mansing,
natives of Gallia county. She is still living,
aged sixty-seven years. Her father was a farmer by
occupation, and served as a Captain in the war of 1812.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 549 |
JAMES
CHESNUT, dry goods and carpet merchant and
Vice-President of the Iron Bank, was born in Ross
County, Ohio, in 1834, and is a son of Lemuel and
Sarah (Chambers) Chesnut. The
Chesnut family are of Scotch-Irish extraction
and the Chambers family of German descent.
Lemuel was an early settler at Chillicothe, Ohio,
and was by occupation a carpenter and millwright.
He died in that city, where his widow still survives.
Of their seven children. James is the
second of two sons and five daughters. He was
reared in his native town, where he acquired his
education in the public schools. Having commenced
learning the baker's trade at the early age of thirteen
and serving a regular apprenticeship, he was deprived of
seven year' school life, which with his natural talent
if it had been applied, a fine education would have
resulted. AT the age of twenty he came to Jackson
and stated a bakery with a cash capital of $60.
With this small capital, economy, industry and close
financiering were necessary to make it successful.
After five years successfully operating the bakery he
connected family groceries, which he carried jointly for
several years, and gradually took in a general stock and
abandoned the bakery entirely. In 1873 he erected
his present neat and capacious brick business room on
Main street, and makes a specialty of dry goods and
carpets. In the spring of 1880 he purchased a half
interest in a large retail boot and shoe store in
Minneapolis, and in the fall of 1882 became sole
proprietor, but now the firm is Chestnut & Son.
They have a desirable and central location in the city,
which, together with the courtesy extended to customers,
has increased their business from $35,000 to $50,000 a
year. Mr. Chestnut is Vice-President,
stockholder and director in the Iron Bank of Jackson,
also stockholder and director in the Star Furnace at
Jackson, the capital stock being $60,000, Mr. Chesnut
owning one-sixth. He is a man below the average
size, quick, elastic, full of business energy and
integrity of principles, an ardent member and Steward in
the Methodist Episcopal church. He is one of
Jackson's enterprising citizens, willing to assist in
all movements tending to elevate mankind or make society
better. He has been twice married first to
Almira Price, who after six years married life died,
leaving as the result of their union three children.
His second wife is Pauline, daughter of Hon.
Elihu Johnson, of Jackson. The issue of this
union is four children. Mr. Chesnus takes
special interest in educating his children, fitting them
with accomplishments, and give them every possible
advantage. The family belong to the Methodist
Episcopal church.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 551 |
ELIAS
CRANDALL, Vice President and General
Superintendent of the Globe Iron Company, Jackson, Ohio.
With the exception of works of fiction there is no class
of literature more sought after or more earnestly
perused than that of biographical history, hence in the
production of a work like LOWER SCIOTO VALLEY we deem it
inappropriate to call it complete without at least a
brief sketch of its leading business men, and
accordingly allot a space to the name above given with
brief ancestral relations. His father, L. R.
Crandall, was of Welsh extraction, a native of
Connecticut, and his mother, Mary Tracey, a
lineal descendant of the original Puritans and a native
of the same State, their ancestors on both the maternal
and paternal side having been known for longevity.
His father was by occupation a miller. He died in
Washington County, Ohio, and his mother's death occurred
in Iowa. The subject of this sketch was born near
Angelica, Allegany Co., N. Y., in 1828. From 1831
to 1838 his parents lived in Warren County, after which
they lived in Washington County, Ohio, where he reached
his majority. During his minor life he received
only a common-school education, but his business
relation during life has greatly advanced his general
knowledge. In 1852 he settled in Scioto County,
Ohio, and was employed as store-keeper at the Empire
Furnace. Four years later, having practiced
economy and integrity of principle, he became a
stockholder in the Empire Furnace, having now for nearly
thirty years been associated in furnace work. In
the fall of 1872 he moved to Jackson, Ohio, and soon
after became associated with the Globe Iron Co.
His experience as a furnace man is invaluable, as the
success of the Fulton Furnace bears evidence. In
social relations he is highly spoken of by his many
friends, and together with his wife belongs to the
Methodist Episcopal church. In political views he
is a Republican, and though not an aspirant for office,
has been selected and served two terms as Chairman of
the Republican Executive Committee. He is one of
the well-to-do citizens of Jackson, willing to assist in
all public improvements. He possesses a fine
taste, which is exercised in adorning his personal
property for the comfort of his family. His wife
as Miss NAn. F. Forsythe, daughter of James
Forsythe, a prominent furnace man of Scioto County.
Mr. and Mrs. Crandall have had two children.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 551 |
FRANK
CRUMIT, Clerk of Courts, and one of the
representative citizens of Jackson County, Ohio, is a
son of Dr. C. K. Crumit of this place, and was
born at New Plymouth, Vinton Co., Ohio, Apr. 19, 1853.
His parents having moved to Jackson when he was quite
young, he had the privileges of the public schools of
that place until eighteen years of age. He was
married at Jackson, Apr. 27, 1880, to V. Florence,
daughter of Judge James Tripp, to whom are born
two children - Charles Tripp Crumit and Kate
Crumit. In politics he casts his lot with the
Republican party, which in the fall of 1881 elected him
to his present office, where he is serving faithfully.
In religion he is free from church or creed, but belongs
to the Trowel Lodge, Trowel Chapter and
Chillicothe Commandery, K. T., in which he takes an
active interest as well as in all movements tending to
benefit the county.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 552 |
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