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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio
Chicago:
Inter-State Publishing Co.
1884
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H. S. GALFORD, son of James Galford, was
born April 25, 1811, in Greenbrier County, Va. He
was reared a farmer and has always followed that
avocation, and now owns 214 acres of fine land. He
was married Sept. 16, 1832, to Martha, daughter
of Alexander and Rachel Anderson, who were
natives of Virginia. Eight children have been born
to them, of whom four are living - William,
Alexander, Elizabeth (wife of James Bennett),
and Jane, wife of Allen Andrews. Mr.
Galford has been Postmaster for twenty years and
Justice of the Peace twelve years. He is a
member of the Free-Will Baptist Church, and in politics
he is a Republican. His father was born in
Virginia, June 15, 1784, and was a son of Thomas
Galford, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.
James Guilford served in the war of 1812, and in
1817 settled the farm where our subject now lives, and
where he died Mar. 8, 1824. His wife was born Nov.
30, 1791, and died Dec. 18, 1870.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio -
Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 823 |
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H. N. GALL, fifth son of
Michael and Nancy (Cook) Gall, was born in Pike
County, Ohio, Sept. 11, 1886. He was reared on a
farm and by close application acquired sufficient
education to enable him to teach, an occupation he pursued
several years, teaching during the winter and working on a
farm in the summer, still living on the old homestead.
In 1870 he purchased forty acres, where he resided till
1877, when he returned to the old homestead. He has
230 acres of improved land. Dec. 13, 1869, he
married Mary Ann, daughter of John and Margaret
(Johnson) McMonigel. Of seven children born to
them but four are living. Mr. and Mrs. Gall
are members of the Protestant Methodist church.
Politically he is a Republican. His father was born
Feb. 12, 1799, a son of George and Susannah (Nichols)
Gall, a grandson of George Gall, a native of
Switzerland, and an early settler of Maryland. He
was married April 15, 1824 and in the fall of 1833 located
in Pike County, Ohio. He was a prominent man of the
county, and lived, to be eighty-one years of age.
Our subject's mother was the daughter of Zachariah and
Martha (Andick) Cook. Her father was one of the
Hessian soldiers in the English army, and after serving a
year was taken prisoner, and soon after enlisted in the
Colonial army and served till the close of the war.
In 1833 he came to Ohio, where he died at the age of
nearly ninety-seven years.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio -
Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 |
Sunfish
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IRA GARMAN, senior member of the
firm of Garman, Moorhead & Co., dealers in dry-goods,
groceries, and general merchandise, is the only son of
John H. and Magdalene (Stookey) Garman, both of
German ancestry. He was born in Highland County,
Ohio, Sept. 4, 1847, and attended the common schools.
He followed farming until 1873, when he engaged in
merchandising in connection with his farming at Sinking
Springs, Highland County, until 1883. He then
removed his stock of goods to Elm Grove and associated
with him Mr. Moorhead. They are meeting
with success. June, 1871, he was married to
Cynthia, daughter of Henry and Maria (Shelpman)
Cutler of Scioto County. They have three
children - Rosa J., John H. and Vivia N.
Mr. and Mrs. Garman are members of the German
Baptist church.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio -
Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 |
Waverly - Pee Pee Twps. -
ADAM GEHRES was born in Prussia, Germany, Mar. 9, 1828,
a son of Adam and Charlotte Gehres. In 1836
his parents came to America and located in Wayne County,
Ohio, removing five years later to Pike County, where
his father died in 1867 and his mother in 1872.
Mr. Gehres was married in 1849 to Rachel Wyatt,
of Vinton County, Ohio. In 1852 he went to Iowa
and in 1864 returned to Ohio and engaged in the
furniture business. He lived in Sharonville two
years and then came to Waverly and opened a manufactory
on a small scale. In 1870 he put in an engine and
ran his machinery by steam, manufacturing his own goods
till 1880; since then he has bought his furniture of
other factories and now has the largest and finest line
of furniture in the city. In 1880 he built his
large three-story war-rooms. The old building, two
stories high, is used for the undertaking and finishing
departments. Mr. Gehres has seven children
- William and Joseph, of Gehres Bros'.
planing-mill; Jacob, of the firm of A.
Gehres & Son; Jennie, Daniel, Nellie and
Elizabeth. Mr. Gehres and family are
members of the Presbyterian church.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley,
Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884
- Page 758 |
Waverly - Pee Pee Twps. -
CHARLES GEHRES, the fourth son of
Adam and Charlotte (Kehl) Gehres, was born in
Prussia and 1832 and came with his parents to Ohio in
1837. After his father's death, in 1867, he
removed to Seal Township and in 1873 came to Pee Pee
Township, and now resides on the Noland farm,
three and a half miles south of Waverly. He is one
of the best farmers in the township and holds a high
place in the estimation of his fellow townsmen. In
1856 he married Catherine, daughter of Abraham and
Dorothy Beck. Eight children have been born to
them, five now living - Jacob C., John C., Abraham,
Peter, John W., Anna Elizabeth. John Adam and
an infant unnamed are deceased. Mr. and Mrs.
Gehres are members of the Lutheran church.
Source: History of Lower Scioto
Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1884 - Page 758 |
Waverly - Pee Pee Twps. -
JACOB GEHRES, youngest son of
Adam and Charlotte (Kehl) Gehres, was born in
Prussia in 1835. His parents came to the United
States in 1837 and located near Wooster, Ohio, and
resided there five years, and then removed to Jackson
Township, Pike County, where his father died in 1867.
Mr. Gehres is one of the most influential men of
the township. He was married in the spring of 1861
to Mary E., daughter of Abraham and Dorothy
(Lauer) Bock. They have had eleven children -
Charles P., Anna J., May D., Jacob, Maggie S.,
John A., Lizzie E., Emma A., Alma L., Louis C. and
Adam (deceased). Mr. and Mr. Gehres
are members of the Lutheran church. Politically he
is a Democrat. They reside on the Prather
farm. Mr. Gehres superintending the
cultivation of 450 acres.
Source: History of Lower Scioto
Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1884 - Page 759 |
Marion
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CHARLES M. GORDON was born in
Marion Township, Pike Co., Ohio, Feb. 6, 1839, a son of
William V. and Maria (Beauchamp) Gordon. He
resided at home till manhood and then purchased the farm
where he still resides. He has 110 acres of
improved land and is one of hte successful farmers of
the township. Mar. 22, 1863, he married Harriet,
daughter of Hon. John James. They have five
children - Maria L., Cynthia J., Emma L., John
F. and William F. Sept. 14, 1863, he
enlisted in Company E, Thirty-third Ohio Infantry, and
served till the close of the war; was mustered out June
14, 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon are members
of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 |
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WILLIAM B. GORDON, son of
William V. Gordon, was born in Marion Township, Pike
County, Oct. 18, 1846. He was married Oct. 24,
1867 to Mary E. Riker, who was born in Porter
Township, Scioto County, Mar. 1, 1847, a daughter of
Solomon and Susannah (Stockham) Riker. They
have had four children of whom three are living -
Maria, Rue, Wilber Haven and Effie Blanche.
Mr. Gordon has one of the best farms in the
township, containing 160 acres of land, which he has
acquired by industry and economy. He and his wife
have been active members of the Methodist Episcopal
church since childhood, and he is an active worker in
the temperance cause. His father was born in New
Jersey in 1804, and came to Pike County, Ohio, in 1816.
He was married Aug. 24, 1828, to Maria, daughter
of John and Elizabeth (Prettyman) Beauchamp.
They were the parents of ten children - William B.,
Elizabeth P., Sarah L., Eliza Jane, David A., Charles
M., Joseph R., Charlotte, Cornelius W. and
William B., our subject. Mr. W. V. Gordon
died Aug. 26, 1860, and Apr. 17, 1868, his widow was
married to John Beauchamp, who now resides on the
old Gordon homestead, about one mile east of
California.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ.
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S. C. GREEN, proprietor of the
rock quarry at Piketon, was born Feb. 15, 1824, in
Piketon, and is a son of George and Annie Green,
natives of New Jersey and Virginia, respectively.
He was reared on a farm and attended school part of each
winter till he was twenty years old, after which he
followed farming till 1849. He then engaged in the
grocery business under the firm name of Moore & Green.
He sold out in 1854 and engaged in farming till 1869
when he became a partner of Mr. Mark, in the
dry-goods business, under the firm name of Mark &
Green. In six years the firm name was changed
to Bailey & Green Rock Quarry. He
was married in Oct., 1856, to Mary, daughter of
Joseph and Matilda Colman, natives of Virginia,
living near Harper's Ferry. Of their ten children
eight are living - Alice, Carrie, Lulu, Elizabeth,
Nellie, George, Jessie and Cordit.
Charles and Boyd are deceased. In
politics Mr. Green affiliates with the
Democratic party. He has held the offices of
Trustee and Treasurer for the township.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 787 |
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ALEXANDER GREGG, son of John
and Martha Gregg, was born Sept. 2, 1848. He
lived on the home farm and received a liberal education
in the public schools, which he attended till he was
nineteen years old, since which time he has followed the
avocation of a farmer. His father came to Ohio in
1816 and worked on a farm for $4.00 a month for a time,
after which he worked on the Ohio & Erie canal for $9
per month. He continued to rise till he was made
foreman of the work, at which he made $3.00 per day.
After the canal was completed he engaged in farming till
his death, which occurred July 8, 1877, at the age of
sixty-nine years. He was married Aug. 11, 1831, to
Martha McMillen. They were the parents of
seven children of whom four are living - Amanda,
wife of Henry McKenzie; Margaret J., widow of
John Couch; J. W., and Alexander, the name
which heads this sketch. those deceased are
Julia, George and Ida A., who was the wife of
J. P. Welch. John Gregg, Sr., was elected
Treasurer of Pike County in 1853, but was not a
candidate for re-election in 1855, he having changed
from a Democrat to a Republican. At the time of
this death he owned 1,280 acres of land in this State
and a farm of 400 acres in Missouri.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ.
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HON. JOHN W. GREGG, farmer and
stock-raiser, was born July 13, 1845, and is a son of
John Gregg, who was born Oct. 15, 1808, in
Pennsylvania, and when sixteen years of age emigrated to
Ohio. He was a poor boy and began working at low
wages. He afterward worked on the Ohio Canal and
was soon promoted to foreman at a salary of $3.00 per
day. Out subject was reared a farmer in Seal
Township, Pike County, and received his education at the
public schools. He has made farming and
stock-raising his occupation through life. He was
married Nov. 8, 1866, to Minnie C., daughter of
Joseph and Susan Downing, who were among the
first settlers of Pike County. They have five
children - John W., George A., Ada B., Edgar M.
and Minnie E. In 1883 Mr. Gregg was
nominated for State Senator by the Republican party, and
at the October election was elected by a large majority
over his opponent, Mr. Washam, of Jackson County.
He has always been a warm-supporter of the Republican
Party.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 787 |
Waverly - Pee Pee Twps. -
FRIEDRICH GUTH, professor of
music, was born at Zeiskam, Rheinpftalz, Germany, Mar.
19, 1843. He attended the public schools at
Zeiskam till he was eleven years of age, when he went to
the Latin school at Germersheim. At the age of
thirteen he began the study of music, also taking
private lessons in French. He attended the
preparatory school for the purpose of entering the
Seminary until he was sixteen years old, when he passed
a satisfactory examination and was admitted to the
Seminary at Kaiserslantern, from which he graduated in
1861. He was then sent by the Government as
pacticant to Weingarten, and in 1862 he was sent in
the same capacity to Zeiskam, where he received a
permanent situation as teacher in the public schools.
In 1865 he passed his State examination and received a
first-grade life certificate which was of considerable
importance, as a certificate of this kind excluded him
from the military duties of the Government. In
1866 he received a call to teach music in the Franklin
College at Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio, which he
accepted and remained there till August, 1868, when he
removed to Waverly, which place he has since made his
home. Since 1879 he has given up teaching music
and is devoting his time exclusively to the music
business. He opened the pioneer music store in
Waverly, that being the only one in the city, where he
keeps on hand a full stock of pianos, organs, sheet
music and all things pertaining to music. Prof.
Guth was married in 1867 to Amalia Zinn, a
native of Zeiskam, Germany, who died at Waverly, Ohio,
in 1872, leaving two sons - Carl Friedrich, Oscar
and Friedrich Valentin Arthur. He was again
married in 1874 to Kate Best, a native of
Waverly. Two sons have blessed this union -
Arthur Edwin Tasso, and Victor Conrad.
Conrad Guth father of our subject, was born in 1814
and is a well-to-do farmer, now residing in Germany.
His grandfather, Georg Adam Guth, was born
in 1789, and was a soldier under Napoleon.
He was a son of Friedrich, the son of Georg
Peter, the son of Johannes, who was born in
1690, and was the proprietor of the "Golden Plow," a
hotel in Zeiskam, Rheinpfalz, Germany, still in
existence and in the possession of the Guth family.
Source: History of Lower Scioto
Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1884 - Page 759 |
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