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1884

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JOHN S. BACCUS was born in Scioto County, Ohio, July 18, 1811, a son of James and Nancy A. (Smith) Baccus, natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio in 1806, locating in Scioto County.  Six of their eight children are still living.  His father died in 1840, and his mother in 1864.  John S. was reared and educated in his native county.  He worked three years at the furnaces, and seven years at the carpenter's trade.  In 1842 he commenced farming on the farm where he still resides.  He owns 121 acres of land - one of the best hill farms in Scioto County.  He was married in 1836 to Flora E., daughter of Anthony C. Vincent, of Scioto County.  Mrs. Baccus is a member of the Presbyterian church.
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GEORGE BAHNER was born in Bavaria, Germany, Sept. 26, 1826.  He came to America in 1839, landing at New York, and in the fall of the same year came to Portsmouth.  He remained in Scioto County, three years, and the following seven years resided in Lawrence County, Ohio.  In 1855 he was married to Margaret Ammon, a native of Bavaria, born about 1828.  They are the parents of five children - John, Anna E., Augusta, George and David.  In 1855 he came to Porter Township, Scioto County, where he owns a farm of 100 acres of good land on section 8.  He and his wife are members of the Lutheran church.  Our subject's father, John Bahner, was a native of Bavaria.  He was in the war with Napoleon Bonaparte.  He died in Scioto County, in 1879, aged eighty-four years.  Elizabeth (Dorsch) Bahner, mother of our subject, was also born in Bavaria.  She died in Porter Township, Scioto County, in 1878, at the age of seventy-four.
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ROBERT BAKER, [Portsmouth] contractor and builder, Chillicothe street, between Second and Third streets, Portsmouth, was born at Kent, England, in 1831, a son of Robert Baker, Sr.  He came to the United States in 1848, locating in Portsmouth, and at once began working at the carpenter's trade.  In 1856 he began contracting, and during the  busy season employs from twenty to twenty-five hands.  He has built over 100 houses in Portsmouth, including residences of Mr. G. Davis, L. C. Damaim, and S. Reid, the Fourth Street Schoolhouse, postoffice, and block of stores occupied by Davis & Thompson.  He was married in 1856 to Cornelia Wilson.  They have six children - John, a traveling salesman for the New York silk house; William assistant bookkeeper at Scioto car shops; Robert, working with his father; Nettie, Jennie and Mary
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BENJAMIN BALL [Portsmouth] was born April 27, 1814, in Schenectady County, N. Y., a son of John Ball, also a native of New York.  His father came to Scioto County with his family in 1824 and about 1830 he moved to Lawrence County, where he died in 1837.  Our subject began to work for himself when eight years of age by helping farmers, etc., and at the age of nineteen came to Portsmouth, where he has since resided.  He has been engaged in various pursuits, but for many years has been teaming, doing a general transfer and job business.  He was married Feb. 28, 1836, to Susan, daughter of William and Frances Barbee.  She was born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1816.  They had a family of twelve children, all living except one, who died in infancy - Mary Frances, a clerk in Akron; George William, a carpenter in Pennsylvania; Elizabeth An, of Akron; John Claudius, a carpenter and engineer, married and living in Fredonia, N. Y.; Emma Jane, of Akron; Juliet, now Mrs. Theodore Burkhart, of Missouri; Charles H., married, a bricklayer of Portsmouth; Benjamin F., Sarah Ellen, Florence May and Albert.  Mrs. Ball died Nov. 2, 1876, aged nearly sixty-one years.  She was a woman of great strength of character.
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WILLIAM HENRY BALL [Portsmouth] was born near Ironton, Ohio, July 14, 1828, where he lived till he was seventeen years old.  He then went to Iowa, and engaged in farming, etc., two years, since which time he has resided in Portsmouth, with the exception of two years, and has been engaged in farming in some extent, and teaming ever since he came to the place.  He was married in 1850, to Sarah Ann Barbee,  who died July 23, 1862.  They were the parents of six children - William, who died in 1853, aged eighteen months; Emily, a graduate of Portsmouth High School, at present Principal of the Union Street School; Lucy Jane, born in 1856, and died in 1873; Charles Wesley, born in 1858, and died when eighteen months old; Albert H. and Harry (twins), the former in the C., W. & B. express office, and the latter a graduate, now engaged in teaching and studying law under N. J. Dever.  Mr. Ball was again married March 16, 1865, to Jane St. Clair,  a native of Pennsylvania, who has borne him four children - Fred S., born Feb. 14, 1866; Anna, aged sixteen years; William H., aged fourteen years, and Arthur C., aged eight years, all attending school, at present.  Mr. Ball was a member of the Home Guards during the war.  In politics he is a Republican.
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P. G. BALMERT, [Portsmouth] manufacturer of cigars, Chillicothe street, opposite Market place, was born in Germany, March 2, 1846, and came with his father, Samuel Balmert, to the United States in 1854.  His father died in Portsmouth in 1876, aged fifty-six years.  Mr. Balmert was married in 1869 to Mary A. Schafer.  They have had eleven children, nine now living - Charles, Lucy, Bertha, Flora, George, Simon, William, Ida and Mary.  Mr. Balmert purchased his present place of business in 1876.  He keeps a full line of chewing and smoking tobacco, plug and fine cut, and cigars of all grades.  He employs eight hands, doing a large and lucrative business.
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S. P. BALMERT, [Portsmouth] junior member of the firm of Stanton & Balmert, wholesale liquor dealers, 161 and 163 West Front street, was born in Germany, in 1848, and came with his father, Simon Balmert, to the United States in 1854, locating at Franklin Furnace, Ohio, and four years later came to Portsmouth.  His first work was in a cigar store, where he remained three years.  He then clerked in a grocery store three years, in a hardware store three years, and on the river steamers nine years, as Captain and Clerk, and in 1877 became associated with Mr. Stanton in the wholesale liquor business.  He is a stock-holder of the Portsmouth and Pomeroy Packet Company, and a director and stockholder in the Portsmouth Wagon Stock Company.  He was married in May, 1880, to Louis Kricker.  They have two daughters - Emma and Margaret.  Mr. Balmert is a member of the German Benevolent Society.
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JOHN C. BARBER, [Portsmouth] son of John Barber, is a native of Portsmouth.  His grandfather, Uriah Barber, came from Pennsylvania to Portsmouth in 1796, and died in 1846, aged ninety years.  He was twice married, and had a family of twelve children - John, Isaac, Samuel, Washington, Michael, Polly (Mrs. William Raynor), Jane (Mrs. Laqua), Joseph, William, Louisa (Mrs. Samuel Briggs), Miranda (married Mr. Briggs after her sister's death), Amanda (Mrs. Ezra Noel).  John, the eldest son, married Vealet Swords who came with her father, William Swords, from Virginia and located in Alexandria in 1803.  They had a family of twelve children - Uriah, Nathaniel William, Archibald, Marian, John C., Samuel, Mary (Mrs. Wm. Warren, of Virginia), Barbara (deceased), Missouri (Mrs. James Tritch), Catherine (deceased), and Emma.  John Barber died July 16, 1849, aged sixty-nine years.  John C. Barber was married in May, 1867, to Grace Kidd, of Kentucky.  They have one child - Edna, aged seven years.  Mr. Barber enlisted April 16, 1861, in the First Ohio Infantry, and participated in the first battle at Bull's Run.  He has been an engineer on the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad twenty years, and for the past thirteen years has run Engine No. 50.  He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
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AGNES I. BARKLOW  [Portsmouth] is a daughter of Stout and Sarah Jane (Jeffords) Barklow, her mother being a member of one of the oldest families in Portsmouth.  She was educated in the High School of Portsmouth, from which she graduated in 1874, and the two years after graduation she spent in recreation.  Since then she has been constantly employed in teaching in the Portsmouth school, where her ability as a scholar and disciplinarian is reorganized as among the first in the county.  As a teacher she is peculiarly competent.  Being complete mistress over herself, she has power over her scholars, which insures perfect order and consequent improvement.
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JOSIAH BARLOW [Portsmouth] was born Sept. 26, 1843, in Banesville, Belmont Co., Ohio, and lived with his father, Charles Barlow, until Dec. 22, 1865, when he was married to Anna Barbee, daughter of Eli Barbee, an early settler of Portsmouth.  Mrs. Barlow died April 5, 1883, at the age of thirty-seven, leaving a family of four children - Charlie, Floyd, Mollie, and Earl.  She was a member of the Sixth Street Methodist Church.  After his marriage Mr. Barlow engaged in farming for five years, in the Scioto bottoms, after which he moved back to Portsmouth, and formed a partnership with John Geggory, in grading and filling streets.  They graded a number of streets in Portsmouth, and the same year built the mile race track.  He then worked on the Lake Shore & Tuscarawas Railroad in Stark County, and he, in connection with Wm. McGeowns, built the first three miles of the Scioto Valley Railroad as sub-contractors under Mr. Geggory, in 1880.  He was then elected Street Commissioner, which position he now fills.  He owns the Biggs House Hack and Omnibus Line.  Mr. Barlow's father was born in England, and came to the United States at the age of eleven years.  He came to Portsmouth in 1849, and was by occupation a teamster and contractor.  He built the school house on the corner of Second and Chillicothe streets, and grades the principal streets of Portsmouth.  He also followed farming for many years.  He died July 6, 1870, aged forty-nine years.  Josiah Barlow  is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and is also a member of an Independent Order of Mechanics.
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JOHN BARON, [Portsmouth] a son born in Portsmouth, Ohio, Aug. 27, 1842, a son of John V. Baron.  His father was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1811, and came to the United States in 1837.  He spent the first two years in New York City and Buffalo, and then came to Ohio, where he worked on the Ohio Canal two years.  In 1841 he was married, in Piketon, to Helen Geng, a native of Germany, and the same year removed to Portsmouth, where he died Dec. 7, 1875.  His wife is still living.  They had a family of six children, five are now living - John, Kate, Barbara, Elizabeth (now Mrs. Anton Matter), MaryMargaret is deceased.  John Baron began to learn the tinner's trade when fifteen years of age, and worked at it five years.  He then with his father engaged in the stove and tinware business, manufacturing the latter.  After his father's death he carried on the business in his own name till 1879, when he began diminishing his stock of stoves, and purchased a stock of hardware.  He keeps a complete stock of choice goods, occupying three floors.  His salesroom is 19 x 50 feet.  Mr. Baron is a member of the St. Mary's German Catholic Church.
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JOHN HATCH BARRETT was born in Scioto County, Ohio, Jan. 9, 1818, a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Hatch) Barrett, his father a native of Massachusetts, and his mother of New Hampshire.  His parents came to Ohio in 1808 and settled in Scioto County on a farm.  In 1819 they went to Portsmouth, where his father manufactured brick three or four years.  He then purchased another farm and engaged in farming till his death in 1858.  His wife died in 1872.  They reared a family of five children - Levina B., Abigail B., Thornton, Henry and John H.  The latter is the only one now living.  After reaching manhood he went to Kentucky and purchased a farm.  In 1856 he returned to Ohio and bought a farm of Colonel William M. Burke.  He owns seventy-five acres of fine land.  He was married in January, 1849, to Ruby G. daughter of Thomas and Sophia Hatch, of Scioto County.  They have five children - Thornton, Orrin G., Thomas H., Henry and Kate H.
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JOHN F. BASHAM, farmer, was born Dec. 16, 1853, in Porter Township, Scioto Co., Ohio.  He was educated in his native country, and was engaged in farming on his father's farm.  Sept. 6, 1880, he went out to Montana, where he remained till August, 1882.  On his return hoe he remained at Loghman, Mich., for a short time, engaged in scaling or measuring timber.  Sept. 27, 1882, he was married in the Second Presbyterian Church of Portsmouth, by Rev. H. A. Ketchim to Lolie L. Taylor, born in Lewis County, Ky., May 14, 1862.  After his marriage he returned to Michigan, but Feb. 1883, he returned to Ohio, and is now working on his father's farm on section 12, Porter Township.  Mr. and Mrs. Basham are members of the Second Presbyterian Church, at Portsmouth, Ohio.
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ADAM BAUER [Portsmouth] was born in Prussia, Feb. 2, 1834, a son of Henry Bauer, who came to the United States in 1850, landing in Portsmouth, Aug. 3.  He located in Bloomfield, now Webster, Scioto Co., Ohio, where he still resides, aged seventy-five years.  He had three sons - Adam, John W. and John Nicholas.  Adam commenced life in America by digging ore.  He attended school but a half day in America, but by hard study is now a well-educated man.  In 1851 he began to work on a farm.  He was afterward employed in repairing the railroad, and had worked but eighteen months when he was appointed foreman, and the following August was appointed to take charge of a construction train.  He left his position to enlist in Company C, One Hundred and Sixth Ohio Infantry, and after serving three years was again appointed to the same position.  In March, 1868, he was appointed Roadmaster of the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad.  He was married Nov. 28, 1858, to Minnie Kalbow, a native of Germany.  Of seven children born to them but three are living - George David, mail agent in the S. V. R. R.; Charles F. and Minnie Dora.  Mr. Bauer is a member of the Odd Fellow Lodge and Encampment and for three years has been Representative of this district.  His brother, John W., was Roadmaster in Eastern Kentucky, and was killed by falling material in a tunnel, Christmas night, 1875.  He was about forty years of age, and left a widow and eight children, now residing in Portsmouth.  His brother, John Nicholas, was born Feb. 25, 1843, and is a farmer of Scioto County.
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HENRY C. BEARD, physician and surgeon, was born Dec. 21, 1839, near Middlebrook, Augusta Co., Va.; came to Ohio in October, 1859, and soon after commenced the study of medicine in the office of Drs. B. G. & J. B. Warwick, of Lucasville, Ohio, and took his first course of lectures at the Medical College of Ohio, session of 1860-'61.  In August, 1862, he enlisted as a private soldier, but was soon promoted to Hospital Steward, and two years later was made Assistant Surgeon of the First Regiment Ohio Volunteers, Heavy Artillery, Second Brigade, Fourth Division, Army of the Cumberland.  He was mustered out with his regiment at Knoxville, Tenn., July 25, 1865, and returned to Lucasville.  In October, 1865, he located at California, Pike Co., Ohio, where he remained four years.  He then removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, and engaged in the drug business, but on account of failing health abandoned it, and resumed the more active duties of the practice of medicine.  In June, 1869, he graduated from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery; located at Lucasville in May, 1879, and has ever since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession.  He was married Dec. 25, 1860, to Mary E., daughter of David Noel, of this county.  They have three children living - David F., Michael J. and Roscoe E.  Dr. Beard  was elected Vice-President of the Scioto County Medical Society in 1878, and is at present one of the Board of Censors of the Hempstead Memorial Academy of Medicine.
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HOMER BEDELL, deceased, was born at Fredericktown, Knox Co., Ohio, Oct. 15, 1836, a son of Henry Bedell, of New Jersey.  He learned the machinists trade in Norwalk, Ohio.  In 1861 he came to Portsmouth, and worked a short time for Murray & Moore.  He then made gum-barrels a short time, and subsequently worked for Murray & Moore nine years.  In 1872 he was employed as second engineer at the water-works, remaining eighteen months, when he was taken with tumor of the brain.  He gradually lost his sight, and for eight months was blind.  He died Nov. 12, 1874.  He was married Sept. 6, 1864, to Sarah, a daughter of Alfred R. Prowitt.  they had a family of four children.  Mr. Bedell was a master mason.  He was a natural mechanic, and a man honored by all who knew him.
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WALTER BELOAT was born in Sciotoville, Porter Township, Scioto Co., Ohio, Dec. 6, 1854.  He was educated in the district schools, and has always resided in his native county.  He commenced his present mercantile business in 1882.  Fourteen months previous to this he was employed as clerk for the Scioto Fire-Brick Company.  He had formerly followed the river, keel-boating and steam-boating.  He was married Dec. 7, 1881, to Caroline Gates, born in Scioto County, in 1858.  They are the parents of one child - Lydia Z., born Sept. 21, 1882.  Mr. Beloat is a member of the Orient Lodge of Odd Fellows,  No. 337, Wheelersburg, Ohio.  His wife is a member of the Lutheran church.
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AMAZIAH BENNETT, son of Benjamin and Mary Bennett, was born Aug. 27, 1823, in Scioto County, Ohio, where he was reared and educated in the common schools.  He has followed the avocation of farmer, and now has 111 acres of well-improved land, which is underlaid with a vein of iron ore from two to six feet thick, of the best quality yet found in the county.  Mar. 5, 1846, Mr. Bennett married Sarah, daughter of William Queen.  To them have been born eight children - Emily, born Aug. 10, 1848; Samuel, Aug. 14, 1850; Cyrus, Aug. 12, 1852; William Tracy, Oct. 27, 1854; Alice, Nov. 9, 1856; Jacob, Apr. 1, 1860; John Q., Mar. 4, 1863; Warren R., Aug. 7, 1866.
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ASAPH BENNETT was born near Bloom Furnace, Scioto County, Jan. 26, 1824, and is a son of Gilbert and Margaret (James) Bennett.   When he grew to manhood he and his brother-in-law bought the mill on Symme's Creek, which they ran for two years, after which he moved to Scioto County, and purchased his present farm of 108 acres, and has since followed farming.  He was married in 1843 to Abigail Haptonstall, who died in 1866, leaving three children - Lafayette, Albert and Mary A.  He was married again in 1880 to Naomi, daughter of William Toland, of Jackson County.  They have two children - Guy V. and Artie O.  Mr. Bennett has served as Justice of the Peace since 1869, with the exception of one term, and has also been Township Trustee twenty years.  He belongs to Western Sun Lodge, No. 191, A. F. & A. M., at Wheelersburg.  In politics he is a Prohibitionist.  His father ran a saw and grist mill on Symme's Creek, Gallia County, for some time, after which he removed to the farm in Scioto County, now owned by our subject, where he remained till his death.  He died in 1870, aged eighty-five years; the mother of our subject died about 1860.   She was previously married to John Holmes (deceased).
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DAVID BENNETT was born Feb. 5, 1846, in Scioto County, a son of James M. and Susannah (Tullerton) Bennett.  His father was also born in this county and was a farmer and cabinet-maker.  He died in 1850.  Mrs. Bennett  was a native of Virginia, and came to Jackson County, Ohio, when four years of age.  She is at present residing in Madison Township, this county.  Our subject attended the common schools and high school in his neighborhood, but acquired most of his education by private study at home.  At the age of seventeen he began to teach and ha taught ever since, with the exception of two years, when he was engaged as salesman for a drygoods house.  In 1873 he engaged in farming and has a farm of 280 acres, besides owning 130 acres in Madison Township.  His land is well supplied with a fine quality of timber and he furnishes a large amount of railroad ties.  He was married in 1871 to Jenette, daughter of L. Noble.  This union has been blessed with six children, of whom five are living.
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REV. JOHN M. BENNETT, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., Apr. 5, 1799, a son of Samuel Bennett, a native of New York, who in the spring of 1808 removed his family to Portsmouth, Ohio, and a few months later to Bloom Township.  There was a family of five boys and five girls, all of whom grew to maturity.  John Bennett spent his boyhood days on the farm, receiving but six months schooling.  He was converted when nineteen years of age and joined the Baptist church, and a few years later was licensed to preach.  He with Jacob Tyson built the first steam flour-mill in the township, and some yeas later he owned an eighth interest in the Gallia Furnace.  He is now one of the proprietors of the Webster Fire-Brick Company, and is its President.  He owns considerable town property.  He was married in 1826 to Katherine, daughter of Ephraim Lewis, a native of New York.  Ten children have been born to them, eight of whom are now living.
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ELIAS BENZING was born in Schwenningen, Koenigreich, Wuerttemberg, Germany, July 5, 1835.  He received a good education, and was reared by Christian parents.  Nov. 10, 1852, he located in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was one of the original members of the First German Presbyterian Church.  Immediately after his conversion he felt an especial love for the cause, and felt that he was called to preach the gospel.  He declined a good business position, and entered Lane Theological Seminary, from which he graduated.  He was licensed to preach, May 8, 1863, and ordained April 7, 1864.  He went to Cleveland and organized the Second German Reform Church, which has had a steady and healthful growth.  In 1866 they built a house of worship, and in 1868 a parsonage.  Dec. 5 1871, he was received as a member of the Cleveland Presbytery.  He left the church there in 1872, with a property of $10,000.  Too constant labor as a pastor, missionary and teacher of parochial school had brought on a serious throat trouble, and by the advice of his physician he gave up preaching nearly a year, but after a few months rest was employed as City Missionary, with a salary of $900 a year.  Oct. 18, 1873, he received a call from the First German Presbyterian Church, Portsmouth, and Nov. 4, 1873, entered his present field of labor.  He also serves a church in Buena Vista and one in Green Brier, Adams County.  From the beginning of his ministry to July 1, 1883, Mr. Benzing baptized 387 children, confirmed 197, received 407 members into the church, solemnized 105 marriages, attended 158 funerals, made 6,000 missionary visits, and traveled 18,500 miles.  He has reason to believe that his work has not been in vain, but that souls have been saved through his ministrations.  Four young men have entered the ministry under his administration.
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VOLENTINE BERNTHOLD was born near Ohio Furnace, Lawrence Co., Ohio, Dec. 16, 1849.  He attended the school at his native place till ten years of age, when he moved with his parents to Vinton County, Ohio, where they remained one year.  They then moved to Jackson County and thence to Scioto County, where they resided on a farm on Millar's Run, about ten yeas.  In 1877 he moved to his present farm in Valley Township, which contains 300 acres of land, most of which is cultivated.  In 1872 he was married to Nancy M., daughter of William Vulgmore, of this county.  They have two boys and one girl.  Mr. Brenthold has followed agricultural pursuits and lately has also been engaged in stock-raising.
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CHARLES F. BEST was born Feb. 24, 1853, in Cincinnati, Ohio, a son of Karl Best, who was born in Germany.  He came to Portsmouth in 1857, and attended school till he began clerking for J. L. Hibbs & Co., in the hardware store, with whom he remained from 1867 until 1874.  From 1874 till 1878 he was Assistant Postmaster, after which he was in the employ of the R. R. Mail Service running from Columbus to Portsmouth the first two years, and from Ashland, Ky., to Columbus, Ohio, the next two years.  From April, 1882, till the following April he was Assistant Postmaster with L. C. Damarin.  He was married Nov. 5, 1879, to Mary A., daughter of Frederick Walter, of Portsmouth.  They have one child - Rosa.
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HENRY BEUMLER, boarding house and saloon, was born in Hanover, Germany, July 5, 1828, a son of Stephen Beamler,  He came to the United States in 1854, stopping first in Wheeling, W. Va., where he worked in the coal miens three months, and then removed to Greenup, Ky., and remained ten years.  In 1865 he came to Portsmouth and opened his boarding house on Front street.  HE was married in Wheeling, in 1854, to Catharina Kilborn, a native of Germany.  She died in 1880, at the age of forty-six years.  They had a family of eight children - Sady, Augustus, George, Henry, Sophia, Charles, Mary, Kate.  Mr. Beamler is a member of the Harugari German Society.
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JOSEPH BIERLY was born near Fincastle, VA., Feb. 28, 1818, and was educated in the common schools of the State.  At the age of sixteen he began to learn the carpenter's trade with Henry W. Kemper, of Fincastle, and afterward worked at the wagon and carriage making business seven years.  In 1861 he came to Portsmouth, Ohio, where he worked at the carpenter's trade for six years, and in 1875 removed to his present farm.  He was married in 1843 to Sarah A. Tolley, a native of Rockbridge County, Va., They have three sons and one daughter.  Mr. and Mrs. Bierly are members of the Methodist Episcopal church on Sixth street, Portsmouth.  He has served as Justice of the Peace since April, 1876, and has also served as Assessor of Portsmouth three years.
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FRANK A. BIHLMAN, son of John and Catherine (Hubbard) Bihlman, was born Nov. 14, 1857.  He was married Feb. 4, 1879, to Mary A., daughter of Joseph May.  They have been blessed with two children - Frank and Mary AnnMr. Bihlman has a farm of twenty acres of fine land, on which good farm buildings are erected.  His father was a native of Germany, and came to this country when seventeen years of age.  He was a soldier in the Ohio National Guards, and was shot while standing guard, and died in 1864.  The mother of our subject died in 1858.
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STEPHEN D. BISHOP was born in New Haven, Conn., Feb. 23, 1813, and came to Portsmouth in 1829.  He was by trade a tailor, and had a clothing store in connection with working at his trade.  He died July 13, 1874, and his memory is dear to many who were his friends during the many years he was in business in Portsmouth.  He was married in 1860 to Mrs. Serena Lalendorff, widow of Charles Lalendorff, and daughter Samuel Kidd.  She had two children by her first husband - James Henry and OliverMr. Bishop's children are - Stephen D., Mary Ann, Charles A. and William Nelson.
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JOSEPH W. BLAIR, proprietor of the Central Hotel, Webster, was born in Adams County, Ohio, Feb. 20, 1831, the second son of Joseph W. and Mary A. Blair.  His mother died in 1870 and his father in 1877.  He received a liberal education, and when quite young began to clerk in his father's store.  He remained with his parents till twenty-one years of age and then clerked for J. T. Wilson.  In 1855 he came to Scioto County, locating in Webster, and purchased the store owned by his brother, William A.  In 1857 he sold his stock, and clerked for another party till 1860, when he again opened a store of his own, but on account of failing health again sold out, and has since then been engaged in his present business.  He was married Feb. 10, 1859, to Harriet, daughter of James M. Cole.  They have four children - Edward B., James W., Charles W. and Nannie.  Mr. Blair has served as Assessor two terms, and Township Treasurer fourteen years.  His hotel is one of the best in this part of the county.
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JOHN B. BLANKEMEYER, merchant tailor, Chillicothe street, between Sixth and Seventh, Portsmouth, Ohio, was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1825, and came to the United States in 1845, locating first in St. Louis, where he remained two years.  He then went to New Orleans, and remained eighteen months.  In the fall of 1848 he went to Cincinnati, and in 1852 came to Portsmouth.  He learned the tailor's trade in Germany, and worked as a journeyman eighteen years.  After coming to Portsmouth he opened his present place of business.  He keeps a full line of cloths, cassimeres and gents' furnishing goods.  He employs three workmen in the shop and five outside.  He was married in 1848 to Anna A. Shlademan, of Oldenburg, Germany.  They have five children - John, Lizzie, William, Herman and Anna.  They lost five children in infancy.  Mr. and Mrs. Blankemeyer are members of the German Evangelical church.  He is a member of the Harugari Lodge.
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LOUIS BLOMEYER, son of Louis Blomeyer, was born in 1829 in Hanover, Germany.  He learned the shoemaker's trade, at which he worked till 1847, when he came to America.  He worked in Portsmouth, Cincinnati and Ashland, Ky., a short time and then returned to Portsmouth, where he has resided about twenty-eight years.  When he came to Portsmouth he was engaged as a hand in the rolling mill, and is at present foreman of the mill.  He was married in 1851 to Mary Kiefer, a native of Germany.  They have eight children - Hannah Mary, wife of Henry A. Brodbeck, of Portsmouth; Adolph Louis,  a street car conductor in Chicago: Louisa, wife of William G. Reimenschneider, Principal of the Portsmouth public schools; Mary A., wife of Charles Locker; Allie, Clara, Hattie and Verena.  Mr. Blomeyer is a member of the German Methodist church, of which he has been Trustee for the past twenty years.  He has been a Class-Leader for twenty-two years, and Sabbath-school Superintendent seventeen years.
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PHILLIP BLUM was born in Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 9, 1845, and when twelve years old began to learn the tanner's trade, which he followed a number of years, since which he has pursued farming.  In 1868 he came to Ohio, and settled on Long Run, where he owns 140 acres of land, with good  residence and out-buildings.  He is now engaged in farming and gardening, and has lately turned his attention to the cultivation of strawberries.  He was married Dec. 10, 1871, to Caroline Boadmer, of Scioto County.  They have three children living - Frank H., Christopher and Caroline.  Mr. Blum is a member of the lodge at Portsmouth, No. 116, I. O. O. F., and belongs to the Presbyterian church.  His parents were natives of Germany, and came to the United States in 1845.  They are at present making their home in Beaver County, Pa.
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DANIEL BODMER, farmer, was born in Switzerland in 1841, a son of Henry Bodmer, and was twelve years of age came with his parents of America.  In 1861 he enlisted in Company B, Twenty-second Ohio Infantry, and in 1863 re-enlisted as a veteran in the same company, serving till the close of the war.  He participated in many hard-fought battles, among them Iuka, Pittsburg Landing, Corinth.  He was discharged in 1865 and returned home and located on the farm where he now resides.  He was married in 1868 to Mary Ann Pick.  They have five children - Anna E., Lena E., Frederick W., Edward D. and Charles A.  Mr. Bodmer has served as School Director.  His brother, Godfried Bodmer, was born in 1843.  He enlisted in 1861 in Battery L, First Ohio Artillery, and served till the close of the war.  He now resides in Lawrence County, Ohio.
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JACOB BODMER, farmer, was born in Switzerland in 1822, a son of Henry and Elizabeth Bodmer, who with their family emigrated to America in 1854, landing in New York July 6, and came direct to Portsmouth, Ohio.  He was married in 1854 to Catherine Troxler.  They have had fifteen children - Jacob, Matilda, Emma, Tena, Wilhelmina, Josephine, Gotleib, Frederick, Mary, Charles, Albert, John, and three died in childhood.  Mr. Bodmer came to this country a poor man, but by industry has accumulated a good property.  His father's family consisted of nine children - Jacob, Mary, Daniel, Godfried, Susan, Mary Ann, John, Barbara and Elizabeth.  His father died in 1879, aged eighty-three years.
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SAMUEL BONSER, son of Isaac and Abigail (Burt) Bonser, was born in Northumberland County, Pa., Sept. 30, 1795, and when one year old was brought to Ohio by his parents.  His father was a millwright by trade, and in 1797, with the assistance of his neighbors, he built a grist-mill on Bonser's Run.   He died in this county in 1849, aged eighty-three years.  His wife was a native of New Jersey, and died near Sciotoville in 1853, in her eighty-third year.  Our subject was married to Hannah Mead, Aug. 5, 1819.  They were blessed with thirteen children, of whom nine are living.
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STEPHEN BOREN was born in Beaver County, Pa., Dec. 13, 1811.  He was reared on a farm, but upon reaching manhood learned the stone-cutter's trade, which he worked at several years.  In 1855 he came to Ohio and settled on the farm where he now resides.  He has 104 acres, which is underlaid with several veins of iron ore of a superior quality.  Mr. Boren was married in 1830 to Elizabeth, daughter of John Stewart, of Beaver County, Pa.  They had a family of eight children, six now living.  Mrs. Boren died July 26, 1872.  June 24, 1874, Mr. Boren married Eva Hauk, a native of Butler County, Pa.  Mr. Boren is politically a Republican.  He has filled the office of School Director nine years.  He is a member of the Methodist church.
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ALFRED BOYER, Treasurer of Scioto County, Ohio, was born near McConnellsville, Fayette Co., Pa., Oct. 16, 1833, the son of Jonathan and Jemima (Tipton) Boyer.  When he was a year old his parents came to Ohio and settled at Scioto Furnace, and when he was ten years old they removed to a farm in Harrison Township.  When he was twenty-one years of age, in 1854, his father gave him an ox team and wagon, and he went to work at the Harrison Furnace.  In 1855 he worked at the Scioto Furnace, and in the spring of 1856 went to the Jackson Furnace, Jackson County.  During the season of 1857 he was at the Bloom Furnace in Scioto County, and in the spring of 1858 was employed as collier by Allen Cole and John Paul, remaining with them five years.  He then worked at the Empire furnace a year, and in the fall of 1865 removed to a farm he had purchased in Harrison Township, where he still resides.  He has 152 acres of fine land.  In 1880 he was elected Treasurer of Scioto County, and re-elected in 1882, his term expiring in September, 1884.  April 11, 1856, he married Temperance, daughter of Allen and Hettie (Burt) Purdy.  Their children are - Alice, Amanda, Isabelle, William Duncan, Viola, Jonathan, Luella, Wilson, Halley and Oren.  Mr. Boyer is a member of the Masonic fraternity, of Western Sun Lodge, No. 91, Wheelersburg; Mount Vernon Chapter, No. 23, and Calvary Commandery, No. 13, Portsmouth, and Sovereign Consistory, S. P. R. S., Cincinnati.  He is also a member of Scioto Lodge, No. 5, I. O. M.
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ORIN G. BOYNTON was born in Haverhill, Scioto Co., Ohio, Feb. 11, 1853, the youngest son of Peter F. and Eliza J. Boynton.  He was reared on his father's farm, receiving a common-school education.  He is a descendant of one of the oldest families of the original French Grant.  He is one of the most successful wheat-growers of the valley.  He is well informed on all general topics, and as a trader is shrewd but honorable.  He was married in 1877 to Emania, daughter of Horace and Mary C. Bush, of Ironton, Ohio.  They have two children - Mary H. and Helen.
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JOSEPH BRANDT was born Jan. 13, 1813, in Columbiana County, Ohio, his parents having moved there in 1804.  In 1832 they removed to Scioto County, and in 1836 the father, Christian Brandt, died, and the mother, Elizabeth Brandt, died at an advanced age about 1870.  Our subject spent his boyhood days on a farm in his native county, and in 1836, after coming to Lucasville, was married to Mary Vannort.  She died in 1838 leaving two children.  This union was blessed with six boys and four girls, all of whom grew to maturity.  Mr. Brandt in his later years began blacksmithing and wagon-making.
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JOSEPH H. BRANDT, JR., youngest son of Joseph and Susan Brandt, was born Dec. 13, 1858, and was educated in the school of Lucasville.  At the age of nineteen years he entered the store of B. G. Warwick, with whom he remained till his death, since which time he has been agent for Mrs. Warwick.  He was elected clerk of Valley Township in 1881 and reelected in 1882 and 1883.  He was married July 26, 1881, to Miss S. c. Funk.  They have one son - Clyde, born Mar. 7, 1883.
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ADOLPH BRASE, manufacturer of tinware and dealer in hardware, house-furnishing goods and musical instruments, was born in Newrode, Prussia, Jan. 10, 1837.  His father, Joseph Brase, was a soldier in the Prussian army, and fought under Blucher in the battle of Waterloo.  He received, as a reward for his valor, a medal, which is now in the possession of his son, Adolph.  He died July 4, 1876.  His wife, Barbara Brase, is still living in Germany.  Adolph is their only child.  After his arrival in America, in 1859, he worked at the machinist's trade in Philadelphia till 1860 and then removed to Portsmouth, working at his trade several years, and afterward was an engineer on the river steamboats.  He was a soldier in the union Army in the late civil war.  He was enabled, by economy and business tact, to save money, and after the war startled in business for himself in Sciotoville.  In 1871 he moved his business to Oak Hill, Jackson County, leaving his family in Sciotoville and has since been engaged in his present business.  He has taken out four patents, all of which have proved successful.  He was married in 1859 in York, England, to Martha Bosamworth, a native of that city, born May 29, 1839.  They have had seven children, six of whom are living - Joseph, Martha, Alice, Gladdy, Emma and Charles.  Mr. and Mrs. Brase are members of the Protestant Episcopal church.  He is a member of the Western Sun Lodge, No. 91, A. F. & A. M., Wheelersburg, Ohio.
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BENJAMIN J. BRATT, a native of England, was born June 5, 1819, a son of Moses Bratt, who came to America and after locating a home sent for his family, they arriving in Philadelphia in August, 1822.  His father was killed by being thrown from a buggy by a runaway team, his wife having both her lower limbs broken at the same time.  Benjamin J. worked in the iron mines till twenty-one years of age.  In 1847 he came to Ohio, locating at Hanging Rock, Lawrence County.  In 1856 he went to Portsmouth and for sixteen years was manager of Gaylord & Co.'s rolling-mill.  In the spring of 1870 he bought the farm of 150 acres, where he now resides, near Wheelersburg.  He was married in 1839 to Mary Williams, a native of England and a daughter of Joseph and Mary Williams.  Of their nine children but four are living - Maria E., Anna L., Joseph W. and Benjamin C.  Mr. Bratt was a member of the Council while in Portsmouth and has served as Trustee of Porter Township.  He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
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H. N. BRIDWELL was  born in Adams County, Ohio, in 1835, a son of James and Mary (Humble) Bridwell.  His father died in 1858.  He came to this country with his parents in 1841, and lived on a farm till the breaking out of the Rebellion.  In April, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Twenty-second Ohio Infantry, for three months.  He was discharged Aug. 19, and Oct. 21, he enlisted in Company D, Fifty-sixth Ohio Infantry.  He passed through the different promotions till he was discharged as Second Lieutenant.  He re-enlisted Jan. 31, 1864, and served till Apr. 25, 1866.  He was in the battles of Port Gibson, Sabin Cross Roads, Champion Hills and others.  At Champion Hills he received a wound in his right arm which paralyzed it, disabling him from further service.  He was largely on special duty, often acting in courts of inquiry.  He was an efficient and intrepid officer and has many records and testimonials of his invaluable aid to his country.  He now lives a quiet life, being disabled for manual labor, maintained by the generosity of his Government.  He was married in 1863 to Mary M. Hall.  Of the seven children born to them but four are living, three dying in infancy - William E., Charles S., Elma A. and Anna H.
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JOHN K. BRIGGS, Treasurer of Washington Township and farmer, was born in 1826, a son of Samuel C. and Rebecca (Timbrooks) Briggs.  He has 120 acres of excellent land all well-improved.  He has been Treasurer of the township twelve or fourteen years.  He has been married three times.  His first wife was Mary Miller.  They had a family of five children - Aaron, Laura, Mary M., Charles and Frank.  His second wife, James Smith, left one child - Bertha.  His present wife, Mary M. (Smith) Miller, was a sister of his second.  Mr. Briggs's parents were natives of Virginia and early settlers of Scioto County.  They were members of the Methodist church and zealous workers in the cause of Christianity.  To them were born eight children, of whom five are now living- John K., William H., Hannah, Henry and Rebecca.  The eldest and youngest are residents of this county.  Aaron and children are deceased.  Mr. Briggs had been previously married, his wife living but a short time.  After the death of his second wife he married Sarah Barber, who died soon after marriage.  He then married Marinda Barber.  They had a family of three children - Sarah, Joseph and E.,   all living in Scioto County.  Mr. Briggs died 1856, age sixty years.
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JOSEPH BRIGGS, son of Samuel C. and Miranda (Barber) Briggs, was born in Scioto County, in 1844.  He was reared on the home farm near Portsmouth, and attended the district schools.  He was married in 1870 to Ermina, daughter of James Thoraoman, of Portsmouth.  Three children have blessed this union - Forest C., Cora and ElectaMr. Briggs owns a fine farm of 200 acres.  He and wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Portsmouth.  His father was born in Pennsylvania in 1894, and was first married to Rebecca Tunbrooks, who died in 1840, leaving six children, of whom five are living.  He was married in 1843 to Miranda Barber, who bore him three children - Joseph, our subject; Sarah A. and Louisa E.  He came to Ohio about 1817, and followed farming till his death, which occurred in July, 1861.  Our subject's mother was born in Portsmouth in 1814 and is still living.
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STEPHEN BRODBECK, deceased, was born in Baden, Germany, in 1811, and in 1835 came to the United States.  He spent the first year in New Orleans, then, coming up the river, spent a short time in Quincy, Ill., and subsequently came to Portsmouth, where he died in 1874, aged sixty-three years.  He was married after coming to this country to Rosa Legler.  They reared a family of fie children, and lost two infancy.  Mrs. Brodbeck died in 1858, and the following year Mr. Brodbeck married Miss Otstott, of Columbus, Ohio.  They had no children.  She died in the spring of 1883.  In 1850 Mr. Brodbeck, in company with M. Craus, opened a dry goods store, but two years later Mr. Kraus withdrew, and Mr. Brodbeck afterward carried Infirmary Director.  Of his children, George W., the eldest son, is a resident of Pike County; Ellen married John Booth, and died in 1875, aged thirty-one years; Peter Stephen died in 1863, aged seventeen years; Frederic is a merchant of Portsmouth, and Mary is a resident of this city.  Frederic was born Sept. 20, 1849.  He was married in 1874, to Malinda Leese, a native of Maryland.  They have two children - Stephen and Oscar Frederic.  A daughter, Minnie Garfield, died at the age of two years.  Mr. Brodbeck is Infirmary Director and Canal Collector.
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VINCENT BRODBECK was born in Germany, Jan. 17, 1817, a son of Anthony Brodbeck.  When he was eight years of age his mother died and he was bound to an uncle, where he had very little school advantages, and by hard work and ill treatment lost his health.  When he was fourteen years of age he hired out by the season.  In 1835, with his father and family, he came to the United States.  They were fifty days at sea on the sailing vessel Bolivar.  They landed at New Orleans in November, where Vincent worked at the carpenter's trade for $1.75 a day.  March 1, 1836, they moved to Natchez, and he worked on the railroad a month.  They then started for Troy, N. Y., where an elder brother, who had preceded them to America by eighteen months, resided but the canal being broken they were obliged to stop at Portsmouth, and through the advice of Vincent concluded to remain.  The latter worked two weeks for McDowell, Davis & Co., and then went to Gaylord's Rolling Mill and remained till August when his father persuaded him to take charge of the boarding house.  In 1838 he opened a grocery store, which he carried on over forty years, retiring from business in June, 1881, when he sold out to J. M. Wendlekin.  He was married Nov. 2, 1838, to Ottilia Mees, a native of Germany.  They have three children - Elizabeth B., wife of Joseph Hornung; Rosa Ellen, wife of Herman Herms; Ottilia, wife of J. M. Wendlekin.  Mr. Brodbeck has been a member of the German Methodist church thirty-eight years.
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CHARLES N. BROMBACHER was born in Baden, Germany, in 1843, and in 1866 came to the United States, locating in Portsmouth, Ohio.  He was employed in a furniture factory and as house carpenter, and in 1870, in company with Charles Seiffer, opened the Harmonia Beer Gardens.  In the spring of 1872 he sold out to Seiffer and opened a beer hall on Chillicothe street.  A year later he became associated with Peter Oelschaeger in the manufacture of boxes.  In 1877 he sold his interest and opened his present saloon and billiard hall.  Mr. Brombacher was married in 1866 to Mary Barbara Baeckert, of Baden, Germany.  They came to the United States on the same steamer, and were married a few days after the landing.  They have three children - Emily, Bertha and Mary Barbara.
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W. C. BROOKS was born in 1836 in Vermont, a son of Cyrus and Sophia (Hassetine) Brooks.  His father died in New York, July 9, 1858.  His mother is living in Covington, Ky.  Their children are - W. C., E. C., of Ironton, and L. H., of Cincinnati.  W. C. Brooks was the first man to enlist in the late war for three years, west of the Scioto River, in Scioto County.  He enlisted in Company I, Twenty-sixth Ohio Infantry; was captured by John Morgan in 1862.  He was discharged with recommendations for the Adjutancy of the Fifth Virginia.  In 1865 he re-enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Fortieth O. N. G.  He was appointed Orderly Sergeant and was on guard duty in West Virginia.  When sixteen years of age he began teaching and after his return from the war resumed that occupation.  From 1871 till 1876 he was on a steamboat running from Cincinnati to New Orleans.  In the latter year he moved to the farm where he still resides.  He was married New Year's Eve, 1858, to Eliza, daughter of John C. Hutton.  But four of the six children born to them are living - Elizabeth, Albert, William and Frederick.  Mary and Frank are deceased.  Mr. Brooks has held most of the township offices.  He is a member of Bailey Post, G. A. R., Portsmouth.  Mrs. Brooks's father was born in Nile Township, Dec. 12, 1808, a son of James and Elizabeth (Harmon) Hutton.  His parents had a family of eight children - Sarah, George, John C., Henry, Isabelle, Mary, James and Middleton, the latter being the only one living.  He is a resident of Jones County, Iowa.  John C. married, June 13, 1828, Frances Burris.  They had a family of nine children, but five now living - James, Mary, Eliza, Rachel and Lucretia.  Middleton, Sarah A., John and Otho  are deceased.  Middleton and John enlisted in Company D, Fifty-sixth Ohio Infantry.  The former was discharged on account of ill-health and the latter died at Helena, Ark., in the fall of 1862.  Mr. Hutton was a prominent man of Nile Township.  He died April 26, 1870.  Mrs. Hutton died July 15, 1877.
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SAMUEL BROUS was born in Washington Township, Scioto County, Ohio, in 1821, a son of John A. and Hannah Brous.  He lived on a farm until after becoming of age, when he was a steward on a steamboat and flatboat some time.  He returned to the farm, where, with the exception of four years spent in merchandising in Clermont County, he has since lived.  He owns ninety acres of highly cultivated land.  He was married Jan. 13, 1848, to Eliza, daughter of Solomon McCall, an old settler of Nile Township.  Six children have been born to them - Maggie, Amos M., Rose, Birdie, Eliza A. and Emma (deceased).  Mr. Brous's father was a native of Virginia, and in 1803 came with his family to Ohio, settling on the farm adjoining the one where his son now lives.  He bought a small farm on which he lived a number of years, then bought seventy-five acres in the lower part of the township.  He served in the war of 1812, and was once taken prisoner by the Indians.  He received land warrants for his services to his country.  He assisted in building the first frame house built in Portsmouth.  He died in 1858, aged seventy-eight years.  His wife died in 1859, aged seventy-two years.  Their children were - Elizabeth, Nancy, Ellen, Hannah, Cynthia, Letitia, Mary, James, Samuel and AndrewNancy resides in Iowa,  Letitia in Kansas, Sarah in Scioto County.  The others are deceased.
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W. C. BROUSE, farmer, was born in Scioto County, Mar. 22, 1849, a son of James S. and Ada J. (Baldridge) Brouse, and grandson of John Brouse.  He attended the district school in early life, and later graduated at a commercial college.  He now resides on the old homestead, to which he has added 100 acres since his father's death.  he now has 113 acres of excellent land which he has been farming for several years.  He was married Mar. 25, 1873, to Eliza, youngest daughter of Dr. C. W. Veach.  They have two children - Adah May and James Stanley.  Dr. Veach was born in 1809, and was married in 1832 to Elizabeth Burrep, of Mount Carmel, Ky., who died in 1849.  They were the parents of nine children, of whom four are living - Holland T. and Sarah, residing in Kansas; Horatio, in Indian Territory; and Eliza, in Scioto County, Ohio, There deceased are - Ruth, John E., Eliza, and twins who died in infancy.  The Doctor was the first physician of Nile Township, Scioto County, and was beloved by all who knew him.  He attended the Medical College in his early life, and thoroughly understood his profession.  He died in October, 1850.
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GEORGE BROWN was born in Bavaria, Germany, Apr. 3, 1818.  He came to the United States, in 1848, locating first in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a year later removed to Junior Furnace, where he worked three and a half years.  He came to Portsmouth in 1852, where he has worked at the carpenter's trade, which he learned in the old country.  He was married in 1848 to Anna Ruhs, a native of Germany.  She died in 1863 leaving six children - Mary, wife of Ernest Klein, of Ironton; John; Margaret, wife of John Mentel; Anna, widow of Jacob Wagner, of Ironton; Catherine, Barbara (deceased).  Mr. Brown was married in 1864 to Malinda Hoffman, widow of John Hoffman, who was killed in battle of the Rebellion, and left a family of four children - Lizzie, now Mrs. Joseph Denzer; Margaret, now Mrs. John Brown; John, of Virginia, and NicholasMr. and Mrs. Brown have three children - George, now learning telegraphy; Caroline and Henry.  George lost his right arm by the discharge of a gun, in his own hands, in 1881.  Mr. Brown is a member of the German Catholic church.
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JOSEPH S. BROWN was born in Scioto County, Ohio, Oct. 26, 1826, a son of Thomas H. and Mary (Webber) Brown, natives of New Hampshire.  His father died when he was an infant and he was reared by his grandfather, Rev. John Webber an Old School Presbyterian minister.  His grandfather was a thorough scholar, and was one of the most prominent ministers of his day.  He was well known in Ohio and universally respected.  He finally located in Dayton, Ohio, where he died in 1858, aged ninety-three years.  Joseph S. accompanied his grandfather to Dayton and remained with him till his death and then returned to Scioto County.  He was married in 1853 to Harriet M., daughter of James and Hannah Gibbons, early pioneers of Ohio.
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PETER H. BROWN, SR., was born in Ross County, Ohio, Dec. 10, 1822, a son of Alexander and Hester Ann (Sterling) Brown, natives of Virginia, who settled in Ross County about 1805.  His Grandfather Brown was a native of Germany but an early settler of Ross County.  His Grandfather Sterling was of Irish descent.  His father was born June 4, 1795, married Jan. 5, 1815, and died Oct. 8, 1830.  In 1833 his mother and three children, Peter H., Mary and Sarah, removed to Scioto County and settled in Union, now Rush Township.  Three children - James, William and Charity - died in Ross County.  He was married in April, 1843 to Lydia J., daughter of George and Mary Beloat and settled on the farm where he still resides.  He now owns 541 acres, a part of which is the valuable Scioto Valley bottom lands.  But three of the six children are living - Mrs. Mary V. Shelpman, Peter H., Jr., and George W.  The deceased are - George W., William H. and Hester Ann.  Mrs. Brown died in April, 1877, aged nearly fifty years.  Politically Mr. Brown is a Republican.  He has represented his township in most of its offices; his filled with credit the offices of Trustee and Treasurer and has been a leading member of the Board of Education many years.  He has been a member of the Baptist church since 1839.
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RANSOM BROWN was born in Grafton County, N. H., May 18, 1804, eldest son of David and Sarah (Hubbard) Brown the former a native of England and the latter of New England, of English origin.  In 1816 Ransom Brown came with his father's family to Ohio and settled in Scioto County, where his parents resided till 1824, when they moved to Pike and spent the remainder of their lives.  Our subject was married in Madison Township, Dec. 25, 1829, to Sarah Rickard, a native of Delaware, who came to Scioto County in 1815.  This union was blessed with nine children, of whom seven are living.  Mr. Brown is a self-made man, and by his own exertions has accumulated a large property.
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A. BRUNNER, successor to R. Brunner, dry goods, corner of Market and Second streets, Portsmouth, was born in Switzerland, in 1838.  The business was established in 1852 by his brother, R. Brunner, who died in 1877, in his fifty-sixth year, when his brother, our subject, succeeded him.  He keeps a full line of dry goods, carpets, oil cloths, matting and notions, and has a large and increasing trade.  His clerks are gentlemanly, and every attention is shown his customers.  Mr. Brunner was married in 1863 to Frederica Wirtz.  They have a family of nine children.
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BENJAMIN BRUSH was born in Suffolk County, N. Y., Apr. 1, 1817, a son of Joseph and Amy (Smith) Brush, his father a native of New York and his mother of Connecticut.  His parents came to Ohio, locating in Haverhill, Scioto County, in 1822, where they both died.  Of their family of seven children but two are living - Joseph, a resident of Lawrence County, and Benjamin.  The latter's early life was spent on a farm and attending a subscription school.  The education received there was very limited, and after reaching manhood he worked at the shoemaker's trade, and earned the money to enable him to attend Granville University, in Licking County, where he fitted himself for a teacher, and afterward taught several terms.  He then settled on a farm and has since followed that occupation.  In 1846 he married Ellen, daughter of Benjamin and Mary Butterfield, a native of Scioto County.  Of their eight children but six are living - Charles, Mary, Amy, Benjamin, Eliza and William A.  Mr. Brush's farm contains 300 acres of fine land, with a two-story brick residence, and good farm buildings.  Politically he is a Republican.  He has served as Justice of the Peace six years and as Township Clerk twenty-five years.  He is a strong Prohibitionist, and for thirty years has been a member of the Methodist church.
~ Page 356 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
JOHN F. BRUSHART, jobber in groceries, provisions and produce, corner Fifth and Chillicothe streets, Portsmouth, Ohio.  This house was established in 1877, by Richardson & Brushart, John R. Brushart clerking for them.  At the expiration of five years he purchased the entire stock.  This building is crowded with goods, the cellar containing sugars, syrups, lard, bacon, cheese, fish, stoneware and potatoes; the first floor, a general line of groceries; the second floor, coffee, wooden ware, flour and soaps.  He delivers all goods, free of charge, to any part of the city.  His annual sales amounting from $50,000 to $60,000.  Jno. F. Brushart was born in Jackson County, Ohio, Oct. 25, 1856.
~ Page 251 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
MILTON BUCK was born Oct. 5, 1829, in what is now Jackson County.  He was married in 1851 to Hannah, daughter of David Wynne, of Jackson County, and has a family of three children - Susan J., wife of James Armstrong; Catherine A. and Thomas J.  He has always followed farming, and in 1875 removed to the farm where he now resides and which he is superintending for A. M. Damarin, of Portsmouth.  His father, Thomas Buck, was born about 1800, in Greenbrier County, Va., and was a farmer by occupation.  He settled in Gallia County, Ohio, where he resided till his death, in 1855.  His wife was a native of Ohio.
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JOSEPH H. BUMGARNER was born in Scioto County, Ohio, Apr. 27, 1834, a son of Daniel and Amy (Brush) Bumgarner his father a native of Virginia, born in 1800, and his mother a native of New York, born in 1807, a sister of Benjamin Brush of this township.  Of a family of ten children but two are now living - Mrs. Minerva Davidson, of "Lawrence County, and Joseph H.  His mother died Mar. 29, 1883.  Joseph H. was reared on a farm, and has always followed that vocation.  His farm contains 100 acres of fine bottom land, and he makes a specialty of wheat growing and stock-raising, having some of the finest Poland China pigs in the county.  Mr. Bumgarner has never married.
~ Page 356 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
JOHN BURKE was born in Butler County, Pa., June 3, 1822.  His parents died when he was about thirteen years of age, and he was thus early thrown on his own resources.  When fifteen years of age, and he was thus early thrown on his own resources.  When fifteen years of age he became apprenticed to learn the blacksmith's trade, and after serving his time worked at it twenty years.  In 1842 he came to Ohio and worked at Franklin Furnace, Scioto County, three years.  In 1845 he removed to Junior Furnace, remaining there till 1861, when he bought forty-five acres of land and began farming.  He has added to it from time to time till he now has 475 acres of fine land.  He was married in 1845 to Dollie Songer, of Franklin Furnace.  They have had twelve children, but ten now living - Mary J., Davis, John, Elizabeth A., Albert, Flora, William E., Charles W., Frank and Jesse.  Alice died in infancy, and George died in 1878.
~ Page 356 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
OLIVER H. P. BURKE was born in Scioto County, Ohio, Sept. 6, 1813, a son of Wm. M. and Elizabeth (McCormick) Burke, his father born in Uniontown, Pa., in 1771, and his mother of Irish extraction.  His parents were married in 1798, and in 1800 came to Ohio, and settled at the mouth of Sandy Creek, but were driven away by the Indians and went to Kentucky.  In 1805 they returned and settled on the French Grant, where his mother died in 1852.  In 1855 his father went to Illinois, where he died in1856, a family of eight children, but three now living.  Oliver H. P. was reared on a farm, and has made that his life-work.  He was married in 1838 to Melissa, daughter of John and Elizabeth Gray, of Greenup County, Ky.  She died in 1841, leaving two children, both now deceased.  The daughter died at the age of two years, and the son, Eugene, was shot during the late war at the battle of Little Vienna, Va.  Mr. Burke married Elizabeth, daughter of James Thompson, of Virginia.  They have nine children - Julia E., William M., Susan M., Thomas J., Perry M., Nannie S., Mary P., Seymour P., and Henrietta B.  Mr. Burke has a fine farm and devotes his time to the raising of small grains and grass, giving considerable attention to Alderney cattle.  His grandfather, Wm. Burke, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war under General Washington.
~ Page 356 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
ADAM BURKEL, son of Adam Burkel, Sr., was born Nov. 9, 1830, in Rhine Falls, Bavaria, Germany, and came to America in 1855, since which time he has resided in Portsmouth.  He learned the tailor's trade in the old country, which he has followed through life, and for the past fifteen years, has been engaged in cutting altogether.  He is at present working for Miller, Cissna & Co., with whom he has been connected for eleven years.  He was married May 25, 1858, to Christina Young, a native of Germany, where she was born in 1838.  She came to America in 1844, and made her home in Pike County, Ohio.  They have had thirteen children, ten of whom are living - Valentine, Christina, Katie, Philip, John, Adam, Edna, Evaline, Willie, Harry; Barbara and two by the name of Minna died young.  Mr. Burkel belongs to the Republican party.
~ Page 251 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
WILLIAM BURT, plumber, was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, Oct. 14, 1829, a son of Thomas Burt, shoemaker, who was also a native of Scioto County, and died in 1872, aged seventy-five years.  When fourteen yeas of age he went to work for William Maddocks to learn the trade of a machinist, remaining with him seven years.  He then ran a sawmill engine two years, after which he was employed on packet boats two years.  He brought the first steam ferry-boat to Portsmouth, and ran it across the river to the Kentucky side fourteen months.  The next year he ran a flat-boat across the river.  In 1852 he began to work on the Portsmouth Branch of the M. & C. R. R. as a fireman; was soon promoted to engineer and ran the first engine in Jackson.  He was master mechanic of the road three years.  In 1864 he returned to the river and, owning an interest in a boat, became a member of the Portsmouth & Big Sandy Packet Company.  In 1870 he went to Ashland, Ky., and took charge of the rolling stock of the Lexington & Big Sandy Railroad a year.  In 1871 he returned to Portsmouth and became associated with John Jones in the plumbing Business.  The following year they dissolved partnership, and for a time Mr. Claff, but is now doing business alone.  He is serving his second term as Trustee of the water-works, and is President of the board.  He was married in 1851 to Rebecca Davis.  They have a family of three sons and four daughters.  Mr. Burt is a member of the I. O. O. F. fraternity.
~ Page 251 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
NATHANIEL G. BURTON was born in Gallia County, Ohio, Mar. 18, 1847, a son of James and Araminta (Blankenship) Burton, natives of Virginia.  His youth was spent around furnaces and in attending the district schools, and in 1864 he enlisted in the One Hundred and Seventy-eighth Ohio Infantry, and served eleven months.  He was in the Twenty-third Army Corps, and participated in the battle of Kingston, and the battle of Nashville, Tenn., and many other important skirmishes, and was mustered out June, 1865.  The same year he was married to Mary, daughter of William and Catherine Canter.  They have a family of six children - Norval R., Katie M., James W., Isaac W., Thomas W. and Martha J.  Mr. Burton's farm contains 140 acres of excellent land, underlaid with iron ore.  He and his wife are members of the United Brethren church, of which he is Class-Leader and Trustee.  His father was born in1810, and came to Gallia when a boy of seven years.  Most of his life was spent in and about furnaces, but he is at present living on a farm of our subject, as is also his wife.  This couple reared a family of seven children, of whom six are still living.
~ Page 380 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884

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