BIOGRAPHIES Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers West Union, Ohio Published by E. B. Stivers 1900 Please note:  STRIKETHROUGHS are errors with corrections next to them. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z < CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO 1900 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX > < CLICK HERE to GO to LIST of BIOGRAPHICAL INDEXES >   ADOLPH CADEN Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 704 Senator Alexander Campbell United States Senate 1809-1814 DR. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL was the only resident of Adams County who attained the position of United States senator.  He was born in Greenbriar County, Virginia, in 1779.  In childhood he lived in East Tennessee, and afterwards at Crab Orchard, Kentucky.  He lost his father, Alexander Campbell, Sr., at the age of twelve years, and up to that time had not attended any school.  His mother purchased a small farm in Woodford County, Kentucky, and here he first attended school.  He went to Lexington and studied medicine with Drs. Reighley and Brown, beginning in 1799.  In 1801 he began to practice medicine at Cynthiana, Kentucky.  Here he married a daughter of Col. Alexander Dunlap, and while here here was elected a member of the Kentucky legislature.      In 1804 he removed to that part of Adams County afterwards set off to Brown County.  In 1807 he was elected as a member of the legislature from Adams County; and re-elected in 1808 and 1809.  On Dec. 12, 1809, he was elected speaker of the house.  On the same day Edward Tiffin resigned as United States senator, leaving four years yet to serve, and Dr. Campbell was elected to fill vacancy.  The vote stood:  Alexander Campbell, 38; Richard Thompson, of Lebanon, 29; Thomas Worthington, 1; James Pritchard, 1, and David Findlay 1.  In the senate he voted against the declaration of war with Great Britain, and against renewing the charter of the United Sates Bank.  During the time he was United States senator, he rode horseback to Washington, D. C., and return, to attend the sessions of Congress.  He was a merchant from 1803 to 1815, and purchased his goods in Philadelphia.  He made the purchases personally twice each year, and rode from his home to Philadelphia and back, on horseback, for that purpose.      He moved to Ripley in 1815, and resided there until his death.  In 1820 he was a presidential elector, and voted for James Monroe.  After the organization of Brown County, he was in the state senate in 1822 and 1823; and in the house from Brown County in 1832 and 1833.  In 1826 he was a candidate for governor, and had 4,675 votes.  In 1836, he was again a presidential elector, and voted for William Henry Harrison.  He was mayor of Ripley from 1838 to 1840.  He died Nov. 5, 1857, and has an imposing monument in the new cemetery at Ripley.  He was one of the first physicians in Ripley, and was eminent in his profession.  He possessed the confidence of all who knew him, and was a most popular citizen; not because he sought it, but because his character commanded public approbation.  He was of anti-slavery views and principles all his life. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 277 - Chapter XVI   GEORGE CAMPBELL was born in New Jersey, Jan. 3, 1778.  His father was in the Revolutionary War and was wounded at the battle of Trenton, Dec. 26, 1776, and died of the same in 1778.  After his father's death, his mother moved to Kentucky and married a man named Peterson.  In 1792, George, who could to get along with his step-father, ran away and went to the Stockade in Manchester.  The settlers had him drive out their cows in the morning and drive them in at evening.  In the Fall of 1793, on one occasion, when George was out in the forest to bring the cows in, he saw a party of Indians who discovered him at the same time.  They were lurking about to take a prisoner or a scalp.  George at once set up a series of Indian yells and started for the Stockade.  The Indian yell was as well understood by the cattle as by the settlers.  The cattle took fright and went for the Stockade on the run.  The boy also did the best running he ever did in his life, yelling in Indian style all the time, and he could imitate the Indian yell most perfectly.  The result was as George expected.  The settlers rushed out of the Stockade fully armed, and met young Campbell.  The Indians, unable to overtake George, and seeing  the settlers, fled.  Evidently they wanted to capture the boy as they made no attempts to shoot or tomahawk him.  George grew to manhood in Adams County and spent his life there.  He married Katherine Noland on Sept. 15, 1803, and in 1804 settled in Scott Township, where he died Oct. 30, 1854. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 546 John Campbell JOHN CAMPBELL.  The earliest ancestor of which we have any account was Duncan Campbell, of Argyleshire, Scotland.  He married Mary McCoy in 1612, and removed to Londonderry in Ireland the same year.  He had a son, John Campbell, who married in 1655, Grace Hay, daughter of Patrick Hay, Esq., of Londonderry.  They had three sons, one of whom was Robert, born in 1665, and who, with his sons, John, Hugh and Charles Campbell, emigrated to Virginia in 1696, and settled in that part of Orange County afterward incorporated in Augusta.  The son, Charles Campbell, was born in 1704, and died in 1778.  In 1739, he was married to Mary Trotter.  He had seven sons and three daughters.  He was the historian of Virginia.  His son, William, born in 1754, and died in 1822, was a soldier of the Revolution, and as such had a distinguished record as a General at King's Mountain and elsewhere.  He married Elizabeth Willson, of Rockbridge County, Virginia, a member of the distinguished Willson family.  They had eleven children.  Their son, Charles, was born Dec. 28, 1779, and died Sept. 26, 1871.  He was married Sept. 20, 1803, to Elizabeth Tweed, in Adams County.  He had five sons.  The third was John Campbell, of Ironton, born Jan. 14, 1808, in Adams County, Ohio.      The Willson family intermarried with the Campbell family, who also have a distinguished record.  Col. John Willson, born in 1702, and died in 1773, settled near Fairfield, then Augusta County, Virginia, and was a Burgess of that county for twenty-seven years.  He once held his court where Pittsburgh now stands.  His wife, Martha, died in 1755, and are buried in the Glebe burying ground in Augusta County, Virginia.  His brother, Thomas, had a daughter, Rebekah, born in 1728, and died in 1820, who married James Willson, born in 1715 and died in 1809.  This James Willson, with his brother, Moses, was found when a very young boy in an open boat in the Atlantic Ocean.  They were accompanied by their mother and a maid.  The mother died at the moment of rescue and the maid a few moments after.  The captain of the rescuing ship brought the boys to this country where they grew up, married and spent their lives.      James Willson had a large family of sons and daughters.  His daughter, Elizabeth, born in 1758 and died Feb. 27, 1832, married William Campbell, the Revolutionary General.  Her brother, Moses, was the father of Dr. William B. Willson, of Adams County, who has a sketch in this work, and also of James S. Willson, the father of Dr. William Finley Willson, who also has a sketch herein.  Judge John W. Campbell, United States District Judge, who has a sketch herein was a son of the Revolutionary General, William Campbell, who removed from Virginia to Kentucky in 1790 and from Kentucky to Adams County, Ohio, in 1798.  Our subject was a resident of Adams County from his birth until 1857, when that portion of Adams County where he resided was placed in Brown County.  He was reared on his father's farm and received what education he could obtain at home.  HE clerked for his uncle, William Humphreys, who had married his father's sister, Elizabeth, at Ripley, in 1828.  After learning enough of the business, as he thought, and he induced his uncle to go in partnership with him and they started a store at Russellville, Ohio.  Here John was popular with every one and would have succeeded, but the place and business was too slow for him.  He had $600 saved up and he sold out the business and put his capital in the steamboat, "Banner," of which he became clerk.  The boat was in the Cincinnati and Pittsburg trade.  After his second trip on the steamboat, he made up his mind that was not his vocation.  While coming down the river on this trip he met Robert Hamilton, the pioneer master of the Hanging Rock iron region and made inquiries for any opening in the iron business.  Mr. Hamilton invited him to get off at Hanging Rock.  He left the boat and accepted a clerkship at Pine Grove Furnace.  This was in 1832.  Mr. Campbell was anxious to stand well in the estimation of Mr. Hamilton.  Shortly before his steamboat venture, he had met in Ripley, a young lady named Elizabeth Clarke, niece of Mr. Hamilton's wife.  He fell in love with her.  She made her home with her aunt, Mrs. Hamilton, who was a daughter of John Ellison and a sister of William Ellison, of Manchester.  Naturally, Mr. Campbell would accept an invitation to go to Pine Grove Furnace.  He was ambitious to succeed as a business man and he believed he could do so under Mr. Hamilton's teaching.  He wanted to marry his niece who stood to Mr. Hamilton as a daughter.  He succeeded in both purposes.  The next year, 1833, he took an interest with Mr. Hamilton in building the Hanging Rock Forge at Hanging Rock.  The same year he and Andrew Ellison built Lawrence Furnace for the firm of J. Riggs & Co.  This year was formed the celebrated partnership of Campbell, Ellison & Company, of which he was a partner and which continued in existence until 1865.  In 1834, he and Robert Hamilton built Mt. Vernon Furnace and he moved there and became its manager.  The furnace was the property of Campbell, Ellison & Company for thirty years, and largely the source of the fortunes made by the members of that firm.  It was at this furnace Mr. Campbell made the change of placing the boilers and hot blast over the tunnel head, thus utilizing the waste gases, a method after generally adopted by all the charcoal furnaces of that region and in the United States.      On March 16, 1837, he was married at Pine Grove Furnace to Miss Elizabeth Caldwell Clarke, already mentioned, and they began housekeeping at Mt. Vernon Furnace.      In 1837, he had an interest at Vesuvius Furnace, and he induced the other owners to test the hot blast principle.  This was the first hot blast put up in this country and though it met with strong opposition through expectation of bad results, the experiment proved satisfactory in producing an increased quantity of iron for foundry use.  Mr. Campbell was always among the first to project any useful enterprise.  He was largely concerned in the first geological survey of the State, and by reason of his study of local geology he purchased lands extensively in the Hanging Rock region with a view to future development of their mineral resources.      In 1845, he left Mt. Vernon Furnace and took up his residence at Hanging Rock.      In 1846, he and Mr. John Peters built Greenup Furnace in Kentucky, and in 1846, Olive Furnace, Ohio to which was added Buckhorn.  In 1847, he built Gallia Furnace, and in 1848, he and others built Keystone Furnace.  In 1849, while residing at Hanging Rock, he evolved the project of establishing the town of Ironton.  The Ohio Iron and Coal Company, composed of twenty-four persons, was formed.  Twenty of the organizers were iron masters.  He became the president of the company and was its soul , so far as a corporation is capable of having a soul.  The company purchased forty acres of land, three miles above Hanging Rock, and undertook to form a model town and succeeded as near as anyone has ever succeeded.  Mr. Campbell gave the town its name, "Ironton."  He was one of the projectors of the Iron Railroad which was designed to make the furnace, north and east of Ironton, tributary to the town. In 1850, Mr. Campbell moved to the city of Ironton which thereafter was his home during his lifetime.  The same year he purchased La Grange Furnace.  The same year was built in Ironton the foundry of the firm of Campbell, Ellison & Co.  In 1851, Mr. Campbell became one of the founders of the Iron Bank of Ironton, afterwards changed to the First National Bank.  In 1852, he was one of the organizers of the Ironton Rolling Mill, afterward the New York and Ohio Iron and Steel Works.  The same year he took half the stock in the Olive Furnace and Machine Shops.  The same year he purchased the celebrated Hecla Cold Blast Furnace.  In 1853, he became one of the largest stockholders in the Kentucky Iron, Coal and Manufacturing Company, which founded the town of Ashland, Kentucky.      In 1854, he, D. T. Woodrow and others, built Howard Furnace.  The same year he built a large establishment to manufacture an iron beam plow, and also built Madison Furnace.  This year he took stock in the Star Nail Mill, one of the largest in the country and now known as the Belfont Iron Works.  In 1855, he, with V. B. Horton, of Pomeroy, organized a company and built a telegraph line from Pomeroy to Cincinnati.  In 1866 he organized the Union Iron Company, owners of Washington and Monroe Furnaces, and was its president for many years.  From his majority he had been opposed to the institution of slavery, and was an Abolitionist.  His opinions on the subject of slavery were no doubt largely formed by his associations with Rev. John Rankin and men of his views, but as he grew older, his views against the institution intensified.  His home was one of the stations on the Underground Railroad, and there the poor, black fugitive was sure of a friendly meeting and all needed assistance.      Mr. Campbell acted with the Whig party, and after its death, with the Republican party.  He was a delegate to the State Republican Convention in 1855.  He never sought or held any public office until 1862, when, in recognition of his great and valuable services to the Republican party and to his country, President Lincoln appointed him the first Internal Revenue Collector for the Eleventh Collection District of Ohio, and he served in the office with great fidelity and honor until Oct. 1, 1866, when he was succeeded by Gen. B. F. Coates.      In 1872, Mr. Campbell reached the height of his fortune.  He was then worth over a million of dollars.  Up to that time he had invested in and promoted almost every enterprise projected inside the circle of his acquaintance.  He had not done this recklessly or extravagantly, but from natural disposition to promote prosperity.      In 1873, the Cooke panic overtook the country and from that time until 1883, there was a steady contraction in every enterprise with which Mr. Campbell was connected.  In 1880, it was largely through the influence and work of John Campbell that the Scioto Valley Railroad was completed to Ironton and eastward.      In 1883, the Union Iron Company failed.  For years Mr. Campbell had sustained it, and for some time had been endorsing for it personally, hoping to sustain its waning fortunes, but its failure was too much for him and he was compelled to make an assignment in his old age, but he went down with that grand and noble courage, which in his youth and middle life had caused him to go into every business venture.  No one who knew Mr. Campbell ever thought any less of him on account of his failure, but he had the sympathy and good will of every man who had known him in a business way.  His changed financial condition never affected the esteem in which he had been held or lessened, in any way, the great influence he held in the community.  He survived until Aug. 30, 1891, but owing to the condition of business affairs and his advanced age, was never able to retrieve his lost fortunes.      In the case of Mr. Campbell it is most difficult to make a just and true character estimate which will truly display the man.  He had so many excellent qualities that there is danger that all may not be mentioned.  He had a wonderful faculty of looking forward and determining in advance what business enterprises would succeed.  The writer does not know a proper term by which to designate this feature of his character.  He could and would predict the success of a proposed business venture when all others were incredulous.  He lived to see his business judgment verified.  He never hesitated to act on his judgment of the future, and personally, he was never mistaken or wrong.  He had a wonderful influence over his fellow men.  He could bring them to his views and induce them to carry them out.  He was never haughty or proud.  He was approachable to all.  He took a personal interest in all men of his acquaintance who tried to do anything for themselves.  He was always the friend of the unfortunate.  The colored people all loved him.  In the slavery days no fugitive ever called on him in vain.  He was sure of aid, relief and comfort in Mr. Campbell.  His judgment was incisive.  He examined a matter carefully and made up his mind, and when once made up, he was immovable.  He possessed a most equable temper.  He was calm and gentle.  He was, in his time, by far, the most conspicuous figure in the Hanging Rock iron region.  He was identified with every public enterprise in Ironton from the foundation of the town.  Many of the important industries in Ironton owe their success to his excellent judgment.  No one went to him to enlist him in a worthy public enterprise who did not succeed.  No meritorious appeal for aid was ever made to him and refused by him.  He was always ready to aid any deserving man or association of men, either in business or charity.  The universal sorrow expressed on the occasion of his death and funeral show how he stood among his fellow citizens.  There was a public meeting called to prepare resolutions expressive of the sentiments of the community.  The bar of the county met and passed resolutions, though he was never a member of that body.  The city council also met and made public record of its sentiments.  He had the confidence, the respect, and esteem and love of the entire community.  The attendance at his funeral of itself demonstrated the regard in which he was held.  No greater funeral was ever held in Ironton.  The city police were mounted, the city and county officials and the bar attended as bodies.  All the church bells were tolled and all business suspended.  It was well that the whole city mourned, because  to John Campbell, more than to anyone else, was it indebted for its existence and its prosperity.  In the space allotted in this book, justice cannot be done to the career of Mr. Campbell.  We have given and can give but a partial view of his career and character.  His wife survived him.  They had five children, three daughters and two sons, who grew to maturity.  His eldest daughter was Mrs. Henry S. Neal, who died before her father.  His second daughter is Mrs. William Means, of Yellow Springs, Ohio.  His daughters Emma and Clara are both now deceased.  His son, Albert, resides at Washington, D. C., and his son, Charles, at Hecla Furnace.  His wife died Nov. 19, 1893. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 534   DR. JOHN CAMPBELL  is, on his father's side, of Scotch-Irish descent.  His grandfather, William Campbell, came to this country shortly after the Revolutionary 'War, and settled in Washington County, Pennsylvania, a section of the country largely populated by Presbyterians from the North of Ireland and Scotland.  They have been commonly known as "Scotch-Irish," presumably from the fact that their ancestry, and it may also be added, their Presbyterianism, both were derived from Scotland.  William Campbell was a member of Chartier's Presbyterian Church, the pastor of which was Dr. John McMillan, a very celebrated divine of those days was Dr. John McMillan, a very celebrated divine of those days and the founder of Jefferson College.  The father of Dr. John Campbell, named John Campbell, lived on the old farm until 1846, when he moved with his family to Adams County, Ohio, near Youngsville, where one son, Richard Campbell, and two daughters now reside.  Dr. John Campbell was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Feb. 9, 1828, entered Jefferson College in 1843 and graduated in 1847, receiving the degree of A. B., and later the degree of M. A.  He then came to Adams County, taught school and studied medicine with Dr. Coleman in West Union in 1851 and 1852.  He practiced medicine at Tranquility until the commencement of the Civil War.  In 1861, he united with Captain John T. Wilson in recruiting Company E, of the 70th Regiment and was commissioned as First Lieutenant of the company, becoming, in process of time, Captain of Company I, of the same regiment, serving from October 1, 1861, to November 4, 1864.  He afterwards practiced medicine at West Union until 1870, when he removed to Delhi, Ohio, where he continued in the practice of his profession until 1885.  He was then appointed Medical Referee in the Bureau of Pensions, and removed to Washington, D. C.  On the change of administration in 1889, he resigned and obtained an appointment as Inspector of the Equitable Life Insurance Company of New York.  This he continues to hold and has charge of the district composed of the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia, with headquarters at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he now lives.  The maternal grandfather of Dr. Campbell was James Perry, of Shenandoah County, Virginia, who was born in that state and whose family had been settled there in Colonial times.  The history of the family on this side of the house is very incomplete, but we known that some members of his maternal grandmother's family (Feeley) served in the Revolutionary War, and one of them, Captain Timothy Feeley, received from the Government a large grant of land in what afterwards became Highland County, Ohio, for his services.      Dr. Campbell was first married to Hattie Whitacre, daughter of Amos Campbell, now a respected citizen living near Youngsville.  On October 13, 1869, he was married to Esther A. Cockerill, daughter of General J. R. daughters, Mabel, died in infancy.  The other, Helen M. Campbell, is their only child.  The son, Joseph Randolph Campbell, an Ensign in the United States Navy, died of typhoid fever during the recent War with Spain.  A separate sketch of him will be found herein.      Dr. John Campbell might have gone into the Civil War as a surgeon but this he declined to do, and went in as a line officer in the famous company raised by the Hon. John T. Wilson.  The record of the 70th O. V. I. will show what valiant service he performed for his country.  Dr. Campbell has always been noted for his modest and unassuming manners and his diffident disposition, but he never failed in any duty before him and has always filled the important public positions held by him with the highest credit to himself and with great satisfaction to all concerned.  He is a man of the highest integrity and commands the confidence and enjoys the highest respect of all who know him. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 701 NOTE:  CORRECTIONS - Charles Campbell, the Historian of Virginia, and his son William, the Revolutionary Gneral, were not in the direct line of the ancestors of the subject, but were collaterals.  The above named Charles Campbell and Charles C., grandfather of the subject, settled near Staunton, Virginia, about Fort Defiance in or before 1738.  He came from the north of Ireland and was a descendant of Duncan Campbell, located in Bourbon county in the state of Kentucky, in 1790.  In 1798, he located in the Northwest Territory in what was afterwards Adams County, and is now in Brown County.  He married Elizabeth Willison, sister of William Willison, one of the first ministers in the old Stone Church, at Fort Defiance, near Staunton, Virginia.  His uncle, Burgess Willson, was prominent in politics, being Burgess for twenty-seven years.      Charles Campbell, one of William Campbell's sons, and grandfather of the subject of thsi sketch, in later years moved to Illinois and died leaving a valuable estate.  He married Elizabeth Tweed and he and his wife lived until about 1871, when they died at the age of about 93 years. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 701   JOHN W. CAMPBELL was the third United States district judge for the district of Ohio.  Like his two predecessors, he was a Virginian.  He was born Feb. 23, 1782, near Miller's Iron Works in Augusta County, Va.  He only breathed the Virginia atmosphere until his ninth year, for at that time his father removed to Kentucky.  He had o facilities for an education except those of the common schools of that day, and they were about no schools at all.  He was not strong enough to perform farm labor, as his father's circumstances required, and he went to Cincinnati, then an insignificant village, where he began to learn the carpenter's trade.  He remained in Cincinnati for a few months and then returned home.  His parents soon afterward removed to that part of Adams County now in Brown, where John studied Latin under Rev. Dunlavy.  He afterward studied under Rev. Robert Finley.  His father was too poor to pay for his maintenance and books, and he worked clearing ground in the morning and evening to maintain himself in school.  He studied the languages under Mr. John Finley, and afterward pursued them himself.  He was then seized with a desire to study law, and went to Morgantown, Virginia, and studied under his uncle, Thomas Wilson.  He delivered an oration on the fourth of July, 1808, at West Union at a celebration on that day.  He was a Jacksonian Democrat all his life.  In July, 1809, he was elected a justice of the peace of Tiffin Township, Adams County, and served until June 5, 1815, when he resigned.  The same year, 1809, he was appointed prosecuting attorney of Adams County by the common pleas court, and was allowed from $25 to $30 a term for his services, there being three terms in a year, and he served until Jan. 23, 1817.  He was elected to represent Adams County in the Legislature in October, 1810, with Abraham Shepherd as his colleague.  He represented the county in the Legislature again in 1815 and 1816 and had Josiah Lockhart as an associate.  He was elected to the fifteenth congress in 1816, and served continuously until Mar. 4, 1827.  He was succeeded by William Russell.  In 1828 he was a candidate for governor of the state on the Democratic ticket and was defeated by the vote of 53,970 for Allen Trimble and 52,951? for himself, majority in favor of Trimble, 2,019.  In March, 1829, President Jackson appointed him United States district judge for the district of Ohio, and he served until his death, Sept. 24, 1833.  In January, 1833, he received in the legislature, 49 votes for United States senator to 54 votes for Thomas Morris, at the time Morris was elected.  He was a candidate for congress in 1812, but was defeated, but was elected four years later.  He terminated his congressional career at his own choice, was not choked off or killed of by politicians as is the fashion of our days.  In 1827, on his retirement from congress, he removed from West Union to Brown County, Ohio, and settled on a farm in what is now Jefferson Township on Eagle Creek.  His farm consisted of 250 acres.  He lived there but two years after his appointment as United States judge, when he removed to Columbus.  During the time of his residence in West Union, he resided in the house in which Mr. James Hood died and where Mr. Cooper's family now reside.  He resided there from 1808 to 1827.  He had a habit of rising at four o'clock in the morning to study and he kept this up after his removal to Columbus, although in his day there was but little for the United States district judge to do but to maintain his dignity.  In 1833, his adopted daughter died after ten days' painful illness, during which time the judge was a watcher night and day.  After her death, Judge Campbell and his wife, broken down with anxiety, concluded to visit Delaware Springs for relaxation and rest.  On the way Judge Campbell was taken with a chill, followed by a high fever.  However, the next day he proceeded to Delaware, but was taken worse and breathed his last on the twenty-fourth of September, 1833.  On the arrival of the news of his death at Columbus, a great sensation was caused, as he was highly respected.  Several hundred people of Columbus met his funeral procession at Worthington and accompanied his remains to their last resting place.      In 1811, he was married to Miss Eleanor Doak, daughter of Robert Doak, of Augusta County, Virginia.  There was no issue of this marriage.  Judge Campbell was a man of great natural dignity and force of character.      The source of our information is a book entitled "Biographical sketches with other Literary Remains of the late John W. Campbell, Judge of the United States Court for the District of Ohio," compiled by his widow.  It was printed at Columbus, Ohio in 1838 and published by Scott & Gallagher.  The biography was evidently written by a lady because it is conspicuous in failing to tell, what, after a lapse of fiftey-eight years, we would most like to know and by filling it up with comments for which posterity is not thankful and does not appreciate.  what we would like to know as to Judge Campbell are the facts of his life and then our own judgment as to the place he should occupy in history.      He has been dead sixty-six years.  All who knew him personally are dead.  We have to resort to his writings and to written accounts left of him to make an estimate of his character.  He was highly respected by all who knew him.  He was public spirited and patriotic.  He was a friend whom his friends valued most highly.  As a public speaker, his manners and style are pleasing.  He investigated every subject presented to him with great care.  He was a successful lawyer, never lost his self-poise or equanimity and his judgment was never controlled by his emotions.  His opinions were carefully formed, but when formed, did not need to be revised.  The public welfare with him was paramount.  He was very sympathetic in cases or suffering or distress brought to his notice.  He took a great interest in education.  He favored the colonization of the Negroes, and was president of the Ohio Colonization Society at the time of his death.  He was strictly moral in all his life and conduct and this, from high principles, well considered and adopted, which served as guides to his life.  He was intensely religious.  He was the strongest kind of a Jacksonian Democrat, but yet was never offensive to his political opponents and treated them with the greatest consideration.  His was a familiar figure on the streets of West Union from 1808 to 1826, during all of which time he resided there, but there is no tradition of him whatever in the village.  He was fond of composing verse, was no insignificant poet, and had fine literary tastes.  Altogether he was a valuable citizen of whose career present and future generations in Adams County may be proud. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 301 Ensign Joseph Randolph Campbell JOSEPH RANDOLPH CAMPBELL, son of Dr. John and Esther C. Campbell, was born in Delhi, Ohio, Mar. 12, 1872.  His education was commenced in the Home City and Delhi public schools and continued at Washington, D. C.., until Sept. 29, 1888, when he entered the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., as a Naval Cadet, under appointment by the Secretary of the Navy to fill a vacancy from Wyoming Territory.  He graduated from the academy, June, 1892, with honor, and was assigned to the Newark, then about to sail for European waters as the representative of the U. S. Navy in the Spanish and Italian Columbian celebrations.  About a year later he was transferred to the San Francisco, and was in the harbor of Rio Janiero during the exciting times of the Brazilian revolt of '93 and '94.  In June, 1894, he returned to the Naval Academy for final examination, preceding his commission as Ensign.  He came through this ordeal with distinction, standing at the head of the line division of his class, and was duly commissioned as an Ensign to date from July 1, 1894.  He was assigned to duty on the New York, then the finest cruiser in the new Navy and about to sail as our Nation's representative in the grand marine pageant of the opening of the Kiel Canal.  While at Kiel, he commanded the boat of the New York which gained one of the races given by the German Emporer's Yacht Club, and received as the prize two silver cups from Kaiser William.  After serving on the New York the usual term, he was transferred to the Alliance, a training ship for Naval apprentices, for two cruises across the Atlantic and through the West Indies.  Then followed duty at the War College and Torpedo Station at Newport, R. I., until he was transferred to the Katahdin at the commencement of the recent war with Spain.  In April, 1898, while at Hampton Roads, he was attacked by a sickness which later developed into an exceedingly severe typhoid fever.  His reluctance to be off his post under the war excitement, until absolutely prostrated, added greatly to the intensity of the disease, and possibly the over taxation of his constitution by the efforts of continued duty, gave the disease its fatal direction.  However, after his impaired health had lasted nearly a month under great strain, his ship having reached Boston, he was taken to the Naval Hospital on May 4, and died May 30, 1898, at noon, while a company of marines were decorating the graves of departed heroes in the cemetery in the hospital grounds adjacent.      He came of a military and patriotic family.  His great-grandfather, General Daniel Cockerill, was a Lieutenant from Virginia in the War of 1812 and a Major General in the Ohio Militia.  His grandfather, Joseph Randall Cockerill, was Colonel of the 70th Ohio Infantry in the Civil War, rose to that rank from private by sheer merit.      His classmates in the Naval Academy give unanimous testimony that he was endowed with high and noble qualities of which he made the best use.  As an officer, he was admired by his juniors and esteemed by his superiors for his sterling worth.  At his final examinations he entered the Naval service as the Senior Ensign of his class.  Under circumstances of great provocation, his self-control was admirable, and yet his modesty was his most distinguishing characteristic.  By his death, his classmates lost a valued member and the Navy lost one of its brightest and most promising officers.      Ensign Campbell was elected a Companion of the first class by inheritance from his grandfather, Brevet Brigadier General J. R. Cockerill, in the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, on Oct. 7, 1896, the number of his insignia being 11,572.  He was pure, high-minded and honorable.  During his brief career in the Navy, he had manifested talent and ability of a very high order.  The nobility of his character, his amiable qualities, his efficiency and devotion to duty, had made for him friends of all the officers with whom he served.  The many letters of condolence from them to his father and mother express their estimate of him and their sense of their personal loss.  A few are as follows:  Captain Wilde, of the Katahdin, says: "I have seen many young men enter the Navy, but never a better one than your son."  Lieutenant Potter writes: "I learned to like him sincerely, and recognized his unusual ability and high standard of professional and personal conduct.  In his taking away, we are all bereaved, and my best wish for myself would be that when I shall go, my character and my record shall be as stainless as his."      A classmate at Annapolis says: "As time progressed, I learned to like him ore and more.  He was one of the best men I ever knew or ever care to know."      He was taken for burial to his father's and mother's old home at West Union, Ohio, where the people showed the greatest respect for his father and uncle (Cockerhill), who so distinguished themselves for military valor in the War of 1861. "Sleep on, brave Son, where grandsire sleeps, A nation still they memory keeps, And all her sons on land or sea, Shall sacred in her memory be. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 712   WILLIAM O. CAMPBELL of Peebles, was born in Locust Grove, in Adams County, Aug. 10, 1873.  His father was James Q. Campbell and his mother's maiden name was Catherine J. Manahan.  She was married May 28, 1849, to Charles Wilford Young.  He died May 7, 1856, and she married James Q. Campbell, Nov. 17, 1860.  As the name implies, Mr. Campbell is descended from Scottish Highlanders.  His father's parents were born in Maryland and removed, when young, to Butler County, Pennsylvania, where they resided until his father's death.  His grandparents located in Maryland about 1765.  James Q. Campbell was a member of the State Militia of Pennsylvania for five years.  He was a member of the Militia of Ohio for five years, and served as a Private in Company K, 141st O. V. I., in 1864.  Our subject's mother was born in Adams County in 1830 and reared there.  She is of the Tener and Porter families who settled in Maryland in 1700, emigrating from Holland and Wales.  These two families located in Ohio in 1802, part settling in Adams County and a part of Ross County.      Our subject was educated in the Public schools of his home and began teaching in 1890 at Jaybird.  He taught thereafter in the Winters and attended Normal Schools in the Summers of 1890, 1891 and 1892.  From 1892 to 1894, he attended school and completed his studies in Cleveland, in 1894.  From that time till 1898, he followed the profession of school teacher.      In 1898, he quit the profession of teaching and took up that of traveling salesman for art works and has made his business a great success.  In politics, he is, and has always been, a Republican.  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  At present he is pushing a patent, No. 633,503, known as the C. & M. self-adjusting gig saddle for all kinds of harness.  In this enterprise, he is associated with William Mickey, of Peebles, and they are making arrangements for a manufacture of their patented device.  Their invention seems to have great merit and it is to he hoped they will make their fortunes by it.      Our subject is an ambitious young man.  He early qualified himself as a teacher and showed himself very efficient and competent in that profession.  Everywhere he taught, he won the good-will and friendship of his pupils and their parents.  His success prompted further efforts and he attended a number of Normal schools and took up the study of higher branches.  He also took a business course.  He has successfully carried on an extensive work for a publishing house.  He is of a genial and social nature and is fond of music.  He has good conversational qualities.  He is free from the use of spirits,  liquors and narcotics.  He is very energetic and industrious, and is disposed to lead in everything he undertakes.      Mr. Campbell has all those qualities which promise for him great success in life. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 698   JOHN PATTON CASKEY Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 700   SAMUEL L. CHARLES Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 727   THOMAS CHERRINGTON was born October 29, 1837, in Addison Township, Gallia County, Ohio, on a farm where he lived with his parents until he was nearly eighteen years of age, at which times he took a two-years' course in the academy at Gallipolis, preparatory to entering the regular college course at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, where he afterwards entered, and for four years he attended that college and graduated from it.  He was a private soldier in Company E, 84th O. V. I. from May 28, 1862, to Sept. 20, 1862, and was afterwards a captain in the 122d United States troops, and was mustered out of the service at Corpus Christi, Texas, January, 1866.  His service in the 84th Ohio was in West Virginia, and in the 122s Regiment of Colored Infantry, it was in Virginia, Louisiana and Texas.  On his return from the army, he read law with the Hon. S. W. Nash of Gallipolis, and was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1867.  In January, 1867, he located in Ironton for the practice of law.  He was twice elected city solicitor of Ironton, and twice elected prosecuting attorney of Lawrence County, and continued to practice his profession there until February, 1885, when he became a member of the circuit court of the fourth judicial circuit.  He drew the two-years' term when the court was organized and was re-elected in 1886 and again in 1892 and again in 1898. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 194 - Chapter XV   MILTON LEE CLARK was born Apr. 21, 1817, in Ross County, son of Col. William Clark, who held that rank in the war of 1812.  His father was a farmer and was for many years a justice of the peace.  He died when his son, Milton L., was seven years of age.  Young Clark was left dependent on his own resources.  He clerked in mercantile houses in Chillicothe and Circleville and taught school.  He went to Louisville in 1839 and became a trusted employee in a wholesale business house until 1842 when he returned to Chillicothe and became a law student with Col. Jonathan F. Woodside.  He was admitted to the bar Nov. 25, 1844, in the twenty-eighth year of his age.  In 1845, he was elected prosecuting attorney of Ross County and held that office until 1849, discharging its duties with marked ability.  He represented Pickaway and Ross Counties in the lower house of the Ohio legislature at the forty-eighth legislative session from Dec. 3, 1849, to Mar. 25, 1850.  Oct. 11, 1849, he married Miss Jane Isabelle Woodside, eldest daughter of his legal preceptor.  He practiced law exclusively from the time he left the legislature until 1873, when he bcame a member from Ross County of the Ohio Constitutional Convention.  Mr. Clark was first a Whig and afterward a Republican and took an active part as speaker in political campaigns.  In 1884, when the first circuit judges for the fourth district of Ohio were elected, he was one of the three elected and in drawing for terms, he drew the six-year term.  He was renominated and re-elected in the fall of 1890 and served till Feb. 9, 1897, when he was succeeded by the Hon. Hiram L. Sibley.  He was sixty-eight years old when he went on the bench and gave the circuit twelve years of as able and faithful service as any judge who ever occupied a judgeship.  He brought to it the experience of forty years of assiduous study and diligent practice.  He was a candidate for a third term, and was most loyally supported by his county and the friends he had made in other counties, but his renomination was defeated.  This disappointment wounded him mortally and he sickened and died June 11, 1897.  He acheived great success and reputation as a lawyer, the result of patient and thorough study.  He was a fluent and ready speaker as an advocate.  As a judge he was thoroughly and well informed in the law.  He gave patient and careful investigation to all cases and his decisions were clear elucidations of the law.  Especially was he thoroughly conversant with the land laws in the Virginia Military District. In the history of our state jurisprudence, he will be remembered as one of our best and ablest judges. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 192   CAPTAIN SAMUEL E. CLARK entered the 91st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, July 28, 1862, at the age of thirty-eight, for a period of three years.  He was killed May 9, 1864, at the battle of Cloyds Mountain.  His body was brought home and is interred in the village cemetery at West Union.  He engaged in the battle with good health, and with zeal and energy.  He had worked hard to make himself an efficient officer.  He was beloved by his men and respected by his fellow officers, and they regarded him as one of the ablest among them.  He lived long enough after struck to learn the result of the battle, and almost with his last breath, he thanked God that victory was soon to be ours. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 728   SAMUEL PAUL CLARK was born Apr. 7, 1827, in what is now Oliver Township, then a part of Wayne Township, on the farm now owned by the Rev. Thomas Mercer.  His great-grandfather was born in Wales and emigrated to Ireland.  His grandfather Clark was married in Ireland to Sarah Lama, and emigrated to Virginia about 1785 with his wife and two children, John and Mary.  There were afterwards born to them in this country, Fanny, Sarah, James, Samuel, father of the subject of our sketch, Jane, Andrew, and Edward.  They located in Adams County in 1806, on the Steck farm of Tiffin Township.  All of these children lived to maturity.  Andrew, the youngest, died at the age of fifty-one.      Samuel Clark, father of our subject, was born in Rockbridge County, Virginian 1792.  He learned the trade of tanning with his bother Jhoni who had a tanyard at Cherry Fork, one mile south of Harshaville.  He married Nancy Brown, Dec. 20, 1821, and settled six miles north of West Union, on the West Union and Unity road, where he continued the business of tanning and farming until his death, Mar. 22, 1869.  He and his wife were devoted members of the Associate Reform Church at Cherry Fork, and he and Archa Lach were instrumental in organizing the United Presbyterian Church at Unity, of which he was a ruling elder from the time of organization until his death.  His oldest son, James, remained at the old homestead, and continued the business of tanning in connection with farming.  He married Margaret Holmes, who has been dead about child, died in infancy.  Samuel Paul, the third child, and our subject, is now in his seventy-fourth year.      He married Sarah Clark in 1851.  To them was born one son, Marion M.  His wife died in 1854, and he married Margaret Gibbony.  To them were born four children.  His son Marion married Mary Crawford, and resides on Wheat Ridge; Ora A., his second schild, is now the wife of Richard Fristoe, a prosperous farmer and stock dealer of Meigs Township.  They reside in the old Fristoe homestead at the bridge crossing Brush Creek.  Mary Nancy was born July 15, 1860, and died Dec. 16, 1895, unmarried.  Carey V. was born Sept. 7, 1865, and married Nora E. Hilling, and resides in the old homestead in Oliver Township.      The following are brothers and sisters of our subject:  Mary, the fourth child, born Apr. 16, 1830, was married to Cyrus Black, who died in 1864.  She was again married to Rankin Leach and resides in Cherry Fork.  Margaret, the fifth child, was born May 3, 1833, and died in1891, unmarried.  John was born Nov. 18, 1835, and married Nancy Coleman.  His daughter, Martha L., was born Sept. 4, 1838, and was married to George A. McSurely in 1869.  They reside at Oxford, Ohio.  Nancy A., twin sister of the daughter last mentioned, was married to J. W. McClung in 1859.  He is an attorney at West Union, where they now reside.  Andrew R. was born Oct. 21, 1841.  He married Celia Arbuthnot, daughter of the Rev. James Arbuthnotb.  He removed to Nebraska, where his wife died, and he married a Miss Foster.  They reside at Pawnee City, Nebraska.  He was a soldier in the War of the Rebellion.      Mr. Clark and his family are all members of the Presbyterian Church.  He is a ruling elder in the Wheat Ridge Chapel.  He has always been a Democrat in his political views.  He was a Commissioner of Adams County from 1875 to 1878.  He began life in very narrow circumstances, but by industry coupled with a firm determination to succeed, he has obtained a position in which he can spend the remainder of his days comfortably.  He is loved, respected, and honored by all who know him. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 725   JOHN CLINGER, JR., farmer of Manchester, was born Feb. 20, 1844.  His father was John and his mother Mary (Mowrar) Clinger.  His grandfather, Abraham Clinger, was born in Pennsylvania.  His father, John Clinger, was born in Pennsylvania, Feb. 19, 1815, and located in Adams County in 1832, coming down the Ohio River on a keel-boat.  He landed at Manchester, and settled on a farm in Monroe Township, where he now resides.  He married Mary Mowrar, daughter of Christian Mowrar, one of the first settlers of Adams County.  Christian Mowrar came from Pennsylvania in 1792 and joined the Massie colony in Stockade, where he remained till the treaty of Greenville.  He and his wife lived to an extreme age.  John Clinger, Senior, raised a family of three sons and three daughters, and after the death of his first wife in 1854, he married Susan Tucker, John Clinger, Jr., the subject of this sketch, received his education in the common schools of the county.  He enlisted Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry and served in that organization until the first of July, 1865.  On the first if October, 1868, he married a daughter of Oliver Ashenhurst.  her father was born on the ocean on the passage from Ireland to America.  Oliver Ashenhurst married Susan Parker, and located in Manchester, where he engaged in the milling business until his death, Mar. 28, 1898.  Mrs. Clinger is the only child of his first wife.  Oliver Ashenhurst married for his second wife, Amy Phibbs, by whom he reared a family of nine children.      The children of Mr. and Mrs. Clinger are: May Etta, wife of Stephen Thompson, of Manchester, Ohio; Leora Belle, in the employ of the Langdon Grocery Company at Maysville, Ky.  William Oliver, who served in the war with Spain and is at present in the Philippines.  Frank Arthur is a member of Company L, 22nd U. S. Infantry; Bertrha Florence is the wife of Frank Fulton Foster, of Manchester, Ohio; Amy A., is at Middletown, Ohio, and Marguarite Lucretia is at home with her parents.      Mr. Clinger is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church at Island Creek.  He is a Republican in his political views and as a citizen highly respected by all who know him. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 721   ROBERT McGOVNEY COCHRAN Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 724   ARMSTEAD THOMPSON MASON COCKERILL Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 715   JOHN A. COCKERILL Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 713   HON. ALFRED E. COLE, of Maysville, Ky., was born at West Union, Adams County, Ohio, Mar. 15, 1839.  His father, James M. Cole, has a separate sketch herein.  His grandfather Ephraim Cole, married Sophia Mitchell, the daughter of a large slave owner in Maryland.  His father-in-law offered his son-in-law a gift of slaves which was declined.  His grandfather, James Collings, married Miss Christiana Davis, who was an aunt of Hon. Henry Winter Davis, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.      Both of his grandfathers, Cole and Collings, were soldiers in the Revolutionary War.  Ephriam Cole located in Mason County, Kentucky, in 1794, and resided there till 1806, when he removed to Adams County, near West Union.  James Collings moved to Adams County from Cecil County, Md., in 1794.  Our subject is the youngest son and child of his parents.  His twin brother, Allaniah B. Cole, resides in Chillicothe, Ohio.  His parents had fifteen children, eight boys and seven girls.  The sons made honorable careers in their professions and in business, and the daughters were all women of strong character, and married men who were successful in life.  Our subject resided on his father's farm and attended the common schools until he was seventeen years of age.  He then was sent to the High school at Manchester and afterwards attended the Normal school at Lebanon, Ohio.  He followed the profession of teaching for several years, and then began reading law with the Hon. R. H. Stanton, of Maysville, Ky., and afterwards read with his brother, the late George D. Cole, of Waverly, Ohio.  He was admitted to the bar at Waverly, Ohio, at the District Court in April, 1864.  The court was then composed of Judge Wilde, of teh Supreme Court and Judges John Welch and Philadelph Van Trump, of the Common Pleas.  After his admission, Mr. Cole located at Vanceburg, Ky., to practice law, but remained there only tlil May, 1865, when he removed to Flemingsburg, Ky.  He was elected County Attorney of Fleming county, August, 1866, and re-elected to the same office in 1870.      In 1874, he was elected Commonwealth Attorney for the Sixteenth Judicial District.  In 1880, he was elected Circuit Judge of the same district, defeating the Hon. George M. Thomas, of Vanceburg, after one of the most exciting contests ever made in the district.      In August, 1886, he was re-elected without opposition.  After his retirement from the bench in November, 1886, he changed his residence from Flemingsburg to Maysville.  In 1892, after his retirement from the bench, he began the practice of his profession with his son, A. E. Cole, under the name of A. E. Cole & Son.      Mr. Cole is a Democrat, as were his father and grandfather.  It is a family trait that they should be attached to the Democratic party, and they have been firm in that political faith ever since the party was organized.  Mr. Cole is a member of the Methodist Church as were his forefathers and foremothers ever since the existence of Methodism.      Mr. Cole was married May 26, 1864, to Miss Abbie T. Throop.  She was a daughter of Dr. Throop and a niece of Hon. R. H. Stanton.  His wife died Apr. 18, 1894, and on the twentieth of November, 1898, he was married to Miss L. B. Newman, of Hardin County, Ky., one of Kentucky's most beautiful and accomplished women.  Mr. Cole had six children, three of whom died in infancy and three of whom are now living.  His oldest son, Allaniah D. Cole, graduated at the Kentucky Wesleyan College in 1883, at the age of seventeen.  He then entered the Harvard University, in the Academic department, and graduated at the age of nineteen.  He read law with the Hon. William H. Wadsworth at Maysville, Ky.  His  second son, William T. Cole, resides in Greenupsburg, and is a practicing lawyer.  HE graduated from the Kentucky Wesleyan College in 1888 and then entered the Vanderbilt University Law School and graduated in two years.  Mr. Cole's youngest son, Henry W., is now a student of the High school at Maysville, Ky.  His two oldest sons, Allaniah and William, are making their mark and stand high in their profession.  As a lawyer, Mr. Cle stands high in his profession.  As a judge, he made an excellent record.  As a citizen, he is most highly esteemed. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 728   ALLANIAH COLE.     Ephraim Cole, a man of good English descent, married, in 1773, Sophia Mitchell, of Maryland.  It is said of them that as boy and girl, they lived on adjoining plantations, on the Susquehanna River, near the Chesapeake Bay.      When the accounts of the adventurous conduct of Daniel Boone, in Kentucky, inspired the husband to follow that intrepid hero, the brave young wife was ready to leave a refined home, where her mother, although the proud descendant of the English Kents, had taught her daughters those homely virtues, which fitted the women of those times for the perils and hardships of pioneer life.  It is needless to follow this resolute couple through the pathless forests, inhabited by red men, whose savage nature had been justly roused by the white men, who came to steal their lands and drive them from their homes.      At Williamsburg, Ky., where they made their home, Mrs. Cole was ever the ruling spirit of the family of three boys and five daughters.      In 1800, Allaniah, a fourth son, the subject of this sketch, was born.  The remittance from Mrs. Cole's home and her untiring energy kept the family above want, and the girls as well as the boys were, for those times, well educated, but there came a time, shortly after the birth of Allaniah, that the parents felt that better times awaited them in Ohio.  They located in West Union, a town settled by persons far above the average: schools and churches, the best obtainable, were there and Allaniah did not fail to appreciate his mother's earnest desire to have him take advantage of all that was offered.  At that early day, a college education meant a long journey eastward and a greater outlay of money than could be obtained by even the most prosperous.  These West Union people determined to surmount the seemingly insurmountable difficulties and when their brightest sons and daughters were ready for a higher education.  "Dewey's Grammar School" was awaiting them.  The school must have been in advance of the so-called colleges which sprang up in other Ohio towns a little later, for we hear of no one being excluded on account of sex.  Allaniah Cole was a student of "Dewey's Grammar School," where he became acquainted with Miss Nancy Steece, one of the girl students, who years after became his wife.      After leaving "Dewey's Grammar School," Allaniah's first business venture was the index to his character.  Hearing that horses were bringing fabulous prices in New Orleans, he went to Mr. John Sparks, a wealthy citizen of the town, who directed him that he could buy, on time, as many horses as he could drive.  Mr. Sparks said: "I'll go on your paper, Al."  It was then determined, and the nineteen year old boy was soon started on his long journey, over bad roads, sometimes mere bridle paths, with his trusty men driving his fine horses.  He arrived in New Orleans in six weeks, long rests having been needed to keep the horses in marketable condition.  The venture was successful and Allaniah was soon at home paying every cent due his creditors, besides being able to show Mr. Sparks that his good offices had not met the too frequent ingratitude of beneficiaries.  Years after Mr. Cole would speak to his children of Mr. Sparks' great kindness to him, when he had "nothing but his good name."  After several similar expeditions south, Allaniah found himself the proud possessor of five thousand ($5,000) dollars.  His next venture was at an iron furnace, in Lawrence County, where he learned the business, before he risked his precious, hard-earned five thousand.      In the beginning of the year 1828 he made his best and most successful venture, when he married the "Dewey Grammar School" student, the daughter of Henry and Mary Ann Steece.  Henry Steece was a German, who came early in the history of Pennsylvania to develop that iron center of the world.  He was what, at the present time, would be called "the chemist of  a furnace." When, toward the latter part of the past century, marvelous accounts of the great iron ore deposits of Brush Creek, Adams County, Ohio, reached the Pennsylvania "iron men,"  Mr. Steece soon started with his family, consisting of wife, four sons and five daughters, down the Ohio River in a keel boat, to a landing (now called Manchester) twenty miles from their objective point, Brush Creek.  It is recorded that Archie Paul and James Rodgers, afterwards distinguished "iron men," were on the ground to meet them, and that one at least, of the three furnaces - "Old Steam Furnace, Marble Furnace and Brush Creek Furnace" - was already nearly ready for the "Dutchman."  Henry Steece, whose valuable work was to terminate so soon.  When Henry Steece's work was finished, his widow, who was already understood and appreciated as a woman of great intellectual and moral force, did not fail of the moral support of her husband's friends.  While she in turn repaid their kindness with intelligent help that broadened their homes and kept their children fit companions for their talented boys and girls, whose discipline and education had added to her task of supplying their daily bread.  Nancy, the youngest of the girls, was sent to West Union to Dewey's Grammar School, to board in the family of Mr. Armstrong, a wealthy merchant.  An illustration of the hospitality of pioneer times, as well as the desire of making their academy famous, it may be told that when the mother went to Mrs. Armstrong, to pay her daughter's board, She refused to accept payment, saying, "Nancy is the guest of my daughter.  Keep your money."      About 1830, Mr. Cole bought the Old Forge, eight miles above Portsmouth, on the Scioto River, where he lived but two or three years, when he went to take the then great charge of Bloom Furnace.  While at Bloom, he was among the first to introduce the "Sunday Reform," against the judgment of most of the furnace men, who felt sure that stopping the furnace from midnight Saturday until midnight Sunday, would give the much dreaded "chill."  Few, looking at these old furnaces today, could realize their past importance, the army of workmen, wood choppers, ore diggers, lime diggers, lime burners, stone-coal miners, charcoal burners, besides the many employed on the immediate furnace grounds.      At Bloom, Mr. and Mrs. Cole, while accumulating what was in those days considered a large fortune, were unconsciously doing missionary work.  The schoolhouse, of their building, was also the place of worship, and Mrs. Cole saw to it that the people were not neglectful of the privileges of religious as well as mental training.      A curious phase of that age, at the furnaces, was, notwithstanding the houses were of fough logs and the want of which is now considered necessary furnishings, the high style and strict etiquette of living, the table linen was always the finest and cleanest, the silver bright, the china beautiful, the glass clear, knives and forks polished after each meal.  It is told of Mr. Cole, that when a young man appeared at his table, on a warm day, without his coat, he rose and waited:  "Mrs. Cole always like the gentlemen to wear their coats here."  Needless to say the man put on his coat.      Mr. Cole, though not a drinker, kept the friendly glass, to drink with friends, but the arguments of a speaker of the first temperance society - The Washingtonians - convinced him that total abstinence, on his part, was the only way to reach the many inebriate men of his employ, whom he had vainly tried to help.  The evening of that temperance lecture, will be remembered today, if any one is living who witnessed Mr. Cole's signing the pledge and inviting his men, who were present, to follow his example.  Nearly all took the pen and many confirmed drunkards kept their pledge till the end of their lives.      In the Spring of 1842, at the urgent request of his wife, Mr. Cole retired from business and removed to West Union, to educate their young family, but in November of the same year, Mrs. Cole was taken ill, and in two weeks Mr. Cole was left with six motherless children.       In 1844, the family went to Kentucky, the ideal state of the Cole family.  In the fall of the same year Mr. Cole married Miss Louisa Paul, a niece of his first wife.  Mrs. Paul was a beautiful lady, of refinement, good judgment and common sense, who did what she could for the children of her adoption.  After years of prosperity in the iron business of Kentucky, Mr. Cole returned to Ohio, on account of failing health, living several years in Portsmouth, before returning to Bloom Furnace, where he died in 1866. Source: History of Adams County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 - Page 541   GEORGE DAVIS COLE, a native of Adams County, born Aug. 18, 1834, made a career of which every citizen of the county may be proud.  He was born at West Union while his father, James Mitchell Cole, was the Sheriff of the county.  His father, who has a sketch elsewhere herein, was a man of strong and sterling character and of wonderful physique.  His mother was Nancy Collings, sister of Judge George Collings, a woman of like great force of character.  The first fifteen years of his life were spent on the Ohio River farm in Monroe Township, where he attended the District school.  He then went to school at Manchester, Ohio, to William McCauley, a famous instructor of his time.  After he left McCauley's school, he assisted his brother, Colling Cole, in the management of a furnace in Kentucky until the age of twenty, when he began the study of law in Portsmouth under the instruction of his kinsman, Col James W. Davis, then a member of the Portsmouth bar.  He was admitted to the bar in 1856 and located in Piketon, then the county seat, when he removed to Waverly.  The next year after locating in Pike County, he was elected to the office of Prosecuting Attorney, which office he held by successive elections for twelve consecutive years.  In the administration of his public duties, he commanded the respect and confidence of all the people of the community.      He soon rose to be the leader of the bar, and his reputation as an able lawyer was well known in the surrounding counties.  He had a natural talent for management.  His judgment was correct in all matters in which it was exercised.  His neighbors, acquaintances and friends sought his advice in business matters and never in a single instance, did it fail.  He never made a losing venture, and never advised any which proved disastrous.  The same remarkable judgment which he exercised in the affairs of others, he exercised in his own, and never made a mistake in the management of his own business.  Going to the county with only his wonderful natural abilities, he accumulated a fortune and never encountered a disaster.      In 1858, he was married to Miss Finetta Jane Jones, the eldest daughter of James Jones, a prominent citizen of the county.  Their only child, Adah D., is the wife of Wells S. Jones, Jr., conducting the Hayes, Jones & Company Bank in Waverly.  While Mr. Cole loved the association of his fellow citizens, he had no taste for politics.  Up to 1872, he was a Democrat.  In 1873, he identified himself with the Republican party and the same year was a candidate for the nomination of Common Pleas Judge.  From this date, he acted independently in politics, but on financial questions, the Republican party represented his views.  In 1873, he became a member of the banking firm of Hayes, Jones & Co., and here his peculiar talents found exercise.  He had a natural adaptation for the banking business, and he was a tower of strength in the institution.  Every one felt and knew that he would make no mistake in the management of the bank and permit none to be made.  His bank enjoyed the confidence of the community, and was estimated as strong and safer than the National banks.  Gradually the banking business absorbed all his time and attention, and he gave up the practice of the law little by little until in 1885 he abandoned it altogether.  He was a naural born financier.  He never made a promise but it was fulfilled with exactitude, and his integrity was of the very highest order.      While he was always prompt to decide on any situation presented to him, his judgment always stood the test of trial and proved the best course.  At the time of his death, he had the confidence of the people of his county in financial matters to a greater degree than any other man who ever lived in it.  Without exception, they would and did trust him (without limitation).      He was a man of fine and commanding presence six feet tall and well proportioned.  He was positive, emphatic and earnest in all his views, but at the same time an agreeable and pleasant companion.  He became so absorbed in business and there were so many demands on his time, that, while naturally a robust man, he neglected those details of recreation and exercise necessary to good health and was stricken with paralysis and died Feb. 9, 1899.  It is believed by his friends that had he taken relaxation, recreation and exercise, he might have prolonged his life twenty years, but the cares of business were so exacting and his constitution naturally so good, that he neglected those details which would have saved him many years.  He died in the height of his powers, physical and mental, and in the midst of a busy career, but he left his banking business one of the best and strongest in the country.      His wife was in feeble health at the time of his death and survived him but little over two months.      Of the many sons of Adams County who have located elsewhere and had successful careers, none was more marked than that of our subject, and to his ancestors and to his instruction in his early years, he owed it all. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 706   JAMES MITCHELL COLE was born Aug. 26, 1789, in Harford County, Maryland.  His father was Ephriam Cole, and his mother was Ada Mitchell, born in the same county, near Havre-de-gras.  His grandparents on both sides were born in the same county.  He came to Kentucky with his parents in 1793 where they located in Mason County.  In 1794, they removed and located near West Union, Ohio, on the second farm near to the right on the old Manchester road, at one time occupied by Mr. Harsha.  He had three brothers, Ephriam, Leonard and Allaniah, and three sisters, Ada, Zilla and Elizabeth.  He was married in 1809 to Nancy Collings, daughter of James and Christian Collings, who was born in Manchester, Mar. 16, 1794, in the Stockade.  Her parents were also from Harford County, Maryland.  James M. Cole was a soldier in the War of 1812, and obtained a land warrant for 160 acres for military services.  After his return from the war, he resided on a farm near West Union.   From 1830 to 1833, he was one of the County Commissioners of Adams County.  From 1833 to 1837, he was sheriff of the county.  In 1839, he removed to a farm opposite Concord, Kentucky, and resided there until 1850.  He then purchased a farm in Lewis County, Kentucky, some miles below Vanceburg and lived there until 1860, in which year he died on the sixteenth of August.  He was buried in the Collings cemetery, south of West Union.  His wife died in March, 1861, and is buried by his side.      In politics he was a strong Democrat all his life, a follower of Andrew Jackson, and he and his wife were both earnestly and enthusiastically attached to the Methodist Church.  He was of more than the average intelligence and had a very high sense of integrity.  He possessed great wit and humor and fine conversational powers.  His wife was a woman of extraordinary force and grasp of subjects.  She possessed the most wonderful fortitude and tenacity of purpose, and was never known to lose her self poise.  They reared a large family of sons and daughters.  The sons have largely followed professional pursuits and have distinguished themselves.  As most of them are sketched in this work, they are not further noticed here. Source: History of Adams County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 - Page 545   LEONARD COLE was born in Harford County, Maryland, in 1788, the son of Ephriam Cole and his wife, Ada Mitchell.  In 1793, his parents moved to Mason County, Kentucky, and in 1794 they joined Massie's colony at Manchester, and in 1795 is father located just south of West Union and built a home near Cole's spring.  The house is gone and the spring has been forgotten, but both were on the slope of the hill to the east of Collings graveyard, looking down into the valley of Beasley's Fork.  Here Leonard Cole grew to manhood.  He was one of the early schoolteacher's in West Union and instituted the reprehensible custom of flogging every boy in school if any mischief was done by a single one.  He was a firm believer in King Solomon's rule as to the use of the rod and applied it to both boys and girls.  As to the custom of flogging all the boys when any mischief was done, that was kept up by the successors of Mr. Cole, and the writer suffered from that custom with the other boys of his time.  Mr. Cole always thought a boy never got a like amiss, and if he did not deserve it at the time he received it, he would very soon afterward and he might as well have it in advance.  Aside from his whipping proclivities, Mr. Cole was a very good teacher.  He was a follower and discipline of Gen. Jackson.  He was a Justice of the Peace of Tiffin Township from 1829 to 1832.  He was a candidate for Auditor in 1825 and received 478 votes.  Ralph McClure received 130 and Joseph Riggs 715, and was elected.  In 1827, he was again a candidate for Auditor, and received 303 votes to 876 for Joseph Riggs.  He persevered in seeking the Auditor's office, and when Joseph Riggs resigned in 1831, he was appointed and served five months, Oct. 3, 1831, to Mar. 6, 1832.  He was elected and served from Mar. 6, 1832, to Mar. 4, 1844, twelve years.      Mr. Cole was first married to a Miss McDonald, by whom he was the father of a large family of children.  When first married, he was emphatically an ungodly man.  He was opposed to his wife attending church, and she went secretly.  Mr. Cole was at this time a fighting and drinking man.  At one time he was indicted for seven assaults and batteries, all charged in one week.  He got so dreadful that his wife could not live with him and left him.  He did then what all prodigals did, shipped on a flatboat to New Orleans.  He came back by steamboat and when the latter was a short distance below Memphis, in the night, it ran into a snag and sunk immediately.  Cole swam to a snag.  In the darkness, he feared he would not be discovered and would be left there to die.  He vowed to the Lord that if rescued, he would devote the remainder of life to His service.  Soon after he was rescued, Mr. Cole went home, hunted up his wife, and was reconciled to her.  He joined the Methodist Church, and lived a member of it the remainder of his life.  He maintained the family worship, but would interrupt it to drive the pigs out of the yard, to drive the dog out of the kitchen, to serve a neighbor with milk, or for any other necessary work, and many tales are told of his peculiarity of his.  When James Moore, was courting Caroline Killen, he did it at the house of Leonard Cole, as he was forbidden at William Killen's home.  On one occasion when Caroline Killen and James Moore were at Mr. Cole's, they were present during family worship in the evening.  Mr. Cole prayed for those who were going to bed and for those who were going to sit up - Caroline Killen and James Moore.      Mr. Cole acquired the confidence of the entire community after he joined the Methodist Church, and lived the life of a model citizen.  His first wife died in 1838, and in 1839, he married her niece of the same name.  There were no children of this marriage.  In 1850, he removed to Brookville, Kentucky, where he died in 1857, and where he is buried.  Mr. Cole was an intensely earnest man in all he did.  When he was a drinking and fighting young man, he went into it with all the force of his nature.  When he reformed, his devotion to the church and to good citizenship was as earnest as human effort could make it.  He left many descendants, but none of them are known to the writer. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 540   DR. DAVID COLEMAN Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 710   JOHN COLEMAN Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 725   WILLIAM KIRKER COLEMAN, M. D. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 720   COL. DANIEL COLLIER was one of the pioneers of Adams County who came to the Northwest Territory in 1794.  He was born in January, 1764, and died on his magnificent farm on Ohio Brush Creek, where he is buried, April 17, 1835.  His wife was Elizabeth Prather, born December 9, 1768, and who died August 4, 1835.  She bore him twelve children:  James, John, Thomas, Daniel, Joseph, Richard, Isaac, Sarah, Elizabeth, Katharine, Luther and Harriet.  The latter was born September 17, 1815, and married Andrew Ellison, a son of James Ellison, a native of Ireland.      Col. Collier selected the site of his future home on Ohio Brush Creek while with Nathaniel Massie and others surveying in that region.  The lands, five hundred acres, were purchased from Gen. William Lytle, who held military warrants of Jonathan Tinsley.  John Shaver and George Shaver, Virginia Line, Continental Establishment.  The site of the homestead is on an elevated terrace some forty acres in extent formed in the geological past by a drift of conglomerate in Ohio Brush Creek.  The general level of this terrace is about twenty-five feet above the bottom lands along the creek, and from it a fine view of the valley presents itself for miles up and down the stream.  At the base of this drift several fine springs of most excellent water wells forth.  The one across the public road opposite the Collier residence afforded the water supply for the old still-house owned by Col. Collier.  There was a fine young poplar sapling near it which young Tom Collier climbed and bent over while the Colonel and his wife were temporarily absent from home.  On his return Thomas received a "grubbing" for the supposed destruction of the young poplar.  That sapling is now a most beautiful and stately tree.      Col. Collier was prominently identified with public affairs of Adams County in this time.  He was commissioned Colonel of the Third Regiment, First Brigade, Second Division, of Militia by Governor Samuel Huntington, December 29, 1809.  He served in the War of 1812 and was in the engagement at Sandusky.  On May 2, 1814, Acting Governor Thomas Looker, endorsed Colonel Collier's resignation as follows:  "The resignation of this commission accepted on account of long service, advanced age and bodily infirmities."      Among Col. Collier's  old tax receipts in possession of one of his grandchildren, is one dated September 8, 1801, for one hundred and seventy-five cents,  his land tax for that year.  Subscribed by John Lodwick, Collector for Adams County.  In 1811, the tax on the same land was nine dollars as shown by the receipt of Thomas Massie, Collector. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 538   CAPTAIN GEORGE COLLINGS Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 705 Hon. George Collings HON. GEORGE COLLINGS     Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 179 - Chapter XV   ELLIOT H. COLLINS is of English ancestry.  His grandfather, John Collins, was born in Maryland in 1754.  His wife was Sallie Henthorn.  He had three sons and four daughters.  In 1800 he brought his family to Washington County, Ohio.  His son, Henry, was born in 1779, and married Frances Ewart, who was born in County Armagh, Ireland.  Our subject was their eldest son, born in Grandview Township in Washington County, Apr. 23, 1812.  He married Elizabeth Rinard, Mar. 19, 1835.  They reared a family of one son and three daughters, Lycurgus Benton Allen, Cleopatra Minerva, Elizabeth Rebecca and Roxana Samantha.  His wife died Oct. 6, 1865, and on Mar. 28, 1858 he married Nancy McKay.  She was born in West Virginia, Jan. 15, 1824.  Of Mrs. Collins' children, Cleopatra  Minerva married William Wikoff, and resides in McLean County, Illinois; Elizabeth Rebecca died Aug. 24, 1868, at the age of twenty-seven years; Roxana Samantha married Joseph Nagel, and resides in Morris County, Kansas.  His son lives in Wellington, Kansas, and is a farmer.      Mr. Collins came to Adams County in 1850, and located first in Monroe Township and afterwards in the Irish Bottoms, where he now resides. He was a man of great public spirit, and was always in the front of any movement for the public good.  He has been a Justice of the Peace for forty-nine years, his first commission being signed by Governor Vance, Mar. 31, 1838.  In that time, he never committed a person to jail, never had an appeal taken from any decision of his, never had a case from his docket taken up on error, never had a bond he took forfeited.  He has married over seven hundred couples and always presented the bride with the wedding fee and groom gave him.  He has often gone twenty miles to perform a marriage ceremony and has had parties come twenty-five miles to him to be married.  Of the years he was Justice of the Peace, twelve years were in Washington County, six in Monroe Township, Adams County.  He has been a Democrat all his life, never missed a political convention when he could get to it, never missed an elation and never scratched a ticket.  He is a member of the Christian Union Church on Beasley's Fork.  He is one of the best farmers in the Irish Bottoms, where he lives in ease and comfort.  He is a good friend, a kind neighbor, and a citizen proud of his county.  He is a good friend, a kind neighbor, and a citizen proud of his country.  He and his wife are enjoying the days of their old age.  For his years, he has the most powerful lungs and a remarkable constitution.  He bears up under the infirmities of age, though they were but temporary, and when he is called, he will answer "ready," and go, ready to give an account of the deed done in the body.  No man enjoys the company of his friends better than he, and no one is ever happier to have them visit him.   Since the preparation of this sketch his wife died in December, 1899. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 715   REV. JOHN COLLINS Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 543   JOHN EDGAR COLLINS was born Apr. 9, 1871, two miles south of Peebles.  His father's name is John R. Collins, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Wright.  He has a brother, the Rev. H. O. Collins, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is also a member.  His only sister is Mrs. Robert Jackman.  His training was such as the country school affords until he became a teacher at the age of eighteen.  Teaching during the Winter and spending his Summers in study at the National Normal University, he was graduated from the Scientific Department of that institution in 1892 in a class of seventy-seven.  The next year he was elected to the superintendency of the Peebles schools, which position he resigned in 1896 to accept a similar position in the West Union schools.  He was four times unanimously elected to this position.  At the time of his last re-election, in 1899, he was also elected to the superintendency of the Batavia schools, which place he accepted.  This school has nine departments and one of the best High schools in Southern Ohio.  Both when at Peebles and at West Union, Mr. Collins conducted a Summer Training School for Teachers, "The Tri-County Normal."  As Principal of the schools for seven years, 1893 to 1899, he did much to advance the educational interests in Adams County.  The total enrollment of the Tri-County Normal School under his management was over eight hundred, and more than eighty per cent, of the teachers actively engaged in school work in this county at this time (1900) received their training in his school.  Kentucky sent a number of students to this school as did the several counties of Southern Ohio.  Since graduating from the University, his one aim has been successful school work.  For some time he has been doing post-graduate work at the Ohio Wesleyan University, and in 1896 and 12897, respectively, he received common and high school certificates from the Ohio State Board.      One of his most intimate friends and classmates in the Public schools speaks of him as follows:  "John Edgar Collins possesses some strong elements of character among which is his indomitable will and steadiness of purpose.  Every undertaking in which he is interested in carefully planned beforehand.  With him, there is no pensive 'It might have been.'  Thought precedes action with him.  He knows at end at the beginning.  His school work is planned with such accuracy that he sees the result as he leads his pupils to it.  By nature he is a teacher, and it is in the school that he is most at home.  Another extraordinary feature which he possesses is his power to meet exigencies.  At the most critical moment, he exercises the most deliberate judgment and meets opposition with the earnestness that brings the spoils into his hands.  He is a man of resources.  What he has become in the educational worked is much the result of his own effort.  A constant student, he has shown his power for mastery of thought best when studying for examinations or for special work.  He acquires knowledge with but little effort and has proved himself a thoughtful, careful student, not only of books, but of men as well.  In all his educational efforts, he has had the support of the best and most conscientious men.  His powers as an educator ad as an organizer have been proved not only by his public school work but by his successful training of hundreds of teachers in Normal school, as well.  His aim is high and he will leave a record which will be characterized by earnestness and many brilliant acts. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 718   ELLIOT H. COLLINS. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 715   RICHARD COLLINS, son of Rev. John Collins, was born February 22, 1796, in New Jersey.  He was liberally educated, studied law with John McLean, was admitted to practice in 1816, and settled in Hillsboro.  He was appointed prosecuting attorney of Highland County in 1818 and resided there until 1832.  On August 7, 1821, he was appointed prosecuting attorney of Adams County and on August 5, 1822, he resigned.  He represented Highland County in the House form 1821 to 1823.  He removed to Maysville, Kentucky, in 1833, and represented Mason County in the Kentucky Legislature in 1834, 1844, 1847.  For fifteen years, he was president of the city council of Maysville, Kentucky, and was the first president of the Maysvile and Lexington Railroad.  In 1853, he removed to his father's old home in Clermont County, where he died May 12, 1855.      He had a keen and sparkling wit and was of high ability in his profession. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 200 - Chapter XV   JOHN DONALSON COMPTON Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 703   THOMAS W. CONNOLLEY Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 702 NOTE:  CORRECTIONS - Paragraph one, line three.  For "Eleven and Sarah Burbage," read "Levin duncan and Sarah H. Burbage," so as to agree with the two names as they appear in the article on page 657 - "The Burbage Family." Residence of J. H. Connor, West Union, OH JAMES HARVEY CONNOR, of West Union, Ohio, was born Dec. 27, 1842, on the old Connor farm, in Sprigg Township.  He is of Irish lineage, his father, James Connor, being a son of Peter O'Connor, who emigrated from the South of Ireland to America in 1786, and shortly thereafter came West to the "dark and bloody ground,"  stopping in the vicinity of Kenton's Station near the old town of Washington.  Peter O'Connor had been reared in the Catholic Church, and upon his leaving for America the Parish Priest gave him a certificate of character, of which the following is a copy of the original now in the possession of our subject, J. H. Connor:      "I do hereby certify that Peter O'Connor, the bearer hereof, is a parishioner of mine in the parish of Clone these some years - is a young man descended of honest parents, and has behaved virtuously, soberly and regularly, and from everything I could learn his character has been irreproachable.  Given under my hand this third day of April, 1786.                                                  "DAVID CULLUM, P.P."      In May, Peter O'Connor sailed from Dublin for America, as the following receipt for his passable aboard the Tristam shows:      "Received from Peter Connor four guineas in full for steerage passage in the Tristam to America.  Dublin, May 13, 1786.        "GEORGE CRAWFORD."      "This is to certify that Peter Connor comes as passenger on board of the Tristam, and this is his final discharge from the ship.  Dated this first day of August,, 1786.                                                                            "CLARKE & MANN, Assng.                                                                                "Aug. 2, 1786."      Peter O'Connor, or Connor as he was now called, arrived in Baltimore in August, 1786, and after getting from the proper authorities a permit to travel across the State, went to New York City and thence to Philadelphia.  Afterwards he went on a prospecting trip over the mountains to the frontier of Kentucky, and in 1796 bought of Andrew Ellison, "two hundred acres of land lying between Big Three Mile Creek and the Ohio River, it being a part of a tract of five hundred acres entered in the name of said Andrew Ellison and adjoining a tract now belonging to William Brady on the North."  This title bond gives the place of residence of Andrew Ellison as Hamilton County, Territory Northwest of the River Ohio (this was a year previous to the organization of Adams County), and the place of residence of Peter Connor, as Washington, Mason County, Kentucky.      The date of his marriage to Elizabeth Roebuck is not known, but it is presumed to be about the time of the purchase of this tract of land in 1796.  It is also supposed that it was previous to his marriage that he paid a visit to his old home in Ireland, as disclosed by the following:      "March 11, received from Peter Connor the sum of four guineas, passage money on board the Hamburg from Philadelphia to Cork.                                                                                                                                                                                          "STEPHEN MOORE."      The father of the subject of this sketch was James Connor, son of Peter Connor, and was born Nov. 2, 1802.  He was christened in the Catholic faith, although his mother was a Protestant.  James Connor married Margaret Boyle, a daughter of Thomas Boyle, for many years an elder in the Presbyterian Church at Manchester.  James Connor died May 4, 1896.      Our subject, James H. Connor, attended the common schools and the academy at North Liberty under Prof. Chase.  He resided on the farm till 1874, when he moved to Manchester and entered the dry goods store of W. L. Vance as a clerk.  The following year he was elected on the Democratic ticket Treasurer of Adams County, and re-elected in 1877.  In 1881, he became a member of the dry goods establishment of Connor, Boyles and Pollard, in West Union, which firm was changed to Connor and Boyles in 1889.  In 1895, on the retirement of Mr. Boyles, the firm name was changed to J. H. Connor.  The first six years in business, the firm of Connor, Boyles & Pollard handled annually over $50,000 worth of goods.  With close competition, the house now does a business of over $30,000 annually.      In 1891, Mr. Connor was nominated by the Democrats in the Adams-Pike District for Representative in the Ohio Legislature, and although the district is largely Republican, was defeated by only thirty-nine votes.  July 21, 1893, President Cleveland commissioned him postmaster of West Union, which position he held to the entire satisfaction of the community for four years and six months.      Mr. Connor is a member of West Union Lodge, F. & A. M. No. 43; of DeKalb Lodge, I. O. O. F., Manchester; Crystal Lodge, K. of P., West Union, and a charter member of Royal Arcanum, Adams Council, No. 830.  He is also a member of the M. E. Church, West Union.      In 1864, July 27, Mr. Connor enlisted in the 182d O. V. I., and was honorably discharged July 7, 1865, under Col. Lewis Butler.  And it is a fact worthy of notice that not until every other man of his company had applied for and received a pension did our subject do so.      In all matters pertaining to the public good, Harvey Connor, as he is familiarly known , is always found in the foremost ranks.  He has done well, accumulated a competency, not from parsimony, but from liberal and honest dealing with his fellow men. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 717   JAMES F. CORNELIUS Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 719   MRS. HANNAH AMANDA CORYELL Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 707   WILLIAM C. CORYELL Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 716   LARKIN N. COVERT, of Wamsley, was born in Brown County, Ohio, Jan. 19, 1832.  His father was Tillman Covert and his mother, Mary A. Riley.  Oct. 15, 1854, he married Martha A. Dalton, daughter of George W. Dalton, of Brown County, by whom he has had the following children: Nancy A., Arthur N., Mary P., Sarah M., Martha E. and Samuel L.  In 1861, he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 70th Regiment O. V. I., and participated in the many battles in which that regiment was engaged, from Shiloh till his honorable discharge at Fort McAlister, Dec. 31, 1864.      Mr. Covert is a farmer, and affiliates with the Republican party.  He is not a member of any church. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 698   MARTIN COX Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 709   MARTIN L. COX of Hills Fork. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 727   EDWARD A. CRAWFORD was born December 28, 1861, near West Union, the son of Harper and Jane Willson Crawford.  His father, Harper Crawford, enlisted in Company K, 70th O. V. I., January 6, 1862.  He died in 1885 at the age of forty-five.  His eldest brother, William S. Crawford, enlisted June 13, 1864, in Company D, 24th O. V. I., Adams County's first company in the war and was transferred to Company D, 18th O. V. I., June 12, 1864.  This company was in sixteen battles and Crawford was mortally wounded at the battle of Nashville, December 15, 1864, and died December 29, 1864.  He is interred in the Nashville cemetery at Nashville, Tennessee.  He had a brother Gabriel who served in the Second Independent Battery of Ohio Light Artillery, enlisting at the age of nineteen.      Our subject attended school at West Union until he completed all which could be taught him there.  He attended the Normal school at Lebanon in 1878 and 1880 and taught school in parts of the same year and was engaged in teaching school thereafter until 1890.  From 1881 to 1885, he taught school at Waggoner's Ripple, Sandy Springs, Bradyville and Quinn Chapel.  From 1886 to 1888 he taught at Rome; from 1888 to 1889, he was engaged in the grocery business at West Union, and in the Summer of 1890, he taught a Normal school at Moscow, Ohio.  In the Fall of 1890, he bought the People's Defender from Joseph W. Eylar, and has conducted that newspaper, a weekly, at West Union, ever since.  In 1897, he bought out the Democratic Index, edited by D. W. P. Eylar, and consolidated it with the Defender.      He was married August 13, 1883, to Miss Mattie J. Pennywit, daughter of Mark Pennywit and his wife, Sallie Cox.  He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.  Politically, he has always been  Democrat.  In 1887, he was the candidate of that party for Clerk of the Court, but was defeated by W. R. Mehaffey, by seventy-three votes.  He was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Chicago from the Tenth Ohio District in 1896.  His paper has been well and ably conducted since he has controlled it and is one of the best in Southern Ohio.      Mr. Crawford is a self made man.  He has made his business a success.  He is known for his strict fidelity to his party.  He is public spirited and takes an active part in church and social matters as well as political.  He was elected Secretary of the Democratic State Executive Committee of Ohio in September, 1900. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 721   CRAWFORDS Stables      There were many Indians in this region when the first settlers came, after the treaty of Greenville, and they annoyed the pioneers greatly by begging and pilfering, and occasionally stealing horses.  William Crawford, in order to protect a valuable horse from being stolen, built a stable in one end of his cabin in which he secured the animal at night. Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 736 - Liberty Twp.   CHARLES CRAIGMILES Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 723   MARION FRANCIS CRISSMAN Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 722   SAMUEL CULBERTSON Source:  History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900 ~ Page 709 NOTES: