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BIOGRAPHIES
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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
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GEORGE McADOW LAFFERTY
was born Mar. 27, 1824, at West Union. His father was
Absalom Lafferty and his mother's maiden name was
Margaret-McDaid, a sister of Col. John McDaid.
Her father was Robert McDaid. Absalom Lafferty
was a native of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, and settled at
West Union prior to 1820. He had the trade of
shoemaker, which he carried on for a long time in West
Union. While a resident of West Union, he manufactured
shoes for Ohio and Union Furnaces. He also conducted a
general store at West Union. He died July 13, 1848,
aged fifty-four years. His wife, Margaret Lafferty,
died Sept. 9, 1859, aged fifty-four years. Our subject
was the eldest son. He attended school at West Union
under Ralph McClure, Leonard Cole and
Thomas Hayslip. He was apprenticed to the trade of
cabinet maker under Peter B. Jones; of Maysville,
Ky., in the years 1838 to 1840. In the latter year he
went into partnership with Joseph Hayslip, of West
Union, in the cabinet making business, under the firm name
of Lafferty & Hayslip, which continued several years.
In 1852, he removed to Rome, Ohio, where he engaged in the
mercantile business and continued in that until 1879.
Since that time he has made his home with his children.
He was married first to Jerusha Jones, widow of
Hamlin Jones in 1852. She died in 1854.
He was married in 1856 to Miss Ann M. Cox, daughter
of Martin Cox, and she died in 1875.
His son, Charles M. Lafferty, engaged in buying
ties at Rome. His second son, George W., was
formerly a buyer of tobacco but is now engaged in conducting
the New Commercial Hotel at West Union. His son,
Henry B., resides at Carrollton, Ky. His daughter
Anna is the wife of George Carey, residing
near Washington, Pa. Two of his children died in
infancy.
Mr. Lafferty has always been a Whig and a
Republican. He is a member of the Methodist Church and
is highly respected by all who know him.
Source: History of Adams
County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers –
West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900
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Joseph West Lafferty |
JOSEPH WEST
LAFFERTY.
Joseph West Lafferty was born in Connelsville, Fayette
County, Pennsylvania, Oct. 27, 1809. In the year 1814
his parents emigrated to Ohio, settled on a farm three miles
east of West Union and his father took up the business of
wool carding and carried it on the more than thirty years.
From his majority until 1848, he was a Democrat.
From Nov. 15, 1834, until Dec. 15, 1841, he was the
postmaster at West Union. In 1848, he supported Van
Buren on the Free Soil ticket. When the Republican
party was organized in 1856, he identified himself with that
and supported it until his death. He was an ardent
supporter of the war for the Union and two of his sons were
in the service.
When the Internal Revenue Act went into effect in1862.
Mr. Lafferty was appointed a Deputy Assessor for his
county and served as such for several years. He took
great interest in the advancement of the community in which
he lived and served on the Board of Education for a number
of years. He was a member of the Board when the
separate districts were united and a schoolhouse for graded
schools built. There was bitter opposition to the new
districts and house, but Mr. Lafferty and others
stood for the advanced ideas and they prevailed.
In March, 1839, he was married to Elizabeth Burwell,
daughter of Nicholas Burwell, who survived him.
His children were Sarah Rebecca, wife of Smith
Grimes of Mineral Springs. Dr. Nelson B.
Lafferty, of Hillsboro, Charles L. Lafferty, of
Pittsburg, Penn., and Joseph and Julia E. Lafferty,
of West Union. Mr. Lafferty was a student of
men and affairs. He was a good reader and a careful
thinker. He had pronounced views on all public
questions and his views were all made and expressed after
mature deliberation. It was always agreeable and
profitable to listen to his discussion of any subject,
because he would not express his views until after much
study and after careful deliberation. His views were
advanced on all subjects and they were earnest and
conscientious. All evil and wrong was abhorrent to
him. The emotions of his soul were always generous.
He had the dignity and air of a Chesterfield and it was
inborn in him. He always wore a silk hat and wore a
standing collar with stock. He was neat and careful of
his personal appearance; he had a pleasing address and was
always courteous to every one he met. No more of a
gentleman in his manners and address could be found
anywhere. He was a most useful and valuable citizen,
always leading public opinion on all matters of public
concern, general or local.
He died Aug. 27, 1867, respected by all who knew him.
Source: History of Adams
County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers –
West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900
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N. B. Lafferty, M.D. |
NELSON B. LAFFERTY, M. D.
Nelson Barrere Lafferty, M. D., was born in West Union,
Ohio, Jan. 6, 1840. He was the son of Joseph West
Lafferty and Elizabeth Burwell Lafferty. Nelson
Barrere was at that time a practicing lawyer in
West Union and the father of the Doctor was an admirer and
friend. Hence the Doctor received the name of the
distinguished lawyer, afterwards Congressman, and Whig
candidate for Governor of Ohio.
The writer became acquainted with Dr. Lafferty
when he was seven years of age, and if he was ever a boy
after that date, the writer has no recollection of it.
The Doctor always wanted to be with men, to listen to their
conversation and to learn all he could. While he
enjoyed the sports of boyhood, his consuming ambition, and
one which was always gratified, was to be with men and learn
of them. He received a common school education prior
to 1858, and in that year began to read medicine in the
offices of Drs. Coleman and Coates, in West Union,
Ohio. He read for two years and a half and attended
his first course of lectures at Starling Medical College,
Columbus, Ohio, in the Winter of 1860 and 1861. When
he returned home in the Spring of 1861, the tocsin of war
had sounded and he enlisted in Company D, 24th O. V. I., on
May 27, 1861, and on the twenty-seventh of June, 1861, was
mustered into the U. S. service for three years. As
the result afterward demonstrated, Dr. Lafferty could
not stand the hardships of the service, but he never stopped
to consider this. It was a question of patriotism only
with him. If the Government would take him, he was
bound to go. He did go, but was physically unable to
stand the strain of the service and was discharged Oct. 13,
1862, on surgeon's certificate of disability. Company
D, 24th O. V. I., was the first offering of Adams County in
the Civil War and to have been a member of that company is,
in Adams County, better than a patent of nobility. Of
all the heroes of the Civil War, the members of Company D
were and are always the foremost. But because he was
sent home from the army, Dr. Lafferty did not repine.
He resumed his medical studies, took his second course of
lectures at Starling Medical College and graduated in the
Spring of 1863. He at once determined to re-enter the
army as a medical officer as soon as his health would admit.
In August, 1863, he passed the necessary medical examination
required for a Surgeon in the Volunteers. Nov. 10,
1863, he was commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the First
Ohio Heavy Artillery for three years and served as such
until Jan. 9, 1865, when he resigned owing to ill health and
started for home. On his way home, he stopped at
Nashville, Tenn., where he unexpectedly met the Medical
Director of the Army of the Cumberland, who insisted on him
entering the Hospital Service, and on Feb. 3, 1865, he again
entered the service as an Acting Assistant Surgeon of the
Army and continued as such to the close of the war. In
May, 1865, he returned home and located at North Liberty,
Ohio, in the practice of his profession, and here he
continued to practice for twenty-one years. On Feb. 4,
1880, he was married to Miss Kate Holmes, of
Hillsboro, Ohio. There are three children of this
marriage, Louise, Fred and Alice.
During his residence at North Liberty, Ohio, he was U.
S. Examining Surgeon for a period of fourteen years.
In politics, he has always been a Republican. In 1886,
he removed from North Liberty to Hillsboro, Ohio, where he
continued the practice of medicine until 1895, when he
voluntarily retired on account of physical infirmities.
As a physician, Dr. Lafferty is thoroughly read
and informed and is among the leaders of his profession.
In medical ethics, he was the most fully informed, and
believed in and maintained the highest standing for his
profession. In whatever he undertakes, he is an
enthusiast and is bound to his friends by hooks of
steel. He is in favor of high standing in every
avocation of life; his interest in the affairs of the county
and State are as intense now as that May day when as a youth
he went into the army, and he still believes in that pure
and good manhood to which he so early aspired in childhood.
Source: History of Adams
County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers –
West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900
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PETER
LEE was one of Massie's surveyors and was a native of
Mason County, Kentucky. He possessed a large fortune
and was reported a liberal and honest man. He was
unostentatious in his manner and respected by all who knew
him. He was never married.
Peter Lee was one of Col. Robert Todd's
expedition in June, 1787, which marked out Todd's
Trace. He was still living in 1826 and testified in
May of that year at Georgetown, Ohio, in a case of Martin
v. Boone and McDowell 2 Ohio, 237.
Source: History of Adams
County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers –
West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900
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THOMAS M. LEWIS
was common pleas judge in Adams, Brown, and Clermont
Counties from February, 1876, to October, 1876. He
was admitted to the bar April 2, 1842. He was
appointed judge by Governor Hayes, to serve to the next
election. From 1846 to 1851 he was deputy county
clerk of Clermont County. He was a captain in the
59th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was a bachelor,
and boarded at the Hamilton Hotel at Batavia, Ohio, for
over thirty-five years.
Source: History of Adams
County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers –
West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900
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JOHN LOUGHRY, SR. was
born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1786.
He was married to Margaret Black, of Ohio, Jan. 3,
1809. In 1812, he was a Captain in the Vermont
Service, and was stationed at Buffalo, and then called to
the frontier. He was there until Christmas and then
went home. He went to Columbus, Ohio, in 1817, and was
Mayor of the town in 1823. On locating in Columbus, he
connected with the First Presbyterian Church and soon after
was made one of its ruling elders. While in Columbus,
he followed the business of contracting on public works, as
such he never worked on Sunday or permitted the men in his
employ to do so. His wife died in 1827, and in 1829 he
was married to Miss Elizabeth K. Cunning. He
remained in Columbus until 1831, when he went to Rockville
to get stone to build the canal locks at Cincinnati to lead
the canal into the river. That took three years.
He then went into the business of building steamboats and
built the "Columbia," the "Atlanta" and others. He
built a large saw and grist mill at Rockville and carried on
a large business. He also went into the culture of
peaches and pears. H e had great success in the peach
culture. He retired from business in 1855, turning it
over to his son, John C. Loughry,
except the fruit business, which he retained until his
death. He took a great interest in the Presbyterian
Church at Sandy Springs and had the church and parsonage
rebuilt. He was an elder in Dr. Hayes' Church
in Columbus while a resident there and also in the Sandy
Springs Church. He was a liberal in all things, kind
and generous. He was the build of men which keeps the
world going and preserves all that is good in it. He
was an enterprising, loyal citizen, a good man, a pleasant
neighbor and a devoted Christian.
He died Aug. 6, 1862, leaving a so, John C. Loughry,
who has a sketch herein, and two daughters, Mrs. Dr. Awl,
of Columbus, Ohio, and Mrs. Dr. Marshall, of
Blairsville, Pennsylvania.
Source: History of Adams
County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers –
West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900
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JOHN
CUNNING LOUGHRY was the son of
John Loughry and
Elizabeth (Cunning) Loughry, born at Circleville, on May
2, 1831. When he was nine months of age, his father
removed to Rockville, Adams County, where he spent his
subsequent life. In the forties, he attended Carey's
Academy at Cincinnati. Afterward, he engaged in
steamboating, owning and commanding the steamer "Jefferson,"
in 1852. In the Fall of 1855, he assumed his father's
business. He was married to Miss Sallie Brown,
daughter of Captain Wash Brown, in Nov., 1857.
They took up their residence at the present homestead in
Rockville, where he resided until his death on the ninth of
October, 1894. He united with the Sandy Springs
Presbyterian Church, September 20, 1873. He was a
trustee of the church for many years, and was an elder in
1887. From 1891, until his death he was Superintendent
of the Sunday School of Sandy Springs Church.
In his political views, he was a Democrat, but never
sought or held any public office or took any part in
politics.
He was a good neighbor, an ideal gentleman, generous,
gentle, hospitable, and refined. He was a constant and
generous friend, and in his passing away the community lost
a man faithful to every duty.
Source: History of Adams
County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers –
West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900
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JONAH MASON LOVETT,
of Manchester, Ohio, was born Mar. 3, 1831, at Parkersburg,
West Virginia, son of Daniel C. and Emiline (Lockhart0
Lovett. Daniel Lovett, his grandfather, was a
native of Loudon County, Virginia. His son emigrated
to Adams County in 1835, and engaged in teaching until 1838.
In that year he returned to Virginia and married Emeline
Lockhart, daughter of Jonah Lockhart, and sister
of Judge T. J. Lockhart. He and his wife
located at Parkersburg, where they reared a family of seven
children, to-wit: our subject and his twin sister Nannie,
who married Mathew H. Hale, of Point Pleasant, West
Virginia; Lucy, deceased; Daniel C., Jr. of
Point Pleasant, West Virginia; Harry, deceased;
Gertrude, deceased, and Emma C., wife of E. M.
Lockhart, of Neodesha, Kansas. Daniel C. Lovett
was a miller in Parkersburg, and in 1848 was elected County
Surveyor of Wood County, West Virginia. He held that
office continuously until his death, Feb. 22, 1859.
Our subject received his education in the academy of
Parkersburg, conducted by John C. Nash. At the
age of sixteen, he entered the drug store of a. N.
Williams, and remained there until his majority.
From 1862 till 1881, hee was a steamboat clerk on the Ohio
River. From 1881 until 1888, he was a clerk in the
Kanawha Valley Bank in Charleston, West Virginia. In
1888, he removed to a farm in Monroe Township, Adams County,
and remained there until 1891. Whiles a resident of
Monroe Township, he served as Township Clerk a number of
terms. In 1891, he removed to Manchester, where he has
resided ever since. He is now bookkeeper for the C.
Roush Flour Mill.
He was married to Miss Jane Stevenson, Nov. 3,
1872, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Halbert) Stevenson,
of Monroe Township (See sketch of Capt. Samuel C.
Stevenson). The children of this marriage are
David, in the mercantile business in the Indian
Territory; Gordon Dickey, clerk in the Farmers' Bank
of Manchester; Richard Stevenson, Lewis Ruffner, Harry
Putney and Edward Craig.
Source: History of Adams
County, Ohio - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers –
West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900
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