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BIOGRAPHIES
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)
HISTORY OF
BELMONT and JEFFERSON COUNTIES,
OHIO,
AND
INCIDENTALLY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
PERTAINING TO
BORDER WARFARE AND THE EARLY SETTLEMENT
of the
ADJACENT PORTION OF THE OHIO VALLEY,
By J. A. Caldwell
with Illustrations
Assistant, G. G. Nichols
Managing Editor, J. H. Newton
(Assistant, A. G. Sprankle.
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WHEELING, W. VA.
PUBLISHED BY THE HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
1880
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St. Clairsville Twp. -
JACOB NAGLE - A Classical scholar and eloquent
orator, migrated from Bedford, Pennsylvania, in 1802. He was
the first resident lawyer St. Clairsville had. Prior to his
removal to this region, he owned the Bedford Springs, which were
famous for medicinal properties. He succeeded Hammond as
prosecutor, serving from 1804 to 1808. He had a great weakness
for drink. He was highly respected for his learning, but in
later years was seldom ever entrusted with a case. Other
lawyers less able to manage their busines. usually advised
with him on intricate and difficult points of law.
Source: History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio,
Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company -
1880 - Pg. 229 |
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Colerain Twp. -
D. K. NAYLOR, was born May 28th, 1818, in
Jefferson county, Ohio, and is a son of Abram and Ruth Naylor.
He remained in Jefferson county thirty-four yeas, and then came to
the farm on which he now resides. He was married to
Margaret Smith, in 1852, and has had a family of six
children, three of whom are now living. His wife died Sept.
21st, 1878, in her 51st year. Received his education in the
schools of the neighborhood, and has served as justice of the peace.
His father died in 1878, aged 84 years; his mother died in 1842.
Source: History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio,
Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company -
1880 - Pg. 389 |
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Bellaire Twp. -
J. R. NAYLOR, born near Smithfield, Jefferson
county, Ohio, Dec. 25, 1817. He obtained his education in the
common schools and Friends school, at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and taught
for over twenty years, most of that time being in Wellsburg, Brooke
county, W. Va. He was elected clerk of the county and circuit
court of Brooke, serving for eleven years. In 1873, he came to
Bellaire. In 1874 he purchased John Beam's stock of
stationery, notions, toys &c., known as a news depot, at which time
there was another news depot, owned by Mr. Quimby, of
Wheeling. He afterward sold to Mr. Snively, who in turn
sold to Mr. Kelley. Mr. N. then bought out Mr.
Kelley. During the last few years several short-lived
places have started in Bellaire. Mr. Naylor has now and
has had for the last year and a half the only general news and
stationery establishment in the city. He was married to
Hester C. Kimberland of Brooke county, W. Va.
Source: History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio,
Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company -
1880 - Pg. 278 |
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Warren Twp. -
LEWIS NAYLOR was born Oct. 11, 1819, in Smithfield township,
Jefferson county, Ohio, and is a son of James and Rachel Naylor.
His father was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, Apr. 24, 1777,
and when eleven years of age he went to Baltimore city, and worked
in the store of his uncle, Oliver Mathews. Here he
remained until a man grown, when he began the trade of a blacksmith,
and afterwards conducted a shop, employing many men. In 1811,
he purchased a team and drove through to Jefferson county, Ohio,
where he settled and still continued his trade until his health
failed him, when he began merchandizing, bringing his goods over the
mountains from Baltimore by stage. He crossed the mountains
sixteen times in eight years. Whilst engaged in this business
he accumulated a considerable amount of property, but in 1819, he
erected a grist and saw mill, which proved to be a poor investment.
In 1837, he removed to Belmont county, and located near Somerton,
where he did considerable in land speculating, until he became
advanced in years and was cared for by our subject till his death,
which occurred Mar. 7, 1864, in the 87th year of his age.
In 1845, Lewis Naylor began cabinet work and carpentering, in
the town then called Little Morristown, known at present as "Slabtown."
He finally made carpentering a specialty, which he continued
steadily till 1854, when his family and himself had the typhoid
fever, since which he has been engaged in farming, where he resides,
in eastern Warren township. He married Rachel Bailey
May 7, 1840. They are the parents of nine children;
seven are living; all are married but one daughter.
Source: History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio,
Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company -
1880 - Pg. 356 |
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Bellaire -
JAMES NICOLL - This gentleman is one of the
early pioneers of this section; was born in the town of Berry,
Worcester county, Mass., June 18, 1798; and migrated to Zanesville,
Ohio, with his parents, while it yet was a wilderness, in 1812.
His father died shortly after arriving at that place. His
mother moved then to Newark, Ohio. The second war with Great
Britain was then in progress, and at sixteen years of age James
enlisted in the army, under Capt. John Spencer, in the 27th
Regiment, U. S. Infantry, and served during the war. He was in
the battle up the Thames river, where Harrison captured Proctor's
army; was in the expedition against the British and Indians that
left Detroit in the winter of 1814; was in the engagement of
Mackinaw Island in the summer of the same year. Gen.
Cass was chief in command of the American forces, in which this
regiment took an active part. He was discharged in July, 1815,
at Detroit, Michigan.
Source: History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, Publ.
at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company - 1880 -
Pg. 274 |
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Island
Creek Twp. -
WILLIAM C. NICHOLS, son of Samuel and Mary Nichols,
was born in Brooke county, West Virginia, July 25, 1841; was reared
a farmer. In 1859 he went to Shelby county, Indiana, and was
educated at Franklin College. Enlisted as a private in Company
G, 3d Indiana Cavalry, Aug. 16, 1862. Was with Gen. Sherman
till July 24, 1865, was wounded at Stone River and Chickamauga, at
the latter place was shot through the stomach, since which time his
health has not been good. After the war he returned to
Indiana, taught school and studied law with Love & Davis,
also with Thomas A. Hendricks, and was admitted to the bar in
1870. Was appointed U. S. Mail Agent on the I. C. & L. R. R.,
which position he filled two years. Came to Steubenville,
Ohio, and married Virginia Hall, Sept. 18, 1872, and have one
child named Frank H. Nichols. Mr. N., remained one year
at Steubenville, Ohio, then moved to Sloan's Station where he
taught one year and then came to Jeddo Station, in October, 1876,
where he still exercises the profession of teaching.
Source: History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio,
Publ. at Wheeling, W. Va., by the Historical Publishing Company -
1880 - Pg. 595 |
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