BIOGRAPHIES
 Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio
Publ. Chicago: Inter-state
Publishing Co.
1884
W.
S. GARR, Assistant Superintendent of the O. s. R.
R., Jackson, was born in Elmira, Chemung Co., N. Y.,
Oct. 4, 1849, a son of Jacob and Urani (Withiam) Garr,
natives of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, his father
being of German parentage. His father died in
Elmira; his mother is now residing at Ft. Wayne, Ind.
He received a common-school education, but when only
fourteen years of age was employed by the Northern
Central R. R. as switchman at Elmira. June 5,
1869, he was employed on the Erie R. R. as conductor
from Port Jervis to Jersey City. Four years later
he accepted a like position on the Northern Central R.
R., and June 20, 1882, was appointed to his present
position, located at Jackson. He has exclusive
charge of all the switches and the main line of the road
from Jackson to Wellston. He was married in 1876
to Mrs. Sarah K. Southard, of St. Albans, Vt.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 559 |
GEORGE
R. GOODDARD, manager of the Chapman Coal Mine,
was born in Jackson County, Ohio, in 1837, the fourth of
nine children of Edward H. and June (Hildebrand)
Goddard. His father was a native of
Massachusetts, but when a boy came with his parents to
Ohio and located in Washington County. In 1838 he
came to Jackson County, where he died, aged forty-two
years. His mother was a daughter of John
Hildebrand and is a native of Pennsylvania.
Her father settled in Washington County, Ohio, in 1820.
She now resides in Milton Township. Mr. Goddard
spent several years in Kansas and Washington
County, Ohio, but in 1880 returned to Jackson County and
for two years was engaged in mining in the Starr Mines.
In September, 1882, he accepted his present position.
He was married in 1862 to Maria L. Tullis, by
whom he has two children - Alwyn and Emma O.
In 1870 he married Emily A. Demmick of Jackson
County. They have five children - Charles, Carl
C., Mabel C., and Howard C. and Harry L.
(twins).
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 560 |
B. GRAY,
proprietor of the Jackson Foundry and Machine Shops, was
born near Kingston, Ulster Co., N. Y., Mar. 3, 1826, the
eighth of eleven children of Jesse Gray, and the
grandson of Benoni Gray, an early settler of
Boston, Mass. He received his education in New
York, living there till manhood. He learned the
trade of pattern-maker and machinist in Ellenville, N.
Y. In 1847 he married Ann Sarlls and in
1854 came to Ohio, locating at Hamden, where his wife
died in 1856, leaving five children. In 1858 he
married Huldah K. Persons. Mr. Gray
came to Jackson County in 1869 and settled on a farm two
miles east of Jackson. In 1873 he moved into town
and the following year erected his foundry.
Politically Mr. Gray is a Republican. He is
a member of the Presbyterian church.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 559 |
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