BIOGRAPHIES
 Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio
Publ. Chicago: Inter-state
Publishing Co.
1884
J. W. LAIRD,
attorney at law, was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, Feb. 20,
1822, a son of John and Phoebe (Ford) Laird, the
former a native of Pennsylvania, of Scotch descent, and
the latter of Virginia, of English descent. HE was
reared in Chillicothe, and there received his early
education. When eighteen years of age he began the
study of medicine under Dr. L. W. Foulke, of
Chillicothe, and attended lectures at Louisville, Ky.
After a practice of three years - one in Indiana and two
in Jackson, where he located in 1844 - he, in 1846,
began the publication of the Jackson Standard.
In 1855 he opened a private banking house. In
1859, having for a number of years been reading law, he
was admitted to the bar and has since been practicing in
Jackson. Politically Mr. Laird is a
Republican. He has served several terms as Mayor
of Jackson. In 1850 he was an unsuccessful
candidate for the Constitutional Convention in the
interest of the Whig party. He has been a member
of the Masonic fraternity since 1845, and has taken all
the degrees up to Knight Templar, including the order of
High Priesthood. Mr. Laird was married in
1843 to Mary Marshall, a native of England, born
July 16, 1824. Of their ten children but seven are
living. Mr. and Mrs. Lairdare memers of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 563 |
J. W. LAIRD,
JR. was born in Jackson County, Ohio, a son J.
W. Laird. His boyhood days were spent in
school, and after attaining his majority he taught
school several terms, but owing to ill-health he
abandoned teaching, and in 1880 began the manufacture of
brick. He is also engaged in contracting, and uses
all the brick of his own manufacture and the most of
that manufactured by two other parties. He was the
first brick burner to furnish what the town demanded.
Among the leading contracts taken and completed by him
are the Catholic parsonage, the new school building
(cost, $7,000), Jones's Music Hall, Lutheran
church, many fine residences on Pearl street, the
Masonic Hall at Portland, the residence of J. W.
Laird, and the brick work on the present jail.
Mr. Laird is one of the energetic young men of
Jackson, and is second to no contractor in the county.
He was married to Sallie Reed.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 564 |
JOHN A.
LLOYD, merchant tailor, was born May 3, 1839, in
South Wales, a son of John and Mary Lloyd, who
were married in Wales about 1828. They emigrated
to America in 1840, settling in Madison Township,
Jackson County, where the father died July 6, 1841.
They had six children, three of whom are deceased.
John A. was reared in Madison Township, where he
attended the district schools eight terms, the school
being held only three months of the year. Oct. 19,
185_ he commenced learning the tailor's trade with
David L. Evans, of Oak Hill, Ohio, and in 1865
engaged in merchant tailoring and general merchandising
at Centerville, Gallia Co., Ohio. All his property
was destroyed by fire Mar. 17, 1873. He moved to
Jackson, Nov. 1873. He was married Nov. 14, 1867,
at Centerville, Ohio, to Elizabeth Thomas.
They have two children - Homer Alfred and Mary
Cora. Mr. Lloyd was Postmaster at Thurman
(Centerville) from 1867 till 1873; was Mayor of
Centerville eight consecutive years, and served as
Township Treasurer two years. He belongs to the
Masonic fraternity and is a member of the Presbyterian
Church.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 564 |
J.
A. LONG, manager of the Eureka Coal Mine, was
born Feb. 24, 1847. His grandfather, Elias Long,
was a native of Virginia, but in 1816, with his wife and
children, settled in Jackson, Ohio, where he died.
Andrew, the eldest of his children, was born in
Virginia in 1810, and the greater part of his life was a
farmer. e married Eliza, daughter of
Hon. John James, of Jackson County. She was
born in 1810 and died in 1874. Mr. Long
died in 1869. J. A. was the youngest of
their four children. Although reared on a farm he
received a liberal education. In the spring of
1868 he was appointed Deputy Auditory. In 1869 he
was appointed Treasurer of Jackson County. Dec.
10, 1873, he bought the dry goods house of C. S.
Dickinson & Co. He subsequently was at the
Franklin Mills two years when he opened the Eureka Mine.
He is a stockholder and director of the Iron Bank,
Jackson. Politically he is a Republican; in
religious faith a Methodist. Oct. 10, 1870, he
married Ella Dascomb, of Chillicothe, Ohio.
They have four children.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 576 |
JOHN
L. LONG, merchant, is a son of Elias, a
grandson of Elias Long, the latter a native of
Pennsylvania and of German extraction. He was a
patriot in the Revolutionary war and subsequently
located in Philadelphia, where he followed butchering,
and finally settled in Frederick County, Va., where
after several years hotel-keeping he died. Of his
children, Elias, Jr. was the third, and was born
in Philadelphia in the year the Declaration of
Independence was declared (1776). He matured
mostly in his native city but when verging on manhood he
went to Frederick County, Va., and there married
Barbara Correll, a native of Rockingham County, Va.,
but of German extraction. During the first decade
of the present century they moved to Ohio and settled
near Chillicothe, where they remained until 1818, in
which year they settled in the town of Jackson, Ohio.
When coming to Jackson the town was embriotic, the
country surrounding it in the wilds of nature, and the
population very much in a minority with the wild
denizens that roamed the dense unbroken forest.
Here he opened a small store, one among the first in
town, and thus continued until his death, which occurred
in 1860, from an attack of Asiatic cholera. He had
been apprenticed to the hatter's trade, when a boy and
followed that pursuit until coming to Jackson. He
was of elastic step and activity, having lived to the
age of eighty-four years, and accomplished a great deal
of good through life. In politics he was an old
line Whig, but not of an aspiring disposition. He
was contented with the quiet routine of business life,
in which his honor and integrity were unquestioned, and
he died an esteemed citizen of Jackson. He was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church, to which he
zealously adhered for many years. He also was an
ardent member of the Masonic fraternity, possessed with
liberality, charity and benevolence. At the time
of his death he had been a widower several years.
He and wife had six children of whom John L., the
third, was born in Jackson, Ohio, in 1825, and has been
a life-long resident of his native town. His
youthful days were spent in his father's store together
with sufficient time in school to acquire a good
education. On nearing maturity he saw that in all
business life a knowledge of law would not only be
beneficial, but at the same time gratifying to possess,
hence he devoted two years of his life to reading in
that profession, not with the expectation of practicing.
In 1852 he married Cornelia V. Hoffman, of
Jackson, and soon after engaged in the mercantile
pursuit, which he continued until the opening of the
late Rebellion, at which time he bought his present
farm, west of town, and settled his family on it.
He took an active part in recruiting companies but never
entered active service. He resides on his farm,
cultivating it himself until 1880, when he abandoned the
farm duties, only superintending the tenants. In
1880 he opened his present general retail store, corner
of Main and Portsmouth streets, Jackson. In
politics he is a Democrat though not an aspirant for
office. He is also a member of the Masonic order
in good standing. He and wife have had six
children, five of whom are still living and are well
educated, which was one of the leading objects of the
subject of this sketch. Mrs. Long is an
ardent worker in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 564 |
JAMES
W. LONGBON - There is a popular tradition
entitled to some credence that one of his paternal
ancestors came over from Normandy to England with
William the Conqueror and fought at the battle of
Hastings. This tradition is supported byt he
ancient orthography of the name Longbonne as found in
old family records, which is evidently of Norman origin
and which has been curtailed from time to time to its
present form. Moreover, William and
Norman have always been favorite names in the
family, and seem to have been perpetuated from
generation to generation. Concerning the ability,
rank, prowess, achievements or personal appearance of
their ancestor, we have no reliable testimony.
Probably he was large, tall and dark, as a Norman
warrior should be, clad in a coat of mail with helmet
and visor, armed with a lance and cross bow, and
reflecting the typical crusader, who went out to do
battle for the cross and the sepulcher in the Holy Land.
Let us presume that he "drew a good bow at Hastings,"
and leave him there in his glory. The subject of
this sketch was born in Yorkshire, England, May 26,
1824, and came to Lorain County, Ohio, in 1829.
Attended district school at Grafton, Ohio. Pursued
academical studies for several years at Elyria, Ohio,
and prepared for admission to the junior class in
college. Taught a common school in the counties of
Medina, Cuyahoga, Holmes and Lorain. Came to
Jackson, Ohio, in 1847, and engaged in teaching.
Married in 1849. Taught in the public schools at
Piketon, Ohio, in 1851 and 1852, and returned to Jackson
in 1853. Studied law with Hon. Levi Dungan
and was admitted to practice in 1854.
Superintended the Jackson public schools and practiced
law until 1862, when he was appointed Adjutant of the
Ninety-first Regiment, Ohio Infantry Volunteers, and
served nearly two years until discharged for physical
disability. Appointed Commissioner for the Board
of Enrollment for the Eleventh District of Ohio in 1864,
and Provost-Marshal of the same district in 1865.
Probate Judge of Jackson County from 1867 to 1870.
Received the honorary degree of A. M. from the Ohio
University in 1874. Deputy Collector of Internal
Revenue from 1875 to 1878. Superintendent of
Jackson from 1875 to 1878. Superintendent of
Jackson public schools from 1877 to 1880. Has held
the office of Master Commissioner of Jackson Common
Pleas continuously since 1857, and the office of County
School Examiner since 1852. In the discharge of
the duties of the respective positions he has been
called to fill he has displayed abilities of a high
order. Endowed with great energy and perseverance,
every duty is fully performed. His habits of mind
will leave him satisfied with nothing less than the
entire accomplishment, even to the minutest detail, of
every task undertaken. While busily engaged in the
active duties of life he has nevertheless devoted
himself assiduously to the acquisition of knowledge, and
his investigations have led him into many different
fields of inquiry. His sphere of knowledge
embraces literature, science, philosophy, professional
studies and all the leading topics of the day. His
knowledge is not superficial but accurate, thorough and
profound. He is a ripe scholar. While his
perceptive faculties may not be so quick, nor his
processes of thought so rapid as many other men, yet his
views are clear, profound and comprehensive. He
has great ability as a writer in poetry as well as in
prose. In his character as a citizen he is without
reproach. He has positive opinions upon most
political and social questions, and in his expression of
them he is fearless and outspoken. In all his
views he is entirely upright and conscientious. He
has been a member of the Methodist church from infancy,
and in all the relations of life his conduct has been in
entire accord with his professions, than which there can
be no higher praise.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 565 |
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