BIOGRAPHIES
 Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio
Publ. Chicago: Inter-state
Publishing Co.
1884
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THOMAS
WALLACE PATTERSON, Deputy Auditory, Coalton,
Jackson County, was born Sept. 27, 1838, in
Philadelphia, Pa., a son of Thomas and Fanny
Patterson, natives of Ireland, who came to
Philadelphia in May, 1835, where they were married Aug.
12, 1837. Mar. 9, 1856, they left Philadelphia and
settled on their homestead in Washington Township,
Jackson Co., Ohio, where the former died Dec. 30, 1881,
and the latter Oct. 23, 1878. They were the
parents of two sons and two daughters. Our subject
attended school in Philadelphia until he was twelve
years of age. His early life was passed in
attending store, then in surveying under H. S.
Townsend. He was then engaged as cabin boy and
sailor on the schooner J. J. Ireland for a time, after
which he served an apprenticeship as machinist molder to
J. P. Morris & Co., of Philadelphia, at which he worked
till he came to Ohio, since which he has followed
farming. He enlisted in the late war in Company H,
First Ohio Heavy Artillery. He was married Nov.
17, 1858, in Washington Township, to Mary Elizabeth
Bannon. They have had ten children -
Ezekiel W., Fannie, Thomas J., Jane, John S., Catharine,
Margaret, Major K., William and Flora May.
Mr. Patterson was elected County Auditory in
October, 1875, and re-elected in October, 1877, holding
that office five years. He has held his present
office of Deputy Auditor three years. He is a
member of the Presbyterian church, and in politics is a
stalwart Republican. He is a Knight Templar Mason,
and has served as Master two years, and has taken all
the Scottish rites up to the thirty-second degree.
He served as Worthy Master two terms of the American
Protestant Association. He also belongs to the
Grand Army of the Republic, and is at present Commander
of the Francis Smith Post, No. 365.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 576 |
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J. SCOTT PEEBLES (Portrait only) |
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RUFUS
PETERS, of the Eagle Mills Company, was born in
Switzerland in 1838, the sixth of eight children of
Jacob and Elizabeth Peters, both natives of Argau,
Switzerland. In 1849 his parents started for
America, but his mother died on the voyage over.
His father and the children settled in Portsmouth, where
his father died in 1862. Rufus Peters
followed farming, railroading and milling till 1863,
when he enlisted in Company D, First Ohio Heavy
Artillery, and served two years. A part of the
time he was detailed to a grist mill and bakery.
After his return home in 1865, he was employed at the
Franklin Mills, remaining there till 1876. Since
then he has been manager and miller at the Eagle Mills.
He married Eliza, daughterd of John Davis.
They have three sons. They are members of the
Christian church. Politically, Mr. Peters
is a Democrat. He has served several terms in the
Town Council.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 576 |
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PETER
PICKREL, President First National Bank, Jackson,
is a son of Solomon and Anna Pickrel, who is
1815, with a family of five children, came from
Pittsylvania County, Va., and settled near the present
limits of Jackson, Ohio. Solomon engaged as
a farmer and frontier woodsman, enduring all the
hardships common to early-day life. He remained a
resident of Jackson County until 1845, when
he moved to Knox County, Ill., where he and his wife
both died. Of their ten children Peter is
the fourth, and was born Jan. 19, 1811, in Virginia, but
since a child of four years old has resided mostly in
Jackson County, Ohio. When he arrived at the
proper age to enter school, such was unknown, but as he
neared manhood the introduction of schools was effected,
and with the very limited privileges he acquired a
meager education. When only a youth of fifteen
years he went to the Kanawha Valley to engage in the
salt works. There he devoted his time to boating
salt down the Kanawha Valley. He commenced working
for 50 cents a day, but by his energy and industry his
wages were subsequently increased to $1 per day.
He practiced the strictest economy, and thereby in the
five years thus engaged accumulated some means; returned
to Ohio in 1831, or when twenty years of age, and
engaged in teaming, and also buying all the dry-goods,
groceries, etc., that came to Jackson, and shipping the
produce that left the village to Virginia. About
1840 he began buying horses and driving to Virginia and
North Carolina, which he continued for about five years.
This pursuit was followed by guying and selling cattle
and hogs, which was equally as successful as the former
engagement. He realized the need of a steam
grist-mill in Jackson, and in 1841 erected the Franklin
Mills, the first steam grist-mill and carding machines
in Jackson, which he conducted several years.
Beside this he had been connected with nearly all the
enterprises in and about Jackson. He started in
life a poor boy with no means, but a capital of energy
and determination. He has met with a number of
reverses, but being possessed with the skill of a close
financier his tax, outside of bank stock, amounts to
about $600 annually. In banking he ahs been
connected since 1855, and since 1879 has held his
present position. He owns a fine farm of 300 acres
near Jackson, where he resides. The surface is
underlaid with good coal and iron ore. He is a man
who has at all ties considered well the value of his
finances, and his judgment for investments is ever
regarded as valuable. He has always been
industrious, a man of average frame, plain in his dress
and manners; a man with whom it is a pleasure to do
business. He does not belong to any church, hence
is free from creed or denomination. His wife was
Elizabeth D. Haven, by whom he had ten children,
and nine are now living. Mr. Pickerel is
one of the able and well-to-do citizens, willing to
assist in all public improvements.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 575 |
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ELMER
C. POWELL, Prosecuting Attorney, Jackson, Ohio,
was born in Gallia County, Ohio, Nov. 1, 1849, and is
the eldest son of Andrew J. and Mary Ann (Kerr)
Powell. Andrew J. moved with his father to
Gallia County in an early day, where he still resides.
Our subject was reared to the life of a farmer, and
acquired a common-school education, and afterward
attended the college at Willoughby, Ohio, in 1869-70.
In the summer of 1870 he went to Victoria, Ill., where,
in 1871, he was married to Sarah E. Clark They
have three children living. After his marriage he
returned to Gallia County and farmed on his father's
farm for a time, when he went to Kansas. In 1873
he settled in Victoria, Ill., where he followed
carpentering five years. In the fall of 1876 he
commenced studying law under Homer Gains, of
Victoria, Ill. In 1877 he returned to Ohio,
continued reading law, and was admitted to the bar in
the fall of 1878, at McArthur, Ohio. He then
settled in Jackson, and in 1880 was elected to his
present position, and re-elected in the fall of 1882.
Mr. Powell has, during his life, written several
political ballads.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 577 |
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HENRY
PRICE, mining surveyor and engineer, Jackson,
Ohio, was born in Dudley, Staffordshire, England, Dec.
8, 1824, a son of George and Sarah (Round) Price,
who, in 1832, with a family of eight children, came to
the United States and located in Pittsburg, Pa., and in
1846 came to Jackson County, Ohio, and located hear
Portland, where Mr. Price died in 1863.
Mrs. Price is still living, aged eighty-three years.
Of their eight children but three are now living, and
the subject of our sketch is the second. His
boyhood days were spent in mining and attending school,
his time being about equally divided between the two.
From 1852 till 1858 he resided in Meigs County, employed
in superintending mines. Since 1868 he ahs been
employed at the Star mines. He has had wide
experience, and has few equals and o superiors in his
branch of business. He was married in 1850 to
Mary Harrop. They have one daughter,
Cordelia.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 578 |
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