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History of Lower Scioto Valley
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1884

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	JOHN PADAN was born in Ireland, May 10, 1823, a son of Henry Padan, a farmer of that which he worked at in connection with farming seven years in Ireland.  He was married May 24, 1849, and the same year came to the United States, landing in New York, Aug. 9, Sept. 17 he came to Portsmouth and has since made this his home.  He is a father of the Padan Brothers, proprietors of the Portsmouth Shoe Factory.  He started his sons in business and made their credit good by his own risks.  He is one of the oldest residents of Portsmouth and has always been prominently identified with all her interests.  His family consists of five sons and one daughter, and is one of which any man might be proud.  He holds the confidence and respect of a large circle of acquaintances.   ~ Page 285 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	WILLIAM S. PATTEN, contractor and builder and proprietor of the Portsmouth Planing Mill, was born in Marietta, Washington Co., Ohio, Mar. 10, 1833, a son of Richard Patten.  His father died in Gallipolis in 1860 and his mother still resides in Harmar, aged seventy five years.  William S. began to work at the carpenter's trade when eighteen years of age and served an apprenticeship of three years.  He then went to Ashland, Ky., and two years later, in 1855, came to Portsmouth.  Since 1859 he has been contracting and building, and for twenty-three years has been in the planing mill.  In his mill he employs several hands dressing all the lumber he uses and also doing custom work.  He enlisted in 1862 in Company F, Fifty-sixth Ohio Infantry, and served thirteen months, being discharged on account of disability.  He was married in 1857 to Eliza Cox, of Ashland, Ky.  They have one child, Maud, aged thirteen years.  Mr. and Mrs. Patten are members of the Sixth-Street Methodist Episcopal Church.  He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Grand Army of the Republic.  ~ Page 286 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	T. M. PATTERSON, proprietor of the blank book manufactory and bindery, 112 West Second street, Portsmouth, was born in Steubenville, Ohio, Dec. 13, 1826, a son of James Patterson, who died in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1852.   When twenty-one years of age he went to Cleveland and was employed as foreman in the book-bindery of Sanford & Hayward till October, 1850, when he came to Portsmouth and was employed by Stevenson & Co., booksellers and binders.  In 1855 he bought a half interest in the bindery, and in 1864 a half interest in the store.  In 1866 he became sole proprietor of the bindery.  He has all the necessary machinery of a first-class establishment, consisting of a ruling machine, thirty-six-inch paper cutter, paging and numbering machine, Hitchcock’s shears and backing machine, two standing and two lying presses, perforator, etc.  He has a large city and country trade.  In December, 1852, Mr. Patterson married Caroline, daughter of John Clugston, of Portsmouth.  She died in 1865, aged thirty-three years, leaving two sons—James and Charles R.  In December, 1866, he married Lydia R., daughter of W. H. H. Taylor.  They have four children—Maggie Belle, Thomas M., Walter K. and Nettie C.   A daughter, Lucy, died at the age of three and a half years; a son, Louis D., at the age of eleven, and Emma, aged seven. ~ Page 285 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	EUGENE PECK was born in Rutland, Vt., Dec. 14, 1833, but in boyhood, removed with his parents to Massachusetts.  He had the advantage of a good education, and by close study has acquired a good practical knowledge of business and public affairs.  In 1854 he removed to Allegany County, N. Y., where he resided a year and a half, when he removed to Lorain County, Ohio, and in 1857 came to Scioto County.  He now owns a farm of 200 acres, partly improved.  He has been Trustee of the township several terms, and Treasurer four years.  In 1876 he went to California, where he has a brother, and remained a year engaged in the lumber business.  In 1880 he again went to the Western slope and invested in a gold mine, which he is now operating with fair success.  He was married in 1863 to Rose Ann, daughter of Jonathan Glaze.  They have four children - Lowell N., Cora E., Lyman J., and Lulu Pearl.  Mr. and Mrs. Peck, Lowell and Cora are members of the United Brethren church. ~ Page 410 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
J. Scott Peebles	JOSEPH SCOTT PEEBLES was born at Chillicothe, Ross Co., Ohio, June 19, 1817.  His father, John Peebles, was born near Shippensburg, Pa., Nov. 21, 1769, and was married Nov. 17, 1795, to Margaret Rodgers, also a native of Shippensburg, born May 13, 1777.  They both died at Hanging Rock, Lawrence Co., Ohio, and are buried in Green Lawn Cemetery, Portsmouth.  The former died Oct. 22, 1846, and the latter, Aug. 28, 1847.  They moved to Ohio in 1858, coming down the Ohio River on a flat-boat, stopping at Portsmouth; from there to Alexandria and Chillicothe, where they remained till April, 1819, when they returned to Portsmouth, coming down the Scioto River in a flat-boat.  They had a family of nine children -William, died July 24, 1829, aged thirty-three years; Rachel Rodgers, a resident of Portsmouth, died Aug. 26, 1883, aged eighty-five years; Elizabeth, died April 15, 1875, aged seventy-five years; Fanny Denny, died in Pennsylvania, Nov. 11, 1804, aged sixteen months; Jane Findley, died Nov. 1, 1875, aged sixty-nine years; Richard Rodgers, of Hempstead, Texas, aged seventy-three years; Margaret Rodgers, died Sept. 27, 1822, aged eleven years; John Geddes, of Portsmouth, aged seventy years, and Joseph Scott, the subject of this sketch.  He was two years of age when his parents removed to Portsmouth.  His father was a cabinet maker, carrying on that business in connection with the hotel and commission house, and also manufactured wrought nails, which were then sold at from 40 to 60 cents per pound.  Joseph attended school till fifteen years of age, finishing at the old seminary that stood on the corner of Market and Fourth streets, Davis and Archibald being  the teachers.  After leaving school he spent a few months with his brother John, who was bookkeeper and financial manager of Lemuel Moss’s flour and stone mill at the Three Locks, and a few months with G. J. Leet, agent for the Troy & Erie Canal boats.  He was then a year or two with William Hall, of Portsmouth, where he learned the dry-goods business.  He next went with his brother-in-law, Robert Wood, who was in the supply business, on the corner of Front and Madison streets (the Lodwick corner), and afterward on the corner of Jefferson and Front streets.  In 1836 Mr. Wood removed to Wheelersburg, and changed his business to dry goods and groceries.  In 1836 Mr. Peebles went to Hanging Rock to take charge of the store owned by his brother-in-law, Robert Hamilton, which was connected with Pine Grove Furnace.  This position gave him an opportunity to become acquainted with the leading iron men of that day, as Hanging Rock was the headquarters for the men in that business, and his brother-in-law was the peer of them all.  All important iron and political meetings were held at Hanging Rock.  During: the years 1842, 1813, 1844, after Mr. Hamilton had become exclusive owner of Pine Grove Furnace, he associated with him John Ellison, the manager of the furnace, James A. Ritchie, his bookkeeper, and Joseph Scott Peebles, under the firm name Hamilton & Co. In 1844 Messrs. Ellison, M. R. Tewksbury and Ritchie purchased Jackson Furnace, Ohio, and Mr. Peebles, in company with Robert Wood and Thomas Martin, built the Hanging Rock Foundry, and carried on business under the firm name of Peebles, Wood & Co.  This proved a very successful venture, and the business was but recently purchased by a Cincinnati firm, who have made extensive improvements.  In October, 1850, John F. Steele, the junior partner and bookkeeper of Hamilton, Peebles & Co., died, and Joseph was solicited to accept the position thus made vacant, with the promise of an interest at some future day.  In 1854 the new firm was formed, consisting of Robert Hamilton, John G. Peebles, Samuel Coles and Joseph Scott Peebles, the name being Hamilton, Peebles & Coles.  Sept. 11, 1856, Mr. Hamilton died, and the business was carried on eight years longer under the same name, and in 1864 was sold to Messrs. Kyle & Co. April 30, 1864, Mr. Peebles removed to Portsmouth, and with his brother John G. and others bought the Ashland coal and railroad property, with large quantities of iron and coal, and opened the coal banks at Coalton, and built a stored coal furnace at Ashland. A year later, his health becoming impaired, he sold his property to his brother John G., and traveled a year through the Eastern and Southern States.  In June, 1866, he returned to Ohio, and went to Lebanon, where he put two sons of his brother, Richard R., and his own son in the Normal School.  While there he purchased the Corwin property, remaining there till June, 1869, when he purchased his present residence, 49 Wesley avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. Sept. 28, 1874, he went with his son William, who had been appointed Vice Consul by Hon. James C. Scott, United States Consul to the Hawaiian Islands, and Dec. 1, 1875, returned to San Francisco and took a steamer for Japan, traveling through the countries of the Eastern continent, and returned to America Oct. 28, 1876.  Since his return he visited all parts of his own country, and has been in 36 of the States, composing the most of the United States.  Mr. Peebles is now a stockholder in the Portsmouth Steel and Iron Works, Ironton, Ohio, and the Peebles, Foulds A Co. flour mills, Cincinnati, Ohio.  He was married April 8, 1851, to Nancy Findley Lodwick, daughter of Colonel John Lodwick, who was born in Winchester, Va., in 1767, and was married in June, 1790, to Elizabeth Cooley, who died in June, 1800, leaving four children—Sarah, William, Ludlow an d James, all now deceased. July 18, 1802, Colonel Lodwick married Hannah Findley, who died July 6, 1827, leaving ten children—Kennedy, Lysle, Joseph Findley, Michael, Preston, John Newton, Jane Elizabeth, Martha Scott, Milton Williamson and Nancy Findley; Kennedy, Joseph, Michael, Milton and Nancy are deceased. In October, 1828, Colonel Lodwick married Eliza B. Elliott, who died in 1851.  He died March 4, 1861, having lived to see his children all married and in comfortable circumstances.  Mr. and Mrs. Peebles were the youngest members of their respective families. They had but one child - William, now in partnership with his father.  Mrs. Peebles died Oct. 23, 1881, aged sixty-one years.  March 18, 1860, Mr. Peebles united with the First Presbyterian Church at Hanging Rock.  His wife was a member of another church, but transferred her membership to the church of her husband’s choice.  Politically he in early life joined the Know Nothings, but took no more than one degree.  His first vote was for Wilson Shannon, Democratic Governor in 1838.  For Presidents he voted for Van Buren, Polk, Cass, Pierce, Buchanan.  In 1860 he changed his politics, and has since voted for the Republican candidates, and the second Tuesday in October voted for Joseph B. Foraker, and the First and Second Amendment.  About the year 1871 or 1872, in consequence of a gentleman living in the city of Cincinnati bearing the name of Joseph S. Peebles, their correspondence got considerably mixed up, and Mr. Peebles changed the style of his signature to J. Scott, which has been a successful change, at least to him. ~ Page 286 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	HENRY PETERS was born Mar. 25, 1827, in Switzerland, and in 1849 came to the United States with his father, his mother, Elizabeth Wolschleger, having died while crossing the ocean.  Shortly after, they moved to Portsmouth, where the father, Jacob Peters, died in 1863.  Our subject learned the trade of a carriage painter in Portsmouth which he followed eight years.  He was married in 1856 to Caroline Stauffer, a native of France.  This union has been blessed with five boys and three girls.  His wife died May 15, 1881.  Mr. Peters served as Justice of the Peace three years, and has held the office of Trustee of his township two terms, and was also School Director for twelve years.  His farm contains 250 acres of land, and he has met with much success in raising strawberries, picking as high as 700 quarts daily, cultivating five acres of plants.  His farm contains a vineyard and large orchards of apples and peaches. ~ Page 338 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	C. K. PFEIFFER was born in Germany in 1833, a son of Conrad Pfeiffer, a miller and farmer, who died at the age of eighty-seven, leaving a valuable estate.  He came to the United States in 1852, locating in New York, but soon after came to Portsmouth and engaged in the cabinet business, having learned the trade in Germany.  April 1, 1882, he became established in his present place of business, No. 11 East Market street, Portsmouth, Ohio.  The business occupies three floors.  The first floor is the sale and show-room, and contains all kinds of furniture; the second floor is devoted to upholstered goods of every variety, and the third floor to wardrobes, extension-tables, mattresses, undertakers’ supplies, etc.  Although one of the more recently established houses in the city, it is doing a good business, and the stock cannot be excelled in Portsmouth.  Mr. Pfeiffer was married in 1855 to Mary Legler, who was born Nov. 22, 1839.  Her parents were natives of Germany and came to America in 1838.  Mr. and Mrs. Pfeiffer have three children - Charles and George, in the store with their father, and Mary Ann.  A son, Frank, died at the age of seven years, and Willie died, aged eighteen days.  ~ Page 288 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	JOHN PHILLIPS was born in Adams County, Ohio, Dec. 14, 1817.  His father, John Phillips, was a native of Maryland, and came to Ohio when a young man, where he was married to Betsy, daughter of Ephraim Cole, an early settler of Bloom Township.  They settled in Adams County, where they lived about twenty years, when they moved to Lawrence County, where the father died in 1828, and the mother died in 1863, in Adams County.  They settled in Adams County, where they lived about twenty years, when they moved to Lawrence County, where the father died in 1828, and the mother died in 1863, in Adams County.  They reared a family of nine children to maturity - Leonard, Sophia, Sarah, Phoebe, Marioon, Theophilis, John Silas and Ephraim.  Our subject was early thrown upon his own resources and spent his youth in and about furnaces.  He was married in 1838 to Minerva, daughter of Gilbert Bennett.  They were the parents of twelve children, seven of whom still survive.  Mr. Phillips has a good farm of 128 acres, a portion of which is underlaid with the iron ore and block and limestone ore.  He was elected County Commissioner in 1876, serving one term of three years.  At present is holding the office of Township Trustee.  He was manager of Bloom Furnace two years, but has made farming his principal business.  His wife is a member of the Missionary Baptist church.  ~ Page 387 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	CORYDON PILES was born in Washington Township, Scioto Co., Ohio, in 1845, a son of Jeremiah and Philimena (Cole) Piles.  He owns forty acres of valuable land near the county infirmary.  He was married in 1868 to Emma Foster.  Six children were born to them, but four now living - William, Walter, Leroy and Laura.  Ellsworth and John are deceased.  Mr. Pile's father was born in Pennsylvania, a son of John Piles, who located near Carey's Run in 1813.  He was extensively engaged in farming, milling and tanning.  He served as Justice of the Peace, Township Clerk and Trustee many years.  He was also a teacher of vocal music, having a very fine voice.  He died in March, 1853.  His wife died Oct. 17, 1881, aged nearly eighty-two years.  Of their five children, but two are living - Corydon and Frank.  The latter enlisted in the war of the Rebellion in the First Ohio Artillery and served three years.  He was wounded in the head at Fort Republic.  He now lives at Tolono, Champaign Co., Ill.  ~ Page 449 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	LEONIDAS PILES farmer, was born in Scioto County, Ohio, in 1842, a son of William and Ellen (Brous) Piles.  In 1862 he enlisted in Battery L, First Ohio Light Artillery, and served till the close of the war.  He participated in the battles of Antietam, Winchester, Fisher’s Hill, Cedar Creek, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, New Hope Church and many others.  Upon his return to Ohio he resumed the labors of the farm, and since 1867 has resided in Nile Township, where he owns a farm of fifty acres, part of which is bottom land.  He has held the office of Township Trustee ten or twelve years; has been a member of the State Board of Education, and in 1881 was elected Infirmary Director.  He was married in 1866 to Mary, daughter of Mathew Burris.  To them have been born seven children— Alice B., William A., Sidella F., Mary L., James E., Anna M. and Harriet E.  Mr. Piles’s father was a son of John Piles, an early settler of Washington Township, who died in 1837.  He was married in 1837 to Ellen, daughter of John A. Brous.  Of their four children, but two are living—Allen and Leonidas.  Almira and John Andrew are deceased.  Mr. Piles died in 1847, aged thirty-two years.  Mr. Piles’s father was born in Pennsylvania in 1795, a son of Nathan and Sarah (Bradkit) Burris.  His parents came to Ohio in 1827 and settled in Scioto County, where they both died, his father surviving his mother but eleven days.  They reared ten of eleven children born to them—Rachel, Mary, Mathew, Solomon, Horatio, Ruth, Maria Lucy and Nancy, Matthew being the only one now living.  He married Mary, daughter of Littleton and Mary Bradford.  Of their eight children— Maria, Sarah, twin sons, Harriet, Nathan, Horatio and Mary—the latter is the only one now living.  Mrs. Burris died Sept. 5, 1881, aged sixty-five years.  ~ Page 437 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	CHARLES PLAG was born in Germany, Feb. 4, 1843, and when he was about twenty-six years of age came to the United States.  He  remained in Cincinnati, Ohio, two years, and in 1869 came to Portsmouth, where he married Katie Gross, who came from Germany when seventeen years old.  They have two daughters - Ella C. and Katie M.  Mr. Plag has five acres of land in Brewery Hollow, Clay Township.  ~ Page 338 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	GEORGE POLLOCK, farmer; postoffice, Rushtown; was born in Scioto County, Ohio, in 1823, a son of David and Nancy Pollock, natives of Virginia, who settled in this county in 1800, and purchased the farm where George now lives.  They were members of the Presbyterian church.  Mrs. Pollock died July 4, and Mr. Pollock July 11, 1853, the former seventy and the latter seventy-two years of age.  Of the ten children born to them, seven are now living - Mrs. Mary Noel, Mrs. Anna Vastine, Mrs. Nancy Woodcock, John, Thomas, Samuel and George.  The latter was married Nov. 25, 1852, to Mary, daughter of Jared Newman, and settled on the home farm, where he still resides.  He was mostly under cultivation.  Politically he is a Democrat.  He was elected Justice of the Peace when twenty-three years of age, and held the office at Intervals twenty-one years.  He has served several terms as Clerk and Trustee of the township.  Mr. and Mrs. Pollock are members of the Baptist church.  They have had eight children born to them, but five now living - Emma, now Mrs. Young; Tillie, Thomas J., Samuel J., James V.  The following are deceased - Nancy A., died at the age of twenty-three years; Mary O. and William M. ~ Page 420 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	DANIEL POOL, blacksmith and wagon-maker, Madison Township, was born June 16, 1824, in Porter Township, Scioto County.  He lived at home till he reached his majority, when he served three years as an apprentice at the wagon-maker’s trade with his brother-in-law, Job Kiltie.  He then worked as a .journeyman for a time, after which he had charge of the shops at Jackson Furnace for a year.  He was then engaged at Franklin Furnace for two years, when he purchased the business of his former employer, which he carried on till the building of the Portsmouth branch of the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad.  He then went to Webster, Bloom Township, where he remained four years, and was engaged in the mercantile business two years, and while there served two terms as Justice of the Peace.  In 1860 he came to Madison Township, where, in connection with his other business, he has a farm of 160 acres of improved land.  In the spring of 1861 he was appointed Assistant United States Revenue Assessor for Scioto County, and served till the office was abolished in 1870.  In the spring of 1864, the Ohio National Home Guards, of which Mr. Pool was a member, volunteered in the United States military service as the One Hundred and Fortieth Ohio Infantry, and served during the summer and fall. They were assigned to guard duty and also participated in the battle of Lynchburg, Va., where, on account of the bad management of General Hunter, the Union forces were defeated.  He was married in June, 1851, to Jane Graham, a resident of Scioto County but a native of Pennsylvania.  They have had fourteen children, eight of whom are living.  Mr. Pool belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, and his wife is a member of the Free-Will Baptist church.  Andrew and Sarah (Sikes) Pool, parents of our subject, came to Scioto County about 1800, where they spent the remainder of their lives.  ~ Page 393 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	THOMAS POWELL was born in South Wales in 1831.  He was married in 1851 to Margaret Nichols, and the same year came to the United States, locating first in Norristown, Pa.  Three years later he removed to Wheeling, W. Va., thence to Ashland, Ky.  He enlisted in 1861 in the Fourteenth Kentucky Infantry and served three years and a half.  He was in many severe battles under General Garfield the first year, and was then detached from his regiment and assigned to the Engineer Battalion, Twenty-third Army Corps.  He was at the siege of Knoxville and battle of Atlanta, General Burnside commanding.  He was discharged in February, 1865, and soon after located in Sciotoville, and engaged in the manufacture of fire brick.  In 1883 he purchased sixty-one acres of land and is now engaged in farming.  Mr. and Mrs. Powell have two daughters - Mary A., now Mrs. Z. Beloat, and Sarah J., now Mrs. George Mathiott.  ~ Page 329 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	E. POWERS, farmer, was born Oct. 9, 1828, in Scioto County, where he was reared and educated, and in his younger days followed brick-laying and plastering.  He now possesses 181 acres of good land on section 9, Porter Township, on which there is to be found a large quantity of fire clay.  He has a fine land for pasturing and has turned his attention considerably to that.  Nov. 30, 1851, he was married to Sarah Dean, a native of Scioto County, born in 1829.  She died Oct. 6, 1868.  They were the parents of three children - Frank, Horace and Kate.   He was married to his second wife, Mary Bagley, May 25, 1873.  She was born in New York in 1835.  They have one child, John, born Mar. 26, 1874.  Mr. Powers s a member of the Orient Lodge of Odd  Fellows, No. 337, Wheelersburg, Ohio.  His wife belongs to the Free-Will Baptist church.  ~ Page 329 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	H. PRESCOTT, a son of Joseph J. Prescott was born in Bath, Grafton Co., N. H., in 1840.  When twenty-three years of age he came West and located at Keystone Furnace, Jackson Co., Ohio, where he kept books about nine years; he then removed to Portsmouth and was employed ten years as bookkeeper for the Portsmouth Foundry and Machine Works.  In Jan., 1882, he, with M. R. Tewksbury and Joseph Hornung, established the Standard Wheelbarrow Works, located on Front street, between Madison and Jefferson streets.  They occupy four rooms, each 20 x 60 feet, and besides manufacturing wheelbarrows have machinery for making all kinds of hoops.  They have the capacity for making ten dozen wheelbarrows a day and, when all their machinery is in use, employ thirty men.  Their sales are in job lots, shipping principally West and South.  Mr. Prescott was married in 1868 to Mary S. Tewksbury, of Bath, N. H.  ~ Page 288 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	J. W. PURDUM was born in Montgomery County, Md., Apr. 15, 1815, and moved with his parents in the fall of 1817 to Ohio.  He was reared in Ross County and learned the carpenter and joiner's trade in Chillicothe, and came to Portsmouth Jun 11, 1835, and at once commenced to work at his trade.  In 1842 he began contracting and followed that business till 1881, when he was obliged to retire on account of ill health.  He has built some of the finest houses in Portsmouth, including residences, churches and business blocks.  He was married Oct. 8, 1838, to Eliza Ratcliff, a native of England.  She died Mar. 20, 1854, leaving three children - Harriet Ellen, John Walter and Anna Eliza.  Apr. 10, 1855, Mr. Purdum married Sarah Pursell, a native of England, and a sister of James Pursell, a merchant of Portsmouth.  They have one son, J. P. Purdum, the present City Solicitor.  Mr. and Mrs. Purdum are members of the Second Presbyterian Church, Portsmouth. ~ Page 288 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884