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JOHN PEASE TERRY,
President and Superintendent of the Portsmouth Iron and Steel
Company, was born in Coldbrook, N. H., Feb. 16, 1807, a son of
Charles and Huldah (Pease) Terry. About 1810 his parents
moved seven miles south of Sodus Point, Wayne Co., N. Y. His
father was a minuteman and was killed at the bu8rning of the Point
by the British in 1814. He remained with his mother a short
time and then went to live with Wells Whitman, of Ontario
County, remaining with him till eighteen years of age. He was
reared a farmer, with no educational advantages, but by personal
application and private study he acquired a fair education. In
1825 he borrowed $1 from his mother and started for the West.
He stopped in Buffalo a month, and then proceeded to Cleveland,
Ohio, then a place of 2,500 inhabitants. From there he went to
Akron, and the next spring to Newbury. In February, 1828, he
was employed by Francis Cleaveland, in the engineer corps of
the Ohio and Erie Canal, and by diligent study he was promoted at
different times till finally he was assistant engineer, serving
under Mr. Cleaveland till 1832. In the summer of 1832
he was contractor on the Cincinnati & Harrison Turnpike, in Hamilton
County. He then became a stockholder in the Clinton Furnace
Company, and was manager till 1834. About that time he was
financially ruined by the failure of Jacob Clingman,
for whom he hand endorsed notes, and was obliged to again work for a
salary. He then went to Indiana and was engaged in engineering
on the Wabash & Erie Canal a part of 1834-'5, after which he took
heavy contracts on the canals, completing some of them in 1837.
In 1837, having again acquired considerable capital, he came to
Portsmouth, and the following year, with Richard Lloyd,
became established in the wholesale boot and shoe business,
remaining with him till 1840. From 1843 till 1845 he, with
William Waller, W. Davis, and Samuel Cole shipped produce
to New Orleans. Having to take a farm in Washington Township
on a mortgage he carried it on till 1847, when with Wm. Waller
and Samuel Cole he bought the Quarry flouring mills and
tannery. In 1853 he retired from the firm, and with others
built the Madison Furnace, in Jackson County. In 1864 he sold
out and speculated in iron till 1866, when he bought the Buckeye
Furnace. In 1870 he retired from business. In 1873 he
went to Missouri and built the Hamilton Furnace, but it not proving
a paying investment he, in 1874, returned to Portsmouth. He
has been a Director and Stockholder in the First National Bank since
its organization, and in 1878 was chosen President, but only served
a year. In 1879 he became a stockholder in the Portsmouth Iron
and Steel Company, and since June, 1881, he has been President and
Superintendent. Mr. Terry has served on the City
Council and School Board several terms each. Nov. 14, 1832, he
married Susan, daughter of Dr. Thomas Waller.
They have had five children - Mary Indiana, Charles, Louis,
George and Alice B. A daughter, Ella, died
in 1835, aged one year. A son, Thomas, was a cadet at
West Point at the breaking out of the Rebellion, but resigned and
enlisted in the Union army. He was Second Lieutenant in the
Ohio Heavy Artillery, and was detailed on the staff of General S.
S. Fry. He died at Point Burnsides, Ky., Mar. 4, 1864,
aged twenty-one years. Louis and George were
both in the late war, the former in Company A, Thirty-third Ohio
Infantry, and the later in what was known as President Lincoln's
Guards, stationed at Washington, D.C.
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JAMES DAVIS THOMAS
was born Mar. 3, 1816, in Ross County, Ohio. His father,
Benjamin Thomas, was born in Chester County, Pa., and his
mother was a native of Virginia. They emigrated to Ohio in 1801 and
settled in Ross County, near Frankford. In 1820 they settled
in Clay Township, Scioto County, where the father died in 1832, and
the mother was burned to death in her own house in 1812. James
D. Thomas received a limited education at the subscription
schools, and in 1810 was married to Raney A., daughter of
Thomas and Elizabeth Dehart. They had a family of five
children, two of whom lived to maturity. Wm. M. died in
1882, and Mary E., wife of F. F. Millar. Mrs.
Thomas died in 1881. In 1818 Mr. Thomas moved to
his present farm, which then contained 275 acres, but now consists
of 1,200 acres. His brick residence was built in 1819.
His main occupation has been farming, in which he has been very
successful. He has been a member of the Methodist church over
forty years.
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JOHN B. THOMAS,
youngest son of Benjamin and Charity Thomas, was born near
Lucasville, Scioto County, Mar. 1, 1819. His father was a
native of Virginia and came to the Scioto Valley in an early day.
He died in 1851 and his wife is yet living, now the wife of W. J.
Galford, of this county. Our subject was reared on a farm,
and obtained a fair common-school education. He was married to
Eliza J. Farmer, who has borne him four children—Benjamin
F., Edna M., Mary C. and Oscar E. Mr. Thomas
has a farm of 150 acres of choice land, on which he raises
principally corn and wheat. He has served as Trustee of his
township three terms.
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WILLIAM J. THOMAS, merchant, was born
in June, 1837, in Scioto County, and is the
eldest son of Benjamin and Sally Thomas.
His mother dying when he was four weeks
old, he was reared by his grandmother, Mary
Thomas, till eight years of age, when he lived
with his father, who had previously married Charity Thomas. His father died in 1851.
He attended the common schools, and when
he grew to manhood engaged in farming. He
was married in 1860 to Mary M., daughter of B. G. Warwick, M. D., of
Lucasville. He
has seven children living, his eldest daughter, Anna, being married to
A. J. Hawk, of Syracuse,
Ohio. Soon after his marriage he moved
to Illinois and pursued farming for five years,
after which he returned to the Scioto Valley
and engaged in the mercantile business. Mr.
Thomas was elected Township Assessor in
1865, and was again elected in 1882. He is a
member of Lodge No. 165, A. F. & A. M.,
and has belonged to the Commandery since his
twenty-fourth year, he being at that time its
youngest member. His wife is an active
member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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WILLIAM M. THOMAS,
deceased, was the only son of James D. and Nancy A. Thomas,
and was born in Scioto County, Ohio, Nov. 15, 1841. He was
married in 1867 to Rachel R., daughter of Thomas Morgan,
one of the first settlers of the Scioto Valley. This union was
blessed with seven children, of whom four are living—Charles W.,
Eva H., Mary M. and Edward Morgan. Mr.
Thomas was one of the most successful farmers and
stock-dealers in Valley Township. His death occurred in 18S2
and his widow still occupies his residence, which is a fine
two-story frame surrounded by beautiful grounds. He was a charter
member of the Masonic fraternity, and was Secretary of the lodge
from the time of its organization till shortly before his death.
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JAMES B. THOMPSON,
Assistant Manager of Scioto Furnace, was born near Webster, Scioto
Co., Ohio, Feb. 14, 1837, a son of John and Anna (Bennett)
Thompson, natives of Ohio. His father died about 1840.
James B. was reared on a farm, and when twenty-one years of
age went to work at teh Scioto Furnace, where he is now assistant
manager. He was married in 1858 to Maria Combs,
daughter of David and Sophia Combs. They have seven
children - Alice, Ida B., Joseph, Anna M., Silas, Bertha M.
and Albert. Mr. Thompson is a member of Scioto Lodge,
No. 31, I. O. O. F.
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GEORGE TITTLE was
born in New Paris, Preble County, Ohio, Apr. 2, 1822, a son of
John Tittle. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, a
hatter by trade, who came to Ohio when a young lad, residing in
Preble County till his death, in 1856, aged sixty years.
George Tittle learned the tanner's and currier's trade when a
young man, in Eaton, Preble County. He worked at it two years
in Wayne County, Ind., two years in Butler County, Ohio, thirteen
years in Saline, Montgomery Co., Ohio, eight years in Dayton,
Montgomery County, and in 1868 removed to Vanceburg, Ky. His
tannery in Kentucky was burned to the ground and rebuilt twice; loss
from $15,000 to $20,000. In 1877 he built the Portsmouth
Tannery, on Scioto street, between Front and Second streets.
It is the only tannery in Portsmouth, and at first was a small
affair, but has been enlarged twice. He employs from six to
eight hands, and tans from sixty to seventy-five hides a week,
making a specialty of saddle skirtings. He uses chestnut oak
bark exclusively, having it ground by steam; the liquor is also
changed by steam pumps. Mr. Tittle was married in
Preble County, May 25, 1843, to Sarah Ann Town, a native of
Philadelphia. She died in Kentucky, Apr. 5, 1876. He
afterward married Mrs. Martha J. (Kenyon) Cherington.
They have one daughter - Sallie.
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JAMES FITZMAURICE TOWELL
was born in Ardfert, County Kerry, Ireland, Nov. 3,1825. His
parents afterward moved to Listowel,
where he resided until, at the age of sixteen, he crossed the
Atlantic and joined his brother, the Rev. Thomas Towell, who
was at that time Rector of the Protestant Episcopal church, at
Oxford, Chenango Co., N. Y. He spent two years at the Oxford
Academy in hard study, then taught a district school near Guilford,
Chenango County, boarding around among the parents, as customary in
those days. He resumed his studies in the Oxford Academy, and
then -removed to Staten Island, N. Y., and became teacher of
mathematics in his brother’s boarding-school, where he taught and
studied for nearly two years. In 1847 he removed to
Portsmouth, Ohio, crossing the Alleghany Mountains in a stage.
He entered the dry-goods house of James Pursell and
T. N. Davey, and there took his first lessons in mercantile
pursuits, gaining the confidence and esteem of his employers.
In 1853 the retail branch house of I. F. Towell & Co. was
opened by Mr. Pursell, which prospered from the
.start, and at the end of three years was made into a jobbing house
exclusively, under the firm name of Pursell & Towell.
At Mr. Pursell’s death in 1857, the business was
continued for six years more with signal success, until the breaking
out of the Rebellion, when trade was prostrated and property on the
border endangered. It was deemed necessary by Mr.
Towell to discontinue the partnership, and restore to Mr.
Pursell’s estate the capital invested with the profits,
intact. He continued the business alone until 1878, when his
son-in-law, Dan McFarland, became associated with him
under the firm name of Towell & McFarland. In
July, 1880, they established, with Mr. A. L.Sanford the
extensive wholesale manufacturing clothing house of McFarland,
Sanford & Co., which with their wholesale dry-goods house is
conducted with marked success, giving employment to 150 operatives.
Oct. 23, 1849, Mr. Towell married Seva C. Greene,
of Staten Island. They have three daughters - Essie, Louise,
wife of Dan. McFarland, and Addie. They lost
three daughters in infancy. Mr. Towell and his
family are members of All-Saints’ Protestant Episcopal Church,
Portsmouth. He is Senior Warden of the parish, and
Superintendent of the Sunday-school, positions he has held for many
years.
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HENRY ABNER TOWNE,
lawyer, Judge an Mayor, Portsmouth, Ohio, was born in
Litchfield, Herkimer Co., N. Y., Jan. 5, 1826. He is the only child
of Abner Towne and Sarah Eliza Vinton. His father
graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N. Y.; studied divinity
at Andover, Mass., and was ordained pastor of the Presbyterian
church in Litchfield, N. Y., on July 18, 1825, where he died
June 19, 1826, in the very prime of his usefulness, greatly
lamented. Our subject was then only five months old. His
mother was a sister of the Hon. Samuel P. Vinton, once a
Member of Congress from the Gallipolis, Ohio district. Shortly
after the death of her husband she returned to her parents in
Amherst, Mass., but some two or three years subsequent came to Ohio,
and made her home with her brother in Gallipolis for a year or more,
while there being engaged in teaching school. She afterward
became the wife of Dr. Robert Safford, of Putnam, Ohio (now
included in the city of Zanesville), and in 1831 removed to that
place. When about ten years of age young Towne went to
live with an aunt in Milan, Huron Co., Ohio, and there began a
course of study preparatory for college. Returning to Putnam
after a year or two, he completed his college preparation. In
the fall of 1841 he entered Marietta College, and graduated
therefrom in 1845. For a year subsequent he was engaged in
teaching school in Coshocton, Ohio, and while thus employed resumed
the study of law under the Hon. David Spangler, which he had
previously begun under General C. P. Goddard, of Zanesville.
In 1849 he was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati, and immediately
located in Marietta, where he began the practice of his profession
in partnership with Hon. W. A. Whittlesey, after a Member of
Congress from Southern Ohio. In December, 1855, he removed to
Portsmouth, where for several years he continued in practice by
himself, but subsequently took into partnership Hon. James W.
Bannon, of Portsmouth. In 1868 he was elected Judge of the
Common Pleas for the second sub-division of the second judicial
district of Ohio, but served only something over a year, and then
resigned and resumed his legal practice in Portsmouth, with H. W.
Farnham In the spring of 1879 he was chosen Mayor of
Portsmouth, and served acceptably a term of two years. During
the summer of 1880 he served under the Government as Supervisor of
the census for the Fourth Census District of the State. In
January, 1882, his health being impaired, and for the purpose of
having a change of labor and climate, he accepted the position of
Clerk of the House of Representatives' Committee in the District of
Columbia, and served during the Forty-seventh Congress. In
politics he was formerly an Old line Whig, but upon the organization
of the Republican party became one of its first advocates, and has
voted solely with that party since. He has always taken a
lively interest in all educational matters, and for four years was a
member of the Portsmouth Board of Education, serving as its
secretary, a and also having charge of its finances. He is
connected as stockholder and director with the Scioto Star
Fire-Brick Works, of East Portsmouth, and also stock-holder in the
Globe Iron Company, of Jackson, Jackson Co., Ohio. On Dec. 18,
1856, Judge Town, married Harriet Nye, of Marietta,
Ohio, whose father, Judge Arius Nye, once represented his
district in the Ohio Legislature, also served as Common Pleas Judge,
and was very prominent and useful man of his day. She is also
a great-granddaughter, on her mother's side, of General Benjamin
Tupper, of Revolutionary fame. The issue of this marriage
was one son - Robert S. Towne. He is a graduate of the
Ohio State University at Columbus, and is by profession a mining
engineer. He is now located at Buena Vista, Col. , and is
prosecuting his chosen profession with fine success. In
religious views Judge Towne is an Episcopalian, and is a
Vestryman in All-Saints' Episcopal Church, Portsmouth, Ohio.
He is a man of fine natural abilities and good judgment, and is well
qualified for the honorable positions held by him, all of which have
been tendered him without his solicitation. His ministrations,
both as Judge and as Mayor, have been rendered with fidelity and
impartiality. He possesses a fine physique, courteous manners
and excellent social qualities, and is very greatly respected in the
community.
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REV. JOHN B. TRACY
was born Apr. 12, 1837, in Chenango County, N. Y.,
and came to Ohio at the age of fifteen years, where he clerked at
the Pioneer Furnace Store several years. He was married in
1859 to Eliza Brady, daughter of Levi and Emily Brady,
who were among the first settlers of Bloom Township. They have
a family of six children - Charles P., Emily B., Uriah and
Mary (twins), Albert and John. Soon after
his marriage he went to Gallia County, where he was engaged in the
mercantile business one year. He then returned to Scioto
County and purchased his present farm of 107 acres, on which is a
fine two-story frame dwelling and good barns and outbuildings.
In 1872 Mr. Tracy entered the ministry and was licensed to
preach, and the following year was regularly ordained. He has
preached in different places, and has at present charge of Roscoe
Church, Palestine, in Lawrence, and Sand Fork in Gallia County.
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W. D. TREMPER, D. D. S.,
was born in New Richmond, Ohio, Jan. 9, 1851, a son of
Johnson Tremper, a pioneer of New Richmond. He began the
study of his profession under Dr. R. A. Mollyneaux, and
graduated at the Ohio Dental College, Cincinnati, in 1870. He
then located in Ypsilanti, Mich., and practiced eight years, and in
1878 removed to Portsmouth, and located on the corner of Second and
Washington streets. Dr. Tremper fully understands his
profession, and is prepared to practice any part of surgical
dentistry in the most careful manner. He was married Dec. 7,
1880, to Mary Hayman, a native of Newport, Ky.
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MRS. ELIZA TROTTER,
daughter of James Denison, was born in Cincinnati. She
received her training in the millinery business from her aunt,
Mrs. F. D. May, now of Philadelphia. She established her
millinery and fancy-goods business in 1858, and has always taken the
lead in her line of business. This is the oldest established
millinery business in Portsmouth, and Mrs. Trotter is doing
an extensive business. She was first married to Harry
Lawrence, son of James Lawrence, of Cleveland who died
three years after their marriage. She was married to her
second husband, I. C. Turner, in All-Saints' Church,
Portsmouth, by the Rev. Dr. Burr. Her son, Lionel S.
Trotter, was born in 1861. He attended Wilson's Business
College, of Cincinnati, eighteen months, and is at present at the
College of Music, of Cincinnati, finishing his musical education.
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WILLIAM TURNER
was born in Washington Township, Scioto Co., Ohio, in 1831.
His early life was passed on the farm of his education was obtained
in the common schools. When but thirteen years of age he
commenced life for himself, working on a farm. He now has 550
acres of good land, all well cultivated and adapted to the raising
of grain. He has been Township Trustee a number of years, and
in 1876 was elected County Commissioner, serving till 1882. He
was married ___ __, ____. They have had a family of seven
children, but six now living - William F., Louisa, Albert,
Charles, Andrew B. and _____ (twins). Lotta is
deceased. Mr. Turner's grandfather came to Scioto
County from Virginia, in the early settlement of the State, bringing
his slaves, which he afterward set free. His children located
in this county, but afterward removed to California. Samuel's
two sons, William and John, are the only
representatives of the family now living.
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SHARON WICK'S NOTES:
Found the following:
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1860 Census - Washington Twp., Scioto Co., OH on July 18, 1860:
Dwelling 786 - Family No. 786
William Turner - 28 M - farmer - Pers$500 - b. O
Mary Turner - 21 F - b. OH----------
1870 Census - Washington Twp., Scioto Co., OH on May 20, 1870 - P.
O. Pond Run, O
Dwelling 178 - Family 181
Turner, William - 37 M W - Farmer - RE$8000 - Pers$800 - b. Ohio
Turner, Mary - 28 F W - Keeping house - b. Ohio
Turner, William - 9 M W - at school - b. Ohio
Turner, Louisa J. - 7 F W - at school - b. Ohio
Turner, Albert - 6 M W - at school - b. Ohio
Turner, Charles - 4 M W - at Home - b. Ohio
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1880 Census - Washington Twp., Scioto Co., OH on June 5, 1880
Dwelling 114 - Family 115
Turner, William - W M 47 - Md. - b. Ohio
Turner, Mary E. - W F 38 - wife - Md. - b. Ohio
Turner, W. Franklin - W M 19 - Son - Single - b. Ohio
Turner, Louisa J. - W F 17 - Dau. - Single - b. Ohio
Turner, Albert M. - M W 16 - Son - Single - b. Ohio
Turner, Chas. S. - M W 13 - Son - Single - b. Ohio
Turner, ____ D. - M W 9 - Son - (Twin) - Single - b. Ohio
Turner, Andrew B. - W M 9 - Son (Twin) - Single - b. Ohio
____, Hamlet - W M 25 - Single - Farm Hand - b. Ohio
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1900 Census - Washington Twp., Scioto Co., OH on June 14, 1900:
Visit No. 147 - Family No. 147
Turner, William H. - Head - W M March 1832 - 68 yrs old - Married 1
year - b. Ohio - fath. b. Ohio - moth. b. Ohio - Farmer
Turner, Eldeca? - Wife - W F Dec., 1855 - 44 years old - 2 children
- 2 children living - b. Ohio - fath. b. Va - moth. b. Ohio
Turner, Louisa - Dau - W F Apr. 1862 - age 38 years old - Divorced
or Widowed - 1 child - 1 child living - b. Ohio - fath. b. Ohio -
moth. b. Ohio
Turner, Minerva Z or Y? - Dau.- W F - June 1888 - age 11 years old -
Single - b. Ohio fath. b. Ohio - moth. b. Ohio
---- Mary Daniels Turner passed away Jan. 28,
1898. (She was born May 4, 1840) Buried in Friendship Cem.,
Friendship, Scioto Co., OH
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1910 Census - Washington Twp., Scioto Co., OH on April 26 & 27,
1910:
Visit No. 159 - Family No. 160
Turner, William - Head - M W 78 Wd. - b. Ohio - fath. b. Va - moth.
b. Ohio
Carr, Lizzie - Housekeeper - F W 36 M - 3 children - 3 children
living - b. Ohio - fath. b. Ohio - moth. b. Ohio
Note: William Turner was born Mar. 14,
1832 in West Portsmouth, Scioto Co., OH and passed away on Nov. 24,
1911, buried Friendship Cemetery with his wife, Mary, in Friendship,
Scioto Co., OH
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Civil War Registration
Washington Twp - Turner, William - 30 yrs. - White - Farmer -
Married - born: Ohio
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See Find A Grave Memorial ID: 181205343 for Family Gravestones
of William & Mary and their children Benjamin Franklin "Frank"
Turner, Louisa Turner, Albert R. Turner, Jennie D. Turner Blair
& Andrew Berry Turner. Also info about Charles Stoney Turner.
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