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1884

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	JOHN H. WAIT was born March 22, 1811, near Lake Champlain, in a village called Chazy, N. Y., the son of Benjamin and Lavinia (Heaton) Wait, of Waitsfield, Windsor Co., Vt.  His parents were born, reared and married in Vermont, but removed across Lake Champlain, where three of their children were born, and moved to Ohio in the year 1814.  The Wait family of Vermont are of English descent, and settled in Porter Township, Scioto County, at the date above mentioned, where the father of this sketch died at the age of eighty-four years, and his mother at the age of ninety-six years six months and fourteen days.  The grandfather of Mr. Wait was also named Benjamin.  He was a Major in the Revolutionary war; High Sheriff of Windsor County, Vt., and a Colonel in the State Militia.  He was an active participant in the French and Indian wars, and was so unfortunate as to be captured once by the Indians.  He was a good runner and an athletic man, and the Indians compelled him to run the gauntlet; being as brae as he was strong, when the time came he started, dodging first from one side to the other, and striking out from the shoulder, he passed the ordeal without scarcely receiving a scratch.  He passed through the whole eight years of the Revolutionary war, and came off nearly unharmed.  Of the English ancestors of the Wait family, it is said, they all in this country sprang from the same stock.  The family legend is, that two or three brothers started from England for the American Colonies, and that all but one of these were lost, and he alone made the American shore.  The family of Waits are now very numerous in this country, and they have represented nearly every office from Chief Justice down, in the gift of their fellow countrymen, the Presidency, Vice-Presidency and United States Senator excepted.  At this time one of the family, Mr. Henry T. Wait, is getting up a history of the family from their first arrival in this country to the present day, a family reunion upon paper.  One paragraph from his work, only partially completed, reads: "Among the planters of Watertown, Mass., in 1637, was Richard Wait, who received several grants of land there, and his homestead of six acres can now be pointed out.  Of his three sons - John, Thomas and Joseph - the descendants of the former removed to Framingham, Mass.; Joseph removed to Marlboro, Mass., and Thomas remained in Watertown, where he appeared to  have acquired considerable property.  His sons were John, Richard, Thomas and Joseph.  The first two died young men in the early Indian wars.  Thomas removed to Lynn, Conn., and was the ancestor of Henry M. Wait, late Chief Justice of Connecticut, whose son, Morrison R. Wait, is the present Chief Justice of the United States; also of Marion Wait, a distinguished lawyer of the Revolution period, and his son, Jno. Turner Wait, now a member of Congress from Connecticut."  Space will not allow of further extract, though the sketch sent covers two sides or twelve columns of the Brookfield, Mass., News, all of interesting and important family reminiscence.  John H. Wait, the subject of this sketch, passed his life on his father's farm in Porter Township from the age of three years to seventeen.  His education was received in the schools of the day, they being kept during three months of the winter season.  Perhaps one-fourth of this school time was lost.  At the age last mentioned he went to Cincinnati to learn the cabinet-maker's trade, and finished his apprenticeship in 1831, when he returned to his father's house in Porter Township, in poor health.  He worked at home between two and three years, and then took a trip to New Orleans on a trading boat, and was absent some seven months.  Soon after his return, Mr. Wait, in the year 1836, commenced the furniture business for himself, but doing the work all by hand, for some fifteen years.  His energy and perseverance soon overcame all obstacles, and some thirty-five years ago he commenced the use of machinery, and by his business ability,  a thorough knowledge of the details of his work, he has now one of the largest furniture manufactories in Southern Ohio, working from forty to seventy-five hands and shipping to all points West and South.  Mr. Wait is now seventy-two years of age, still strong, but leaves the management and details of his business to his sons.  What time he gives to it, which is more or less every day, is spent at the factory looking after the machinery, being something of a mechanical genius.  He has made improvements in machinery, and has taken out four patents on his work.  Mr. Wait was married Sept. 12, 1839, in Harrison Township, to Malvina D. Sikes by Rev. Jno. R. Turner.  Mrs. Wait was born Dec. 8, 1819.  Her father Levi Sikes, was born in Massachusetts in 1794, and moved to Ohio in 1813 or 1814.  Her mother, Mary (Keyes) Sikes, was born in 1799 in Rockbridge County, Va., and her family came to Ohio about the same time as Mr. Sikes.  Mrs. Wait is a prominent member of the Baptist church.  Mr. and Mrs. Wait have seven children - Isabella, born July 31, 1840; Gilbert D., Oct. 15, 1841; Frances, March 19, 1844; Emeretta, July 31, 1846; John H., Jr., Sept. 23, 1848; Sarah S., Sept. 5, 1850, and John Wesley, Nov. 29, 1853.  Mr. Wait has spent rather a quiet and uneventful life, but he has now in his old age a large property, secured through his own unaided efforts, and is today one of the solid men of Portsmouth, and one of her most honored and respected citizens. ~ Page 302 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	JOHN WALKE is a native of West Virginia, where he was born Dec. 10, 1849.  He was reared principally in Jackson County, and was educated at the schools of Jackson and Scioto counties.  He learned the mechanic's trade in Jackson County, and is a very ingenious workman.  He came to Scioto County in 1869, and was married in 1879 to Catherine, daughter of Harmon Holman of Bloom.  They have one daughter - Dora B.  Mr. Walke established a repair shop in the town of Webster in 1880, and in 1882 opened a confectionery establishment which he carries on in connection with the shop.  He was for some years connected with what is now known as the Webster Fire-Brick and Coal Company.  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.  His father, Paton G. Walke, is now a resident of Jackson County and is a miner by occupation. ~ Page 388 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	GEORGE ALLEN WALLER, dealer in hardware and agricultural implements, Portsmouth, was born in Portsmouth, Aug. 24, 1817, a son of Dr. Thomas and Elizabeth (McFarlane) Waller.  When he was six years of age his father died, and his mother died when he was eight.  He remained on the homestead with his brothers and sisters till he was seventeen.  In the spring of 1835 he went to Indiana with a civil engineer corps.  In 1837 he superintended the construction of a section of the Indiana Central Canal, near Indianaapolis.  From 1837 to 1848 he was employed as pilot on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.  In the fall of the latter year he was elected by the Whig party Auditor of Scioto County, and held the office three terms of two years each.  In January, 1856, he became established in his present business.  He has served ten years as a member of the City Council, and eleven years on the Board of Education.  In 1852 he was a delegate to the National Whig Convention that nominated Scott and Graham to the Presidency and Vice-Presidency of the United States.  In 1864 he was a delegate to the convention at Baltimore that nominated Lincoln and Johnson.  In 1864 he was a member of the electoral college, representing the Eleventh Congressional District of Ohio, and cast his vote for Lincoln and Johnson.  In 1859 and 1861 he was a nominee of the Republican party for the State Senate, but his district, being Democratic, was defeated.  Oct. 6, 1847, he married Jane Davey, of Portsmouth.  They have four children - William, an atorney at Portsmouth; Clara; Henry Davey, an Episcopal clergyman, of Cincinnati; and George Allen, as clerk, with his father.  Mr. and Mrs. Waller are members of the All-Saints' Episcopal Church, Portsmouth.  He has filled many other positions of honor and trust, among which are President and Treasurer of Board of Trade, Treasurer of Scioto & Hocking Valley Railroad (now C. W. & B. R. R. ), and Treasurer of Portsmouth & Columbus Turnpike Company. ~ Page 302 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	DR. THOMAS WALLER, son of John and Mary (Matthews) Waller, was born in Stafford County, Va., Sept. 14, 1774.  He received a classical education at old William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.  Graduating at said college he came to Kentucky in 1797, and located at Washington, Mason County, where he engaged for a short time in merchandising.  He next attended lectures at Pennsylvania Medical College, in Philadelphia, being a pupil of Dr. Benjamin Rush. After graduating, he returned to Kentucky to practice his profession.  On the 10th day of January, 1800, at Millersburg, Ky., he married Elizabeth Macfarlane, daughter of Captain Alexander Macfarlane, of Shippensburg, Pa., who was a Captain in the Revolutionary army.  After his marriage he took his wife to visit her relatives in Pennsylvania, and remained there one year, during which time their first child (Margaret) was born.  The next year, 1801 Dr. Waller, with his wife and child, came to Ohio, making the trip on horseback to Wheeling, West Va., thence to Alexandria by Ohio River, and arrived at Alexandria,  Scioto County, June 21, 1801.  Dr. Waller bought property in Alexandria, and at once entered upon the practice of his profession, being the first physician in Scioto County.  He was elected Justice of the Peace of his township, and in 1803, when Scioto County was organized he was elected its first representative to the State Legislature.  In consequence of the troubles arising from the frequent inundations of the Ohio River, he moved his family to Portsmouth, Ohio, where he continued to reside up to the day of his death.  Dr. Waller was appointed Postmaster of Portsmouth, being the first postmaster Portsmouth had.  He held the office until his death, in 1823.  In addition to the positions of honor and trust above mentioned, he was President of the Commercial Bank, of Scioto, and in 1815 he was chosen as the first President of the first Vestry of All-Saints' Protestant Episcopal Church.  Dr. Waller died July 19, 1823, of a disease brought on by overwork in his practice.  Elizabeth Waller, his wife, died July 16, 1825.  To use the words of the late Dr. Hempstead, "Dr. Waller was genial, witty, and full of good humor.  In manners he was a fair specimen of the Virginia gentleman of the old school of politeness, without a particle of professional jealousy or selfishness."  And the late James Keyes, in his sketch of Dr. Waller, says: "He died leaving more friends and fewer enemies than any other man in Scioto County."  The children born to Thomas Waller and Elizabeth (Macfarlane) Waller are - Margaret, married Captain Francis Cleveland, both dead; Mary, married Washington Kinney, both dead; William, died unmarried; Thomas, married Miriam Coppage and moved to Rush County, Ind., both dead; Elizabeth, unmarried, living; Hannah, died unmarried; John, married Mary J. Baldridge, living; Susannah, married John P. Terry, living; George Allen, married Jane Davey, living. ~ Page 304 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	JOHN L. WARD was born Feb. 24, 1813, in Maryland, and came to Pickaway County, Ohio, in 1818 with his parents, James and Ann (Darhy) Ward.  His father was born about 1785, and died in Ohio, in 1840.  He carried on a blacksmith shop a number of years in Pickaway County.  His wife died in 1877.  They were the parents of seven children, of whom four are living, all, with the exception of our subject, residing in Illinois.  Our subject attended school six months, and worked in his father's blacksmith-shop till twenty years of age, and in 1836 was married to Mary E. Smith, of Lancaster, Ohio.  The same year he opened a blacksmith shop in Portsmouth, where he worked at his trade fifteen years, after which he manufactured plows and carriages for several years in partnership with D. N. Murray and G. Stevenson.  He then became connected with the Rolling-Mill Company, in which he lost heavily.  In 1855 he was elected Sheriff of Scioto County and served four years, after which he held the office of County Treasurer for four years.  In 1861 he was appointed United States Provost Marshal by Abraham Lincoln, and at the expiration of his term of office he was appointed Tobacco Inspector, holding the office two years.  He then engaged in farming which he still follows, and has a farm of 600 acres of choice land.  He has one daughter - Ellen M., married to Isaac Miller, of Lancaster County, Ohio. ~ Page 364 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	HENRY WARNEKE was born in Germany, Oct. 15, 1815, and when nineteen years of age came to the United States, landing in New York City.  He came immediately to Ohio and located in Lawrence County, where he worked at the iron furnaces about fifteen years.  In 1850 he removed to Scioto County and purchased the McFann farm, comprising 200 acres, where he still resides.  He owns a farm of 320 acres in Lawrence County, the land being rich in iron ore and stone coal.  Mr. Warneke was Justice of the Peace eighteen years in Lawrence County, and three years in Scioto County.  He is a prominent member of the Christian church.  He was married in 1838 to Matilda Nelson, of Lawrence County.  She died, leaving one child—Benjamin B., now a minister of the Christian church.  Mr. Warneke was married in 1848 to Celia Jones, a native of Virginia and a daughter of John Jones.  They have three children, a son and two daughters. ~ Page 374 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 SHARON WICK's NOTE: 1860 US Federal Census, Decator Twp., Lawrence Co., OH on 28th day of July 1860 - P. O. Campbell lists: Dwelling 1700  Family 1665 - Henry Warneke, 44 M, Farmer, RE$5000, Pers$350, b. Hanover; Celia, 42 F, b. VA; Ira W. J., 13 M, b. VA; H. Charlotta, 12 F b. VA; Celia C., 5/12 F, b. VA. - Source Citation - Year: 1860; Census Place: Decatur, Lawrence, Ohio; Roll: M653_997; Page: 276; Family History Library Film: 803997
	WARNER & HAWKS, one of the leading drygoods firms of Portsmouth, are located on the south side of Second street, between Market and Court streets.  The business was established in 1875 by Alex Warner, the senior member.  He carried it on seven years and in1882 Mr. Hawks became associated with him.  They carry a complete stock of drygoods always keeping the latest styles.  Their store is exceptionally well kept and customers may be assured of the best of treatment from both clerks and proprietors.  Their sales amount to about $35,000 annually.  Alexander Warner was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1850, a son of Alex. H. Warner, an old dry-goods merchant of Columbus and Chillicothe who died in the latter place in 1872, aged seventy years.  He was married June 13, 1883, to Mary H. List, of Wheeling, W. Va., a daughter of D. C. List, a banker of Wheeling.  Mr.  Warner  is a member of the Royal Arcanum and National Union.  Charles A. Hawks was born in Indiana, Feb. 6, 1860, a son of Edward Hawks, a merchant of Leesburg, Ind., who died in 1863.  Charles A. has been engaged in dry-goods business the greater part of his life and is conversant with all branches of the business.  He clerked in Ripley, Ohio, four years, and in February, 1881, came to Portsmouth. ~ Page 305 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	JOHN B. WARWICK, physician and surgeon, was born July 5, 1834, in Augusta County, Va., a son of B. G. and Mary Warwick, natives of Virginia.  Our subject came with his parents to Portsmouth in 1858, and in 1859 came to Lucasville.  He was educated in his native county and began the study of medicine in 1854 in his father’s office.  He attended the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, from which he graduated in the spring of 1858.  He then practiced his profession in Portsmouth one year, after which he moved to Lucasville where he still resides, having a large and lucrative practice.  In 1862 he entered the Union army as Surgeon of the Ninety-first Ohio Infantry and served three years.  He was in all the important battles of the Shenandoah Valley, and was mustered out in June, 1865.  He was married in 1860 to Sarah B. Moulton.  They have been blessed with three boys and three girls.  The Doctor is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity and belongs to Lodge No. 465, Lucasville. ~ Page 407 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	GEORGE H. WATKINS, station agent, was born in Pike County, Ohio, in 1858, and is the youngest son of John and Sophia J. Watkins.  His father was a native of Virginia, and came to Ohio in an early day.  He was a volunteer in the Union army, where he died, when the subject of this sketch was but three years old. George H. was educated at the common schools.  At the age of twenty years he was appointed ticket agent of the Scioto Valley R. R., at Johnson’s Station, which position he held eighteen months.  He was then appointed General Ticket and Freight Agent at the station, and also had charge of G. F. Lauman’s general merchandise store.  In 1881 he was appointed Postmaster at Johnson’s Station, the post-office being called Clifford.  Johnson’s Station is one of the largest shipping points on the road, there having been shipped during 1882, 85,000 railroad ties. Jan. 12, 1879,  Mr. Watkins was married to Lillie I., daughter of Jonathan Glaze, of this county.  They are the parents of three children. ~ Page 407 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	THOMAS W. WATKINS, was born in Kenton, Ill., Oct. 18, 1857, a son of John C. Watkins.  He came to Portsmouth with his father in 1858.  In 1870 he began learning the plumber's trade; worked at it five years and then went to Newport, Ky., and remained nearly five years, when he returned to Portsmouth and became established in business for himself on Second street, between Washington and Court streets.  He was married in 1879 to Sarah E. Stockham, daughter of Aaron Stockham.  They have two children - Charlotte and Charles.  Mr. Watkins is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Royal Arcanum and Independent Order of Mechanics. ~ Page 305 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	ADAM WEISS was born in Bavaria, Germany, Jan. 11, 1840, a son of Frederick Weiss.  He came to the United States in 1864, locating in Pike County, Ohio, and in 1868 came to Portsmouth.  He worked in the rolling mills nine years, and then opened a hotel on Third street which he still runs in connection with his Market street saloon.  He was married in 1864 in the old country to Lizzie Adam.  They had five children - Anna, born in the old country; Lizzie, John, Mary and Fred (deceased).  Mrs. Weise died in 1853.  Mr. Weiss afterward married Clara Adam, a cousin of his first wife.  They have three children - Louisa, Michael  and Clara.  Mr. Weiss is a member of two German benevolent societies. ~ Page 305 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	EDWIN T. WELCH, wholesale confectioner and dealer in foreign fruits, was born Feb. 24, 1857, in Chillicothe, Ross Co., Ohio.  Since he was twelve years old he has been in the candy business and learned the trade of manufacturing candy in Portsmouth where he worked two years, and also worked at it one year in Pittsburgh, Pa.  Nov. 1, 1882, he opened his present store, located on Second street, between Market and Court streets and is doing a large business both in the wholesale and retail trade.  He is a member of the Presbyterian church.  His father, William S. Welch, was a carriage manufacturer.  He came from Philadelphia to Chillicothe, Ohio, where he engaged in his business twelve years.  He lived in Portsmouth about twenty-three years, twelve years engaged in the manufacture of carriages.  He died in 1871, aged fifty-eight years. ~ Page 305 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	HENRY C. WELLS, farmer and miller, son of Timothy M. and Sarah A. (Anderson) Wells, was born in Madison Township, Scioto County.  He lived with his father, assisting him on the farm and in the mill till his father’s death, which occurred Nov. 6, 1882.  He then took charge of the entire business, which he has managed very successfully ever since.  He was married May 24, 1883, to Caroline, daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Lenhart) Miler, who now reside in Union Township, Pike County.  His father, Timothy Wells, was born Dec. 27, 1822, in Scioto County, a son of Richard and Laura (White) Wells, who came to Ohio from New York in 1814.  He was first married in 1853 to Elizabeth, daughter of Robert and Nancy (Mayor) Anderson, who died about a year later.  In 1857 he was married to Sarah A. Anderson, a sister of his first wife.  The union was blessed with three children—William, who died in infancy; Dora E., who resides with her widowed mother, and Henry C., the subject of his sketch. ~ Page 394 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	MARK B. WELLS was born in Meigs County, Ohio, in 1843, a son of Myron Wells.  In 1862 he enlisted in Company A, Fourth Virginia Infantry, and served till 1864.  He then enlisted in the One Hundred and Fortieth O. N. G., and served till the close of the war.  After his return from the war he was with the Boon Mining and Manufacturing Company four years.  In 1889 he returned to Pomeroy, and in 1873 came to Portsmouth, and was with Reed & Peebles till 1879.  He was then agent of the Ohio River & West Virginia Salt Company a year, and had also handled flour, grain, meats, etc., on commission.  In 1880 he formed a partnership with C. S. Morrow, and in 1882 purchased Mr. Morrow's interest, now carrying on the business alone.  Mr. Wells was married in 1870 to Matilda Thomas of Pomeroy.  They have five children - Edgar S., Clara E., Laura C., Mark T. and Myra.  Mr. Wells is a brother of the evangelist, D. H. H. Wells, and of Rev. J. L. Wells, a Presbyterian minister of Newark, N. J.  His parents reside near Mentor, Ohio. ~ Page 306 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	JOHN M. WENDELKEN was born Aug. 26, 1850, a son of Martin Wendelken, a native of Germany, who came to the United Sates in 1850, and located in Marietta, Ohio.  He was a soldier in the old country, and the first twelve years in this country were spent at the carpenter's trade.  Since 1862 he has been engaged in the grocery business.  He has a family of eight children - Anna (now Mrs. Conrad Fischer), John M., Henry, Mary (now Mrs. Charles Strecker), Julia, William, Martin and Adda.  John M. came to Portsmouth in 1873.  He formed a partnership with Vincent Brodbeck in 1878, but in 1881 Mr. Brodbeck retired, and Mr. Wendelken has since carried on the business alone.  He has a large stock of general merchandise, groceries, boots and shoes, dry goods, hats, caps, notions, et.  He employs two clerks.  Sept. 18, 1873, Mr. Wendelken married Otillia Brodbeck, daughter of Vincent Brodbeck.  They have four children - Anna E., Rosa E., Nellie O. and Charles W. ~ Page 306 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	CHARLES WERTZ, son of Henry Wertz, was born in Germany in 1847.  His father died in the old country, and when six years of age he came with his mother to the United States, locating in Portsmouth, Ohio.  When eight years of age he began selling newspapers and tending bar.  When eleven years of age he commenced working on the river boats, and filled all the positions from cabin boy to first steward.  He was barkeeper on the Telegraph four years.  In 1868 he opened his saloon and billiard hall on West Second street, between Market and Jefferson streets.  He was married May 3, 1870, to Lizzie Barr, a native of Waverly, Ohio.  They have two children - Charles, Jr., and Laura.  A daughter, Lizzie, died in 1876, aged one month.  Mr. Wertz is a member of the I. O. O. F. ~ Page 306 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	CONRAD WESTPHAL was born in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1823, a son of Henry Westphal.  In 1845 he came to the United States, locating in New York City, where he remained two years.  He then went to Trenton, N. J., and remained two and a half years; thence to Pittsburg, Pa., and remained two and a half years.  In 1852 he removed to Portsmouth.  He worked in rolling mills prior to and since coming to Portsmouth till 1869, when he engaged in gardening and farming till 1873.  Since then he has been putting up ice.  He keeps three teams and delivers all orders.  His sales amount to 1,000 tons annually.  Mr. Westphal married Christina Siegle, a native of Germany.  They have had six children, but two now living - Conrad D. and H. R. Jacob died after reaching manhood; Mary, aged four years; John and another Mary in infancy.  Mr. and Mrs. Westphal are members of the Fifth Street Church. ~ Page 306 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
Joshua Wheeler	JOSHUA WHEELER was born Aug. 7, 1820, in Huntington County, Pa., a son of John Wheeler, who came to Portsmouth in 1832, residing here till 1848, when he removed to near Columbus, Ohio, Joshua remaining in Portsmouth.  For the past forty years he has been engaged principally in doing the hauling for the Gaylor Rolling Mill Company, now known as the Portsmouth Iron and Steel Company.  Last year he engaged heavily in the wholesale and retail coal business.  In January, 1883, he established the transfer company in connection with his other business.  He has thirty horses and both drays and wagons, and employs forty men.  Mr. Wheeler is very energetic and enthusiastic about his business, and under no circumstances, however discouraging, was he ever known to give up, and as a result he is now the owner of a good property.  He was married in 185 to Elizabeth Boydson.  Twelve children have been born to them, but six now living - Louisa, Charles, Emma, Lucy, Samuel and Henry. ~ Page 307 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	LEVI WHEELER was born in Scioto County, Ohio, Jun. 11, 1823, a son of Luther and Rebecca (Hastings) Wheeler, natives of New Hampshire, who came to Ohio in 1820, and located near Wheelersburg, where his mother died in 1857 and his father in 1858.  They reared a family of four children - Nathan, Isaac, Martha and Levi.  When fifteen years of age Levi Wheeler went to work in the Scioto Furnace.  He worked at different furnaces till 1856 and then bought the Pine Creek Mill.  Eight years later he sold the mill to his brother Nathan and removed to a farm, but after two years bought the Scioto Mills at Harrisonville.  In connection with milling he owned a general store, but in 1879 sold both mill and store, and in 1881 bought the store of Lemuel Salladay at the Giant Oak Mills, and is carrying on a general mercantile business in connection with his farm of 500 acres  He was married in 1847 to Joanna, daughter of T. M. Bennett.  They have eight children - Thomas, Levi, Isaac, William, Ulysses G., James, Lucretia and Minerva.  Two children died in infancy.  Politically Mr. Wheeler is a Republican.  He has held the offices of Deputy Sheriff, Treasurer, and Trustee of his township. ~ Page 330 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	NATHAN WHEELER, eldest son of Luther and Rebecca Wheeler, was born in New Hampshire, Jan. 30, 1813.  At the age of ten years he came to Ohio with his parents, who settled on a farm near Wheelersburg.  His father held the office of Justice of the Peace continuously for twenty years.  Our subject was first employed at the iron furnace, and in the fall of 1856 bought the Barber Mills, running them about nine years, when he sold out and purchased the Harrison Mills, where he is still engaged.  The party to whom he sold his mill failed to pay, so Mr. Wheeler took it back and is now running that also.  He was married in 1854 to Minerva, daughter of Thomas Bennett, who is now living on the Little Scioto, aged eighty-three years . They are the parents of seven children - Luther, Sarah, Nettie, Amanda, Nathan, Emma and Frank.  Mr. Wheeler owns 480 acres of land, most of which lies on Pine Creek.  He was appointed Postmaster at Harrison's Mills in 1866, which position he held twelve years. ~ Page 364 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	THAYER DANIEL WHITE was born in Littleton, N. H., July 18, 1800, the son of Bethuel and Margery (Daniels) White.  His mother died in 1808, leaving two sons and two daughters, and two years later his father married Ruth Whipple, by whom he had one daughter.  In September, 1814, his father came to Ohio and located at Burk's Point, and the following spring bough the upper half of the lower lot of the French Grant.  His step-mother died in 1815, and in 1816 his father married Mrs. Earll.  In August, 1819, his father died.  Thayer learned the carpenter's trade, and in February, 1820, started for St. Louis, but not finding work there, after considerable wandering, stopping a short time at different places, he returned to Ohio in 1821.  He worked in Delaware, Ohio, till fall; then went to Zanesville and remained a year; then went to Zanesville and remained a year; then to Greenup County, Ky., and a year later to Cincinnati; subsequently went to Nashville, Tenn., and opened a cabinet shop.  In 1826 he returned to Ohio and bought a farm in 1833, where he remained nine years, and five years shipped hay to New Orleans.  He sold his farm and went into the furnace business, but being unsuccessful, with three others built a saw and grist mill, which six years later was burned.  He then went to Cincinnati and again opened a cabinet shop with his son, Thomas P., who at the breaking out of the war enlisted and was wounded at the battle of Shiloh, dying eleven days later.  The business was comparatively ended on account of the war, as they shipped the greater part of their goods South; but after the issue of greenback currency it was revived, and he was doing a good business till injured by the falling of a freight elevator, when he retired from active business life.  Mr. White was married Jan. 3, 1825, to Elizabeth Kimball.  They had a family of eight children.  His wife and six children are deceased.  Two daughters are living in Kansas. ~ Page 365 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	W. G. WHITNEY was born Apr. 11, 1811, and came to Portsmouth with his father in 1821, where he has since made his home.  He was married in 1836 to Melvenia Fleming, who died in 1847 leaving him three children - two sons and a daughter.  He was again married in 1850 to Elcy F. M. Voorhes by whom he has four children.  He has seven living children, three of whom are married - Ruluff, to Louise Adams and residing in Cincinnati, Ohio; W. F., to Lizzie M. Jones living in Portsmouth, and Mary Jane, wife of C. E. Jewell, of Portsmouth.  His father, Ruluff Whitney, was born in Connecticut, June 20, 1776.  At the close of the Revolutionary war the family emigrated to Western New York, where Ruluff grew up and married Susannah Glenny. a native of North Ireland.  They came to Ohio in 1817 and located in Portsmouth in 1821, where the mother died in 1845 and the father in 1846.  They had a family of eight children: John, who was married to Mrs. Arenia Kelly and died in 1855; Mary, who married Hannibal G. Hamlin, residing and dying in Cincinnati in 1880; Ruluff who died in 1824, aged nineteen years; Susannah, wife of E. G. Stone of Cincinnati; Sarah, wife of A. R. Hardin, W. G., our subject; Minerva wife of Abijah Curtis, and Olive who married Allen C. McArthur, youngest son of ex-Governor McArthur, of Ohio, and now living near Circleville, Ohio.  The Whitneys (father and sons), after the manner of the early settlers, engaged together in various industries, among which were farming and a brick yard, in which the brick for the older portion of the present court-house was made.  Previous to settling in Portsmouth they had bought and worked the Peacock coal banks of Pomeroy, Ohio.  They supplied the first coal for Portsmouth and continued in that trade until the year 1831, when they sold their banks to V. B. Horton and went into the grocery and produce business, in which W. G. continued until the year 1859.  For some years W. G. was also engaged in the river trade, being part owner and commander of the steamboat Olive, running between Cincinnati and Pittsburg.  After the year 1859 he confined himself to the business of commission grain dealer and shipper, in the region of the Scioto Valley and Ohio Canal, in which he continued until failing health compelled him to retire, at the age of seventy-two years.  In religion W. G. is an Episcopalian.  In politics, conservative, never an office-seeker, nor taking a very active part in political affairs.  In early life he was a Whig but since the war of the Rebellion has voted the Republican ticket.  In 1832 Ruluff Whitney, Sr., bought lots on the southeast corner of Second and Market streets and built the houses which are at present standing there.  One was, up to the year 1859, the family residence and they are yet in the possession of W. G. Whitney. ~ Page 307 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	JOSEPH WIGET was born Apr. 18, 1825, in Switzerland, where he lived till he was twenty-eight years of age.  He then came to America, and in 1854 came to Portsmouth, Ohio, where he worked a short time on the Jackson Railroad, after which he purchased forty acres of land and settled on it.  He was married to Lucinda Benner, a native of Pennsylvania, by whom he had a family of seven boys, and three girls, all living - Susan B., Franklin J., Anna M., Charles E., John H., Albert J., George J., Jacob W., Caroline M. and Edward s.  Mr. Wiget commenced life empty-handed, but by industry and economy has accumulated a considerable amount of property.  He has a fine farm of 240 acres, and is the most extensive strawberry-raiser in this part of the county.  He has served as Township Trustee three years.  His father, John Jacob Wiget, was born in Switzerland, where he died in 1861.  His mother, Susan Wiget, was also a native of Switzerland.  She died there in 1855.  They had a family of eight children, of whom five still survive. ~ Page 339 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	ALLEN WIKOFF was born in Adams County, Ohio, in 1821, a son of Peter and Matilda (Prather) Wikoff.  He was married Jan. 17, 1843, to Mary Phillips.  They had six children, four now living—Nancy J., Joseph M., Lewis A. and Ella M. Sarah M. and William Allen, Jr., are deceased.  Mrs. Wikoff died in 1868, and in 1869 Mr. Wikoff married Almira F. McCall.  Mr. and Mrs. Wikoff were both reared in the Methodist church but are now members of the Christian Union church.  Mr. Wikoff has held the office of Trustee several terms and Assessor one term.  He owns a good farm of 140 acres, all well improved. Mr. Wikoff's grandparents, Peter W. and Sarah (Beekman) Wikoff, natives of Virginia, the former born in 1745, and the latter in 1751, went down the Ohio to Bourbon County, Ky., in 1797, and two or three years later removed to Adams County, Ohio, where he died in 1819, and she in 1826.  Their children were John, William, Peter, Mary, Samuel, James, Jacob, Elizabeth, Sarah and Nancy.  Peter was born in 1786 and was ten years of age when his parents came down the Ohio.  He died in 1843 and his wife in 1859.  They have had four children—Allen, Elizabeth S., Miner and William W. who was killed by the cars at Columbus, Ohio, in July, 1883, at the soldiers’ re-union. ~ Page 439 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	CALEB WILCOXSON, deceased, was born near Baltimore, Md., and came with his family to Scioto County, Ohio, in 1818 or 1819.  He settled on land now owned by the Calverts.  A few years later he rented his land and removed to Kentucky on account of sickness caused by miasma, but subsequently returned to his former home, where he died July 9, 1849, of cholera.  He was a man universally respected and useful in the community.  He possessed good executive ability and was Justice of the Peace a number of years.  He married Nancy Fisher, of Maryland.  They had a family of twelve children, six of whom are now living, to in this county - Drusilla Williamson and Barbara Ann Coffrin.  Three sons, William, Caleb and Hillery, were in the late war of Rebellion.  Mrs. Wilcoxson died in 1865, aged seventy-one years.  Mr. Wilcoxson was in later life a member of the Methodist church, and served the church as Class-leader.  His daughter, Drusilla, was born in Kentucky in 1812, and married John D. Smith, a son of Joel Smith, a Virginian, who settled in Scioto County in an early day, and died in 1824.  John D. Smith died of cholera in 1849.  He left a family of five children - William (deceased), John O., Oliver D., Eliza, wife of M. G. Nichols, and Fanny, wife of Silas C. Cole.  Mrs. Smith afterward married Thomas Williamson.  He was a successful farmer and accumulated a good property.  They had no children.  Mr. Williamson had previously married Lucinda Oard, by whom he had two children, but one now living - Louisa.  Isaiah C. is deceased.  Mr. Williamson died Sept. 5, 1874, aged seventy-six years.  He was a member of the Methodist church, as is also Mrs. Williamson. ~ Page 454 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	JOHN D. WILHELM was born in Scioto County, Ohio, Sept. 6, 1837, a son of Jacob and Amanda M. (Day) Wilhelm, his father a native of Pennsylvania and his mother of Ohio.  In 1854 Mr. Wilhelm began learning the tinner's trade.  In 1861 he enlisted in Company G, First Ohio Infantry, and served four months.  After his return home he was variously engaged for two years and then became established at his present place of business, on Second street, between Market and Court streets.  He keeps stoves and manufactures tinware, employing three or four hands.  He was married in 1867 to Cora Conway.  They have four children - Anna Lou, Albert, Charles and Bess.  Mr. Wilhelm is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. ~ Page 308 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	JOHN WILHELM was born in Germany, June 30, 1833, and when nineteen years of age came to the United States, locating at Chillicothe, Ohio, where he clerked in a wholesale grocery house four and a half years.  In 1856 he came to Portsmouth and opened a retail grocery store on Front street, and fourteen years later removed to his present place, corner of Fourth and Court streets.  In 1869 he built the opera house, a three-story building, 64x66 feet.  The lower story contains three fine store rooms; the second floor, private residence and offices, and the third floor the opera hall, with a seating capacity of 750, including gallery.  The building was completed at a cost of $35,000.  Mr. Wilhelm was married in 1857 to Sophia Schwartz, of Chillicothe.  They have had a family of nine children - Charles H., in business on the corner of Tenth and Chillicothe streets; Lizzie, a school teacher, but, obliged to leave school before the close of her second term, died June 27, 1883, aged twenty-two years; Mellie; John, in Lexington, Ky.; Albert, Emma, Oscar, Alma and Walter.  Mr. Wilhelm has been a member of the I. O. O. F., since 1856, and is a member of several German societies. ~ Page 308 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	W. W. WILKINS was born in Botetourt County, Va., in 1823, a son of James and Catherine (Henderson) Wilkins, native of Virginia.  When nine years of age he accompanied his parents to Jackson County, Mo., where they both died the following year.  He was then taken by his uncle, John H. Wilkins, to Mississippi, and resided with him till eighteen years of age.  He was given a good education, after which he pursued various avocations, the principal one being teaching.  He has taught in eleven different States, and has acquired a knowledge by personal experience seldom surpassed. In 1843 he came to Scioto County, but remained only two years.   He then went West, and three years later returned, and has since made this his home.  In 1864 he enlisted in Company B, Twenty-second Ohio Infantry, and served till the close of the war, the latter part of the time as Provost-Marshal.  With the exception of four years he has been Clerk of Rush Township since its organization in 1867.  He was married in 1846 to Sarah A., daughter of Samuel Barber.  They have had six children - Urania, now Mrs. Kirkendall; Oscar F., Josephine, now Mrs. Virgin; Minnie, now Mrs. Morris; James A., and Henry A., deceased.  Politically Mr. Wilkins is a Republican. ~ Page 421 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	EVAN WILLIAMS was born in Wales, Feb. 12, 1827, a son of David Williams, who came to the United States with his family in 1837, locating in Gallia County, Ohio, and ten years later removed to Jackson County, where he died in 1874, aged eight-four years.  He had a family of eight children - Martha, resides on the old homestead; Jane, widow of Daniel Thomas, of Portsmouth; Mary, died, aged fifteen; Evan, subject of our sketch; Anna, married to Thomas Lawrence, died in 1860; John and David, farmers of Jackson County, and William, residing on the old homestead.  Evan began working for himself when seventeen years of age in a rolling mill, and was engaged in that business till 1876, when he opened a grocery store on the corner of Third and Waller streets.  He was married in 1852 to Catherine Edwards.  She died in April, 1881, leaving three children - John, Grant and Charles.  Mr. Williams is a member of the Second Presbyterian Church. ~ Page 308 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	JOHN WILLIAMS was born March 15, 1833, in the parish of Lanegryn, in Merioneth, North Wales, a son of Griffith Williams.  He began to learn the pattern-maker's trade at the age of sixteen, at which he worked till 1869, when he came to the United States.  He spent the first two years in Cincinnati working at his trade, since when he has made his home in Portsmouth, and has been in the constant employ of Moore & Co's machine works as foreman of the pattern-making shop.  He was married in Wales, in 1857, to Elizabeth Wilkes, who died Oct. 18, 1878, aged forty years.  Their children are - Thomas Wilkes, who is twenty-three years old, and by trade a pattern maker; Ella, Katie and Freddie, all born in Wales.  Myfanwy died in March, 1874, aged three months.  The deceased were born in Portsmouth.  Mr. Williams belongs to the First Presbyterian Church and is a member of the Masonic fraternity.  In politics he affiliates with the Republican party. ~ Page 309 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	GEORGE WILLIAMSON was born in Washington Township, Scioto Co., Ohio, in 1830, a son of Joseph and Catherine (Shaffer) Williamson.  He has always lived on the farm where he was born.  He was married in 1865 to Eliza C., daughter of William and Elizabeth (Elliott) Givens.  Six children have been born to them, but five now living - William G., John A., Joseph, George H. and Sadie.  Mary R. is deceased.  Mr. Williamson is an enterprising, wide-awake farmer, and owns about 400 acres of land, 250 of which lie in the Scioto bottoms, being most excellent grain land.  He is no aspirant for office but has held many of the local offices of the township.  He enlisted in 1864 in the three months' service and was captured by Morgan's men in Vinton County, but was soon after paroled.  He is a member of the I. O. O. F.  His father first married Ruth Wilcoxson, who lived but a short time.  They had one child, now deceased.  He afterward married Catherine, daughter of John Shaffer.  They had a family of ten children, six now living - John, Elizabeth, George, Barbara, Frank and Sarah.  Jacob, William, Christena and Henry H. are deceased.  The latter was a member of Company E, Thirty-third Ohio Infantry, and was killed at the battle of Perryville, Ky., in 1862, being shot through the heart.  Frank was a member of the same company and was wounded at Perryville a few minutes of his brother was killed.  Joseph Williamson died in 1849, and his wife died in 180, aged seventy-eight years.  She was born in Germany in 1802 and came with her parents to America in 1816.  They had a family of eight children - George, Catherine, Adam, Rosanna, Christina, Sabina, Barbara and Jacob.  Catherine was the only one that remained in Scioto County, the rest going to Delaware and Hamilton Counties, Ind., where her father died.  Our subject's grandfather, Joseph Williamson, Sr., came to Ohio from New Jersey and located on Government land on the site of the present town of Alexander.  He had a family of nine children - Frank, William, Joseph, Peter, James, Thomas, Margaret (wife of Leaven Wilcoxson), Anna (wife of Nicholas McAttee), and Sarah (wife of John Nottingham).  He died in 1812, and his wife Martha (Fort) Williamson, died in 1834.  Both are buried in this township. ~ Page 454 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	HANS C. WILLIAMSON, a native of Denmark, was born May 25, 1842.  He was educated in his native country, and when sixteen years of age began to learn the carpenter's trade, working at it three years.  He then engaged as a sailor on a merchant ship running between Denmark, England and France, and in 1864 sailed for America, landing in Quebec, Canada.  From there he went by rail to Boston; thence to Virginia, and settled in Wise County, where he followed his trade.  In the fall of 1882 he removed to Scioto County and settled on a farm on Lick Run.  In 1867 he married Martha L. Vanover, a native of Virginia.  They have six children.  Mr. Williamson is a member of the Masonic fraternity. ~ Page 330 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	GEORGE C. WINKLER was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, Jan. 5, 1835, a son of Asher and Rebecca (Rockwell) Winkler.  When fourteen years of age he began to learn the saddler's trade, and worked at it six years.  He then formed a partnership with Dr. J. H. Rodgers in the drug business in Charleston, W. Va., but four years later sold his interest and entered R. M. Bartlett's Commercial College in Cincinnati.  In September, 1861, he enlisted in the Thirty-third Ohio Infantry and served till the fall fo 1865.  He was promoted to Second, then to First Lieutenant, Captain and Major.  He participated in about forty battles, among them Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Resaca, and was with Sherman on his march to the sea.  He received one small wound in the hand, but never lost any time on account of it, and was always found at his post of duty.  He was married Sept. 21, 1865, to Mary J., a daughter of Alexander and Rebecca Lacroix.  Her grandfather was one of the original settlers of the French Grant.  Her sister, Maria R. Lacroix, makes her home with her.  Mr. Winkler's farm contains 156 acres of fine, well-cultivated land. ~ Page 365 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	JOHN A. WINKLER, a native of Scioto County, Ohio, was born Nov. 5, 1820, a son of Asher and Rebecca (Rockwell) Winkler, a son of Asher and Rebecca (Rockwell) Winkler, native of New York, who came to Ohio in 1816 and located near Harrisonville, in Harrison Township, remaining there until 1827.  Then moved near Wheelersburg and remained there until the year of 1835.  Then removed again on the first day of 1836 to Lagrange Furnace, Lawrence County, near the present city of Ironton.  There his mother died in June, 1837.  His father married again in 1840 and lived until he was nearly eighty years old.  He died Aug. 12, 1862.  They had a family of eleven children, ten living to years of maturity, and six living to the present time.  John A. remained with his father until seventeen years of age, then worked for himself at furnaces until 1854.  Then removed to Harrison and Boon furnaces and managed them until 1860.  Mar. 1, 1861, he bought the farm where he now lives, a portion of the French Grant, near Haverhill, it being one of the best farms in the township.  Politically Mr. Winkler has always been a Republican.  He has been a member of the Methodist church for about twenty-two years and has always been a temperate man, strictly adhering to the principles of temperance; a man of more than ordinary energy and industry; one of the strong convictions of right under all circumstances.  He was married to Cynthia D., daughter of Stephen Chandler, in 1842.  Nine of their eleven children grew to maturity, and seven are still living.  Mrs. Winkler died in 1876, and in 1878 Mr. Winkler married Mrs. Lucy C. Adair, widow of Smilie R. Adair and daughter of Daniel T. Whitcomb. ~ Page 365 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	CHARLES E. WOLFE was born in Scioto County, in November, 1844.  When he grew to manhood he became manager on the farm of George Davis, of Portsmouth, with whom he continued for twelve years.  In 1862 he enlisted as a volunteer in the late war, and served three years.  He was wounded at the battle of Winchester, which obliged him to remain in the hospital six months.  He was mustered out June 24, 1865, and has ever since pursued farming.  He was married in 1866 to Louisa Watson of this county.  They are the parents of four children - Lillian W., Mary A., Louisa C. and Clara Grace. ~ Page 339 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	FREDERICK WOOLFORD, son of David and Susanna Catherine (Arnst) Woolford, was born Nov. 3, 1798, in Bath County, Va.  He came to  Ohio with his father in 1802 and settled in Scioto County, on the place where he still resides and where his father died, Feb. 18, 1851.  Susanna (Arnst) Woolford was born in Virginia and died in Illinois in 1835.  Frederick Woolford was engaged in piloting salt boats along the coast of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers for many years.  He was married in 1833 to Mary Dillon, who died in Scioto County, Ohio, Jan. 10, 1842.  They had a family of four children - Rachel, Mariah, Frank and Mary, all deceased.  Frank was married to Christina Rust, who bore him one child - Mary Alice, Born Dec. 19, 1870.  He was killed by the explosion of a boiler near Wheelersburg, Mar. 13, 1871.  Our subject was again married in 1843 to Kesiah Hartley.  She died June 7, 1853.  Mr. Woolford is one of the old landmarks of the Scioto Valley, as was his father also. ~ Page 331 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	DANIEL WORLEY was born April 13, 1827, in Mason County, Ky., a son of Samuel A. and Delilah (Sullivan) Worley, who settled in Nile Township in 1833.  His father was a school-teacher and also an expert miller.  He died in July, 1848, aged forty-eight years.  His mother died in April, 1878, aged seventy-six years.  Of ten children, but three are living—Daniel, Pharsalia and Leonidas, and the subject of our sketch is the only one living in Scioto County.  He enlisted in August, 1862, in Company H, Eighty-first Ohio Infantry, and served until the close of the war, being discharged July 30, 1865.  He participated in the battles of Chickamauga, siege of Atlanta, and was with Sherman to the sea.  He was married Sept. 22, 1871, to Amanda F. McKinney, daughter of George W. McKinney.  To them have been born four children— Grace Ellen, Wm. A., Rachel and Maggie.  The latter is deceased.  Mr. Worley’s brother, Leonidas, enlisted in Battery L, First Ohio Light Artillery.  He was wounded at Cedar Creek; was discharged in 1865. ~ Page 439 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884
	JOHN GEORGE WURSTER was born Oct. 21, 1831, in Wittenberg, Germany, and came to America in May, 1851, and located at Waverly, where he lived a year.  In the spring of 1852 he came to Portsmouth, and after remaining here a year went to Greenup County, Ky., and at the end of eighteen months spent six months at Franklin Furnace, Ohio.  He then returned to Portsmouth and worked in the rolling-mill till 1861, when he opened his present bakery.  He was married July 6, 1851, to Mary D. Kiedaisch, a native of Wittenberg, Germany.  She died in 1876, leaving five children - Mary, wife of Daniel Egbert, of Scioto County; John, clerking for Sanford & McFarland; Frederick, a butcher in Cincinnati; Albert, helping his father, and George, attending school.  Mr. Wurster is a member of the Lutheran church. ~ Page 308 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884