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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History
Source:
A History of Scioto County, Ohio
together with a
PIONEER RECORD
of
SOUTHERN OHIO
by
NELSON W. EVANS, A. M.,
Life Member of The Ohio state Archaeological and Historical Society.
Member of the Virginia Historical Society, and of the
American Historical Association
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Published
Portsmouth, Ohio
by Nelson W. Evans
1903
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RICHARD GREGG LEWIS
was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, Feb. 28, 1850.
His father was Thomas Cotton Lewis, Jr., and his mother and
Nancy Anderson (Gregg) Lewis. He was graduated from the
High School in 1867 and attended the academy at South Salem, Ross
county, Ohio. He also taught school in Kansas and graduated
with honors from Marietta College in June, 1876, and from Lane
Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, in May, 1879. The
Presbytery of Chillicothe ordained him an Evangelist in September,
1879. He was stated supply for the Hamden Junction, McArthur
and Wellston Presbyterian churches in 1879 and 1880 and for Mona
chapel, Ross County, Ohio, in 1883 and 1885. From 1883 to
1893, he was president of the Union Shoe Company, of Chillicothe,
Ohio. From 1886 to 1891, he was proprietor and part of the
time editor of the Scioto Gazette. He was for years one of the
trustees of the Chillicothe Presbytery, also of Salem academy.
In 1898, he moved to Missouri and was graduated in June, 1900, as
Doctor of Osteopathy from the American School of Osteopathy, at
Kirksville, Missouri. At once he begun the practice of
Osteopathy in Cincinnati, where he is located at this date.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio -
Publ. 1907 - Page 1045 |
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THOMAS COTTON LEWIS,
JR., was born in Merthyr-Tydvil, Wales, Jan.
25, 1805. He was the son of Thomas Cotton Lewis, Sr. and
Mary (Watts) Lewis. He was one of the forty-two persons, b
the names of Lewis, who came in one ship to New York city in
the spring of 1817. He helped his father and his uncles make
the first bar iron rolled in the United States. He was a
machinist roll-turner and engineer at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He was an engineer on passenger boats on the Ohio river for a time.
In 1832, he came to Portsmouth and for years, at different times he
was roll-turner and machinist in "the upper" or Gaylord Mill.
Soon after coming to Portsmouth, he bought the lot at the north-east
corner of Third and Washington streets were he lived for nearly
sixty years. He invented and built the old rivet machine that
David Patton ran, click-ety-click, for so many years in the
Gaylord Mill. With his father, he bilt and run the foundry,
afterwards a wheel-barrow factory, paper mill, etc., on Mill street.
With his son, Charles, he went over-land to the
California gold fields, in 1852. Returning by the Isthmus of
Panama, he was ship-wrecked in the Caribbean Sea. In 1856, he
built the store room on the corner of Third and Washington streets,
where he conducted for thirty years a toy and notion store, and was
"Santa Clause" to the boys and girls of old Portsmouth. At
various times, he built six or eight houses in the city. He
took stock in several factories and did what he could to build up
the city. He was elected Assessor of the Third ward of the
city many years in succession. He was an active member of
various temperance societies, of the Y. M. C. A., of the Home
Guards, and a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church. He
died in his eighty-seventh year and his remains are interred in
Greenlawn.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio -
Publ. 1907 - Page 764 - 65 |
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THOMAS COTTON LEWIS,
SR., was born in Llandaff, Wales, Mar. 31,
1776. He was the son of Lewis Lewis and Ann Cotton Lewis.
He served apprenticeship in Merthyr-Tydvil, South Wales, to become a
machinist, draugtsman and millwright. He was the mater
mechanic in erecting iron works at Newbridge. June 19, 1815,
he landed in New York city. At Middletown, Fayette County,
Pa., in 1818 he erected, and with his brothers, run for Mason &
Company, of Connellsville, the first mill in the United States for
rolling bar iron from blooms. In 1821 and 1822, he put up a
blast furnace in Butler County, Pennsylvania, for Whitney &
Company. Later he repaired and remodeled several mills in
Pittsburg, and built a new rolling mill in Centre County for
Curtain. As master mechanic, he erected "the upper" rolling
mill in Portsmouth, in 1832, for Glover, Noel & Company.
With his son, Thomas Cotton Lewis, Jr., he built and operated
a foundry on Mill street, in Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1842. He
prospected for iron and coal in Ohio and West Virginia. About
1850, eh gave up his business and settled on a farm, near
Wheelersburg, where he died Oct. 19, 1853. He was buried in
Greenlawn Cemetery. He joined the Masons in Wales, was a
communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church, was a well educated
man for the times, was competent in his trades and capable of
erecting and running all kinds of iron works.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio -
Publ. 1907 - Page 764 |
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CHARLES PERRY LLOYD,
son of Richard and Anna Canfield, his wife, was born June 10,
1840. He attended the schools of Portsmouth until fifteen
years of age, and then entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at
Delaware, Ohio, and was graduated in June, 1860. He read law
six months with Colonel O. F. Moore and then concluded the
law did not suit him. In the spring of 1861, he went to Iowa,
and was a farmer for three years. In 1864, he returned to
Portsmouth, Ohio, and entered the shoe business with his father as
R. Lloyd & Son. The firm was afterwards changed to
Lloyd, Tracy & Company and then to R. Lloyd & Company.
On Feb. 26, 1863, he married Miss Laura Jane Bentley.
They had no children: Richard Bentley, who lived to
young manhood and died Jan. 18, 1889, aged twenty-five years, and
Genevieve now a young lady. In 1877, Mr. Lloyd
became president and superintendent of the Scioto Fire Brick
Company. He was for a long time a director of the Portsmouth
National Bank. He was a Mason, a republican, and a member of
the Sixth Street Methodist church. He was an excellent
business man, a pleasant neighbor and devotedly attached to his home
and family. He died suddenly Mar. 27, 1893.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. 1907 - Page 1047 |
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MARGARET LLOYD went
into the millinery business in Portsmouth, Ohio, in April, 1866, and
has been in it ever since. She is now located at No. 308
Chillicothe street. She is a member of the Bigelow church.
As a member of hte business community she is favorably known to the
public and has been very successful. No one is esteemed higher
than she. Her word and obligation, in a business way, or
otherwise, is better than gold, because the gold may be lost or
stolen, but She has demonstrated the fact that a woman can go into
business and succeed, and do as well, or getter than any man.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. 1907 - Page 1048 |
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RICHARD LLOYD was
born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 9, 1806. He came to Portsmouth,
Ohio with his father in 1817. The following year the family
moved to Cincinnati, but returned to Portsmouth in 1820. In
1827, he engaged in the shoe business for himself, and in 1830,
formed a partnership with John P. Terry to carry on the same
line of business. Later on he employed a number of men in the
manufacture of boots and shoes in connection with his regular
jobbing business, being the pioneer manufacturer in this line in the
city. The firm did an extensive wholesale business in this and
adjoining states for a number of years, being located on front
street, below Market.
He had five brothers and one sister.
Oct. 21, 1829, he was married to Anna Canfield
who died Apr. 25, 1896. Eight children were born unto them,
all of whom have passed away with the exception of Mrs. Geo. W.
Field of London, England.
Richard Lloyd was a man of the strictest
integrity, a consistent member of the Sixth Street M. E. church, and
one of the most liberal supporters. The lot upon which the
church was erected being donated by him.
He died Mar. 5, 1891, at Portsmouth, Ohio.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. 1907 - Page 765 |
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THOMAS GELDRED LLOYD
was born at Marietta, Ohio, Oct. 11, 1810. His parents moved
to Cincinnati on or about the year 1811. They removed to
Portsmouth during the year 1817. Here the remainder of his
life was spent. His education was such as the schools of the
pioneer days of Ohio afforded. Aside from education he was
endowed with large common sense, business foresight and executive
ability.
His first business adventure, after reaching years of
maturity, was the manufacture of shoes in which he was successful,
employing many laborers. He made for himself the start of what
was afterward a very comfortable competence. He learned this
trade as shoemaker under his brother-in-law, Benjamin Melcher.
When money began to flow into his exchequer, his foresight begn to
assert itself. When he saw that the destiny of Portsmouth was
one of progress and that there would be money in the real estate
business, he ventured out upon this line, purchasing vacant lots and
improving property until before he died he was one of the largest
real estate holders in the city of Portsmouth. He constructed
some fifty odd new houses in the city which were sold soon after
completion, as it was a well known fact that houses he had
constructed were of the best material and would stand wear and tear.
He and two associates, realizing the need of a
cemetery, and one that would be creditable to a coming city, laid
out what was known as Evergreen Cemetery, the southwest part of
Greenlawn. Mr. Lloyd gave this project his
personal supervision and the most, if not all, of the trees planted
in that cemetery are the work of his hands, or were planted by his
direction. His business and executive ability, as well as his
judgement of real estate, brought him into considerable
notice and his advice and opinions were often solicited. In
1841, a news paper clipping would indicate that he held trust funds
and loaned large sums of money to some different parties.
Along in the early sixties, he was appointed to the Board of
Equalization of the city of Portsmouth, and on five subsequent
occasions was re-appointed to the same Board, serving from one to
three years each term.
Thomas G. Lloyd was married to Lola Adams, May
8, 1833. To them eight children were born, four of whom are
with their parents in the happy beyond. The four remaining
children are: Lola Cornelia Duke, wife of John K. Duke
of Portsmouth, Ohio; Louella N. Lucas, wife of Samuel B.
Lucas, of Cherokee, Kansas; T. Frank Lloyd, the only son,
a resident of Portsmouth, Ohio; Julia A. Russell, wife of
J. S. Russell of New Hartford, Missouri.
Mr. Lloyd's family were members of
the First Presbyterian church of this city. Mr.
Lloyd did not identify himself with the church till late in
life. Yet from this it is not to be inferred that he was not
an attendant and a supporter of the church. When the present
structure was built, an indebtedness of considerable amount hung
over the church for some time. Mr. Lloyd and his
neighbor, George Johnson, each being large
contributors originally, took it upon themselves as outsiders, to
set the precedent of doubling their subscriptions and relieving the
liability of the church, and they accomplished this in a remarkably
short space of time.
Mr. Lloyd was originally an old line
Whig, but joined the Republican party at its organization, and
loyally adhered to it throughout the residue of life. In the early
part of the great civil strife of 1861-65, he joined the Home
Guards, or what was known as the “Silver Greys” in which
organization he did service. No one under forty-five years was
permitted to be a member. During the dark days of the Republic
his face was the index as to the success of our army. He was a
loyal adherent to all the policies advocated by the President, Mr.
Lincoln, and was equally as loyal in the support of the boys
who wore the blue and followed the flag.
On May 8, 1873, Thomas G. Lloyd and wife
celebrated the fortieth anniversary of their wedding, in their
residence, now owned and occupied by Doctor W. D. Tremper,
corner of Washington and Second streets. Mr. Lloyd
spent sixty-seven years of his life in the city of Portsmouth and
witnessed its slow growth from a small village to a city of 13,000
to 15,000. But few pioneers took more interest in the growth
of the city and of relating its prosperity from its pioneer days,
than did Mr. Lloyd. For a few years prior to his
death, he was a great sufferer from kidney disease, but he bore this
affliction with great fortitude and without complaint. His
faithful wife passed to her reward Feb. 10, 1880. The
remaining years of Mr. Lloyd were spent with his
family and to him they were lonely days as he and his wife had been
happily mated near a half century. He died Sept. 1, 1883.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. 1907 - Page 768 |
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