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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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FRANK LEWIS MARTING
was born Aug. 27, 1856, at Jackson Furnace, Ohio. His father
was Henry Marting and his mother was Mary Elizabeth Knaper.
Both were natives of Osnaburg, Hanover, Germany. A fuller
account of the family will be found under the sketch of Colonel
Henry Marting his brother. When Frank was a babe of
six weeks, his parents removed to the valley of the Little Scioto in
Scioto county. He received his education at Tick Ridge and
Kettle's school houses. When he was sixteen years of age, his
father located in the city of Portsmouth and engaged in the grocery
business with Frank C. Herms, his son-in-law as Marting
and Herms. Frank L. became a clerk in this business.
In 1873, the firm changed its business to dry goods. In 1877,
Frank L. became of age and took a partnership in the business
and it became Marting & Son. His father remained in the
business until 1893, when he retired and the business became
Marting Brothers & Co. The firm is composed of Frank L.
Marting, John C. Marting, his brother and Mrs. Eliza Volker,
his sister.
Mr. Marting has been in the same business in
Portsmouth, Ohio for thirty years and has prospered all the time.
He has one of the best business houses in the city at 515
Chillicothe street, and one of the best selected dry goods stores.
Henry Marting, Senior, died May 1, 1899. Mr. Marting
has been a member of the City School Board for nearly six years.
He is now one of the City Board of Tax Review. He was married
Sept. 6, 1877 to Miss Ellen Scheuerman, daughter of George
Scheuerman and has six children, five sons and one daughter.
Their names are: George, Albert, Edna, Ralph, Henry and
Royal. Mr. Marting is a director of the Royal Building
Association, a member of the German Methodist Episcopal church, and
a member of the Royal Arcanum. He resides at 705, Findlay
street, in the Sixth ward of Portsmouth.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. 1903 - Page 1065 |
Colonel Henry Adam Marting |
COLONEL HENRY ADAM
MARTING was born Dec. 17, 1850, in Greenup county, Kentucky.
His parents, Henry Marting and Mary E. Knaper, his wife, were
natives of Germany. He was the fifth of his parents nine
children. They removed to Jackson Furnace when he was an
infant and remained there five years. They then moved to a
farm near Wheeler's Mills on the Little Scioto. Our subject
attended the schools there. At the age of nineteen, he began
working on the railroad as a section hand. He worked at this
for two and a half years and then started a store in company with
his brother John C. at Gephart's Station. He was there for two years and then sold out and went
to Ironton. IN 1873, he started in the dry goods business in
Ironton and remained in the same business part of the time alone and
part of the time with partners until Jan. 1, 1902. His brother
John C. was a partner for three years from 1875 and then began
to study for the ministry.
In 1882, with J. D. Foster, he organized the
Foster Stove Company of Ironton and became treasurer and held that
position until 1892, when he resigned. He organized the Eagle
Iron & Steel Company rolling mill which manufactured bar and sheet
iron. He was president and general manager. In 1899,
this company sold out to the Republic Iron & Steel Company. In
1896, with Joseph Clutts and Lewis Vogelsong, he
organized the Willston Iron & Steel Company and operated two blast
furnaces. He sold out his interest in this company in 1898, to
Clutts and Willard. While connected with this
organization, he was secretary and treasurer. In 1889, he
purchased Aetna furnace and he is president and general manager.
In 1899, he organized the Columbus Iron and Steel Company and is
president and general manager of that. In 1901, he organized
the Ironton Lumber Company and is a director of that. He also
organized and is a director and president of the Ketter Clothing
Company of Ironton. He is a director of the Citizen's National
Bank and of the Ironton Corrugated Roofing Company.
He is a senior member of the firm of Marting, Flehr
& Company, shoe dealers; is a director and president of the
Register Publishing Company, and a director of the Franklin Stove
Company of Columbus. He is a director of the Crystal Ice
Company of Ironton, Ohio, and of the Camden Interstate Railway Co.
He was a member of the City Council of Ironton for six years, from
1888 to 1894, and was its president for two years. He has a
genius for the successful management of business and has been
successful in everything he has undertaken. He was a member of
the German M. E. church, but in 1897 he connected with Spencer M. E.
church, of Ironton, and is a member of the official board of that
church. He is a Knight of Pythias.
He was married to Miss Margaret C. Duis, Mar. 7,
1872. She is the daughter of Henry Duis. He has
one child, Nellie M., the wife of Docor Clark Lowry of
Ironton, Ohio.
On who knows Colonel Marting best, says of him:
"Colonel H. A. Marting is a self-made man. His school
advantages were meager, his parents lacking the means to gives him
the opportunity of a higher education. His training was
received in practical life. If his had been the opportunity
enjoyed by many youths of our land, his career would have been
envious. He has shown great energy, push and determination,
which count mightily in making a mark in life. He always
believed, that what others have done, he also could do, and when he
undertakes anything, there is no swerving until the goal is reached.
He is no pessimist; he believes in his fellowmen and is hopeful as
to the future; therefore he dares and risks, but never without
counting the cost. A friend suggested that he was risking a
great deal, when he replied, 'I have counted the trees on the
quarter section.' From his boyhood days, he has been a great
trader - jack-knives, his hat, his coat, his fathers' shot gun or
horse - anything would be turned. In these deals, he always
was fair and strictly honest. He could often, in later years,
have enriched himself, at the expense of others, if he had not
placed his good name and honor above money. In his financial
ventures he always had in mind the giving of employment to others,
their welfare. His generosity and philanthropy are not fully
known by his own family. He enjoys giving for good causes, and
is happiest when he can help some one struggling for relief. A
more tender-hearted man can hardly be found. Back of that will
power and energy is a soft, tender heart. His early training
was strictly of the Methodist type, and he is today an active worker
in the church. The key to the success Colonel Marting
has achieved is to my mind, his faith in God and in his fellowmen."
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. 1903 - Page 1066 |
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ANDERSON MILLER was
born at Millersport, Lawrence county, Ohio, Mar. 12, 1831. His
father Robert Miller, was born at the same place. His
grandfather, Joseph, came from the South Branch of the
Potomac, in Virginia. He was one of the first settlers at
Millersport. In Lawrence county. They came to Lawrence
county in about 1795. Our subject had four brothers and two
sisters. He grew up on Millersport, and went to school but
three months. He started at the age of sixteen, and with but
twenty-five cents capital, engaged in farming and has been a farmer
all his life. He owns a part of the farm which was owned by
his great-grandfather.
He married Elizabeth Michline, daughter of
Jacob Michline, a blacksmith and gunsmith, and a native of Lewis
county, Virginia, in February, 1852. He established the family
altar in his household when he was first married and has kept it up
ever since. He makes this the chief duty of the day and all
else is subordinated to it. No matter how busy a time it might
be all employes are called into family worship. They had nine
children, five sons and four daughters as follows: Anna,
wife of Milton Watson of Labelle, Ohio; Louis W.,
a Methodist minister, now stationed at Hilliard, Ohio, in the Ohio
Conference; Jane, married Robert Eaton,
residing at Proctorsville, Ohio; Augusta married James O.
Gillett and now resides at Labelle, Ohio; Robert Benton,
Attorney of Ironton, Ohio; Rev. William H., a Methodist
minister stationed at Portsmouth, Ohio, from 1898 to 1901; Ida
married B. F. McConn, living near Proctorsville, Ohio;
Kenton, a lawyer in Ironton, Ohio and Cecil See, a
lawyer in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Mr. Miller always regretted his want of suitable
education and resolved that his sons should not be deprived of that
benefit. He sent all five of them to the Ohio Wesleyan
University at Delaware, Ohio and all graduated there. He did
this on the income of a small farm in Lawrence county, Ohio.
All his sons and daughters are now living and in good health.
He also educated one of the daughters at the Ohio Wesleyan
University and gave each one of the others a common school
education. He has twenty-one grand children and six deceased.
He was a County Commissioner of Lawrence county from 1881 to 1884.
He has always been a republican and has been a member of the
Methodist Church for forty-five years and also a member of the
Official Board of his particular Church all that time. He
never was in debt and all his property has always been kept clear.
He is a man noted for his charitable and cheerful disposition.
He is never idle but always busy; and he gives the most minute
attention to all details of his affairs. A man in moderate
circumstances like him, who could give five sons a complete
education, and have two of them honored and influential ministers
and three successful lawyers, deserves to he remembered by
posterity.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ.
1903 - Page 1295 |
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FRANK MILLER was born
in Porter township May 29, 1862. His father was John
Miller and
his mother's maiden name was Barbara Moseman.
They both emigrated from France to this country in 1853. Our
subject was reared on a farm and attended the district school.
He attended the Wheelersburg High School one year and afterwards
attended a private normal at Sciotoville, conducted by Prof.
White. At the age of nineteen, he engaged in the
teaching profession and continued in it for eight years.
During the summer months he farmed He bought the home farm near
Powellsville, and after much improvement has one of the most
productive and well kept farms on Pine creek. He owns a
beautiful country home and his farm is well fitted with modern
buildings.
Mr. Miller is a straight republican and is one
of the political workers in Green township. He has served as
Clerk of Green township from 1884 till 1893 with the exception of
one year. He is an active member of the Free-Will Baptist
church of Powellsville. He was married Feb. 26, 1887 to
Caroline Wagner, a daughter of a prominent Lawrence county
farmer. Their children are: William and
Willard, twins, b. Apr. 13, 1888; Otto Earl b. Apr. 23,
1890, d. Nov. 19, 1890; Frederick Joseph b. Sept. 25, 1891;
Edna Marie, b. Oct. 12, 1894.
Mr. Miller is in the fullest sense of the term
an ideal citizen. By economy and good habits, he has
accumulated sufficient means to live without the toll that persons
of his occupation are generally required to perform. He has an
interesting family and it is safe to say that his children will
receive is liberal education, and by force of his example will
become useful citizens. Few men of his age have, by means
which were afforded him, accomplished so much. In his
preparation for life and the care for his family, it must not be
overlooked that Mr. Miller has acquired a liberal education.
He is a worthy example and inspiration to all young men who start in
life with little but character upon which to lay the foundation for
a successful career.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ.
1903 - Page
1072 |
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GEORGE BLISS MILLAR
was born Jan. 10, 1843 on the Millar farm where he now
resides. His father was Abram Millar and his mother's
maiden name was Harriet Peters. He was brougth
up on the farm and has resided there all his life except from 1869
to 1874, when he resided in the city of Portsmouth, and engaged in
the lumber business. He had a good common school education
only. On Jan. 10, 1866, he was married to Annie Carre,
daughter of Thomas W. Carre, of Portsmouth. Their
children are: Abram F. a farmer with his father,
Charles R. who is an electrician at the Central Insane Asylum at
Columbus, Ohio, and Edgar Garfield, who is an attorney with
Mr. Holcomb of Portsmouth. Their daughter, Nellie
married Charles Thomas. Our subject lost two infant
daughters. He has never held any office except school director
in this township. He has always been a republican.
Mr. Millar is a good neighbor and a good
citizen. He has been and is a very successful farmer. HE
has more confidence in his own judgment than any man in Scioto
county, but can be controlled if any one can make him believe he is
doing it himself. But the man who undertakes to drive him will
find him the most obstinate, self-willed man in the whole world, and
will fall in his undertaking. Whenever Mr. Millar makes
up his mind to any course, he will follow it out regardless of
consequences. He has an opinion on every subject and they are
carefully formed and adhered to with the most wonderful tenacity of
purpose.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. 1903 - Page 1071 |
John Theobald Miller |
JOHN THEOBALD MILLER
was born in Dietschweiler, Rhine Bavaria, July 29, 1833. His
father, Philip Miller, was a village blacksmith. His
grandfather followed the same business. His mother's maiden
name was Louisa Diehl. His father also owned a small
farm in Germany. John T. attended the schools in his
vicinity, until he was fourteen years of age, when he went to work
with his father in the blacksmith shop. He concluded Germany
was too slow for him, and on Apr. 5, 1852, he sailed for the United
States from Havre De Grace, France. He was twenty-nine days on
the ocean, on the sailing vesseel Mercury.
He went from New York direct to Cincinnati by the way
of Albany and Buffalo. From Buffalo to Sandusky by lake and
from Sandusky to Cincinnati by rail. He had two married
sisters in Cincinnati. He worked in Cincinnati for a few
months, at the butcher trade, until the fall of 1852, when he went
to Big Sandy and worked in the saw-mill, and then in a cabinet
maker's shop at Louisa. He came back to Ohio in 1853 and
farmed one year for General Samuel Thomas at South Point.
He also worked for Benjamin Johnson a brother-in-law of E.
B. Greene, at the same place. From here he went to Pine
Grove Furnace and took charge of Robert Hamilton's farm near
Hanging Rock. In the fall of 1856 our subject came to
Portsmouth, worked in each one of the rolling mills a short time and
drove team for David Davis. In 1857, he became a clerk
in the grocery store of William P. Martin, and was also
conducting the business of pork packing at the same time. June
16, 1860 he participated in the great Union meeting at Portsmouth,
and was mentioned in the proceedings.
In February, 1862, occurred the celebrated "Cat Case"
of William P. Martin vs. Giles Gilbert, which is fully
reported in this book in another place. Mr. Miller
affirms that the court decided the case wrong, and that the cat was
Martin's not Gilbert's; and on Feb. 22, 1862 he wrote
a long letter to the Times on the subject of the "Cat Case."
This is one of the subjects which should never be mentioned to
Mr. Miller, and especially should any of his friends refrain the
suggestion that the disputed cat belonged to Giles Gilbert.
On Mar. 11, 1862, he left William P.
Martins and went into the liquor business for himself.
July 22, 1863 he immortalized himself in the Morgan Raid, by
capturing fifty-four rebels and bringing them all to Portsmouth and
turning them over to the authorities. For further paticulars
on this subject, see the article on the Morgan Raid, but this
is another subject which should not be mentioned to Mr. Miller
by his friends. Mr. Miller made a great deal of money
in the liquor business, and he also sank some of it.
We regret very much that we are compelled to tell one
thing about Mr. Miller which is not entirely to his entire.
On Apr. 17, 1876, he and Dr. Pixley induced the City Council
of Portsmouth to buy ten pairs of English sparrows, at $3.00 a pair,
for the purpose of introducing them into the city of Portsmouth; and
the Council being imposed on by Mr. Miller and Dr. Pixley
did buy the sparrows, and ten years later the city had "sparrows to
burn." The council would like to employ Mr. Miller and
Dr. Pixley to get rid of the sparrows.
In the same year he bought the Correspondent, a German
Weekly, and published it until Aug. 15, 1880, when he sold it to the
Reutingers of Chillicothe. He was a member of the City
Council of Portsmouth, from the First ward, from 1865 to 1867, and
from 1870 to 1882. He was president of the Council in the
years 1874, 1879 and 1880, but he resigned on Oct. 17, 1881.
In 1871, he was a candidate on the democratic ticket for the office
of County Treasurer, and was defeated by Charles Slavens
The vote stood Slavens 2,730, Miller 2,166 majority
564. He was a member of the City Board of Equalization in 1890
and 1900. Mr. Miller was always a democrat until 1885,
when he became a republican.
He was married Apr. 25, 1869 at Piketon, O., to
Elizabeth Schmidt, daughter of John Schmidt, deceased, a
former resident of Piketon. They have had the following
children: Lucy, wife of Philo S. Clark,
postmaster of Portsmouth, Ohio; John, died in 1896, at the
age of thirty-two; Elizabeth M., wife of Albert Wurster,
book-keeper for C. P. Tracy & Co; Mary E., clerk at
Philo S. Clark's insurance office; Charles E. rural free
delivery mail carrier on the West Side. He has two daughters,
Bertha and Laura, and one son William F., at
home. He also lost two children in infancy. Mr.
Miller was reared in the Evangelical church, better known as the
German Lutheran, and adheres to it.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. 1903 - Page 1072 |
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ROBERT BENTON MILLER
was born Jan. 22, 1859 at Millersport, Lawrence county, Ohio.
His father was Anderson Miller, who has a sketch herein.
He attended the public schools at Millersport until he was twenty
years of age. He then went to the Ohio Wesleyan University and
graduated there in the classical course in 1884. He studied
law in Cincinnati Law School and one year under Mr. Julius
Anderson. He was admitted to the bar in October, 1886, and
located in Ironton. He remained as a partner with his
preceptor one year, then was alone in the law business until 1896,
when his brother Kenton went in the partnership with him and
the firm assumed the name of Miller & Miller. He was
City Solicitor of Ironton from 1889 to 1892. He was
Prosecuting Attorney of Lawrence county, Ohio, for one term from
1894 to 1900; and those who know him say that he was one of the
ablest men who ever filled the office.
He was married May 4, 1887 to Miss Birdie E. Wilson,
daughter of J__ E. Wilson of Burlington, Ohio. They
have four children: Evelyn Gay, aged twelve;
Bernard, aged ten; Ruby aged eight and Robert aged
six. Mr. Miller is one of the able and forceful members
of the bar of Lawrence county. All he does is characterized by
earnestness and purpose. He does all his work well and
thoroughly. He deserves the success he has achieved and will
succeed still further. Such men as he are a power in the
community of which he is a part.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio -
Publ. 1903 - Page 1296 |
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SAMUEL GROFF MILLER
was born Jan. 24, 1841, in Columbiana county, Ohio. His father
was Samuel Miller and his mother's maiden name was Eunice
Peckham. His father was a native of Jefferson county and
his mother of Columbiana. He was the fifth of six children.
When he was six years old, his father moved to Flat Woods in
Jefferson township, Scioto county, Ohio where he died in 1857.
Our subject enlisted July 30, 1862 in Company C, 91 O. V. I. and
served until July 24, 1865. After the war, he returned to his
home in Jefferson township. On Nov. 22, 1865, he was married
to Margaret J. Meek, daughter of Peter Meek. In
1871, he removed to the Gibson place in Pike county, where he
remained until 1877. In 1878, he returned to Scioto county.
In 1881, he came to Portsmouth and for ten years was an operative in
the Johnson Hub & Spoke Factory. Since 1891, he has been
engaged in the dairy business. He has a son Charles who
conducts a dairy farm on the John Miller Salladay place on
the Chillicothe Pike. He has a son, Edward and a
daughter Mary, both grown up at home. He is a member of
the Manley M. E. Church and is a republican. In all
things and at all times he has been a good citizen, self respecting
and respected by all his neighbors.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio -
Publ. 1903 - Page 1301 |
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JOSEPH C. MONTAVON
was born Mar. 19, 1842, in Canton of Berne, Switzerland, the son of
Peter Ignatius Montavon, a well to do peasant of west
Switzerland, and Catharine Erhard, daughter of Joseph
Erhard, a shoemaker. Our subject had three brothers and
four sisters. He came to America and landed at New York, May
17, 1852, and went to Vevay, Switzerland county, Indiana where his
father died July 18, 1852 at the age of thirty-seven, having been
killed by lightning while in the field working. His mother
took him from there immediately to Stark county, Ohio, where they
remained a short time, and then came to Scioto county in 1856 and
located about two miles from French postoffice on Pond creek.
He received his early education in the public schools
of Switzerland and afterwards attended the National Normal
University at Lebanon, Ohio. He had learned enough English and
knowledge of the common branches to teach school. He taught
school for twenty-five years in Scioto county, twenty-three in Rush
township and two years in Union township, which speaks well for his
success as a teacher. he was a member of the National Guards
at the time of the Morgan Raid. He has been a Democrat
all his life but not much inclined to politics. He served as
Justice of the Peace in Union township and also in Rush township.
He served as Clerk of Rush township one term, and has been
postmaster at French since 1882. He holds to the Catholic
faith. His certificate of baptism bears date Mar. 19, 1842.
He is a member of the Holy Trinity church on Pond creek and has been
a worker in the Sunday school for thirty-six years.
He was married Aug. 8, 1874 to Catharine J. Duplain
a daughter of Francis Duplain an iron worker, who came to
Portsmouth about 1872 from Switzerland. By this marriage they
have eight children, three sons and five daughters all living:
Josephine, Mary, Margaret, Albert, Victor, Winnibald, Rosalie
and Louisa. Mr. Montavon is one of the most
respected and esteemed citizens of the county.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ.
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CAPT. ENOS BASCOM MOORE,
the son of Levi Moore and Amanda Gunn, his wife, was born
Dec. 27, 1823. His mother was a daughter of Samuel Gunn,
one of the pioneers of Portsmouth, who has a sketch herein.
His grandfather was Phillip Moore, a native of New Jersey.
A fuller statement of the ancestry of our subject will be found
under the title of Capt. Wm. Moore, an elder brother.
Enos Moore grew up on his father's farm,
graduated from the country school of his vicinity, and was preparing
to enter Delaware College with a view to the study of law. At
this time, a flat-boat loaded with flour from New Orleans came down
the river and landed at the bank near his father's farm. He
was invited to become a part of the crew and take a trip to New
Orleans. If he did so he had to give up his project of an
education at Delaware. The love of adventure was too strong,
he decided to make the river trip, gave up the idea of being a
lawyer and followed the career of a boatman.
For forty-two years from that time his life was given
to the occupation of boating on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
For ten years he served as a pilot between St. Louis and New
Orleans, and afterwards as a master. In 1858, he and Capt.
Duvall Young built the steamer "Champion" and ran between St.
Louis and New Orleans. The breaking out of the war compelled
the abandonment of the trade and the boat was sold. Capt.
Enos Moore has served as master on no less than forty different
steamboats, but most of is service has been in the Cincinnati and
Portsmouth trade, on the boats of the White Collar line, in which
company he was largely interested until his retirement from the
river in 1889. In 1863, he and his brother, William,
purchased an interest in the foundry and machine business, conducted
at that time by Murray and Stevenson. The firm
was originally Murray, Ward and Stevenson. In
1863, the Moore brothers purchased the business, and
conducted it under the firm name of Murray, Moore & Company,
until 1872, when Mr. Murray sold out his interest to the
Moore brothers; and afterwards the business was in corporated
as the Portsmouth Foundry and Machine works, and has been conducted
as such ever since. Capt. Enos Moore is now president
of the company, and has been for a number of years. Capt.
Moore has been twice married, first to Miss Maria Prime Pratt,
of Washington County, New York, and second time to Miss Mary E.
Switzer, of Dayton, Ohio. There are two children of the
first marriage: Mrs. Frances Geiger of Troy, Ohio, and
Mary Young Moore at home. Of the second marriage, the
children are: Ralph, Lucy, Edith and William.
Capt. Moore is a Republican in his political views. He has
been a member of the First Presbyterian church since 1862, and is
one of the board of ruling elders.
Capt. Moore is a gentleman of the most agreeable
temperament. He is always calm and collected, ever loses his
equipoise. As a captain of a large steamboat he was
unexcelled. Whatever dangers threatened, he was equal to the
emergency, and never was taken off his guard. No matter what
happened he was always ready for it. He used to claim to the
passengers on the old "Bonanza" that they were safer on his boat
than they were on land, and they believed it. He is a
gentleman of the most excellent judgment in business and in social
affairs. He has always been a most pleasant companion and
could always entertain the passengers with him on the steamboats, as
well as take care of their safety, and navigate the boat. He
looked for the comfort of his passengers with great care, and it was
always a real pleasure trip to travel on the "Bonanza" with Capt.
Moore as master. He has made as excellent a citizen since
1889, as before that he did a steamboat master. It would be
useless to attempt to inventory his good qualities, he has so many
of them. While his life has been mainly devoted to business,
he has been very successful and all the while, has enjoyed the
highest regard of all who know him.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ.
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EVAN EMMANUEL MOORE
was born Dec. 22, 1833, in Washington township, where he now lives.
His father was Evan Moore. His mother's maiden name was
Cynthia Pyles, daughter of John Pyles. His
parents had two children: Clinton and our subject. His
father was a farmer, and died in May, 1834, of the cholera, in
Washington township. His mother died in 1859. He
attended the district schools, and has always been a farmer.
He owns 157 1-2 acres of land.
He was married the first time Feb. 10, 1859, to
Lavina Dole, and she died in September, 1866. By this
marriage there were two children: Mary Elizabeth, who married
William Vaughters, and died leaving two children; and
James Moore, now in California. Our subject was married
the second time to Lydia Mapes. They have eight
children. Lavinia, married John Compton, and
lives in Friendship; Enos, lives on the farm; Zora,
married Harry Vaughters son of George A. Vaughters;
Maude, married Ed Bodemer, and lives on Carey's Run;
Ethel Claude, Earl and John at home. Mr. Moore
was first a whig, but voted for John C. Fremont and has been
a republican since.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ.
1903 - Page 1077 |
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GEORGE W. MOORE
was born Nov. 28, 1827, in Harrison county, West Virginia. His
father was Enoch Moore and his mother's maiden name was
Rodah Ward. His grandfather was Enoch Moore, Sr.,
and a soldier in the Revolutionary war. His father died when
he was five years of age and he was bound to Joseph Goodman,
of West Virginia. He came to Ohio in 1846, and lived there
till 1852, when he removed to Greenup county, Kentucky, and lived
there until 1854, when he again removed to Scioto county, where he
has lived since. Our subject served in Company F, 140th O. V.
I. from May 2, 1864, to Sept. 3, 1864, when he was mustered out with
the company.
He is a republican in his views and is a believer in
the Baptist doctrines, though not a member of the church. He
was married Mar. 30, 1847, to Susan Bennett, by whom he has
two children: Ephraim now residing in Argentine, Kansas; and
Jessie married to Rolla E. Bennett, residing near
Harrisonville, Ohio. George W. Moore is well known in
this county as an upright, honest man. As a contractor, he was
fairly successful. His plain, blunt, sincere, kind-hearted
ways endeared him to his friends.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ.
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CAPTAIN WILLIAM MOORE
was born Oct. 8, 1815, in Alexandria, Scioto County, Ohio. His
father was Levi Moore, born in Fayette County, Pa., Feb. 9,
1793. His mother was Amanda A. Gunn, daughter of
Samuel Gunn, who was born in Waterbury, Conn., and came to
Portsmouth, at five years of age. Levi Moore,
grandfather of our subject, was born at Allentown, Pa. Levi
Moore had the following children: our subject, the eldest;
Milton, died in Mississippi of yellow fever in 1854; Maria,
who married Solomon B. McCall; Lora, died when 18 years of
age; Mary Ellen, died about the age of twenty-vie years;
Enos and Samuel.
Our subject was educated in the common
schools, and did not learn any trade. He labored on his
father's farm until he was about fifteen years of age, then he began
to run machinery wherever steam was employed. He worked for
Dr. Offnere is the old Red Mill, as engineer for a year.
He began steamboating for Samuel Coles on the steamer "Home"
from Cincinnati to Pittsburg, as engineer. He went to Franklin
Furnace and was engineer for Dan Young in 1837. The year 1838
he spent on his father's farm four miles below Portsmouth. In
1839, he made a trip to New Orleans on a flat boat, and while there
became an engineer on a steamboat on the Yazoo river. He built
the steamboat engineer for two years. Then he was off the
river for one year; and in the meantime rand a flat boat of corn to
New Orleans in 1845, and was at his father's home in 1846. In
1817, he ran toe steamboat "St. McClean" from Yazoo to New Orleans.
He was married Aug. 11, 1847, to Elizabeth Smith,
daughter of John F. Smith, and her mother Margaret Russell.
Directly after his marriage, he went to New Orleans and began
running a corn sheller on the steamboat, "Grace Darling," and also
shelled corn on the flat boats. He was then employed by the
Yazoo Packet Company, to run the packet "Hard Times" from Yazoo city
to Vicksburg, one hundred miles, and he lived in Yazoo city.
He was master and kept at that the four years, when he sold her in
1851. He built the steamboat "Home" in Cincinnati in the
summer of 1855, and the "Hope" in 1859, and run her until the war
broke out when the Rebels took and sunk here. Then Capt.
Moore stayed at home and fished until he could get a chance to
escape the Rebels. Gen. Heron brought an expedition up
the Yazoo in 1862, and Capt. Moore got in with him and came
home. He then went into a partnership with David N. Murray
and his brother, Enos B. Moore, in the fall of 1863, as the
firm of Murray & Co. In 1878, Murray sold out
and a corporation was formed, under which the business has been
conducted. This corporation was called the Portsmouth Foundry
and Machine works. Capt. Moore has had the following
children: Louisiana, wife of James W. Ricker; Mary;
Virginia, married E. B. Green; Elizabeth married
R. R. Peebles. His has two sons, Enos and
John. He has been a communicant of All Saints church for
many years.
Captain Moore has been a great reader and
accumulated a large collection of books which he sold to the public
library of Portsmouth. He is quiet and retired in all his
tastes and prefers the fellowship of his books, papers and family to
public assemblies. He has taken no interest in political
affairs since the war, though he keeps fully informed in all public
affairs. He has been very successful as a business man and
devoted all his life's energies in that direction. Capt.
Moore died suddenly on Sunday, June 22, 1902.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio -
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DAVID NEVIN MURRAY
was born in Gallowayshire, Scotland, May 23, 1814. His parents
were John Murray and Hannah (McKean) Murray He
was reared on a farm and received a good education in his native
country. When a lad of seventeen, having a desire to try the
fortunes of the new world, he embarked for the United States, and
landed at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, in July, 1831. There he
clerked in a wholesale dry goods and hardware store for three years.
In 1834, he removed to Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, his
father's family, having come to America and located at that place.
He was engaged as a clerk there until 1837, at which time his father
removed to Morgan County, Illinois, and he came to Portsmouth and
became a member of the hardware firm of McNairn & Murray and
so continued for six years. After the dissolution of this
partnership, Mr. Murray carried on the hardware business for
some twenty-five years, thus making thirty-one years in which he was
engaged in the hardware trade. In 1854, he with Messrs.
Ward & Stevenson erected the machine shops and foundry in
Portsmouth, now owned by the Portsmouth Foundry and Machine works.
In 1857 Mr. Ward sold out and the firm was Murray &
Stevenson. In that year, Mr. Murray offered to sell
the whole property for $10,000, but could not. It was to avert
the panic of that year that he offered so low. Afterwards when
he sold out, he received $138,000 for his interest from Moore
brothers. These shops built the cars for the railroad from
Portsmouth to Hamden, then known as the Scioto and Hocking Valley
Railroad. When that company failed, Murray & Stevenson
were their creditors to the amount of $69,000 of which the firm lost
some $9,000. In 1855, Mr. Murray built the Portsmouth
Rolling Mill, assisted by James W. Davis and Charles A. M.
Damarin. They each put in $10,000. They afterwards
took in seven more partners and made the capital stock $100,000.
In 1857, it went down and its debts were paid by five out of the ten
partners, Mr. Murray being one of the five. In
1862, he and other prominent business men of Portsmouth undertook to
get a National armory at Portsmouth but failed. In 1871, he
was interested in building the Portsmouth Agricultural Works which
failed in 1874. In 1875, he organized the Citizens' Savings
Bank of Portsmouth, and at the outset owned half its stock, and was
its president. He was a member of the School Board as early as
1849. In 1882, he was elected president of the Board of
Education and served several years as a member and was also its
treasurer. From 1875 until 1880, he was a member of the Board
of Health and was for two years president of the Board of Trade.
He was an elder in the Presbyterian church for forty-two years, and
a teacher or superintendent in the Sunday school for forty-seven
years. He was the first man to introduce the plan for the
super-annuated ministers' fund in his church. He was also the
first to establish a young men's prayer meeting in the Presbyterian
church in Portsmouth. He was a staunch Republican. His
first wife was Isabella McNairn, whom he married May 23,
1839. She died Apr. 28, 1849, leaving three children:
Joseph, now in Grand Rapids, Hiram B., a resident of
Portsmouth and Mary deceased. May 14, 1850, he was
married to Harriet White, daughter of Josiah White of
Hadley, Massachusetts. There were seven children of this
marriage; The survivors are: Emma, the wife of J. Boyd
Herron, of Chicago, Ills.; Addie, the wife of John
Naesmith, of Marion, Ind.; Lucile, the wife of William
A. Harper of Portsmouth, and Maggie, the wife of Mr.
Kerner living in Columbus. Mrs. Harriet Murray is
deceased. Mr. Murray died Aug. 13, 1895. At one
time, he was worth $100,000, but lost every cent of it before his
death.
Source: History of Scioto Co., Ohio -
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